by Rick Paulas and Nick Bush

69. “Stupid Mop”
68. “Pry, To”
67. “I’m Open”
66. “Don’t Gimme No Lip”
65. “Present Tense”
64. “Indifference”
63. “Mankind”
62. “Around the Bend”
61. “Gremmie Out of Control”
60. “Dirty Frank”
59. “Bee Girl”
58. “Bugs”
57. “Long Road”
56. “Dead Man”
55. “Aye Davanita”
54. “All Night”
53. “Brother”
52. “Let Me Sleep”
51. “Alone”
50. “Habit”
49. “Leaving Here”
48. “Wash”
47. “Why Go”
46. “Blood”
45. “Black, Red, Yellow”
44. “Leash”
43. “Hold On”
42. “Not For You”
41. “Sometimes”
40. “Hard to Imagine”
39. “Go”
38. “Once”
37. “Dissident”
36. “Who You Are”
35. “Footsteps”
34. “Deep”
33. “Alive”
32. “Tremor Christ”
31. “Lukin”
30. “Off He Goes”

29. “Even Flow”
28. “Spin the Black Circle”
27. “Animal”
26. “Glorified G”
25. “Nothingman”
24. “Whipping”
23. “W.M.A.”
22. “Rats”

21. “Hail, Hail”
20. “Daughter”
19. “Jeremy”
18. “Immortality”
17. “Breath”
16. “State of Love and Trust”

15. “Garden”
14. “Rearviewmirror”
13. “Smile”
12. “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town”
11. “Satan’s Bed”

10. “Better Man”
9. “In My Tree”
8. “Last Exit”

7. “Red Mosquito”
6. “Oceans”
5. “Porch”
4. “I Got Id”

3. “Yellow Ledbetter”
2. “Black”
1. “Corduroy”

Rick Paulas is a writer living in Los Angeles. Video curating by Nick Bush, who is deciding on the right moment to introduce his new daughter to Ten.

“Martin wasn’t content that synthesizers produce weird noises; he did his best to use them to convey musical ideas. These days when you listen to music you don’t even hear the synthesizers. That is due to Martin, who was at the vanguard of making electronics work for the music.”
 — Pete Shelley discusses Martin Rushent, the British producer who died this weekend. Rushent “made his mark in the late Seventies with the guitar-led punk bands The Stranglers and The Buzzcocks, and rose to prominence as the person responsible for the crystalline computer-driven production showcased on The Human League’s synth-pop 1981 album Dare. Propelled by the hit single Don’t You Want Me, the album sold millions of copies worldwide, influencing the way pop was recorded — and in particular how the drum sound was achieved — over the rest of the decade.” Rushent was 62.

“I’ve never had any luck with publishing companies. Nobody has, really — discounting the handful of Famous Bestselling Authors you read about in the NYT. It occurred to me, a few weeks ago, that I personally know about forty people who have sold books to big or medium-sized publishers, and their experiences are all the same: Long after you’ve written it and long after you’ve spent the advance on food and rent, a forgotten little bundle of words with an inscrutable cover is released in the night, you might do a few readings in empty Barnes & Noble stores on a weekday, and then four or five years later you still can’t get a simple accounting record. Very few writers will mourn the end of the New York Publishing Industry.”
 — That’s not the only notable quotable in this interview with Ken Layne. In fact there is another part so good that, well, let’s read on! It’s about finding out whether you’re better off without the Internet.

We have a remarkable ability to know exactly what things we’re doing are harmful to us …. and then we keep doing those things, until we decide to stop.

For anyone who feels this Internet emptiness chewing at them, I would say, do a little test. Go outside and take a 15-minute walk — around the block, through the park, just a short walk. While you’re doing this, clear your mind of work and of home. Just look at things, birds and cars and trees and the clouds and buildings and dumpsters, and when you think of something internal just say “thinking” to yourself and go back to walking and breathing. Then return to your computer. Do the usual things you do on your computer, like check the news and your email and the blogs you read and whatever people post on Facebook and Twitter.

Do this second part, the computer-looking-at, for just 15 minutes. You can set one of those web timers… hang on, I have one in my bookmarks.

When this stopwatch beeps, honestly ask yourself how you feel. Compare this to how you felt at the end of your 15-minute walk. Ask yourself what, if anything, you learned during those 15 minutes of wasting time on the Internet. Did it help you in some way? Are you better off? This is a question often asked by political challengers: Are you better off than __ years ago? Well, are you better off than fifteen minutes ago? If not, don’t re-elect the Internet.

BOOM. LIVE WITH YOURSELF NOW.

OMG, you guys, The High Line Part II is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC RIGHT NOW. Run don’t etc.

I’m no feminist but… sometimes it amazes me that women do sex to any man at all. I mean, how could you blame them if they chose otherwise? [Via]

Man, it is hot out there! Gentlemen who dress appropriately in consideration of their age and gender might want to procure a container of Gold Bond Medicated Powder for their chafey undercarriages, because
the next couple of days

are going to be even worse. (Also: the rest of our lives.) Stay strong, fellows: You are models for the younger generations.

In the saga of the Miami Beach cop shoot-out fiesta that took place on Memorial Day, during one of the country’s biggest African-America party weekends, at which cops shot a driver they said had a gun, injuring bystanders and arresting witnesses: here is an eyewitness videotape that is really wild! I would describe the incidents in the last third of this tape as incredibly bad, what with the cops pointing guns and screaming at innocent eyewitnesses, and “incredibly bad” is really saying something, as the video begins with a full-on barrage of gunfire.

Women be talkin’.

New Zealand counter-culture icon Shrek the Sheep has died, euthanized by a veterinarian because he was old and sick. Shrek became famous seven years ago, when it was discovered that he’d been hiding in caves since 1998 to avoid shearing. After his capture, his 60-pound coat of fleece was cut off on national TV, yielding enough wool to make 20 men’s suits, and turning Shrek into a folk hero. He met Prime Minister Helen Clark and started a career in the nonprofit industry, raising over $150 thousand for children’s medical charities. “He had an unbelievable personality,” said his owner, John Perriam. “He loved children and he was really good with the elderly in retirement homes.”

That “Cut My Hair Today” song is one of my favorite rock songs. You’d think the band that plays it, D.B.L.I.T.Y., were from England. But they were from Allentown, Pennsylvania. And D.B.L.I.T.Y. stands for “Dress British, Look Irish, Think Yiddish.” Which, amazing.

Here’s some video of Shrek. Pretty incredible, what 60 pounds pounds of fleece looks like on a sheep.

Mr. Harold Eugene Crews turns 76 today. I am partial to The Knockout Artist for fiction and A Childhood: The Biography of a Place for nonfiction, but, really, start anywhere. And Harry, if you’re up for it, we wouldn’t mind something new.