Articles and other minutia by Ryan Burleson var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-11532371-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @slowblog)http://ryanscottburleson.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4nlf5q7jZ1qzmxkko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a></p>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/23826455193http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/23826455193Sat, 26 May 2012 18:33:05 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4l6q49QW91qzmxkko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a></p>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/23737889923http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/23737889923Fri, 25 May 2012 11:20:28 -0500<a href="http://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/201206/dangelo-gq-june-2012-interview?printable=true">Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)</a>: <p>Just spent my lunch hour reading this. So good.</p>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/23619067241http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/23619067241Wed, 23 May 2012 13:50:26 -0500<a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/underscore/8822-quiet-storm-tk-tk-tk/">"It was common for listeners to call in and complain if the tempo sped up too much."</a>: <p>Eric Harvey goes deep on The Quiet Storm as an aesthetic and apolitical (yet inversely political) force.</p>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/23420321350http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/23420321350Sun, 20 May 2012 11:33:06 -0500<a href="http://www.imogeneandwillie.com/ss-x-caitlin-rayland">Absolutely gorgeous shots taken at last night's supper+song, hosted by Imogene+Willie, featuring a Caitlin Rose/Rayland Baxter double bill.</a>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/23234259026http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/23234259026Thu, 17 May 2012 11:53:27 -0500caitlin roseimogene and willie<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3z9d7KBAn1qf4hl5o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>One of the best non-fiction pieces I’ve read in a while.</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://longreads.tumblr.com/post/22990521672/a-writer-investigates-what-it-would-be-like-if-he">longreads</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>A writer investigates what it would be like if he never got married, had kids, or settled into a stable job. He decides to search for his carefree doppelgänger—a 39-year-old singer-songwriter named Kyle Field:</p> <blockquote> <p>‘What time can I come by?’ I asked.</p> <p>‘Oh, anytime. I’ll just be kicking it around the house.’</p> <p>Kicking it. This is not a concept in our house. I drove out to the scruffy edge of southeastern Portland and pulled up to the place where my doppelgänger was staying, nervous about intruding. The house was everything I’d ever dreamed of—at least when I used to dream of such a life. There was a pile of construction lumber in the front yard, and the porch was covered in beer cans and Goodwill furniture and well-thumbed paperbacks, some of them as warped as giant clams.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://lgrd.co/Kc1H3E">“The Cooler Me.” — Eric Puchner, GQ</a></p> <p><a href="http://longreads.com/search/GQ/">More from GQ</a></p> </blockquote>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/23009144711http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/23009144711Sun, 13 May 2012 19:53:58 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xvaajPZv1qzmxkko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/49385/megan-drapers-alien-invasion">The Alien Mystique: Megan Draper and the Upending of the Mad Men Universe</a><br/> By Andy Greenwald, <a href="http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/49385/megan-drapers-alien-invasion">grantland.com</a></p> <p>MAD MEN</p><p>In 1966, an alien crash-landed on Earth. He was an unlike­ly fig­ure, even con­sid­er­ing his cos­mic ori­gins: speak­ing Eng­lish (if a lit­tle oddly) and draped in the trap­pings of coun­ter­cul­ture. He admired the humans he encoun­te…</p> </blockquote>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/22942398047http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/22942398047Sat, 12 May 2012 21:08:34 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x42vqkrD1qf5y35o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x42vqkrD1qf5y35o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x42vqkrD1qf5y35o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x42vqkrD1qf5y35o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x42vqkrD1qf5y35o5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x42vqkrD1qf5y35o6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x42vqkrD1qf5y35o7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://blog.thedaily.com/post/22915703813/pulitzer-prize-winning-photojournalist-horst-faas" class="tumblr_blog">thedailyfeed</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><span>Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Horst Faas died on Thursday at the age of 79. But <a href="http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/05/12/051212-news-photo-file-horst-faas-semrai-1-3-zzphotoglzz/" title="Haas">his incredible standard-setting war photography</a> lives on. </span></p></blockquote>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/22937567278http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/22937567278Sat, 12 May 2012 19:48:28 -0500<a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/8825-record-geeks-peel-dilla-and-music-as-artifact/">Articles: Collecting History: John Peel, J Dilla, and the Record as Artifact | Features | Pitchfork</a>: <blockquote> <p>The act of archiving an extensive record collection, whether it’s one’s own personal set or that of a legend, is founded on the idea that space exists to hold time. A 12” LP record or a 7” single is a delivery mechanism for particular durations of music. Store a bunch of these in the same space, and there are days, possibly months, of music, neatly filed (digitally, of course, this can be quantified down to the second). This is why one of the first questions people ask of collectors is, “When in the world do you have the time to listen to all of this stuff?” For collectors like Dilla and Peel, the act of accumulation— building a library or simply hoarding— is as much a part of the appeal as is actually listening to (or “using”) the music.