The Greater Mekong... is also home to striped rabbits, bright pink millipedes laced with cyanide and a rat that was believed to have become extinct 11 million years ago. Oh my.
From Kanye's secret listening party: After waiting in a loading area with an open bar and a DJ, we walked up a driveway illuminated by florescent lights to a darkened room where approximately forty nude women, most of them wearing face-obscuring masks seemingly made of faux lamb's wool, stood in the middle—black girls in the front, white girls in the back. Then the entire album played without introduction or explanation. Radiohead download stats revealed for In Rainbows.
The birth of Palin's fifth child could have been written by David Lynch.
...One issue is likely to shape the historical perception of the Bush 43 presidency: torture. Mark Wahlbergtalksto animals.
“I keep looking forward to the day when music is a liquid they pour into your head,” he [Wayne Coyne] said. Here are one, two, and three good reasons this is one of the best music experiences of the year.
For years, while Washington slept, most of the serious work on climate change has occurred in the states, and no state has worked harder than California. Google is leading the way when it comes to environmental efforts in corporate America. Smarter,cheapersolar energy technology.
Private-sector job creation has been a sixth of what it was under President Clinton. Five million people have fallen into poverty. The number of Americans without health insurance has grown by seven million, while average premiums have nearly doubled. Meanwhile, the principal domestic achievement of the Bush Administration has been to shift the relative burden of taxation from the rich to the rest. For the top one per cent of us, the Bush tax cuts are worth, on average, about a thousand dollars a week; for the bottom fifth, about a dollar and a half. On Timbaland.
Jack White wrote the new James Bond theme with Alicia Keys. It's almost too good.
There's like five amazing videos crammed into the new Katy Perry video.
Must read issue of the Times Magazine. Will change your routine.
"Bankruptcy punishes those who took excessive risks while preserving those aspects of a businesses that remain profitable." Sarah Silverman on getting your Jewish grandparents to vote for Obama.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's bailout bill is unconstitutional. Senator Chris Dodd's is constitutional.
These numbers show almost beyond doubt is that Democrats are better at virtually every economic task that is important to Republicans. LMAO: "Black comic introduces the RNC."
Why in particular do working class and rural Americans usually vote for pro-business Republicans when their economic interests would seem better served by Democratic policies?
McCain/Palin are guessing rally-attendance numbers (and guessing wrong).
Nielsen Media Research said more people watched Obama speak than watched the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, the final "American Idol" or the Academy Awards this year. What do we sing about when we sing about the body?
Meet Gordon, probably the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue. Trenton Doyle Hancock.
...Scientists engineered a material that can bend visible light around objects. The case of the Syrian hamster is more complicated. The Hand Drawn Map Association.
New REVIEW: "I wouldn't dishonor the greats like that - that would be like adding a Bush to Mt. Rushmore." New REVIEW: "It's tough to be blunt about music this technical."
New REVIEW: have you noticed that "Cover bands are just good air guitarists playing real instruments?"
I PROFILED a great local business called Free Gold Watch.
The TIMES MAGAZINE disassembles a decade of geopolitics and economics, focusing on European, Chinese and second-world growth. I reread this segment 50 times: "It may comfort American conservatives to point out that Europe still lacks a common army; the only problem is that it doesn’t really need one. Europeans use intelligence and the police to apprehend radical Islamists, social policy to try to integrate restive Muslim populations and economic strength to incorporate the former Soviet Union and gradually subdue Russia." I drink coffee. $20,000 cups of coffee.
I took note of the "girls spilling their Percoset out on the lava flow," an excellent lyric from the new Xiu Xiu record, which I LIKED. Interesting ARTICLE on how the iPhone changed models.
I submitted "Did the weatherman say anything about a chance of combinations?" to this weeks New Yorker Cartoon Caption CONTEST.
Mike Patton voiced the vampire monsters in I Am Legend. AWESOME.
Tera Melos is on tour with Finch. An excellent promotional video is floating AROUND.
I THINKthat Vampire Weekend's new album, "at worst sounds pre-pubescent, like upper-upper-middle class New England high schoolers fumbling through Police covers."
I said that "History is rarely this coherent," in a REVIEW of Fabriclive 38 featuring DJ Craze, adding that it's "a real treasure. " I submitted "...The bad news is we need to dive in there right away and do some more exploration" for this week's New Yorker Cartoon Caption CONTEST.
I PROFILEDa neat local business called Brown Bear.
Extra Golden, formerly the John Philip Theodore-manned Golden, relocated to Kenya, where they could use some HELP.
