Archive for September, 2008

Confessions of a Gameshow Champion

Friday, September 26th, 2008

The Gameshow mentality is something I like to think about now and then. It’s one of the only forms of massive entertainment where the audience really wants the contestant to win. We actually root for each other. On every other program we wait for the bomb to drop, but on the Gameshow [...]

Signs of Age

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Almost two years ago (time flies…), I was in a cafe/record shop in Brooklyn with my good friends Oscar and Ryan. I was killing time before heading to the airport and back to LA, and burning the remainder of the dollars I’d set aside for New York. Oscar and Ryan recommended I buy a record [...]

Hope

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Blogs:Us::Email:Our Parents

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

My dad forwarded me this:
Okay, let’s work this out logically without a lot of emotion.
If you vote for Obama….

You get this…..

But if you vote for McCain….

You get this…

I don’t know about you guys, but looking at this in a logical manner, McCain appears to be the better candidate.
ANY QUESTIONS?

Download Time: Skream - Rutten

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Skream (Oliver Jones) is a 21 year old DJ/producer who, along side a few other DJs, is credited for originating Dubstep in the UK. Surprisingly, Soul Jazz Records, mainly a reissue label, has started releasing exclusive material from Dupstep artists like Skream, Digital Mystikz, Burial etc. The Soul Jazz endorsement is a handy stamp of [...]

Human Evolution, Ethereal Headspace, and Why I Didn’t Get Laid Last: An Uneducated Approach

Friday, September 5th, 2008

I’m boiling potatoes.  The point is, I was asked to put together a
short editorial on the nature of human telepathy in response to mental
attraction / animal magnetism, which could be boiled down into three
parts:  1)  The nature of evolution, 2)  The power of thought, and 3)
Why my bed was one body too big last night. [...]

AeroBed®

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

We’ve had a lot of house guests recently.

But none of them seem to use this thing…

Download Time: Lizzy Mercier Descloux

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Lizzy Mercier Descloux was a French singer/musician, writer and painter. She moved from Paris to New York in 1977 and recorded her first record Press Color a year later. Descloux gets lumped in with No Wave and World Music.
This song is from her second record Mambo Nassau that she recorded in the Bahamas:
Lizzy [...]