April 17, 2009
A Bean Feast
I am not a great singer. There are few tunes that I will belt out without fear of embarrassment or retribution. Two exceptions: Morrissey and Salt. Here is the latter: the best song and one of the best scenes in one of the best films of all time. It doesn’t get much better than Bricusse and Newley.
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March 22, 2009
Ray Fenwick’s "I Will Always Love You"
Youtube users Elora, j00ntje and missbeccymay singing "I WIll Always Love You" as performed by Whitney Houston. Mixed by Ray Fenwick.
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March 21, 2009
Clean Break
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March 20, 2009
Lou & Bob & Tom & Randy
Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Randy Newman at first annual Farm Aid benefit concert. Photograph by Deborah Feingold. Courtesy Corbis.
What a weird and beautiful mix of dudes. I think I liked the photo better before I knew the context. It was intriguing, like any old party snapshot captured late at night on someone’s back porch — except that this particular party is full of music legends.
It reminded me of this pic:
For no reason other than it’s a nostalgic shot of four people I love, just hangin’ out. And also, they are musical legends too.
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February 25, 2009
Potato - Rita Pavone
Props to Sean “Spud” Keane.
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February 10, 2009
4th Night by Hope for Agoldensummer
Went to San Jose’s massive but forgettable flea market a few weeks ago. Wish it was more like this one.
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January 28, 2009
Oren Lavie
Her Morning Elegance
Directed by: Oren Lavie, Yuval & Merav Nathan
Photography: Eyal Landesman
Featuring: Shir Shomron
Perhaps inspired by:
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December 19, 2008
Are You Ready?
Here’s a smokin’ performance by Pacific Gas & Electric, a band I just met online 10 minutes ago thanks to my friend Norm (go read about his new book on airbrush art and buy it — you will not be disappointed). Oh glory, there is so much to love about this video — from the sheepish trumpeter, to the guitarist who tears up a great solo despite being physically impaired by an abnormally tiny head and gigantic afro, to the creepy glare from the keyboardist who only gets a shot on camera in the last minute and really makes it count.
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January 22, 2007
N Kishishita on Stenograph
Watch her smash hit video debut now and soon you can tell all your friends, “I was kicking to N Kishishita way before she got famous!”
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January 14, 2007
Brian Eno and Will Wright
Will Wright — creator of my favorite computer game, SimCity — and Brian Eno — collaborator with my favorite artist, David Byrne — talk about randomness and rule-based generation in the worlds of music and gaming. Either of these artists would be interesting on their own. Together, they are magical.
The site that hosts this video, FORA.tv, is everything YouTube is not: intelligent, elegant, informative, with quality, downloadable video rather than low-res web-locked crap.
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