links for 2009-05-30

'“When you go from having your own talk show to doing stand-up in a bowling alley,” he said finally, “you can react by getting mad or depressed, or by just going away, like people expect you to.” He took in a slow, thoughtful breath. “I reacted by growing my beard.”'

"I would say that Alopecia had more of a biting tone somewhat an angry sarcasm. And this one is little resigned maybe introverted in way. It's solemn maybe." PS, I hate hate hate P4K's un-self-contained news story pages.

Fucking phenomenal concept art from Pixar's Up, and I didn't even have to buy it hardcover for $40.

I mean basically I think this is the same performance of Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum live you got on the Jittery Joe's CD, but it's been quite a while since I last dug the CD out , and Pitchfork calls it "a new edit", so I guess watch it here: ONE WEEK ONLY.