From new CDC research:
“…the likelihood of lighting up can skyrocket or plunge depending on where you live. In Utah, where smoking goes against social and religious norms, the rate is just 9%. In health conscious California it’s a mere 14%. But in the tobacco country of West Virginia, however, 27% of adults smoke. And in [...]

I’ve found that one really fun way to watch this video is watching through it (like you look at a “Magic Eye”) and pretending Andy Warhol shot it.
I’m sure these’ll all come down really soon (part 2), knowing Prince’s notorious rule over his virtual dominion–but I hope not (he is having a change of heart [...]

Via B-Boy Limping:
[B-BOY]: so yesterday i was at this fashion party
[B-BOY]: and this gross guy was hitting on me and my friend
[OHMYGODYOUGUYS]: ack
[B-BOY]: and he asked what we did for a living
[B-BOY]: and the best lie i could come up with was “mathematician.”
[B-BOY]: MATHEMATICIAN
[OHMYGODYOUGUYS]: haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
[B-BOY]: i had no [...]

“Canadian folk icon Gordon Lightfoot is alive and well, says the singer’s long-time friend, despite rumours to the contrary which spread quickly on Twitter and were picked up by some mainstream media outlets.”
Still though, it’s never not a good time for “Sundown.”  This is what I get for blogging.

From the Department of Attempted Musical Distinctions:
“‘If 37 people in California logged on to your MySpace page last month, you can argue that you provide goods or services in California,’ even if you’re a Connecticut band who hasn’t released an album or toured out of state, says Atlanta lawyer Joel R. Feldman of Greenberg Traurig [...]

After being hipped to this song by Matthew way back in the day, and hipping significant numbers of my friends to same (you can easily fit it in yr basic dancefloor mix with no loss), I’m interested at the remake. What started as a Mark Ronson-esque, very 00s idea of retro-soul pop is now [...]

Time, space: they’re all here.  Alternate quote: “The Earth, and every living thing, are made of star stuff.“

I’m assuming someone out there remembers these?  Mark Goodman (who coined the unpleasant neologism “stereoize”) was plugging them like crazy on the first day the network aired.  I think they were stickers (?) you could affix to yr FM tuner, so as to remember what dial position at which you might play MTV IN STEREO [...]

In 2008, I attended an academic conference called “Exploring New Media Worlds,” at which I gave a paper on mp3 bloggers, record labels, affective labor, and so forth.  My panel were all discussing similar ways in which music was working itself out online, and the audience had a bunch of interesting questions.  After the session [...]