“Runaway”, the new video by Imperial Teen. I dig it.
1. people other than me hating the summer
2. people other than me saying “no worries”
2a. people not being all “the fuck are you, Australian?” when I say “no worries”
TUMBLR AND GOOGLE ANNOUNCE NEW “SEND” TECHNOLOGY TO REPLACE “REBLOGGING FOR”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
—-Mountain View, CA.—-
At a press conference held today at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, executives from the Google and Tumblr web services announced a new joint venture to simplify the process by which Tumblr users send Star Wars fan art and stills from British sitcoms to their friends.
The new technology, named “SEND,” will be a subset of Google’s Gmail service and will allow Tumblr bloggers to attach a dog picture to a private blog post and then share that post only with the individuals who would care. Currently, these ostensibly private messages are tagged as “reblogged for” the intended recipient, uploaded to Tumblr’s servers and presented to multiple internet users, almost none of whom share the sender’s and recipient’s weird constellation of fixations and neuroses.
The new “SEND” program is expected to ease strain on Tumblr’s infrastructure and dramatically reduce the frequency with which Tumblr’s subscribers view long exegeses of late-period Buffy The Vampire Slayer episodes and pictures of strangers standing in front of restaurants.
While I hate the “reblogged for” thing and love this post, I vow to continue propagating essays about Buffy The Vampire Slayer as far and wide as my internet presence will allow.
I love this.You’ve probably seen the article around where the dudes from a band called Two Lights say they have spent over 100,000 to get where they are now in the “indie rock” world. I’d like to throw my 2 cents in here on how they spent their money
•Training. Our folks shelled out for 15 years of piano…
And this one too! The Kids In The Hall’s bass player monologue. I love this, but I have a hard time imagining where it came from. If I could figure out how to write sketches like this, I’d probably write sketches again.
I love The Daves I Know from Kids In The Hall, but I can’t imagine how it was pitched. It’s barely even a genre parody; half the time, it’s just pure nonsense. I feel like if I’d had an idea like this, I wouldn’t know how to describe it, and would probably embarrass myself trying. I would give anything to have eavesdropped on this pitch meeting.
“Not Gonna Get Us” by Tatu. Actually by t.A.T.u., but writing it that way makes me feel uncomfortable.
I somehow didn’t realize until today that the title can be a double entendre: “get” like “catch”, and “get” like “understand”. That’s part of what makes this one of the best you-and-me-against-the-world songs ever made. They’ll never figure us out, they’ll never stop us, and we’ll always be way ahead of them. It’s every love story I’ve ever liked, in one perfectly-produced pop song.
I wish people didn’t dismiss Tatu as a marketing gimmick; it’s true, but the marketing isn’t what’s on my iPod. Just because a Russian businessman figured out lesbians were trendy doesn’t mean Trevor Horn didn’t produce this. The conception may have been cynical, but this song is immaculate.
That was the year I went to probably more than half of it— only going home to sleep. I’m terrible at remembering shows I’ve seen, but I somehow remember most of the lines in this thread.
I found this by Googling “Ian Roberts” “disinterested woman”.
It’s going to be a long semester.
Notably, I was holding the drumsticks the right way.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be on this show more than any other dream. Thank you, Hal, for reminding me of just how freakin amazing it was.
I wanted to be on it too! I wanted to be Ryan. Turns out we both wanted to be David Byrne.
