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Aug 11

Linkwad.

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Aug 11

Riveting whirlwinds gripping the world.

It just occurred to me that Irene is an ideal time for Latyrx’s “Storm Warning,” off the mostly-forgotten Quannum Spectrum:

It also gives me an excuse to post the Lyrics Born earworm “I Changed My Mind.”

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Aug 11

Linkwad.

  1. I missed the news the first time around, but Breaking Bad got picked up for a final season. So we have at least a year before the inevitable Scarface/Soprano ending.
  2. Best of the Jay-Z and Outkast discographies, in tournament form.
  3. The best hip-hop-related drink ads. Stuff like this is more compelling than anything Grantland’s headlining writers have come up with (see also: Katie Baker, who earned huge points with me for coining the phrase “asymptotes of insanity“). Bonus: have you seen the best thing on the Internet yet?
  4. Also, thanks to Scott, I have been enjoying the adultolescent train wreck that is Thought Catalog. I suggest you do the same.
22
Aug 11

Round and round.

Via @AnnieLowrey, an awesome year-by-year infographic showing “how the download killed the CD that killed the cassette that killed the LP.”

As a nerd, it’s amazing to me that CD sales still accounted for almost 50% of 2010 music purchases.

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Aug 11

“Unique to say the least.”

That’s the verdict on A. Samuels, “55-year-old casino executive” mastermind who’s “Livin De Life”1:

Via Chris, who also “has a respectable amount of self esteem.”

  1. If he’s legit. I was also unable to find any evidence of his existence.
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