August 2009
21 posts
4 tags
5 tags
4 tags
2 tags
5 tags
WatchFunky Monks
Despite having some reservations about some of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ recent endeavours, I can’t discredit the material produced during their creative peak. A peak centred around their 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik. This documentary is an insight into the creation of that album, taking place over a few months in a supposedly haunted house in the Hollywood Hills.
...
3 tags
2 tags
4 tags
4 tags
4 tags
Tom Waits' True Confessions →
Speaking of Tom Waits, here’s a delightful interview with him from a little over a year ago. Also see Beck Hansen’s recent interview with him on his new Irrelevant Topics page.
4 tags
3 tags
4 tags
3 tags
Thom Yorke: No more Radiohead albums →
Don’t worry, they aren’t breaking up. Via: Kottke
3 tags
3 tags
Attention tedious electronic musicians: Get signed by DFA, hang out with James Murphy and your music will finally be tuneful and tolerable. See Mystery Lights by YACHT tylerball loved it
3 tags
Neave Television ...telly without context →
No explanation possible.
6 tags
Stream NO AGE's new Losing Feeling EP →
Out in October, but available for pre-order and streaming at Sub Pop, is No Age’s new EP. I’m still listening but so far it is wonderful.
Also, if you are in the vicinity of any of the shows No Age is doing with Dan Deacon and Deerhunter, and you are not attending, then you are a complete stupidface. If there was a show in Toronto I would sell my first born to go.
3 tags
How Netflix gets your movies to your mailbox so... →
Christopher Borrelli:
Employees are expected to perform this a minimum of 650 times an hour. Also, customers stuff things into the envelopes. Scribbled movie reviews, complaints, pictures of dogs and kids. That needs sorting too. After 65 minutes of inspection, a bell rings. Everyone stands up.
Calisthenics!
4 tags
4 tags
