More Good Stuff
The National - Terrible Love
The National went on Jimmy Fallon this week to perform the first ever listen of a new track from their upcoming album, High Violet, being released on May 11th. The song is a bit of a slow-build, like many tracks from the band, but once it kicks into gear your patience is infinitely rewarded.
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Bix Beiderbecke’s golden cornet made by Vincent Bach in New York, 1927…
(Source - the ever excellent If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, via the also excellent Bix’s Diary whimsy at The Beiderbecke Affair)
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Bix Beiderbecke: Basin Street Blues (1928)
(via Internet Archive & furabo)
Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)Awesome-looking show at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Pennsylvania
Oh this does look good! Wish I had some reason to get down there.
Real Estate
“Beach Comber”
Live in Lisbon, 2/19/2010
I’m very fond of this song, it has a way of immediately putting me into a mellow, gentle mood. I especially enjoy when the dude sings the line “you fell into vacation zone” for whatever reason, though he kinda flubs that line in this performance.
Feist - Let it Die (Live in San Fran)
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Rocky Galloway and Reggie Stanley hold their daughters at the end of their wedding on the first day same-sex couples are legal to wed under a new law March 9, 2010 in Washington, DC. (apsies:via)
Yay! Mazal tov!
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Brian Eno - My Dark Life
JFK, RFK, and Dr. King at Arlington, October 1968
“This was a couple of months after Dr. King was killed and Bobby died, too, so I showed three great Americans at Arlington. It was the symbol for such a brutal ten-year decade. I had a graphic fantasy, paying homage to Jack and Bobby and Dr. King. To this day, I look at that cover and I still almost tear up. I had it hanging in my office, but I had to take it down, I couldn’t keep looking at it.”
Courtesy of: Esquire
When President Bush two years ago failed to name members to a federal board to monitor the protection of civil liberties, Democrats and activist groups were duly outraged, seeing it as one more example of his administration’s indifference to the subject.
But more than a year into a new presidency, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board—created by Congress in 2007—remains as much a cipher under Barack Obama as it was under George W. Bush. The White House has yet to nominate a single person to sit on the five-person board. It has no members, no staff and no office.
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