Double Reading

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]