Empirical Media Theory

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Wooden spoons are a huge emotional trigger for me!

Gonna start a Statistical Folk band, name it Selection Baez.

britticisms:

(via kafka-on-the-shore)

“Lose Yourself To Dance” by Daft Punk 

OK. Whoever created this understands some of the motivation behind Daft Punk’s new record, which is why it’s such a perfect visual-audio mashup. A part of me feels like Daft Punk would approve of this. It’s so simple, yet on point.

(Source: leapers, via barthel)

Vampire Weekend

—Hannah Hunt

It probably says more about me than it does Vampire Weekend, but their new one reminds me quite a bit of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, especially this song.

jsmooth995:

T-Paining Too Much: The Meme-ification of Charles Ramsey

So many big questions to ask about Cleveland, so much to grapple with. So much that is unthinkable but needs so direly to be thought about. I feel like it’ll be a while before I can say anything intelligent about it. But in the meantime here are some thoughts about the side questions around the Charles Ramsey phenomenon.

jamesurbaniak:

Drive containing the first 9 completed episodes of Venture Brothers season five. given to me last night by Jackson Publick. I had a look and to quote Tim Roth in Pulp Fiction, “It’s beautiful.” June 2nd at midnight, people.

jamesurbaniak:

Drive containing the first 9 completed episodes of Venture Brothers season five. given to me last night by Jackson Publick. I had a look and to quote Tim Roth in Pulp Fiction, “It’s beautiful.” June 2nd at midnight, people.

What if Sam Mendes had lost a bet with Christopher Guest and cast Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara in the Spacey/Benning roles in American Beauty? Everything else the same.

I’m having kinduva sleep deprivation situation and earlier I was at the grocery store and got pretty emotional about the different salad kit bags. I ended up getting Endless Summer it seemed sweet :’)

mollylambert:

MAD MEN MANIA! (The Incomplete ML on MM) 
S1E1 “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” 
S2E5 “The New Girl”
S2E6 “Maidenform”
S2E13 “Meditations In An Emergency”
S3E3 “My Old Kentucky Home”
S3E7 “Seven Twenty Three”
S3E11 “The Gypsy and the Hobo”
S3E12 “The Grown-Ups”
S3E13 “Shut the Door. Have a Seat.”
S4E2 “Christmas Comes But Once A Year”
S4E3 “The Good News”
S4E4 “The Rejected”
S4E5 “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”
S4E6 “Waldorf Stories”
S4E7 “The Suitcase”
S4E8 “The Summer Man”
S4E9 “The Beautiful Girls”
S4E10 “Hands and Knees”
S4E11 “Chinese Wall”
S4E12 “Blowing Smoke”
S4E13 “Tomorrowland”
S5E1/2 “A Little Kiss”
S5E3 “Tea Leaves”
S5E4 “Mystery Date”
S5E5 “Signal 30”
S5E6 “Far Away Places”
S5E7 “At The Codfish Ball”
S5E8 “Lady Lazarus”
S5E9 “Dark Shadows”
S5E10 “Christmas Waltz”
S5E11 “The Other Woman”
S5E12 “Commissions and Fees”
S5E13 “The Phantom”
S6E1/2 “The Doorway”

Bonus Link: The Mad Men Of Mad Magazine

Too bad open-window season is also swirling-clouds-of-plant-reproductive-matter season.