2008

Jul

Me and My Girls - David Carr

Sebastien Tellier - “Divine” Off the new-ish album, Sexuality. He performed this song...

(via smallpicture)

“The reason why I say “Apple products” is I always say:...”
— Christian Lander on the...

Mamihlapinatapai

Sigur Rós - “Illgressi (Them Jeans Remix)”

(via The Small Picture)

Parenthetical Girls - “A Song For Ellie”

Air France - “Collapsing At Your Doorstep”

Funny. The strip is presumbly a reference to N’kisi —...

Why I Still Use Windows Despite the Peer...

Vintage photos from A Clockwork Orange. Some of these, my...

An x-ray of a youth’s hand after a lit explosive went...

Daddy and the Husband - “Nipples Like Sailor’s Thumbs” Daddy and the Husband are...

Late of the Pier - Heartbeat

Quirky Nomads Podcast

(via Married to the Sea)

Up and Then Down

The door-close rain dance

Inevitably, people start getting impatient and hitting the door-close button after about 4 seconds....

Hello, Nick here. Jared and I cannot agree on the merits of Axe. Disappointing, because when he’s...

Greenskeepers - “Bedtime” Who I heard first on Erica’s Muxtape.

Jun

Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning (Cut Copy Remix)

This is kind of odd. The person that writes this blog posts...

I love these icons so much. They come from two sets on...

Sigur Rós playing “Gobbledigook” at last night’s free Náttúra concert. Check out...

Why Ninja Turtles Don’t Date, and Other...

MySpace

I’ve always turned a blind eye to the MySpace hate that floods the web on a daily basis....

Lilofee — “Lock and Key” I would sign Lilofee to my imaginary record label so...

Dear Björk, What the fuck are you wearing? Love and...

Summer

Starbucks. Queuing in line for a mug of tea, eyes fixed on the female barista. It’s packed...

Björk and Sigur Rós Team Up For Náttúra...

Annie - Loco Second single off her new album, due in September, purportedly.

Someone Hates You Online. Try Not To Be...

Courtesy of an anonymous person. Whoever made this is an...

Track-By-Track Through Feed The Animals

“The problem I am pointing to, however, is […] a simple...”
— Language Log’s Geoffrey...

Beware the Friendly Stranger

This theme made by Matthew Buchanan, which I added to Custom...

The Evolution of Chinglish

Talking about Tuneage and the future of...

"Has modern life killed the semicolon?"

Top 5

You know, I was just wondering what the top 5 most played artists of all the people I follow was...

Boy 8-Bit - “Bulbs Burn Out” I’ve been really in to Boy 8-Bit for a while now — since I heard...

There's a word for what I want to study

Sociolinguistics. This also happens to be the word for what I’m looking forward to studying...

Apple Inc. is currently the third most hyped...

Legal Tender

I learned something interesting about British coinage today. £5, £2, and £1 coins are legal tender...

10 years ago, we only had 2 kinds of T-shirts to choose...

DIY Yahoo! Resignation Letter

Matthew Buchanan

Deleted articles with freaky titles

zoya: SO excited about the Ace of Base sample on the new Girl Talk album Best bit of the entire...

Girl Talk's Feed The Animals

File this one under Things I Should Have Thought of Sooner:...

The Fate of The Sentence: Is the Writing On...

The Man With The Pink Fanny Pack

Fanny Packs

I know Brits are supposed to call them “bum bags”, but it sounds so fucking ridiculous....

A very nice band manager sent me these. Baron von...

Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age) going crazy at someone in the crowd that threw something at...

Submit Your Themes

Whoops. I didn’t even know that limitation existed.

Custom Tumblr Themes

This is a video made by Brad Troemel, that is pretty much just a video montage of a number of young...

Justice - “Sure You Will” From some French electro compilation released in 2003,...

Baww

C’mon, tuneage posting Bat For Lashes this week? I just… THAT’S what’s wrong with America, people....

We’re some classy people here in Britain. (via Annie...

“Death and Life”, from Gleanings for the Curious...

More of Charlie. So cute. (via nostrich)

Charlie, the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel I bought last...

