Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Half Awake Mix


This mixtape will be perfect for:

A. Wanting to sleep in
B. Wearing pajamas all day long
C. Getting excited about menial tasks
D. Doing something unexpected
E. Drifting in and out of dreams & waking

You can delve into it right HERE.

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Wow ... this past week seems like it lasted FOREVER! Time's weird like that ... Maybe it's because the weather changed so much ... all four seasons in one week! I'm not kidding ... Last Tuesday we had a bit of Winter snow again and then it got really cold ... then it felt like maybe 4 days of Autumn, and as Saturday unfolded, suddenly Spring appreared! The biggest surprise was Sunday, because my softball team, the Bad News Bearons were scheduled to have our 1st practice of the year ... I think most of us assumed it would be too cold, but voila! It was actually a Summery 70 degrees that day, which seemed miraculous and made for the best 1st practice ever ... crazy!


Elise sent me these crazy "Are You Psychic?" cards ... there are 5 different shapes on them (a star, square, circle, triangle and cross) and you have to guess which one the other person is holding up ... sadly, I'm not any good at it! But then again, neither are any of my friends ... haha

Below is some footage Jonathan Purvis shot at the HoWaYaDa Klann opening at Litebox ... I think it turned out pretty amazing and beautiful:



I woke up Friday morning at 6:30AM to roaring sirens ... Leaping out of bed, I ran to the front porch and immediately saw this sight about a block away:


I quickly got dressed and walked down the street to get a better
look ... This house that's divided into 4 apartments was all ablaze and smoking ... most of
the folks who lived there were standing outside in their pajamas, shivering ... it was a pretty sad scene to behold and it made me paranoid about the safety and vulnerability of my own place ...


On a lighter note, I finally finished this commission I'd been working on for my friend Duncan ... it's a painting of the Edward Lear poem, "The Owl & The Pussycat" and I think it turned out pretty nice:



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In video news, the band Liars have a splendid new one out for their song "Scissor" ... I kind of hope they have a video for every song of their new album "Sisterworld", since this one is so damned amazing:



Speaking of amazing ... both this new Caribou song ("Odessa") and the video for it simply blow me away:



Lastly I found a new video by Bobby Birdman and it makes me laugh cuz I remember Bobby from a while back ... I was selling merch for Brightblack Morning Light (when I was still with Paul F. and he was still in that band) on a Bonnie Prince Billy tour in California ... Bobby was part of Will Oldham's band back then ... it was a crazy & fun experience being on that tour etc ... Lots of memories ... Anyway, this song's pretty cool and also YACHT make a special guest appearance in it ... dig it:














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