January 2012
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Justin: wtf is up with the laneway artist bios
Justin: Laura Marling
Justin: With lips like flower petals and eyes as big as saucers,
Justin: terrible
Justin: probably written by some intern in the local office
Me: LOL LOL LOL
Me: flower petal lips
Me: she does have huge eyes
Me: but they always look a bit distant
Justin: ❍✿❍
Me: oh shit lol
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Pleasantry @ +65 Indie Weekend III →
channers:
lebovarysme:
With The Guilt and Great Spy Experiment. February 17, 2012. Esplanade Waterfront Stage. 10pm. See you there x
If you live in Singapore, or happen to be passing through, come support my friend Sam’s band!
One thing I don’t understand — and this is not a criticism of our friends and fans, I’m just really puzzled — is why people don’t download our music. People say really nice things about us, shake our hands after a show, help us out online, but downloads? <0.5% of other actions (plays, likes, shares, whatever).
I mean I download anything I can get my hands on, and...
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YOU GUYS. →
pls-revert:
Now you can “proactively engineer some bullshit of your own”
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clientsfromhell:
Client: Can you just get rid of this here?
Me: The Lorum Ipsum?
Client: Yeah, just fill it with dummy text that doesn’t mean anything.
December 2011
The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole
booksactually:
“Yeah, can you imagine ? Can you imagine that the coffin of your grandfather cannot get into the whole specially dug for him on the day of his funeral ? And in front of two hundred people ?
We were speechless. We were literally stunned. We just stood there and looked at each other. Nobody said a word. It must have been the funniest thing that ever happened in the...
“Imagine that you are French. You are walking along a busy pavement in Paris and...”
– Understanding and modelling how pedestrians behave is a youngish field for researchers. Anticipating pedestrian flows makes crowd events smoother and safer, and accounting for the peculiar propensities of different nationalities is key to getting it right. (via theeconomist)
2011
I have curiously bad long-term memory, in the sense that I can’t tell when something happened in the past, anywhere from a couple months to many years back, even though I might be able to remember the event distinctly. Is this a condition and what is it called?
Anyhow, the things I do remember:
My music getting featured on SoundCloud — good start to the year
ORD loh! Leaving the...
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lebovarysme:
As promised, our 5-track sampler,...
“People smoke, Dichter explained, because it is both a sign of virility and a...”
– In America in the 1930s a Viennese psychologist named Ernest Dichter implored advertisers to explore consumers’ unconscious desires. His insights revolutionised marketing and brought sex to advertising. (via theeconomist)
Arghh @davidsparkle played Dance of Death and we were outside thinking it was soundcheck
My train’s stuck between Somerset and Dhoby Ghaut right now, but everything is working fine so I can’t break any windows.
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Made By Migrants needs your help!
madebymigrants:
We’re trying to release our last interview with Yaoping, a Chinese construction worker, but we’re coming up against some translation problems. Since his accent is a little strong at some points in the interview, we’re having difficulties deciphering what he’s trying to say.
You can help by viewing the video at this link and translating what he says at the six points we’ve marked...
