Readability: For Reading!

Not every website is as considerate as this one by using a nice 16px font (or larger!). Not everyone wants to lean in and squint at their screen. Hell, not everyone wants to read whatever is open right at that moment. 

Check out Readability if you visit sites with some kind of god-awful 11px font and just wish they were better looking. It's free and lets you save a read for later just in case your boss is about to walk in and wants to know why you're reading some kind of blog about alcohol and this so called, "Readability" gadget.

Press play on that video above, install the app extension into your browser, iPhone, iPad or whatever other devices it works on. All I know is it's free and I use it all day long.

That's all for tech tips today, tech tip friends. Be sure to stay tuned tomorrow when I tell you about some other app that does some other thing.​

Mexico City, Markets, Skulls & Strawberries

​We've been hanging in Mexico City for the week and with almost a week left, we're are already planning on coming back again. It's a huge fuck-off city and we've barely explored La Condesa, where we're staying.

When we're back to Playa, I'll get up a bunch of photos and info about the areas we've explored. Until then, check out these skulls for sale at the outdoor market next to our spot. I will not put these on my nightstand.

Twin Shadow, Dancing, Leather Jackets

​If you're reading this blog you're either super hip, super drunk or super bored. If I'm a month late on posting this album it's because you're amazing and always a month ahead on music, yet a week behind on your school work and a lifetime behind on finances. Anyhow...

Look, we all know I don't know how to review music. I can't tell you anything about composition or intention, but what I can tell you is... This album is a banger attempt at luring my 80s Synth Pop heart into thinking it's amazing. I do enjoy it and have been playing it lots in the last few weeks, but what I've noticed more than the play count in my iTunes rising rapidly is... 

This guy looks like the lovechild of Prince and Kanye if making sweet, sweet synth love and popping out a 25 year old child was trendy.

It is Animal. It is Human!

​This video is wild and some kinda sexual. Which reminds me, before you pressed play I should have noted that this thing is KSFW. Kinda Sexual For Work. I say kinda because, sure people are bangin' but hit play anyway, it's art.

While watching it you can picture the director pitching the idea in some miscellaneous foreign accent, slim cigarette in hand, "It is raw. It is aneemal. It is real! It is... sexshual, it is human nature!"  Shit, I think I'm just picturing Serge.

What's really going on here is a banger song set to the visuals of snails humping, spiders crawling​, snakes slithering and what I'm pretty sure is the fog monster from Lost giving it to a babe in the forest. That's right. Fog monster. Enjoy.

Happy friday, friends. Go make mistakes in the forest!​

The Last Temptation of Rum

Sure, this song is about the dying moments and resurrection of Christ, so what I'm going for here might be a stretch... but I'll be damned if this song isn't the perfect soundtrack and metaphor for a hangover.

No song in the history of music has ever captured what it's like to wake up half dead, hanging off the bed, dehydrated as hell while spooning a bottle of Jameson quite like It is Accomplished. Turn your speakers up and press play. Your first reaction will be like that of waking up to a headache with a side of regret, "Jesus!"

The sound is piercing and immediately you will wish you had never pressed play. But hold out, it can only get better from there. The bells of resurrection are the Advil to your morning and the drums your Hair of the Dog. Slowly it builds and harmony kicks in. Baby, you're back on top and you've had your greasy breakfast of Peter Gabriel's finest instrumentals.

Finally once you've recovered from Friday night's mistakes and are feeling like you're back on stable ground, you slowly tap back into a few beers with friends, maybe one Jameson just for the road. Just one, I swear! Before you know it, the sounds of the song change and take us right back where we started.

I promise I'll never listen to this song again...