</p> </blockquote>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/22449920560http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/22449920560Sat, 05 May 2012 10:42:07 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/21697550376/tumblr_m2yspbnnyG1qzmxkk&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p><img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15126212/Clouds_Final.jpg"/></p> <p><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15126212/We%20People.mp3" target="_blank">Download</a> a new mix for Springtime I made last night which features some choice B-sides, Serge and so on. All vinyl and all pulled somewhat randomly while recording, but I think it worked. Just a quiet, oft-moody affair.</p> <p>Tracklist:</p> <p class="p1">ÓLAFUR ARNALDS  ‘The Land of Nod’</p> <p class="p2">THE CARETAKER  ‘Increasingly Absorbed in His Own World’</p> <p class="p2">CAITLIN ROSE  ‘Faithless Love (J.D. Souther Cover)’ </p> <p class="p2">DAMIEN JURADO  ‘Diamond Sea’</p> <p class="p2">DAVID BAZAN w/DEERHOOF  ‘No One Asked Bazan to Dance’</p> <p class="p2">SERGE GAINSBOURG  ‘Valse de Melody’</p> <p class="p2">JAMES BLAKE  ‘We Might Feel Unsound’</p> <p class="p2">PORTISHEAD  ‘Western Eyes’</p> <p>ACEYALONE & RJD2  ‘A Beautiful Mine (Theme from Mad Men)’ </p>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/21697550376http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/21697550376Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:44:00 -0500olafur arnaldsThe Caretakercaitlin rosedamien juradodavid bazanserge gainsbourgjames blakeportisheadaceyalonerjd2<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/magazine/jack-white-is-the-savviest-rock-star-of-our-time.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all">Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time - NYTimes.com</a>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/20650681996http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/20650681996Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:26:31 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m11nlbMVvs1qzmxkko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Spring showers (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">Instagram</a> at Home)</p>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/19466540019http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/19466540019Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:31:58 -0500<a href="http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2012/02/24/mp3-at-3pm-lyonnais/">A blurb on the great Atlanta band Lyonnais for MAGNET</a>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/18203168304http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/18203168304Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:36:02 -0600lyonnaisatlanta musicdrone<a href="http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashvillecream/archives/2012/02/22/worker-neurology-review">On the hardcore band Worker and, well, why my drive to work always throws me back a decade</a>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/18092530372http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/18092530372Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:40:18 -0600workerhardcorenashvilleindienet<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzo03fLGnQ1qzmxkko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Retail Therapy (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/17913058423http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/17913058423Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:02:02 -0600<a href="http://www.esquire.com/features/jon-hamm-interview-0312">Jon Hamm Interview - Jon Hamm on Mad Men - Esquire</a>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/17743104696http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/17743104696Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:59:54 -0600<a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/8772-sleigh-bells/">William Bowers' Hunter S. Thompson-esque Journal of the Paradise Lost Tour is a Really, Really Fun Read</a>: <p><span>“My poor adopted state takes so much guff. Some people cling to an ‘idea of Florida,’ that our sidewalks are split between befuddled senior citizens and topless Spring Breakers, that we all wake in the morn, do body shots off each other, feed a tourist to our pet alligators, swing by the painkiller clinic to pick up our groceries, and then ride the public airboat system to our jobs in the thong district.”</span></p>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/17691532840http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/17691532840Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:38:36 -0600Sleigh BellsLiturgyDiploFlorida<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzcj1uuIQk1qzmxkko1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/02/the-art-of-fact-checking.html">The Art of Fact-Checking</a><br/> Posted by Hannah Goldfield, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/02/the-art-of-fact-checking.html">newyorker.com</a></p> <p>Which are more impor­tant: true words, or beau­ti­ful words? </p> </blockquote>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/17561050566http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/17561050566Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:20:00 -0600<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz34ddaBUE1qzmxkko1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A college recruitment vendor alerted me to star ’80s baseball player <a href="http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=burleri01" target="_blank">Rick Burleson</a> today. I hope we’re related.</p>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/17269214605http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/17269214605Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:24:48 -0600therearen'tmanyofus<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz1nycTmKU1qg5vono1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://threadinginthechoirs.tumblr.com/post/17229065754/yes-new-tumblr-follow">threadinginthechoirs</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://rhythminthepews.tumblr.com" target="_self">Yes!<br/>New tumblr!<br/>Follow!</a></p> </blockquote> <p>MM has the best taste, per usual.</p>http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/17238873224http://ryanscottburleson.com/post/17238873224Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:11:00 -0600