this is josh g

I'm doing this gig for a month in midtown, and I have to take a subway tunnel on 14th st to get to the 1, and as well as a "New York Times published poet" there's always someone playing music in there…this morning there was a guy doing an amazing version of Knockin on Heaven's Door…it sounded perfect, underground, mournful, acoustic, the sadness mirroring the people on their way to somewhere, in between places…

it made me think of watching Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" which is a fitfully amazing film, and for which Dylan wrote the song…I remember watching it with Brooks M when we were in HIgh School and he was crazy…he was telling me how if you really want to make a film you should pick your favorite film and just watch it over and over, learning what shot cuts to what, and trying to figure out how it was made…this sounded horrible to me…I did not have any kind of discipline back then, and the idea of analyzing a movie shot by shot seemed awful…Brooks told me he had done it to PG & Billy the Kid…then we watched it…

parts of it were crazy boring, parts of it were amazing…the part where Knockin on Heaven's Door shows up is amazing…

unfortunately I can only find it in Spanish, but maybe you can still get the impact of it…even today when I heard it, I thought immediately of Brooks and how I've been meaning to break down a favorite film of mine for ages and have never sat down and done it…gotta do that some day…

fantastic.

but without the, you know, kids…

I'm looking forward to picking up this album by Solar Bears when it comes out on Sept 20…they've made a gentle and lovely video for the title track…the video is really well done, and suits the music perfectly…use this to take the edge off your ADD/case/Wednesday…

wow, try to stick it out, there are rewards to be had in this thing…one man's collection of animated gif's, set to the obsessive radio dial switch mash-up style of Girl Talk (which is normally a bit much for me, but seems perfect here)…

Cache Rules Everything Around Me from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

is my new favorite genre. Ok, you could say that this is a little too insider-y for NYC, but there's still something great about it.

I love this…when that rock flute shows up at the end I was like "wha?"

[from SFJ]

This track is really cooking and then this drum solo happens that makes you go "wha — ?"

Nice work kidz, keep making crazy dances up and doing them and blowing people's minds and they don't really understand you but they can't argue with your movez. Keep it up. Apparently this is called turf dancing… [from kottke]

so I downloaded that most recent mixtape from the Hood Internet…and it's pretty blah, which is how I feel about most of their stuff…I dunno, maybe the tracks are better if you know all the sample sources, but that's never stopped me before…

but this one track, damn I can't stop playing it over and over! for some reason Maxine hates the dolphin-like synth sounds, which I love, so I can't really play it out loud in the house, but I'm listening to it over and over on the headphones…so many great lyrics…"training all my zeros to perform like a figure 8"…

hood internet – dark pink goo (Aesop Rock feat. Rob Sonic x Tobacco)

Wow, this is epic…I think I got this from Vince? it's a lot to take in, but also very relaxing…nice…

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.

This is great and then at 2:00 in it gets really really great. I loved Caribou's last album, looks like I'll have to check this one out too…

CARIBOU – Sun from Caribou on Vimeo.

I mean sure, it sounds like Cream, but it is also awesome. Bonus for great video.