Overheard

Overheard at Otis bar last night:

We’re from Miami. You should should be there, it’s where all the beautiful people are. Except us, of course.

You know, the poor people are buying up all the $500,000 houses here. I don’t want to live near poor people.

I believe they were wearing cashmere.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.

Chair (post by email)

Chair This post was created with the rocking new mail gateway.

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Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.

Whiteout Flyer (Concorde)

I’ve been a fan of the Ortofon Concorde headshell/styli for quite a while. It inspired a flyer for a club night I was promoting a few years ago at the now defunct Sno-Drift club.

whiteout: concorde

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in March 2006.

the uncanny ted(-alike)

the uncanny ted(-alike)Talking with Beau whose other thing has a truly righteous logo this morning, I looked down and did a double-take.

When did Ted (of BAGeL Radio fame) write a cookbook? I knew his tastes skewed good in music, but baking too?

1000 Photos

10001000 WordsPhotos. Zoom!

Moving Redux

Today I’m moving for the 25th time in 29 years. 2nd floor, 2nd loft, 1st place with concrete floors, 4th house I’ve lived alone, 1st in San Francisco, 1st in SOMA, 4 blocks from the office, 4 blocks from the Bay, braced by I-80, Folsom, Harrison, First and an off-ramp. Pretty flash view at night—look up to see the closest thing SF has to a Tokyoesque skyline, look down to see people urinating in front of the Mexican Consulate.

Best feature: a few doors down a neighbor in a lonely remaining victorian crowded by a pair of massive concrete condo buildings with a well-worn stuffed dog permanently on watch in the front window.

Newly Listening To

New additions to my music library for 2006 (links to follow):

  • Audio Bullys: Generation
  • Bloc Party: Silent Alarm Remixed [1]
  • Gang of Four: Return the Gift + Remixes
  • The Heavenly States: Black Comet [1]
  • Jeff Buckley & Gary Lucas: Songs to No One 1991-1992 [vinyl]
  • Kool Keith feat. Kutmaster Kurt: Deisel Truckers
  • Martinez: Audiomatique Volume 1.0
  • Miho Hatori: Ecdysis
  • Mylo: Destroy Rock & Roll
  • Sufjan Stevens: Illinois [1]
  • Thee Michelle Gun Elephant: Gear Blues
  • Various: DJ Cam Revisited
  • The White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan

[1] Thanks Krissy!

4 Things Meta

This is a bastardization of this meme, also seen here, here and here.

Four Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew Up

  1. Architect
  2. Archaeologist
  3. Steve Jobs
  4. Cargo Pilot

Four Things I’ve Lost

  1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Purchased: February 1, 2006, 5:45PM. Lost: February 2, 2006, 12:30 AM.
  2. 1 pair Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses. First donned: July 3, 2004, 6:23 PM. Left on bar: July 4, 2004, 1:50 AM.
  3. Pile of CMGI stock. Exercised: November 1999. Sold: uh.
  4. A star-shaped patch of hair on the crown of my head, due to Really Stupid King of the Hill game. Date scalped: June 18, 1989.

Four Episodes of The Wire I Could Watch Over and Over

  1. Season 1, episode 1: The Target
  2. Season 1, episode 3: The Buys
  3. Season 2, episode 1: Ebb Tide
  4. Season 3, episode 11: Middle Ground

Four Links to Anil

  1. Anil
  2. Anil
  3. Anil
  4. Anil

Not Played Ever

Not Played Ever

There are things you know, things you know you don’t know, but it’s the things you don’t know you don’t know that are probably the most interesting. You know?

Feingold Brings It

Senator Russ Feingold finally came out and said it. 2008? Bueller?