A: She’s a wee kiwi, the video is all her mates, she doesn’t show up till the video is mostly over, the song is anti materialistic, and the music is great.
Q: Why did I immediately love this song and pull my bike over to tell you about it?
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Haim’s new album comes out September 30th.
If you are as besotted with this band as I am, this is great news.
The Front Bottoms – Twin Size Mattress
These guys are my new jam for biking to work.
I am such a sucker for earnest loving punk rock. These guys do that, but with an acoustic guitar and dancey rhythms. Who can really scoff at lyrics like this?
This is for the lions living in the wiry broke down frames of my friends bodies.
When the flood water comes, it ain’t gonna be clear. It’s gonna look like mud.
But I will help you swim.
I will help you swim.
or
I wanna contribute to the chaos.
I don’t wanna watch and then complain,
‘Cause I am through finding blame
That is the decision that I have made.
Sweet little stories about falling in love and pretending to be stronger than you are and then:
I was younger and thought that
I didn’t have to care about anything
Now I am older and I know that I should
POW right in my heart! I bought their album Talon Of The Hawk
BTW – they also did a really adorable NPR Tiny Desk Concert:
Egghead.io is a great series of instructional angular videos
When I rewrote Orbital in Angular.js I found that it was very easy to pick up, but that the official docs were still pretty patchy.
Egghead.io made it very easy to pick up new concepts through very simple, very quick screencasts, one concept at a time. Great stuff if you are thinking about using Angular.js.
Orbital Reader is live
After a lot of subway rides and wednesday nights, you can now install the best feed reader for WordPress right from your wordpress admin panel.
Once you are logged into your wordpress admin screen:
- Click Plugins
- Click Add New
- Search the Codex for “Orbital”
- Install Plugin
- Activate Plugin
The plugin should show you where it is, tell you how to use it, and away you go!
It’s early days on this thing, so please tell me what’s difficult, what’s wrong, what could be improved.
This NIN – Carly Rae Jepsen mashup is stuck in my head
https://soundcloud.com/pomdeterrific/pomdeter-call-me-a-hole
Ruined Cathedrals
This photo is of St. Quentin Cathedral in northern France, which burned down in August 1917.
via Unseen World War I photos: Destroyed Cathedrals.
A ruined cathedral is a special kind of place. All the synergistic work of man, all that drive to order and organization – laid back to chaos and dirt so quickly.
Speaking of the synergistic work of man, this is the first post I’ve ever made publicly from Orbital Feed Reader!
Laura Veirs – Sun Song
I first heard of Laura from her great song Pink Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgVv9bF3JTk
Today’s my first day back to work after my paternity leave. Wish me luck!