Posts tagged `memes`

The “Is it spring yet?” edition.

  1. The Dillinger Escape Plan – [Ire Works #13] Mouth Of Ghosts
  2. Sentenced – [Frozen #03] Dead Leaves
  3. Nick Drake – [Five Leaves Left #06] Cello Song
  4. Giants – [Demo #02] Berlin Rooftop
  5. Tenhi – [Kauan #02] Huomen
  6. Sergei Rachmaninov (Vladimir Ashkenazy; André Previn, London Symphony Orchestra) – [Complete Piano Concertos, Rhapsody CD1 #05] Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18: 2. Adagio sostenuto
  7. Conor Oberst – [Conor Oberst #01] Cape Canaveral
  8. The Tea Party – [TRIPtych #12] Gone
  9. Metallica – [S&M CD2 #08] One
  10. The Decemberists – [The Tain #01] The Tain
§3566 · January 30, 2009 · (No comments) · Tags: , ,

The “Back after break” edition.

  1. Sondre Lerche – [Don't Be Shallow #03] I Know I Know
  2. Paco de Lucía – [Antología CD1 #01] Almoraima
  3. Fiona Apple – [Extraordinary Machine (Brion version, unmastered) #05] Oh Well
  4. Paragon of Beauty – [Comfort Me, Infinity #01] This Impossible Moment
  5. Cave In – [Jupiter #06] Requiem
  6. Ben Folds – [Songs for Goldfish #05] Weather Channel Music
  7. Mogwai – [Rock Action #01] Sine Wave
  8. Sigur Rós – [( ) #02] Fyrsta
  9. Fastball – [All the Pain Money Can Buy #08] G.O.D. (Good Old Days)
  10. Darkane – [Rusted Angel #06] A Wisdoms Breed
§3546 · January 16, 2009 · (No comments) · Tags: , ,

The “Busy as shit” edition

  1. Ved Buens Ende – [Those Who Caress The Pale #05] Those who Caress the Pale
  2. Opeth – [My Arms, Your Hearse #02] April Ethereal
  3. Mum – [Go go smear the poison ivy #11] Guilty Rocks
  4. In Flames – [The Jester Race / Black Ash Inheritance #03] Artifacts of the Black Rain
  5. Doves – [Lost Souls #01] Firesuite
  6. Neurosis – [A Sun That Never Sets #07] Crawl Back In
  7. VAST – [April #04] Sunday I’ll Be Gone
  8. Samuel Barber – [Orchestral Works, Volume 4 #03] [Concerto for Piano and Orchestra] – III. Allegro molto
  9. Jason Mraz – [Mr. A-Z #11] The Forecast
  10. No-Man – [Flowermouth #02] You grow more beautiful
§3409 · December 5, 2008 · (No comments) · Tags: , ,

The Omnivore's Dilemma The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2006
Pages: 464

To be honest, I hadn’t heard of The Omnivore’s Dilemma until I heard it referenced as something that White People Like in… Stuff White People Like. In a turn of events which is far too easy to ridicule, I read it.

Like many of its ilk, The Omnivore’s Dilemma taps a particular sort of (White?) guilt about the inevitable consequences of a modern, technologically-advanced culture. Think of it as Cat’s Cradle, but instead of world-ending weapons, we’re talking instead about the financial perils of agricultural monocultures, the oversaturation of corn as a foodstuff, and the heady thrill of having to shoot your own meat.

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§3369 · November 30, 2008 · 2 comments · Tags: , , , ,

The “Avoiding Crowds” edition.

  1. October Tide – [Rain Without End #03] All Painted Cold
  2. Samuel Barber – [Orchestral Works, Volume 3 #06] [op. 28] – III. Pas de Deux (A Corner of the Ballroom)
  3. Low – [The Great Destroyer #03] Everybody’s Song
  4. Neurosis – [Given to the Rising #02] Fear and Sickness
  5. Elend – [A World in Their Screams #01] Ophis Puthôn
  6. Solefald – [Red For Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1 #02] Survival of the Outlaw
  7. Agalloch – [Ashes Against the Grain #03] This White Mountain on Which You Will Die
  8. Regina Spektor – [11:11 #07] wasteside
  9. Sigur Rós – [Ágætis Byrjun #05] Ný Batterí­
  10. Sufjan Stevens – [Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lake State #06] Tahquamenon Falls
§3386 · November 28, 2008 · (No comments) · Tags: , ,