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  • The Recording Cabinet of…

    I was reading about Elfo Recording Studio. Well, not exactly reading about it but saw the above-the-fold pic of the exterior at Dezeen in my Googlefeed and liked it, a raucous but curiously comforting jumble, like several 1960s elementary school kindergartens cut up and reboxed. Comforting in the way that public school was comforting when…

  • Creative Loafing write up on Heston

    Nice little write up on Heston in this week’s Creative Loafing. Audio included is “Brand New U”. If you’re interested in learning a bit more about this up-and-coming West Indian soul artist Marty’s been recording the past few years, head over and read and have a listen. Nice guy and is out there working hard…

  • What they did opening for Todd Rundgren

    I wasn’t at the Variety Playhouse yesterday, where Marty was playing, but I’m still going to try to provide a basic description of the scene, via his telling of it. Not only was I not at the Variety Playhouse, I didn’t do my yoga yesterday. It’s the first time in the nearly seven weeks since…

  • The Heard Museum

    Day 10. We went to the Heard Museum. Untitled (the hunter/hunted) by David Hannan b. 1971 Metis Untitled (the hunt/hunted), 2006-2007 Mixed media installation Metis artist David Hannan works with taxidermy-form sculptures to explore aspects of union, adaptation and metamorphosis. Hannan’s taxidermy hybrids present tension and beauty in the merging of animals into sculptures. Many…

  • Wake up!!!!

    It’s the fizziest ultimate bubble bath of your childhood all grown up, Mister and Madam Bubble dropping the shower curtain on their library of reflections.

  • I laughed from the very first line

    The title says it all. Gore Vidal Speaks Seriously Ill of the Dead. I laughed. And I laughed. Which was a nice balance for the cry I had the other day, from which I don’t feel much recovered.

  • Art and Those Pesky Hands and Feet

    Some doctors got themselves all in a hubbub over finding what they believe is nearly incontrovertable evidence that Raphael used polydactyl models. Below is a detail from Raphael’s La Belle Jardinere. Doctors say the infant shows polydactylism. I think artists call this foreshortening. And with some people that part of the foot sticks out more…

  • I buy for my IPOD

    I love Pistolera’s “Cazador”. I got IPOD! I can buy the song and port it around now. Will probably end up getting the album later. Hungry IPOD says, “Feed me!” This is good for it. Lots of protein, vitamins, minerals, what have you.

  • My brain screamed "NOO, I'M MUSH, DON'T DO THIS TO ME!" all the while

    Waited all day yesterday for a UPS shipment for Marty but then he realized it was coming in today instead so here I wait for UPS to knock at the window. I started using the Flash Media Player via Dreamhost for displaying QT to FLV video on the blogs because Youtube can be pretty funky,…

  • When Design Says "Who Needs You" to Function

    This chair looks about as comfortable to sit on as thousands of nail heads.

  • Monteverdi's Orfeo

    How I came across Marilia Vargas was looking up Monteverdi’s “Orfeo” at Youtube. “Mom, look up some opera for me,” H.o.p. said. He meant something like Mozart’s “Requiem” but he’s never seen Ponnelle’s 1978 staging of “Orfeo”. Instead I found clips from the Jordi Savall/Brian Large 2002 production. The opening is promising… Marilia Vargas as…

  • Just Became Aware of Marilia Vargas This Morning…

    Marilia Vargas singing Villa Lobos’ Bachianas Brasilerias No. 5. To listen is to breathe more deeply, it is that affecting. Vargas’ voice strikes me as alternative, faithful yet modern, and I’m not even sure yet how so. Something in her expressiveness that is as open to the concert hall as the corner food mart, as…