Read – Online
50 Years After His Big Debut, Watts-Bred Artist Timothy Washington Gets His Due
I Made a Linguistics Professor Listen to a Blink-182 Song and Analyze the Accent One of my favorite pop linguistics articles, so I’ve probably posted it before, but here it is again;
The Artist Who Drew With Computers, Before Computers Were a Thing
38 ideas for 30-day self-experiments
Heartbreaking and upsetting news: ‘Visionary’ music producer Sophie dies aged 34
Listened to – Music
Michael Davidson – Turn It Up Brains work in mysterious ways: I literally hadn’t thought about this song since 1988 (it’s on the soundtrack of the Madonna movie “Who’s that girl?”), and then it suddenly popped up. It’s, as the kids would say, a bona fide 80s banger.
Listened to – Podcasts
None.
Watched – Films and Documentarie
Once were brothers, a documentaire about Robbie Robertson and The Band (which is the best band name ever, by the way);
I have Netflix now, so I watched the following documentaries:
The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story
Joan Didion: The Center will not hold
Watched – TV and Youtube
Queer Eye Yes, all five seasons;
Next in Fashion A fashion design contest show;
The Sick Girl Trope, Explained;
If they can’t fit pockets in our clothes, we’ll bring back POCKETS AS FASHION.
Small Cool Winner: KC’s 280 Square Foot Apartment in NYC | House Tours
The Story of ‘Last Resort’ by Papa Roach
Goodbyes and New Beginnings | Stef Sanjati
Miscellaneous awesomeness
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