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alex lines on the tumbldore.
music and found digital objects.
alex dot lines at gmail.
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“My views on the band Vampire Weekend have followed the following trajectory: pleasant acceptance, violent and self-righteous disdain, cynical musing, and, now, pleasant but somehow also cynical acquiescence. And I don’t even listen to Vampire Weekend.”
Surf City - Dickshaker’s Union. perfect music to dream of warmer weather to.
Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps. love the low-end on this and the fantastic early 80’s nyc footage.
even better, not just any cassette but one belonging to a taper, that specialized sub-species of cassette culture. check out how much information is packed in here, also love that at least four different ink colors were necessary.
see also thurston’s moore’s book on cassette culture from a few years ago, complete with great scans of handwritten tape inserts.
I miss cassette culture
“All the good things I did as president, all the mistakes I made - you can blame half of that on Willie Nelson”
— Nobel Peace Prize winner and ex-president Jimmy Carter, in Rolling Stone
Willie Nelson - Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper Cover). heading straight toward the velveeta end of the spectrum for willie nelson cover friday. this cover isn’t bad, aside from the background vocals. Willie will apparently cover *any* song though and with wildly varying results. see also his covers of smells like teen spirit, leonard cohen’s bird on a wire, me and bobby mcgee, and peter gabriel’s don’t give up with … sinead o’connor
Darrow Fletcher - My Young Misery. wow, fletcher cut this track for groovy records in 1966 when he was only 14. listen to that analog hiss, clearly a rip from vinyl. don’t miss his equally awesome track from the same year, “The Pain Gets A Little Deeper”
