links for 2006-05-17
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"I’ve enlisted the help of a number of writers that I respect immensely from throughout the MP3 blogosphere. Together, we've compiled a short but eclectic list of those song moments that are of particular significance to us."
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"I've been trying to do less music now, and spending more time doing other things, giving myself a period of dormancy. That's kind of what this album's about-- it's sort of buying time for me."
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"The Hanso Foundation stands at the vanguard of social and scientific research for the advancement of the human race through improved health, prevention, vitality and longevity."
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A cover of the Trembling Blue Stars' "Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise."
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The result was a fictitious transit agency that, with the hermetic exactingness of a Christmas village or a Monopoly board, included details like “EZ-Path” express lanes and its own motto.
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"Possessed of warm good looks and the potential to be incredibly charming, Meiburg seems more content to study and create....In other words, he's beautiful, brilliant, and hyperintellectual almost to a fault."
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"Ian Schrager is on track to reopen the Gramercy Park Hotel in August, including a perk that residents sometimes pay millions to acquire. All 185 hotel rooms and suites will come with a key to use Manhattan's only private park, Gramercy Park."
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Surprisingly funny ads. "In the ads, men sit around a table and discuss manly issues, such as how long to wait before dating a friend's ex-girlfriend and if the high-five is still cool."
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"According to USA Today, just 10,000 of the 20,000 seats at Madison Square Garden were made available to the general public for Coldplay's two concerts in September 2004."
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Welcome to El Boton, purveyor of limited edition one-inch button sets! Each month (possibly more often) we will be releasing a new set of buttons created by designers and artists, sometimes centered on a theme, sometimes not, always cool.
Photographs on this site are © Kathryn Yu. Don't steal.
