Blog: I'm Just Sayin Is All...

Loretta Lux - The Boy (2001) "Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity." "The oppressor never voluntarily gives freedom to the oppressed. You have to work for it. Freedom is never given to anybody. Priviledged [...]

Kyle Pfister - The Right Angle (2005) Today I told my gamer friend Josh that his mom got shot. He didn't flinch. You know why? Because the real world doesn't exist to him when he's gaming. And that's all day every day. Why don't I kick his ass? Because you should NEVER mess with a gamer . Beware, scissors can be thrown without consequences in their fantasy world. And especially don't mess with their swords [...]

I built a Wall of Dissent in the middle of the road in front of my house to obstruct the traffic of our lives. It was made of cardboard liquor boxes and hope. Most cars were able to navigate around it, though one minivan got a box stuck underneath it and had to stop to clear the way. The public display was accompanied by accapella versions of our favourite Negro spirituals and YMCA as a postmodern protest song. Though the wall's contruction stood to challenge police-state adherance to social norms, it also fell in dissent to loud demmands [...]

Tom Friedman - Self Portrait in Gand (2000) Sixsidedbox - Wicked Disguise (mp3) They say that life is just a game. I don't remember signing up, besides it's not a game I'd want to play.

AMY X UPDATE: I know I JUST posted on Amy X Nueberg , but she is seriously AMAZING. You know how you find an artist and then can't remember how you ever lived without him/her/them? [I couldn't figure out how to write that in the passive voice, so I'm sorry if it was uncomfortably intimate] Amy X Neuburg - Life Stepped In (mp3) Amy X Neuberg - My God (mp3) Buy Amy's album "Residue" on iTunes . [...]

Marcel Duchamp - Bottle Rack (1914) 1) Rilo Kiley - Such Great Heights (mp3) [Thanks RadioFree Internet and You Ain't No Picasso ] When I first heard the Postal Service, I don't think I imainged a collection of modern campfire sing alongs. Now, maybe. 2) The Winks - The Castle in the Clouds (mp3) My new drinking song (tea and whiskey). 3) The [...]

So, BIG NEWS... Kraftwerk will release a new album called "Evolution" supposedly inspired by Charles Darwin. The source? Well, I can't read it - but the photos are HERE and HERE . Kraftwerk has been exploring theories of evolution over the past twenty years, completely removing the humanistic from it's music and live show. They released Computer World in 1990, but it seems the themes and the music are timeless. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (mp3). Kraftwerk - Radioactivity [...]

My Love - Over The Rhine Ladies: Mike can be reached at 920-988-2212 My life is a joke EVENT OF THE DAY : Inebriated, I attempted to cook mac & cheese and couldn't keep track of how many times I added the liquids. We meerly poured off the cups of extra liquid and served the pasta to two bands who happened to be sleeping in the living [...]

David Wojnarowicz - Untitled (1991) The Boy Least Likely To just released a video and a tour announcement. In the spirit of celebration, check out the media and some more boys least likely to... Be Gentle With Me (mp3) and VIDEO and American Tour ! Boy Least Likely To... Have Sex With a Woman Boy Least Likely [...]

Leslie & The Lys Leslie Hall is an art-rap goddess bursting out of the fields of Iowa with a beloved beatbox radio and two backup "smooth hot ladies with a case of rabies". Her sweet flow and committed live show establish her as a glittery princess dominatrix whose belly vibrates with the frequencies of greatness. With the release of "Gold Pants" (available on iTunes for only $9.99) and the ectopic birth of the mobile Gem Sweater Museum, Leslie's homegrown hip-hop is catapulted like a fireball at nationwide acclaim. [...]

As the anticipation for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2006 builds, check out a film compiling stellar performances from the past 6 Coachella Festivals at a theater near you starting January 24th. We can only cross our fingers that the '06 lineup includes a fraction of the talent that the movie boasts with The Arcade Fire, Belle & Sebastian, Bjork, Bright Eyes, Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Fischerspooner, Flaming Lips, Mars Volta, Pixies, Polyphonic Spree, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Saul Williams, Squarepusher, White Stripes, Zero 7, Beck, Mos Def, and more. If you've never [...]

