Spiritualized - Soul On Fire
A new track from the forthcoming Spiritualized record, Songs in A&E to be released in the UK on May 26th and a day later in the US (according to Amazon). Hey Jason Pierce, let’s release more than 1 record every 5 years! It’s been too long.
I really like the record on one or two listens. I’ll formulate a better review but the quick one is very smooth for the first half, rocking and all out for a couple middle tracks and then back to smooth for the finish.
March 31, 2008 – 11:11 am - Comments (2)
A Picture of Our Torn Up Praise
Phosphorescent - “A Picture of Our Torn Up Praise”
March 31, 2008 – 9:00 am - Comments (1)
It takes two to make a thing go right, it takes two to make it outta sight
March 29, 2008 – 8:22 pm - Comments (1)
Four capital letters… ask my name
Justice - DVNO
I’m not even a huge Justice fan, but I love this video as a typophile, one who loves typography. I also love the crunchy bass riff at the end.
March 29, 2008 – 7:46 pm - Comments (0)
A Love Supreme
I am half awake at my computer desk reading my email drinking a C-Boost Tropical Fruit Smoothie and my daughter, Maya opens the door and walks up to me and says, “Dahh-dee.” I look down and somehow she has acquired my CD of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme.
So I put the disc into my computer and she picks up a pen and starts to draw. Elvin Jones’ drums and Jimmy Garrison’s bass kick in and she’s drawing… McCoy Tyner’s piano lays in there, she’s drawing. Wham! John Coltrane comes in with his tenor sax and she stops what she is doing and looks at me and smiles.
Pure love is supreme, a love supreme, a love supreme…
March 28, 2008 – 10:17 am - Comments (1)
Frozen Grand Central
Via Peter Centofante
I hate improv comedy, but I love these kinds of mass stunts and social experiments.
March 27, 2008 – 6:12 pm - Comments (2)
The Obama Doctrine
The following is taken from an article from The American Prospect on Barack Obama’s foreign policy strategy that Ethan Marcotte linked to yesterday.
They also share a formative experience with each other and with Obama. Each opposed the Iraq War at a time when doing so was derided by their colleagues, by journalists, and by the foreign-policy establishment. Each did so because they understood that the invasion and occupation ran counter to the goal of destroying al-Qaeda. And each bore the frustration of endless lectures on their lack of so-called seriousness from those who suffered from strategic myopia.
“There is a popular notion that Democrats have to try to appear like Republicans to pass some test on national security. The fact that that’s still the case after Iraq is absurd,” says one of Obama’s closest advisers. “So you break from that orthodoxy and say ‘I don’t care if the Republicans attack me because I’m willing to meet with the leadership in Iran. We haven’t for 25 years, and it’s not gotten us anywhere.’”
March 27, 2008 – 5:42 pm - Comments (0)
Past Due
Today is my wife, Christie’s due date. It had looked like we were going to rack up some late fees, but we got the baby re-checked out for another week at the doctor’s office today. Basically what it comes down to is, Christie has another week to have the son of a gun (that’s right, I’m a gun alright) or they’ll go in after him.
We have a week left for you to submit some name ideas for the boy and for me to clean up the house and get another car seat installed.
Also keep Joshua Neds-Fox (JNONFICTION) and his family in your prayers and thoughts today as his wife, Zena is scheduled to deliver their new daughter, Eleanor.
March 27, 2008 – 3:24 pm - Comments (2)
In the year of our Lord, 1995
I went down in the basement and opened several of my nostalgia boxes and found a mother load of cassette tapes. Most of them were mix tapes I made for people in which were never given, that I had doubles made or that I made for trips and for the summer jobs I had driving cement trucks (CDL Class A licensed driver here - yup, the chicks dig the “big truck”). In the mix of tapes I found a Denon cassette tape (Yes, I used high quality Denon tapes, I’m a nerd!) with the label “ninety-five favs.”
So I listened to the tape and picked the 12 of my favorites and ones I could find from that tape (the tape had more tracks) and created another muxtape. Some artists that got the nix for the mux: Pulp, Red House Painters, Catchers, Morphine, Son Volt, Wilco and the High Llamas.
Listen to the sounds of 1995: 1995.muxtape.com
March 27, 2008 – 12:37 am - Comments (2)
Rawk Out in Dayton - I Can Feel It
Mountain Battles Record Release Party from The Breeders on Vimeo. – NOTE: Video is 38 Min.
Kim Deal is really this cool and down to earth. One of my highlights of last year’s SXSW was hanging out with Kim Deal at the Merge Showcase for about 10 minutes. She and I were talking about her new record and how she was doing some recording in Texas. She was making fun of 4AD because apparently they forgot to invite her to the 4AD showcase even though “I am in friggin Texas already!”. Why was she telling me all this? I have no clue, but she seemed to be one of those people who was open and not about celebrity or anything. I guess Dayton can do that for you.
I bought her a beer and she was like, “thanks a bunch Jim, but I think I get these for free here.” I replied while taking back my beer, “I guess I bought my buddy Zach a beer!”
FYI: You’ll see fellow blogger, designer and photographer extraordinaire, Chris Glass in front of the camera and he’s behind the camera too. Here’s his post about it.
March 26, 2008 – 3:03 pm - Comments (0)
