I love my new macro lens, but I really don’t need to see some of the things it wants to show me:

I like it when movies I liked as a kid end up still being decent

dear Internet,

this is how much I hate you:

love,
me

update:

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I hate that facebook exposes me to Internet memes that I’d completely miss otherwise.
Especially when its all marketing bullshit for terrible terrible things.

One of my favorite thrift-store finds of all time is the copy of Final Exit that I found for $2.50.

I’ve never actually read the book, but what made my copy remarkable is that, at some point, a previous owner actually had read the book, and underlined the parts that they felt were most promising.  For me, this raises this particular copy of the book from slightly interesting  to being an almost poignant document of someone’s decision to end their life (or at least their debate about it).  I do always wonder if it ended up in a pile of things to be delivered to charity after this person’s death, it seems somehow too personal for someone to want to donate on their own.  As much as I’m intrigued by it, it isn’t something I need to carry around forever, so I scanned the interesting parts to archive for myself and thought I’d share them here.

Um, do keep in mind there were 2 corrected editions after this one, so it is probably worth the < $10 (and reading the entire thing) if you’re in a place where you need to take the advice the book gives.

I came across this today:

I’m glad I brought a camera to the 4th of July festivities, because fireworks don’t really interest me at all any longer.

more and better pictures in the full post

are all sparklers this terrible these days?
and thanks to Gui for the idea

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OK, so maybe running on a treadmill in Vibram Five Fingers does not translate as directly to walking outside on asphalt as I assumed…

As much as I like a lot of minimal wave, most of Xeno & Oaklander’s music has struck me as synth wankery.

I am by no means a purist, so the fact that they only use analog equipment and actually play it all themselves means absolutely nothing to me, so interviews such as this one come off as kind of pretentious and tiresome to me.

Given this, I don’t have any idea how I even ended up listening to their latest album, but I was shocked that it was terrific.  Especially considering that my favorite song on the album was the one I couldn’t even make it all the way through on the interview video.  I get the DIY aesthetic most of the time, but sometimes there certainly is something to be said for production.

Here’s video from the album release party, set to skip past the annoying nothing (and babble from the band):