Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 28th, 2008
friday mixtapes!
If you don’t have this one already, you should now. Dulcet tones to help get through the Friday and welcome the weekend.
Glitch Mob Original Mix / 56:08 / 128 kbps / 51.4 mb (from XLR8R.com)
And in case you need more, check out the mixtape page that I finally put up last night. There’s some good [...]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
the height of his powers
I recently saw the new Michel Gondry movie, Be Kind Rewind, and left the theater feeling like the preview said it all, just in a tad less detail (though, truth be told, the sweded trailer is probably the best thing about the entire project). Jack Black and Danny Glover were their usual, Mos Def kinda [...]
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Friday folk songs
It’s Friday, the end of a fairly mellow week for me. Sort of the quiet before the storm as there’s lots of changes and travel afoot.
Here are some tunes — recent discoveries as well as old favs — to help keep balance in an increasingly off-kilter time.
“Beltloops and Bluejeans,” by Catherine Feeney, from the CD [...]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
this year’s model
The Burning Man organization announced the 2008 arts grants and there’s some really impressive stuff. Of course, artists like Kate Raudenbush, Michael Christian and the Flaming Lotus Girls always amaze; there are some notable absences — most notable being Dan Das Mann and Karen Cusolito. But after last year’s insanity, who can blame them for [...]
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
the circular nature of life
The performance artist turning social worker Jen Collins (well, to be fair, both her and my new landlady Trixie) recently reminded me:
what a strange little world Los Angeles is; and
how reality is sort of like a big, eliptical orbit around a teeny tiny black hole. The souls we meet and experiences we have while drifting [...]
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
pause
I’ve been doing a lot of back end work on the Pacific Drift archive, so while the site looks to be on pause, I’ve actually been readying it for a really massive update that should happen in the next few days. In other words, the entire Pacific Drift catalog will be online tonight or tomorrow.
In [...]
