December 2009
Listen Up! Best Music of the Millennium … So Far |... →
“In terms of digital income, we’ve made more money out of this record than out of all the other Radiohead albums put together, forever,” Yorke said. “And that’s nuts. It’s partly due to the fact that EMI wasn’t giving us any money for digital sales. All the contracts signed in a certain era have none of that stuff.” It’s a new era now, and 21st-century artists with much less history and influence...
Study: Experiences make us happier than... →
psychotherapy:
…Another reason for increased happiness in experiences, the researchers found, was that people felt a greater sense of vitality or “being alive” during the experience and in reflection, Howell said.
“As nice as your new computer is, it’s not going to make you feel alive,” he said.
Most psychologists who study the phenomenon say people adapt to a new purchase in six to eight...
txtsfrmlstnght:
(313): These 3 days between Christmas and new years when all the bosses are on vacation are essentially a competition to see who can do the least amount of work
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
The Allman Brothers Band (20)
Radiohead (10)
Wilco (9)
The Rolling Stones (5)
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds (5)
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He ain’t got no distractions Can’t...
The Things He Carried - The Atlantic (November... →
During one secondary inspection, at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, I was wearing under my shirt a spectacular, only-in-America device called a “Beerbelly,” a neoprene sling that holds a polyurethane bladder and drinking tube. The Beerbelly, designed originally to sneak alcohol—up to 80 ounces—into football games, can quite obviously be used to sneak up to 80 ounces of liquid through...
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9:30 Club Says Fight the Merger » We Love DC →
As a concertgoer you have already felt the pain, and if Ticketmaster and Live Nation get their way, it’ll get worse. In the last 12 years, since Live Nation and its predecessor started its widespread takeover of the concert industry, concert ticket prices have shot up 82% while the consumer price index has gone up just 17%*. We are concerned that if the two concert industry behemoths, Live Nation...
Mac from Always Sunny opening a real bar in Philly →
itsalwayssunny:
chelseam:
Via The Iladelph comes word that Rob McElhenney—probably better known as Mac on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia—has bought a bar in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood along with his wife Kaitlin Olson, who also plays Dee on the show.
On the popular FX show, McElhenney owns a bar with the other characters, and the fictional bar is called Paddy’s Pub. To add to...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Phoenix (10)
The Allman Brothers Band (5)
The Rolling Stones (4)
The Band (4)
David Bowie (4)
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