May 2011

Thirty seconds into the new Tombs record, I was buying tickets to their NYC show next week. n.pr/iQtoEr (via @kevinmhoffman)

Since I always imagine my building’s superintendent and his pals are hanging out in my place when I’m gone, I try to keep it tidy for them.

Briefly stranded with arepas in Williamsburg en route to Queens while @meganborn’s second flat of the day (!) is fixed.

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Blind Guardian (28), Big Star (26) & Art Brut (15) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

It is a riot grrrl afternoon. @ChamberMonster would be proud.

Just finished proofing @bearskinrug’s new book. It is his Ulysses. To say you’re in for a treat would be a criminal understatement.

Now would be a bad time to grant me wishes, because my first wish would be for @pitchforkmedia to stop treating every band name as a plural.

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Arab Strap (24), Queen (14) & Cat Power (14) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

Your daily reminder that intellectual property law is fucked.

After years of failed attempts, my personal logo came together over the course of just three days. drbl.in/bmOB

Done. It’s not optimized for this pixel resolution, but the vector is finalized. Since the last version:

1. The bowl of the R has gotten a tiny bit shorter, so the counter’s height corresponds to that of the bottom of the stem.
2. The initials sit just a bit larger inside the circle, and they’re cheated a smidge above the actual center to align with the optical center (per Travis’s comment).

I’m sure there’s more nitpicking I could… See more →

Rest in peace, Macho Man Randy Savage. My youth would have been far less colorful without you and your compatriots.

If you own a car with an alarm, let me know where you are and then start cutting yourself. I’ll be there soon to help.

Locked up. I may still get more OCD about the R’s proportions (the height of the bowl is still somewhat arbitrary, for example). But I also may not.

The biblical calendar math used to find the Rapture’s exact date is begging for some datavis love. Somebody get on that. Before Saturday.

My lack of a logo, though not really a liability, has been gnawing at me for years. So I started doing some sketches today, and before long I had a rougher version of what you see here. It won’t stop anyone in their tracks, but I think what it lacks in distinction it makes up for in austere strength, and it’s built from the kind of geometry that informs my general aesthetic. It’s also a… See more →

TING-A-LING, YOU SON OF A BITCH!!

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Tyler, The Creator (29), Jesu (20) & The Besnard Lakes (17) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

One thing I don’t like about the iPad is how often I fall asleep on the couch now.

If the first season of The Twilight Zone is any indication, Rod Serling was terrified of being alone.

If you have ever bobbed your head, tapped your foot, or whistled a tune, you are a dancer.

Holy shit. Not only is she a woman, but she’s also deaf, and somehow she is able to ride motocross. Is there a genie in that Red Bull can?

A recreation of how I presume @fchimero’s flight into NYC this morning went: yfrog.com/h4obbncj

Check out what the newspaper of record has to say about my @studiomates: nyti.ms/msznjv

I saw this at SXSW. It’s fantastic.

Was anyone else surprised to learn that Osama bin Laden hadn’t died years ago?

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Low (24), Daughters (16) & Clockcleaner (15) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

Watching Basic Instinct 2. As far as I can tell, the entirety of the script goes, “What’s up, motherfuckers?! Basic Instinct, bitch!”