minor jive

catnipforhipsters: The National - Terrible Love The National...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:46:31 -0500

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.

i12bent: Bix Beiderbecke’s golden cornet made by Vincent Bach...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:28:27 -0500

i12bent:

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)

i12bent: Bix Beiderbecke: Basin Street Blues (1928) (via...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:25:03 -0500

i12bent:

Bix Beiderbecke: Basin Street Blues (1928)

(via Internet Archive & furabo)

austinkleon: Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:11:55 -0500

austinkleon:

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.

perpetua: Real Estate “Beach Comber” Live in Lisbon, 2/19/2010...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:08:26 -0500

perpetua:

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.

adeandabet: Feist - Let it Die (Live in San Fran)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:48:54 -0500

adeandabet:

Feist - Let it Die (Live in San Fran)

laurataylor: Ray Charles - Heartbreaker

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:59:06 -0500

laurataylor:

Ray Charles - Heartbreaker

laughingsquid: OK Go Leaves EMI, Starts Their Own Record Label

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:57:21 -0500

laughingsquid:

OK Go Leaves EMI, Starts Their Own Record Label

misterjt: Rocky Galloway and Reggie Stanley hold their...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:55:51 -0500

misterjt:

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!

misterjt: Tumblr is LiveJournal without all the “feelings.”

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:54:33 -0500

misterjt:

Tumblr is LiveJournal without all the “feelings.”

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7)

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:13:35 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

un: (via smoot:reginasworld) Brian Eno - My Dark Life

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:06:56 -0500

un:

(via smoot:reginasworld)

Brian Eno - My Dark Life

JFK, RFK, and Dr. King at Arlington, October 1968 “This was a...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:52:00 -0500

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

Trololololololololololo

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:28:02 -0500

Trololololololololololo:

johnvanderslice:

The most important link EVER. Hat tip to my man JD

"When President Bush two years ago failed to name members to a federal board to monitor the..."

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:42:54 -0500

“

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.

”

- Isikoff, “Civil Liberties Board Goes Vacant under Obama” (via newsweek) (via misterjt)

i12bent: Birthday of the great African-American prose stylist,...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:54:01 -0500

i12bent:

Birthday of the great African-American prose stylist, Ralph Ellison: March 1, 1913 - 1994…

“The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.” - R.E.

Original caption: Author Ralph Ellison siitting at typewriter at the American Academy in Italy, 1957

Photographer: James Whitmore, LIFE

missleeding: Peter Baldwin [electric feel] his show is next...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:28:57 -0500

missleeding:

Peter Baldwin [electric feel]

his show is next wednesday and I can’t miss class or i’d be there for sure.

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version (via OkGo) AWESOMEST...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:08:52 -0500

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version (via OkGo)

AWESOMEST music video—ever. Who are these guys?

perpetua: The B-52’s“Hero Worship”Live in Atlanta, 1978I love...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:25:15 -0500

perpetua:

The B-52’s
“Hero Worship”
Live in Atlanta, 1978

I love how washed out this footage looks, it makes it all seem even further in the past and far from reality. This is less like a document and more like an amazing dream.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28)

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:14:08 -0500

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28):

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