July 2009
89 posts
Kurt Loder Remembers ‘Purple Rain’ →
It’s not hard to grasp why Purple Rain was such an event when it was first released, 25 years ago this summer: The album was a dizzying synthesis of rock, pop and R&B, and it still sounds groundbreaking today.
This was a defining moment for Prince and his greatest band, the Revolution (with which he shared, for the first time, both an unambiguous cover credit and, inside, some co-songwriting...
mitchell and webb - anthropomorphic shower (video) →
2/3 of the world's eggplant is grown in New...
(via fuckyeahfacts)
next time someone slams nj take away their eggplant.
SPACED ON HULU, SPACED IS ON HULU →
soy:NOW NONE OF YOU HAVE ANY EXCUSE NOT TO WATCH IT.
Listen Up!
blaaahg:
This dude plugged his shit up to a tree, records them live with no synthesizers or samplers at all. All the sounds are from simply “playing” the tree, pulling on the twigs, shaking the leaves, scratching your back, etc. Hippies.
“In the garden of my house there’s a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day I asked myself if I could...
Rafsanjani's speech at Friday's prayers provides... →
guardian.co.uk
brooklynmutt:
“What’s worth noting about what Jeff Sessions — the line of questioning, was that being a white man, that’s normal. Everybody else has biases and prejudices[,] … but the white man, they don’t have any ethnicity, they don’t have any gender, they’re just like the normal folks, and I thought that was a little jarring.” - Jeffery Toobin on CNN
video snatched from crooksandliars