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Disc One
1. Pavement “Cut Your Hair”
2. The Dambuilders “Shrine”
3. Belly “Feed The Tree”
4. Throwing Muses “Bright Yellow Gun”
5. Material Issue “Valerie Loves Me”
6. The Reverend Horton Heat “One Time For Me”
7. Velvet Crush “Everything Flows”
8. Mercury Rev “Car Wash Hair”
9. The Posies “Dream All Day”
10. Cracker “Teen Angst”
11. Temple Of The Dog “Hunger Strike”
12. Mad Season “River Of Deceit”
13. Helium “Pat’s Trick”
14. The Breeders “Cannonball”
15. Unrest “Make Out Club”
16. Sloan “Underwhelmed”
17. Love Battery “Out Of Focus”
18. Mike Watt “Big Train”
19. Primus “Jerry Was A Race Car Driver”
20. Morphine “Honey White”Disc Two
1. Meat Puppets “Backwater”
2. Hum “Stars”
3. Magnapop “Slowly, Slowly”
4. Bettie Serveert “Tom Boy”
5. E “Hello Cruel World”
6. Sugar “Helpless”
7. Helmet “Unsung”
8. Superchunk “Hyper Enough”
9. Pixies “Velouria”
10. Victoria Williams “Crazy Mary”
11. Mazzy Star “Fade Into You”
12. that dog. “He’s Kissing Christian”
13. Luna “Slash Your Tires”
14. Cowboy Junkies “Anniversary Song”
15. Tori Amos “God”
16. Concrete Blonde “Joey”
17. The Rentals “Friends Of P”
18. Liz Phair “Supernova”
19. PJ Harvey “Down By The Water”
20. Fastbacks “Going To The Moon”Disc Three
1. Matthew Sweet “Girlfriend”
2. Brad “My Finger”
3. Built To Spill “Car”
4. The Jayhawks “Waiting For The Sun”
5. Lemonheads “It’s A Shame About Ray”
6. Soundgarden “Spoonman”
7. Letters To Cleo “Here And Now”
8. Dinosaur Jr. “Start Choppin”
9. Wilco “Box Full Of Letters”
10. Jill Sobule “I Kissed A Girl”
11. Supreme Love Gods “Souled Out”
12. Blind Melon “Tones Of Home”
13. Screaming Trees “Nearly Lost You”
14. American Music Club “Rise”
15. Velocity Girl “I Can’t Stop Smiling”
16. Folk Implosion “Natural One”
17. Jellyfish “The Ghost At Number One”
18. Buffalo Tom “Sodajerk”
19. Madder Rose “Car Song”
20. Afghan Whigs “Debonair”Disc Four
1. Smashing Pumpkins “Cherub Rock”
2. The Juliana Hatfield 3 “Spin The Bottle”
3. The Flaming Lips “She Don’t Use Jelly”
4. Porno For Pyros “Pets”
5. Mudhoney “Generation Spokesmodel”
6. Sonic Youth “Bull In The Heather”
7. L7 “Pretend We’re Dead”
8. Archers Of Loaf “Web In Front”
9. Nirvana “About A Girl”
10. King Missile “Detachable Penis”
11. Ween “Push Th’ Little Daisies”
12. They Might Be Giants “Birdhouse In Your Soul”
13. Possum Dixon “Watch The Girl Destroy Me”
14. Jen Trynin “Better Than Nothing”
15. Hole “Doll Parts”
16. Hammerbox “When 3 Is 2”
17. Veruca Salt “Seether”
18. Tripping Daisy “I Got A Girl”
19. Mother Love Bone “Chloe Dancer/Crown Of Thorns”
20. Jeff Buckley “Last Goodbye”Whoa.
J. just made my day!
matt damon clone at the end of the new apple facetime commercial Directed by Sam Mendes
David Foster Wallace on iPhone 4's FaceTime
The recently announced iPhone 4 includes a feature called FaceTime; it’s wifi videophone functionality. In Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace wrote that within the reality of the book, videophones enjoyed enormous initial popularity but then after a few months, most people gave it up. Why the switch back to voice? The answer, in a kind of trivalent nutshell, is: (1) emotional stress, (2) physical vanity, and (3) a certain queer kind of self-obliterating logic in the microeconomics of consumer high-tech. First, the stress: Good old traditional audio-only phone conversations allowed you to presume that the person on the other end was paying complete attention to you while also permitting you not to have to pay anything even close to complete attention to her. A traditional aural-only conversation […] let you enter a kind of highway-hypnotic semi-attentive fugue: while conversing, you could look around the room, doodle, fine-groom, peel tiny bits of dead skin away from your cuticles, compose phone-pad haiku, stir things on the stove; you could even carry on a whole separate additional sign-language-and-exaggerated-facial-expression type of conversation with people right there in the room with you, all while seeming to be right there attending closely to the voice on the phone. And yet — and this was the retrospectively marvelous part — even as you were dividing your attention between the phone call and all sorts of other idle little fuguelike activities, you were somehow never haunted by the suspicion that the person on the other end’s attention might be similarly divided. […] Video telephony rendered the fantasy insupportable. Callers now found they had to compose the same sort of earnest, slightly overintense listener’s expression they had to compose for in-person exchanges. Those caller who out of unconscious habit succumbed to fuguelike doodling or pants-crease-adjustment now came off looking extra rude, absentminded, or childishly self-absorbed. Callers who even more unconsciously blemish-scanned or nostril explored looked up to find horrified expressions on the video-faces at the other end. All of which resulted in videophonic stress. And then vanity: And the videophonic stress was even worse if you were at all vain. I.e. if you worried at all about how you looked. As in to other people. Which all kidding aside who doesn’t. Good old aural telephone calls could be fielded without makeup, toupee, surgical prostheses, etc. Even without clothes, if that sort of thing rattled your saber. But for the image-conscious, there was of course no answer-as-you-are informality about visual-video telephone calls, which consumers began to see were less like having the good old phone ring than having the doorbell ring and having to throw on clothes and attach prostheses and do hair-checks in the foyer mirror before answering the door.
(via iwontallowit)
stuff to revisit
miles bonny
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B.O.B. - Past My Shades
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Boots of Spanish Leather by Bob Dylan
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Buck Owens - Act Naturally
