Ah ... November ... If you look at it the wrong way, it could be seen as perhaps the gloomiest month of the whole year, and the main reason for that is twofold =
1. The magic and excitement of Halloween is suddenly over and gone.
2. The time changes and the cold Winter begins to draw closer and closer.
BUT
There are still some things to make November a happy and worthwhile month! Later, there's always Thanksgiving Day to look forward to ... and also Nov. 2nd (TOMORROW) is All Souls Day , or the Day of the Dead ...
A lot of folks don't really celebrate this occasion, but here in Birmingham, we REALLY do ... at the Dia de los Muertos Festival, which is always fun as hell and amazing ... If you wanna go, it's located at :
The fenced lot at
2115 1st Avenue South
Birmingham, AL
Enter on 1st Ave South at 22nd St or R. Arrington Jr. Blvd. Admission is $10 (13yrs & older), $3 (12yrs - 7yrs), free (6yrs & younger). Food, adult & kid beverages, adult & kid t-shirts, masks, art, and calvera face-painting will be available for purchase. No BYOB. The festival is outside, rain or shine. Bands, dancers, spoken word, procession, second-line, remembrance, and free art activities for children will be featured as always!
You should come out! It really is a ton of fun!!!
To learn more about it, just go RIGHT HERE.
Anywaaaay, speaking of the Day of the Dead, which is All Souls Day, here is the mystically magic and slightly macabre All Souls Mix to herald in the beginning of "spiritual new year" ... ENJOY!!!
Wanna download this mix?
Well HERE ya go!
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And now ... a bit of relative randomness ...
1st up, speaking of the dead, I recently chanced upon 2 death-oriented tidbits concerning one of my favorite artists, (St.) Andy Warhol =
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Next up ... Where will I be THIS coming weekend? Why, at the Moss Rock art festival (Sat. and Sun, Nov. 5th and 6th), exhibiting a ton of new paintings! Check out the "artist spotlight" they did on me RIGHT HERE! You should come out and join me! I'll be in tent 305!!! You can find out more about the festival RIGHT HERE. Do it!!!
And if yer as big of a Tom Waits fan as I am, I have a treat for you! His marvelous album "Bad As Me" is out now and my pal John Wendel sent me a link to a grrreat NPR interview with the man ... You can listen to it HERE. Thanks a ton, John!
And one more piece of random goodness ... Astoundingly, The Flaming Lips recently released 24 HOUR song! What's more, is they released it physically encased in 13 individual HUMAN SKULLS, each costing exactly $5,000 !!! Haha ... nutty!!!
You can hear the crazy 24 hour song streaming right HERE.
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What did Ryan and I do for the Halloween weekend? Well, 1st of all we carved our pumpkins! =
We also went to some Halloween parties =
Ryan's 2nd costume turned out pretty wonderfully! Haha =
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VVVVVVVV IIIIIII DDDDDDDDDD EEEEE OOOOOOO SSSSSSSSS
Here's a great new one from my good friend, Pascal's band, Balthrop, Alabama (who swung by this past week to visit Ryan and I whilst on their tour!) ... It's called "Electricity" and HERE is the EP it comes from ... I did one of the remixes on it! =
I love this band (The Soft Moon) ... Such great sounds for this particular season! =
A really funny new one from Man Man =
M83 's new album, "Hurry Up We're Dreaming" is sooo goood =
Ariel Pink posted this "Ethiopian oldie" on facebook recently ... haha =
Wow. David Lynch's debut album, "crazy Clown Time" is unsurprisingly brilliant and bizarre! NPR is streaming the entire thing HERE. See David at work in the studio =
Here's a nice hypnotic tree video from EKOCLEF =
Dig ... it's CANT's real UFO footage video =
Zowie! I don't usually watch things like this, but this teaching was from waaay back in 1993 and it's so utterly prophetic!!! Blows my mind, really ... =
Dessert! Dessert! Dessert!
Elise sent me this 'un by Smoke Sellers ... all the tights and dancing make me laugh ... thanks, E!!! =
Speaking of dancing, watch these kids react to an over-the-top amazing Dubstep dancer ... haha =
and lastly, Chris Stewart posted "another Weird Soviet Pop video from the 70s" ... cheers, Chris! =
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