Power of Venn

In the process of thinking about the Power of Venn^{(ideation by Zeroin)} constructs I have been thinking about advice and motivation. I am frequently asked for advice and (I think) almost as frequently I ask for advice.

I have a belief of that advice is "packaging the past and selling it to the future", which is something that I came up with after internalizing and repackaging the adage from that old Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) tune

Below are 2 interesting forms of advice I found useful for inspiration and motivation

From the Jazz great Wynton Marsalis

1. THINK BIG, BUT DON'T BE IMPATIENT. Deferring the rewards of long-term success is difficult but necessary if you are going to have the mental fortitude to achieve them.
2. BE PERFECT IN INTENTION; YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE PERFECT IN EXECUTION. Mistakes, by you and your staff, will happen.
3. YOU CAN ONLY DO THE BEST THAT YOU CAN DO.Keep your goals high, but don't set yourself up for failure. Be patient.
4. DON'T APOLOGIZE FOR A MISTAKE. APOLOGIZE IF YOU DON'T PLAY. Knowing that effort is what matters gives people the courage to always try their hardest.
5. STAY INSIDE YOURSELF; WHEN YOU DO, YOU'LL TAKE A RISK-BUT YOU'LL MAKE AN INTELLIGENT DECISION. Know your strengths and weaknesses.
6. BELIEF IN OTHER PEOPLE'S CREATIVITY ALLOWS PEOPLE AROUND YOU TO BE THEMSELVES AND ACHIEVE THEIR INDIVIDUALITY. If your staff members have the freedom to achieve as individuals, the returns will be manifold.
7. APPROACH YOUR TASK VERY SERIOUSLY-BUT WITH HUMOR. Discipline should never come at the expense of closing one's self to new ideas, and vice versa.
8. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO MAKE TOUGH DECISIONS, AND MANY TIMES THEY ARE UGLY. It's best to be very direct.
9. IT ISN'T MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY. Learn to compromise and be flexible.
10. WHEN YOU'RE A LEADER, SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW, TOO. Good leaders know they don't have a monopoly on brilliant ideas. Be objective and willing to follow Insights you may have missed.
11. HUMILITY INSPIRES PEOPLE; ORGANIZATION INSPIRES A STAFF. Always try to give your staff clear plans and goals, but allow them room for self-empowerment.
12. RESPECT THE FREEDOM OF OTHER PEOPLE AND THEIR CREATIVITY. JAZZ MUSIC TEACHES THAT ABOVE ALL ELSE. Giving your staff the freedom to improvise opens the floodgates on innovation.
13. YOU CAN'T LOOK AT ANY PERSON AND TELL WHETHER THEY CAN PLAY. ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE CAN PLAY. Some of the best talent can be found in the most unexpected places.
14. THERE IS A LIMIT TO WHAT YOU CAN DEMAND FROM SOMEBODY ELSE. Nothing erodes the spirit like a boss who can never be pleased.
15. BE FUNDAMENTALLY TRUTHFUL. Without truth, your success will unravel.

Just keep doing it by Ira Glass

Recent Sensory Stimuli

In honor of March 1-7 being National Procrastination Week...

Don't You Forget About Me - John Hughes Documentary

Robyn Hitchcock - Sex, Food, Death, and Insects

Roky Erickson - You're Gonna Miss Me

Beck Record Club - Book of Moses

Sampling Abby Road

Wow....really just wow here....vintage mics, vintage gear, recorded on vintage and sold as digital.

Beautiful marriage between Abby Road and Native Instruments

"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. I am the eggman"

Ghost in the Machine

Also reminds me of the scene in Zombieland where they are discussing favorite things about Zombieland - "no more Facebook updates"

From Sterling's Beyond the Beyond (a sneaky lil' double entrendre )

...In Mexico, you know what they call Twinkies? "Los submarinos."

Content Delivery Mechanism

"...it's just another way to look at content..." Joe Kernen gets it wrong

Proof at 1:58 in the video, that smart guys aren't always smart cross-discipline

It's a classic fallacy/trap that smart people fall into & I've seen time and time again - I am good @ A so I must be good @ B

Zucker goes on to discusses that they he likes the IPad and see its as way to deliver content as a mechanism to perpetuate payment of the content. Jeff Zucker gets it half right (or is only commenting on half)

What's missing here is the "how" and how much "how"matters. Other people sell music on the web, other people sell books online, other people sell phones. The "how" matters.

