Eric Lebofsky [ from " Things To Do In An Ice Age "] (2005) Other things to do if you find yourself in an ice age: Talk About the Old Days. Whisper Instead of Shout (Avalanche Avoidance). Use an X-Acto to Fashion a New Antenna for Your Short Wave. Talk To Your Pilates Instructor While Your Search [...]
I saw Sujay playing this small pizza place in Baltimore a little over a month ago. He sat in a suit and a low folding chair next to a mirrored wall, separated from the bustling restaurant by an empty wooden dance floor. He crooned with a soft strength, unphased by being ignored, like he was singing for a previous generation of ghost memories dancing ballroom in front of him. Memories of train stations, wide-brimmed hats, fried chicken with bones, huddling around a radio, and wounded doves. Singing gently, " what will these pizza patrons [...]
Kristin Lucas - Refresh (2007) "On October 5, 2007 I became the most current version of myself when I succeeded in legally changing my name from Kristin Sue Lucas to Kristin Sue Lucas in a Superior Court of California courtroom. On the name change petition that I submitted, I wrote: "Refresh", as the reason for the change. After a philosophical debate on perception of change, and two hearing dates, the presiding judge who granted the request said: "So you have changed your name to exactly [...]
Asher DeGroot, David Gallaugher, Kevin James, and Jacob Jebailey - Walk In The Park "Let go of attachments to what you've been doing for the past year, or years. Let go of failures. Let go of fears you've built up. Let go of reluctance. Let go of your ideas about what your life has to be like, because that's the way it's evolved so far. Let go of long-held beliefs and habits. You have a fresh start. Let go of last year, and start anew. " [...]
John Wildgoose - Midwest Dirty Snow I don't have words today, just a song. I'd apologize, but it's a great song. Lisa Germano - Snow (mp3)
Eric Lebofsky - Untitled (2004) Children and Corpse Playing in the Streets - Fucked Up Beautiful (mp3) : On first listen, the unexpected laughter sweetens, (over) sweetens, (carmelizes on your molars) sweetens this track. But listen again. This time imagine that Marit and Inga-Lill have placed laughter in those exact places in the sheet music to create cuteness. Imagine them glancing up at each other, giggling on cue, and then returning to the lyrics. Fucked up beautiful isn't usually [...]
Alina Orlova - Mamai [For Mum] (2007) Alina Orlova - Lijo (mp3): I speak no Lithuanian, but I speak art and rain. Which are apparently universal.
Geltin - Rabbit (2005) "The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent; and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy. The toilet-paper-pink creature lies on its back: a rabbit-mountain like Gulliver in Lilliput. Happy you feel as you climb up along its ears, almost falling into its cavernous mouth, to the [...]
Yann Orhan [from Nos vies invisibles ] Stacian & Heavy Times Good Style Shop 402 East Washington Ave, Madison Sat Dec 5th from 6:30-9:00 [ RSVP here ] Heavy Times - Night Swim (mp3) : There are only so many things you can say about lo-fi music, and not many of them worth saying. [...]
Alexis Pike - A Teton, St. Anthony, Idaho (2005) Daniel, Fred, & Julie - Runner (mp3): A tape machine on the floor of a garage in Sackville, New Brunswick in the summer of 2009. A semi-circle of folding chairs. On one sits Fred Squire, under a mess of black hair and thick-rimmed glasses, staring down at his feet as he tunes his acoustic guitar. Julie Doiron sits just below him on her knees, [...]
Rachel Whiteread - Study (2005) My desk is made of slippery granite, elbows of 90 degree angles, and feet of concrete. I sit here sometimes, in the perfect silence, and empty sheets of paper with an eraser. Whole novels in fact. I find the more words I take out, the more I'm able to say. I sit here, today, to complete 30 pages of narrative. And I accomplish the task with one paragraph. At the top of the page I write: I WANT TO DO SOMETHING [...]
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Paul McCarthy - M (2008) Vic Chesnutt - We Hovered With Short Wings (mp3): He's the type of guy who'd rather not sing. When people talk to him, he pays close attention all the while offering nothing in return. Smiles and nods nicely until they tire and return to their paperwork. He saves his emotions for laundry baskets and the bottom of sweater pockets. In the evenings, though, he whispers into a tape recorder when no one is listening. Only [...]
Aaron Maurer - Fatal Cure I like when the song title is longer than the post. Amit Erez - Last Night When I Tried To Sleep I Felt The Ocean With My Fingertips (mp3)
John Stark - The Apiary (2008) [from We Used to Have Faces ] Alec Ounsworth - Obscene Queen Bee #2 (mp3): You'll surely recognize the voice. There's no other mumble as shrill. The band is new, though, and bends a pedal steel guitar over an organ with ease.
Sam Green - Lady Merill is a puppet master. She puppets ears drums, up and down to say yes and left and right to say no at her whim. Her blunt yodel pounds the membranes and her screech plucks the hair cells. She makes the lifeless listener expressive with only dirty moans and a ukelle. It's a hard job, but someone has to make humans shake inside. And she does it with her knuckles pressed deep in the skin. Tune Yards - [...]
Michel de Broin - Black Whole Conference (2006) I'm sorry this isn't very subtle today. It sounds like taking off my shoe and throwing it at you. But I'm not mad. Surely you understand. Everything gets old. Mark Eitzel - I Live In This Place (mp3)
Mike Watson - Chocolate Jesus (2008) [Originally inspired by the Tom Wait's song] Jesus Christ (the indie band) - Is This Really What You Want? (mp3): This song sounds like a looming memory. It grows slowly by playing and replaying teen movie morals from back when rewind really meant tape was being rewound. Bouncing echos, beating minutes, intersecting thoughts, all overlaid by an inner monologue. It's unsure, but [...]
Richard Barnes - Animal Logic (mp3) Likely a joy of being a horse is the regal posture and stride inherent to the word equine. And having the largest eye of any land mammal. Also, stables. Soy Un Caballo - Robin (mp3)
Cathy Jean Clark - My Grandmothers' Trees II The Last Dinosaur - Home (mp3): This is the part of the episode where the camera slowly zooms out to juxtapose a weighty decision with its plain context. Wide shot of a twin bed in a stark hospital room. Steady cam of a Toyota leaving someone standing in the driveway. Close up of a hand reaching out to touch a cheek. Slow motion of sneakers [...]
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