Song of the Day: Jane’s Addiction - Thank You, Boys February 28, 2007
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then music must be made of diamonds.
Our music is kind of like a cross between Duke Ellington and Bad Brains.
Jane’s Addiction - Thank You, Boys (1MB mp3)
from the album Nothing’s Shocking
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Picture of the Day: from Amy Crehore February 27, 2007
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Roaming Tomcat Rag by Amy Crehore | oil on linen
Layers of ideas with double meanings.
Double entendres. Silent poetry.
Surrealism.
Imaginative details and design.
My newest paintings,
the “Little Pierrot Series”
and the “Monkey Love Series”,
contain all of these qualities
and they also entertain people.
The Art of Amy Crehore: official site | blog
interviews: Art in NYC | Celebrity at Work
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Song of the Day: Massive Attack - Be Thankful For What You’ve Got February 26, 2007
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Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac —
gangster whitewalls, TV antennas in the back…
You may not have a car at all.
But just remember, brothers and sisters —
you can still stand tall…
Just be thankful for what you’ve got.
Massive Attack - Be Thankful For What You’ve Got (4.8MB mp3)
from the album Blue Lines
Flickr photo from beebo wallace
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YouTube Video of the Day: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away February 25, 2007
Posted by ~V~ in : Video, Sounds, YouTube Video of the Day , add a commenti realize i don’t wanna be a miser;
confide wisely, you’ll be the wiser.
Young blood is the lovin’ upriser —
how come everybody wanna keep it like the kaiser?
Lowbrow but i rock a little know-how,
no time for the piggies or the hoosegow.
Get smart, get down with the powwow —
never been a better time than right now.
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Wikipedia: Red Hot Chili Peppers | BloodSugarSexMagik | the gift economy
Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free
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Song of the Day: Danger Mouse - What More Can I Say? February 24, 2007
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What more can i tell you? Let me spell it for you:
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Far from a Harvard student; just had the balls to do it.
god forgive me for my brash delivery,
but i remember vividly
what these streets did to me…
Danger Mouse - What More Can I Say? (6.3MB mp3)
from The Grey Album
In 2003, a little–known DJ by the name of Danger Mouse created a “mash–up” album that remixed the music of the Beatles’ White Album and hiphop star Jay–Z’s Black Album to produce a new record called The Grey Album.
The swift and draconian legal reaction to the online dissemination of this technically illegal but culturally fascinating artifact gave rise to a “day of digital civil disobedience,” [February 24, 2004] organized by
music activism group Downhill Battle.Grey Tuesday, as the day of action was known, marks a potentially new site for a blend of online political and cultural activism in the highly charged realm of intellectual property expansionism.
~ from Grey Tuesday, online cultural activism and the mash–up of music and politics, by Sam Howard-Spink
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YouTube Video of the Day: Ice Storm February 22, 2007
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video from carolynlum
Flickr photos from Brook Dillon
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Song of the Day: Coldplay - Amsterdam February 21, 2007
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° ° °
Come on, oh my star is fading
and i swerve out of control.
And if i, oh if i’d only waited,
i’d not be stuck here in this hole…
You can say what you mean
but it won’t change a thing.
i’m sick of the secrets…
Stood on the edge, tied to the noose.
But you came along and you cut me loose.
Coldplay - Amsterdam (7.3MB mp3)
from the album A Rush of Blood to the Head
official site | MySpace | official fansite | Wikipedia
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Picture(s) of the Day: from Jim Flora February 20, 2007
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James (Jim) Flora (1914-1998) is best-known for his wild jazz and classical album covers for Columbia Records (late 1940s) and RCA Victor (1950s).
He authored and illustrated 17 popular children’s books and flourished for decades as a magazine illustrator. Few realize, however, that Flora was also a prolific fine artist with a devilish sense of humor and a flair for juxtaposing playfulness, absurdity and violence…
Flora’s album covers pulsed with angular hepcats bearing funnel-tapered noses and shark-fin chins who fingered cockeyed pianos and honked lollipop-hued horns. Yet this childlike exuberance was subverted by a tinge of the diabolic. Flora wreaked havoc with the laws of physics, conjuring flying musicians, levitating instruments, and wobbly dimensional perspectives.
On some Flora figures, three legs and five arms were standard equipment, with spare eyeballs optional. His rarely seen fine artworks reflect the same comic yet disturbing qualities. Jim Flora once said that all he wanted to do was “create a little piece of excitement.”
He overshot his goal with much of his work.~ from jimflora.com
books: The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora | The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora
links: official site | blog | interview | Wikipedia
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Song of the Day: Linda Strawberry - F#ck You I’m Beautiful February 19, 2007
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You were my star.
i never wondered — i know who you are…
photo art by Kristin Burns & Linda Strawberry ~ click to see a larger image.
***
This drug of a dream
takes me over.
Linda Strawberry - Fuck You I’m Beautiful (4.9MB mp3)
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YouTube Video of the Day: Zwan - Honestly February 18, 2007
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to wipe the memories aside —
but it’s you that you erase…
i believe
you mean the best that life can bring.
i believe in it all…
There’s no place that i could be without you.
Honestly.
° ° °
from the album Mary Star of the Sea
smashed Pumpkins turn into Zwans: Wikipedia | ZwanMusic.org
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Song of the Day: Incubus - Dig February 17, 2007
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We all have a weakness —
some of ours are easy to identify…
We all have something
that digs at us —
at least we dig each other.
So when sickness turns my ego up,
i know you’ll act as a clever medicine…
Dig me up from under
what is covering
the better part of me.
Incubus - Dig (4.9MB mp3)
from the new album, Light Grenades
Wikipedia: Incubus (the band) | Incubus (the demon)
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YouTube Video of the Day: Seal - Crazy February 16, 2007
Posted by ~V~ in : Video, Sounds, YouTube Video of the Day , add a commentAnd through a fractal on a breaking wall
i see you, my friend, and touch your face again…
Miracles will happen as we trip.
But we’re never gonna survive unless…
In a sky full of people, only some want to fly —
isn’t that crazy?
In a world full of people, only some want to fly —
isn’t that crazy?
In a heaven of people, there’s only some want to fly…
Ain’t that crazy?
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Song of the Day: Tricky - Suffocated Love February 15, 2007
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Take a second of me.
You beckon, i’ll be.
She suffocates me.
She suffocates me with suggestion…
You ask, “What is this?”
Mind your business.
i pass idle days with my idle ways.
Till the twelfth of Always, she walks my hallways…
Tricky - Suffocated Love (5.6MB mp3)
from the album Maxinquaye
Wikipedia: Tricky | Martina Topley-Bird
Flickr photo from voodooangel
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Picture of the Day: from Audrey Angel February 14, 2007
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“In Red” ~ by, of, & for Audrey Angel
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them;
to put without special calculation
a red close to a blue.~ Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
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