Jónsi / Go Do
What an amazing human.
I can has Jónsi do the soundtrack to my afterlife plz?
Photographs of curves found in nature and the graphs and functions that go with them.
via kottke. This is marvelous.
i saw the film hurt locker last night. and i thought it was amazing.
you know that scene in the action movie where the bomb is a minute from going off and the protagonist is rushing against time to try and defuse the bomb before it’s too late? this is usually the most intense scene in the movie. or how about the war movie where inevitably the team is attacked by a sniper and they have to figure out a) where the hell the shots are coming from and b) how to stop them.
okay, instead of each of these scenes being five minutes long, stretch them out across two hours and now you have hurt locker.
i’ve never had a movie stress me out like this. i was on the edge of my seat for most of the movie.
the other amazing thing about this movie is how, while all these totally insane stressful crazy events are going on, you never get the impression that these things are out-of-the-ordinary scenarios. this was everyday life for our soldiers in iraq. it really made me very very grateful for the people who fight over there. and also made me realize what a terrible soldier i would make. i’d be like “wait, you want me to do WHAT?!”
so anyway, go see this movie. and then hug someone you know who fought in iraq or afghanistan.
I was going to post a review of this film a little while back, but I would have said pretty much the same thing…although I wouldn’t describe how I felt while watching this movie as “stressed out”—it was more of an adrenaline high: I loved every second of it. And it’s not merely a suspense film; one is allowed a unique insight into the lives of our soldiers abroad and the connections they make with each other and the Iraqi people.
This is one of the best films I’ve seen in a long time. Renner’s performance, in addition to playing the impossibly calm hero perfectly, gradually reveals a depth to his character that gives the film a poignancy and emotional involvement that one doesn’t soon forget. If it doesn’t win Best Picture at the Oscars that would be just really stupid.
Composite image of the sun’s corona, taken during the total solar eclipse last July.
This is spectacular. The corona is absolutely beautiful, visually as well as scientifically. By all understanding of solar physics, it shouldn’t exist, but there it is. It’s not understood entirely why it exists or how it works, but it has something to do with the magnetic field. Take a look at an example of what magnetic field lines look like and you’ll see the same pattern as appears in the corona.
Amazing.
(via charmingart)
I really like this piece. It reminds me of strolling through a big city with fresh air on a beautiful sunny day.
But there’s no credit and I can’t figure out who the artist is. Does anyone know?
Thoughts On Scents
- I really wish they had testers at grocery stores. Not necessarily even for tasting everything but just smelling each item. That would totally save me money and frustration in the trying-new-things area. Because spaghetti is one of the few meals I make on a regular basis, I’m always trying new sauces. There’s a great co-op and natural foods store in town where I’m always looking to try healthier (but pricier) stuff. So I decided to try this new sauce: it was organic, yeast-free, and made locally—looked good. So I spent however long cooking it and sat down to watch an episode of whatever television show I’m on now, and after 2 bites I almost gagged. It was that bad. It had a basil tomato ratio of about 1:1. So then I had to cook dinner all over again and my throwback Dew was FLAT by the time I finished. I absolutely could have determined FAIL upon a simple sniff before buying.
- I’m serious about those textbooks, folks. It’s becoming my
newsubstance abuse problem. I’ve almost always eschewed the used textbooks in favor of the new ones because they are free of highlighting, dog ears, and idiotic notes in the liners, but oh my god buying them brand-spanking-new from amazon just to smell the lining glue is worth the extra cash and then some.
GPOYW - I can’t stop sniffing my amazing (smelling - this class sucks so far) new textbooks (in class) edition!
Steve Mason - All Come Down
Remember The Beta Band? Their singer and guitarist Steve Mason will release a first solo album in May via Domino Records. The record was produced by Richard X (Sugababes, Kelis, Annie)
Hush hush, go and get the free download here.
Oh this is so fresh. Definitely on my list.
Jónsi just released his solo North American tour dates!
The tour will feature a brand new band and a stage set designed by 59 Productions, bringing together the worlds of theatre and music in a new and hopefully unique way. We are really excited about this project so we’ll be giving you glimpses on jonsi.com in the coming weeks as it progesses.
April 6 Vancouver, Canada Vogue Theatre April 7 Vancouver, Canada Vogue Theatre April 9 Seattle, WA The Showbox SoDo April 10 Seattle, WA The ShowBox SoDo April 13 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre April 15 Berkeley, CA Zellerbach Auditorium April 16 San Francisco, CA Palace of Fine Arts April 18 Indio, CA Coachella April 21 Denver, CO Paramount Theatre April 22 Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall April 24 Minneapolis, MN Pantages Theatre April 25 Minneapolis, MN Pantages Theatre April 26 Milwaukee, WI The Pabst Theatre April 27 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre April 28 Chicago, IL Vic Theatre April 30 Toronto, Canada Sound Academy May 1 Toronto, Canada Sound Academy May 2 Montreal, Canada Metropolis May 3 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory May 5 Boston, MA House of Blues May 6 Boston, MA House of Blues May 8 New York, NY Terminal 5 May 9 New York, NY Terminal 5
Considering my belief that Jón Þór Birgisson makes the most beautiful music on the planet, I’m pretty fucking excited about this tour.
…So what brings you in today?
(via)
You go to a dance where a new pop song is playing, and for the rest of your life hearing that song triggers the same emotion. It comes on the radio, and you think, That’s when things were truly fine. You want to hear it again and again. You have become addicted.Youth culture acquires its poignancy through time, and so thoroughly that you can barely see what it is in itself. It’s just, permanently, “your song,” your story. When people who grew up in the nineteen-fifties give “The Catcher in the Rye” to their kids, it’s like showing them an old photo album: That’s me.
It isn’t, of course. Maybe, in fact, the nostalgia of youth culture is completely spurious. Maybe it invites you to indulge in bittersweet memories of a childhood you never had, an idyll of Beach Boys songs and cheeseburgers and convertibles and teen-age crushes which has been constructed by pop songs and television shows and movies, and bears very little relation to any experience of your own. But, whether or not the emotion is spurious, people have it. It is the romantic certainty, which all these books seduce you with, that somehow, somewhere, something was taken away from you, and you cannot get it back. Once, you did ride a carousel. It seemed as though it would last forever.
”Louis Menand on The Catcher in the Rye for The New Yorker. (via meaghano)
Hell yes. Thank you, J.D.
