January 2010
I just got off the phone with Andrew WK
It was everything. When there’s some person who inspires others and you say “I really appreciate what you do!” you don’t expect to hear “I know you, and liked your work so much that I shared it with others, let me get your mailing address” (obvious paraphrasing).
To quote the phrase we all used after last year’s MaxFunCon- It happened. And we were there.
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I just got off the phone with Andrew WK
I’m not kidding. Here’s proof. The call was real, I answered.
I thanked him for coming to town back in June, and told him I took photos. He asked if there was an address for the photos I put up- when I told him the flickr handle, he knew who Douglas Dollars was and thanked me. Apparently my photos are likely in a book of sheet music that he’s mailing me next week, the photos...
Where Andrew W.K. writes a letter ...to Doug →
I have no idea when it was written.
There was a point in January 2001 where I left Edmonton in the middle of the night without telling a single person, to move to the west coast. Everything in that letter would have been 100% applicable.
I very well might have written Andrew W.K. in high school. I was a big fan. She is Beautiful put a lot into focus in those days.
I just found that note...
"If you don't answer the call then the call is not...
No joke, dudes, but there’s a very slight chance that Andrew W.K. will be phoning me tonight.
If the call happens, I will do my best to thank him for his hard work, his incredible composure during difficult times, and for being an awesome dude that a lucky few of us will get to see again 96 days from now.
What John Hodgman does to bring a sense of being part of an educated secret society,...
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The Smiths - “What She Said” (2:42)
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I wondered why I wanted to go to bed at 5PM
Realising that I’m returning to work after this weekend, that my three week vacation will be finished, I’m sure bummed out.
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Good Shoes - “The Way My Heart Beats”...
“Binaca/Count Chocula/binoculars”
– Me- I’m convinced there’s a rap to be made that contains all three of those items.
At the moment I’d line it up with the music to Undercover of the Night by The Rolling Stones.
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Ten most common passwords
lammer:
1. 123456 2. 12345 3. 123456789 4. Password 5. iloveyou 6. princess 7. rockyou 8. 1234567 9. 12345678 10. abc123
I can corroborate this- the company I work for, which has over 2000 staff, uses one of these as its default passwords. Great job, guys!
Another odd phone call
[Phone rings]
Me: Hello?
Them: Doug?
Me: Yes...
Them: Doug, the banker Doug?
Me: I don't think so!
Lightspeed Champion - “(He’s) the...
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Andrew W.K. Flowchart (a free meme for you)
Here’s a new meme for you that I’m too lazy to draw up in Illustrator. I checked and it appears that this one hasn’t been made yet.
Here it is
“Are you partying hard?” Branches to:
NO: Points directly to “YES”
YES: Points the first of five boxes, each box pointing to the next and in each box reads “PARTY HARD!”
You’re welcome.
Dummy doesn't know how to stretch?
Are you too dumb to know how to stretch? There’s a book for it!
Is that book too complex? Not expensive enough? Here are ONE HUNDRED more books for you to buy about stretching.
You know, to improve your “athletic performance” of watching athletes from your living room while letting a book sit in your book shelf.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Toro y Moi (27)
These New Puritans (25)
The Magnetic Fields (24)
Hayden (22)
Jay Reatard (21)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“We have about 22 school bus seats to give away.”
– Elisabeth,
This is an opportunity. Don’t let it get away. Accept delivery of the seats. Find a friend with a field. Sew some white sheets together. And establish the Elisabeth Geier International Cinemas.
OR: “E.G. Awesome’s Outdoor School of Wow”
school bus seats
Okay.
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Tales from my crypt
Feel slightly chilly when you notice it’s evening,
Turn the heat to maximum (30°C/86°F), and put your slippers on,
Make a big pot of coffee, drink it all within three hours,
Four hours after turning the heat up so high, wonder why you feel nauseated,
Post this to Tumblr, as a mostly-serious ‘joke’,
Die from something related to the above items.
(You’ve been on...
I’ve had the Peter Gabriel album for just...
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Alternate stories of past and present →
I have a week of vacation left and seemingly nothing to do with it. Edmonton, you still let me down. Inside my mind I think I’m just shooting some sort of strange British sitcom or…
Toro y Moi - “Master of None” (3:05)
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Today more than ever all I want to say is "NO ONE...
(via victoriajean)
Hear hear. That said, all below this line is just a rant.
Comedian Marc Maron has a nice piece about Facebook, summing up status updates as a collection of “Hey, would somebody please, uh, validate me please? Let me just update my status. I need validation. Hold on, let me update my status. Hey I’m here. Is anyone else out there? Hold on, I have to update my status. How ...
doug asked: What are you up to? It's past midnight.
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hm...
summoning-ifrit:
cavesoflilith:
I don’t necessarily think it’s science that’s so amazing.. but rather nature itself. Science only explains to us what’s already here.
only? unlocking the secrets of “what’s already here” is pretty amazing. This statement seems to miss the point of science.
Science also allows us to extend our USE of what’s already here. Plan on exploring space without...
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"Ask it. Don't wimp out." →
Following what seems to be an unavoidable trend toward baseless narcissism, both in Tumblr and within myself, you can ask me anything you like and I’ll answer it as honestly as I can/must.
As I’m on vacation, if I don’t know the answer I will research it to the best of my attention span then report my findings. Satisfaction guaranteed.
A Single Man
Colin Firth in A Single Man gives a performance beyond words. The sadness, joy, and ultimate resolution in the last few minutes of the film left me speechless.
“And just like that, it came.”
Improv Everywhere & the NFL →
Charlie Todd is a great person, doing what he can to hopefully help people have a bit of surprising joy in their lives. I talked with him for a while at last year’s MaxFunCon and didn’t even know he was “that Improv Everywhere guy” until a while had passed.
Watchrockistani:
The Taqwacores movie trailer - premieres at Sundance Film Festival on January 24th, 2010
I’m marking this as the first thing people in 2010 need to know about and start championing.
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Jay Reatard - “It Ain’t Gonna Save...