• Step 1 (HW) is done by Apple better than most and will draw the audience and the "install base" which entrepreneurs need like life blood
• Step 2 just has a framework the SDK and pre-existing experiences (just...). The important thing is - its the focus area of innovation...innovation in mash-ups, experiences, & business models
• Step 3 is a distribution mechanism that while you could say is limiting in terms of forcing producers/entrepreneurs down a walled pipe (iTunes). However entrepreneurs ≠ Zucker

Step 2 is where entrepreneurs could, should, and will focus. Cuban has some great insights here

Step 2 is the "how"

Little Axe

Feeling some Skip McDonald this gray Monday. Enjoy. Done for day...time to go create something

Circuits Not Channels

Under a "deep throne of thought" I stumbled onto blurb about M.I.A.'s new work with Rusko.

Using the circuit v channel construct spelled out by Umair Haque (HBR Blog, Bubble Generation, Havas Media Lab), they are pushing their collaboration out through Twitter & TwitterPic

Re-tweeted (see widget on left), linked above and embedded below....

Scanning Rusko's tweets provides you a real-time realization of Hague's 9th point below

9. Messy beats clean. Hashtags and @s, Time notes, weren't invented by Twitter - they were the result of people playing with Twitter. Twitter is messy — people can use it in uncontrolled ways — and that messiness means Twitter has better ideas faster than, for example, Facebook.

Analog Weirdness

For a good start to your Sunday Morn...

Wouldnt want to work on it but shows the power of old gear

Blast From Past...brings back my ol' Tackhead days in high school...Adrian Sherwood is the next Lee Perry

Rediscover the origins

Road Trip into the new..

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Its a Lock

Found these videos doing some setup research for the studio...

Rusko at Apple's Miami store (proof no one can compete with Apple in terms of urban youth branding and cool - can you see this in another store - even during WMC?)

Another use of the APC40. It's in the queue for the studio sometime in 2010 but plenty to bit-twit for now...

Pro Tools and Maschine Configuration

Progressive House Mix on APC40 (not my cup of tea but good demo and nice skills on the device)

Finally, check Out Chris Joss on recording tracks from ESL Music and listen to his new offering "Monomaniacs Volume 1". Nice multi-instrumental talent from the house o' Thievery.

Thievery Corporation was also covered on a Current Embedded in 2009. I remember when I bought that CD "because of the cover" 12 years or so ago and it opened up the whole avenue of ESL music. It was one of those moment where I couldn't believe what I'd found and had to share it right away.

Tesla Coil

Watched a portion of Coffee and Cigarettes with Jack & Meg White talking about Tesla's Coil

My 2 favorite lines are:

1. "Telsa perceived earth as a conductor of acoustical resonance"
2. "You dragged it down here in your lil' red wagon"

Plus Stooges in the background is always a good thing....

Stone Cold Monday

Ran into this over the weekend for a new playlist to soon be on Radio 0^N Best flat out funk-soul record/band I have heard in a while that wasnt made in the 60s/70s.

If this video doesn't get you in the bedroom I don't know what will

Middle School (not quite Ol' School) here

Subliminalism

Check out Paul "Professor of Dirt" Curtis's or "Moose" Reverse Graffiti Project who runs an eco-marketing firm Symbollix

From Fast Company

"Curtis's signature technique is cleaning. He strips away years of accumulated soot, dust, dirt, and atmospheric detritus to make pieces like these, which were part of a celebration of street art. He also creates promotions for not-for-profits like Greenpeace and commissions for brands such as Xbox and Clorox's GreenWorks.

Curtis often wonders if his corporate clients see the grim humor in hiring him. "You're encouraging commercialism using a process that reminds people of pollution, which is partly the result of overconsumerism," he says. He adds that he recently rejected an oil company, thinking it was too ironic "that people would ask me to write their name in the dirt they made.""

I Wanna iRock

Using the multiple sensors on iPhone U of Michigan Georg Essl (older link with thesis) is teaching a class on making the iPhone a musical instrument.

Looks like Ge Wang from Stanford is doing similar things

To cap it off, Lou Reed (yes that Lou Reed) and Ben Syverson created "Lou Zoom" to help aging rockers read the text on their iPhone

Dallas Dub Assembly

Come to Me by Dub Assembly

While you are at it check out The SRKs Bass Weight Documentary

Ten CDs For Just a Penny

"Despite all the computations, You could just dance to a rock 'n' roll station"

Beck's Record Club - Velvet Underground and Nico - European Son



Updated with Sunday Morning video, Beck's Record Club, & You Tube Search String for all the VU vids from these sessions

"Sunday morning, praise the dawning
It's just a restless feeling by my side
Early dawning, sunday morning
It's just the wasted years so close behind

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Sunday morning and I'm falling
I've got a feeling I don't want to know
Early dawning, sunday morning
It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all"

Scintillation

SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.

