Mar 8, 2010

Zach shaves his beard. Awesome…

Mar 8, 2010
Mar 4, 2010
And that’s where the song implicates us. The line says we’ve discarded this notion of America. Not the false vision of small-town purity in Reagan’s “shining city on a hill” speech, a boastful corruption of the sermon by John Winthrop from which the phrase is taken. What we’ve left back there in the dust through cynicism or disappointment or weariness, is the belief in America as a shared enterprise, as a constant tension between hard reality and unrealized dream. The people and the towns in this video are under a spell. It’s as if they are living among the replicas of America in a land where the very idea of America has become something childish we have to put aside in order to become adults.
Charles Taylor, “That Same Small Town in Each of Us”
Mar 3, 2010

Damn you Damon Albarn...

You are destroying my music listening enjoyment. Ever since I’ve stumbled upon the new Gorillaz album streaming on NPR everything else has been bland, tasteless and just fucking boring.

Cut Copy: nope

Daft Punk: nope

I’ve even tried to mix it up; Fanfarlo, Edward Sharpe, Eddie Bo, Funkadelic, Bat for Lashes, Wilco: nope

The only things to come close to the texture of “Plastic Beach” is Yeasayer (All Hour Cymbols) and Yeah Yeah Yeahs (It’s Blitz!). They are the only reason I haven’t already listened to your new stuff 10 times in two days.

Anyway…damn you for destroying what is normally a full day of enjoying music. Hopefully this is just temporary.

Lastly, thank you for putting out music that continues to raise the bar. I don’t say this for most albums, but I will be putting money towards this one.

Mar 3, 2010
Just as bloggers have two basic options - write original content or become a central link warehouse - musicians now can either mold the musical blocks for other “secondary” artists or build the “spaceship” from the publicly available kit. But these are not equal options. I doubt that anyone will sample Kanye’s “Stronger.” It’s a dead-end, a cultural vasectomy.
W. David Marx and Nick Sylvester
Mar 2, 2010

Gorillaz "Plastic Beach" Preview

Don’t mind if I do…thanks @wesleypoer

Feb 26, 2010
Feb 25, 2010
Silverlake sunrise, 2/25/2010

Silverlake sunrise, 2/25/2010

Feb 24, 2010

Note to self

Read more about Henry Darger.

Feb 19, 2010
Some solid Olympic pics up on the LA Times.

Some solid Olympic pics up on the LA Times.

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