I actually like it quite a bit
Why
1. Why do people say “cool beans”? Can this please stop forever?
2. Why didn’t I know about shit my dad says until only a few days ago?
3. Why aren’t you watching The League on hulu?
Scattergories goes in the scat category
I recently came to the realization that I don’t like Scattergories, despite the frequency with which I play it. Scattergories requires very little skill, really no strategy, and unfailingly leads to boring semantics arguments.
Fail.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
My new album, the first as Greyshield, will be out very soon. Here’s one of the tracks from it.
Top albums of 2009 (Q3 update)
Before 2009 careens into 2010, I want to take stock of the best new music I’ve enjoyed so far. Here’s my current top ten list. I’ll write full descriptions, justifications, defenses, etc. at the end of the year when I finalize this. For now, if you need new music and trust my taste, start with #1 on this list and work your way down.
And hey, if you’re one of those “I don’t get Grizzly Bear, so why don’t you go cry in your boring hoodie” types, whatever, that’s fine, but definitely check out Bibio, which is vastly different but happens to also be on Warp and is just such a great and diverse album.
1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
2. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
3. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
4. Owen - New Leaves
5. Lightning Dust - Infinite Light
6. The xx - xx
7. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
8. The Dodos - Time to Die9. Espers - III
10. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Chat
Chip: I still don't get the point of the chat thing on Tumblr
Chip: You mean the thing where you manually enter both sides of a conversation on separate lines?
Chip: Yeah. Doesn't it seem like it should be used for something more...
Chip: ...useful?
Chip: Exactly. I just don't find it very valuable to the content mix. Maybe I just don't get it.
Chip: That's very possible. Then again, maybe other people have the same opinion.
Chip: Ah, forget it. Wanna play synths and eat vanilla wafers?
Chip: DO I EVER!!
My 2006 MacBook Pro told me a couple days ago that I MUST upgrade iTunes to v9 to ensure application security on my machine. I finally just went ahead and upgraded to iTunes 9. I wish I had read online first about the perils of doing so.
I have a 160GB iPod Classic that I spent $400 on in 2007. Now it’s a fucking paperweight because my computer has iTunes 9, which doesn’t work with iPod Classics. And no, you can’t go back to iTunes 8 after you go to iTunes 9.
Major bug that will be resolved quickly with a new patch upgrade, or intentional obsolescence strategy to make me buy a new iPod? The latter is the kind of shit Microsoft has done for years… I thought Apple was different.
