Finally!

My Dad is super into baking. As in, he bakes cookies/muffins several times per week. Usually very early in the morning because he still works full time as well.

Every so often he sends my sister and I a 10lb box of serious cookies each. Holler if you need cookies.

“That’s the power of music.”

This vid makes me happysad.

On Saturday afternoon a bee stung me on my pinky finger. It hurt a little, as a bee sting does, but I toughed it out and drank my light beer with lemonade like a man. Yesterday one side of my hand was swollen. Today I woke up to a full on balloon hand that will not close. Typing this took 15 minutes. Internet says bee stings can continue to swell for up to 48 hours. I don’t want to die.

MIDI Fighter customizable MIDI controller. Arcade buttons feel so nice.

Where are Little Steven and Max Wineberg??

sillygwailo:

Portland bike lanes painted with Mario Kart items. That combines three of my favourite things!

Via Waxy → Kotaku

Oh Portland. You’d better be careful or I’ll buy a fake SSN and move to you!

Don’t you feel like you’ve heard this in a club or something?

Imma ride the Avro Arrow into the sun! Kamloops is smoky!

Bye sun.

onehorsetown:

shedarkedthesun:

and asking him how the hell he could remember the many words to all his songs and Bob turned around and pulled a store-bought Greatest Hits Of Bob Dylan songbook out of his bag, handed it to him and said “that’s how”.

Michael Babiarz 2010. The man. The legend.

“I keep the velociraptor in the glass so it doesn’t eat everyone.”

Andre Crom & Martin Dawson - Gonna Be Alright

Heard this track on the Smalltown Romeo Shambhala 2010 mix. It uses the same immediately recognizable Herb Alpert sample as Biggie’s “Hypnotize” and it works so well. Total jam.

colt-rane:

#MostBadassGrooveEver

He’s right you know.

Los Rakas feat. Faviola - Abrazame (Uproot Andy Hold Yuh)

For Mishka.

Nelson Masonic Temple

Zimoun: Sound Sculptures and Installations, Selected Works Version 1.9

I love how most of these installations seem to be alive, especially the “swarm of prepared vibration motors” at the 9:13 mark. The idea of creating many copies of something simple that add up to something complex/awesome is very exciting to me.

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Crystal Fighters - In The Summer

…it looks like a twisted, surrealist update on The Neverending Story

Check out the Malente remix at Fadermag.

Mayer Hawthorne - Your Easy Lovin’ Ain’t Pleasin’ Nothin’

“Come on darlin’ don’t be scurd…”

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It’s my birthday.

DIGITAL DRUGS.

So called ‘digital drugs’  are audio files embedded with binaural beats, which are sounds that supposedly have drug-like powers over the mind, when listened to over headphones.

Only – it’s pretend. There’s no scientific evidence of binaural beats altering people’s mental states in the ways that recreational drugs do.

The News 9 story not only suggests that binaural beats are a gateway drug – but that they could send demons through the headphones of your iPod and open the Gates Of Hades!

I feel that this commenter got it right:

The most dangerous drug in the world is TV news.

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Lipstick garbage can

Bought a mystery novel for the drive to Tofino tomorrow. Gonna read it out loud. There will be prizes for those who can solve the mystery before Tecumseh Fox does.

Yolanda Be Cool (feat. DCUP) - We No Speak Americano

Summer Heat.

Happy Canada Day.

Just in town to get a crown. Know what I’m sayin? Real talk.

Today at lunch Tyler and I recorded some gnar machine sounds to use as samples.

I made this DJ Funk edit for you. It sounds really good if you blast it in a late 90’s Ford Explorer.

DJ Funk - Booty Bounce (Dane’s Brownbag Edit) by Dane Brown

OMG

Taken with Olympus Zoom 140 Deluxe point and shoot 35mm.

Drop the Lime - Sex Sax

I like it when he comes out of the ice cream truck.

This whole ceo album is incredibly good summer music.

Boom Shakalaka is a Helsinki music collective that makes globally inspired dance music. Here they’ve remixed Finnish folk music to create “Baltik bass”. Accordion music for the club.

