s.j. barlament
Updates
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The last week of the run-up to the #WIrecall might benefit from messaging that's more pro-Barrett than anti-Walker, no?
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(↓) Via the great and powerful @superbranch.
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Fiscal responsibility! MT @runtodaylight: Memo shows Walker has borrowed $558M, costing taxpayers $418M over next 6 yrs http://t.co/fD1XZQqb
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Work to be done. RT @millbot: Nate Silver: "In Wisconsin, Walker Is Likely to Survive Recall": http://t.co/52e8AdjA #wirecall #wiunion
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"Profits before people." MT @ebertchicago: CHI Mercantile Exchange receiving $1B in tax breaks over next decade from bankrupt State of IL.
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YES, PLEASE. MT @popwilleatme: I'm adding homemade Solidarity Fist pop tarts to my post June 5 to do list now.
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A fair question, wherever you stand: Why won't DWD release latest job numbers? http://t.co/yS0iRdWw
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Every single one. RT @55Bentley: What has been your most embarrassing moment in 140 characters? #mostembarassingmoment
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Please, Wisconsin. #DEFEATWALKER
Posts
Whether Jay Z opened up Adobe Illustrator and set the type on a curve himself or not remains a mystery but one thing is for sure: the logo family is technically worthless and embarrassing. The “NETS” typography on the primary logo is conceptually uninspired — if the identity is meant to convey Subway signage, where is the bold Helvetica? — and visually unbalanced with a shift in thicks and thins that is neither obvious enough to look like a Humanist sans nor non-existent where it would be a Geometric sans. My design bullshit-o-meter thinks that it might just be an horizontally scaled version of Akzidenz Grotesk Condensed, which makes an appearance in “BROOKLYN” in the primary logo and the “B” inside the basketball, which has its own kind of thick and thin lines that bear no resemblance to the type or the strokes in any of the logo versions. If the secondary logo looks familiar it might be because another Brooklyn institution, Brooklyn Brewery, has a big “B” inside a circle with type on a curve above and below it. (The type in this secondary logo is so spaced out you could fit the egos of all the Nets owners in between.) The overall effect of the logos is painfully close to the recently popular and painfully accurate Hipster Branding.
Hipsters are probably too cool to Kickstart, so we’ll see if it gets funded.
Seeing Kraftwerk points out that even when a band sounds exactly the same in its supposedly climactic moments on stage as it did 15 or 40 or 75 minutes earlier, the audience will almost robotically go through the stages of appreciation that a concert setting demands, and Kraftwerk knows that.
In fact, when Kraftwerk made their 2005 U.S tour they took this irony a step further. After the main set, the band didn’t come back for an encore, but instead sent out robots to “perform” the encore song. Needless to say, the crowd went nuts.
DISCLAIMER: I run a paid bookmarking site. Every morning I wake up and dive into my vault of golden coins.
There are no numbers for how much money this would have made. Well, maybe you could use warp numbers.
“The rotted out cherry on top of this grotesquely redundant sundae is an oh-god-why credit-based pricing structure that sounds as pointless as it is complicated.”
Audio
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M83, “0078h” — from Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts12 plays
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Frank Zappa, “No Not Now” — from Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch0 plays
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The Thermals, “We Were Sick” — from Now We Can See10 plays
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Cowboy Junkies, “‘Cause Cheap Is How I Feel” — from The Caution Horses6 plays
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The Rave-Ups, “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” — from Town and Country4 plays
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The Jam, “Town Called Malice” — from The Gift5 plays
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Iron & Wine, “Love Vigilantes” — from Around The Well5 plays
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Tom Waits, “Hold On” — from Mule Variations3 plays
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The xx, “Islands” — from xx6 plays
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Phoenix, “Love Like a Sunset” — from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix5 plays
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The Flaming Lips, “Money” (featuring Henry Rollins) — from The Dark Side of the Moon8 plays
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Positive K, “I Got A Man” — from The Skills Dat Pay Da Bills9 plays
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The Traditionist, “Three Legged Dog” — from the Lefse Records Compilation3 plays
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XTC, “You’re The Wish You Are I Had” — from The Big Express10 plays
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Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, “Some Velvet Morning” — from Movin’ With Nancy6 plays
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Common, “Universal Mind Control” — from Universal Mind Control8 plays
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Wilco, “Bull Black Nova” — from Wilco (The Album)8 plays
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The New Pornographers, “Hey, Snow White” — from Dark Was The Night8 plays
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Romantica, “Fiona” — from America8 plays
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Okkervil River, “Unless It’s Kicks” — from The Stage Names4 plays
