The New Yorker announced the launch of Strongbox this morning, allowing people to anonymously send documents and messages to the magazine. Amazing on it’s own and even better to see knowing that Aaron Swartz was one of its creators.
Hershberg Dot Me
Peter Hershberg's tumblelog.
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But overall, that’s exactly what it was like, you ran around the fucking streets of New York. The city was just crazy at that time and things were different with kids. It’s certainly not like that anymore. I think that Kids is probably, to me, the last time you see New York City for what it was on film. That is to me a seminal moment in New York history because right after that came the complete gentrification of Manhattan.
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Lucinda Williams - Joy
Badass.
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Little Feat - Willin’
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Link Wray - Juke Box Mama
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X - We’re Desperate
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Pearl Jam with Dave Grohl - 3/22/95
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Eddie Vedder - No More
Written for the 2007 documentary, Body of War, about Tomas Young, who was shot and paralyzed after serving just 5 days in Iraq in 2004. He’s recently made a decision to end his life, but not before writing this letter to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Absolutely heartbeaking.
