Apoplectic Skeptic

I'm inclined to post about music, philosophy, architecture, religion, politics, design, beauty, the Packers, Mac + my family.
I'm a producer + songwriter.
The Burst Collective is my thing.


There's some credits + more :
danielholter.com

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12 hours ago with 20 notes
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Via thesmarttart

Sarah Palin is on an endless crusade against assholes. It’s all she thinks about. She doesn’t really have any political ideas, in the classic sense of the word — in fact the only thing resembling real political convictions in Going Rogue revolve around the Trans-Alaska pipeline and how awesome she thinks it is. Most of the rest of the book just catalogs her Gump-esque rise to national stardom (not having enough self-awareness to detect the monstrous narcissistic ambition that in reality was impelling her forward all along, she labors in the book to describe her various career leaps as lucky accidents or mystical acts of Providence) and the seemingly endless parade of meanies bent on tripping her up along the way. The book is really about her battles with these people, how much they did and do suck, and how difficult and inherently unfair life is for a decent hardworking American gal who just wants to live life, serve God, and try to be president without being bothered all the time.”
Matt Taibbi (via thesmarttart) (via azspot)

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14 hours ago with 2 notes
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Tagged: fingers crossed LAX

MKE to LAX

I’m out.

Planning on seeing a good friend play kit at a jazz gig in Venice tomorrow (Monday) night, in case anyone wants to connect and hang and enjoy and adult beverage.  Shoot me a note if you wanna.

Back with good news on Tuesday, hopefully.

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14 hours ago with 55 notes
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Via minimalmac

Tagged: Mac minimalism

minimalmac:

OmmWriter is a new full screen and distraction free writing environment for the Mac. The best way I can describe it is that it is what would happen to WriteRoom if Brian Eno got a hold of it. It features a resizable input area, text size and style options, background options, and ambient music and keyboard sounds (which can, thankfully, be turned off). It can save either in it’s native format for easy relaunching or as plain text.
It is still in beta so there may be even more features coming. It’s worth a look for sure. I could easily see it being part of a perfect “writing mac” setup – just leave it up and running and set the default save location for your Dropbox or a server. Make sure to click through and watch the video on the site to get a better sense of how it works.

Beautiful.

minimalmac:

OmmWriter is a new full screen and distraction free writing environment for the Mac. The best way I can describe it is that it is what would happen to WriteRoom if Brian Eno got a hold of it. It features a resizable input area, text size and style options, background options, and ambient music and keyboard sounds (which can, thankfully, be turned off). It can save either in it’s native format for easy relaunching or as plain text.

It is still in beta so there may be even more features coming. It’s worth a look for sure. I could easily see it being part of a perfect “writing mac” setup – just leave it up and running and set the default save location for your Dropbox or a server. Make sure to click through and watch the video on the site to get a better sense of how it works.

Beautiful.

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18 hours ago with 4 notes
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Via themattsmith

The Packers are just putting the Niners over their knee right now.

(via themattsmith)

It’s nice to be the spanker instead of the spankee for once.

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21 hours ago with 285 notes
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Via aar0n

Tom Waits Interview

romeojulietsierra:

Q: What’s wrong with the world?

A: We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Leona Helmsley’s dog made 12 million last year… and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio made $30,000. It’s just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. We are monkeys with money and guns.

[..]

Q: What is a gentleman?

A:  A man who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.

(Full Interview)

(via meganmcisaac)

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1 day ago with 73 notes
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Via bringtheruckuss

sarah palin's book is #1. new moon is #1. shit.

indieandyy:

(via bringtheruckuss)


If Roland Emmerich makes this into an end-of-the-world movie, I’ll pay for a ticket, since the plot would actually be a plausible reality.

We’re so screwed.

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1 day ago with 42 notes
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Via themattsmith

themattsmith:

Kia.  See you.  Raise you.

holycrapstopalready.
My cute glands hurt.

themattsmith:

Kia.  See you.  Raise you.

holycrapstopalready.

My cute glands hurt.

Shon Hinton (Mary J Blige, John Legend) tracking at Burst HQ

Our good friend Shon stopped by on a break from John Legend’s world tour to play kit and guitar on some new music we’re working on for our Mixtape Music Library production music catalog.

Featuring appearances by TheMattSmith, Pedobear, and the tumblr tshirt.

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1 day ago with 61 notes
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Via cocknbull

Tagged: evolution Sam Harris religion

What if mice showed greater distress at the suffering of familiar mice than unfamiliar ones? (They do.) What if monkeys will starve themselves to prevent their cage-mates from receiving painful shocks? (They will.) What if chimps have a demonstrable sense of fairness when receiving food rewards? (They have.) Wouldn’t these be precisely the sorts of findings one would expect if our morality were the product of evolution?”

Sam Harris (via webbunny) (via atheistramblings)

I’ve yet to meet a Christian who can explain why animals suffer.

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2 days ago with 1 note
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Via sampura

sampura:

First day of tracking in the new studio!!!

Congrats Sam!

sampura:

First day of tracking in the new studio!!!

Congrats Sam!