Andrew-Becraft.com » Music http://www.andrew-becraft.com Looking for one decent planet Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:52:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Gravity-assisted Beethoven in Japanese woods http://www.andrew-becraft.com/2011/05/20/gravity-assisted-beethoven-in-japanese-woods/ http://www.andrew-becraft.com/2011/05/20/gravity-assisted-beethoven-in-japanese-woods/#comments Sat, 21 May 2011 04:38:26 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrew-becraft.com/?p=368 Japanese telecom NTT Docomo released this gorgeous advertisement for a new, wood-encased mobile phone (which itself is gorgeous). Watch and be amazed.

Via Boing Boing.

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  • Paul Simon: Bachelors, English, Columbia
  • Kris Kristofferson: Bachelors, creative writing, Pomona College; Masters, English literature, Oxford
  • Don Henley: Bachelors, English literature, Stephen F. Austin State University
  • Sting: Bachelors, English, Northumbria University
  • Chris Isaak: Bachelors, English, University of the Pacific.
  • Sufjan Stevens: MFA, creative writing, The New School

    • I’ve written a poem a week in the last month.

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    • How to Mow the Lawn by Sam Martin
    • A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
    • Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville by Stephen Jay Gould
    • Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems by David Wagoner (hurray!)
    • Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver

    Music I got for Christmas:

    • The Crane Wife from The Decemberists
    • Sam’s Town from The Killers

    New bands I recently found on the Web

    • Band of Horses
    • The Black Angels
    • Los Campesinos!

    I wrote one poem last week. No, you’ll never see one of my poems here (copyright issues).

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