Links for 2.1.10: 22 Tips for Better Abs

*Sound: Silence may be going extinct. I’ll let you think about that for a moment. While I stand here. Humming. [psfk]

*Music: Peter Gabriel covers Bon Iver’s “Flume.” It’s Bon Iver-related, but it’s OK because it’s snowing today.

*Remixes: Ze Frank collected voice mails of people experiencing pain, then sent out the audio to DJs and musicians. They made music – The Pain Pack – with them.

*Decorations: Why get a Jenny Holzer temporary tattoo when you can get a Jenny Holzer permanent tattoo?

*Fashion: Out of Print is a t-shirt shop that puts old, dead book covers onto t-shirts. The still-limited selection includes Catcher in the Rye, Moby Dick and Master and Margarita. [rob]

*Video: I have a 10-minute video of me with a homeless beard and a bald head backgrounded by a brick wall talking about work stuff that I’m not including in this link round up. Consider that my gift to you.

*Today’s links: F. Mediocre links and my abs have still not improved a bit.

Links for 5.9.09: Live Nation loses, The National plays, Mississippi Drift…

*Concerts: Live Nation lost $102.7M in Q1 of this year. Attendance was down 22%. Kind of a lot of money. If we’re using that scale, I basically held even.

*Video: Check out The National playing “Somewhere Around the Bend” on Jimmy Fallon.

*Sponsorship: De La Soul has done one of those commissioned running songs for Nike. It’s called “Are You In?” I only wish eccentric rich people would commission weird-ass songs purely for their own perverted personal pleasures. But that’s just me.

*Economy: Readers tell Money what it’s like to try to live on unemployment checks. Spoiler: It makes you tense.

*Industry: Vevo – the “YouTube for music” hires a CEO. I thought YouTube was the YouTube for music. [silicon alley insider]

*The Internet: Ze Frank on celebrity, identity and proximity. And the internet. And Ashton Kutcher. Spoiler: Ze wishes that Ashton wouldn’t care about him.

*Movies: Read the New Yorker‘s Anthony Lane on “Star Trek.” On J.J. Abrams: “He is the perfect purveyor of fictions to a generation so easily and instinctively jaded that what it craves, above all, is a storyteller who—with or without artistic personality, and regardless of any urge to provoke our thoughts or trouble our easy dreams—will never jade.” With or without artistic personality. HAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa.

*Local: Mississippi Drift – Read this old Harper’s article about modern-day hobos setting off from Minneapolis on a self-made barge. I remember reading this when it first appeared in the magazine and promising myself never to become a river-traveling hobo.

*Today’s links: Zero. New scale, unexplained.

*Question: This blog is coming up on two years of operations. Should it be about music, internet culture or just whatever the fuck I’m interested in? Thank you for your time and attention. I am also happy to take your answers via twitter. Regards.

Links for 2.4.09: Videogames as old books, Hipster run-ons, SWEARING…

*Mixed media: Era-swapping media mashups come to video games. Read up on these games imagined as old-timey books.

*Interviews: The Village Voice talks to Carles of Hipster Runoff, the man who inspired me to create a podcast. Turns out, I’m a shitty podcaster. (Did you know that on-air epigrams just create a whole lot of radio silence? FACT!) A quote from Carles, “I feel like the “Carles” part of HRO is insignificant, and it probably makes the site easier to digest without “some dude” attached to it. It’s more of a naive, bro-like, third-person omniscient tone.” [lots of people!]

*Affection: Kiss Me in 3-D allows shut-ins with 3-D glasses somehow on hand in their homes to pretend to kiss a three dimensional man or woman on their laptop screen. FUN? [pop candy]

*Machines: Ze Frank made a little application that lets you draw with your voice. Here’s what happens when you run some well-known music through it. [waxy]

*Cursing: If you like the eff word, you’ll love reading a transcript of Christian Bale’s recent expletive-filled on-set tirade. (Strongly recommended.)

