http://megwilhoite.com/

Elizabeth Fraser is so cute in this video! Love that 90s hair

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:35:09 -0500

Elizabeth Fraser is so cute in this video! Love that 90s hair

woodyallenofmusic: janet jackson was banned from the grammys for her “nipslip” during the superbowl...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:47:08 -0500

janet jackson was banned from the grammys for her “nipslip” during the superbowl halftime show

chris brown was not banned from the grammys for beating his girlfriend so badly she went to the hospital

let’s sit and think about these two facts, and decide whether the producers of the grammys are terrible sexist dickwads or not

simply ridiculous

jakefogelnest: Whitney Houston’s isolated vocal track on “How...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:05:12 -0500

jakefogelnest:

Whitney Houston’s isolated vocal track on “How Will I Know.”

Bare voice, amazing

love the vocal harms, plus there’s a sweet sax solo at the...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:30:19 -0500

love the vocal harms, plus there’s a sweet sax solo at the end!

The Science Of Deduction: GIVEAWAY!!!1!

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:37:25 -0500

The Science Of Deduction: GIVEAWAY!!!1!:

moraniarty:

By popular demand we have my first ever giveaway. One lucky lucky person could go home today with my soul. As you can see here it’s a pretty fine-ass soul…

Well I lied slightly, there is no picture. My soul, being an abstract concept, is a bit photoshy. You’ll just have to take my word…

this girl. i like her.

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:56:21 -0500

this girl. i like her.

housingworksbookstore: Coming to Housing Works in June: opera...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:24:59 -0500

housingworksbookstore:

Coming to Housing Works in June: opera at the bookstore. Special nerd opera based on a book! From Morningside Opera. Stay tuned, but start getting excited.

agentmlovestacos: And if the elevator tries to bring you down,...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:44:35 -0500

agentmlovestacos:

And if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy. Punch a higher floor.

"When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up. They put..."

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:56:33 -0500

“

When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up. They put my stories up. They put my stuff up on the web. I had this belief, which was completely erroneous, that if people put your stuff up on the web and you didn’t tell them to take it down, you would lose your copyright, which actually, is simply not true.

And I also got very grumpy because I felt like they were pirating my stuff, that it was bad. And then I started to notice that two things seemed much more significant. One of which was… places where I was being pirated, particularly Russia where people were translating my stuff into Russian and spreading around into the world, I was selling more and more books. People were discovering me through being pirated. Then they were going out and buying the real books, and when a new book would come out in Russia, it would sell more and more copies. I thought this was fascinating, and I tried a few experiments. Some of them are quite hard, you know, persuading my publisher for example to take one of my books and put it out for free. We took “American Gods,” a book that was still selling and selling very well, and for a month they put it up completely free on their website. You could read it and you could download it. What happened was sales of my books, through independent bookstores, because that’s all we were measuring it through, went up the following month three hundred percent

I started to realize that actually, you’re not losing books. You’re not losing sales by having stuff out there. When I give a big talk now on these kinds of subjects and people say, “Well, what about the sales that I’m losing through having stuff copied, through having stuff floating out there?” I started asking audiences to just raise their hands for one question. Which is, I’d say, “Okay, do you have a favorite author?” They’d say, “Yes.” and I’d say, “Good. What I want is for everybody who discovered their favorite author by being lent a book, put up your hands.” And then, “Anybody who discovered your favorite author by walking into a bookstore and buying a book raise your hands.” And it’s probably about five, ten percent of the people who actually discovered an author who’s their favorite author, who is the person who they buy everything of. They buy the hardbacks and they treasure the fact that they got this author. Very few of them bought the book. They were lent it. They were given it. They did not pay for it, and that’s how they found their favorite author. And I thought, “You know, that’s really all this is. It’s people lending books. And you can’t look on that as a loss of sale. It’s not a lost sale, nobody who would have bought your book is not buying it because they can find it for free.”

What you’re actually doing is advertising. You’re reaching more people, you’re raising awareness. Understanding that gave me a whole new idea of the shape of copyright and of what the web was doing. Because the biggest thing the web is doing is allowing people to hear things. Allowing people to read things. Allowing people to see things that they would never have otherwise seen. And I think, basically, that’s an incredibly good thing.

”

- Neil Gaiman on Copyright, Piracy, and the Commercial Value of the Web (X)

just bought this Extra Life EP, love the metric twists and turns

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:49:00 -0500

just bought this Extra Life EP, love the metric twists and turns

The Science Of Deduction: middleofthericefield: gabrielgadfly: doublevictory: iphysianthe: my...

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:55:01 -0500

The Science Of Deduction: middleofthericefield: gabrielgadfly: doublevictory: iphysianthe: my...:

middleofthericefield:

gabrielgadfly:

doublevictory:

iphysianthe:

my mom’s argument against piracy is “well what if you wrote a book and one person bought it and then hundreds of people got to read it for free and you didn’t make any money!”

MOTHER YOU HAVE JUST…

agentmlovestacos: If you watch Rambo backwards…

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:48:29 -0500

agentmlovestacos:

If you watch Rambo backwards…

Getting ready for first RiverProject perf tonight!...

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:45:52 -0500

Getting ready for first RiverProject perf tonight! http://m.newyorker.com/arts/events/classical/eve-beglarians-river-project-abrons-arts-center-henry-street-settlement

you know it’s “contemporary” when the...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:00:06 -0500

you know it’s “contemporary” when the violinist is playing from an iPad and the singer has a sweet ‘tache (rehearsing for RiverProject) @jeffgavett @mayr58

"The blues would not have become the urban art form that it became, and we wouldn’t have rock &..."

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:42:13 -0500

““The blues would not have become the urban art form that it became, and we wouldn’t have rock & roll, without that flood””

- Composer Eve Beglarian on the flood of 1927: newyork.timeout.com

Audio: digging this @TheIdentifiers remix of @Asobi_Seksu http://t.co/iQzcbpe7

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:24:55 -0500

Audio: digging this @TheIdentifiers remix of @Asobi_Seksu http://t.co/iQzcbpe7

digging this @TheIdentifiers remix of @Asobi_Seksu

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:23:00 -0500

digging this @TheIdentifiers remix of @Asobi_Seksu

Follow up: Saariaho’s Plath Dreams http://t.co/033Ho5Iq

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 03:06:40 -0500

Follow up: Saariaho’s Plath Dreams http://t.co/033Ho5Iq

Follow up: Saariaho’s Plath Dreams

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:56:23 -0500

Follow up: Saariaho’s Plath Dreams:

Last year I posted an interview with Ekmeles director Jeffrey Gavett, which included a clip of a recording made by Ekmeles of the first movement of Kaija Saariaho’s From the Grammar of…

just my thoughts on a Finnish composer’s use of Sylvia...

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:41:27 -0500

just my thoughts on a Finnish composer’s use of Sylvia Plath’s texts