Robert Rauschenberg - Retroactive (1964) Amy X Neuburg's psychoses interact to produce a beat of complex voices, which she pumps through a meat grinder of decidedly bulky technology to output a conflicted, poignant product. Heavy on operatics and featuring impressive trans-octave maneuvering, Amy manages to construct a surprisingly pleasant listen characterized more by the flowing emotion than the hodgepodge of voice loops. Her themes resonate on continuums between the everyday and the surreal, the common and the poetic, the simple and the complex, the organic and the electronic. I'm intrigued by both her brilliance [...]

The Cleveland Browns are manic danceable indietronic with a high-energy interactive live show. Sincere, layered vocals skip over low-fi beats arranged with a mature pop sensibility. Their website boasts, "If prince was wearing a tracksuit at a bar, THE CLEVELAND BROWNS would be on his iPod." So if you find yourself on a bar stool next to the unpronounceable , you'll want to be prepared to communicate non-verbally via the international art of playlist-swapping. Cleveland Browns - Searches (mp3) ...and who [...]

If you find yourself in Madison on the evening of Friday, December 30th 2006... The Dark Side of the Moon exhibit is assembled approximately every three years in observance of the Dark Moon. When two New Moons occur in a one month period, it is called a Dark Moon. The Wiccans refer to it as a Black Moon, and believe any magic worked during this period to be especially powerful. FRIDAY DECEMBER 30th ALL NIGHT STARTING AT 6PM on the 3rd Floor of the warehouse gallery at 100 S Baldwin [...]

J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere - Onile gogoro (1975) [Nigeria] The independent music landscape has characteristically been a supercontinent for musicians of "difference", historically supporting unique sounds from from Britian and increasingly inclusive of integral bands from such places as Iceland, Canada, and Sweden. If you're lucky, you may be able to hear the Icelandic language in a drunken crooning of Sigur Ros-ian "asy eeaahhh, o". However, African music has somehow remained distant and foreign, classified with a vague "World" tag and piled in undifferentiated stacks as far away from the casual listener as [...]

Jeff Koons - John the Baptist (1988) DJ Earworm - Since U Been Gone (mp3) A nice remix of Kelly Clarkson's white privilege anthem (/I Get What I Want/) with Depeche Mode, though the Ted Leo remix (mp3: A Whole Lotta Nothing ) still wins for sincerity and the YeahYeahYeahs breakdown. C'mon if Earworm can remix her vocals, I can remix her intention. My DJ Earworm favourites are still [...]

Cady Noland - Stockade (1984) Boy Least Likely To - Be Gentle With Me (mp3) I'll most likely yarf if confused, so be gentle with me. This beautiful pop band from the UK made you a Christmas present called Little Donkey (mp3). Yes, the Christian faith is dependent on an underappreciated donkey. My life is a joke EVENT OF THE DAY : Violent [...]

Been inspired by Saul for some activism lately... Saul Williams - List of Demmands (mp3) (image from Coachella 2004) An EPA Environmental Health Excellence Award was announced for some Legacy programs I'm involved in. Pretty proud. Check out the second bullet. Tonight I thought the "terrorists" had finally mistaken Madison's capitol for our country's. Turns out the bombing was just an American plow dropping snow like democracy all over the savage pavement from the top [...]

Cheers to the realigning of the holidays. To the first day of Hanukkah on Christmas day. To discussing Jewish mysticism over a glass of Spanish wine and Catholicism over AIM. To McDonalds taking a break from peddling low-grade, facotory-grown beef and economic bulldozing to join in the selling of superficial happiness during December. To dead minivans and live family. To lentil soup reminding of Jacob's birth rite and email. To wet socks, empty bank accounts, and being misunderstood. To sisters and indie rock. To melted chocolate, missed phone calls, and iPods. Hope you have a REAL holiday.

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