So all is good. Last week (maybe it’s two weeks ago now?), we went to see the Homosexuals play at the AS220 which was amazing. Met Bruno Wizard (frontman) who was crazy/entertaining and bought their/his new Love Guns EP which is quite good. He says he’s working on a full length with his original guitarist in London so I can’t wait for that to come out. I asked him for a band name to use and he said Mongolian Milkman which is okay, I guess. Last night we went to the RISD Museum for one their regular Music Fridays. The music was, eh, a covers band, but we both really liked the Dale Chihuly glass exhibit. Here’s some photos:
Dale Chihuly at RISD Museum #1
Dale Chihuly at RISD Museum #2
We missed the David Macaulay show so we’ll have to go back. It was great finally getting to see the Chace Center now that it’s done. I’ve been listening to the excellent new Deerhunter alot this week (”Microcastle”). I really love Bradford Cox’s voice. Also been listening to Gang Gang Dance’s, “Saint Dymphna” and Von Südenfed’s, “Tromatic Reflexxions,” both of which I love. So anyway, the web is just filled with great stuff this week. I thought I would share some of the things I came across.
“Artful Lodgers” - Wealthy artists photographed in their lovely houses. Particularly of note: Fia Blackstrom’s very awesome and uncomfortable looking seat.
On election day, the New York Times featured a piece of web art that allowed users to type in one word that described how they felt. The word was then added to what they were calling a “word train.” Very cool. I wish they would keep it up permanently.
Providence is beautiful and it feels like fall. The air is crisp and it bites at my fingers when I go down to take out the trash. I bought some Lillies as well as a few Mums–a Rhode Island falltime favorite–and their sweet fragrance fills the entire apartment (something I notice especially each time I emerge from the bedroom after having been in there working on music with the door closed). I spent the late evening going through old unfinished songs, splitting them up into folders with names like “bridges and choruses, etc.”
The other night we tried to get out of the house to go see a show. I checked lots of noise and it turned out there was this band, Mirror Mirror, that was going to be playing in Olneyville. Well, we went to the show–it was in this old junky loft/factory space that we had actually been to a few years before (to go see DMBQ)–but when we got there the place was totally empty. There were a few people there — people who lived there and then one or two people who were I guess going to be performing. We took pictures of eachother in the pitch black and cavernous space that had been used for the DMBQ show and then went downstairs. This show was set to start at 10pm; we stood around, ambling from one disastrous room to another until finally, at like eleven, we just left. Which is kind of a pity. I’ve been listening to this band, Mirror Mirror, for the last two days (since our failed attempt to see them live) and I’ve really liked it. Apparently, they have a full-length coming out in September, too…which I will be purchasing. O.K. That’s all. Later, R.K.
So it’s Monday morning and here in my cluttered, remote office I’m battling back a tidal wave of infrastructure catastrophies, customer support requests, and a backlog of unfinished work and unresponded to emails from last week. There are files that need parsing; parsers that need fixing. But things are not so bad. I have Atlas Sound to listen to. I have my coffee from Blue State. And I just discovered this awesome, awesome skate video.
I’m not so much into this skate porn genre necessarily but I am a sometime camera fetishist. This video was shot with a “Red” which is apparently some sort of high frame rate video beast. I don’t know exactly how they intend to depict a 120fps movie on a computer screen which can only hope to refresh 60fps max and I think the top actual frame rate for Flash is 30fps.
Excerpt from an interview with Dustin Long, author of Icelanders:
What tips would you give to aspiring writers?
This has been true for me, at least: If you want to write novels, write novels. By this I mean two things.
Don’t concentrate on writing short stories, thinking you’ll build up to a novel. They’re completely different animals. I still can’t write short stories very well, and I don’t feel that writing one has ever taught me much about the craft of writing a novel.
Actually write a whole novel. Don’t begin a novel, decide it’s bad, and then begin another one. Finishing a novel, however bad, taught me much more about novel-writing than beginning a novel ever did.
i’m just posting to say i love this drawing. this could be artwork for the “the city”–a song I wrote a long time ago but never released. “the city” was supposed to be the basis for an entire album on which many of the songs i have released subsequently have been based. since i am in archive mode, i will probably did up “city” and post it here fairly shortly for your listening pleasure.
Just sitting back, sipping my coffee, and listening to the soothing sounds of …disappearer… They’re playing in Providence tonight at Easy Axxess which seems to be a new venue / showspace. Tonight’s tinyshowcase 4-pack is most delicious. This one in particular I like:
Eh? It’s by Nigel Peake. For more of his stuff check out his online gallery. Some days are just like that: everywhere you turn you see something great that makes you want to make something (although admittedly the thing I most want to “make” in this case is a thirty dollar purchase). Wow, this band, …disappearer…, is really winning me over.I’m using this much needed break from my job and recording to sell some old music equipment on eBaY.
What a thing to wake up to! It seems mp3.com has featured me on their front page. You can get the same tracks there that you can get here. (And you can vote.)
Get to the front page by going to http://www.mp3.com/ or you can go directly to my page here.
RK
