internet explorers club | fire dance with me

Spend the rest of your Friday afternoon with L.A. Plays Itself, the new video by the band YACHT. They’ve now released it publicly, but for the past week, it was only available when Uber hit surge pricing in LA (their theory was: it sucks to be paying surge price + get stuck in traffic, here is a song to get you through it). I love the use of location signs to show the lyrics.

🚨 SERIAL RUMOR ALERT 🚨 The potential topic of Serial season 2 is Bowe Bergdahl. This is definitely unconfirmed, but Serial producers have responded snippily to comments, so it’s probably true.

There’s a cute new Dance Dance Revolution style game where you play Twin Peaks characters dancing in the Red Room with a crying Leland Palmer. It’s called FIRE DANCE WITH ME, and I played as the Log Lady’s log.

Semi-long read on the rise of literary annotation, from The Annotated Alice to Genius, and it’s fascinating. Plus, the article itself is annotated, which I enjoyed immensely.

There is a new caption that works for every New Yorker cartoon: “Hi, I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.”

Someone has created a bot that mashes together parts of the Apollo 11 transcripts and it kind of sounds like the actual transcripts? Please read it by the light of this moon lantern.

In Japan, you can rent 'Handsome Weeping Boys' to wipe away your tears AND if you aren’t ready to cry they will watch sad videos with you! How lucky we are to be alive right now!

Etcetera: Ta-Nehisi Coates (!) to Write Black Panther Comic (!!) for Marvel.

p.s. ARE YOU ALL LISTENING TO HAMILTON??? It’s now on iTunes & Spotify! Get on it, and please report back to me your thoughts and feelings on the following: Hopeless / Satisfied, What Comes Next?, Cabinet Battle #1, Burn, and It’s Quiet Uptown, which ripped my heart out and I have not yet recovered.