To Each Her Own.

imwithkanye:

The Best Recurring Characters On The Office.

1. Jan Levenson. I wish they didn’t make her as crazy as she was towards the end because she was dynamite - full of so much ferocity and zany appeal. But then again, season 4 was full of some of her best moments on the show.
2. Karen Filippelli. Rashida Jones deserves so many Emmys for the consistently brilliant work she delivers on TV. If there was ever a time when it felt like Jim and Pam didn’t belong together, it was when Karen was on screen.
3. Holly Flax. It took me a long time to like her. It was like she was written as a reaction to Jan and meant to humanize Michael Scott. But after awhile it worked because the romance between the two started feeling real. Also, Amy Ryan is just wonderful.
4. The Documentary Film Crew. (Not Brian) Okay, not so much of a character or recurring at that, but the camera brought so much life to the show. The head nods to Pam when she looked to screen or the spy shots or the way the show’s main characters would react to their presence.
5. Mose Schrute. Family characters on the show were always hit or miss but Mose was used sparingly and hilariously enough that it worked. Somehow he always felt like a nature fit, especially with Dwight’s crazy beet farm back story and of course, the awesome hazing of Ryan.

nprmusic:

There probably isn’t a single pair of headphones out there that will solve every problem and meet every listening need. But we asked you to tell us which ones you love the most. Here are five of the most-mentioned headphones.

Photo: Corbis

Thanks goodness Beats by Dre are not on here.

johndarnielle:

So, people ask me this sometimes, and I appreciate that they want me and Peter and Jon to get maximum paid for the records we make. And it is true that we’ll get the biggest cut from sales at shows, because those copies are copies we buy directly from the label. However, I am every bit just as happy and in fact in some ways happier to take a slightly reduced cut if you’re buying from your local record store, which is almost doubtless scrambling to survive every day, or from a cool mailorder, or directly from the label if the label does mailorder.

I make a little bit of a big deal about this because more people than me need to get paid for the stuff I do to happen. There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about labels and publishers as if they were hurdles to be cleared, obstacles to be circumnavigated. I can’t speak for anybody else’s experiences, though stories of label skullduggery abound, and shame on such labels. But my personal experience in independent music is that the people releasing Mountain Goats records aren’t “The Label.” They’re my friends, and they’re also almost all musicians themselves. They are people who share exactly equivalent praise or blame for the music I make, because you wouldn’t have heard it without them, by which I mean without their support and nurturing and faith I would never have made the music in the first place. So while I’m, again, grateful that people think of my well-being, it’s my opinion that the people who make the music available - especially independent labels, especially independent stores - deserve your patronage, and it’s 100% ok if I have to sell a few more records at retail to make as much as I’d make selling them at shows. I don’t do what I do in a vacuum. Without the labels that put out my stuff and the stores that stocked it and the people working in the stores who told people browsing to maybe check out the Mountain Goats, I would almost doubtless not even own a guitar right now. I’d be a nurse somewhere in California, and I’d write poetry in my downtime. Which would also be a good life, because every day above ground is a good day, unless you’re getting shot at, it sucks to get shot at, but you see my point

(via nprmusic)

papermag:

This print of Stefon from an SNL-themed art show at Gallery 1988 is the best. [via Splitsider]

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