The artist of the day is Brooklyn-based Here We Go Magic [ myspace ]. I just picked up their self-titled album off of emusic and I can’t stop listening. The vocals remind me a lot of Paul Simon, but it’s a nice mix of electronic and 70s folksy sounds. Here’s a youtube:
They is playin at Le Poisson Rouge in my new-hometown of NYC on Mar. 3rd, and in my old-home hometown of Bloomington, IN on Mar. 11th at the Cinemat. They are also doing two of the best midwestern music blogs around, Daytrotter and My Old KY Blog. Word.
If you’re like me, you are too busy being a big-time Internet blogger to go to every party that you are invited to. I mean I’m a popular dude, I get invited to lots of parties, not all of them LAN related. Sometimes they are so exciting I liveblog them. Luckily, now there is a blog for me. Katie of SIMYP scours flickr for the best parties, so I don’t have to. I mean, check this out:
I am lurking in the shadows of the Internet, silently stalking you as you glide motionless from page to page. Every binary footprint you leave behind I place gently and securely into my electronic scrapbook, kept safely next to my facebook in a keepsake chest next to the love poems I wrote you but never sent. I stare for hours into photos of your eyes wondering if you ever think about me, thinking about you. I’m sorry I could never love you like a real man. All I can do is dream tenderly these night time dreams of happiness with you, my once and future cyberlove.
What I’m doing with my life
Throwing it away into the meaningless abyss of tomorrow. Waited for you, but you never came. Heart stopped a long time ago, but my watch keeps ticking away the minutes and hours left in this loneliness. Night time came quicker today, the snows must be coming.
I’m really good at
* Smoke and mirrors, strategically placed at the foot of my bed to catch my best angles.
* Wasting time flipping bits, bytes, and words into meaning and motion
* Sophistry, and all the glory that comes with it
* Autoeroticism
* Backdoor beauty ?
The first thing(s) people usually notice about me
I don’t believe in Santa Claus or the toothfairy, so why should they believe in me? You see what you want to see behind your big bright rainbow eyes. I’m smiling at you, but you never notice, never take the time to look beyond your bright beautiful world full of bright beautiful people. I’m stuck here in the archipelago of my mind, swimming island to island never knowing why, but still never able to stay in one place or thought. No roots have I slithering down into the ground, nor am I lost – I only don’t know where I’m going.
NB: My friend Mia went a Michel Gondry party once, she is very lucky. I would probably give him a jo if he could teach me the ways of film directing …and of love. Here are some Bjork videos to help set the Michel Gondry love-fest mood:
Is it un-heteronormative of me to be excited by this? I mean, for real, this could be the best bubblegum band ever.
Additionally, I just finished the Watchmen in preparation for the new movie, and I have to say it is an amazing book. Tons of good stuff on destiny vs. free-will, good of the many vs good of the one, and all the political and humanitarian implications of both. All told by interweaving so many good story lines like a gorgeous philosophical fruit basket, and what a brilliant play off of the superhero genre. So much emotional depth too in the relationships and private lives of the heros. Anyways, I highly recommend checking it out.
Bonus: They’ve made a lot of faux tv clips from the alternate universe of the Watchmen. Pretty funny, I love new media advertising!!
Karl Rove is never going to testify. Why? Because Democrats are a bunch of fucking pussies. If he wasn’t a criminal then why is he so god damned afraid to testify? Why is he afraid to testify under oath that is. He said he’ll come up and spew bullshit as long as it doesn’t have to be true. What a joke. Obama is on his side now. Change man, yeah right. The only change these assholes will ever understand is the change that comes from the barrel of a gun. Keep on smiling. True evil is among us and it has nothing to do with gay marriage.
I’m so confused. I know socialism is for faggots, but I just love the Economist. How many third-world countries do we need to invade before we become the #1 democracy, and how many yellow ribbon magnets do I need to buy to make it a reality?
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