August 2010
1 post
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
1 post
Lacan was right...
…when he said, and I quote, “The internet’s unconscious is structured like a language.”
(via videogum 2 weeks ago)
May 2010
2 posts
Using pictures to understand words
Gustave Le Gray, Grande vague – Séte, 1855, albumen print from collodion on glass negative or negatives (Sotheby’s London, 27/10/1999, formerly Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes collection)
“What is this distinct-obscure which corresponds to the clear-confused? Consider Leibniz’s famous passages on the murmuring of the sea. Here too, two interpretations are possible. Either we say that the...
March 2009
1 post
WatchI feel like I’m no longer in the grapevine, but why hasn’t Spank Rock taken off to find MIA levels of exposure?
I heard this back in 2006 and it stopped me dead in my tracks. Perhaps it’s best that I haven’t heard anything since, keeps it fresh. The video is also good, made of equal parts Atari, ritalin, and Nam June Paik.
February 2009
10 posts
"that's the Love Guru"
From Troy Patterson, Slate, on the Oscars last night…
“The Franco-Rogen bit deserves a full-length critical appraisal. By full-length, I mean a Ph.D. dissertation tricked out with all the jargon about the contingency of gender performance and reader-response approaches to the late Pirandello. For starters, it had five or six layers of media analysis. (Franco: “Who do you think...
confession
redorangeorangeonred:
i have never seen a single clip or episode or anything of the wire …i only just heard of it a coupe months ago …but now i feel i must get it on dvd and watch … .damn peer pressure …apparently if i dont buy it the entire economy is going to melt down …
I’d like to think that my post from ten minutes ago had something to do with this. YOU’RE WELCOME, ECONOMY.
Nilsson, “The Moonbeam Song,” from...
“Lion in a Coma” Merriweather Post...
“You Love ‘Cos You Like It,” The...
WatchSergio Mendes, “Tristeza,” from Look Around, 1968.
Rodeodog makes diagrams for dissertations on...
rodeodog:
I like making simple diagrams. They’re really calming to design, so reductive. I made this one for a certain art historian I know this morning.
January 2009
17 posts
Worst.Idea.Ever. →
(via friponnerie)
yeah. bad idea jeans. museums selling off art is just a quick fix for something that could be weathered and harnessed for profit in the long term.
WatchSYNCOPATED BEETS!
Apocryphal anecdote - Miles Davis made his band listen to and study one track from Sly’s Fresh repeatedly for an entire night. I’d like to think it was the opening track, “In Time.” Notice halfway through when the volume dips real low. I reason it’s an unintended effect of the amount of overdubs made on tape, no doubt due to Sly Stone’s almost...
WatchJohn Phillips, “Mississippi,” from his s/t 1970 album. Turns out he hired Elvis’s backing band and mixed his vocals way low in the mix … which gives it some good quirk appeal.
Animals escaped from Collective
Yeah, so, still waiting for Animal Collective “Merriweather Post Pavilion” on vinyl. Turns out the record co. didn’t anticipate that it would fly off the shelves (it did), so I have to wait until sometime in February to get me a copy. The perils of collecting vinyl. If only there were some digital alternative…
So, yeah. Got a new/old Spoon record - Girls Can...
WatchDoris Day, eat your heart out! …from Fresh, 1973, Sly and the Family Stone
“Cat noise!”
– Liz Lemon. (via thewordunheard) was my favorite line of the night. . (via redorangeorangeonred)
Yeah. Also “A Blaffair to Rememblack”
OMG OMG OMG
Sorry for the enthusiasm, but the last time I got excited for a new Animal Collective record was … well, since the last one. I think this one may turn out diff judging from the pitchfork review. Hmm … maybe I won’t obsessively listen to this one for three weeks, deem it fantastic and near-perfect, and then forget to listen to it ever again.
Also: is Avey Tare vs. Panda Bear...
Baby's first review! →
rodeodog:
Second Nature reviewed at New City…Psychosexual! Varicose veins! I like this guy’s vocab choices…it helps that he’s saying nice things about my stuff too.
Not a fan...
Lastnight, Melissa shared with me her opinion of The Moody Blues:
“It’s like the Twilight Zone had an episode where Bowie was supposed to be a special guest, but then they couldn’t get him, so they hired an impersonator and, oh yeah, they’re playing in a graveyard.”
I think it’s a compliment. She intended it otherwise.
WatchIt’s official: Kanye West is the David Byrne of the ’00s.
December 2008
9 posts
November 2008
52 posts
Battles, “Atlas” from Mirrored…...
The play's the thing!(TM)
Melissa dragged me kicking and screaming, and all I got was this intellectually stimulating experience! Went to see a play called Jon without knowing for sure what it was about. Let me tell ya, it was a night at the theater alright! Really engaging work. Directed by Seth Bockley, who adapted it from a short story by MacArthur Fellow George Saunders. I’m a sucker for mis-en-scène - it made...
Baby Dee, “The Only Bones that Show,”...
