Roll call on today's City Council vote to approve congestion pricing in the city of New York. My councilman, Bill deBlasio, who is running for borough president, voted "No", which seems to be a politically questionable move. He's probably lost my vote.
Two directories with some space-related audio clips, the first from NASA's INSPIRE project (very low frequency radio waves) and the second a recording of a radio burst caused by a solar flare on 4/9/2001.
"i don't have a home it's not a chain it's not a throne / it's just a picture of a picture tossed and torn away / of anger on your face still not as strange and not as brave / as when you turned away"
"Additionally, sounds may be very faint. The amplifier settings are a compromise between picking up distant animal voices and not overcharging the system by nearby calving icebergs. So please beware of sudden extreamely loud events."
Homepage for the Touch Radio blog and podcast. from Touch Music, the legendary English avant-garde, ambient and experimental label. A lot of the episodes are field recordings, some are interviews, and I think a lot of them are exclusive.
"The recordings were not intended for listening; the idea of audio playback had not been conceived. Rather, Scott sought to create a paper record of human speech that could later be deciphered."
It's a moriahsterpiece. For those keping score: Chocolate cake with cinnamon butter-cream frosting. The turtles and the book (signifying, I would imagine, my enthusiasm for turtles and books) are made of marzipan, as is the little candelabrum.
Almost the entire birthday host committee is represented here, including Ben, official cake-bearer, Mumbles, and in the very back, Cheek, who was the official head of the host committee.
Ellie made me these birthday cupcakes, with my future belly-tattoo emblem, just in case I got drunk enough to get a belly tatoo and needed reference material.
Interesting, sort of clumsy, but I guess it was inevitable for someone to try something like this. It's great that Google Maps is set up in such a way that implementing this at least looks like it would be easy.
I haven't had a chance to sit down and watch this in it's entirety yet. I sort of want to devote 40 minutes of undivided attention to it, because I'm pretty sure it's going to make me want to punch the air in an upward motion.
"and sonny liston rubbed some tiger balm into his glove. / some things you do for money and some you do for love love love."
I have more than one favorite Mt. Goats song, but right now, right now I think this is maybe the best one they've ever done.
