kampers.net

oh my god. #

Great acoustic set featuring “Pushover” from the new album, Putting the Days to Bed. One-file stream linked from the KEXP blog today. #

Nice best-practices overview #

Also, new Velvet Teen site, has it been two weeks already? #

My vote for album title of the year. #

Let’s call it the “durrr” list (or is that drrr?) #

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Blogged today at Curbed LA. Apparently the group of “local concerned residents, students, and business owners” at StopUniversityGateway.com is actually a shady front for Conquest Housing. Big surprise there. #

He did everything from the Rascals’ “Good Lovin’” to the Bee Gees, Aretha Franklin, and Norah Jones. #

Invitation-only beta of Google services for arbitrary domains (i.e. GMail accounts for non-gmail.com domains) #

I was just searching my archives for this, but it looks like I managed to never post it. Arun sent me this some months ago.

It’s easy to ruin elemental things with overanalysis… so I’ll just say that this is one of the most accurate, concise, and beautiful statements about creating art that I’ve ever seen. #

Thursday, June 29th, 10pm. #

“As Naval Hospital commander Capt. John Edmundson showed off the 48-bed prison annex, for instance, I asked, apropos of nothing, if the facility had ever been at or near capacity.

‘Only during the mass-hanging incident,’ the Navy doctor replied, provoking audible gasps and horrified expressions among the public affairs minders and op-sec — operational security — watchdogs in the entourage, none of whom were particularly pleased with the disclosure that 23 prisoners had attempted simultaneously to hang themselves with torn bed sheets in late 2003.” #