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Laura Gibson's new album, Beasts of Seasons
What is it with Hush Records? Do they have some kind of mafioso style hold on all the good rustic sounds generating the modern American rock and acoustic driven musics? Is someone going around threatening good musicians in the Portland area to record sweet dolorous albums with Hush? I seem to listen to a lot of Hush record releases lately. For me it was always about the Norfolk & Western, being one of my favorites that seemingly too few people listen to. But now I've been letting Hush creep into my listening habits with Kaitlyn Ni Donovan, Loch Lomond, Flash Hawk Parlor Ensemble, Peter Broderick, Rauelsson, Podington Bear, and Run On Sentence. And then there is the since graduated to a bigger company, The Decemberists. Everyone seemed to be listening to them for a while.
I listened to Laura Gibson's new album, Beasts of Seasons full on NPR last week. Normally NPR annoys the hell out of me with their flaccid comfortable methods of prescribing world news and US politics, but there is a gem here and there in public radio land. So, If you are in the mood for...well, mood music, timbre laden acoustic stuff with a story telling voice listen to the full album. Laura Gibson's real talent is making music that is intentionally understated, and that's not to mean just her voice.
You can buy the album cheap over at the Hush site. And then you can see Laura Gibson over at Schubas with Damien Jurado (who is sounding more Secretly Canadian with each record) on April 10th.
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Astra Taylor: Examined Life
When am I going to be able to teleport to NYC for a night out to the movies? I hope this ability becomes before the 25th so I can go see Examined Life by Astra Taylor.
2005's "Žižek!" trailed Slovenian psychoanalyst, philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek around the world as he expounded on ideology and made eccentric observations on love, revolution and his own self-critique. Taylor's latest feature, "Examined Life," is no less absorbing, an intelligent yet accessible anthology of ideas that sees eight highly influential thinkers of our time (including Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Michael Hardt -- and yes, the wild and wooly Žižek) pontificating while taking walks through modern culture. Kwame Anthony Appiah talks cosmopolitanism from inside an airport, Žižek dissects ecology while digging through a garbage facility and Cornel West compares philosophy to jazz and blues while being driven around the streets of Manhattan by the director herself. When Taylor and I met up over coffee in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we discussed the possibility of chatting in the car in which West was filmed, but it was unfortunately being used to sing in by her husband, Jeff Mangum (reclusive frontman of the influential '90s indie-pop band Neutral Milk Hotel), who also contributed some sounds to the film's score.
Read The Independent Film Channel full interview: Astra Taylor Explains the "Examined Life"
EXAMINED LIFE: Trailer
And not from either film, but just because Slavoj Žižek talks on toilets and ideology:
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Three essays by Rebecca Solnit worth reading
Elegy for a Toxic Logic
And carpe diem for what comes next
The Icelandic Volcano Erupts: A New Era of People Power in the Streets?
Can a hedge-fund island lose its shirt and gain its soul?
Men Explain Things to Me
Facts didn't get in their way.
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Jim White, DRUMS!
This is not about the Jim White whose albums Wrong-Eyed Jesus and Transnormal Skiperoo are great southern gothic Flannery O'Connor laden works of art, but rather Jim White the drummer of Dirty Three and collaborator on certain albums with Nina Nastasia, Cat Power, Bonnie Prince Billy, PJ Harvey, Boxhead Ensemble, Smog, Jolie Holland, Nick Cave. He's really prolific and my favoritist percussionist. Sometimes I'll hear a song and think, hey that sounds like Jim White on drums, and then I look it up and lo, it is.
Here is a nice compilation of some good songs.
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A Yeoman's Job: A Radical History from Below
Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, Oh My!
The Many-Headed Hydra kicks ass.
The histories of nation states bores the crap out of me. But this Hidden History of sabotage, riot, revolutions and insurrections due to the mass torture and state murder of the bodies of the Many by privileged educated landowners and company shareholders is much more exciting. And if Shakespeare were alive today I would either punch him in the face or start a riot at a showing of the Tempest.
While I've been told countless times that I do a Yeoman's job, Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker have really done us all great and loyal service by writing this book.
Thanks Brother Josh for the loan.
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Calhalla - by Lauren Bergman
Lauren Bergman's Calhalla show in Culver City, CA that I will not be attending.
But the interview at The Morning News has big paintings for computer screens that contain both the sexualized and the infantilized.
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