I was born in Phoenix. Now I'm in Seattle. I'm Jamie Martin

When approaching the art of conch-playing, ambivalence is your worst enemy.
Emily
Hipster Dinosaurs
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Dee Edwards - Why Can’t There Be Love (Pilooski Edit)

What is my Dad trying to tell me with this emoticon? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before. o_O

What is my Dad trying to tell me with this emoticon? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before. o_O

Ask a Real Musician: 5 Classic Metal Singers » 

New York voice teacher Claudia Friedlander provides a classical analysis of these singers.

Almost

  • Leah:  whatcha doinnnn?
  • Jamie:  settlers of catan
  • Jamie:  and singing get up kids
  • Leah:  ...what?
  • Jamie:  it's a board game
  • Leah:  oh
  • Leah:  is that that game where you can die of dysterny or whatever?
Shower-curtain effect » 

In physics, the shower-curtain effect is the phenomenon in which a shower curtain gets blown inward with a running shower.

talenmoe asked: Where do you find out about the music you post here? Im a bit of an outsider to the electro world. But i love almost all the stuff you post here...

Aw thanks! I find the majority of my music via The Hype Machine, last.fm, some subreddits, Mugasha and a couple different podcasts I subscribe to. :)

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson
L'esprit de l'escalier > 

L’esprit de l’escalier (staircase wit) is thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late. The phrase can be used to describe a riposte to an insult or any witty remark that comes to mind too late to be useful.

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Antoine Dodson & The Gregory Brothers - Bed Intruder Song (Subway Funk Drum ‘n Bass Bootleg)

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
Thornton Wilder
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Nico - These Days (Shinichi Osawa Edit)

President Barack Obama jokingly puts his toe on the scale as Trip Director Marvin Nicholson, unaware to the President’s action, weighs himself as the presidential entourage passed through the volleyball locker room at the University of Texas.

President Barack Obama jokingly puts his toe on the scale as Trip Director Marvin Nicholson, unaware to the President’s action, weighs himself as the presidential entourage passed through the volleyball locker room at the University of Texas.