December 2010
My Favorite Albums Of The Year
(Don’t miss it! Very minor updates!!)
Tier 1: “Albums For The Ages”
Arcade Fire — The Suburbs*
Tier 2: “Albums For The Decade”
The Walkmen — Lisbon
Vampire Weekend — Contra
Lower Dens — Twin Hand Movement
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — Before Today
Sufjan Stevens — The Age Of Adz
Beach House — Teen Dream
Tier 3: “Albums For A Year Or...
Both Seasons of Twin Peaks $35.99 at Amazon →
One of my favorite TV shows ever. Enjoy.
WatchBeach House — “10 Mile Stereo” (on “Conan”) (via twentyfourbit)
“People started noticing there was something seriously amiss with the Quaids...”
– Randy and Evi Quaid are on the run
HTML5 is the future, HTML5 is now →
“Jeff: Belichick used Kevin Faulk that way, too. Kevin Faulk did everything....”
– The Son of Man, 1982: The Milwaukee Space Program
WatchMost of the impressions in SNL’s Back to the Future Screen Test, Part 2 are pretty standard and a few are even bad. But as Scott Simpson notes, Bill Hader as Alan Alda is absolutely sublime.
I wrote my first jQuery plugin! →
If you don’t know what that means, probably best to stop reading now.
It’s an embarrassingly simple plugin, but hey, you gotta start somewhere; let me describe what it does:
atBack coverts “%40” back to “@” like so $().atBack(myVar);. That is it.
Download it now if you’re processing email addresses with jQuery.
Collections of songs created and curated by an...
Arcade Fire — The Suburbs*
The Walkmen — Lisbon
Vampire Weekend — Contra
Lower Dens — Twin Hand Movement
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — Before Today
Broken Bells — Broken Bells
Beach House — Teen Dream
Wild Nothing — Gemini
Beach Fossils — Beach Fossils
The Drums — The Drums
Tame Impala — Innespeaker
Frightened...
“Whoever invented jeggings should have gone all the way and made the jeanitard....”
– Scott Simpson (via putthison)
Why are pubs in London better than bars in New... →
“I asked them when they believed their troubles began. They said it was in Marfa,...”
– Randy and Evi Quaid’s insane Vanity Fair profile
