Blind Pilot :: I Buried a Bone

look me in the gut
I've got fear for my own name
I'd dig it up for you
if you'd do the same

Let's Get It On (Marvin Gaye cover)

This is a mostly shitty one-off I did to check how well my iPhone's camera could do audio, but just for funsies here it is.

Don't Think Twice It's All Right (Bob Dylan cover)

I've been practicing lately exclusively in D-A-D-F#-D-D tuning; the idea is that by restricting myself to an unfamiliar tuning, I will be forced to change my own perspective and find new ways of voicing chords and moving melodies around the neck. On this particular video, I have a capo on the second fret--making this the key of E--mainly to make that Richie Havens thumb wrap fingering of the F#7 on that second fret a little easier on myself. Anyway, there're admittedly a lot of mistakes in this video, but it is what it is and you get the idea blah blah blah...

Watching this just opened up the wellspring of every tear I ever cried as a child. If you've got six minutes and a box of tissues at hand, you'll enjoy this.

Thom Yorke's DJ set at the TKOL RMX 1234567 release party:

I have infinite, forever love for Thom Yorke. Just look at that little wild man beast out.

I think I'm in love...

This girl is amazingly talented. She should be on SNL or something.

North Korea Party Rock Anthem ft. Kim Jong Il

My 9/11 Anthem...

Stevie Wonder doing "Blowin' in the Wind" at the age of 16.



I love this, despite this version's omission of the third verse lines, my favorites: "how many deaths will it take 'til God knows / that too many people have died?"

Pray for peace, everyone. One love.

Horrible

This is the reason the terrorists hate us.

Hooray Science!

Is this what it looks like to be on acid?

Outlier's JP on Australia's Got Talent :: Down Under

As a rule, I avoid music-based reality competition type shows; I often feel like their audiences don't have too much of an idea of what "good" music actually is, and oftentimes the winners seem chosen more on physical appearance than talent. That said, it's pretty much impossible to deny the awesomeness of this guy's performance right here. Makes me want to ditch my RC-2 for an RC-50 and get my ass to practicing.

I Heart Miranda July

Miranda July is one of my favorite artists in the world today. I say 'artist' because in addition to her most well-known work, the film "Me And You And Everyone We Know"*--which she wrote, directed and acted in--she is also a great writer of short stories and a brave-ass performance artist who's done her shit at the fucking Guggenheim.

She has a new film premiering in DC this Friday. It's called "The Future" and though it features a talking cat narrator and an anthropomorphized moon, it looks like it'll be fantastic, at least to me it does--it's getting a fair amount of Twitter hate right now, but who cares about that, really? Anyway, I'm going to see it with a friend on Sunday, and in my excitement I've been relentlessly watching Miranda July clips on youtube, which I will now share with you.

Here is the trailer for the film...



followed by an awesome out-take therefrom about how to be creative...



and also a nice short film she made back in 2005 with John C Reilly, Mike White, and a fellow named Chuy Chavez. It's called "Are You The Favorite Person Of Anybody?"



*MaYaEWK ranks EASILY amongst my top-5 favorite films of all time. SEE IT if you haven't. It's perfectly lovely.

Regular Show :: Best of Pops

If you have never seen "Regular Show", which airs Monday evenings at 8:15 on the Cartoon Network, you are missing out on some of the best absurdist cartoon humor ever. This video is a compilation of hilarious things said by my favorite character, Pops, an effeminate, old British man who may or may not be mentally healthy. He is good for 3 hearty laughs per 15 minute episode; it's science. The show would be nothing without him.

Sesame Street does the Beasties

Well, this is just excellent.

Sesame Street breaks it down from Wonderful Creative on Vimeo.

Future Islands :: Beach Foam

This is my favorite song ever right now.

Inspiration of the day

This is one wise little girl.

The Dog Door

Russian animation: The Dog Door (+English subtitles) from Niffiwan on Vimeo.

Belle & Sebastian :: Sleep the Clock Around

This Belle & Sebastian song has been stuck in my head for weeks, but I'd been totally blanking on its title and album up until this morning, when a quick click-through of the B & S discography solved my dilemma: it's "Sleep the Clock Around" from 1998's The Boy With the Arab Strap, and it's one of my favorite songs ever. I already told it I was sorry I forgot about it for a while. It's forgiven me.

Simon Christen :: The Unseen Sea

This is beautiful. I don't have much else to add other than that. So, so beautiful.

The Unseen Sea from Simon Christen on Vimeo.

Bright Eyes :: Light Pollution (live, 2005)

Listening to records in his basement:
Old folk songs about the government
'It's love of money, not the market,'
He said these fuckers push on you
'And freedom yells, it don't cry
Whatever sells will decide
But there's no hell when you die
So don't look so worried...'