Weekly Twitter Digest for 2009-05-04

• I love My Morning Jacket’s reverb-drenched sound, but j’ever notice that every live band sounds like them from a quarter mile away? #
• Fame!RT @hlrecord danray.org uses the supreme court’s own logic to prove that HLS should outrank yale in the USNWR http://tinyurl.com/cp7qgt #
• NYT article on activists rebranding “global warming” carries an for 500 Days of Summer.

  Well, I see the coal industry has had its rebuttal. #

• Speaking of musical hornrimmery, could there be a better idea for a podcast than “Jeffrey Lews & the News?” Maybe if he actually sang news.. #
• [I just wiled away five minutes on first a Laurie Anderson gag, then a Glenn Branca gag. There's an obscure joke here somewhere, I know it.] #
• Fun new game: listen to experimental music; take a guess at what hypothesis they’re trying to prove. #
• Very fond of @mintdotcom’s new Financial Fitness app. It’s for money thesixtyone.com is for music. #
• Anyone local looking for a 12 string guitar? I’d rather not ship it, so take $25 off my Buy It Now price: http://is.gd/vLMm #
• This has been a week of “WHOA” tweets for me. (RT @lessig RT @adambonin: NPR: Souter retiring. http://tinyurl.com/dx8xf3) #
• Twenty-four years old, and I can still never predict when to stop humming at the end of “I Want You (She’s So Heavy).” Where did I go wrong? #
• Been at least a few months since I’ve heard a song for the first time and had it in my head the next day. Japandroids: ♫ http://twt.fm/85019 #
• Good customer service from @amazonmp3 — 20 min. after complaining about a corrupt mp3, got a full album refund and a promise to fix it. #
• …Nope, not yet: five days into the swine flu apocalypse, and “pandemic” still makes me think of the Stanfield crew on The Wire. #
• 97º?! Oh noes! Either I’m hallucinating or the weatherman is; either way, one of us has probably got swine flu. http://is.gd/vaCT #
• Either it’s 95° in Boston in April, or this sudden-onset fever heralds my imminent demise from swine flu. #
• WHOA. http://ping.fm/iv2Xu #
• (I just managed to snark about human suffering and namedrop my bougie toothpaste in a single tweet. Did… did I just become an asshole?) #
• Here it is, the end of the world, and I just bought a new tube of toothpaste.

  No, seriously, and it was that $5 Tom’s of Maine shit, too. #

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