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One of my favorite new artists from the past year is Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. While he’s not new to the world, he’s new to me. He’s all at once sad, hopeful, wistful, cynical, fragile, damaged, unaffected. If Bon Iver lived in Brooklyn instead of in a cabin in the middle of nowhere and had a penchant for low-fi production he’d sound something like Casiotone.
This is the first of three or four songs I’ll post this week. All of his songs are biographic in content. This might be my favorite and is definitely the one that I most emphasize with and am moved by. Maybe it’s the country music I grew up listening to with my grandparents but I love a story in a song with bonus points for unrequited or lost love.
This song is lyrically heartbreaking. It’s incredible how the first verse establishes these characters and creates immediate empathy. The hope of the protagonist is palpable and makes the chorus even more heartbreaking.
“Elle’s the only one besides my dad who’s ever said ‘I love you, Creedence’.” is the most emotionally loaded line of the song. Within it lies the implication of a broken man who’s grown up mother-less and desperate to hang onto the one woman in his life for whom he’s ever felt—and had reciprocated—love. Such a rich story full of loss and heartbreak in such a small package.
Via GrubStreet: Grimaldi’s Will Open 24/7 Chelsea Location.
Maybe this will cut down on the lines outside the original DUMBO location.
Great free typeface - Zalamander Caps.
In a paper due out this year in the journal Emotion, Mr. Kraus and his co-authors, Cassy Huang and Dr. Keltner, report that with a few exceptions, good teams tended to be touchier than bad ones. The most touch-bonded teams were the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers, currently two of the league’s top teams; at the bottom were the mediocre Sacramento Kings and Charlotte Bobcats. The same was true, more or less, for players. The touchiest player was Kevin Garnett, the Celtics’ star big man, followed by star forwards Chris Bosh of the Toronto Raptors and Carlos Boozer of the Utah Jazz. “Within 600 milliseconds of shooting a free throw, Garnett has reached out and touched four guys,” Dr. Keltner said.
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This just in: touching is good
Mind - New Research Focuses on the Power of Physical Contact - NYTimes.com
Buy stuff from my house (or at least give your friends the opportunity to do so)
I’m selling a bunch of stuff from my apartment and you should buy it. If you don’t want to buy it retweet so someone else might have the opportunity to do so.
Kitchen table and chairs (Very nice)
Old CRT TV (old, but still works. great 2nd tv for bedroom!)
TV stand (old, nothing fancy, good storage for DVDs/DVD player/DVR)
Thanks ladies and gentlemen!
This is pretty much the sexiest thing ever.
House Industries - Blog
The Morning After
A Buried Car
Brownstone Stair-Sleding
Waist-high
Windows of IAC building
The morning after Snowpocalypse NYC ‘10.
I LOL’d
groovemonkey:
brilliant
This is a fantastic project. Readability, by Arc90, isolates the content on a web page allowing easy readability on poorly designed sites. You can even customize the “new” appearance of content.
I found this via Zeldman and he covers the reasons why this is so useful not only for desktop browsing but for mobile as well.
Great to see things of quality such as this being released.
I too am excited! Maybe after BR Guest was sold the new owners will go down a better path (zing!)
deesix:
Very excited to get a Dos Caminos in the West Village. They are opening in April according to the signs in the windows.
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