by Marissa on 9 April 2010
The “Friday Menagerie†is a handful of links & tweets & other goodnesses from around the web that I gather throughout the week and then corral into a post. Stuff I loved, found fascinating, got a kick out of, etc. Please to enjoy! When Links Were Young You know what rocks? Intersections. Not necessarily the [...]
by Marissa on 30 November 2009
The Monday Mashup is an experiment, designed to get my creative juices flowing. I get a random word and a random number, and I write a list based on that mashup. I’m not going to require myself to make the list perfect or expert–just requiring myself to do it consistently. At least for now. This [...]
by Marissa on 18 June 2009
My uncle Paul (my Dad’s bro) plays rhythm guitar in a rock cover band called Liberty’s Teeth. And they’re pretty fantastic. The band is often booked to play at bars and nightclubs, though they also have several bookings for weddings and parties too. I got to see them play for the first time at an [...]
by Marissa on 25 May 2007
My favorite of the Worst is Devastatin’ Dave, The Turntable Slave. I bet this is the kind of humor kids of 35 years from now will get over looking at the American Idol offerings. Except for Carrie Underwood and Daughtry. Because they will still be awesome.
by Marissa on 14 May 2007
I think the physical presence of scratchable vinyl or unspoolable tapes, or the extremely kitten-vulnerable compact disc, is what gave us — particularly Metallica — the idea that sounds are something you can hold in your hand. I think that’s why kids don’t get intellectual property fighting, because songs don’t exist in three dimensions again, [...]
by Marissa on 30 April 2007
Bjork is music for people who think they’re supposed to like hip, trendy stuff but don’t know the first thing about quality music. – Dan Carlson
by Marissa on 23 April 2006
If our last semester of law school were set to a musical soundtrack, a la MTV’s reality shows with their unending musical interpretations of whatever’s going on with the castmembers, here’s what the soundtrack would be. (I’m listing the song title, artist, and then my own “reasons” for including the song in the compilation. Because, [...]
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