Dj Emil vs. Kiharakolmio - Riddim And Culture by Boom Shakalaka

Summer heat from Bristol’s Baobinga. This is the A side of the latest release from Steak House Records. SOUNDSYSTEM SWEAT.

A1 Baobinga - Wine Up Ft Killa Benz by Steak House Records

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In 1982, American-based 7-UP got in touch with a UK agency to get a 30 second tune made by someone who was “happening” at the time to advertise their drink.

So the agency contacted Gary Numan and offered a £10,000 deal, so he recorded 3 pieces of music, with lyrics supplied by them.

When the recordings were sent to the Americans they had not heard any music like this, and they were expecting something in a punk style, as that had just arrived over there, so these recordings were never used.

Chinatown Night Market and Small Arms Festival.

Bill & Tony (Short) - William S. Burroughs

Winning poster design for World Industrial Design Day 2010 by Ivan Orin Vrkas & Bojan Kristofic of the University of Zagreb, Croatia.

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Men’s room, Horseshoe Bay deli.

yvynyl:

This is the kind of thing you can still find on cassette tape in truck stops on I-80 in Iowa. And that f’ing rules. Get this. Or pick some of Tom’s tunes next time you’re driving cross-country.

onehorsetown:

Today is the 74th birthday of one of the greatest songwriters in country music history:  Tom T. Hall.  He is held in the highest esteem here in the office of One Horse Town, but unfortunately, Tom T.’s genius has gone undetected by too many people.  So today we’re trying to do something to remedy that great injustice.  If you have any interest in traditional country, check this out.

These tracks are all from the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, which was one of the golden ages for “progressive” country of the sort on this mix.  Nobody did it better than Tom T.

(click to download)

1. Don’t Forget The Coffee, Billy Joe
2. The Year Clayton Delaney Died
3. Ballad of Forty Dollars
4. Tulsa Telephone Book
5. Homecoming
6. I Hope It Rains At My Funderal
7. I Miss A Lot Of Trains
8. I Flew Over Our House Last Night
9. I Like Beer
10. Salute To A Switchblade
11. The Little Lady Preacher
12. That’s How I Got To Memphis
13. Spokane Motel Blues
14. A Week In A Country Jail
15. Margie’s At The Lincoln Park Inn
16. Who’s Gonna Feed Them Hogs
17. Kentucky, Feb. 27, ‘71
18. Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine

One more thing: If you don’t like this now, don’t delete It. After you turn 30 you’re gonna love this kind of stuff. 

And be sure to buy some of Tom T.’s CD’s.  This is just a sampler.

Son of the North by Charles Camsell

This guy was my great great uncle. Have a copy of the book from a different printing.

Ed Hardy sticker on a dumpster.

B2 and spring rolls.

KYC - Baller Vintage

I had that Hornets hat when I was 12.

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Going to this tonight. I’ve been working with Joji, the curator, at Molo a few days per week. He’s a brilliant designer and an all around rad guy.

Hook-ness, a collaborative exhibition featuring the work of seven Vancouver-based designers who explore the complexities of ‘hook’. Each designer questions the conventions and assumptions of hooks – offering an array of new findings, interpretations and narratives.

Opening Reception: 7:00pm, Friday, May 21, 2010

Ongoing Exhibit: 22 May 2010 – 10 July 2010

221A Artist Run Centre 221 E. Georgia, Vancouver, Canada

Ali Love: Smoke And Mirrors (Bottin Mix) by bottin

Bottin just posted this on Soundcloud. Power Italo.

Renaissance Man - Babbadabba EP

Been posting a lot of quirky dance stuff lately but this is the best yet. The bassline/vocal samples are tops. Very Inspector Gadget. Not sure if the clips that make up the video are new or vintage but either way they’re amazing. Be sure to watch until at least the fireworks shoes part.

Lots more good stuff on Renaissance Man’s soundcloud page. The Babbadabba EP is out May 24th on Berlin’s Made To Play.

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Rainbow Arabia - Holiday in Congo

Like the song and wacky vid.

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