putting the j in jjosh

"The Earth together with the Moon, as seen from the Messenger spacecraft to Mercury, May 2010."

[from warrenellis]

hey you guys know that story about GZA being at SxSW and showing up really late for his set and being completely drunk and forgetting lyrics and just generally giving an awful show? did you know it was because he had been partying it up big style with Bill Murray getting wasted in the middle of the day? true!

check the relationship below from JJ's Coffee and Cigarettes, which you don't need to see really…bu this scene is so amazing. The way he cuts to the close-up when BM says "Wu Tang Clan!" And the little augmented "ting" when the tea cups clink…so much fun…"I wouldn't hold my breath on Ghost"…

and yes, we're in the Bahamas. hopefully it's pretty sweet…I'm setting this up beforehand…it's a charming animation about first crushes…really well done…got it from ze frank, who is awesome…

got this from JeffH and it is a good time. as one commenter says on the vid's page: "my day was going mediocre until I saw this."

Bhangra in the East Village from Derek Beres on Vimeo.

from JG, who got it from JW…this turned my day around for the time I was watching it…good good feeling of natural good…

this is so entertaining…there's definitely a "hey I didn't know this was going on" vibe to it…the music is so hard…and I can't really tell what makes one kid better than the other, but somehow, I can kind of tell…check what the kidz is into:

[via SIEGE]

it's gonna be slim pickens for a little bit yet folks, we're off to the Adairondacks and PA and DC for shooting for the doc, back on Sunday, will resume posting then, don't panic…I will try to keep the pics and good vibes flowing…

meantime, to tide you over here's a picture I made of Tupac's body and Steve Jobs's face.

making your Monday feel better. here's Mr. Eno:

"If you walk around with the idea that there are some people who are so gifted – they have these wonderful things in their head but you’re not one of them, you’re just a normal sort of person, you could never do anything like that – then you live a different kind of life. You could have another kind of life, where you say, well, I know that things come from nothing very much and start from unpromising beginnings. And I’m an unpromising beginning, and I could start something."

finally, a 3rd party I can get behind. if I vote Bear next election it'll probably do more good than when I voted Nader in 2004…

[made by the ever-lovin PDvis!]

So I'm heading out to the UK for a couple of weeks — if the snowwicaine doesn't spoil my plans, which it probably will — so things may be a little more quiet than usual…I've got a couple of posts scheduled in the queue for next week, and I'm taking my phone, so if I can get the international picture send working, I'll post some pics…

otherwise, I'll see you back here on 3/16…

So last night tuesday I went to see Four Tet at Le Poisson Rouge and it was a pretty interesting show. For one thing, it started at 11pm and I'm slowly realizing that I'm not sure I want to do late night shows if I have to go into work in the morning. The crowd was geek-chic, which was cool. The opening guy was really good, I did an iphone film to kind of give you an idea…it's pretty loud on the vid, but you have to imagine it so loud it hurts your ears:

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KFan's post on knowing random songs makes me remember…

Lisa and Lars had their wedding out in the middle of rural Maryland, near where Lars's parents had a summer house. It was the middle of nowhere, in a forest by a river. Everyone who attended camped out, the ceremony was held in the forest, and afterwords the reception was held in a clearing in the forest around a giant bonfire. Drinking and much hilarity ensued. I remember at one point we were trying to roast marshmallows but the fire was so huge and fierce that we had to get branches that were like 15 feet long to put the marshmallows on. Otherwise it would scorch your face off.

I was talking for a while to Damien G, who I didn't really know that well. We were well on the way to being drunk, and somehow got to talking about how awesome Danny Kaye is (I would love to read a transcript as to how we got to that point!)…this led to me bringing up the best DK film, The Court Jester. When my family lived in the UK and had just gotten our first VCR, one of the first things we taped was a Channel 4 airing of The Court Jester, and my sister and I would watch that thing over and over. We got to the point where we could do most of the dialogue, and pretty much all of the songs. When we came back to the US, my dad got a special VCR and TV so we could still watch PAL VHS tapes, and KT and I would have a viewing every now and then.

When I brought it up to Damien he exclaimed how much HE loved the film too. And then we were off, singing the songs and stumbling around. It was amazing, our knowledge was so solid, we were rocking the songs so hard. Everyone else was looking at us like, what the hell? It was like a moment out of a musical brought to life. You know? Like those moments where everything was moving like normal life and then suddenly 2 characters burst into song and somehow they know all the words. It was amazing.

(the last time I saw The Court Jester was fantastic, Maxine put together a whole surprise birthday for me at a Diner and everyone at the party watched it while we ate onion rings and drank milkshakes…)

Even now I sometimes find myself singing the main Jester song to myself. I mean, check the rhyme scheme, it's so sweet…say it out loud, feel how well constructed it is:

when I was a lad, I was gloomy and sad as I was from the day I was born

when other babes gurgled and giggled and wiggled, I loudly was proudly forlorn

this slice of nostalgia and niceness and decency and good old-fashioned humor should make up for the creepiness of the previous post, right?