Music for your Monday: NPR Music is streaming Sharon Van Etten’s Tramp in its entirety. Enjoy!

doree:

Mom brought me some oldies but goodies

NPR’s children/YA book club on Tumblr.

Fresh Air Offices, 3:01 PM

Coworker 1: Do you ever use the term rude to describe popcorn?
Coworker 2: Like the popcorn wasn't nice to you?
Coworker 1: No, like the popcorn wasn't very good. Like milk that's a day away from going sour.
Coworker 2: No.

Happy Weekend! See you Monday, Internet.

WPA poster: port of Philadelphia (by BanjoHead)

David Bianculli reviews the new HBO series Luck. He says: It isn’t a long shot that David Milch’s newest series for HBO, called Luck, will be on par with his HBO series Deadwood. It’s a sure thing. HBO sent out all nine episodes of the show’s first season for preview, so there’s no guesswork here.

Fresh Air started as a local show in Philadelphia. In 1985, the show went national but only on a weekly basis. In 1987 we became a national, daily show. (We’ll be 25 years old on May 11, 2012.)

Here’s the first national weekly schedule. First national guest? Joe Piscopo.

Monday: Stew. [some language in that video may not be safe for work, depending on where you work.]

(Source: youtube.com)

nprbackseatbookclub:

February Book Picks: ‘Shooting Kabul’ And ‘The Hundred Dresses’

This month, NPR’s Backseat Book Club will read two books that explore what it’s like to try to create a new home while still missing the one you’ve left behind. Join us as we read Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai and The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes.

Join in with NPR’s book club (and the newest NPR Tumblr page!)

Woody Allen: The Fresh Air Interview: “In the problems of movie making, if you don’t solve your problem, all that happens to you is that your movie bombs. So the movie is terrible. So people don’t come to see it … This is hardly a terrible punishment compared to what you’re given out in the real world of human existence.”

Colbert Bump: Tumblr traffic yesterday compared to day before. (I don’t think this includes traffic-from-inside-our-Dashboard figures…)

Dutch drum maestro Han Bennink plays a drumkit made of cheese.

Bennink drums cheese 2 (by squiddity of toronto)

You know, it really got me when people would come by and would tell me stories about narrowly missing being killed in an accident. And they’d say, ‘But my guardian angel protected me.’ And I just wanted to slam the door in their face and walk out. Because I thought, ‘Where was Denny’s guardian angel the night of Feb. 6?’

— Dennis Apple and his wife, Buelah, came to StoryCorps to talk about their son Denny. Nearly 21 years ago, Denny came down with mononucleosis. Before going to bed one night, he took some medicine, and talked about where he wanted to sleep. He never woke up.

It’s raining here in Philadelphia. Chucho Valdes is cheering me up.

nprradiopictures:

Hey cool! New York Public Library’s Stereogranimator: “A tool for transforming historical stereographs from The New York Public Library’s vast collections into shareable 3D web format” 

 

(EXCEPT MITO ALREADY INVENTED THIS!!!!)

— Claire

Thus begins the NYPL/NPR war. Your move NYPL. We suggest you consult U27 .M875 

[this is  completely serious facetious, which I feel compelled to write to avoid comments asking whether this is facetious.]

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Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)

Cinematography by Gordon Willis, art direction by Mel Bourne, costume design by Ruth Morley. 

We’re rebroadcasting a Woody Allen interview tomorrow. Conversation in the office has turned to: what would happen if Woody Allen made exclusively horror films?

We came up with Annie Hell. You have any more?