January 2011
2 posts
The Best Songs of 2010 You May Not Have Heard
“LA Water” - Helmet
Helmet was the East Coast reply to grunge in the 90s. They were grittier, harder, lacked even the slightest bit of hippyness, and they had short hair (a revolutionary thing for a metal band at the time). Their latest album features this gem of a song deriding their current West Coast lives. This song would have been the perfect theme for the show Californication,...
Back to Paper, Back to Work
I recently deleted Things for Mac and Things for iPhone. It wasn’t because of the recent squabbles among productivity nerds about Things vs. Omnifocus. It was because of a book called The Shallows. It’s bringing me back to paper.
If you haven’t heard of the book, it’s a scary summary of the decades of studies that have revealed how hypertext measurably alters pathways in...