September 2009
48 posts
CocoRosie - “god has a voice”
Over 150 Protesters Killed in Guinea - NYTimes.com →
Streets were deserted and shops were shut tight Tuesday in Conakry, Guinea, a day after government troops went on a brutal rampage at an opposition rally, shooting, stabbing, raping and assaulting dozens of men and women in a packed stadium. (more)
This situation is fucked up. So, why doesn’t the NYT make it their top story rather than the current story about the suspects in the Mumbai...
WatchIn Defence, my brother-in-law, Ben Crew’s, hardcore band, covering the classic Negative Approach song, “ready to fight,” at their concert in Paris on 9/28/09 (in a small restaurant, ironically, a pizzaria, at 27 Rue Anelaide Lahaye Bagnolier). The crowd was into it, as you can see by their intense moshing and singing-along. In the intro to this song, Ben does a little...
WatchMinuscule Hey - live in Paris - 26/09/2009 @ MAINS D’OEUVRES. Trés mignon! Note the little figures of themselves at the front of the stage. Laurent’s voice reminds me of David Byrne, and Emily’s wide, wild eyes make her look, alternately, surprised and passionately excited about every song. They did a great cover of the Beatles’ ‘hey bulldog.’ Check out their cover of...
WatchCheveu in concert - 26/09/2009 in Paris @ MAINS D’OEUVRES. I was impressed by their ability to connect with the crowd, who moshed hard and sang along through the whole set. myspace.com/cheveu cheveunet.free.fr
“The Ills” - Mayer Hawthorne
Cocorosie - “Happy Eyez”
“In a room packed with reporters and family members, Mr. Zaidi described once...”
– Iraqi Shoe Thrower Is Released, Claiming Torture - NYTimes.com
Malcolm Middleton - “Box & Knife”
The Vivian Girls - “Double Vision”
John Darnielle decimates
In response to Pitchfork’s request for his top ten of the decade, John Darnielle (of The Mountain Goats) says:
Look, I want to say preemptively that I can’t feel good about this, because I have been conflicted about top ten lists all my life. I think my antipathy to the top 10 list stems from when my professor Barry Sanders broke down the word “decimate” for his Chaucer...
The Reigning Sound - ‘Debris’
Circulatory System - “Signal Morning”
David Byrne on The Kindle Experience and E-books →
David Byrne gives a thorough and insightful review of the Kindle and e-books generally. He inspires me to get one of these readers eventually, but I take issue with one of his points:
As with music, sharing things is a way of getting to know one another and a form of reciprocal debt — if I “lend” you my book, you sort of owe me… a book, or something. We’re linked now, which is how we use...
“In Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are,” a child hammers some nails into a wall,...”
– Bringing ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ to the Big Screen - NYTimes.com
Spike Jonze “never went to film school — or, for that matter, to college,” and yet his two films are classics and the next one sounds incredible. Lesson: screw film school, screw college.
