hawaii arrival
November 28th, 2009
TW + KK
November 25th, 2009So, NASA. I’m not really 100% sold, though I like the North America, South America idea, and they’ve got some great images and music, and what a line-up of guest stars on the album! But somehow the tracks don’t quite coalesce into the brilliance they suggest.
That said, this is kind of great. Kool Keith and Tom Waits on the same track?! Yes please. But it kind of sounds like they’re on different tracks that were forced together, and even Tom is one of my all-time faves, I have to give it to Kool Keith on this one. The video helps to kick it into a new level though, and it’s fun to see Tom come in as the big smoke monster…not bad…
"Spacious Thoughts" NASA feat. Kool Keith & Tom Waits from Fluorescent Hill on Vimeo.
no more shoes
November 24th, 2009Yeah so today we were going over to smith st. to pick up some shoes
Maxine was having fixed at a shoe repair place. On the way over we had
to get creative with the driving because there were a ton of fire
engines and ambulances blocking a big part of smith st. We duck and
dodge and manage to get in close to the cobbler’s, park, and put some
money in the meter. We head over there and something major is going on
— tons of cop cars, people walking around, chaos.
Maxine was having fixed at a shoe repair place. On the way over we had
to get creative with the driving because there were a ton of fire
engines and ambulances blocking a big part of smith st. We duck and
dodge and manage to get in close to the cobbler’s, park, and put some
money in the meter. We head over there and something major is going on
— tons of cop cars, people walking around, chaos.
as we get closer, Maxine makes the joke "I bet it’s the shoe place
that burned down or something."
and it was.
sure max had to say goodbye to 3 pairs of shoes, but the owner (who we
talked to as we were leaving) had to say goodbye to his whole world…
he said, "it was everything"…
Carl Sagan has insight
November 24th, 2009this has been floating around the net a lot, but I would be remiss if I didn’t clue you in to this elequent essay by the one and only Carl Sagan about the positive effects that smoking pot has had on his life…
sample:
“There is a myth about such highs: the user has an illusion of great insight, but it does not survive scrutiny in the morning. I am convinced that this is an error, and that the devastating insights achieved when high are real insights; the main problem is putting these insights in a form acceptable to the quite different self that we are when we’re down the next day”
find the whole article here:
http://www.marijuana-uses.com/essays/002.html
invaders!!
November 22nd, 2009
where credit is due
November 22nd, 2009There’s a bunch of brooha over this director ripping off ffffound images for his latest video (which frankly isn’t that great), but this video, which he made earlier, is solid. Good concept, gets better as it goes along. The song is ok I guess…I loved that Lenny Kravitz album when it came out…I was in college and Jeff C and I went to see Lenny in concert at GW in DC…he did "Let Love Rule" as the encore and when the song finished, the crowd just kept singing "let…love…rule…" over and over and Lenny walked out into the crowd…I touched his dreads at one point, it was weird…
still, strange move from Justice to remix it, right? Also major points off for disabling embedding in youtube. Losers. Forcing me to go over to his website, dl the QT, convert it to flash, etc. Why? Let people embed it for crying out loud…
retirement
November 21st, 2009
kooky-weird at 10am
November 19th, 2009Just wow. Sometimes a song put with found footage can work together to be kind of subime. Put another way, you know I love stuff that makes me feel like I’m on psychedelics when I’m stone cold sober a 10am in the morning. I feel like I’ve seen this footage before, or atleast some clips of this show…I’m pretty sure it’s Japanese, and as kooky-weird as Teletubbies or HR Puffnstuff…
Stick with it, both the video and song get better and more affecting as they go along…
31 flavors
November 17th, 200931 flavors of geek geeking out on the techno-possibilities of the future…
happy sad
November 16th, 2009I like this a lot…
I’m trying to think of other things that go in there…like finishing a project that has dominated your world for a time…watching a marathon of a guilty pleasure…
you do not need a mirror. you are beautiful.
November 14th, 2009
like a San Fran dream
November 14th, 2009
nice to treat the trees nice
November 12th, 2009
date
November 11th, 2009hey don’t make a big deal out of it, but today is 11/11…I’ve talked about this before, so let’s all just chill, have a good day, and see what happens…
I’m in palo alto, ca, just waking up and you know, so far so good…
BMB
November 11th, 2009
I love that story about Brian Wilson driving somewhere when he was young and hearing "Be My Baby" come over the radio and being so blown away by it that he had to pull over and stop the car. They say that inspired him to make Pet Sounds and that inspired the Beatles to make Sgt. Pepper’s. These days I’m a little burned out on Sgt. Pepper’s; also it took me a long time to be into the Beach Boys, and now I’m pretty sick of Pet Sounds. But I can always listen to "Be My Baby", that song doesn’t get old!
I subscribed to this podcast called Coverville that’s all covers and the first one I listened to had this amazing cover of "Be My Baby"…I’ve been meaning to post it for ages…really good on headphones…
It’s by DM Stith, who’s on Sufjan Steven’s label, and I guess was discovered by Sufjan? Heard that somewhere…anyway, the track is great, I should check out the album…
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