Right Here Right Now

Did You Know by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod; Globalization & The Information Age

In The City

Luc Gut courtesy of Rhizome

And I Feel Fine....

"Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn,
return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,
blood letting. Every motive escalate. automotive, incinerate. Light a candle,
light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush.

Uh oh, this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
and I decline."

Infectious Chord Progressions

Southern Fried Black Friday

Discovered this site last Friday (actual Black Friday) looking for a cover for the phone and I found a place that sells cowhide IPhone covers which rocks almost as much as the IWood. The "cherry on top" is the cowhide koozie - Giddy-up.

Their blog is pretty cool if you are into blues etc... I discovered the Black Keys new project with Damon Dash called Blakroc. Check it out.

Yo! We Geeks Man

Sky Blue Sky

Yesterday I was in serious holiday mode, puttering around, playing piano, guitar, surfing (web), and staring at the tube. Into the Wild came on and after re-watching a few minutes of it I realized I needed to be outside enjoying the 67 degree weather on Nov 23rd. Pinto and I headed for the upper deck of the dock and watched the birds flying over.

Sky Blue Sky, originally uploaded by jasonham.

I snapped this great photo and posted it to Flickr while listening to a playlist, while the birds caught the warm breeze from the south drafting above the cove (yea...so its my own version of the wild...there's an app for that)

One of the sub-themes of the movie, where he cant get far enough away to stop seeing jets fly overhead, made me me aware of the flight pattern to the north east corner of the skyline from DFW airport. I fly a lot but only once have I knowingly flown that pattern on the way to Seattle. It was pretty cool looking down on your own house.


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It made me look for the Eddie Vedder track below in my collection



I have also noticed lately that a lot of folks who have chosen a very unique path, Chris McCandless Alexander Supertramp, Wes Anderson, and Spike Jonze, were born in that '68-'69 timeframe.

To finalize this "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events", (Vedder, Wild, Surfing, Interesting people), lets cap it off it with someone who share the great last name of Hamilton ;-). Another great Iconoclasts from the Sundance Channel



"I've found the best way to take advantage of what a day offers is if you just really let it unfold, let the day dictate it" - Laird Hamilton

"I look forward to what I haven't seen yet..."

Ciao

Animal Magic Tricks

Smallish Hooves



Thanks delicious scopitone

Heaven Can Wait

...and Hell's too far to go.... Love this...Beck + Charlotte Gainsbourg

Old School Surf Style

LA, surf style, 60's and 70's have been creeping into a lot of my free time lately. From finishing off Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice & Jerry Stahl's Permanent Midnight, to the Chairman of the Board Soundtrack, and the new Raveonettes Album, bust out the sex wax (sweet video) and enjoy.



Video found courtesy of 2 or 3 Things I Know

Thank You Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin is the new Quincy Jones. Lets hope his production brings more attention to the Avett Brothers new offering

LaundroMatinee is a good place to catch live video of quality music like the Avett Brothers and The Walkman

Adaptation

Remix it...



Original Below...

Shiny Happy People

Happy fami­lies are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way - Anna Karenina - Tolstoy

Lenny Bruce Is Not Afraid

Looking In

...While You Stand on The Inside...

Check out my boi' KnockedSquared rockin' the Maschine which is a new edition to the 5321 Studio. You can see how powerful it is and how much fun you can have

Nice...thx for the tutorials and the flow

5321 Coming Soon

Traveling around a bit this week but...online presence of 5321 Studios

Through Your Eyes

"I'm just a vision on your TV screen. Just something conjured from my dream. Seen through your x-ray eyes"

Mirage by Siouxsie And the Banshees

Thanks to 3 Quarks Daily

Sloop John B

In the heart of recession, the tenacity of human willpower and the power of American liberty personified

Don't Tread On Me

A Brian Wilson footnote

Probably A Fist Fight

Run, don't walk to the local theater that is playing It Might Get Loud. If you have any appreciation of music, art, instruments, and talent, you wont be disappointed

Got a group of friends together to see it when it opened in Seattle last week. One of them essentially summed it up perfectly (loosely quoted).