Sadly, a LIST. As Christopher Hitchens has been SAYING all year: "Religion is our first attempt at philosophy, and cosmology, and even in a way at physics." About Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson SAYS: "...I watched how good he was at evading questions, in the best way. He was really good at not committing himself too early to something. He didn't impose his will early."
Check out THIS Daedalus video. He makes it look easy.
Nigel Godrich has independently produced a TV show called FROM THE BASEMENT, where bands like Autolux, White Stripes, and Thom Yorke are filmed in High Def with live sound by Mr. Godrich himself.
I TRASHED a new album by some guy that drummed in Ministry.
I finally watched 28 WEEKS LATER. It was good, though not as good as the first. Do you think they did that on purpose, perhaps as a commentary on our current (and second) Iraq debacle?
So Many Dynamos are almost done with a new record (and it's being MIXED by Alex Newport).
Read a list of songs on Cory Murchy's iPod HERE. He's the bass player in Minus The Bear.
Here's the long TRAILER for the sequel to City Of God called City Of Men.
THIS Onion article is too funny to ignore the fact that I ignored it's existence for nearly three months.
THIS GUYcreated an installation "for an eight year-old's bedroom" where he made hundreds of buttons out of old World Book encyclopedia pictures.
There a Lil Jon song available HERE that is so funny it's hard to imagine anyone but Dave Chappelle ghost writing it.
The Drawn And Quarterly BLOG--where I found that just-mentioned Chris Ware poster--is remarkable.
Chris Ware, my favorite graphic novelist, created a POSTER for The Savages, a new film starring Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
It's only Tuesday and I've read two horrible pop culture lectures: 1) the "POPTIMIST" column compares Britney Spears' new album to Twin Peaks ("...If there's one song that takes Britney right into the Black Lodge it's the album's centrepiece, "Get Naked (I Got a Plan)".); and Kevin Barnes WRITES that "Selling Out Isn't Possible" ("The punk rockers polluted our minds.").
Kenna is the ARTIST-OF-THE-WEEK on MTV, which means that the only music you'll hear on MTV all day will be interesting.
You'll need a MySpace account to view THIS. An impressive, well-deserved list of adulation for Tera Melos.
There's no Youtube of the SNL benefit performance at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City. Yet. But It speaks well of the effort that the PLAY-BY-PLAY is funny, but how could it not be with Michael Cera hosting?
Aside from seeming sensible and being necessary, a lot of the "green" ideas are just plain awesome: imagine a new, environmentally integrated modern metropolis HERE.
My review of the 34-song, two-disc soundtrack to I'm Not There, the new Bob Dylan film, is published HERE.
Congrats to The Stiletto Formal on being SPIN Magazine's ARTIST OF THE DAY.
The new-to-me Wallpaper track, "T-REX", is fierce!
Ian Svenonius (of The Make Up, Nation Of Ulysses and Weird War fame) has a TV SHOW that is slapdash-ish but charming. Watch his interview with Ian Mackaye HERE. Mr. Svenonius is DJing at the Knockout tonight in SF.
Finding places like the Space 1026 in Philadelphia was one of the best things about driving around the country playing music. Cool to see its longevity MEMORIALIZED.
I like the NEW Hives single. Rolling Stone posted its entire 40th Anniversary issueONLINE. I just became aware of a SECOND exceptional video for The Whitest Boy Alive's song "Golden Cage." HERE is the first. Download an MP3 HERE. "The Reverend Pitman wins, threads the anklebone, and puts the it around his neck, his neck splits open and he has two twin 18-year-old sons. Who then become the heads of music television, and run the commodified world and all their investments in it." - from Doseone'sINTERVIEW-OF-THE-YEARon Pitchfork. Check outTHISmusic video for Why?'s "Gemini (Birthday Song)". Made by THIS fan. Lots of new songs on Why?'s MYSPACE.
The Onion AV Club has a fun piece on books that need to be movies, like, immediately. It's an interesting READ.
Spent three hours tonight watching much of Peter Bogdanovich's Tom Petty documentary, which is unfamiliarly honest, detailed, and remarkable. Get a TASTE.
CLICK HERE for the search results to the Youtube search of "Mars Volta Bedlam." These new songs sound atomic.
I just stumbled upon a large, fantastic work by the SF artist Zane Peach and began a love affair that revealed this awesome PROFILE and this awesome VIDEO.
Bridges (ex-Mister Metaphor/Film Noir/Myelin Canopy/Quitter) has a new demo available for worship on MYSPACE.
"I is another." - Rimbaud: Read THIS article about Todd Haynes' new Bob Dylan movie I'm Not There. Then watch THIS trailer.
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