Posts matching tags 'ukiyo-e'
2002/2/11
For readers in Sydney: Prop are playing at somewhere called The Basement, in Circular Quay, this Friday, along with post-rock outfit Ukiyo-E. Prop are a mind-blowingly good band, and well worth seeing.
2002/2/11
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There's a couple at the Coffee Plant, sitting side by side at a table with matching iBooks. (9h ago)
And now my ADSL modem has just arrived; that was quick. (11h ago)
Just arrived in the mail: Stereolab, "Chemical Chords" and Ben Lewis, "Hammer & Tickle: A History of Communism Told Through Jokes" (12h ago)
Remember Remember, even. It was on the Rock Action spring sampler. (29/8)
Note to self: track down "Fountain Mountain" by Remembe Remember. (29/8)
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2007/8/29
Blog discovery of the day: Paleo-Future , a blog devoted to yesteryear's predictions for the future, from Buckminster Fuller's visionary contraptions to tree-crushing, highway-building robot juggernauts , to flying cars , robot housemaids , free love2006/8/29
The core developers of Python (a rather elegant open-source programming language, in which, incidentally, this website is written) have broken ground on Python 3000 , the massive, compatibility-breaking overhaul they intend to give Python, fixing the2003/8/28
Things overheard on the London Underground , including the surreal ("I rather look forward to the Ragnarok"), the absurdly poetic ("I woke up to find a dead bird in the gutter", " I am very