June 2011
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Belle and Sebastian (3)
Caedmon’s Call (2)
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Jon Foreman (1)
Page CXVI (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-29) →
They Might Be Giants (42)
Relient K (24)
CAKE (24)
The Beatles (21)
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September 2009
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May 2009
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-24) →
Yo La Tengo (14)
The Weakerthans (14)
Wilco (9)
Death Cab for Cutie (9)
Ben Folds (7)
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March 2009
5 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-29) →
116 Clique (19)
LeCrae (18)
Blackalicious (17)
Trip Lee (16)
DJ Shadow (14)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-15) →
Yo La Tengo (22)
The Weakerthans (21)
Ben Harper (19)
Wilco (18)
Nickel Creek (14)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-8) →
Damien Jurado (11)
The Mountain Goats & Kaki King (7)
Flight of the Conchords (6)
Q-Tip (3)
The Blow (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-1) →
The Weakerthans (36)
LeCrae (31)
Radiohead (15)
Black Star (13)
Ben Folds (12)
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February 2009
21 posts
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Politics of the Plate: The Price of Tomatoes →
The story of modern slavery in America:
Immokalee’s population is 70 percent Latino. Per capita income is only $8,500 a year. One third of the families in this city of nearly 25,000 live below the poverty line. Over one third of the children drop out before graduating from high school.
Immokalee is the tomato capital of the United States. Between December and May, as much as 90 percent of the...
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“Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.”
– French photographer Marc Riboud.
(via Chris Orwig.)
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Former addict gives homeless veterans a second... →
Calling this guy a hero seems like such an understatement:
Since 2000, approximately 900 veterans have found life-changing help at Foster’s facility, Stand Down House. Named for the military command that gives troops time to rest after arduous duty, the program provides homeless male vets food, shelter and a safe place to recover, as well as the tools to conquer their personal problems.
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WatchGreat clip about Circle of Hope, a thrift store church. I love what a grass-roots, localized picture of community this paints (eat your heart out, Joel Osteen). Oh, to be 10 years younger and living in Philadelphia.
(via current.tv.)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-22) →
Sho Baraka (33)
Johnny Cash (27)
Beirut (20)
They Might Be Giants (19)
LeCrae (18)
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Even Famous People Are Rejected
Jimi Hendrix and his band opened for the Monkees once and got booed off of stage. They were consequently dropped from the tour. Can you imagine?
Jack Kerouac tried to find a publisher for On the Road for six years.
Elvis was kicked out of the Grand Ole Opry in 1954 - they told him to stick to his day job driving trucks.
Emily Dickinson gave her poems to Thomas Wentworth Higginson to review,...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-15) →
Thom Yorke (24)
Beirut (22)
LeCrae (16)
Johnny Cash (14)
The Shins (13)
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“It is natural for men, who wish to hasten the adoption of a measure, to tell us,...”
– R.H. Lee, Letters of a Federal Farmer, 1787.
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“The best way to overcome your fear of creativity, brainstorming, intelligent...”
– Seth Godin.
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“Left And Leaving” by The...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-1) →
LeCrae (30)
They Might Be Giants (22)
Pedro the Lion (19)
The Weakerthans (17)
Nick Drake (17)
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January 2009
14 posts
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I can’t get enough Beirut.
joelaz:
Beirut...
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Care for some mercury with your oatmeal? →
After one set of scientists found mercury — yes, everyone’s favorite brain-impairing element — in almost half of commercial HFCS, another bunch of scientists decided to get specific and tested 55 common consumer products that use HFCS. And guess what? Almost a third of them contain mercury.
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That’s all bad enough, especially considering no level of mercury is considered safe and that...
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WatchBeauty Is Pixel Deep. “Listen, you don’t need to look like this because they don’t look like this!” A fashion/beauty magazine retoucher bluntly explains her line of work. The last 1:30 is gold.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
The Mountain Goats & Kaki King (20)
Wilco (13)
Belle and Sebastian (9)
The Dingees (8)
The Decemberists (8)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-18) →
LeCrae (93)
GRITS (31)
Damien Jurado (29)
Utah Phillips (13)
The High Decibels (11)
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WatchStar Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it). Randomly weaving the story lines of the three movies together makes for some compelling material.
(via Neatorama.)
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WatchReading Rainbow visits the Star Trek: TNG set (part 1, 2). I can remember watching this on PBS as a kid and being fascinated, but today the special effects seem so old school. Glitter swirling in water? Really??
(via therealadam.)
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The genius of Microsoft’s SongSmith may have...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-11) →
Damien Jurado (61)
The Mountain Goats & Kaki King (41)
The Mountain Goats (24)
The Books (23)
Pedro the Lion (16)
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December 2008
13 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →
Yo La Tengo (39)
The Weakerthans (23)
Wilco (19)
Christ Chapel Bible Church (17)
Jon Foreman (17)
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“There’s only two choices when you’re stuck in a rut; bounce out or...”
– Martin Taylor. Trying to start working to avoid the latter in a couple of areas myself.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-7) →
Utah Phillips (46)
Five Iron Frenzy (24)
Brave Saint Saturn (16)
Stars (14)
They Might Be Giants (13)
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“Justice is what love looks like in public.”
– Dr. Cornel West