April 2012

Filmmakers: Your work is collaborative. You should know better than to typeset your own titles. Hire a designer. trailers.apple.com/trailers/indep…

Considering putting all my eggs in one basket.

Ken Burns was still finding his voice in 1985, and with Reagan in office, PBS was even more inclined than usual to document its federal benefactor through a few layers of gauze. So it’s not shocking that two thirds of The Statue of Liberty borders on peacetime jingoism, but it is disappointing. I had been hoping to learn about the marvel of engineering and diplomacy that was the statue’s origin, and I did. But in… See more →

The maniacal laughter outside is of true cinematic quality, not your run-of-the-mill lunatic ravings. Still, I’d like to sleep eventually.

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Yuck (13), Fang Island (10) & Low (3) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

“How to Enjoy Turntables Without Obsessing Over Them” does the exact opposite of what it promises. I’m done with vinyl. nytimes.com/2012/04/19/techno…

Radio Time Machine (radiotimemachine.herokuapp.com) is neat, but its use of Billboard charts makes it painful. I’d love a CMJ NMR option. @westervelt?

Brooklyn, I love you, but can we talk about the wind?

Now atop all friend leaderboards in Spelltower. Resuming life.

Oh, hey, here’s an interview @aarron did with me about the musician templates I recently designed for @Mailchimp: mailchimp.com/musician-templ…

Phantom hair syndrome.

Um holy shit Refused.

Anymore, if I get addicted to an iOS game, I look forward to it being bought by Zynga so I’ll be forced to never play it again.

Looking at text messages I’ve sent to @hoyboy, which consist almost exclusively of photos of pancakes.

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Municipal Waste (61), Kraftwerk (56) & Archers of Loaf (51) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

Beer o’clock. instagr.am/p/JqNFqzhMxK/

To eat peanut butter toast with an oversized beard without looking like a toddler who has ravaged a birthday cake is to be godlike.

First time I’ve listened to Use Your Illusion in close to two decades. It is still a total mess. Give me Appetite or give me death.

In an article for Smithsonian magazine, renowned magician Teller (of the duo Penn & Teller) offers a handful of guiding principles for altering an audience’s perceptions. This one is my favorite:

Make the secret a lot more trouble than the trick seems worth. You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest.

This is the stuff great… See more →

A new comment recently appeared on an old Windhammer YouTube video, and it deserves to be a t-shirt: “LOVE LIKE A WINDRAMMER AS YOU FUCK”

Once @fiftythree’s Paper can behave more like its namesake, it’ll be great. For now, latency and multitouch clumsiness are too frustrating.

My latest contribution to @thepastrybox is a quick thought about design as sleight of hand. the-pastry-box-project.net/rob-weychert/2…

The guitar won’t let me out of the house. Send help.

Yep, it’s @jessiarrington’s birthday. instagr.am/p/JfY02NhMw6/

This afternoon is looking up. instagr.am/p/JfP3HAhM-b/

Working out the definition of “bloodfuck”.

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: The Smiths (106), The Delgados (12) & Madness (11) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

“Oh, hi Mark.”

Great night catching up with @endashes, who was an asshole in college.

Dramatically restructuring a business model is no small task, but come on, the magazine publishers aren’t even trying. nytimes.com/2012/04/12/techno…

Any refusal to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Lame gets an unconditional thumbs up from me. facebook.com/notes/guns-n-ros…

Editors, take note. Please.

It’s hard to get annoyed at the juror summons when the county clerk’s name is Nancy Sunshine.

Tried to tolerate Scarface crammed into 1.33:1 for twenty-six minutes before giving up in disgust.

“This film has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit this screen.” I’m watching it anyway and I hate myself.

First time watching Scarface. I hear this dude gets high on his own supply.

The day has come. @mike_ftw’s new book, Design Is a Job, is available. I have read it. It is so, so good. abookapart.com/products/desig…

Every Amtrak Acela Express train I have ever taken arrived at its destination very, very late, if it arrived at all.

What is it about coffee shops and shitty covers of great songs? (@ Starbucks w/ @AaronGustafson) 4sq.com/HrMqyy

Outstanding piece by @shamblanderson, examining a phenomenon that has long troubled me, which he calls “stupid games”. nytimes.com/2012/04/08/magazi…

All Apple/journalism/etc issues aside, don’t you just want to kick Mike Daisey in the shins every time he says “the theater”?

Okay, allergies, I get it. You’re a bad man. I won’t cross you. Can we be done now, please?

Until I get a stylus to use with Paper (for iPad), I’ll just draw this over and over again. paper.fiftythree.com

If I knew the exact day I fully understood what a waste of energy it is to resent others’ good fortune, I’d celebrate it like a birthday.

This is so wonderful. A panoramic time lapse view of everything Jimmy Stewart sees through his window in Rear Window: vimeo.com/37120554

If you are not yet a fan of @mSutters’s distinctive, grotesque genius, it is never too late to start. birthdaystreet.com/2012/04/ha…

If there were more Star Wars movies, we would eventually find out that everyone else is also related to Luke.

If I ever met a mind reader, their restraint was admirable.

Fun fact: @jasonsantamaria didn’t know I was in this photo when he captured it. instagr.am/p/I8PcbJgZ44/

The last four days:

1. Andrew WK show #11.
2. Batman party. Everyone was Batman.
3. Easter egg dyeing.
4. Andrew WK show #12.

Not bad.

As of today, I have lived in Brooklyn longer than I lived in Cambridge.

The movie can wait. We have a cat and a pizza box.

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Scream (31), Joe Pass (26) & The Mars Volta (13) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…