October 2008
37 posts
Oct 31st
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ListenMisfits - Halloween Bonfire’s burning...
Oct 31st
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Top Hops and Chops VC is from Los Angeles?
To my VC friends from various cities, a reminder to make sure your next trip to Seattle is on a Thursday night. hopsandchops: #1 VC attendee?  Palamor Ventures Associate Adam Gottesfeld.  Runner Up?  Randall Lucas of Voyager Capital (here in Seattle).  Really, a Los Angeles VC is top attendee?!?  Let’s go, Madrona — we know you can pick it up!
Oct 31st
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ListenEels - Things The Grandchildren Should Know I...
Oct 30th
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“MP3 bloggers aren’t pirates; they’re enthusiasts, who encourage you to buy music...”
– Nick Hornby via NYT. Point #2 is interesting… Like the samples at Costco, there are definitely mp3’s that i’ll happily consume but would never buy. That said, I always come home with something. I love the quote from Heather too. IAFYAF is my favorite (non-tumblr) music blog.
Oct 30th
Oct 28th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-26) →
The Mountain Goats  The Manhattan Love Suicides  The Smiths  Eels  Diplo  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 26th
Oct 26th
ListenSara Quin w/ Kaki King - Sweetness Follows ...
Oct 24th
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Free Eels EP →
Follow the link to download a free eels ep (or to buy me the $205 fancy deluxe vinyl release of “blinking lights and other revelations”)
Oct 24th
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“blogging and reblogging and talking about music is one of the many pleasures of...”
– Fred Wilson
Oct 21st
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ListenThe Manhattan Love Suicides - Jonny Boy TMLS get...
Oct 21st
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-19) →
Lucinda Williams  Belle and Sebastian  Okkervil River  Band of Horses  Jenny Lewis  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 20th
ListenCarter Tanton - Red Balloons (Live @ KEXP) I...
Oct 20th
Oct 19th
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ListenWhiskeytown - Nervous Breakdown An Alt-Country...
Oct 18th
Oct 18th
CameraBag →
There are surprisingly few good iPhone photo apps. This one looks pretty cool… courtneyj: cubicle17: I found this iPhone app through Dave Shea, and I couldn’t be happier that I did. A relatively simple app, CameraBag uses the iPhone’s camera to take pictures in the style of a few famous lo-fi cameras, a famous photographer, or some generic film styles. In short, this app turns the...
Oct 18th
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Hulu's 500 Error
They should have a montage of Nelson’s “Ha-Ha“‘s for 403 Forbidden errors. huge: Hulu.com - 500 Error Hulu’s Server Error page is awesome
Oct 18th
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R.I.P. Mother's Cookies →
Mother’s Cookies, the nearly 100 year-old company behind those kind of gross, but oh so comforting, frosted animal crackers, has shut down. A sad day in cookiedom.
Oct 15th
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Tumblr 101 on TeachStreet
Now that I’m working at TeachStreet, I figured it was time to start teaching and learning! I haven’t decided what I want to learn first, but for my first class I thought I’d choose something close to home (home being this tumblelog, of course!). So, if you’re in Seattle, and you want to learn how to get started with your own tumblr account, check out my new class: Getting...
Oct 15th
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Startup Profile - TeachStreet →
The Seattle 2.0 Blog starts off its startup profiles series with a great writeup on TeachStreet (and there’s even a mention of Hops & Chops at the end!)
Oct 14th
Oct 14th
Oct 13th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-12) →
Belle and Sebastian  Okkervil River  The White Stripes  DeVotchKa  Aqualung  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 12th
Oct 11th
ListenBelle & Sebastian - The Blues are Still Blue...
Oct 11th
Listenthemusic: Johnny Cash & Bonny Prince Billy -...
Oct 10th
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WatchWatch
Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn For those of you who don’t frequent my usual hangouts, where this has been posted widely, this is a must-view presentation from one of the premier VC firms on the financial situation, where we are, and how we got here.
Oct 10th
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ListenAqualung - Slip Slidin’ Away I...
Oct 10th
Happy Hour Tonight!
hopsandchops: If you’re in the area, stop by Linda’s between 6:30 and 8:30 tonight. We’ll be at the big table upstairs! If you’re not available tonight, don’t worry. Hops and Chops is at the same place, same time, every week…
Oct 10th
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Oct 5th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-10-5) →
Jenny Lewis  Vampire Weekend  Conor Oberst  Talking Heads  Daft Punk  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 5th
What's Your Tumblr Number?
I started using tumblr in October of last year, and am number 104,234. TheMusic was created in June, and is number 308,953. Hops & Chops, which was created 3 weeks ago, is number 420,365. bijan: JoeLaz is a clever soul. He figured out the numbering method for each Tumblr site. That means JoeLaz.com was the 18,189th site created on Tumblr.  A total of 442,648 sites have been created to...
Oct 3rd
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Trying out EveryTrail
walk to work My walk to work as recorded by Everytrail, an iPhone app that records the route that you travel, lets you take pictures along the way, and puts it all onto a map for you.
Oct 2nd