Archive for the 'Trends' Category

Twin Peaks Shoes

February 23rd, 2009 by jason

Because what everyone is really missing is a pair of Twin Peaks-inspired shoes, Nike has a special ‘Twin Peaks’ shoe for all of us obsessed fans. And the bottom has that black/white zig-zag pattern from the Black Lodge!
Too bad it looks like it’s definitely made out of leather, otherwise I might consider getting a pair.

25 Things

February 7th, 2009 by jason

There is a Facebook meme going around where you are supposed to post 25 random things about you. I guess my list isn’t so random, but whatever. I figured I’d cross-posted it here.

01. i first used the internet in 3rd grade (around 1990) when i was one of the few people in my school to [...]

Mitochondrial DNA

November 19th, 2008 by jason

The other week I was reading an article about a mummy found in the alps that has little/no living relatives today. That got me doing some wiki research and I thought my “stream of wiki” was sort of interesting…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_DNA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_Explosivity_Index
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Garita_Caldera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician-Silurian_extinction_events
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_event
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray_burst
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_shift_hypothesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum (this actually resonates with an idea i have about the next step of evolution being the [...]

Update: Frankie Valli

September 17th, 2007 by jason

My trendspotting regarding Frankie Valli doesn’t seem to be as random as I hoped. Apparently there was recently (2005) Broadway play called Jersey Boys about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. That would explain all of the recent interest.

Masks Are The New Black

September 14th, 2007 by jason

Recently I’ve noticed that masks are the new cool thing to wear. Animal masks, in particular.
Exhibit A:
Fox N’ Wolf performing “In Yr Underwear”:

and

Exhibit B:
The Bat For Lashes video “What’s A Girl To Do”:

Exhibit C (my favorite):
Last night at the ridiculously awesome Institubes Paris Terror Club show a bunch of the DJs were wearing animal [...]

Frankie Valli

August 17th, 2007 by jason

For some reason Frankie Valli seems to be the guy right now.
A while back Pilooski remixed “Beggin’” and spawned this awesome video:

Then I saw that Simian Mobile Disco mentioned his song “The Night” as one of their current faves. And pretty much immediately after I saw that I noticed that Leam or Rosebud had already [...]