I'm very serious about this race between education and catastrophe. I'm very serious about the connection between critical thinking and consciousness. I'm very serious about dim sum and laughter and not taking this whole thing so very seriously.
// May 26th, 2010 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry
The Keeper, by Bonobo featuring the exquisite Andreya Triana. Taken from the album of the year, “Black Sands”. If the powers that be will it, I shall be catching them twice in the next two weeks, in Bucharest then Prague. My hobby is: following your favourite DJ on tour across central Europe.
// February 28th, 2010 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry
// 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.
// 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)
// 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.
// March 4th, 2009 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry
// 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.
// February 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry, World Issues
// 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.
Brother Ali,from Minnesota, rhymes a cappella.
Fat Freddy’s Drop, from New Zealand, perform “Dark Days”
Mr Scruff, from England, plays “Get a Move On”
Flying Lotus, from California, playing “Fly Lo’s Like Wo“
DJ Vadim, from Russia, plays Milwaukee
// January 1st, 2009 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry
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