Permalink Page Styling in Tumblr Themes

I’ve had a Tumblr theme-related idea floating around in my head for a while now, an idea...

Dear Jakob

I’ve noticed something strange afoot on Jakob Lodwick’s tumblelog of late. Instead of...

Garkov: Garfield + Markov chains

Human After All

I present to you: Auto-Meme 9000! (working title) Click on...

Girl Talk Prepares To Unleash 'Animals'

Tumblr Tag Cloud Generator, in case you use tags. Great...

Cover art for Dr. Dog’s album Fate. I love....

"Five Horrible Things"

1. AIDS 2. Titty cancer 3. johnnyfive 4. Pitchfork 5. tuneage.tumblr.com

MGMT - “Electric Feel (Justice Remix)” This is so good. (It’s an incomplete radio...

New Sigur Rós - "Festival"

"Bad spell-checking causes name changes in...

Gun T-shirt 'was a security risk'

Blood Red Shoes - “Doesn’t Matter Much”

May

Katie White of The Ting Tings (that is her name). My current...

The Ting Tings “That’s Not My Name” I keep listening to this song, as if just having the chorus run...

This is kind of awesome: Asked to respond to the word...

Only Love You If I Knew You'd Let Me Down

Declaration of Independence

Ten Tweetable Scripts

File this under Weirdest Thing I’ve Seen Today. Some sort of weird mashup of Angela Lansbury...

“Britain’s Got Talent”? More like Britain’s full of fame-hungry twats that...

“Chuck Norris noticed your correct spelling, made an error in...”
— (via Language is the...

Genius behind Weezer’s new music video: nerds will provide lots of free publicity: “OMG...

I think filmmakers are going to have a tough time making a more tortuously formulaic film than What...

Sigur Ros - “Gobbledigook” The track is available for free from the band’s official page This is...

Tonight I will be continuing my testing of the theory that alcohol is the cure for everything....

I’d feel a whole lot better about my life if I’d lost my virginity to this instead of...

HEALTH - “Triceratops (Acid Girls Rmx A)” This is from HEALTH’s remix album...

Tweet Tweet

I’m trying out importing my Twitter updates. (I embedded them on my blog on a trial basis,...

LP3

Ratatat’s LP3 has leaked predictably early (about 14 hours ago-ish), and I’ve been...

On Muxtape

You’ve probably heard already, but Muxtape had some problems in the last few days, which you...

On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness

So, how about that Penny Arcade game, huh? Massively hyped, but does it deliver? Critic reviews seem...

Javascript Super Mario Kart

Music Go Music - “Light of Love” Secretly Canadian’s new signing.

“You can help your chickens adjust during the first night in...”
— The instruction manual for our...

Building the Next Last.fm

Play counts on Tuneage!

Now you can optionally create Tumblr audio posts with MP3s...

Gary Kasparov, speaking at a political assembly, gets interrupted by a flying penis. (via Waxy.org)

Late of the Pier - “The Bears Are Coming” I barely have the words to describe this UK electronic...

The Morning Effect

Utah Saints - “Something Good ‘08” (Van She Tech Remix) Such a good remix and...

Asthmatic Kitty are linking to Tuneage’s contest on...

Stoney

Taking advantage of the perks of being a fully-fledged Official Music Blogger™ and listening to the...

This is awesome. Really, really awesome. A few years ago,...

Researchers: written English language will...

"Maple Ridge woman missing since Monday"

Best thing I learned today: the standard way of representing...

How we got a word for "putting things off"

You don’t need a reason to post Cobrastyle. So don’t ask.

Good Advice From a Grand Theft Auto Dating...

Stuff White People Like: Grammar

Bill & Ben the Flowerpot Men. Just because.

Extraview Interview

Ratatat's New Single, "Shiller"

Episode 3: The Wreck of the Old '97

I wonder if anyone would notice if there wasn’t a Tuneage podcast this week. I’ve been...

Series 5 of Peep Show started last week, and it’s as funny as ever. Which now means...

Sunset Rubdown - Up On Your Leopard, Upon The End Of Your Feral Days