Anyone know anything about this old Observer magazine cover?
September 2, 2010
September 2, 2010
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
“St. Judy’s Comet” by Paul Simon from There Goes Rhymin’ Simon
September 2, 2010
“It’s a brilliant film. It’s so funny, and violent, and the soundtrack kicks fucking ass.”
September 1, 2010
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?"
— from Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters
September 1, 2010
Counting Sheep
A scientist has a test tube full of sheep. He
wonders if he should try to shrink a pasture
for them.
They are like grains of rice.
He wonders if it is possible to shrink something
out of existence.
He wonders if the sheep are aware of their tininess,
if they have any sense of scale. Perhaps they think
the test tube is a glass barn…
He wonders what he should do with them; they
certainly have less meat and wool than ordinary
sheep. Has he reduced their commercial value?
He wonders if they could be used as a substitute
for rice, a sort of wolly rice…
He wonders if he shouldn’t rub them into a red paste
between his fingers.
He wonders if they are breeding, or if any of them
have died.
He puts them under a microscope, and falls asleep
counting them…
By Russell Edson
September 1, 2010
[Scene change: Eric jumps up and plays air guitar.]
In the Forman kitchen, Jackie and Eric come in to talk to Kitty, Eric telling her that he knows exactly what’s going on, and he imagines Donna with hair like Kitty’s, they both look at Eric’s naked baby pictures, and agree that he’s nice…for a nancy-boy. Kitty laughs and walks out of the kitchen.
The classic TV trope of a parent showing embarrassing pictures to their kid’s dates has gone the way of carbon copies, floppy disks and newspapers. By the time the current generation is dating, every embarrassing picture (not to mention video) ever taken of them will be on Facebook, Flickr and Twitpic for the whole world to see—and will have been for their—the kids of this generation, that is—entire life.
It’s weird how many embarrassing naked baby pictures Mark Zuckerberg “owns”.
September 1, 2010
Other People’s Songs Vol. 1 by Damien Jurado and Richard Swift is a collection of covers recorded on the weekend of August 21-22, 2010 (with the aid of a four-track cassette recorder and a Coles-4038 ribbon microphone). It is available to you (the world) via the inter-webs for FREE. These recordings came about spontaneously, and we wanted to share them in the same manner. Look for another one around Winter time.
August 30, 2010
Song Islands vol. 2 is a 2xLP collection of Mount Eerie rarities out 10/19 on P.W. Elverum & Sun
I’m excited to finally have “Calf In Pasture” on vinyl. Maybe Phil will reissue “Song Islands” on vinyl too.
Many of these songs have never been released before, and the rest have only been released into ultra-obscurity on limited 7” singles and forgotten compilations, finally compiled here for the first time onto 2 white vinyl LPs (with free download!), wrapped in a heavy gatefold jacket with a 32 page booklet of details, all enfolded in a fancy letterpressed bookband. Every song was re-mixed and remastered by the illustrious John Golden. As always, P.W. Elverum & Sun maintains the highest standards of manufacturing quality.
August 30, 2010
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
“Comin’ Through” by War on Drugs from Future Weather
(via yvynyl)
August 30, 2010
Cains & Abels are playing a cool new all ages venue in a beautiful 100 years old Rogers Park theater with Spring Standards and What About Rosiland.
September 8th at 7:30. Get your tickets form Mayne Stage.
(photo credit: David C Sampson)
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