Merry Christmas, Everybody. The pictures and video from last night's shenanigans are beginning to filter in, very slowly, so you'll have to wait to see the really good stuff. The night turned into a shit-show very early. There was me, the mouse. There was Tom, the lion. There were two pixies with LED lights and tiny stereo speakers on their wings. There was Zach in a cow hat, Pat in a rabbit mask, Ken, Katie, Arthur, Kelsie, Autumn, Shaun, Erin, and probably others I'm forgetting. We started our pub crawl in the Los Feliz neighborhood, at Ye Rustic Inn. My [...]
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Iowa City's The Tape-Beatles (sometimes also known as Public Works) formed in 1986. They are a multi-media group who use analog tape, film (and, more recently, digital technology) to create beautiful sound collages. Think: Negativland. Their work culls extensively from various sources through a process they refer to as "Plagiarism®". The Grand Delusion was released in 1993. It is "a bitter meditation on the U.S. Persian Gulf War." The tracks use voice samples from various speeches, many of which were made by President George Bush (the first). It also borrows from television news services. I [...]
Official Site Much like Negativland and John Oswald before them, Tape-Beatles (not to confuse with the fab four) chose to be active observants/critics of popular culture, rather than passive participants. Through the use of samples of political speech, TV news and pop music samples, they assembled entirely new songs out of fragments of work done by [...]
Bear-Wolf vs. Human tracks A "Casino insider" has opened up to...Computerworld (of all the possible media outlets?) about casino security and the various ways that major casinos attempt to lure winners back onto the gaming floor so that they can recoup their money. "If you show up and don't tell them who you are, and play at one table and then move to another, and then move to an entirely different area of the casino...[and then] you go to your room and change and come back, they're obligated to try and track you through all of [...]
Ex-Trenchmouth drummer, current weekly funnyman Fred Armisen contributed to last night's Tomorrow Show. Today I walked around town today, stopping at Sea Level to buy some half-priced albums before they close their doors. Tonight there was good home-cooking (or so I imagine, I ate a pizza while everyone else labored over the stove and oven) followed by an all-too-brief barbecue/party at a house in the Echo Park hills. Truly it was a good weekend. This is where I'd express dissatisfaction at tomorrow being Monday if I actually had a job...but I don't. So I can talk about anything! Unfortunately, I [...]
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Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Bison - Quill
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American Idol Finalists: where are they now?
