January 2013

No one is exactly who you think they are.

The stupid storm that kept me up all night actually brought more obnoxious wind to my neighborhood than Hurricane Sandy did.

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Wilson Pickett (51), Alabama Shakes (35) & Sam Cooke (31) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

Sending out a press release announcing the names of the songs on your forthcoming album is just talking to hear yourself talk.

Sometimes I am genuinely impressed by how quickly and arbitrarily a bad mood can emerge and completely take over.

If there are fewer than five artists at Coachella that I’m interested in seeing, I feel like I’m doing something right.

Can anyone point me toward a good crash course on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Book, article, documentary?

Birds shitting while in flight: efficient or lazy?

Excavated the iPhone headphone jack lint wad with glue on a pinhead. Probably a bad idea, but all seems to be working. /cc @warrenparsons

Big wad of pocket lint jammed all the way down my iPhone headphone jack. Tried all the recommended extraction methods to no avail. Help?

Planning a Rambo-style montage video of myself donning all the layers this frigid weather demands. youtube.com/watch?v=O9krNo… youtube.com/watch?v=R37IyV…

Four “correctly” misspelled artists in today’s new releases on @Rdio, all hip hop (e.g. “Little Wayne”). Disgruntled English teacher/hacker?

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Dead Kennedys (44), Chelsea Wolfe (33) & Alabama Shakes (24) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

While we’re talking constitutional amendments, can I get one to keep these dipshits on a mission from God from ringing my doorbell?

If you ever need someone on your side, I recommend @jessiarrington. instagram.com/p/UmbRU5yWr1/

Anyone else have an iPad bug that brings the keyboard up on top of the active text area, covering it instead of pushing it up?

Does @Grantland33 insist its writers make excessive use of footnotes/asides? Is the David Foster Wallace fanboy demographic that valuable?

Oh, hey, @thepastrybox is going to be a book, and you should get in on it: backified.com/pastry-box-201…

Made a playlist called A Dead Kennedys Primer (rd.io/x/QFyuL1wKKg) and wrote a bunch about it (robweychert.com/writing/dead-k…).

My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Trans Am (45), Death Cab for Cutie (38) & Alabama Shakes (35) tweekly.fm/twitter/robweycher…

You only have to substitute one letter to make Michael Jackson say, “I’m sharting with the man in the mirror.”

During a recent discussion about karaoke, I confessed that one of my favorite songs to sing when it’s available (which is more often than you’d think) is “Too Drunk to Fuck” by the San Francisco Bay Area punk legends Dead Kennedys. Virtually no one is expecting to hear it, and it elicits precisely the sort of slack-jawed amusement and/or horror I like to see in a karaoke audience.

My friend Tyler, who was a Bay… See more →

Damn, this Alabama Shakes record is great. I’m late to the party, but I’m glad I made it.

Reached that point when I have just been staring at the evening’s work on the screen for an hour or so. Time to go home and eat something.

Spiffy new, responsive @abookapart site. I helped out, but @jasonsantamaria and @destroytoday were the real magicians. abookapart.com

Just completed a grocery run of epic frugality. I shall henceforth be known as Frugo, Savior of Dollars.

Social media is for closers.

“The best designers and developers rarely have more talent. They simply have more time.” —@andybudd the-pastry-box-project.net/clearleft/2013…

Thankful that just when I can’t bear any more NFL blather, I am treated to the return of its antithesis, Downton Abbey.

Attention Brooklyn Restaurateurs: It is time the market value of your offerings was reassessed.

The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father CIA Spymaster William Colby has put me to sleep twice now. Shit is bone dry. I give up.

My Best of 2012 film list on @letterboxd: letterboxd.com/robweychert/li…

I only saw 32 new movies in 2012, and while plenty were good, none of them particularly blew my mind. With a few exceptions, I steered clear of big budget studio fare and stuck mostly to documentaries and unassuming indies. There were several critical darlings of different shapes and sizes that probably would have made my year-end list if I had gotten around to seeing them, but I didn’t. From what I did see, I… See more →

Winter doesn’t really have much to offer me after New Year’s Day.