A few years ago, in the halcyon days of my youth, I found myself in a mind-numbingly menial summer job that involved excessive exposure to Radio One all day everyday. This was, of course, a black period in my life, but the incessant nagging and appalling playlist repetition did serve one purpose. It was in this manner that I first heard about the SXSW (South by South West) Festival . Now it appears that SXSW can be the making or breaking of many a new band, and is as such considered "quite a big deal". Alas, SXSW [...]
God that was a dreadful headline, I'm really sorry about that. For those of you whose sense of humour has just filed for divorce and fucked off to Barbados in your new Porsche with the pool boy, you have my sincerest apologies. What is all this about then? Well, seeing as on the recent Aberfeldy thread we ended up talking about supporting the Edinburgh music scene, it seemed like the perfect time to mention this. Found are one of a few Scottish bands playing SXSW this year, and are trying to raise the money [...]
Artist : Daniel L Title : Founding Genre : techno/minimal-house/tech-hous e RipDate : 03-01-2009 Label : D-Force Songs : 04 Catalognr : 1000 3146 Url : www.junodownload.com Source : WEB Tracks: 01.polygon 02.polygon herman justa remix 03.dream your dreams original 04.dream your dreams jd boiz remix Download | [...]
No comment accept that, yes, I did eat them. It was the weekend.
I was wading down a shallow river next to a camp site in the Catskills when I saw these under some sand that had washed up on shore. NSFW. Above: A dead walrus washed up on the shores of Bristol Bay, AK MP3: Aretha Franklin - Border Song (Holy Moses) MP3: Randy Newman - Naked Man
It's late, I know, leave off. I just couldn't face anything yesterday, after four consecutive nights of industrial drinking and four consecutive early rises. I was tired, horribly hungover and just wanted to stare into space for eight hours until I was allowed to go home. Even an hour of stomach-churning 5-a-side football wasn't enough to make it all go away, so I went home, had a bath and collapsed in bed. I'm better now. Sweet sleep, I had missed it so. So I hope you don't begrudge me my day off. [...]
US investment bank Lehman Brothers may be toast, but their recruitment website is still going strong (suddenly amusing videos here ).
Unless you're a professional designer that is. But if you just want an endless and random stream of wicked cool graphics and photos compiled by what appears to be predominantly other design freaks, then ffffound.com is for you. Having not heard about it before, I sort of stumbled across it, though it's well-known enough to make TIME magazine's 50 Best sites of 2008. Don't even know what this is trying to say but I like it.
Every few weeks I check the New York Review of Books website for new Long-winded Essays by Famous People disguised as book reviews. I was surprised today to see that this old dog has learned some new tricks and has been, since late June, podcasting , most recently an interview by Hugh Eakin with Michael Chabon straight outta the DNC. Chabon has a piece on his experience there coming up in the next Review. That's word.
sebadoh: gimme indie rock
Get it? I was combining fashion with fascism. Nevermind. But so I spotted this advert on Stockholm's famous car-free shopping boulevard, Drottninggatan , featuring people holding signs of famous designers, parading along toward the big summer sale. The folks holding the sign for Karl Lagerfeld , Germany's most famous clothes designer, are goose-stepping. I understand modern advertising knows no bounds, but that ball might have landed off sides.
w.t.f (as the internet kids say). this amuses me in ways i can't even begin to explain... devo: mongoloid yo la tengo: bad politics
What's going on here? Seeing this week's Der Spiegel cover story, "Macht Das Internet Doof?", I immediately thought of Nicholas Carr's cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic , " Is Google Making Us Stupid ?" What's the deal? Not stopping at using what is essentially the same title (in the context of information, how different is The Internet from The Google?), they just went ahead and took the cover idea too, happy that German also has a perfect double-oo word for stupid. Dunno if [...]
My liver is delighted to announce that there isn't really that much on in Edinburgh this week, which is a bit of a relief. There are a couple of ways to spend your evening in a musical fashion however, and they are these: Wednesday 12th March: Found at the Wee Red Bar. This is another gig put [...]
I love these two bands, absolutely love 'em, so tonight was a bit of a special day in the gig calendar of Toad. Down the Tiny Steps are a sort of folky, electro, Scottish almost-hip-hoppy-at-times group based around the fantastic songwriting of Johnnie Common. The group has had a rough time recently, losing the drummer [...]
Chuck Palahniuk's latest novel, Rant: An Oral Biography of Rant Casey , is a refreshingly presented oral history that combines a rabies epidemic, an urban car craash sect, and time travel. In any other author's hands this would easily fall apart, but Pahlaniuk manages to tell the story of Rant Casey via multiple narrators with ease, charm, and a strong understanding of human nature. For two weeks, enter the coupon code "LHB001" at Atomic Books and receive 15% off this title. My [...]
Besides a couple of anthology comics and the logo for Moops Music , I haven't seen much of Ivan Brunetti's work. I had read his Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories last year, and found it invaluable to a budding comics and graphic novel fan. Misery Loves Comedy collects the first three issues of Brunetti's legendary comic Schizo along with various other published and unpublished works. I was surprised at how dark the comics were, as well as their humor. I [...]
Midnight Mavericks is subtitled "reports from the Underground, and includes profiles of indie musicians, filmmakers, authors and cartoonists. Gene Gregorits founder of Sex & Guts magazine, interviews a wide selection of interesting subjects, from John Waters to Andrew W.K., from Patton Oswalt to Carla Bozulich. Gregorits is a knowledgeable interviewer, and draws his subjects into deep discussions about their craft. These interviews were always enlightening and intriguing, and I discovered several artists (mostly filmmakers) whose work I will search out. For fans of indie music and film, this book is an indispensable resource. [...]
Last year, I read Kim Deitch's graphic novel, Shadowland , and was captivated by his narrative skill and underground-comic style. I expected much from Alias the Cat , and Deitch exceeded every expectation. Deitch places himself in the storyline, examining the history of a mysterious cat doll (Waldo, a recurring character in Deitch's comics). Deitch is a master at weaving past tales with the present, and as his character obsessively discovers Waldo's past, the reader is constantly amazed. For two weeks, enter the coupon [...]
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