![[mix tape] J.D. Amato Wakes Us Up!](http://nonpretentious.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/jdcover.png)
1derful Seconds from J.D. Amato on Vimeo. Filmmakers see the world differently than most. It’s their gift. Judging by his work, J.D. Amato‘s world is colorful and tightly edited. It’s surreal and fanciful but based in reality. (Note: Even the cover to his mix-tape is bright!) Give him a small space, limited characters (see:...
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Tags: 1derful Seconds, alarm clock, Big Sky, Birdhouse in Your Soul, Cellular Welkin, Chapter Project, Chilly Down, colorful, craigslist, Danger Don Rogers, David Bowie, Decollage, director, Gum Drops, Hering illusion, Hermann Grid, Hi Hi Hello, Hot Sugar, Illinois, Inverse Video, jd amato, Kevin Bewersdorf, Labyrinth, Les Balayeurs Du Desert, M83, Michael Jackson, mix tape, Nektar, Ninja High School, Oingo Boingo, Optical illusion illusions, post-racial Jackson, Red Doyle, Rick Wakeman, Robot Quest, Shake It Off, short films, Sir Lancelot and the Black Knight, Take This Up in Fisticuffs, That's Life, The Beggar and the Marionette (Loutky), The Face of YouTube, The Kinks, The Shooting Death Of..., They Might Be Giants, Tinted, Tisch, TRS-80, Uncle Monsterface, We Close Our Eyes, What Do You Want From Me Now, Wilmette
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![[mix tape] Martin Starr Paints You a Mix](http://nonpretentious.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Picture-1-300x162.png)
In our world, only two types of people exist: 1) Those who take the “Which Freaks & Geeks Character Are You?” quiz and pray for Bill Haverchuck; and 2) Those who have no idea who Bill Haverchuck is. Needless to say, we prefer to hang out with the first type. We also suggest a...
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Tags: 5 Years Time, Adventureland, Benjamin Gibbard, Bill Haverchuck, Bon Iver, Brenton Wood, Brother Ali, Carolina, Common Rotation, Custom Concern, Doo Right, dreams, Everyday, Flobots, Forest Whitaker, Freaks and Geeks, geeks, Human Highway, Ice Dogs, Ingrid Michaelson, Judd Apatow, Kate Micucci, Knocked Up, Little Brother, Love Love Love, Man Man, Martin Starr, Met, Michael Jackson, Mike Doughty, Modest Mouse, Move On, Noah and the Whale, Novelists, On My Block, Oogum Boogum, Out the Door, Party Down, pipe, Queen Sheba, Russian literature, Scarface, Serge Gainsbourg, Skinny Love, Spoon, Stand Up, The Girl is Mine, The Mountain Goats, The National, The Sound, The Underdog, Treats, Vetiver, With My Trumpet in My Hand, Writing W/ Rifles, You and I, You've Done It Again Virginia
Posted in Film, TV, [mix tape] | 16 Comments »
![[mix tape] IndyHall’s Alex Hillman Knows Karaoke](http://nonpretentious.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/alex.png)
IndyHall's Alex Hillman Knows Karaoke (2009.07)
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Tags: Barenaked Ladies, beastie boys, Billie Jean, Billy Joel, Bohemian Rhapsody, books, Chuck Berry, Citizen Space, co-working, DJ Joe, Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Don't Stop Believing, Elton John, Emma Persky, Faith, Fight for your Right, Geoff DiMasi, George Michael, Happy Cog, I Touch Myself, IgnitePhilly, Imagine, IndyHall, Jessie's Girl, John Lennon, Johnny B Goode, Journey, karaoke, Kiki Dee, kiss, Like a Prayer, Lovefool, Madonna, Michael Jackson, mixtape, My own worst enemy, National Mechanics, Neil Diamond, One Week, Piano Man, Prince, Queen, rick springfield, Sweet Caroline, Tara Hunt, The Beatles, the Cardigans, the Divinyls, The Wuffie Factor, Tony B Goode, Twist & Shout, whuffaoke, whuffie
Posted in Music, [mix tape] | 2 Comments »
![[mix tape] Sasha is a (music) Monster](http://nonpretentious.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/sasha.png)
nonpretentious contributors have been Sasha Pasulka fans for a long time.¹ For folks like us, bloggers with extra letters – like B.A., B.S., J.D., M.A., Ph.D., M.D. – after their names, Sasha is a role model. Here’s a girl who traded in her job working on this for an opportunity to work on this.² ...
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Tags: A Beautiful Life, Blue Skies, Carey, Charlotte Martin, Counting Crows, Dark Blue, Diamond in the Rough, Did We Not Chose Each Other, Dirty Diana, dropkick murphys, ecstasy, Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom), Evil Beet Gossip, Gravel/Ani DiFranco, Hawthorne Heights, Jack's Mannequin, Joni Mitchell, kanye west, Kevin Rudolf, Lindsay Lohan, media mogul, Metro Station, Michael Jackson, Missy Higgins, mix tapes, mixtape, monster, Niki FM, nyc, Ode to Divorce, Regina Spektor, Rusted Root, Sasha Pasulka, Scar, Shawn Colvin, Singer-songwriter, Sophie B. Hawkins, Stromata, Taxi Ride, Tori Amos, Up All Night, Wish We Were Older, Zelda Lily
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With Michael Jackson’s death, Perez Hilton’s reporting of Michael Jackson’s death, and reporting on Twitter’s reporting of Michael Jackson’s death, it’s hard to think that anything else went on in the world this week. Die hard cultural connoisseurs may have caught glimpse that Farrah Fawcett also passed away, the NBA draft occurred, the Supreme...
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Tags: Chris Anderson, Farrah Fawcett, Iraq, Michael Jackson, NBA, school search, Virginia Quarterly Review, Wired Magazine, Writing
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Sad but true. Living legend Phil Spector has been found guilty of the murder of some b-movie actress that no one cared about anyway. What kind of world do we live in where OJ, Jacko, and Robert f’ing Blake are big enough celebs to get away with murder/child molesting but a visionary like Phil...
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Tags: Dee Dee Ramone, Ike Turner, Law, Michael Jackson, Music, OJ Simpson, Phil Spector, River Deep Mountain High, Robert Blake, Tina Turner, To Know Him Is to Love Him
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