Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them. — Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices, 1996. I saw part of this quotation and thought “that’s fantastic”; some judicious googling turned up both the source (hat tip to here) and more of the original thought.  (via imathers)

(via hitrecordjoe)

fuckyeahronswanson:

A M E R I C A 
Happy 4th.

I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS

fuckyeahronswanson:

A M E R I C A 

Happy 4th.

I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS

song of the year so far

Community

My entire Tumblr feed is everyone being sad about the Dan Harmon/Community/Sony situation.  Not a good day for TV.

We’ll spend a month apart
At least I know when you’ll be coming home
But this is just the start
We’ll find out who we are

A hint of light in the dark
Only enough to keep from giving up

We’ll spend a month apart

At least I know when you’ll be coming home

But this is just the start

We’ll find out who we are

A hint of light in the dark

Only enough to keep from giving up

fuckyeahnownow:

OMG HOLD UP!
FUCK YEAH NOW NOW HIT 500 FOLLOWERS! 
yay. radical. shoop da woop.
so in ~celebration~ of this milestone (well, it’s a milestone to us, anyway) we are GIVING AWAY A SIGNED COPY OF NEIGHBORS.
YAY.
all you have to do is reblog this post, ONCE. and you must be following us, obviously. 
so you have till the end of november! (the 30th, for you silly people who can’t be arsed to look at a calendar!)
reblog reblog! go go! appreciate my magnificent giveaway picture! 

fuckyeahnownow:

OMG HOLD UP!

FUCK YEAH NOW NOW HIT 500 FOLLOWERS! 

yay. radical. shoop da woop.

so in ~celebration~ of this milestone (well, it’s a milestone to us, anyway) we are GIVING AWAY A SIGNED COPY OF NEIGHBORS.

YAY.

all you have to do is reblog this post, ONCE. and you must be following us, obviously. 

so you have till the end of november! (the 30th, for you silly people who can’t be arsed to look at a calendar!)

reblog reblog! go go! appreciate my magnificent giveaway picture! 

I thought I knew you
What have we come to
What came of you and me
And the distance in between
You were the one who always opened up my soul
Now here we go out of control
— Out of Control - Switchfoot

october

september run

don’t drag your feet

october come

bring her to me