22 October 2010

hey you dang woodchucks! quit chucking my wood!

you know how that thing where you will hear or see or learn something newtoyou, and then you will start to see it everywhere? it's called "perceptual vigilance". you will rent a car of a type you've never heard of, and suddenly you will see this car everywhere. your friend gets a job at a bank you never heard of, and suddenly you see this bank advertised everywhere. you hear a phrase on a sitcom and you think it's spectacularly original, and suddenly you hear this phrase everywhere. this happens because we each have a spectacularly tiny sphere of knowledge which we perpetually perceive to be more voluminous than it is, resulting in our predictable surprise when we learn something new and consequently, inevitably discover it is in fact, not new at all, at all.

nissan frontier
pomegranate
sharon jones & the dap-kings
isle of skye
oil can friends
forty-seven fried clams
arithmetic
fancy pants
alienation tide
foundational wonder

1 Comments:

At 23 October, 2010 19:48, Blogger J Dot said...

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are awesome. Just in case you were not aware of this fact, it can be verified here: http://www.sanukd.com/?p=899

 

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