Two new pieces from Curt Merlo.
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Monthly Archive for June, 2006
I first heard this song yesterday. I know I’m jumping on the Sufjan bandwagon later than most and I’m still not sure I love it, but I at least love this song.
It is the encaptulation of the early adolescent experience. The nervous, developing person encounters new joys, troubles and body parts. The song’s delivery and content is slightly melancholy, but it brings me a strange contentment, like the rays of the sun breaking the horizon on a chilly morning in the almond orchards of central California. I don’t know…maybe it’s just a good arrangement of musical notation. You can listen below.
Read More on Casimir Pulaski.
The operator of this blog is in no way trying to steal or illegally distribute the music of Sujan Stevens or anyone else for that matter. I will take this song down if requested. The posting is simply meant to bring light to this song and the beautiful music of Sufjan Stevens and sometimes possibly Cat Stevens, though they are unrelated.
I was clicking through someone’s Imix today on iTunes and came a across a song called Why You Wanna by T.I. I’m not sure if this is a currently popular radio hit. It seemed to be, as it coincided with other songs I’ve been subjected to while traveling in radio listeners’ cars*. Out of curiousity, I gave this song a click. What came next was the perfect way to start my day. It went something like this:
I wanna kiss you everywhere between your knees and waist, hear the sounds that you make and get your knees to shake
I’m really glad I was listening to the clean version.
This used to cost 3.99 a minute but now its free on the radio. Awesome.
*Said with nose in air.
Now that every company is doing some type of viral web-based advertising (the subserviant chicken, Dr. Angus…actually those are both Burger King, who also brought us the “get your head out of your bun”, “manthem” ads and the lastest, “big hucking chicken”.
Well what I’m about the share with you has nothing to do with burger king, but it does have to do with humorous and whitty advertising. Onitsuka Tiger, known for manufacturing some sweet wrestling shoes, has built out a great site for their new soccer shoe.
Make sure you click on See Performance.
A comment from a new friend and reader (not you Jimmy, keep clicking) has re-sparked a brushfire on this blog known as the Jesus Picture of the Week. Though more of the roadside, I threw my cigarette out the window on I-5 type, it is impressive nonetheless. Well today I burn down the Angeles National Forest.
Now if you can’t see him, click here to cheat.
Now after studying this picture for quite a long time. I happened to notice some similarities between this remarkable façade and a certain piece of art being displayed at a party I attended titled,”Welcome to Space.” The aptly named party was thrown by none other than a friend of mine (not Dave Bazan, but I have met him). The “original” piece of art commissioned for the party itself (which was a thrill, it had robots, spacemen, and even an egyptian) was done by none other than our own Curt Merlo. Curt has enjoyed some growing popularity on this blog, but what I am about to show you will change all of this.
Some say they see Jesus, others the head of Michelangelo’s David, and even a pouncing husky. I see nothing more than a fraud with a rocket ship and some extremely clever glyph-like typography.
Something for all the tree-loving-homo-democrats to eat with their tofu and dried fruit today. The Oxford dictionary has released the top 100 used nouns in the english language.
War appeared at no. 49. Peace didn’t even make the list.
Whats up now peace? You want some? I got some war for ya right here, Numero Cuarenta y Nueve. Pansy.
People use the word woman more than they used the word peace. You don’t get lower than that.
Obviously this all is said with much sarcasm, but just in case you didn’t get that I wasn’t serious, here is my disclaimer, I DONT MEAN ANY OF THIS.
Also, read the Oxford Guide to World Cup Terrace Talk
Not really. This is David Bazan, former lead singer of Pedro the Lion, which was disbanded after TW Walsh, left. He is now doing his own solo project called the soft drugs. Bazan (whom i’ve met*) has released his first solo work titled “FEWER MOVING PARTS”, a five song ep that also includes acoustic versions (that makes it equal a 10 song ep). You can listen to the new cd on purevolume. Ive heard a couple tracks, sounds great so far. Same great Bazan delivery, some new sounds. Wouldn’t be complete without some scathing critisisms of popular culture, christianity, and the latest news items. On that note, I will warn a couple of these songs deal with some heavy stuff. I am not standing for or against this, I’m just letting you know. He even deals with some personal stuff about the band breaking up on Fewer Broken Pieces.
Also listen to The Soft Drugs on Myspace.
For TW this is a little bit of a sound change. But I really like it.
*Somehow this makes me a little cooler.
You can buy both The Soft Drugs and David Bazan albums on Undterow Music.
I found video of the Mastroeni slide tackle from the US vs. Italy game:
It’s hard to judge from the footage. To me, it seems as is he came in at the ball and from the side. Though he did come in hard and fast, I’m having a hard time seeing both spikes up in the air.
Here is the Eddie Pope red card footage:
Definitely a red.
You notice the equal amount of suprise in each of the commentators voices?
Got a lot of posts for you today. Hopefully this will make up for the lack of posting in the ongoing week.
Yesterday I came up with, what I believe is a great movie idea. It was inspired by two things, The Flaming Lips CD, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. If you havent heard this…you must. I will warn you, it’s a concept album and it gets a little electronic at times for me (if you could not tell both of those things by the name). The second thing was watching The New World. Which literally blew me away. Not like a explosion though. Like a feather in a gentle breeze. It was absolutely beautiful and extremely thought provoking. It’s defintely made for watching by yourself or with a small group of respectful and pensive film lovers, but I think it can be enjoyed by a wider audience. You just have to be ready. It’s more like reading someone’s diary, than watching the story of their life. It is an afternoon movie and not a nine o’clock at night one, if that makes any sense.
My idea:
Set in the modern day. The US and Russia are getting ready to send up a joint mission to the international space station. Four russians, four americans. This is really a peacekeeping mission between the two countries who are embroiled in a war of ideas. This war is not so cold. The US and russia are battling over control of former Soviet Union countries who are now run by radical muslims. The astronauts are launched on what seems like a hopeful day in the fight for peace. While the astronauts are in space, Russia invades a US protected country and the US declares war on russia. Alone in space, the astronaughts hear the news. Though voices of reason try to keep peace, a misguided american patriot attacks a member of the russian crew. This sparks a battle in the space station. The extremely smart and well trained scientists are stripped to the core of their humanity and must choose between allegience to a country or to their fellow man. Meanwhile a relationship between a russian cosmonaut and american astronaught blossoms. Their love is the only thing holding the spacestation together. But will this be enough?
Themes:
Exploration of human nature, war, the bonds of love, and group allegience.
This isn’t supposed to be an anti-war movie as much as it is an anti-human nature film. The contrast between the love story and war will show the best and worst we can be. I do know how the film would end, but if I make it, I cant tell you right?
I would also love to attach Yoshimi as the soundtrack, with a couple added score pieces done by the Flaming Lips. This idea is a real departure for me, as I really am a satirical comedy type of writer and most of my favorite films fall under that category.
What do you think? I would love comments on this. Critisisms as well as any input.
If I go ahead with it, I will post pieces of it here on this blog. It will be interactive screewriting.
