It is already too hot out. Here’s some good advice from Holger Czukay, a founding member of Can.

The performer is Bill Shannon and watch the whole thing. It’s absurdly beautiful.

May crutches be your new dance party.

internet works at our apartment for the first time in a month.
i’m working on a new record of original songs called “i secrete yuppie juice”

marian and i just got back from seeing genius aaron siegel’s mysterious event at the chocolate factory in long island city. he’s continuing it on Friday and Saturday at 8 PM, and if you have a heart, a feeling way in the world, a way of feeling things and wanting to explore the world, you will go. it was amazing! aaron and i have just completed work on a new record of free jazz duets.

do you want to see a harry smith film set to ‘misterioso’ by thelonious monk? yes!

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Came across this animated history of War, WWII-present, that uses food to represent warring countries on BoingBoing. The filmmaker provides a guide to the countries involved here, or you can watch an abridged and captioned version of the film on Boing Boing TV.

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God I just had possibly the worst moviegoing experience of my entire life. I am absolutely not exaggerating when I say that I *Hated* I Am Legend. It was an assault. I had to take Ibuprofen when I got home.

The only reason why we went to see it was that the non-dubbed choices were: Alvin y los Chipmunks; Bee Movie (saw it, would see it again but husband not interested); Golden Compass (no); and um… something with The Rock in it. So obviously we were in a bind.

I don’t know what to do now. Gray has suggested that we watch another movie as an antidote. We have two DVDs at home: Fritz the Cat and a super violent Colombian film called Rosario Tijeiras. So Fritz it is. And a stiff drink.

gabe. we’re glad to have you back.

alert reader peter amidon alerted me to this: pat paulson

We’re nearing the 1 year anniversary of saxophonist michael brecker’s death. january 14. everybody listen to a michael brecker song today!

hi thomas in vietnam!

merry christmas friends. happy birthday big baby jesus.

r.i.p. dirt mcgirt.

I am in my grandparents living room in western massachusetts. i’m listening to “8 diagrams.” it’s a kind of amazing act of restraint and clarity of focus on the rza’s part to have no posthumous appearance by odb on the record. there’s some really beautiful stuff on this record - not as experimental as enter the wu-tang, but also kind of unlike anything else that’s out there, moody and quiet melodic beats and low-key rapping.

studs terkel: what about… this would also make the other actors, too, be more imaginative, challenge them, too. They would do something…

buster keaton: Oh, yes, oh yes. We want to. Another thing we didn’t do in those days that they do today is that we didn’t rehearse a scene to perfection. we didn’t want that because it was mechanical then. We’d much rather… for any of our big rough-house scenes where there is a lot of falls and people hitting each other, we never rehearsed those. We only just sat down and talked about it, and, says, now he drops that chair, you come through that door and come through fast, and this person here sees you come and throws up their hands and from the center door you can see it. Now you come through and just about hit him. If you miss him, get her.

Now that’s the way we laid those scenes out, because when we did those rough-house cenes, if you had to do it the second time, invariably somebody skinned up an elbow or bumped a knee or something like that, and now they will shy away from it the next take or they will favor it. See, you seldom got a scene like that as good as the second time.

i did a little interview thingy/dreamtelling for the captain obvious blog

has anyone else seen Bee Movie?

i loved it. honestly i thought it was better than Ratatouille.

i love bees.

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