"Edge a sonic genius,
Jimmy the consummate pro,
Jack banging on it to get it to come out..."

Chasing Sound

R.I.P. Les. A true innovator

Back From MeatSpace

The 3 people who read this know I have a pattern of taking the summer off from "internet related activities" and try to enjoy surf and sun as much as possible. Summer is winding down and weird changes are a blowin' in...

One concert I wished I hadn't missed this summer.

Dusty Library

Creamy sugar pop from across the pond on a rainy Monday AM before plowing into it....



Modern recreation of the girl groups of the early 60's from Belle and Sebastian

Wall Of Sound

2009...And not the Phil Spector of late...

Breathe Easy Benefit is essentially The Dandy's Odditorium and their friends making music. I am super partial to this Dandy's, J. Mascis, Blank Angels collaboration. The mix of that 5 string bass line, the pounding drums, and the wall of noise from the Angels guitars is slammin'



A bit of history before the super crazy

Daddy's Turn

Live Version of Rich Man's War



Tennessee Blues

Scar On The Face Of Country

When KEXP, SXSW, & Justin Townes Earle collide you get this cool video which has an general interview (title of post from this section) and a live performance (love the custom acoustic with his name on it ;0)

In prep for the complete album, his Dad has a new EP dedicated to Townes Van Zandt from Fort Worth



"Never Know When to Shut Up...I Aint Fooling No One..." from Mama's Eyes

Loop Soup

Contest Winner for Guitar Rig 3 which is making the trip back to Seattle with me next time, to the chagrin of my neighbors

Twice As Tight

Software, Meet Talent...

Some More Frogs

N.A.S.A. video for Spirit of Apollo track "Money." Includes artist Shepard Fairey animation, Ras Congo , David Byrne, and Chuck D preside with direction by Syd Garon and Paul Griswold.



The Specials - Gangsters (with the sweet vintage gear)



Neko @ the Farm recording Middle Cyclone (6 people playing piano at once). My favorite comment in the recent rolling stone article is she wanted to see how many piano's she could get from EBay free.



Neko Live from the previous album



The perfect pop song



The Inspiration for Neko



Cio

Crazy Ass Setup

Finally getting around to posting this…. A friend at work turned me onto this cat from Seattle who plays live drum and bass KJ Sawka. While Drum and Bass has long since gone from my heavy rotation this guy’s live drumming is pure talent.

Check him out doing it live from a Seattle rooftop...



At the club live...



In the radio station studio live...



To quote the video “It’s a crazy ass set up dude – cool”

This really makes me Jones for this setup

Middle 8

There is something about this new U2 album that goes beyond the push and hype around it. Frankly it rocks in the right way. Listen to it streaming for yourself while supplies last. It’s familiar and different, innovative but geared towards singles.

After streaming it for a week, I have been kicking it “old skool” buying the CD and listened to it in my car vs. a few tracks in a crafted playlist that gets ran through maybe 3 times before the next playlist. It’s holding up…

The live video of the title track (which also is my current fav) is illustrative. Its sloppy (good) “ live” which make it rawer, Bono screaming “Middle 8” in the song is funny and cool, and when the Edge stomps on the fuzz box it makes me want to spend a few hours trying to duplicate it on my Guitar Rig3. Clearly the Edge was influenced by the time spent in It Might Get Loud. Plus when Larry “breaks it down” near the near of the song on the drums I am bobbing my head. Enjoy.

Do You Understand

R.I.P. Lux. As I near the 40 mark the greats who influenced me are slowly going away.

Lux, John Aston (Stooges), Hunter a few years back. I still remember when Joe P turned me onto "Bad Music for Bad People" in his bedroom after middle school and I thought "I've got to have that magnificant piece of shite."

As recently as last summer (see listening to sidebar) this resurfaced on my terabyte radar actually getting the CD purchase treatment and heavy rotation.




All my friend are dead...



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Just For One Day

Video Diarrhea to start off 2009

Something New...


Something Old...


Something Blue...


Something Funny...


Something In-between...

Dear Prudence

Wont You Come Out to Play.... 40 Year Aniversary

Playing The Building

David Bryne 1983 – Girlfriend is Better

Down, down in the basement
We hear the sound of machines
I, i, I’m driving in circles
Come to my senses sometimes
Why, why, why, why start it over?
Nothing was lost, everthing’s free
I don’t care how impossible it seems

David Byrne 2008

Down, down in the basesment…we hear the sound of machines



Associative thinking leads to industrial and noise rock to Foetus and all incarnations including...



