This weekend I watched the bizarre Todd Haynes biopic, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter story. This was one of Haynes’ first films and he made the entire thing primarily using Barbie Dolls™ as actors. It chronicles the career of Karen Carpenter who is most known for her sweet sweet voice in the soft-rock band, [more…]
I’m here, urging you to check out The One & Nines. They are simply fantastic. They are so good it makes me angry. There’s this incredibly soulful R&B throwback sound. The stench of authenticity. The musicians hit all the right notes and Vera has the kind of voice that will make you [more…]
A movie review? Well because of a case of the Swine, I got a chance to watch the film Paper Heart today. Kind of hard to pin down exactly what kind of movie this is, but I can report that it was quite charming. It’s part scripted romantic comedy and part documentary. [more…]
Fantastic Google promo entitled “Out Of Office” produced by my buddy Anthony featuring the best band on planet Earth, The National.
Yep, why didn’t you think of this?
I wish a came up with this. This is the music video for Oi Va Voi’s “Everytime”. It is done in stop-motion using shredded still frames. Or so it seems. Great song. Alternative Electronic Jewish Music! Pretty neat effect!
Oi Va Voi “Everytime” from Kijek / Adamski on [more…]
Awesome songs. Awesomer video. This haunting and beautiful animation was created by Emmanuel Ho for the Austin band I love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness. However, some genius editor revisualized the video for the song “Arcadia” by Apparat. Both videos are pretty terrifying but I think I prefer the new “Arcadia” [more…]
Bullets are mesmerizing. Especially in slow-mo. Found this on Kottke.org. 10 minutes of bullets shot at things and set to trance music. Captured at 1,000,000 frames per second. I bet you watch the whole thing.
Meditation on reflection and the effects of drastic grooming.
This is too amazing to not share.
For those that don’t know what Daytrotter is, its a website that gives you new music each day. They get road-weary bands to come in for a few hours and record a couple songs at their Rock Island, Illinois studio. Intimate. Raw. The [more…]
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