By the time you read this letter I may be dead
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11. July 2011 by The Geecologist
written in
1948
Categories: Sound & Vision, Vids |
Tags: alcoholic, cad, joan fontaine, letter from an unknown woman, louis jourdan, max ophuls, mozart, pianist, stefan zweig, the third man, typhus, vienna, womaniser |
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Go Tell Fire To The Mountain is WU LYF’s new album. Here’s a review, plus the review I published with BlogCritics.
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11. June 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: 2011, Sound & Vision, Toons |
Tags: bats, dirt, frank black, go tell fire to the mountain, isaac brock, jonathan fire*eater, love you forever, michel gondry, modest mouse, nme, pere ubu, protest folk, spitting blood, spitting it concrete like the golden sun god, the lost boys, the teardrop explodes, tupac shakur, vampires, world unite lucifer youth foundation, wu lyf |
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Here’s a quick reference guide to adding a Google +1 button to your website. There seems to be lots of instructions so I’ve tried to collate the best of those I’ve found to make it as simple as poss.
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06. June 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Geekery |
Tags: +1, buttons, code, google, javascript, share, snippets |
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Adam Curtis’ new documentary currently showing on BBC is All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace.
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29. May 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Geekery, Vids |
Tags: adam curtis, alan greenspan, all watched over by machines of loving grace, anarchy, atlas shrugged, ayn rand, bbc, control, corporate power, corruption, documentary, edward bernays, facebook, game theory, government, pencils, power, prozac, rupert murdoch, social media, the century of the self, the fountainhead, the power of nightmares, the trap, twitter |
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‘Well, my dad used to like to mow the lawn in little patches and strips. He’d do the east corner of the front yard, come in the house for a while, then do the southwest strip of the back lawn and a little square at the south fence, come back in, and like that…
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10. May 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Lies, Truth & Lies |
Tags: chore, david foster wallace, done, feeling, I'm done, lawn, machine, mow, ritual, satisfaction of completion, strip, the pale king, yard |
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Last Summer is being released on July 12th 2011. It’s been pretty quiet from the Fiery Furnaces corner since Take Me Round Again, an album of alternate takes.
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08. May 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: 2011, Sound & Vision, Toons |
Tags: charmaine champagne, eleanor friedberger, featured, last summer, merge, my mistakes |
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They’ll either be grateful, or they’ll be frightened and avoid you from then on. Both reactions have their uses, as we’ll get to.
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01. May 2011 by The Geecologist
Quoted from
David Foster Wallace written in
2011
Categories: Lies, Truth & Lies |
Tags: conversation, david foster wallace, manipulation, power, self-help, something's wrong, the pale king, wrong |
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Among the nearly half million protestors who came to London yesterday to March for the Alternative, there were actually a ‘handful of idiots’. STOP THE PRESS! PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT AND EXPRESS THEMSELVES IN DIFFERENT WAYS. The superb UK Uncut action …
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26. March 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Truth, Truth & Lies |
Tags: #26march, march, march for the alternative, political dynamite, the guardian, tuc, uk uncut |
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Japan suffers the worst earthquake it’s ever had, and Microsoft’s search engine company, Bing, use it as a marketing opportunity. They’re going to donate just $1 to Japanese quake survivors if you retweet their message to all of your friends…
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12. March 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Geekery |
Tags: adwords, bing, brand, disaster, donate, earthquake, google, japan quake, microsoft, survivors, twitter |
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Arthur Russell was one of the original electronic music experimenters, as well as an extraordinary cellist who accompanied Allen Ginsberg, and worked with David Byrne, Ernie Brooks (of The Modern Lovers) and Philip Glass.
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27. February 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Sound & Vision, Toons, Unfamous |
Tags: allen ginsberg, arthur russell, david byrne, disco, ernie brooks, grizzly bear, joan of arc, lambchop, love is overtaking me, matt wolf, philip glass, the modern lovers, the velvet underground, touched by the lord, what it's like |
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