February 2012
18 posts
Why Mass Effect is the Most Important Science... →
andyhutchins:
towerofsleep:
cameronr:
I will buy a console and all of the Mass Effect games based on this article alone.
Also the trailer for the game looks sweet.
This sounds like THE GREATEST VIDEOGAME OF ALL TIME. I wouldn’t even have dared to imagine a game so awesome. Surely, after reading this article, the actual game could only be a disappointment.
The Mass Effect series is just...
Exist Yesterday.: Almost daily for two months now... →
jonathanbogart:
Almost daily for two months now a different customer has asked me if I have an interview, or a party, or a date. My usual response — no, I’m just, um, wearing clothes? — is kind of a dickish thing to say, firmly arm’s-lengthing people who were just trying to be friendly, but as a cis white…
This post is a perfect match to how I feel when people say annoying and uninvited...
Brit Awards liveblog
Probably to be interrupted by PANCAKES.
7:55 It’s not even started yet but Channel 4 News has already ticked off ‘authenticity’, ‘looking like real people’ and had Neil McCormick talking about ‘singing from the soul’ and ‘not showing [your] navel’ and talking about a decade of X Factor as if its contestants actually won all the Brit Awards in...
One Week // One Band: Introduction: Perfume, J-Pop... →
oneweekoneband:
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One characteristic most J-Pop does share, however, is an aversion to change. I didn’t pick up on this second lesson until I moved to the Japanese countryside in the summer of 2009 to teach junior high school students English. Once settled in and surrounded by J-Pop, it became clear that once an artist proves commercially successful with a certain style, they tend to...
One Week // One Band: Coming up: Perfume →
Wow, looking forward to this a lot!
oneweekoneband:
Thank you, Jonathan!
I’m incredibly excited about next week’s feature: We’ll finally dive into the wonderful & wondrous world of Japanese pop and have Patrick St. Michel dissect the electro-pop of influential J-Pop girl trio Perfume.
Patrick is a music writer living in Japan and runs an…
One night of football on 17 November 1993 →
It’s kind of weird now being at the age where people are writing sports retrospective articles about things I actually remember. This one covers one of my earliest memories of the England football team (one which was a good set up for a lifetime of disappointments, though they were rarely as hilarious as this one) but a lot of other fascinating events of the same night that I didn’t...
Ni no Kuni →
It’s great that the game Ni no Kuni is (eventually) coming to Europe because from the people involved it should be cool. But now I actually read more about it and seriously, it’s a Studio Ghibli collaboration and it still has a male main character?
I'm Not Okay With Chris Brown Performing at The... →
katherinestasaph:
mootpoint:
Taking a break from thinking about Whitney Houston for this:
And, this week, Grammy producers confirmed that Chris Brown will be performing on Sunday’s show.
“We’re glad to have him back,” said executive producer Ken Ehrlich. “I think people deserve a second chance, you know. If you’ll note, he has not been on the Grammys for the past few years and it may...
“Welsh rockers Feeder fell short of the Top 75 with their last five singles but...”
– Music Week’s UK chart report of the week takes an unusually amusing cassette-based turn.
January 2012
13 posts
Spotify playlist for January
January 2012
A playlist of new/new to me/new to Spotify stuff that I’ve enjoyed this month.
Gotye ft. Kimbra - Somebody that I Used to Know
Lianne La Havas - Final Form
Kathleen Edwards - Empty Threat
Milagres - Glowing Mouth
Errors - Magna Encarta
Chairlift - Amanaemonesia
FOE - Cold Hard Rock
Niki & the Dove - DJ, Ease My Mind
Queen of Hearts - Shoot the Bullet
Azealia Banks...
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Every time I watch a news report on the Euro...
…I end up with Little Dragon in my head singing “fiscal union has got me in trouble again”.
