I try not to be a dick about it but nobody really understands ice dancing the way I do.

I want to go on tech job interviews to see how long I last spouting nonsense before I'm kicked out. "Do I know AWS? I'm certified in Optimus Prime, Sleddog, and manage servers using Hagrid. I deploy sites with Guster, use the Gin Blossoms framework and do follow 311 protocols"

One of the best things I’ve read this week has been 11-year-old Violette’s letter to the @NewYorker about a Jill Lepore story. https://t.co/zroXTYvM1S

I don't pull this card that often, but in this case it was both appropriate and satisfying. https://t.co/DdnBiaaYed

Friday night, time to log on and really curl up in some tweets and other online interactions that'll make me feel like trash.

WOWOW @BuzzFeed named @BechdelCast one of the "Podcasts You Need To Start Listening To In 2018" https://t.co/KEtQTnqJrh

I trained a neural network to generate new candy heart messages - some more successful than others. https://t.co/tPZyGV3upg https://t.co/9J8HjiMshV

Come to @mercylounge on Feb. 23 for A GREAT SHOW, hosted by us!! https://t.co/3GkDVHLY6Q

I'm heads down for the next few days getting ready for some new announcements around A Night of yk Records and a new We Own This Town podcast. I may have bitten off more than I can chew but I'm confident that a little diligence will get me through it. Looking forward to sharing the news with everyone.

Here's some enjoyable distractions!

• Roll that Beautiful Bean Footage - not only did I completely block out this series of commercials, I also had no idea that there would be YouTube remixes of it. Of course there are YouTube remixes of it.
• King Cake Baby - I know very little about sports but I know that the Pelicans have the best alt-mascot with their nightmare-inducing King Cake Baby. This video is fairly boring but you can't look away from his sculpted face.
• Shooting Stars but it's played on an old Samsung - you know that perfect meme song, now hear it in all its touchtone glory.
• The Blue Marble - I can only assume showing a teen a Rube Goldberg esque journey of this nature would bore them to tears but I find myself captivated.
• SNL: My Little Step Children - the "Cut For Time" sketches are almost always the best. This one isn't flat out hysterical but it's got some hearty laughs.
• Low Poly Mario - want to take a ~20 minute journey through every polygon style Mario model that's existed and inspect their differences? I can not begin to explain why this is fascinating to me but it sure is.
• Last Wave - What happens when you let They Might Giants create a stream of consciousness song paired with Run DMC's cover of "Walk This Way"? You get this bizarre creation, that's what.

Oh, if you want to watch Elon Musk's trash float towards another planet, you can watch it live. Amazingly, yet unsurprisingly, Flat Earther's think it was a hoax. Great.

All that being said, I think this is maybe the best thing I saw all week. You decide.

Stay safe. Be warm!

Immediately upon hearing this Ryuichi Sakamoto song, I had to make the most Wu-Tang beat ever. NY as hell https://t.co/SsPI6E5WVK

She lies and says she's in love with him, can't find a https://t.co/NLhhUmHYrm

With Matt Berry!

how is this not a Tim and Eric skit https://t.co/Pv6knmMdqt

Speaking of interesting ambient experiences, I just recently stumbled on this annual series of Unknown Mortal Orchestra instrumentals. They've been releasing these 20 minute missives since 2013 but I'm just now catching on. Better late than never, right? I highly suggest carving out some listen time during your day to hear them all:

• SB-02
• SB-03
• SB-04
• SB-05

They've also got a new full-length on the way for April 2018.

Whenever I go shopping for records I swing by the "Misc" section and inevitably find a slew of LP's from the Environments series. These 11 albums were recorded throughout the 70's by Irv Teibel as a means of capturing field recordings of different environments that would aid in meditation (a rainy forest, a calm seashore, an alpine blizzard). They are all over Youtube if you're interested and really do have something special about them - from the sounds they capture to the artwork.

All that being said, it was a pleasant surprise to see that Numero Group has partnered with Teibel's original label - Syntonic Research Inc. - to reissue these recordings as an app. You could stream them on Youtube but this gives you a chance to hear the best quality versions of the recordings and make playlists from them, should you want to couple your Forest sounds with your Ocean sounds.

via William Tyler

If you have been living Internetless for the past few days you may have missed everyone talking about this Quincy Jones interview over on the Vulture. While it contains many gems about the state of the music industry and how paying attention to history is the best way to make music, everyone is mostly loving his shocking quotes about other musicians. Here's a choice one:

What were your first impressions of the Beatles?
That they were the worst musicians in the world. They were no-playing motherfuckers. Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard. And Ringo? Don't even talk about it. I remember once we were in the studio with George Martin, and Ringo had taken three hours for a four-bar thing he was trying to fix on a song. He couldn't get it. We said, "Mate, why don't you get some lager and lime, some shepherd's pie, and take an hour-and-a-half and relax a little bit." So he did, and we called Ronnie Verrell, a jazz drummer. Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up. Ringo comes back and says, "George, can you play it back for me one more time?" So George did, and Ringo says, "That didn't sound so bad." And I said, "Yeah, motherfucker because it ain't you." Great guy, though.

Pretty scathing! But, more importantly, he knows who killed Kennedy and that's hands-down my favorite part of the interview.

What's something you wish you didn't know?
Who killed Kennedy.

Who did it?
[Chicago mobster Sam] Giancana. The connection was there between Sinatra and the Mafia and Kennedy. Joe Kennedy - he was a bad man - he came to Frank to have him talk to Giancana about getting votes.

That's really the tip of the iceberg. Jones doesn't shy away from any subject and it's a captivating read.

The Quincy Jones interview is great, please read it https://t.co/3QixAodUTt

QUINCY: ...speaking of Neil Armstrong. Sure, we did cocaine on the moon. Thought that bitch was about to OD on me. I shouldn’t even be talking about this. What’s your birthstone? INTERVIEWER: Again, I just asked if you would like a glass of water before we begin?

@yewknee https://t.co/8Ukwk7RPnD

If in Nashville, go swing by the Julia Martin Gallery to see the weird and wonderful show Cheers from Brett Douglas Hunter. If not in the area, swing by the geotag and visit the respective Instagram profiles. It's almost like being there.