A primer for that era…



Free Associative Jazz and Noise Rock Parallel Lines.. All Roads Lead Back to Texas



Ciao

We Wont Be Fooled Again

Dirty Tricks….And Politics

While the Internet is being leveraged in a ground breaking way by the Barack Campaign (which surely will be copied going forward)….



...It is clearly opeing new ideas and more streamlined ways to trick folks from casting their vote.

Don’t Be Fooled.

Vote and Vote Early.

Think it Doesn’t Matter? Remind Yourself .

It's Alive

A few days late from Halloween but hillarious none the less...



Attack of the Robots

Met The New Boss

Hopefully Not the Same as the Old Boss...

During this time from rejection (9/29) to pass (10/3) the market tanked another 5% of the entire DJIA plus all of this. If you really want your nether region to go soft, become even more scared about the long term ineffectiveness of the bailout and why someone like Nouriel Roubini thinks it’s probably not enough. Bruce Sterling’s take on this wrt to actually doing half of this is pretty spot on furthering the need for NASDAQ Cialis …”now for everyday use”.

At the heart of this cluster is the 60 Trillion shadow market (don’t call it insurance call it SWAG so we don’t get regulated) of Credit Default Swaps (CDS) instruments…so yea…I think perhaps we should care about regulation and oversight (says the guy wrapped in the “Live Free or Die” flag and running down the street screaming… Laissez-faire…Laissez-faire) At least I have clothes on underneath and my hands are not dripping with greedom…I mean… freedom fry grease. A weird shiver goes up my spine when Newt and I are on the same side but probably for different reasons.

During this time of needed leadership and accountability, we have Presidential Candidate McCain, the same individual who advocated for deregulation before Bush was even sober and was still driving oil companies into the ground in West Texas causing the biggest S&L defaults of it time via Keating Economics.

Even on his way out the Good Ol’ Boy is trying to give us a poke in the raw area by pushing for more deregualtion that makes it hard for any successsor to change, easing constraints on private industry.

Beyond all the blabbering around the idiotic sound bites (Economy Fundamentally Sound) and proposing essentially a plan that Hillary Clinton essentially proposed long before trying to “hawk it” as new and innovative…folks… there is nothing new and innovative about John McCain. His answers to his slipping numbers are to focus on crusty ol’ rhetoric like radicalism of the 60/70s peripheral associates which is just inverted rebel rousing at best and subliminal racism at its worst. Even if you take the malice out of it (I don’t) the logic is like saying I am affiliated with someone because they bumped into me in the subway station when I was on vacation. Weird, inconsequential, stupid, and trivial.

Even his own campaign is now realizing that this Rovian surrogate crap isn’t working when people are faced with a real crisis vs. one fabricated (Iraq then) and then pushed upon them making it real (Iraq now). Now McCain’s new brainfart is order the Secretary of Treasury to immediately buy up the bad home loan mortgages in America.

Look I am not Pollyanna to believe that politicians are not politicians and that Barack isn’t in someone’s pocket but at least we’ll get some someone in there that thinks about the problems, puts smart people around them to think about the problems vs. just 100% cronyism (I’d serious accept 50% after the last 8 years… the bar is that freaking low). With McCain you get folks like Carly Fiona and Phil “Waabulance” Graham.

It’s like the line at the end of Primary Colors where “Clinton” is asking Charlie back and making his speech about “who will do more for the people” combined with the scene where “Clinton” is waltzing at the inauguration and the lady says “now don’t break our hearts”. BJ’s seems pretty trivial now America.

Now for the inflammatory part (insert wink like Sarah...). IMHO this election wouldn’t even be close if Barack was white. Not even remotely close. And that is just sad. Bill Maher had a panel on his show on HBO that stipulated Barack had to be 5-7 points ahead to win because of this. As of this writing he’s up 11 and let’s hope it grows ‘cuz it worries me a bit.

If you believe in meritocracy vote Nov 4th.

If you want to vote for McCain because you can clearly articulate why he’s better for your pocketbook then I understand why you’ll vote on Nov 4th.

If you can tell someone about more than one policy position that isn’t religious based and not use rhetorical talking points in the process vote on Nov 4th.

If you actually believe Barack is a Muslim, or you vote on race, staying at home will actually make your country better whether you believe it or not.

Sincerely,
The Lil’ Blue Dot…Deep In the Heart….

