February 2009
53 posts
Manny's closing in NYC. Sad, sad, sad. →
extra value meal
Josh Freese has played drums on hundreds of rock and pop records in the last 15 years and has toured behind the drums with A Perfect Circle, NIN, and DEVO (among others). He routinely replaces drummers on major label releases. He is, as they say in Idaho, a total-bad-ass. His solo record is out this spring and can be bought any number of ways with package price tags that go all the way to the...
Tiny Art Director →
this blog makes me want to have kids. and be good at drawing. (via martha zinger)
not training.
Running feels better when you’re not counting laps, thinking about your pace or imagining the miles ahead of you.
It is good to sweat again.
Not very much. Not too many geezers chasing after me and if he would catch me...
– Grandma Madge, when asked what she has been up to. (via e-mail)
The number of Web surfers watching full episodes of TV shows streamed online by...
– http://promomagazine.com/research/web-users-watching-episodes-surge-0213/
Twitter users tend to be younger and more mobile than the general Internet...
– http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/02/study-twitter-users-are-mobile-urban-and-engaged-online.ars
top grossing tours of 2008
1. Madonna: $242,176,466
2. Bon Jovi: $157,177,766
3. Bruce Springsteen: $156,327,964
4. The Police: $109,976,894
5. Celine Dion: $99,171,237
6. Kenny Chesney: $90,823,990
7. Neil Diamond: $82,174,000
8. Rascall Flatts: $63,522,160
9. Jonas Brothers: $62,638,814
10. Coldplay: $62,175,555
11. The Eagles: $61,132,213
12. Lil Wayne: $57,441,334
13. AC/DC: $56,505,296
14. Michael Buble: $50,257,364
15. Miley Cyrus: $48,920,806
16. Taylor Swift: $45,588,730
17. Journey: $44,787,328
18. Billy Joel: $44,581,010
19. Mary J. Blige: $43,472,850
20. Kanye West: $42,552,402
This is an incredibly shameless plug for a band I play in. We’re playing the Satyricon tomorrow night.
1% of population see color and movement in sound,... →
I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV - if...
– Barack Obama (full text at Huffington Post)
You know that woman he had singing for him, singing my song, she’s going...
– Etta James, 71 and surly, on Beyonce singing At Last to Obama.