Beth Orton & M. Ward - Buckets of Rain (Bob Dylan cover)
Little red wagon, little red bike
I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like
I like the way you love me strong and slow
I’m takin’ you with me, honey baby, where I go
Life is sad, life is a bust
All you can do is do what you must
You do what you must do, and you do it well
I do it for you, honey baby, can’t you tell
A spire
Rideau
Track of the day.
Tape is a trio from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2000, building their music from a whole array of acoustic instruments, computer and field recordings.
A Spire is from Tapes 2005 album Rideau.
This only reinforces my desire to listen to more Tape. Delicate, beautiful.
Tape is awesome! This album was my favorite album from 2005! “Sand Dunes” was my favorite track! All those exclamation marks are necessary!
Dale from Top Chef just opened a restaurant in my neighborhood. I love Dale.
MOTHERFUCKING DALE!
The Isi Soda Siphon is awesome and about to change my life.
Yuengling Is Now America’s Largest Brewer
Fine print: Largest American-owned brewery. And we still can’t get it here…
I like Yuengling. It goes well with wings. It’s also fun to tell people about how it’s the oldest brewery in the United States and pretend you didn’t just read it off the label. My bar has it on tap, though, so nobody need be the wiser.
Quest for Glory I: So You Want To Be A Hero, by Michael Goins.
I know it’s off by a room or two in a couple of places, but otherwise pretty accurate. Spent a lot (lot lot lot) of time playing this game. (I like QFG II more but it doesn’t lend itself to very interesting mapping, unless you actually walked everywhere, in which case you are a crazy)
It doesn’t happen so much anymore, but sometimes when I have insomnia my sleep deprived mind will be compelled to mentally retrace dimly remembered routes from my hometown, or recreate the floor layouts of defunct department stores from my youth, or even map out video games or complicated plot lines from books and movies. It could be anything complex yet trivial. I used to love Sierra games, and seeing these maps reminded me of that weird link that exists for me between maps and nostalgia. Now I want to play some Quest for Glory!
Jake Kosek’s book Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico does a great job of probing the gray area where racism and environmentalism have coincided. Edward Abbey has some of the more memorable racist quotes in it.
