whole brevity thing
the dude abides (bryan jones)Archive for in my heart
the fringe connection
Photo Credit - some dude named Joel
Mecca. Shangri-La. Heaven. Call it what you will, Austin, TX is a very special place. There’s this vibe to Austin that is unlike any other place. I was raised an hour down the road from Austin in San Antonio, and this urbanized hippie hollow has always been special to me.
A couple of days ago, I found myself back in the holy land for few hours. This was a work trip, but c’mon, I couldn’t pass up a chance to slip into Waterloo Records (Quick visual – think High Fidelity with a little more heart) for an hour or so. Sweet Providence, there was vinyl everywhere, an entire wall dedicated to Texas Brewed music and I even found a limited edition 10th Anniversary Big Lebowski DVD Set. Life was good.
Reconnecting with my musical roots reminded me that I’ve been meaning to post a mixtape of the tracks that I’ve been living with all summer long. I know that the folks in my office are ready for me to move on to some different music, but, I go back to this playlist at least every other day.
Whole Brevity Thing - Summer 2008 Mixtape
You can download the entire mix here. [ZIP]
- When Water Comes To Life / Cloud Cult
- White Winter Hymnal (Black Dominoes remix) / Fleet Foxes
- A-Punk / Vampire Weekend
- Fools / The Dodos
- Bag Of Hammers / Thao [MP3]
- Lolita / Throw Me The Statue
- Like It Or Not (Version 2) / Architecture In Helsinki
- Pork and Beans / Weezer
- I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You / Black Kids [MP3]
- Crawl / Kings Of Leon
- Them Kids / Sam Roberts
- Right Hand On My Heart / The Whigs
- In A Cave / Tokyo Police Club
- Great DJ / The Ting Tings
- Death To Los Campesinos! / Los Campesinos!
- The Good Old Days / The Lodger
- 5 Years Time / Noah And The Whale
- Tonight I Have to Leave It / Shout Out Louds
- Abandon / French Kicks
- Black Fur / Fredrik
- Heretics (Early Version) / Andrew Bird [MP3]
- First Sight / These United States
- Sunshine / Paul Westerberg
Merry End of Summer!
I’m out of words now…
bullit(proof)
Reckless Kelley - Bulletproof
If you’re not a Reckless Kelly fan yet, I’m about to change that. Bulletproof, their first studio recording in three years dropped this summer, and it has grown on me so much that it’s now my favorite album of the 2008. It’s also my favorite Reckless album.
Rebellious alt-country never sounded so good.
Here are a couple of tracks for you to sample with the understanding that if you dig ‘em, you’ll go out and buy the full album at your dealer of choice. C’mon folks, support independent music!
Ragged As The Road (mp3)
Passin’ Through (mp3)
I’m out of words now…
the willinator
a.k.a. The Big Show
We have this Christmas tradition of covering the tree with coupons after the kids have finally hit the rack on Christmas Eve. These personalized coupons cover things like “Sipping @ Starbucks with Mom” or “Donuts with Dad” (that one seems to be re-usable) and they’re cashed in throughout the year.
Last Sunday, my littlest little dude cashed in his “Build Me a Blog” coupon. He was the last in the family to stake a flag in the world wide interweb, but he jumped in with gusto.
He picked the theme, name, and his header image in all of 2 minutes.
Then, it was time to write the first post. “Will,” I said, “what do you say when you meet someone…what do you tell them about yourself?”
“Uhhh…Oh! I know! I say ‘Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father prepare to die.’”
Excellent. He is already speaking in movies. For his about page, I asked him what his blog was going to be about.
My pride cup runneth over. Hop on over to The Willinator and check out his site.
I’m out of words now…
…One more thing… The Willinator found a perfect youtube clip to sum himself up. But there was a problem since there’s a bit of swearing at the end of the clip. We couldn’t let him put the clip on his site… but this clip is extraawesome, and I couldn’t pass on it. I mean, c’mon, it’s Inigo Montoya wielding a lightsaber!
Cheers!
office space
New newsy news! Later this week, flairification.com will finally launch.
flairification is the latest addition to this little of blog consortium I’ve been building over the last year or so.
Here is the rundown:
wholebrevitything.com – just one dude’s slice of life.
extraawesome.com – my collection of cool found on the interwebs.
adfeed.extraawesome.com – OPP (other people’s posts) about advertising.
flairification.com – truth well flaired: a place where I can write about advertising, thereby saving wholebrevitything from shop talk.
I hope flairification turns into a place where lots of folks can post, and add thier perspective on advertising. Like SB’s appreciation of Target’s latest 30 second spot. So feel free to be a guest writer of the flair.
It’s after 3AM now, and I’m out of words…
castaway
“If you were stranded on a desert island for the rest of your life, what three items would you want to have with you?”
We’ve all been asked that question. Sometimes the game is narrowed down to books, or movies, or albums or… you get the drift. Here is my list of non-negotiable essentials for a stranded life. This list is comprised of things that are completely the opposite of the extraneous items available via SkyMall. … Read the rest of this entry »
all of me
Today is another day forcing me to realize how old I am. Seriously, I’m ready to move to Hot Springs Village and buy a WebTV. (They’re still around. I know because in January, we had to reformat a site to be operate on one)
On this day back in 1993, Sarabeth Mahnken foolishly stood up in front of a jury of her peers, and exchanged vows with me. OK, so we had more than 12 in our bridal party…there were 16, and I’m not including our beloved ushers and the other 2nd string attendants. It was a big crew. … Read the rest of this entry »
