NYC

The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.

Official Drink of PTIPS

You know, like Easter . . .

My employer here.

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Financial Fool's Day in London

XOXO

(Heard this one in a movie)

Beyond Here Lies Nothin'

GET IT!

Riverbottom Nightmare Band

Easter In A Few Weeks

The Greatness of Stevie and the Clavinet

From pitchforkmedia...

"A crafty sound engineer by the name of Funkscribe has dissected the unmistakable Clavinet part from Stevie Wonder's "Superstitious" and discovered that it's actually eight Clavinet parts."

горяче и холодно

Los Colorados, hot and cold reprise Katy Perry
by nico-eteignez

“A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Armpit Collection XVII: God Bless the Bridge

Sonny Rollins - The Bridge

"I was getting very famous at the time and I felt I needed to brush up on various aspects of my craft. I felt I was getting too much, too soon, so I said, wait a minute, I'm going to do it my way. I wasn't going to let people push me out there, so I could fall down. I wanted to get myself together, on my own. I used to practice on the Bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge because I was living on the Lower East Side at the time."

Listen for the hard hittin' intro theme of "John S," Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child," and the title track.

$10.25/pack

That's how much I paid today for a pack of Parliment Lights. I mostly buy cigarettes in a little convenience store in the building where I work. It's run by Indians or Pakistanis (I honestly have no idea), but depending on who is working that day depends on how much you pay for cigarettes. The young guy sold them for $9, the old guy sold them for $9.25, and I was used to a give-or-take quarter difference in price... until today. Now it's posted on a sign behind the register $10.25 for some goddam P-funks. I told the clerk, "that fucking sucks," like the intelligent, cost concious human being I am. He didn't seem to care.

What could all that added tax be contributing to? Is it going to help the homeless, because I still know a lot of bums asking me for, you guessed it, a cigarette. I only wish some of that tax was going to the TARP money given to banks! At those prices, all banks would be solvent in no time. I bet MANswers would know where the tax money goes...

Remember when I quit smoking? Only last year I was paying $7.75/pack. Those days are currently just a memory. My addiction has strengthened, and so has my cough.

How much does a pack of Parliments cost in your neck of the woods?

Kenny Powers

if you're unfamiliar, let me introduce you to one of the greatest and most controversial pitchers to stand on the slab. He loves himself like he loves lines of coke and kissin pussy. Kenny Powers ladies and gentleman!

here's a clip on youtube of "Eastbound & Down", among others:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iijy--dag0

EAGLE FIGHT!

Ghost in the Machine Series

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Barack Obama Sucks at Presidenting

OK, I'm calling it: President Barack Obama has jumped the shark. Less than two months into his presidency, he became the first sitting president to appear on a late-night talk show. Coincidentally, he was also the first sitting president to dis the Special Olympics on a late-night talk show. What was his appearance on Leno supposed to promote? The stability of the American economy? In an ideal world, what would Obama have gained from a stumble-free appearance? He didn't use the historic moment as an opportunity to say anything new or particularly reassuring, and more than half the interview was taken up with "So how cool is Air Force 1?!" and "So Portuguese Water Dog, huh, that sounds like a lot of fun."

But even that wasn't as bad as his LonelyGirl15-style webcam chat with Iran. The president does not need his own YouTube channel and Facebook page. He has a fucking press corps assigned to follow him every day: we don't need him twittering, too.

Gawker does a great job picking apart Barack's appearance on 60 Minutes this weekend here: http://gawker.com/5180113/obama-wont-stop-cracking-up-for-60-minutes



Judd Gregg, who Obama tried to select as Commerce Secretary, has become one of the administration's loudest critics. Remember how Tom Daschle was supposed to finally get every American health care? Well he can't now because he sucks at paying taxes and Barack's team sucks at vetting.

Does Barack Obama have any idea how to do his job? Or even an idea of what his job should be? Or are we going to have four more years of smiling, artful speech-making, and dancing on Ellen?

We all knew he didn't have any executive experience prior to this, so maybe we should cut him a little slack. But honestly, when the biggest changes you've made as the "change" president are casual dress in the Oval Office, Michelle's sleeveless dresses and plans for a vegetable garden on the White House lawn, can we really be blamed for wanting something more substantial to come out of the White House? We haven't closed Guantanamo yet. Haven't reduced troops in Iraq or figured out a strategy for Afghanistan. Or come up with a plan for the economy other than more of W's "throw money at it" theory.

I don't know anything about Jimmy Carter or why Jimmy Carter gets such a bad rap, but in the sense that nice guys shouldn't be president: I think we've got ourselves another Jimmy Carter.

"Fuck, when the Couge's on, he's on"

John Mellencamp |MTV Music

That is my favorite quote from my entire time in Richmond. Whilst standing in a checkout line at Plan 9 as John Cougar Mellencamp was playing on throughout the store I heard one hipster behind the counter tell another hipster behind the counter "Fuck, when the Couge's on, he's on". And not only is that applicable to Mellencamp's music but a lot of times to his take on American life and culture, and now in his take on the music business as a whole. Below is an op-ed that The Couge has just posted laying out his thoughts on the music biz...

"Over the last few years, we have all witnessed the decline of the music business, highlighted by finger-pointing and blame directed against record companies, artists, internet file sharing and any other theories for which a case could be made. We've read and heard about the "good old days" and how things used to be. People remember when music existed as an art that motivated social movements. Artists and their music flourished in back alleys, taverns and barns until, in some cases, a popular groundswell propelled it far and wide. These days, that possibility no longer seems to exist. After 35 years as an artist in the recording business, I feel somehow compelled, not inspired, to stand up for our fellow artists and tell that side of the story as I perceive it. Had the industry not been decimated by a lack of vision caused by corporate bean counters obsessed with the bottom line, musicians would have been able to stick with creating music rather than trying to market it as well..."
The rest of the article after the jump

Fuck It

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(I Can't Get No) Clear Reception