2009
11:25PM
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Zero 7 - Crosses
Jose Gonzalez’s sings on a few songs on The Garden, including this version if his own track.
2009
11:10AM
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Hot Like Fire by The xx
The xx take a 1996 R&B jam, remove the beats, add a lot of cross-faded atmosphere and their dueted voices to give us a sweet and sexy track about holding off a bit before having sex with someone. I’d argue the cut does a great job of musically capturing the feeling one builds up in this scenario.
Oh it’s gonna be, hot like fire
Take you higher
You can’t resist
Kiss, kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss and…It certainly sounds like the wait will be worth it to me. —indieandyy
originally by AaliyahI really like the xx. They’re so subdued and cool.
2009
5:56PM
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Windows 7’s font rendering no longer snaps to the nearest pixel. Like OS X, it uses sub-pixel anti-aliasing to provide a more accurate representation of the font. I won’t miss the old mangling of…
"I refuse to accept that the people who have never wasted a second of their lives in the conventional sense, the people who climb mountains and run for high office and find cures for diseases, have succeeded in engaging fully with life. They’re the ones with the damaged relationships and the piles of unread novels, the people who don’t know what Little Walter sounds like…I’m frustrated by how much time has slipped by in my own life, and I’ve wasted more time than most, but I’m not sure I’d feel any better if I’d been more productive."
— Nick Hornby in an interview with Goodreads (via sometimesagreatnotion:seanbest:sharingtime)
