Day: April 1, 2009

My March mix

Only about half as many as last month, but here’s what March sounded like for me, more or less:

  1. “Middle Cyclone” by Neko Case
  2. “I’m Goin’ Down” by Florence and the Machine (feat. Kid Harpoon)
  3. “Ballad for Old Decorations” by Claire Cronin
  4. “Walk Like and Egyptian” by the Puppini Sisters
  5. “Elephant Gun” by Beirut
  6. “Art Isn’t Real (City of Sin” by Deer Tick
  7. “You’ll Disappear” by the Phenomenal Handclap Band
  8. “Bag of Hammers” by Thao
  9. “Dreamer” by K’naan
  10. “I’d Rather Go Blind” by Etta James
  11. “Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel” by Townes Van Zandt
  12. “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it)” by Leila Broussard
  13. “Wake Up” by Arcade Fire

As always, I’m open to trades.

Wednesday various

  • Okay, I’ll admit it: I was fooled by Improv Everywhere’s April Fool’s Day joke. Well played, sirs. [via]
  • I’m not so sure anyone should be encouraged to dress up like the characters from Watchmen, much less like Dr. Manhattan. Presumably blue body paint and Speedo are not included…?
  • Cory Doctorow on the real problem with Amazon’s Kindle [via]:

    If we want to talk about potential outcomes for Amazon, then one in which the company disappears, changes hands, or loses its mind should get far more consideration from us than the possibility that it will mastermind major technological breakthroughs in machine-speech synthesis.

  • A fascinating story about DNA evidence and, more remarkably, how Germany’s Phantom of Heilbronn serial killer…never existed [via]:

    This raised suspicions that the DNA found at all the Phantom’s crime scenes might be traced to a single innocent factory worker, probably employed to package the swabs. Cotton swabs are sterilized before being used to collect DNA samples, but while sterilizing removes bacteria, viruses and fungi, it does not destroy DNA.

  • Yahoo Movies posts 100 Movies to See Before You Die, no doubt to stir up controversy about movies included or not. Still, it seems like a pretty decent list, with a lot of very good and/or important movies. With In the Mood for Love, which I watched this past weekend — and about which more, maybe, later — I’ve seen sixty-six of these. [via]