suspension of disbelief: Archive

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-21) →

Nov 26th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-14) →

Nov 17th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-3) →

Oct 8th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-9-12) →

Sep 26th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-29) →

Aug 31st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-22) →

Aug 24th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-15) →

Aug 16th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-8) →

Aug 12th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-1) →

Aug 4th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →

Jul 31st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18) →

Jul 22nd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11) →

Jul 13th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-4) →

Jul 8th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27) →

Jun 30th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-20) →

Jun 24th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-13) →

Jun 15th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-6) →

Jun 9th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-30) →

May 31st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-23) →

May 26th

May 22nd

93 notes

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-16) →

May 18th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-9) →

May 11th

May 3rd

1 tag

This Airplane Has Good Taste In Music

My AirTran flight from DC to Milwaukee featured free Sirius radio. Here are some songs I really liked (I wrote them down in my iPhone “notes” section in order to make myself feel like said iPhone was worth the purchase :-/). Click the links to hear each song streamed for free: Tokyo Police Club - Breakneck Speed LCD Soundsystem - All I Want Oh No Ono - Internet Warrior...

Apr 27th

Apr 8th

Apr 6th

people leave the darndest voicemails

After going through my entire voicemail message, a message clearly stating that my name is Ben and - this part is important - and that I have nothing to do with van rentals or vehicles for hire, a lady from Knoxville, TN proceeds to leave a message stating: “I would like to know if you have any vans in Chicago and what the van rate is from Lincolnshire to Chicago. Please call me back at...

Apr 5th

Lollapalooza 2010!

ebach2: Revealing it 1 letter at a time? really? Also have to decide if I want to go! I’ll be in Chicago doing research so I’ll be around, but it’s also insanely expensive and I’m a sad in debt medical student. It’s been mostly figured out already. http://www.themilkcarton.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6609 And you’re going.

Apr 3rd

2010 Lollapalooza Lineup (mostly) revealed →

People have been decoding the wheel of fortune-ness here: http://www.themilkcarton.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6609

Apr 2nd

Mar 23rd

Sleeping man shocked after cold man jumps into bed →

A warm man would have made all the difference

Mar 18th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →

Mar 12th

Mar 6th

An Actual Jeopardy Answer About 4chan (seriously)

This was on last week’s show. I’d know, because I am way behind on my Jeopardy queue; The Olympics had taken over as my treadmill-time programming. “4chan.org is a collaborative community known for posting these on the net, usually in .jpeg or .gif form” I would have gotten that wrong, because surprisingly, the question was not “what is illegal porn?” EDIT: ...

Mar 3rd

1 tag

The Strangeness Of Being Hit On By A Cougar, And...

The tl/dr version: A loud, drunk cougar ran her hands through my hair at a restaurant. Tonight, I ate dinner at the best Mexican-Jewish restaurant in greater Chicago, La Casa De Isaac. The meal was terrific as usual, except for one caveat: there was perhaps the most incredibly obnoxious table in the history of dining right next to me. It was this 35-40 year old woman’s birthday, and she...

Feb 23rd

My Netflix Queue Updated! (Because you still care)

In the DVD Queue: 1. Inglourious Basterds (Very Long Wait…it’s been like that for a month now, which begs the question: what is the point of an online rental service that won’t send you the movie you want? Hmmm…) 2. Trouble The Water 3. Up 4. In the Heat of the Night 5. Glengarry Glen Ross The Instant Queue: 1. Letters from Iwo Jima 2. Hoop Dreams 3. Oldboy 4....

Feb 22nd

1 tag

Roger Ebert: The Essential Man →

Terrific piece. “I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our...

Feb 18th

TV Tropes - Encyclopedia Browned →

I am now forced to re-examine my entire childhood, one in which I thought I was Gumshoe Ben thanks to my uncanny ability to solve Encyclopedia Brown mysteries (he threw the fight because getting knocked out wouldn’t cause him to fall face-down! BAM CONVICTED (this was an actual Encyclopedia Brown story that I remember (from 4th grade, I swear I didn’t just look it up right now because...

Feb 5th

Feb 4th

Movie Review: The Hurt Locker

It was fucking amazing. Go Netflix the shit out of it. Plus, a Mostly-Unimportant-in-the-Grand-Scheme-of-Things-But-Still-A-Bonus Bonus: Evangeline Lilly. So, how’s my new review style? I was aiming for succinct and swear-y.

Feb 4th

86 Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena →

I got this link courtesy of Roger Ebert’s Twitter. Now, Twitter is mostly useless and I am not a member, but I have found rather consistently that old fogey twitters are the best. They seem so into it! They have proven to me that people over the age of 40 can still contribute to society in new, exciting ways. Young person twitters are always like: -4:20pm: “time to toke up,...

Jan 20th

Jan 19th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →

Metric (4) Priors (3) The Bravery (1) Daft Punk (1) Blakroc (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jan 5th

2 tags

WTF with Marc Maron →

If you like to laugh at work and wherever else you listen to podcasts, download this.

Dec 11th

Dec 9th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →

Spoon (15) Metric (9) Radiohead (7) OutKast (6) Queens of the Stone Age (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 9th

1 tag

The 2009 Bad Sex in Fiction Prize Shortlist →

Hilarious. The winner (of course) was Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones

Dec 7th

2 tags

Clipse - Life Change (feat. Pharrell & Kenna) ...

Dec 2nd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →

Papercuts (19) Girls (11) Queens of the Stone Age (7) John McLaughlin (6) Spoon (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 2nd