The Black Cab Sessions (Brits is nuts)

Want to see some great bands play a song in the back of a cab driving around London? Kind of? Me too. Go here.

This is so great. (The Shins have practiced.)

I remember when they were too shy to sing their hit.

Hey you. I like to spelunk the internet for new music. (Here's some)

You will have to download Pando, but it's cool, easy, small and free. Plus, if it works out I'll post more of these things. Cheers!

Oh yes. (Oh no?)

Oh no. (Oh yes?)

I like my football with a u.

These are great goals.

I think the T stands for thanksgiving.

Recouping with Mr. T

I have no idea what this has to do with anything.

El Pollo Loco.

I still don't know how i got here.

Nuts.

I love this guy.

Exelero.

Yes please.

Recent Black Sea storm pictures.

The shots at the bottom of this first page are amazing.

Rendezvous.

This is a great page all about the film "Rendezvous". You have to know about this. (Everybody should) thanks james.

This guy is such a chump.

Are you out of your mind?

AROD.com

The name just says it all. This guy makes some poor life decisions.

I Spent Last Week in Mexico. (This is what it looked like)

Click the veranda to go my other Flickr page to see more pictures.

You don't even know it, but you need one of these

Seriously, it's the best thing ever. I can stand under it. UNDER IT. I love it. Sorry to get so excited about a showerhead. Go to the Home Depot and get this thing. I know it looks like a medium sized UFO and it's made out of plastic, just pretend you're European and everything will be okay.

This is worrisome.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

I am here until the 10th. (don't worry)

I will come back and this will be better.

B.I.G. at 17. (that kid's probably still crying)

Yup.

Hero for the day (laveugletavu)

French graffiti for the blind. (I love when people are smart.)

Some things don't need to be videotaped. (I hate when people are stupid.)

Tim Lahan, You. You, Tim Lahan.

I don't know him (or how I ended up reading his writings). But, I like him. (You will too). Check out his design work too. TimLahan.com

He also led me to a Flickr pool which I thought was kinda cool. Items we carry.

Back. I spent nineteen hours cross legged so i could fix my internet and continue my search for the mundane and awesome and mundane. (People! Listen!)

COCKAPOO?
People! Stop making your big dogs sleep with your little dogs just so that you can make different dogs! I know that's not how it works, but at some point that's exactly how it worked! There are so many great dogs and breeds to choose from, stop it! It might be worth it if the end result didn't look like this. You should be ashamed. She is.
(Gabe, thanks for reading)

You know I loves me some Dylan. Zabba zibba zlabba zibby zoo. (know what i'm slurring?)

The ten most incomprehensible Bob Dylan interviews of all time. Or at least the one's that are on YouTube. (brilliant)

I'll pass.

Man, the future (this fall) is gonna be awesome

This seems like an ingenious program. I've already gotten excited for photosynth (see earlier post), but this seems like a simpler, faster trip towards gratification.

Fotowoosh.com

It's called a thereminbot?

I will sit and watch anything called a thereminbot... any day, anytime, this is why I love people. (as long as they don't play for the Yankees)

Crazy.

Pull cord generator (the future)

60% of Africa has cell phone coverage. 10% of Africa has electricity coverage.

But that's not the only use.

Tally Ho!

Due to popular demand (well, one person muttered something in passing), here is an update. And a doozy.

I always make videos on Mondays. Tally Ho!

I was just thinking, I haven't seen one of these since i was a kid. (now, i'm glad.)

I prefer the Uptown.

Intimately actualization of the conversational human type robot which is the straw raincoat.

COPY THIS ADDRESS AND PASTE IT...
http://www.holoart.co.jp/


INTO THE "TRANSLATE A WEB PAGE" FIELD HERE...
http://babelfish.altavista.com/

TRANSLATE FROM JAPANESE TO ENGLISH.

HELL YEAH (i'm into holography)

Homeless. Japanese. Cardboard house painters.

Deer Tick (Stay with me through the pre amble. That's not the name, it's more of a command)

I knew I could find it.

Soda. (Maps are better for you)

What an AMAZING waste of time. (Who's? Mine?)

Octopult.

Tear Away Suit.

Make a Book Dammit.

Real Time Satellite Tracking.

enjoy.

eww.

grandma.

Vacation property

Kristen and I are always on the lookout for a cool little getaway sorta place. Man, is she gonna love this site.

Bulgarianrealestate.net

The search parameters are the best. (in a vacation place, with a toilet)

So far this one has me digging in my pockets and counting my nickels (I just want the toilet seat)

Wanna listen to Worcester cops? (me too)

"They sure work hard..."

"I hate to see em work so hard...Let's go around back where we can't see em."

