Image by Will Amato “By the time I found myself delivered to the lobby of Le Parker Meridien, I felt bullied, bruited about by staff and handlers, like David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth, an incomprehensible film Perkus had weeks before insisted I watch, a treatise on luxuriant self-pity that now felt[…]
TRACKLIST: COLDPLAY – Viva La Vida LUDACRIS – Money Maker RAY LAMONTAGNE – Saved By A Woman iiO – Rapture (Armin Van Buuren Remix) HARRY NILSSON – Zombie Jamboree (Back to Back) RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS – Dani California ROOT BOY SLIM – Boogie ‘Til You Puke SLAID CLEAVES – Sinner’s Prayer SINEAD O’CONNOR[…]
Cool video from film director/musician Jarbas Agnelli. Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo. Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it[…]
I compiled another book mixtape this week, this time from John Wray‘s amazing new novel Lowboy. The majority of the tracks on this mix come directly from the book. Lowboy loves the Dixieland cornetist Bix Beiderbecke so there are four Bix tracks here. But Lowboy also name drops Clarence Williams, Nat King Cole, Fats Waller,[…]
Let the record show that my black T-shirt was in fact a Bauhaus T-shirt, purchased the previous fall down in the Village on the very first of my weekly trips to scavenge for new albums, generally vinyl dispatches from the world of the pale and winnowed… I didn’t buy rap—I heard it all the time…[…]