Posted: February 17th, 2006 | Author: Nghia | Filed under: Sites, music | No Comments »
Yee-haw! Ya’ll know what time it is. It’s Friday! GET HYPE!!! How brilliant is this? Spell with Flickr (via Let’s Do This)
Bucka, bucka, bucka!!! Raise your blood pressure and get your Grime on with Run the Road V.2 (listen to the album) Tell your boss to come over and blast this in his ear. Check out “Plan B – Sick 2 Def”.
CONTEST!!!: Send an email to CrackersUnitedcontest@gmail.com with your favorite Run the Road V.2 song. Subject: “I Wanna Get Grimey”. A winner will be chosen at random and receive vinyl and full lengths from Vice Records. Contest ends 2/24.
Interesting: Rock Star DJs in NYC.
Posted: February 7th, 2006 | Author: Ray | Filed under: Sites, life, nyc, sport | 6 Comments »
If you’ve been along the Tribeca segment of Hudson River Park recently, you must have noticed the demolition of Piers 25 and 26. This is the third segment of seven that is under construction for the improvements to the park, spanning from Battery Park to 59th Street.
My daily commute to work from the West Village involves riding a bike along the Hudson River to Wall Street. This is when I noticed the deconstruction of my beloved skatepark, my second home, or as others call it, Hudson River Skatepark. As soon as I arrived at the office, I called the Park to see what its ill-fated future was. But to my suprise, the Director told me that the skatepark will be temporarily moved to a location near the Javit Center while construction is taking place this summer. And thanks to a $70-million grant from the feds, the design for Segment 3 in Tribeca includes a new concrete skatepark!
Now we’re talking. And if local veteran Andy Kessler has a hand in the design, you know it will be good. All I could find were a few renderings of the piers and a crude plan that shows the park. It doesn’t look any bigger than the old one, but I do see a little bowl there in the corner. No word on the completion date yet, but I’m guessing it won’t be open till next summer (2007).
Anyone know more details on the park design and construction?
Posted: November 8th, 2005 | Author: Beaker | Filed under: Sites | 5 Comments »
The one. The only. Blue Ball Machine.
Thank me later.
Posted: September 22nd, 2005 | Author: Beaker | Filed under: Sites | 3 Comments »
For those lazy bloggers who can’t seem to post regularly, here’s the answer to your writing-woes: auto-blogging with Blog Drone. Just enter a subject line (like the one above) and here’s what you get:
This party animal is handing in her wings lots of mixed metaphors may ensue. This is an awesome e-text and how the web was surely meant to be!
I’m sorry I left you to consume 3/4 of that bottle by yourself, I feel a little guilty for not taking more off you! Sorry Other Shannon, you have a cool name, but you also have porno pics in your diary and that’s just not my bag. How do I know you’re not going to eat me, omnivore? My boyfriend forgets how fragile our relationship is at the moment… although I suppose it’s not entirely his fault, I havent exactly told him.
I told him that I had always thought he disliked me. I had an amazing time, even though I enjoyed it in a completely different way from how I thought I might, when I thought I might enjoy it at all, which I didn’t think I really would. I prayerfully believe that my life is going to be very different from now on.
There is going to be a whole lot of wet cement right outside my front door……. at this point, I don’t even know how I will be able to go in and out of the building.
Hey. I never said the results were any good, just that there would be results. Which CU is a little lacking in these days…
Posted: August 25th, 2005 | Author: justin | Filed under: Sites, music | 17 Comments »
Every year it seems like some of the best albums come out in September and October. Some highlights of the late summer include
Calla‘s fourth full-length
Collisions,
Echo and the Bunnymen‘s
Siberia, and
Sigur Ros‘
Takk.
Collisions is Calla’s best work to date, the addition of a second guitar really made a difference on this album, it’s amazing.
Echo and the Bunnymen try to better their mediocre 2001 release,
Flowers, hopefully McCullogh and Sergeant find the fiery power that made their first four albums classics. One of my most anticipated and often overlooked releases of the month is
Broadcast‘s
Tender Buttons.
Tender Buttons marks
Broacast‘s follow up to 2003s excellent
HaHa Sound. Another release worth mentioning is uber-hyped
Wolf Parade‘s debut
Apolgies to Queen Mary. Below is a list of some of my favorite releases, mp3s, videos, and links to buy.
August 2005
08/23 – Noam Chomsky – Imperial Presidency (Suburban Home) buy
08/23 – Rogue Wave – 10:1 (single) (Sub Pop) buy mp3
08/23 – Sons and Daughters – Repulsion Box (Domino) buy video
September 2005
09/13 – The Double – Loose in the Air (Matador) buy mp3
09/13 – Sigur Ros – Takk (Geffen Records) buy
09/13 – stellastarr* – Harmonies for the Haunted (RCA) buy mp3
09/20 – Broadcast – Tender Buttons (Warp) buy mp3 (rt click, save target as)
09/20 – Echo and the Bunnymen – Siberia (Cooking Vinyl) buy
09/27 – Calla – Collisions (Beggars Banquet) buy mp3
09/27 – Wolf Parade – Apologies to Queen Mary (Sub Pop) buy mp3
09/27 – Metric – Live It Out (Last Gang) clip
Posted: August 10th, 2005 | Author: Beaker | Filed under: Sites, general | 13 Comments »
As always, The Onion serves up a nice headline on everyone’s favorite fashion statement: the camel toe.
Posted: August 4th, 2005 | Author: Beaker | Filed under: Sites, read, tx | 8 Comments »
Despite my previous disparging comments about Austinist editor Ben Brown, I’ve now come full-circle to believe that’s Ben’s weekly recap of the Real World: Austin is just about some of the funniest reading currently available on the internet(s).
I stopped watching the show after the second episode, and now I soley rely on the caustic wit and and piercing insights into early-20s American youth culture (read: booze, sex, booze and more sex) that Ben serves up the following morning after each episode. Really good stuff.