"Trust Me, Everything is Going to Be Fine"

Perfect Summer Song

Never realy heard much from Jason Mraz but his performance was real vocal talent on Letterman. The bar/note rip off of Over the Rainbow aside, pick up your favorite cocktail and enjoy whats left of Summer 08



JKLivin'

Genius When I See It

Choppin' It Up... Watching a documentary on 70's directors, A Decade Under the Influence: Documentary. Directed by Ted Demme and Richard LaGravenese, I was mentally compiling the 5 greats of my time in honor of High Fidelity



Wes Anderson out of Houston meets the Wilson brothers.... Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, etc... for capturing human oddity and endearment



Micheal Mann, Heat, Insider, Ali, Miami Vice...for cinematography and making you feel "there with it" for both the action and the human drama



Coen Brothers for making me laugh until I wet myself with Raising Arizona, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, & No Country For Old Men



Quentin Tarantino with Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill(s), & Parts of Sin City for turning the lust of comics, LA weirdness, and the other side of America into something crazy and cool



The Wachowskis for the First Matrix alone...how many bullet time sequences did we see after the first in the trilogy? The last one is excused on the face that almost all part 3's suck (Godfather) and b/c extra credit is given for Natalie Portman and V For Vendetta



There is No Spoon

I Want Candy

For the Sweet Tooth that never seems to be the one under the pillow.

“Three cookies is enough.”… “You don’t need whipped cream on everything.”…

In a world pre-fauxhawk...the full meal deal

"I Want Candy" Video to round it out...

Pick A Habit

...We Got Plenty to Go Around...

Friday Night Videos Redux. Also at the top of Station 3 @ the Radio Site…Another LA themed song

The Master Texan

Cyrus Jones from 1810 to 1913…. The quality of the video is shite but when you see Willies ol’ face singing this it just looks and sounds right

The Power of B Minor

This begs for a top down summer night on the Strip

A Few Exits off Lost Highway

Now on Fantasy Records...

Yardbirds Redux

Snow on Thanksgiving

Winter finally comes to Texas. Was 27 F Thanksgiving night. Puffy flakes of the non stick variety rain down on the lake and backyard as Pinto chases them jumping in the air chasing, biting, and sneezing as they melt into his nostrils

Light Years Ahead

When you only sound like yourself that’s an accomplishment… This band continues to be light years ahead of everyone else both sonically and in production/industry

In Rainbows...you know the story by now

Play…Repeat…Repeat

"He don’t swear he’s nice he knows he’s nice"…..Cant stop listening to this in the hut, running, gotta post the video. This song reminds me of when I first heard them in the way back machine, when rap had PE, Eric B, Old Run DMC…now I just can’t listen to the sparkly, prepackaged, no sample - lawsuit scared, in-da-club beat, Hollywood Hills wanna’ be gansta shite clogging the airways and eyeballs.

Maybe it’s a get off my lawn moment waxing nostalgic but this sounds both original and old school at the same time, the horns, the acoustic guitar is the shite…play…repeat…repeat. Maybe I can listen to rap again…maybe

In My Own Mind

Creating Your Own Universe...

Postscript: Universal Music Group in their infinite wisdom has disabled embedding. Go here for video

If I Had A Pony

...I'd Ride It on My Boat. For Tammy...

Postscript: Universal Music Group in their infinite wisdom has disabled embedding. Go here for video

Pet Sounds

Mixing 2 parts Brian Wilson Pet Sounds, 1 Part early Primal Scream (Come Together etc...), and half-part DIY attitude of "Friday Night Videos" and early MTV, Panda Bear's Bro is a great track and entertaining homemade video with kitties to boot.



R.I.P. Tiggy & Casey 2007

Indie Wave

Cribbing their name from New Order, Thieves Like Us has a “Its so bad its good” quality to it. It sounds like these guys shopped at the same HW store as the old Daft Punk records and from the band from which they steal their name.

Frederick Jay Rubin

What I learned by Rick Rubin The co-founder of the legendary Def Jam label now American Recordings

"What I've learned about beards is that people like to touch them; it's almost like you've got a dog with you" Esquire.

Spank Rock's tribute below

If Looks Could Kill

tick...tick...tick...4 months to Vegas

"You Know I Am Dreaming of Summer..." Camera Obscura and their blog

Say Something New

Staying with the Birds.Netherlands.Sweden Theme: "Say Something New" by The Concretes. Since Tammy is @ Target currently and The Concretes have been showing up in my playlists as of late, although Victoria Bergsman has left for solo work, it's appropriate.