Monday, June 29, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
I'm Looking Forward to This...
Beck Enlists Devendra, MGMT, Lidell to Cover Albums for His Website
First up: The Velvet Underground
Photo by Beck/Drew Brown, front page photo by Autumn de Wilde
When most of us have extra spare time on our hands, we end up zoning out in front of "Daisy of Love" reruns or rereading Watchmen for the billionth time. Beck, on the other hand, challenges himself to record cover versions of entire albums as quickly as possible. Different strokes, I guess.
Over the next month, Beck will be overhauling his website, and one of the features will be something called Record Club, in which Beck ropes in various musician friends to record an entire album in a day. For the purposes of scrappy immediacy, nobody will rehearse or arrange anything beforehand.
After that day of furious recording, Beck will slowly let the record out into the world via his website (as well as the websites of the other musicians involved), uploading a new song once a week. He'll kick this party off with The Velvet Underground and Nico. That's an ambitious start! Will Beck attempt the Nico vocal parts himself? We'll find out!
Future Record Clubs will involve friends-of-Beck like Devendra Banhart, MGMT, Jamie Lidell, and producer Nigel Godrich. Here's hoping they give 8Ball & MJG's In Our Lifetime a shot.
After that day of furious recording, Beck will slowly let the record out into the world via his website (as well as the websites of the other musicians involved), uploading a new song once a week. He'll kick this party off with The Velvet Underground and Nico. That's an ambitious start! Will Beck attempt the Nico vocal parts himself? We'll find out!
Future Record Clubs will involve friends-of-Beck like Devendra Banhart, MGMT, Jamie Lidell, and producer Nigel Godrich. Here's hoping they give 8Ball & MJG's In Our Lifetime a shot.
Posted by Tom Breihan on June 17, 2009 at 5:50 p.m.
She's Got the Look
bu-bu-bu-bukowski
"the well balanced individual is insane."
"almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot"
"sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing"
"an intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a different way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way."
and my new personal favorite...
"the ass is the face of the soul of sex"
"almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot"
"sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing"
"an intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a different way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way."
and my new personal favorite...
"the ass is the face of the soul of sex"
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Stranger than Paradise 1984
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Starring John Lurie, Eszter Balint, and Sonic Youth's drummer Richard Edson
incoherent choppy film cuts.
funny misplaced cuts to black.
awkward character interactions
compensated by the exotic Eva and her matched foreign accent.
a muddled cut off ending.
brief and ordinary dialogue with a few memorable quotes...
"choking the alligator"
"you come to someplace new and everything looks the same"
Stranger than Paradise puts a spell on you and takes you on the road with a few edgy hipsters.
Starring John Lurie, Eszter Balint, and Sonic Youth's drummer Richard Edson
incoherent choppy film cuts.
funny misplaced cuts to black.
awkward character interactions
compensated by the exotic Eva and her matched foreign accent.
a muddled cut off ending.
brief and ordinary dialogue with a few memorable quotes...
"choking the alligator"
"you come to someplace new and everything looks the same"
Stranger than Paradise puts a spell on you and takes you on the road with a few edgy hipsters.
.. become a high-school history teacher, or rather storyteller. I am intrigued by all the historical myths, legends, and conspiracies that our history teachers always seemed to leave behind. I fear the world of numbers and arithmetic, feeling it confines me, almost suffocates me with its’ precision and accuracy.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Top Things Not to do at an Interview...
1. **RING RING** answer your cell phone... especially if you have the Jonas Bros' S.O.S as your ring tone.
2. Bring your dirty Sailor mouth aboard the Interview.
3. Treat your interviewer like your new BFFL... keep your ramblings and love life to yourself.
4. Dress like you do for your night job... stray away from Fishnet, strappy heels, and ruby red lipstick.
5. FART... keep your gases to yourself.
6. Lose any of your brushes... toothbrush, hairbrush, eyebrow brush, dog hair brush... etc.
7. Show up late for your very important date.
8. Describe yourself as "Insecure".
9. Recount your experience in the State Penitentiary.
10. Bring any of the following: Children, alcohol flask, warrants for your arrest, cigarettes, guns, or illicit drugs.
2. Bring your dirty Sailor mouth aboard the Interview.
3. Treat your interviewer like your new BFFL... keep your ramblings and love life to yourself.
4. Dress like you do for your night job... stray away from Fishnet, strappy heels, and ruby red lipstick.
5. FART... keep your gases to yourself.
6. Lose any of your brushes... toothbrush, hairbrush, eyebrow brush, dog hair brush... etc.
7. Show up late for your very important date.
8. Describe yourself as "Insecure".
9. Recount your experience in the State Penitentiary.
10. Bring any of the following: Children, alcohol flask, warrants for your arrest, cigarettes, guns, or illicit drugs.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
