If you’re going to talk dead celebrities, I have to say I think I was more surprised by Heath Ledger than MJ. Even then, I don’t think I could say "moved" or "effected" by the death, but surprised, and maybe a bit bummed ‘cuz I thought he’d probably do some great stuff at some point.
A while ago, MT and I went to this place in WBurg (Brooklyn) that was funded by Heath Ledger and some of his friends. If you didn’t know, you’d never be able to tell it was a celebri-joint, it was nicely understated, the food was fantastic, and the service was warm. It was a great brunch experience. Also, they were playing 12" records that were really great. Some re-issue of a deep Jamaican dub release, and something by this band called Beirut, which sounded like old stuff, all accordian-y and the cover of the record was great. It looked like this:
Did a bit of reading about them, and discovered they’re a modern band. One of the songs was unbelievable, I’ll have to track it down. But in the meantime, I recently came across this mashup where they took the instrumental from a Beirut song (obscure, weird) and mashed it up with a vocal by Ghostface (dope, fresh). It works well…
Save Me Concubine – Ghostface vs. Beirut
[audio:ghostface_killah_beirut.mp3]
solid, good to have you back
good to have the time to be back.
i have all of the beirut stuff if you want it.
shit. to think i could have handed you an album by beirut a couple years back, probably would have been a first. anyways – all the beirut albums are solid gold. good wandering music, good doing shit around the house music – you knows it.
I feel we missed out. But also good to learn more and even discover late.