Art, Music & Poetry

Gnarls Barkley cover Reckoner

// January 22nd, 2010 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

Gagging Order- Radiohead

// May 26th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Art, Music & Poetry

I found a track that I’d never heard before, from my favorite band. It’s that little bit extra when you thought you’d taken everything long ago. “Gagging Order” by Radiohead.

Minty Fresh produced an unexpectedly brilliant mash-up of this track with Jay-Z.

What I Have Learned So Far- Mary Oliver

// April 14th, 2009 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I
not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside,
looking into the shining world? Because, properly
attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion.
Can one be passionate about the just, the
ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit
to no labor in its cause? I don’t think so.

All summations have a beginning, all effect has a
story, all kindness begins with the sown seed.
Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of
light is the crossroads of — indolence, or action.

Be ignited, or be gone.

Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems Volume Two, (thanks Rudi)

Kutiman pwns Youtube

// March 11th, 2009 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

Kutiman, an Isaeli funk musician and producer, puts together incredible funk, dub, jazz tracks mixed entirely from Youtube samples. Whatever you are thinking right now, you are wrong. It is so much better than that… Even now, your assumptions are drastically underreckoning. This is the best thing on the internet right now. Be blown away.

This is Jazz

// March 4th, 2009 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

The Max Grunhard Quintet perform Sea Shanty

Living the Surreal Life

// February 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

Shock-rocker Alice Cooper describes an early encounter with Salvador Dalí, in February, 1973.

“Let me tell you about the first meeting. We sit down at the St. Regis in New York, which was sort of Dalí’s stomping ground, and eight unisexual nymphs wearing chiffon and glittery eye makeup walk in. Then Gala, his wife, in a full tuxedo- top hat, gloves, spats, cane, everything. Then Dali comes in and he’s got Aladdin shoes, purple socks that Elvis gave him, blue velvet pants, and a giraffe-skin coat, and goes, “The Dalí… is here.”

Full article in Spin Magazine, February, 2009.

The Victorian Bushfires

// February 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry, World Issues

scorched trees mark the dead
land, hungry for rain and fire
behind char she cries

some powerful pictures

Days Like This

// January 30th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Art, Music & Poetry

Tilly and I made the most of “Days Like This” festival, which coincided nicely with my trip back to Oz this January. Kicking off from a supremely sunny Sydney Sunday, ranging into a long, relaxed afternoon and well into one of those summer nights in which the warm breeze seems to hold you almost above the ground. The line up was unbelievable, so I’ve posted some great tracks below. Enjoy.

Atmosphere, from Minnesota, play Lovelife.