I've got my giant hit discoteque album

Sep
17th

Thu

gid:

saar:
This umbrella pot allows rainwater from your umbrella to drain into the plant pot. Designed by Kyounei Design. (via sabino2)

saar:

This umbrella pot allows rainwater from your umbrella to drain into the plant pot. Designed by Kyounei Design. (via sabino2)

Sep
11th

Fri

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johnvanderslice:

Beatles - A Day In The Life (Lead Vocal Track)

Interesting things:

-There’s an incredible amount of headphone bleed

- Sounds like Lennon and McCartney are sharing the same vocal booth

- Piano is shared with main vocal track (:55. 1:10)

- Fantastic sounding tape delay in countdown (1:50) and last verse (3:20)

- JL hums along with PM (2:42)

- I think you can hear Lennon laugh around 2:48

- Beautiful artifacts of linear recording (3:19)

- “A Day In The Life” was recorded on a 4-track Studer J37.

Jul
30th

Thu

Tell it Straight

I always take the best bits of writing out of my essays before I hand them in. Currently, I’m finishing an essay where my subject headings are :

What We Talk About When We Talk About Authenticity

(and)

Will You Please Commemorate This, Please?

This is because I’m writing about memorials, and the current trend in ‘memorialisation’ is to show everything, all the horror and etc. I’m comparing the official September 11 memorial to the ad hoc ones - which say ‘it all’ but in very different ways. So Raymond Carver is a good fit. Also, they have a good ring, no? Also let me say, I know that these allusions should probably be used a lot more sparingly than I use them, though I do try on to repeat within the same context because they get old very, very fast.

I will probably change these in the next ten minutes to something bland and professional, because nobody will dig it and then think I wasn’t taking September 11 seriously. Maann.

Jul
29th

Wed

no one can become what he cannot find in his memories

— Jean Améry