July 2012

Found Facebook e-mail notifications – which are disabled – in my spam folder. Gmail knows my Facebook preferences better than Facebook does.

Someone dropped an orange Jujube on the floor of the rental truck. Must… resist…

“‘Hipster’ is just a word people use to describe others who are having more fun than they are.” gawker.com/5930215/?comme…

Wanted to port my old song reviews from iLike to @Rdio, but the former is gone and took my stuff with it. Sigh: contentsmagazine.com/data/

After trying it today, I am baffled by the number of people who listen to music with earbuds on the subway. You can’t hear shit.

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Baroness (36), Naked Raygun (30) & Purity Ring (28) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

After a month of intermittent travel/vacation, @kellianderson’s inspiring @creativemorning talk was just what I needed to get back to work.

How the fuck did we ever survive an election year before we had Jon Stewart?

On a train from Southampton to Brooklyn with @cr8tonmershon, eating the tasty lunch @jessiarrington packed for us. Life is good.

The “Daughters of Triton” cutoff haunts me. How would Ariel have continued the song? Get on it, fan fictioners. rd.io/x/QFyuKwTO7g

As I slept last night, someone apparently filled my body in on the details of what I put it through this weekend, and it is not pleased.

Home in Brooklyn after three nights in Denver with some of the most magnificent kooks I know. Thanks for another great season, @usairguitar.

The number six air guitarist in the USA is now leaving Denver. (@ Denver International Airport (DEN) w/ 117 others) 4sq.com/LHpGMN

Summer camp is drawing to a close. #USAirGuitar

Airistotle (@aYo_MattBurns) is your 2012 @usairguitar Champion! Our little guy is (sort of) all growed up! I am beaming with pride.

For the record, I did not deserve scores as good as I got in round one.

Showtime. (@ Bluebird Theater for The Us Air Guitar Championships – 2012 National Finals w/ 6 others) 4sq.com/MBRfZe

Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! @ Bluebird Theater instagr.am/p/NXGgxkhM_8/

Somehow I never noticed how much of a tramp Ms. Pac-Man is. @ The 1up instagr.am/p/NWz8X1BMxv/

Ours is an age of cultural cannibalism. We have rather suddenly gained very convenient access to nearly the whole of human history’s significant creative output, and we are remixing it with careless abandon. We have introduced The Beatles to Jay-Z, Jane Austen to George Romero, and Abraham Lincoln to Bram Stoker. If something gets a modicum of attention online, it can count on being Photoshopped, captioned, auto-tuned, GIF’ed, pickled, bronzed, or arranged for ukulele and… See more →

Whoa. instagr.am/p/NUGlBhzfxJ/

My latest contribution to @thepastrybox, about remix culture’s critical mass: the-pastry-box-project.net/rob-weychert/2…

For those concerned, my @usairguitar friends and I here in Denver were not at last night’s tragic Batman screening.

Flew west just in time for NYC to cool off and Denver to heat up.

Somehow got bumped up to first class. All travel griping suspended until further notice.

Lady in obscenely long line: “Maybe we should have eaten after going through security.” Oh, do you think?

Sweet Jesus, La Guardia is a shit show. 4sq.com/MaXNtu

On the train to the train to the train to the bus to the plane to Denver.

How cool would it have been if Refused’s “Fallon” performance incorporated The Roots? Still, they were great, as usual. feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pitchfork…

People of NYC: Windhammer needs you. Who has clippers and wants to shave my head today? I’ll buy you a beer or something like it.

The highlight of @ChamberMonster’s commentary for this year’s Gathering of the Juggalos infomercial: “Well, they all enunciate very well.”

Very, very sad we lost our little friend yesterday, but glad she passed comfortably at home. Rest in peace, Sweeps. instagr.am/p/Ln4OFqBMwP

For an @IFTTT recipe that creates new tweets based on another user’s tweets, is there a way to skip tweets with @ mentions? /cc @bekkapalmer

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: 7Seconds (30), Tomahawk (24) & Shudder To Think (19) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

Today was a fine day in Coney Island with cherished chums, heated dogs, iced creams, and rollers of both the coaster and derby varieties.

Thought about getting tickets to one of Jay-Z’s inaugural Barclays Center concerts. All eight shows sold out instantly.

For future reference, in case there is any confusion about what I’m doing in a padded cell: drbl.in/eDYD

So who wants to go with me to see Def Leppard at Jones Beach tomorrow night? (Poison and Lita Ford are also playing, if that helps.)

Tonight’s edition of Summertime Brooklyn Decision Fatigue: free movie in the park (To Kill a Mockingbird) or free punk show (7 Seconds)?

On my most successful 7-Eleven Day run (in 2009 with @iamrumz and @jyllish), I consumed a half gallon’s worth of free Slurpees.

This is the one day of the year that brings to the fore my sole regret in moving to NYC: its paucity of 7-Elevens. newsfeed.time.com/2012/07/11/fre…

Zip-It proves love and hate are the same thing. Concurrent dry-heaving revulsion and tremendous satisfaction. Get one. zipitclean.com

Whoever you are, and whatever you do, take a few minutes to read this piece by @kissane. You’ll be glad you did. incisive.nu/2012/how-to-ki…

My thoughts on Moonrise Kingdom: boxd.it/hye1

My official coverage of the 2012 @usairguitar Washington DC Regional Championship: usairguitar.com/dc-the-sexy-bo…

My official coverage of the 2012 @usairguitar NYC Regional Championship: usairguitar.com/dc-dont-fret-s…

Back online after a lovely vacation. Sleeves rolled up.

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Rodrigo y Gabriela (11), Van Halen (7) & Beastie Boys (5) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

Though he occasionally rises above it, Wes Anderson’s real great talent is in actively, counter-intuitively preventing an emotional connection between character and audience. I have never seen anyone work so hard to undermine his own ostensible goals. In spite of the delight his twee aesthetic elicits from his fan base, Anderson’s characters tend to be lifeless props populating meticulously constructed dioramas which were designed to be admired from the outside.

If being emotionally impenetrable truly… See more →

My Top 2 #lastfm Artists: Trans Am (10) & Nine Inch Nails (1) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…