Myths of the Near-Past: Archive

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Saturday Prices at Über

Every draft beer (main size) is $2.50 off when they open at 12pm, rising by $0.50 every two hours. $4.5 - 8oz - Lost Abbey Angel’s Share 2010 (Brandy Barrel) $3.5 - 8oz - Dogfish Head Olde School Barleywine 2010 $2 - pint - Deschutes Hop Henge Double IPA $2 - pint - New Old Lompoc C-Sons Greetings $2 - pint - Chuckanut Vienna Lager $2 - pint - Alameda Black Bear XX Stout $2 -...

Jan 20th

100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year (BBC) →

4. Women’s tears reduce sexual desire in men. Women’s tears contain a chemical signal that lowers testosterone levels and dampens sexual desire in men, according to a team of scientists in Israel. They studied the effect on men of sniffing fresh tears, which the researchers collected in vials as they rolled down the faces of women watching weepy movies.

Jan 2nd

2011

MUSIC Biosphere: N-Plants Destroyer: Kaputt James Blake: James Blake Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring for My Halo Loscil: Coast/Range/Arc Mark McGuire: A Young Person’s Guide M83: Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica The Rapture: In the Grace of Your Love Washed Out: Within and Without CINEMA 01 Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn) 02 Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)...

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Next Step: Loan Strike! by Lawrence Weschler - The... →

‘The plan should be to spend the next several months developing, articulating, and organizing toward a major national mortgage and student-loan strike. Such a loan strike would begin—provided enough people sign on in advance (and I’m talking hundreds of thousands), and unless a concrete set of intervening demands is squarely met in the meantime—on, say, October 1, 2012, right in the...

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Road Trip WA/OR October 2011

Nov 16th

The Worst Restaurant Ever, Reviewed →

Comedian and Conan writer Todd Levin imagines the Yelp entries for Mama Mia That’s Italyen Authentic Food Café (via kottke)

Nov 8th

Oct 6th

2011 Q3 Review

Elysian Raconteur Lost Abbey Framboise de Amorosa New Belgium The Trip IX Down Under IPA Scaldis Stone 15th Anniversary Escondidian Imperial Black IPA Wychwood Spring Ale *Drie Fonteinen Scharbeekse Kriek *Page-24 Hildegarde Blonde *Double Mountain Rainier Kriek *Mikkeller I Beat U *Golden Cap Saison *Dogfish Head Black & Red *10 Barrel Zitrone Kolsch *Gilgamesh Mint Kolsch...

Sep 29th

Very Long Movies

It occurred to me tonight that Seattle film exhibitors are showing a whole lot of very long movies over the next month-plus. Through October 25 I’ll be seeing: Mysteries of Lisbon 272 min. Jeanne Dielman 201 min. Celine and Julie Go Boating 190 min. World on a Wire 185 min. Aurora 181 min. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaucescu 180 min. Intolerance 175 min. Playtime 145 min. So if...

Sep 15th

This whole Sound of Young America interview with...

Sep 14th

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Bumbershoot! (Schedule)

Aug 30th

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Beach volleyball at Golden Gardens

Aug 22nd

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A montage of footage from this weekend’s trip to the Gifford Pinchot Nat’l Forest

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Track of the year so far? Burial “Stolen...

Jul 27th

Beer + Kombucha →

‘Lambrucha is by no means the last word on blending beer and kombucha. Goose Island has produced a Belgian pale ale with hibuscus and kombucha called Fleur. And homebrewers have discovered that Kombucha (culture) could be another trick to produce sour beers.’

Jul 27th

“A period of crisis is also the only moment in which positions are radicalised...”

– Pere Portabella in Sight & Sound

Jul 23rd

Workerism, Autonomia and Lessons from the Italian...

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“What amazed me about the dead rat was its location—right next to the huge...”

