48HR Magazine Wins a Knight Award; And the Top 10 of 2010 (so far)
Blastees, It's been sixty days since the last heater. Sorry. Summer has blurred into one huge L.A., New York, S.F., and Tall Trees trip in a sweaty white t-shirt and a $6 pair of wayfarers.
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48 Hour Magazine, for whom I profiled Shit My Dad Says author Justin Halpern, just won a Knight Award for innovation. Which means me and artist Conor Buckley sort of won a Knight Award. So go us. 48 Hour Magazine is now called Longshot Magazine, so CBS will stop suing us. Please buy a copy. The magazine is very good and I will spend your money on rent and food.
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New York Times affiliate and San Francisco startup publication The Bay Citizen has published a piece of mine on local rapper DaVinci. Make sure to check that out, then come to the 'mo for chicken and waffles and jazz and rock and rap.
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This piece for the East Bay Express on San Francisco's first-ever pot brownie and chronic milkshake regulations is both funny and informative.
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Western Red Dead Redemption has stirred the desert in me. Split open my ribs and the heat melts faces.
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Thee Oh Sees have a great new album. And speaking of which, here's my Ten Favorite LPs, and Singles of 2010, so far (subject to revision/retraction).
Crocodiles - Sleep ForeverBaths - CeruleanSeu Jorge & Almaz - Self-titledLCD Soundsystem - This Is HappeningOh No - EthiopiumThe National - High VioletThe Roots - How I Got OverEminem - RecoveryTristan Perich - 1-Bit SymphonyFlying Lotus - CosmogrammaSongsThe Dream "Make Up Bag" Love KingCrocodiles "All My Hate And My Hexes Are For You" Sleep ForeverSeu Jorge and Almaz "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" Self-titledLCD Soundsystem "All I Want" This Is HappeningThe National "Sorrow" High VioletOh No "P*ssy" EthiopiumFlying Lotus "Cosmogramma" CosmogrammaBill Elm and Woody Jackson "Triggernometry" Red Dead Redemption SoundtrackDaedelus "Order of the Golden Dawn" Righteous Fists of HarmonyTristan Perich - "Movement 4" 1-Bit Symphony
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Hit me up if you want any music and I'll send you a mixtape.
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There's probably other stuff I'm forgetting, but I just wanted to say 'Hi, and thanks for reading.' Now go out there and do some tubin'.
