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...