– Charles Mudede in The Stranger

Jul 15th

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2011 Q2 Review

Anderson Valley Barkley’s Sour Horn Big Al Super Kriek De Cam Oude Lambiek Hair of the Dog Cherry Fred Lost Abbey Red Poppy New Belgium Love Peach Whiskey Bon Iver s/t Burial Street Halo EP Destroyer Kaputt James Blake s/t Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo Kyle Bobby Dunn Fervency Mark McGuire A Young Person’s Guide to Mark McGuire Panda Bear Tomboy Certified Copy...

Jul 1st

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Freeway Park, Alki Beach, Tulips, Green Lake, Keith Fullerton Whitman

Jun 26th

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Two views of Philadelphia split by a view of Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Jun 25th

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Overlooking The Dalles and the Columbia River from Sorosis Park

Jun 25th

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Footage from Seaside and Cannon Beach, Oregon

Jun 25th

Jun 22nd

'Bernie,' directed by Richard Linklater, starring... →

“Bernie” is a shaggy, idiosyncratic work, possibly the strangest yet in a career full of strangeness. Set in the small town of Carthage, Texas, it tells of an effeminate, musical-loving mortician named Bernie Tiede (Black) who befriends and then commits a horrible crime against a repressed wealthy matriarch (MacLaine), leaving him to face the wrath of a local prosecutor (McConaughey)....

Jun 16th

A & A Interviews: Lusine + Loscil →

Two musicians from the ambient end of things, and residing in Seattle and Vancouver, respectively, interview each other at the ISO50 blog.

Jun 15th

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James Blake/Drake Mixtape by Bombé via Pitchfork

Jun 14th

Best of SIFF

Eternity (Sivaroj Kongsakul, Thailand) Times & Winds (Reha Erdem, Turkey) Finisterrae (Sergio Caballero, Spain) Man at Bath (Christophe Honoré, France/US) Without (Mark Jackson, US) High Road (Matt Walsh, US) The Catechism Cataclysm (Todd Rohal, US) Small Town Murder Songs (Ed Gass-Donnelly, Canada) I liked these films best out of the ones I saw at the festival. Sadly, none of them are...

Jun 14th

Substrata 1.1 →

irisarri: Substrata 1.1 is a three-day sound & visual art event held in Seattle, WA, scheduled for July 15 thru July 17, 2011. Curated by Rafael Anton Irisarri Performing Artists BIOSPHERE (NORWAY) OREN AMBARCHI (AUSTRALIA) ELUVIUM (UNITED STATES) NILS FRAHM (GERMANY) BENOÎT PIOULARD (UNITED STATES) CRYS COLE (CANADA) MARCUS FISCHER (UNITED STATES) I3O (UNITED STATES) TICKETS AVAIL...

Jun 8th

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jordanmorris: That’s What She Said This video was brought up on the last episode of JJGO. I hadn’t seen it before and that was a mistake because it’s hilarious! I will watch many things starring Megan Mullally, but I will absolutely see anything with Thomas Lennon in it.

May 18th

“It’s music that wants to find its way into your life and do some good, and...”

– Mark Richardson on Mark McGuire in Pitchfork

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Apr 27th

First Listen: Julianna Barwick, 'The Magic Place' →

‘Her looped voice builds from a deeply resonant and reverent place, creating a cosmic hymn refracted out of a glass prism.’

Apr 17th

Eat Lou Kohl - Seattle Weekly →

This is some of the best journalism going.

Apr 12th

2011 Q1 Review

Bell’s Two Hearted Ale Big Al Brougham Bitter Boulevard Tank 7 Founders Breakfast Stout Liefman’s Kriek Lost Abbey Angel’s Share 2010 Moylan’s Hopsickle Triple Imperial IPA Stone/Ballast Point San Diego County Session Ale Victory Yakima Glory Clean (Assayas, 2004) In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima, 1968) Bonjour Tristesse (Preminger, 1958) Kaboom (Gregg Araki)...

Mar 31st