Oh you know. Another year means another round of links. Every week. This week. Next week. The next. etc. etc. etc.
Just when you though that the new year couldn’t look up any more than it already was, here is the Weekly Town Crier! This is where I collect link of varying degrees of interest and pass them along to you. You click on the ones you find interesting, skip the ones you don’t. Come back and discuss what you’d like. Or don’t
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Visit our family blog: “The Thomas Ten.”
Browse Large Hearted Boy‘s list of “100 Online Sources for Free and Legal Music Downloads.”
Listen to a mix of some of my favorite songs released in 2015.
Browse my 42 favorite albums of the year.
Read Flavorwire‘s piece: “Let’s Talk About the One Bad Scene that Kept ‘Inside Out’ From Greatness.”
Read as Fast Company considers “The Golden Ratio: Design’s Biggest Myth”.
Read as First Things considers why Blair Witch Project resonates with so many young people.
Read this piece about why you should do more things by yourself.
Read this piece considering: “Some Reasons You Should Think Twice before Drinking Milk”.
R.I.P. R&B singer Natalie Cole.
R.I.P. Wayne Rogers, M.A.S.H.’s “Trapper John”.
R.I.P. Jazz pianist Paul Bley.
R.I.P. composer Pierre Boulez.
Read as Fast Company makes guesses as for what’s next in streaming music.
Read as The New York Times considers “How to Cultivate the Art of Serendipity”.
Read Pitchfork‘s interview with Kamasi Washington.
Watch the Inside Out edit with all of the “inside” stuff removed.
Read as “Relevant” wonders why Marc Maron seems to always “toward spiritual conversations?”
Read as The New York Times considers “Bill Gates: The Billionaire Book Critic”.
Browse as Okay Player considers “The Top 6 Beat Tapes Of 2015”.
Read as The Atlantic wonders why all stories seem basically the same.
Read as Stereogum considers what we can make of this year’s Coachella poster.
Read as Brain Pickings considers what actually motivates us to work.
Read as Fact Magazine considers “The Beastie Boys and Bad Brains supergroup that was too good to last”.
Read reports that U2 are saying their next album is coming along nicely.
Read NME‘s report that HMV sold one turntable per minute this Christmas season.
Read AV Club‘s report that there is now a George Costanza-themed bar.
Read NPR‘s report that four new elements have been added to the periodic table.
See part of Kurt Vonnegut‘s “lost” NYU lecture animated by the fine Blank on Blank folks.
Read “Hemingway’s Advice on Writing, Ambition, the Art of Revision, and His Reading List of Essential Books for Aspiring Writers” at Brain Pickings.
Read as Slate considers rumors of Twitter raising its character limit.
Read as AV Club considers “How Avatar made $2.7 billion and garnered almost no fan base”.
Read as Insider Magazine considers “Why Millennials Are Abandoning Night Clubs”.
Read as The Guardian reports that Morrissey is no longer on Henry Rollins‘ “kill list”.
Read as Brain Pickings considers “Peanuts and the Quiet Pain of Childhood: How Charles Schulz Made an Art of Difficult Emotions”.
Read as Consequence of Sound reports that Billy Corgan is seeking peace with his former Smashing Pumpkins bandmates.
Read Pitchfork‘s report that Michael Jackson‘s Off The Wall is being reissued with an accompanying Spike Lee documentary.
Read Variety‘s report that Pee-Wee Herman‘s new movie will debut at SXSW.
Read AV Club‘s report that M. Night Shyamalan is resurrecting Tales From The Crypt.
Read Pitchfork‘s report that Radiohead have formed a new record label, prompting rumors of a new album.
Read Fast Company‘s claim that confirms Apple‘s move to ditch the 3.5mm headphone jack from the iPhone 7.
Read GQ‘s Q&A with Sturgill Simpson.
Ever wonder how much “Your Text Messages Contribute To Global Warming?”
Read as The Houston Press argues: “Rock And Roll Is Dead, And Even Axl and Slash Can’t Save It”.
Read Brain Pickings piece: “Maurice Sendak, Teacher: Lessons on Art, Storytelling, and Life from the Beloved Artist’s 1971 Yale Course”.
Learn more about the “Y’allQaeda” Yahoos occupying a federal building in Oregon. They have forcibly taken over government property brandishing weapons and threatening violence and yet we won’t call them terrorists, why?
Browse Smartphone Etiquette propaganda posters for the digital age.
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