If you can't make it to Grand Army Plaza, this Internet gallery is a distant second, but worth your while.
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I'd seen Dulce Pinzôn's superhero photographs before, but until I saw them at the Brooklyn Public Library's main branch today, I hadn't realized how moving they were. The exhibit includes Pinzôn's detailed costumes as well, which are surprisingly beautiful.
Daniel Garcia directed this delightful video of dancing trees and pigeon dreams for TV On The Radio's "Me-I." The song is the first track of Adult Swim's new Warm & Scratchy compilation, also featuring new music from Les Savy Fav; Broken Social Scene; The Good, The Bad, and The Queen; and Asobi Seksu.
You can download the entire thing for absolutely free. Isn't that nice? Now, if only these were hi-rez downloads. Why, oh, why, can't these be hi-rez downloads?
When I mentioned it in our Home Entertainment Show Report, I told readers that Red Wine Audio's iMod was only available to 4th Generation iPods. That was true, at the time. Now, Red Wine Audio also offers their audiophile hardware modification for the newer 5/5.5 Generation iPods. Vinnie Rossi must've been working OT. I hear he has trouble staying away from the office.
I'm only just getting to know Vinnie and his company. I should probably interview him — 10 Quick Questions for... Vinnie Rossi! — but getting to know a person in that manner is not my style. Wait. Saying that…
I haven't linked to Jon Carroll lately, so here's today's column, which lays out the format for the WE musician interview. Frustratingly true.
Of the many advantages of living in NYC, Doctors has got to be one of the biggest. Many, many good, no nonsense ones to choose from, if you or your insurance can pay. Cosmic Justice. I survived HE 2007 only to fall prey to my own impatience. Instead of sliding the vegetable drawer in my refrigerator out slowly like a normal person, my tired, irritable and schmoozed out self jerked it and it jumped its track and smashed my foot. Damned apples and carrots weigh too friggin' much. After three days of denial and whistling in the graveyard about how it was gonna be fine, I finally broke down and…
A couple of nights ago, walking down Madison Avenue, on my way home from work, I had to stop and enjoy this view.
This image could have been so much better, but for two things:
1. I quickly became afraid of being run over
2. the batteries in my camera died
Perhaps 2 prevented 1. Have a wonderful weekend.
Mitch Myers' book, The Boy Who Cried Freebird:
Rock and Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling, is a lovely thing. He mixes essays, short stories, tall tales, and interviews about rock to get to the core of what it is to be a music geek. "Don't compare me to that guy in High Fidelity," he says. "That dude wasted all his time organizing his collection in some kind of chronological order—everybody knows that you should file your albums by genre."
This is the tall tale that gives the book its title.