Entries for Thursday, June 25, 2009
➠ June 25, 2009
The four most important buttons on my Dashboard
The single-serving-site loveliness of Instant Crickets, Bom Bom Bom Bom Wooo, Instant Rimshot and Sad Trombone, clipped to my OS X dashboard for those times they're urgently needed.
Steven Wells Says Goodbye
Steven “Swells” Wells, one of the finest, funniest and rantiest writers during the period I read the NME, passed away this week. This is his final column.
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The 50 Greatest Trailers of All Time
I bloody love movie trailers. Like pop videos, it’s easy to miss the artistry involved in making a good one.
Have discovered the @SlideInc metrics team’s Nespresso machine.
I may never sleep again.
Posted to Twitter at 5:12 p.m.
Given the more famous death today, the final line of Swells’s final column is bizarrely prophetic: http://rdbgb.us/n2R
Posted to Twitter at 4:04 p.m.
Wicked sad to hear of Steven “Swells” Wells’s passing. http://tr.im/pMPf His “interview” with Shed Seven was my fave NME article ever.
Posted to Twitter at 3:41 p.m.
Slide lobby art
New art was hung yesterday in the lobby at 301 Brannan. Bonus: You'll have something to read while waiting for the elevator (it incorporates a page from "A Projection of Species Extinction")
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