Hello audience, I'm Evan. It's time again for me to put effort into composing a blog entry. That's right, today is the day you'll get to read my year-end list devoted to the 100 best albums released in 2009. Like last year, I can't possibly write 100 blurbs for all the albums on this list, so I've prepared about 25 mini-reviews to go along with song samples from about 25 of the albums. As far as I know, all these albums were released in 2009, but I am an imperfect human, so there might be an error or two. Instead [...]
Sonic Youth have unveiled the video for "Sacred Trickster," opening track off their new album "The Eternal". Watch | Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster In a black & white Paris, little creatures with paintbrush decide to brighten up the city... Reulf is student project from University of Paris VIII directed by Quentin Carnicelli, Charles Klipfel & Jean-François Jégo as part of our graduate program in Arts and Technologies de l'Image. Music composed by Robert le magnifique & [...]
i, at one time, wanted to start my own label, but i had to be honest with myself and admit that i dont have that kind of freakin time to dedicate to something like that. as much as i would love to venture into something like that, i just dont need another distraction that could lead to another mild obsession. i still may try to put out a few things here and there, but nothing like the scope that i would ideally like to get into. some of my fellow constituents have done just that, parlayed their respective [...]
Today, advertising and promotions are all seen on TV or the Internet or heard over the radio. They all seem to sound, feel and look alike. Advertising used to be a combination of artistry, imagination and originality that you could find on tin signs. At one time, advertising products was done with style and wit that does not seem to be there in today's advertising. Some of the advertising was done on metal signs that were produced by the thousands in the 1800s. Then, with the [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Amazing Baby : "Bayonets" [mp3] other Amazing Baby posts at Largehearted Boy Casper & the Cookies : "Little King" [mp3] from Modern Silence (out Summer 2009) other Casper & the Cookies posts at Largehearted Boy Great Northern : "Houses" [mp3] from Remind Me Where the Light [...]
Here is the Cover Art and Track Listing for Falling Up's Fangs album that drops March 24, 2009 01. The Colour Eoptian 02. Lotus And The Langourous 03. Streams Of Woe At Acheron 04. Magician Reversed 05. Golden Arrows 06. The King's Garden 07. Panic And Geo-Primaries 08. The Moon And Sixpence 09. Goddess Of The Dayspring, Am I 10. The Sidewinder Flux 11. The Chilling [...]
Though it was a crummy year for scripted television ("Knight Rider," anyone?), non-fiction TV provided plenty of viewing pleasures. "Project Runway," "Top Chef," and "Flipping Out" on Bravo each provided hours of pleasure, as did "Survivor," "The Amazing Race" and "American Idol," broadcast TV's best unscripted offerings. But to really find the best of the genre, you'll have to watch PBS and cable. From the high seas to high celebrities, here's a look at our ten favorite unscripted series of 2008. " Independent Lens " (PBS) Hosted by actor Terence Howard, the show's [...]
1997 Best Picture Nominees Revisited: Part 5 of 5 It's common to dog pieces of pop culture once they attain remarkable levels of success. The root causes of this impulse are many, oversaturation being the most fervent. But more strongly, I think, than endless media attention and constant water-cooler/message board chatter, major success breeds a palpable level of self-disgust in some consumers. In order for an album or a film or a book to be anywhere and everywhere, reaching any manner of all-time status, capital-E [...]
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Written by Fense Listening to Lithops for the first time, I had the distinct feeling I was watching someone play a video game. It took me back to the days of the original Nintendo. But not the game console, the games themselves. The music is much too advanced for such a system. When I hear Lithops, I can't help but think I'm watching Super Mario Brothers On Crack played by a wide-eyed meth head. Level Two, "Rosa In A Light Speed Vessel" finds [...]
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Global-positioning satellites turn us all into snails. Not just size-wise, either. From above, the newer handheld display screens show the path of our movements through the day, leaving gray-green snail trails behind to mark our passage. After a while, especially around the regularly visited coordinates of home or neighborhood, these tracks begin to cross and recross each other until they resemble less a single, traceable path than a trampled, muddy scribble. Now imagine that someone has planted just such a tracking device on the [...]
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