April 2011
2 posts
The Damnwells - Golden Days (Acoustic Demo)
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March 2011
2 posts
“It should be harder to be an artist. You shouldn’t just be able to put a song on...”
– Miley Cyrus, on the overnight success of Rebecca Black.
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WatchAt first I didn’t think I was going to be able to embed this, and so I thought: it’s 20 minutes, and if I send people away from this I’ll wait…but it’s not likely anyone will see this and actually come back to read what trivial things I have to say about it. Thank goodness I figured out how to embed this. Now you have to read what trivial things I have to say about...
February 2011
9 posts
improve the system constantly. learn new things quickly. respect the people who make your job possible. contribution is the key. it’s us against the world. we are a family. have a point of view. take risks. make everyone love you.
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WatchGreg Dulli’s a genius, if you didn’t already know.
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More Amor - Thanks? →
It’s hard not to like something your friends create. Whether it’s good or not is often arbitrary; we all want to support one another and do things that we’re passionate about. (Like this blog. By all accounts this blog is an abomination, but if I tried harder to blow it up I’m sure my friends would get behind me.) Still, every once in a while some friends’ passion...
“As conquistadors go, I’m more of a Don Quixote than a Hernán Cortés.”
That Group of Girls
That group of girls always has one that comes close, time and again, to making you shun the whole clan forever. That group of girls always seems to eventually end up in a little ball, telling inside jokes that you wouldn’t even find funny if you had context. That group of girls always seems to have a hidden agenda that doesn’t mesh with your own hidden agenda. Everyone in that group of...
January 2011
6 posts
The State of the Union is... →
This is a very interesting (and at times, harrowing) compilation of State of the Union addresses since 1973. Read this, and tell me: how unsettled are you now that you know Gerald Ford is the only president on this list who ever told it like it was?
“I mean, you can have sex anytime you want. Why mess it up by getting emotionally...”
– Sage advice from MTV’s Undressed
On Reading
“I’m reading The Stranger by Albert Camus right now. It’s boring the shit out of me, but I imagine at some point I’ll gain some kind of knowledge that I didn’t know before….I don’t know, it’s like torture, reading, but I do it and then eventually I think that it’s good.”
That’s a quote by George Lewis, Jr., singer of a cool new...
“I can’t get into detail about the opportunities I’ve missed in the...”
December 2010
2 posts
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GQ has different men's 10 Essentials. What are...
Ten essentials that every man should own? Yikes. I’ll get completely panned for this…but here goes.
1. A good pair of boots.
2. Raw denim jeans, fitted by a tailor.
3. A timeless pair of sunglasses.
4. A traditional baseball cap.
5. A real wallet (preferably leather, or with leather accents).
6. Enough solid-color button-down shirts to last one week.
7. A weekender bag that...
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Best Music of 2010
I always hoped that my year-end lists (which I’ve been writing now for about six years, since before PunkDiscovery.com went away) would enlighten people to listen to things they hadn’t heard before. And yet, the older I get, the more of my favorites I end up identifying on Rolling Stone’s list. It’s disgusting. But I guess that’s just a product of the convergence of...
October 2010
1 post
“Minka Kelly has been named Esquire magazines Sexiest Woman Alive for 2010, and...”
– WWTDD Writer
June 2010
1 post
Elsewhere, I'm active.
It’s pretty obvious that I’m not really blogging here anymore, but I really would love if all of you said hello to me in other places. I’m much more active elsewhere! Twitter Facebook 303 Magazine Motive I still got love up in this club, it’s just not happening as often.
April 2010
4 posts
Artist to Watch: Jónsi Birgisson →
by Chris Reinhard for 303 Magazine
The Interns
On Friday I spent my afternoon talking to recent graduates at a job fair for the New Denver Ad Club. Now, unsurprisingly, this isn’t the kind of thing Motive does on a regular basis. It’s hard enough for us to find employees with experience; finding interns who are prepared for the kind of hell we’ll put them through is another story. To be completely truthful, I know that I can...
March 2010
5 posts
Everyone still laughs at the jokes, but there’s no denying: these jokes are hiding more than a hint of cynicism underneath the punchline. “It’s almost over, right?” “Yeah. Right.” Because how funny can it be, eating a five-star meal in the most beautiful restaurant on an inevitably sinking ship? This is one hell of a last meal, if I may say so myself. Sweet,...
Other Things →
I know, I know. I’m slow. I don’t post much. But if you like the things I do post, check out my other Tumblelog, Other Things. It’s just viral stuff. You know, funny stuff. I post to there almost every day.
February 2010
3 posts
Would You Be Mad If...? →
My friend Molly just started a new blog that I think is going to be pretty big. It’s totally self-fulfilling, which is awesome for the internet, and it has a little bit of FMyLife/TFLN appeal, which is also awesome for the internet. It’s called ‘Would You Be Mad If…?’ and it lets you submit scenarios and let the public decide if you should be mad about them or not....
Winter
Winter is my favorite fucking season. I love snow and I love bundling up and I love jumping off cliffs with skis on. But this winter kind of blows. I haven’t spent much time complaining so I’m just going to let it all out here. Preface: I’m pretty stoked on life right now, so all the things that are going to spew out here are pretty much all the things I’m pissed off about. Totally. I’ve been...
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“He’s downplaying it but it won’t be easy for the band to replace him. They’ll...”
– WWTDD writer on Pete Wentz leaving Fall Out Boy
January 2010
4 posts
On Removing Tumblarity
Thank goodness I’ll feel far less compelled to post uninteresting things now.
“If ‘Party In the USA’ was the death of good taste, ‘Tik...”
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December 2009
7 posts
“On the First Day, God created a bunch of microorganisms and gave them the...”
Dibs Plus
If you see an attractive girl and you want to call dibs on her, feel free to do so. But remember, if she is clearly underage, it’s critical that you affix the number of years you’d wait before acting upon said dibs. Example: Miley Cyrus is just 17, so she is a ‘dibs plus one.’ Example: Dakota Fanning is a mere 15 years old. She is a ‘dibs plus three.’
You have to grow old, before you can feel young...
In less than an hour, I turn 25. And from what I can tell, going a quarter of a century is no difficult task, but going twice as long will be. I feel the aches of age now—but I’ve hardly dealt with the pains of maturity. It’s hard to express what this coming year will, or should, mean. It’s impossible to fathom what the next revolution around the sun will bring…where...
“Purist chicks don’t like dudes with beards, because dudes with beards are...”
A Mayonnaise Jar & Two Beers...
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 Beers. A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was...
November 2009
3 posts
A Small Portion of Tuesday Night
Chris: I just got a +1 for Shwayze. I've never even heard them.
Alex: Yeeeeees.
Chris: What do they sound like? I think I'm going to stay for five minutes.
Alex: A stoned Crazytown. You should stay for four.
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October 2009
6 posts
My Year of Everything →
So Dave Holmes is reading a book about the author’s year of ____ every week for a year. He’s calling it “My Year of Everything.”I think it’s a pretty brilliant idea; and since I’ve given up trying to write blog entries here while my life as a copywriter and freelancer take over, it’d be good for you to get a little humor somewhere else.