A scene from "Shrink" one of the best movies I've seen this year. In this scene movie stubbs are being thrown out into the sky over LA from the Hollywood sign.
+ Rufus Wainwright: Release The Stars /Live*
*Milwaukee At Last!!! is the new Rufus live CD/DVD that comes out September 22nd.
Someone asked me the other day for my top 10. I could only come up with 5. After a few days, I now have the whole list.
1. Santogold: "Santogold"
L.E.S. Artistes (live @mtvU Woodie Awards)
"Shove It" at the mtvU Woodie Awards video | "Shove It" (Switch Remix)
"Creator"/live @ Stubb's SXSW 2008
2. Rachael Yamagata: "Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart"
Sidedish Friend/live | Sunday Afternoon/live @NYC
3. Elbow: "The Seldom Seen Kid"
The Bones Of You/official video | Starlings/live @Glastonbury 08
4. Kanye West: "808s & Heartbreak"
Love Lockdown/live @MTV EMA 2008
5. She & Him:"Volume One"
You Really Got a Hold On Me/live MTV Canada
6.The Kills: "Midnight Boom"
Last Day of Magic/live @Jonathan Ross
7. Lightspeed Champion: "Falling Off the Lavender Bridge"
Everyone I Know Is Listening to Crunk/live @Bowery Ballroom | Galaxy of the Lost/live @Antone's, Austin TX
8. Uh Huh Her: "Common Reaction"
Common Reaction/live acoustic | Say So/live acoustic
9. Coldplay: "Viva La Vida!"
Yes-Lovers In Japan/live @Berlin
10. Kathleen Edwards: "Asking for Flowers"
Buffalo/live Debaser, Stockholm
[ Single Song Honorable Mentions ]
Amanda Palmer: Have To Drive
Secret Machines: Now You’re Gone
I have a pair of tickets to give away to the West Coast Premiere of Justice A Cross The Universe Directed by Romain Gavras, So-Me and Justice (Watch the Trailer). The premiere is tomorrow, Friday, October 31st. If you are interested, Email Me by 2:30pm est Today. Congrats to the Winner: Donald. There's a live CD + DVD release coming out on December 9th.
Nike Sportswear at The Montalbán is proud to present the West Coast Premiere of A Cross The Universe
Friday, October 31, 2008
6pm: Opening reception with cocktails courtesy of Belvedere Vodka
7pm: Film Premiere introduced by Busy P and Justice
8pm: Busy P x Nike Air Force 1 Sneaker Launch
+ DJ Paul V. – Just D.A.N.C.E. [David Bowie vs. Justice vs. Lady Gaga]
+ Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Eli & Diplo Mix)
+ More Justice
from Apple Volume 2
+ Arcade Fire - My Body Is A Cage [Live At L'Olympia]
+ Ben Folds ft Regina Spektor "You don't Know Me" @ Conan O'Brien
+ Ray Lamontagne: One Lonesome Saddle, Meg White
@ Patrick Tsai via Professional Dreamer
[ Kaiser Chiefs: Addicted To Drugs, Oh My God/Live ]
+ Fiona Apple with Nickel Creek: Criminal , Fast As You Can, Limp, Waltz (Better Than Fine).
+ FIONA APPLE @ HOWARD STERN
+ The Ronnie Mund Show / Ronnie calls Hotheaded Tough Guy
don't ask me why. by ~Moosiatko
+ Rachael Yamagata, 'Sidedish Friend'
+ 2 Candidates, 2 Comics
+ Politifact Truth-O-Meter
+ The Jed Report
+ While waiting for the debate to start, I was channel surfing and ran into this show on PBS: Docubloggers, #119 "Duty".
"Hardship makes the world obscure."
- Don Delillo
+ Fanmix: Nobody Has to Stay (Iron Man, Pepper/Rhodey)
+ MORRISON'S PERFECT SUPERMAN
+ All-Stars: How does the Miller/Lee Batman stack up to the Morrison/Quitely Superman?
+ 10 Questions with Neil Gaiman
+ Being a reading of the first chapter of Neil's new book:
+ BILLY THE KID: trailer
+ The Wachowskis: From "2001" to "The Godfather" to "The Matrix"
+ Wong Kar-wai’s Phoenix Project, Rising at Last
+ All dressed up and with no fake id to use. Poor gossip girls
+ Frag Doll Fridays: PAX 08
Lady sitting next to me: "ACL is too much of an endurance test".