Theo Jansen (is my hero for the day)

look at this

Then go and explore here to learn more. Strandbeest.com

you can even click on webcam and watch Theo read his email (even that's genius)

This is basically how it works

It is a sculpture built using algorithms and precise math which when mixed with nature and brought to life it goes wherever it wants. Beautiful.

The first million digits of PI. (Daniel Tammet is my hero for the day)

yep. here they are.

Look at those, then come and meet this guy who recited the first 22,514 of those digits, from memory, in a little over 5 hours.

yep. here he is.

Deer Tick. (I think you'll like it too.)

Deer Tick.
I don't like writing about music. I would just assume slide an illegally burned copy of something you've never heard of into your pocket and tell you I like it. Listen to these and call me tomorrow.

Deer Tick 'Ashamed'

Deer Tick 'Dirty Dishes'

So good. These are different versions than the one's on the soon to be blowing up all over the place record. (punctuation isn't really my thing either)

Learn more here Deer Tick. I love a slow loading band photo.

Swedes are crazy. (Their muppet characters have human hands.)

Sometimes I'll find a site that just looks great and that's enough. Sometimes it is so rich with bizarro content that I can't really deal with it all at once and I have to go back again and again, totally unsure if it is what it is. Unfortunately I'll never know because my Swedish skills are about as useful as muppet hands on a human body.

Try to understand

For even more confusion find the 'less swedish' button at the upper left.
Man, stripes is great.

The Train to Venice

I shot this on the train to Venice in late 2005. I taped my headphones to the video camera's microphone, I put a second pair of headphones into the headphone jack on my camera so that I was able to shoot and listen at the same time. (i'm a super genius/idiotdork). I overdubbed it here but the timing of the song is the same. If nothing else it's just a good excuse to hear a great song. "Some Kinda Fatigue" by Yo La Tengo.

Urban Font

Lou Reed doesn't care if you listen to the whole thing.

I don't know what year this is from. I don't know where it was recorded. I don't know how it ended up on my computer. I don't know the name of it. I know it's The Velvet Underground. I know I like it.

The Velvet Underground circa whoknowswhen

I want this toy. Whatever it is.

Specificity.

Sometimes I like knowing just what I'm in for.

SpecificThings.com

Rekkanize.

He was in Tron. He was the guy Phil Collins was singing about in Against All Odds. He was Starman. He was The Dude.

I never knew it, but Jeff Bridges also takes some kick ass photos.

The Dude's got a camera.

While your there, hang out, poke around a bit, it's a beautiful web site filled with some great things. But when your done, come back.

Mr. Bridges also maintains/maintained one of the coolest personal websites around, just try and ignore the Michael McDonald images that jump up here and there.

JeffBridges.com

I always just assume fame = shlub.

Six For Sunday (3 times better than a Two for Tuesday)

I realize I've been lazy. I know I haven't posted much music lately. (I was trying to learn the technological side of it) I promise to be better about it. I've been off in the nether regions of the internet collecting songs and albums. I'm back now and prepared to share. As in, these were hard to find. Enjoy.

This first song is an American Analog Set song from their final release...I believe it was a tour only 4 song EP entitled 'Everything Ends in Spring'. This song is basically an extended (and much improved) version of a song which appeared on Set Free.

American Analog Set 'Cool Kids Keep'

Before the Shins, there was Flake (Music). Grittier, grainier, Lo-Fi-ier. This song appeared on a 7" entitled Sue Defender.

Flake Music 'Kreflo'

In the early nineties Devo released two albums worth of four track demos and previously unreleased stuff (Hardcore Devo I and II). This appears on volume I and makes me want to take a can opener, build a robot and fly him back to 1977 so that I can bloody my thumbs at the arcade while I blare my walkman and wear my rainbow suspenders.

Devo 'Auto Modown'

M. Ward makes some of the best music this side of anywhere. I hadn't ever heard this. It's from an EP entitled 'Scene From #12', which was released in 2002. They stopped making this for some reason.

M. Ward 'Wild Minds'

Sometimes B-sides should be A-sides and some A-sides should be no sides. This is a B-side from The National's 'Boxer' sessions. I didn't mean for that to read so negatively. I just like the song. I don't like typing. I do like writing. Pickle.

The National 'Santa Clara'

Beck don't need no fog machine/disco ball/glittery pants/feather boa/128 track recording/zillion dollar haircut. This is from Beck's first cassette 'The Banjo Story' (it was a gift for his mother, goes the legend). It was 1988, he was eighteen, and as far as I'm concerned he had everything he needed.

Beck 'Bottle of Wine'

this is part of the problem.

$4,940.71 per MPH (free to look)

Pick some colors that look good blurred together.