*TV: Michel Gondry is slated to direct an episode of “Flight of the Conchords.” Throw in Radiohead and Kanye West and you have the four winds of the blogging world, all in one place. (Not sure what that means.) [spincity]

*Blogs: I don’t follow the inside blog game that closely, but it’s interesting that the company is spinning parent blog Babble’s spin-off from sex-blog Nerve as a strong sign for the baby. You’d think buy on sex and sell on sippy cups, but Babble just raised $2M in funding.

*Update: Like Dr. King said, I will overcome. I don’t think he was talking about me, though. And I now he wasn’t referring to my just being really tired.

Links for 1.17.09: Painted books, pictures of records, Legos of history…

*Art: Painting books is a lot like watching videos of phonographs. “In the end, these paintings stand against loss and for reverie, memory, optimism, desire, and love,” says the artist of his work.

*Records: View one woman’s K-Tel record collection through the lens of Flickr. [murketing]

*Film: Pitchfork.tv is allowing access to the movie “Joy Division” in its entirety on their site for the next week. [hypetrak]

*Communications: A website whereupon Ze Frank talks about what he does – Posts are titled “Awareness of Audience” or “Central personae vs. algorithm.”

*Economics: 95% of music downloads are illegal. [tds]

*Politics: Tuesday’s presidential inauguration has been precreated in Legos. (PRECREATED? Did I just? Did I?)

*I feel like I should have added more context to all these links, but I was too tired. If it’s possible for you to do, you should trust me – they’re good. Thank you.

Links for 9.18.08: Metallica beard, Twitter song, Search Engine Rap, and UTTERZ…

*Pictures: Some time in 2006, Blackmocco promised not to shave his beard until Metallica released a new album. He offers the world this Flickr photoset as evidence of his devotion, and has recently shaved his beard. [seriouslyomg]

*Songs: Ze Frank wrote a children’s song for adults. He is tall and has more hair than I do.

*Listening: Yahoo! Music, thanks to a partnership with Rhapsody, now lets curious searchers listen to entire songs for free after searching for tunes. Limits include 25 per month (for more, you have to sign up for Rhapsody) and a limit of 4 songs per artist.

*Blogging: Sergey Brin launches a personal blog (and is at risk for Parkinson’s). [techmeme]

*Video: Entertainment Weekly offers a preview of the Ting Tings on kids’ show Yo Gabba Gabba. [music slut]

*Quiz: Do you know your fictional bands? (Too heavy on the nerdy and nostalgic, rather than the strange and fascinating. [neatorama]

*Geekery (and video): Search Engine Rap Battle – the web site. It’s MSN vs. Google. Are you going to bludgeon me for boring you? Sometimes I worry about that as I’m posting links. [buzzfeed]

*Song: “You’re No One If You’re Not On Twitter.” Also, you’re only 3/5 of a person if you have under 300 followers. Or that is what I’m told. [waxy]

*Followup: Way back in the early days of the Listenerd, I called out a startup called out UTTERZ as having a questionable (though amusing) name, even shouting out (somewhat jokingly) to the Name Inspector (a site run by a dude who helps name companies) for a critique. The Name Inspector obliged, giving the name a mild review, then everyone forgot about Utterz. Now, it turns out Utterz has thought better of their name, and will henceforth be known as Utterli.

Links for 4.11.08: Beards, hairlines, booze and music

*The listenerd is going away for a few days. Please try to amuse yourselves.

*Next to the Beard Font, this is the best thing I’ve seen all day: Black Flag hair timeline. (I’ve been trying to put together a hairline timeline for myself for years. Ugly business.) [daily swarm]

*More listening experience video from Kanye West’s Graduation. “Flashing Lights” meets Wong Kar-Wai. [the playlist]

*Ze Frank is holding a Nerd Rap Battle. [laughing squid]

*Pitchfork hates local boys Tapes ‘n Tapes! [5.9]

*How can this only cost $16? [triumph of bullshit]

*Are bloggers really like rappers?

