August 2007
Tiffehr: @tiffanybbrown — lawn-owership gets old really quickly when the damned stuff starts growing. Congratulations, though, on the new house! (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: Darned my Battles tee-shirt after an armpit-seam failure. Loop-stitch. Feeling domestic and edgy at the same time—or maybe just hungry. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
July 2007
Tiffehr: I need to work “rad” out of my professional vocab. Damn Drew Bregel to a hell of eternal shin splits for re-adopting it. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
~1600 hours →
Janet Jackson - I Get Lonely [TNT RMX] (f/Blackstreet) (16’22”16) | The A.K.A.’s - Christmas in Hollis (16’19”09) | David Bowie - Rebel Rebel (16’08”26) | Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World (16’04”45) | Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me (16’03”07) |
Tiffehr: @faruk & jackson - I’d love to say it’s my unfamiliarity, but links take me to unexpected, nonlinear pages…on 3 separate browsers. Buggy. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: Gonna go on record that Facebook, despite the hype, is really a miserable UX. Getting stuck in add-my-app pages, & can’t get back on task. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: Likes getting phone calls from friends in the middle of long drives. They’re always a bit introspective. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: Wishing I didn’t talk so damn fast. Where did I learn to talk like an auctioneer(ette), but without any of the cadences & musicality? Grrr. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Blackstreet - Fix →
While this is the original, I still adore ‘Fix’ on the virtue of the music video, featuring Blackstreet, Fishbone and ODB all sharing the same tenament house. The remix of ‘Fix’ made for the video—featuring Fishbone’s nutmeg flourishes and ODB’s incomprehensible growl/yelling—is the one I hear in my head when I play the original. Makes it a *lot* better.
Animaniacs - Yakko's World →
My brother and I *loved* Animaniacs. And—after getting the CD and Yakko & Wakko stuffed animals for xmas at a embarrassingly old age for being thrilled with stuffed animal gifts—we learned the songs. Both of us can sing this song, in entirety, if asked. But please don’t. It’s as embarrassing as the story. …And we prefer to sing Schnitzelbank, anyway.
Tiffehr: I will get my damned Dash syncing with gCal. Don’t *make* me spend an obsessive amount of time on it. Well, you totally can, but don’t. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: Heh! The Onion: rurl.org/6xs “WWII Veterans Called Back to Fight in Iraq” (Radio News podcast, top ‘o list) (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
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Tiffehr: One of those odd days when the lyrics to “The Gambler”—which I started singing as a joke—actually resonate, which is always surprising. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: @jaime_d I second Kim’s notion that it’s great timing for change and I’m excited to hear about your move. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: @andybudd Napoleon Dynamite is much more funny if you’ve lived with mormons, or visited Idaho. Trust me on both counts. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: @webword Thanks for the nice comments about my tagline! (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Melvins, Big Business →
Sep 18: Melvins, Big Business at The Showbox
Tiffehr: Enjoying the hell out of half of a chocolate chip cookie I saved from last night’s Jimmy John’s. Half-bacon & turkey saved for supper, too. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: Recording audio via my T-mobile Dash & headset & bluetooth, which kinda counts like podcasting, right? I can add that to the resume? (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: @mstickel Deadwood. Shit gets crazy second season. Better than the first, because the writers give up on anything but villains. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: Besides “The Host”, I haven’t watched TV in 11 days as of this evening. That’s some discipline on my current project, I guess. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: Keynote’s and OmniGraffle’s supplemental panels are beginning to run together in my head. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: Suspecting I should skip Daft Punk…to much to do. Seattlites w/o a ticket, DM me if you want mine for the price of a beer sometime? (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
The Mooney Suzuki - Oh Sweet Susanna →
As Jaime once pointed out for a mix, few songs rival ‘Oh Sweet Susanna’ when you’re cleaning your house and using your mop as a fake mic stand.
Tiffehr: Trying to interpret notes I wrote late last night. There’s a thread of coherency, but it’s obscured by scrawly, sleepy handwriting. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: Ordering myself away from work and to my bed. Will resume work in all-too-short a time. …But tonight Seattle rocks out to Daft Punk. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Melvins, Big Business
Sep 18: Melvins, Big Business at The Showbox (via Tiffehr’s shared items in Google Reader)
Tiffehr: RIP, “Weekly World News”, america’s only reliable newspaper, 1979-2007. (@jaime_d, I still blame you for passing on your fascination to me.) (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Maura O'Connell - Crazy Dreams →
It took me 3 years to track down this song. I first heard it on bootlegs of Bela Fleck’s career-launching 1985 appearance at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, then again on a 1996 bootleg. Neither with names, and both live recordings with unclear vocals. But I finally tracked it down. Absolutely amazing lyrics, and impressive bluegrass arrangement (better live, of course) and...
homage to the weekly world news (1979-2007) →
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New Order - Temptation →
The only song on the ‘Trainspotting’ soundtrack that isn’t heavily dated. But it also might be a clue to where the Killers found their sound—who my age *didn’t* have the soundtrack on repeat from ‘96 into ‘97?
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Tiffehr: Reminding myself of the rules of Garrett IA (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: I’ve gone from Stetsasonic to a rare Bela Fleck bootleg in 3 moves. Also really dragging my feet at getting back into prep-mode. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
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Tiffehr: @webword I’m a longtime fan of your work and writing; glad to see you on twitter! I’m sure you’ll have lots more followers by the workweek. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: Holy shit, Club Noveau and “Lean on Me”! Hell of a day for some old skool beats. Wonder where my New Edition & Bobby Brown went…. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: Rocking out to “Planet Rock” and my Afrika Bamabaataa tunes, getting down to work for the day. Gotta record some stuff. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: First of four housemates moving out today, beginning the exodus as I shut down the home called “the Pub” for the last 7 years. Melancholy. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Sussudio →
Damn, why doesn’t iLike have this? It’s such a rare and wonderful thing, it should be public domain, so we all might savor the unique twistedness that was ODB and subsequent pseudonyms.
Tiffehr: @wishingline You could have a lot of fun naming kids after drink creations. Coorzima, anyone? Beeradine? Beergerita? (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: Succumbed to 30-second preview and bought the pre-release EP of remixes for the upcoming Architecture in Helsinki, as well as Mickey Avalon. (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
Tiffehr: @Snook Just tell the family his middle name would have to be Brau. Lowen Brau Snook. Bwahahah! (via Twitter / Tiffehr)
D'Angelo - One Mo' Gin →
The stand out tune from a hell of an album. The liner notes for Voodoo, by the phenomenal poet Saul Williams, channel lots of ideas about the legacy of sexy reverence from D’ and the likes of Marvin Gaye, like dirt, salvation, grit, soul, redemption and sex. ‘One Mo Gin’ is what he meant, mos definitely.
Ani DiFranco - Both Hands →
I prefer the live verison of ‘Living in Clip’, but the lyrics are still seductively fantastic in the early days. One of the best encores I’ve ever seen an a show. I know one guy who likes this song, and he’s a pearl of free thinking, in my book.
Johnny Cash - I See A Darkness →
The BEST death-row sad song ever. Hands down, voting for the champion is over, everybody else just gets consolation prizes.
The Roots - Clones →
‘Nother great hook, that’s nothing but better when The Roots play it live. I could wish for more evenness and story in the lyrics, but it’s a battle rhyme and some of the best verses from Malik B before he vanished from the group.
