January 2009
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I miss Austin.
Red Hot Compilation :: Dark Was the Night
Red Hot is some sort of charity organization run but the guy from The National and it has a new compilation coming out some time in February.
I thought this was a pretty cool little widget they released trying to get people like me to put it up on my blog. It worked. The Iron and Wine song is pretty great. And so is the Decemberists song.
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Name Population Graph →
A good site if you have a couple minutes to kill.
You type in a name in the search field and the graph pops up showing when it was popular, how many of them there were and it’s rank in terms of popularity.
I don’t know what makes this interesting, but knowing that my name was the 12th most popular in the 80s is weirdly satisfying.
I’ve been meaning to post this since I first saw it yesterday.
I never got that into Animal Collective in the past, but I heard so many good things about their newest album that I decided to give it one more shot and downloaded it. This song quickly became my favorite and after a listen or two I understood what I’d been missing.
I read in the NYT Magazine that when they were in the...