October 2011
25 posts
A Fistful of Soundtracks: The Blog: "Rich on personality": 11 songs by fictional musicians from movies and TV that are surprisingly not terrible →
afistfulofsoundtracks.blogspot.com
I can think of more diegetic band or solo performances from film and tv that aren’t too bad (or are so-bad-they’re-good), but Jimmy J. Aquino’s list is a very good place to start.
“Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut.”
—A London Bookstore Sells Clip Art in an Online World - NYTimes.com
Notes in Tumblr are currently a mess
Sorry, this is inside baseball for those following via BtROL, RSS, Twitter, etc. but: what is going on with the Notes function on Tumblr? They appear, they disappear, posts indicate that they have have X-number of notes but only a couple show up, etc. A survey of posts with the “notes” tag shows we’re not the only ones having this issue.
“I sit by myself and I watch ‘Law & Order”
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Taylor Swift would totally watch my all-L&O fantasy channel! (ETA: Perhaps her next love-gone-wrong song will be about Jack McCoy…)
“Courage is not a virtue frequently associated with the criticism beat, but it lies near the heart of Kael’s achievement—not because she was unsqueamish about praising and slamming movies (though she was) but because, from the time she wrote her first review until the moment she retired, in 1991, her authority as a critic relied solely on her own, occasionally whimsical taste.”
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Hero
“Jobs’ vision and tenacity blazed a trail for digital music as we know it today. Without a doubt, when you think of the Mount Rushmore of the music business – pioneers like Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler, Clive Davis and Jimmy Iovine – Steve Jobs has earned his prominent place.”
—He Pushed a Reluctant Industry Toward Digital Music - NYTimes.com
