putting the j in jjosh

when you announce that Jeff Magnum will be playing his first show in ten years and tickets will go on sale at noon…I do like their fail page though…

UPDATE – we got tickets! sweet! sold out in 15 minutes…

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Mashup central. This opens up so many possibilities…the idea that soon anyone will be able to use instrumental part recorded by anyone anywhere is pretty exciting. I know the quality's not there yet, but this is just the first step, I don't even think this software is available, this is just a demo.

But still, wowza.

[via waxy]

so Sunday night I went to see some NY esoteric stuff, in John Zorn's concert space, Stone…the drummer for the old no wave band DNA rocked the laptop, some guy played clarinet and Japanese bamboo flute, another guy played glass (hitting it with mallets, rubbing fingers on rims, pouring water in — amazing) and our upstairs neighbor Alex played cello… it was surprisingly awesome, check it out…

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this is pretty sweet. Merton's got skills…

also, in some kind of internet irony, because everyone kept saying that Merton sounded/looked just like Ben Folds, apparently Ben Folds heard about it and filmed his own "tribute", which is also pretty good…the "bobby" song is especially inspired…

sometimes the links move so fast, and the internet works so quickly and fierce, and I end up emailing things to myself, and then I have no idea how, where or why I came across something…

so here it is…

Reverse graffitti, making images by cleaning negative space out of dirt…pretty damn smart…short film (ad) by Doug Pray who did Scratch…

Sometimes a mash-up isn't really that good, but there's still something about it, something about the way it triggers your brain…file under cognitive dissonance…

It feels good to have been gone from the blog for a while, and then to come back and find things like this waiting for me on the internet….

Sometimes in the course of surfing the web, one comes across an achievement of cultural mash-uppery so epic that it defies all we know to be true. Where do people find the time? Why do they feel the need? How did they acquire the skills to make this happen? What does it say about our world?

It is within this context that I give you Paul O'Connel's re-telling of the Wicker Man as an Italian fumetti-style comic with Muppets. Take some time and read the whole thing. It's not that long, and the rewards are great.

MUPPET WICKER MAN!!!!

This is via ATDDTF, who got it from Robot 6, who got it from Tom Sp.

I'd been hearing rumblings of this new Scorsese HBO series about Prohibition, but didn't really know too much about it. Now I have a hint, and man oh man does it look fierce. No air date yet, but "sometime this year"…

To say that I am geeked for this would be an understatement. In fact, I am so geeked for it that I'm already trying to de-hype my own brain so the film has a fighting chance of being actually good. Perhaps the idea of this film is better than any film could ever be. They've got tons of the same folks working on it, Jeff Bridges is in it, and it's in 3D. Whay do we have to wait until next December?

see you next time, Norway…