Friday, July 31, 2009

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Group show in LA



PARKER JONES
Up Now...


flying saucer attack peel sessions


Accidentally stumbled upon this beauty
(found on a site completely dedicated to peel sessions - wow!) while looking for something else,
really really nice...
I vote for them to reform and tour please...



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Friday, July 24, 2009

grace this weekend

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I have to say I am pretty excited...

Monday, July 20, 2009

Sunday, July 19, 2009

feeling nostalgic for studios past

and for that nice wooden studio table built by
'ready for the house' when he occupied
the space before I did...



this show
looks great


no tears

The DJ at last nights screening of
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (Jeez - what a shocking bore!)
at CINESPIA, played this among his pretty nice set of
spooky ska, and creepy post punk, and it reminded
me of how rad and underplayed TUXEDOMOON are...


Very psyched for tonight's cemetery
screenings of Kenneth Anger films...

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009






thomas bayrle
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i can't stop thinking of this Christopher Williams
photo of a Daniel Buren painting I saw at his amazing
show at Sammlung Haubrok last year in berlin. If I could buy one piece of art right now that would be it.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

cover art part II

DIAL RECORDS (FEATURING ARTWORK BY DAVID LIESKE, ANNETTE KELM, DIRK STEWEN, MARCEL DUCHAMP, MATHIAS POLEDNA, SERGEJ JENSEN ETC ETC.)











Wednesday, July 8, 2009

BELLA'S
BEAUTIFUL
PAINTINGS
OF OTHER PEOPLES
THINGS

Hello Strangers



I am running the AIDS Project Los Angeles Half Marathon in just a few short months, for two pretty serious reason, AIDS is really not over, and California AIDS services are about to seriously get the shaft. Also, I want to get in shape.
This week is my fund raising deadline - if you feel so inclined - give a dollar or two...

DANKE!

DONATE HERE

8-eee-four

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

coming soonish




bert jansch L.A. TURNAROUND
Enhanced CD includes
"L.A. Turnaround...The Movie" (13:12)

LA Turnaround, Santa Barbara Honeymoon and A Rare Conundrum to come out on CD – 15 June 2009


Bert is truly delighted to announce at last the long-awaited first-time release on CD of the three albums he recorded in the 1970s for The Famous Charisma Label: the seminal L.A. Turnaround , Santa Barbara Honeymoon and A Rare Conundrum . These most sought after albums in Bert's catalogue have been out of print for decades and have never been available on CD before. The new CDs are scheduled for release by EMI/Virgin on 15 June 2009 and Bert has supervised the re-mastering of each album himself as well as hand-picking the bonus material, much of which is previously unreleased. In some cases this material is newly discovered from the album sessions and has been unheard by anyone in thirty years, including Bert himself! The new CD of LA Turnaround also includes an amazingly atmospheric and previously unseen 13 minute film, made during the recordings of the album at Tony Stratton Smith's Sussex mansion and featuring Bert, Mike Nesmith, Red Rhodes and others recording and performing four of the songs as well as relaxing and playing pool. The CD will be an “Enhanced CD” – put it in any computer to view the film. Each of the new editions is beautifully re-packaged, featuring all the original artwork plus brand new specially written sleevenotes along with contemporary photos and memorabilia. These releases have been a long time coming, but we think are worth the wait!



Matias Faldbakken

Monday, July 6, 2009

GEORGE RUSH
you have been here sometime before

sent me on a housemartins jag,
and I realized that there is
not a bad song in the catalogue...

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Friday, July 3, 2009

WACKIES GRAPHIC DESIGN
WACKIES RADIO






the real reason
i want to move back
to new york



The Neighborhood Changed,
but the Local Restaurant?
Not So Much.

By FRANK BRUNI

Diner

85 Broadway (Berry Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn; (718) 486-3077.

One minute our waiter was standing over us, in the usual tableau; the next he was seated beside us, not only reciting the night’s menu but also scribbling it, in shorthand, on the paper that covered our table. That’s Diner for you: shaggy, improvisatory and cheeky, much like Williamsburg — or at least, like Williamsburg when Diner opened there a decade ago.

The neighborhood has changed. And Diner? Not so much. A while back, Caroline Fidanza ceded the reins in the kitchen to Sean Rembold, who had worked beside her. But now, as ever, the cooking emphasizes seasonality, accessibility, comfort and correctness: the beef for a recent strip steak special ($32) was grass-fed. Diner was doing the Brooklyn tropes before they were Brooklyn tropes.

And it still does them with charm and skill, based on a recent dinner there, which I found more satisfying than a dinner not too long before that at Marlow & Sons, the most prominent of Diner’s offspring, including the two Bonita restaurants.

A half chicken ($22) was impeccably cooked. Same for a fillet of halibut ($23). Neither reflected particular daring — that was left to an appetizer of grilled duck hearts ($11), by far the best dish of the night. The runner-up? Possibly a sorrel soup ($8) with such intensely smoky, porky accents that it tasted almost like a liquefied ham sandwich. I mean that as a compliment.

All of the desserts I sampled — chocolate cake, poundcake, lemon pie (each $8) — were good. There’s a sophisticated wine list and carefully chosen beers. You can get an easy-drinking, refreshing Presidente ($4) from the Dominican Republican. You should.

Diner’s setting — in a narrow, snug metal dining car from 1927 — remains irresistible. But its prices have risen sharply since the start, when an evening’s soup special was, say, $3.50, and the chicken was $9. That’s inflation, yes. But that’s also what happens when a neighborhood itself ascends.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Shi Pei Pu, Singer,
Spy and ‘M. Butterfly,’
Dies at 70
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LAWRENCE WEINER

Los Angeles Premiere of Lawrence Weiner’s
Water in Milk Exists
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Thursday, July 9, 8pm
Cottage Home
410 Cottage Home St. LA, CA 90012
Screening followed with a few words
by Lawrence Weiner and a reception.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009