January 2012
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my top 11 songs of 2011
just because everyone else is doing it and i have an opinion.
this is by no means a music critic’s list (though some of it is influenced by music critics’ lists, since i often discover new stuff like that). it’s just 11 songs this year that i either played over and over, was unexpectedly impressed by, or both.
so, my top 11 songs of 2011, in no particular order:
1. adele,...
December 2011
14 posts
Clone Wars: is plagiarism killing creativity in... →
austinkleon:
Interesting article — games are tricky for copyright: you can protect the visual appearance and “assets” in games, such as graphics and characters, but you can’t really protect the gameplay or the mechanics, even though that’s really what makes a game feel like itself:
“The most important thing in a game to us, is the gameplay,” Ismail says. “In other words: the way you interact...
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“for during…her life she had been governed by love alone, and a blow of...”
– louisa may alcott, “little women”
live it learn it love it →
AWESOME.
jnewton13:
1) Don’t sing if you aren’t one of the dudes on stage getting paid to do it. Nobody paid their hard-earned money to hear your dorky, untalented ass sing. We came to hear the dudes on stage sing. Paying 40 bucks to go see Tool, but instead of hearing Maynard, you get the dorkus malorkus…
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“I hopelessly, helplessly, wonder why
Everything gotta change around me...”
– train, “hopeless” (songwriters: monahan/underwood/hotchkiss)
“Copy out things that you really love. Any book. Put the quotation marks around...”
– Nicholson Baker on copying out passages of your favorite books by hand (via austinkleon)
theroxy:
Just Announced: The Silent Comedy,...
