marathonpacks:

Fever dreaming.

Whoops.

juliahoffmann:

A couple of months ago I read the Steve Jobs book. 
I used the highlighter function in my kindle app, which I have never done before. I just went through those highlights, which gives me a nice little summary of the book, which I enjoyed quite a bit

In chronological order:

The dean of his college remembers: “he refused to accept automatically received truths, and he wanted to examine everything himself.”

After his India trip: “Intuition is a very powerful thing, more than intellect.”

Business advice that was given to him: “Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are”

He emphasized that you should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.

“the best way to predict the future is to invent it”

On design: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”

“hey, if we’re going to make things in our lives, we might as well make them beautiful”

“design should be simple, yet have an expressive spirit”

“The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious”

“Great art stretches the taste, it doesnt follow taste”

“form follows emotion”

When asked what type of market research he had done he replied: “Did Alexander Graham bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?”

When Jobs hired Paul Rand to do his logo for NEXT, Rand declared that he did not create different options for clients. “I will solve your problem, and you will pay me. You can use what I produce, or not, but I will not do options, and either way you will pay me”

“people who know what they are talking about dont need powerpoint slides”

“we made the iPod for ourselves, and when you’re doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you’re not going to cheese out. If you dont love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.”

“Never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. If you dont cannibalize yourself, someone else will.”

“Embrace uncertainty”

“Nothing kills humor like a general and boring truth”

I really hope average (non-industry) folks come across this information and find a way to process it. I don’t have enough hours in a day to craft a proper write-up. So if anyone wants to discuss, hit me up. #dang 

marathonpacks:

The sales numbers of Pitchfork’s top 50 albums. The ones with suspiciously round numbers are estimations based on when an album dropped out of the top 200 and the fact that it has to sell less than 300 copies in a week to do so. If you have verified numbers to fix any mistakes or omissions, send…

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deckofficer:

Christmas is coming…

Also: slightly responsible for this nonsense. :) Big ups to Jason Kreher and crew.

Sunless track = me. 

Please donate to Heifer Project if you can. 

Happy holidays. 

xo

Adam

hometapes:

the never ending beginning :: a hometapes holiday album

We made you something.

1. Collections of Colonies of Bees “Jolly Olde St. Nicholas”
2. Doug Paisley “Winter Days”
3. Matt White “Mary Had A Baby”
4. Zorch “Last Christmas”
5. Ormonde “Angels We Have Heard On High”
6. Ape School “Cold, Cold Christmas”
7. Andrew Fitzpatrick “Toyland”
8. CYNE “Boxing Day”
9. Breathe Owl Breathe “Snow Blow”
10. Roberto C. Lange “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”
11. Jon Mueller “Hallelujah”
12. Slaraffenland “Feliz Navidad”
13. The Caribbean “What Child Is This”
14. Brad Laner & Lauren Kinney “Numen Lumen”
15. Sunless “Here Come Those Bells”
16. Oh! Pears “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear”
17. Jon Minor & Jim Schoenecker “Happy Xmas (War Is Not Over)”
18. Leverage Models “Celebrant”
19. All Tiny Creatures “Deck The Halls (Mannheim Steamroller Cover)”
20. Shedding “There’s Always Tomorrow”
21. Keith Sunset “Star Shepherds”

Featuring cover art by FRIENDS WITH YOU.

FREE DOWNLOAD
Click Buy Now and feel ok about entering $0. That said, we set this up so you have the option to make a charitable donation this holiday season: 100% of proceeds collected will go to benefit Heifer Project International, an Arkansas-based organization that’s near and dear to our heart.

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How do you see the calendar in your head?
Is it a string of days or a series of boxes? Does it loop, one year into the next? Is it a wide, flat expanse? Or a mountain range of peaks and scattered canyons? Is it tethered to your memories of a paper datebook, something you fill up and file on a shelf? Do the months live in clusters of seasons, talking to each other in the shape of suns and falling leaves and the way it sounds when you can’t hear a thing but the wind?

Something about the month of December seems to make us all stand at attention. Everyone is feeling something. Everyone gets a little more honest, if not to each other then, maybe, to ourselves. Sitting in the dark by the light of a tree strung with bulbs, we can think. Or drink. Look our friends in the eye. Gather our memories in a box, worn down puzzle pieces that fit together to form a picture of our lives. Every time we pour it out onto the floor, the puzzle changes. You can put it together however you want, and, every year, you try. There’s no image on the box to mimic, just the ever-shifting landscape of what you want life to look like for yourself and the ones you love.

This year, we asked Hometapes’ family and friends to make a song for the holidays — whatever that meant to them. This is our third year doing this, and, undoubtedly, the most remarkable one yet. Over the past couple weeks, Adam and I have opened over twenty gifts: songs that push what it means to feel, and to feel Right Now. Not just those December vibes, but the experience of where we all are right this second: a world that’s somehow more infinite than it’s ever been. Maybe this has to do with our age (we’re getting older) or the nebulous nature of our geographic borders (thanks to the machine you are reading this on). Adjacent to the tools that enable us is the perspective we carry — and our lens is polished, daily, by these artists. And it has been for a decade. And before that, it was the music on the radio, the LPs in our parents’ record bin, the shows in that belvedere by the river that changed our lives, the views out the tour van window. And after this, as we swim through that dark pool between December 31 and January 1 (yeah, I see a dark pool), we’ll dry off, take a deep breath, and keep running.

Happy holidays. We hope you get exactly what you want. This can be your soundtrack.

- Sara Padgett Heathcott, Hometapes

Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames (by pacificstandardtime)

I think this is my favorite thing ever. Ever.

hometapes:

Megafaun:

• Performing with John Hodgman tonight in Durham
• Southeast tour starts tomorrow
• NPR World Cafe and WFUV Alternate Side sessions 

“Everybody: seriously, MEGAFAUN”
So tweeted John Hodgman back in March, when Megafaun was on the road with the Mountain Goats and just out of the studio where they made the album that would bathe us all in sunlight come September. The love continues between Megafaun and Hodgman, and the lucky people of Megafaun’s hometown of Durham will get to see them on stage together tonight. This special engagement, part of John Hodgman’s book tour, kicks off a string of Megafaun dates across the Southeast:

11/09/11 - Durham, NC @ Durham Armory w/ John Hodgman
11/10/11 - Wilmington, NC @ Brooklyn Arts Center
11/11/11 - Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom w/ Bowerbirds
11/12/11 - Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle
11/17/11 - Charlotte, NC @ Evening Muse 
11/18/11 - Athens, GA @ 40 Watt
11/19/11 - Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light
11/20/11 - Nashville, TN @ 3rd & Lindsley

Bonus round:

Two excellent radio sessions, featuring interviews and in-studio performances of new songs, are airing this week this week.

Hear Megafaun on NPR World Cafe.

Hear / See Megafaun on The Alternate Side. 

COOL STORY, BROS.

areasofmyexpertise:

On top of everything else good today, I can now announce that MEGAFAUN will be joining me and David Rees on the END IS NIGH tour in Durham only.

I SAID: MEGAFAUN!!!