Rodney Mullen (was my hero for the day)

All skate videos should look like this. Like they've been watched a thousand times. Pause, rewind, pause, rewind, fast forward, pause, rewind, pause, rewind. Crappy tracking. Fisheye lenses. Classic rock. And full of Rodney. He's not going to catch crazy air or skate the wheels off the board, but man I wish I could skate flat ground like this.

Vincent Moon (is my hero for the day)

Vincent is a French filmmaker. I was always taught that film is film and video is not. His videos are films. He convinces bands to play songs in somewhat strange settings and he records them. His work all shares the same visual tone and style, it is neither saturated nor washed out, but seemingly both. He and the camera become part of the surrounds and it feels as though you have stumbled across your favorite band playing your favorite song behind a laundrymat or in the corner of the bar in the middle of Paris. Surreal and believable. Impossibly possible.

The Arcade Fire sing Neon Bible and Wake Up

The National sing Gospel

The French weblog is called La Blogotheque (if you speak french)

I prefer going to TakeAwayShows (because I speak English)

Be sure to sign up and get fed a weekly session.

Star Spangled Badass

When my time machine gets here, i'm going there...

And I'm getting there early...

The 1983 NBA All Star Game

East - 132

 Player                  MP  FG FGA  3P 3PA  FT FTA ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK  TO  PF PTS
+----------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
Julius Erving           28  11  19   0       3   3           6   3                  25
Sidney Moncrief         28   8  14   0       4   5           5   4                  20
Isiah Thomas            29   9  14   0       1   1           4   7                  19
Larry Bird              29   7  14   0       0   0          13   7                  14
Robert Parish           18   5   6   0       3   4           3   0                  13
Moses Malone            24   3   8   0       4   6           8   3                  10
Andrew Toney            18   4   5   0       0   0           1   7                   8
Buck Williams           19   3   4   0       2   4           7   1                   8
Marques Johnson         20   3  10   0       1   2           2   2                   7
Maurice Cheeks          18   3   8   0       0   0           1   1                   6
Bill Laimbeer            6   1   1   0       0   0           1   0                   2
Reggie Theus             8   0   5   0       0   0           1   1                   0
+----------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
Total                       57 108   0      18  25          52  36                 132

West - 123

 Player                  MP  FG FGA  3P 3PA  FT FTA ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK  TO  PF PTS
+----------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar     32   9  12   0       2   3           6   5                  20
Magic Johnson           33   7  16   0       3   4           5  16                  17
Alex English            23   7  14   0       0   1           4   0                  14
Jim Paxson              17   5   7   0       1   2           0   1                  11
David Thompson          17   5   7   0       0   0           1   2                  10
Jamaal Wilkes           15   4   6   0       2   2           2   2                  10
George Gervin           14   3   8   1       2   2           0   3                   9
Jack Sikma              17   4   6   0       0   0           3   1                   8
Kiki Vandeweghe         14   3   4   0       1   2           3   1                   7
Maurice Lucas           27   3   8   0       0   1           7   1                   6
Gus Williams            15   3   9   0       0   0           1   4                   6
Artis Gilmore           16   2   4   0       1   2           5   1                   5
+----------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
Total                       55 101   1      12  19          37  37                 123


And I will be the only one who
sees this coming...

Marvin Gaye was a
Star Spangled Badass

Vampire Weekend A-PUNK

This is why I spend time doing nothing on the interweb, occasionally you stumble into something that makes you happy again and again. This is my new favorite band, but they don't have an album, damn you interweb.

go and visit them when you're done here
http://www.vampireweekend.com/

Lo-fi is the new Hi-fi (link to RSS feed 101)

This is our friend Lee explaining RSS feeds, it's a video that he and his wife made to try and explain RSS. I think it started as just something to post on their own blog, but soon was being linked to from all over. People overdubbed it in several languges, and now they are a sort of mini sensation on the dubyadubyadubya...and to think i just thought he was just a beer drinkin, scallop cookin guy...

The Grandparent Fix.

This is the friggity coolest thing i've seen in a while. (Microsoft?)

Waiting For The Kid To Come Out

I made this on a monday. Kristen was a thousand weeks pregnant. I had the day off. it was a great day (for a bagel). Spoon made the music. I made the splices. Enjoy.

Fresh Baby

Natalia Helen Lapriore. Born June 4 2007 5:31am 6 lbs 14 oz 19 in (and awesome).

Bob Dylan VISIONS OF JOHANNA (1966-05-16 Sheffield, England Gaumont Theatre)

It's a slower version, almost as though he's trying to explain it, I appreciate his effort. Best song ever written. (possibly)

The Donkeys BLACK CAT

San Diego band on tour right now...

Eric Bachmann SO LONG SAVANNAH

Just another favorite of the day...