*My forever favorite font: Beard font. [buzzfeed]

Links for 2.5.08: 50’s political choice, Last.fm’s subscription plans, Kanye’s book…

*Popular music lyrics have a lot of sex and drug references. A lot. (See if you can find the slang term for intercourse and drug use buried in one of the two previous sentences.) [ypulse]

*Ze Frank’s explanation of SXSW (in under one minute! in Facebook!?). [fimoculous]

*This link contains the absolute WORST John Mayer link you will ever see. And it’s not even to one of his songs. DO NOT CLICK ON IT.

*Last.fm to offer two layers of subscription music? Supposedly a $4/month option and a $10/month all-you-can-listen option. [silicon alley insider]

*Kanye West has a book coming out. Nah Right has some excerpts. Not a lot of text.

*Viral success doesn’t necessarily correlate to strong sales in music: a case study.

*In lodging: A Hard Day’s Night is a new hotel in Liverpool that celebrates the Beatles. [buzzfeed]

*50 Cent believes that America is not ready for a black president.

*UNRELATED: High heels boost your sex life? Huh.

*TANGENTIAL: The Triumph of Bullshit (which rules) offers this single-purpose site: AmIAwesome.com.

*LOCAL: The Daily Mole goes underground. Looked bad. Is it my problem that I also do not find MinnPost compelling in the least? Because I am open to that being the issue… [mnspeak]

Links for 11.6.07: Radiohead’s freeloaders, Ticketmaster’s break, Pandora’s friends +

*Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” numbers: 62% paid nothing. Average price (freeloaders included): $2.26. [paid content]

*NPR rolls out its new music site. Very patriotic. Some text on the matter.

*Rolling Stone (2nd mention this week – WHOA) introduces a digital issue. I hate it. [del.icio.us/mediaeater]

*Songza, a music search engine, lets you listen and build playlists as you go. [mashable]

*Slate asks why P. Diddy (and other succesful, high-profile rappers) hasn’t entered into any pro-sampling litigation. Typical Slate. [medialoper]

*Pandora goes social.

*IAC is breaking into 5 different publicly traded companies, and Ticketmaster is one of them.

*Sit on a chair that looks like sound. [information aesthetics]

*Mr. Frank seems a lot more relaxed these days.

The Listenerd’s light posting schedule this week

Yes, things will be light all week on the listenerd, as I will be working 3X as hard as usual on the day job. On the plus side, I’ll probably get to hang with Ze and Bourdain. Pray for me.

Links for 10.12.07: Snocap melts, Bowie dress, Klaxons cover +

*Ouch. CNET reports that Snocap’s laying off 60% of its workforce. They’re angling to be acquired. [via techmeme]

*Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize. The fathers of the MP3 snared a Nobel, too. But more importantly, there is a Nobel Prize Channel on YouTube. [watching TV online]

*From Spin: An imagined “conversation between R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe and chef Mario Batali, if they’d stayed up Wednesday night listening to Radiohead’s In Rainbows in Stipe’s TriBeCa penthouse loft, and later went out for food at an unknown location, possibly where saffron risotto was being served.” [pop candy]

*Free wi-fi at Starbucks soon? One prediction. (The majority of the coffee shops in this town already offer it, so even if I wanted to go to Starbucks, I’d still be getting a bum deal as things currently stand.) [via techmeme]

*If you want to look like David Bowie, shop at Target.

*The Top 10 Rap Songs That White People Love. Huh. But let’s talk for a second about “No Diggity.” (Here’s Klaxons covering the 90s classic. [via musicfilter]

*The A.V. Club interviews Weird Al: “People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?'”

*Ze Frank writes and sings a social networking song. (I’ll be meeting him at a company meeting in a couple days. Weeee!) [waxy]