Listening to fluxblog‘s fluxcast that focuses on comedy, and the first track is so damn funny I keep having to replay it…these Lonely Island guys are good, and the songwriting is sharp, the absurdity is fantastic, the beats are fr3sh, the satire is pointed…
plus its so great to hear this track while I’m working on upfronts (i.e., massive marketing tape that will be produced by committee and end up as a piece of junk that everyone hates)…take a meeting indeed…
listening to the In Our Time podcast this morning, all about time, our conception of it, or perception of it…heady stuff for the subway ride in, makes me wanna ditch work something awful…
good philosophical puzzler in there: if the universe was empty, if there was no "thing" in the universe, no "stuff", would there still be time? it’s great to hear the host get more and more confused as the podcast goes on and gets into stranger concepts…
reminds me of something I used to get into when talking about hallucinations, the fact that we are all experiencing hallucinations ALL THE TIME, that we aren’t seeing the sun, we are seeing light that is 8 minutes old, that the stars we see are apparitions of stars (some long gone), that we don’t actually see any objects, we see the light reflected by matter (i.e., we’re seeing what those objects don’t absorb, or what they AREN’T, not what they ARE), that when you get down to some quantum physics, particles move backwards in time, etc ad infinitum.
This is good, but somehow I want it to go further…that is, everytime it does a particularly cool reveal, I want the others to be as good…that said, it’s still pretty good…
It’s no secret that animal habitats are being encroached upon and causing all sorts of weird "coyotes buying ice cream cones" type of behavioral adjustments. I feel like this was big news in the enviro movements of the 80’s, right? There’s that Miyzaki film about the Racoons (remind me to tell you the story of Cakeface sometime) in Japan, that Disney film about the animals losing their homes to buildings, etc.
But I had no clue there’s an entire GENRE of youtube clips all about foxes bouncing on people’s trampolines! The clips are fun and weird. How do the foxes know that this is what’s supposed to happen on a trampoline? It must feel great. They must like to have a good time.
Fun and weird.
Go to youtube and search for "fox" and "trampoline" and you’ll find tons of these vids.
When I saw this it timed out really well ‘cuz I’m reading the 33 & 1/3 about Murmur (which is soso, maybe 3 out of 5?), but I never really knew that REM were on a major label when they started? At least, the same label as The Police, so that’s major, right? That was kind of a big surprise to me ‘cuz Murmur sounds so unlike anything in the early 80’s.
Or so I thought.
I’m ready to re-evaluate now that I’ve seen this American Bandstand featuring Radio Free Europe. The kids love it!!!! The dancing is fr3sh!!!!
So real it almost seems fake. But also so real it’s gotta be real..
Love this. First of all, the intro is so great, sincere and patronizing at the same time…crying out to be sampled in a mix bit…something about her use of the word "specialist", she just lets it drip off her tongue…
Second, this stuff is proto-proto-punk, right? Buddy Holly’s Billy-Idol-esque sneer, the defiant stance, the rip-roaring pace of the song. The drums are just a constant drum roll throughout, and Buddy Holly is just so weird. So gangly and rubbery, the glasses, the voice. Such an amazing track.
this banner is from LA in the middle of January…dreamy…hanging with MM & MT eating sandwiches and watching the sun disappear into the Pacific…this is a good life…
also check this vid mashup from partyben…I love it when the old white guys’ music plays nice with the young black guys’ music…
At some point I got tired of trying to defend comics and prove to everyone that they are as acceptable a form of storytelling as film or literature. People’s eyes tend to glaze over and then you show them something amazing but they’re not really open to it so they don’t get it and it’s a big waste of time. Scott McCloud on the other hand never seems to get tired of it. He has a great talk on TED where he brings up how comics are going to adapt to the internet and he refs a great strip you should definitely check out:
also McCloud’s talk is great, thought-provoking and exceedingly well done. If you have any interest in art, how we perceive images, or the human condition, you’ll probably find something to dig in there. It’s 17 minutes, so save it until you’ve got the time…