And the prize for whiniest band goes to.......THE KILLS. The heat was killing them, and apparently they've never done a daytime show, so "Hotel" wanted to give out the number to their agent so we would call between the hours of 2am and 4am and ask him why the fuck they were playing during the daytime. Last words of their set: "Stay Out Of The Sun". One twitter message from the local paper said something along the lines of "I wonder what it would take for the Kills not to wear black. maybe 94 degrees would do it." At one point Alison said "My feet are on fire".
+ Austin City Limits report: FNL's Adrianne Palicki on John Fogerty
+ Austin City Limits report: FNL's Scott Porter on N.E.R.D and the Swell Season
+ Austin City Limits, guest-starring 'Friday Night Lights'
Early in the day, one of the more enthusiastic songs I heard was Asleep at the Wheel's "Boogie Back To Texas".
+ Barack Obama Boogie Back To Texas with Asleep at the Wheel
Vampire Weekend at Austin City Limits 2008 w/Tosca
Vampire Weekend, new song, at Austin City Limits 2008
Yes, I played "Beat It" on Guitar Hero: World Tour and kicked ass at it.
Douglas Gordon, Play Dead; Real Time
+ Rachael Yamagata, "Elephants" Audio
Amazon has "Selections From Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart" available. I've been waiting a long time to hear studio version of some of these songs so this was right up my alley.
+ FNMTV: "L.E.S. Artistes (Live)", "Creator" (Live).
+ "Guns of Brooklyn (Doc and Jon Hill Dub)
+ World Cafe: Kaleidoscopic Pop
+ Santogold ft. AC “You’ll Find A Way”
+ David Bowie - Five Years
+ The Arcade Fire - Five Years
+ Placebo - Five years
Drawing Of D. Bowie, circa 1997
he slept in the back of the
Love Parlor
the girls let him.compassion is found in
strange places.Charles Bukowski
+Priscilla Ahn: Red Cape
+ Priscilla Ahn: Dream
+ Vanity Fair: A Mash Note to Priscilla Ahn
+ Cute Picture of her playing the piano. You know my weakness for such things.
+ Art: Adam Huges
'Sup Magazine Issue 18: 10 Questions with The Kills and Interviews with Santogold, Lightspeed Champion, Tigercity [via]
+ The Kills - Live on The Current: being a broadcast in which they cover VU's "Venus in Furs".
+ The Kills - Last Day of Magic Video
+ The Kills live at Antone's SXSW '08
Dear You,
I am getting nowhere with you.
where are you tonight, And how’d we get here?
I’ve been chasing ghosts and I don’t like it
Could I be possibly insane To think you and I have life figured out?
If you try the best you can, The best you can is good enough
The crumbs of love that you offer me, They're the crumbs I've left behind.
I'm in a garden of remembering your fingers in my hand, were like a book made of sand
Just when you feel it
You don't
It's gone forever
Finally it all makes sense
I could keep this all from you
Go away, go away
And leave me on my own
+ Radiohead - House of Cards @ Conan O'Brien 23/04/2008
+ Radiohead | In Rainbows From the Basement
+ A non-album Santogold track: "Your Voice"
+ The Kills Live at SXSW '08 teaser
+ "Priscilla Ahn - A Good Day epk
+ U2 Star Television
+ Duffy on Jay Leno
+ The Atomica Project: "Gravity"
+ Four Tet's 'DJ Set' Mix
+ Lucibel Crater: "Threadbare Funeral" w/Lou Reed
+ Austin Screening of Heavy Metal in Baghdad Monday May 5th
+ Lost: Something Twisted Back Home
+ Final Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Trailer
+ I like the idea of "Battle of the muxtapes"
+ Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a Halo 3 fiesta
+ 'Cloverfield' Blu-ray
+ Explore Liberty City with Google Map application
+ The Kooks had a song in Rock Band, right? I recall playing it and liking it.
+ Last Night: M.I.A at La Zona Rosa
+ The Top 100 Comic Book Runs Master List
+ Eisley at ME Television Studios
The progress of an artist is continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T.S. Eliot
+ X-Men Reload: Remember When...?
+ E is for Extinction
+ Living Colour - Cult Of Personality (live)
M. Stipe & T. Amos, Photo by Anton Corbijn, Details Magazine, February 1995
+ Stipe - "I'm Not Over You"
Icon Magazine, April 1998
Photo submission by raccoon
"The title is a reference to a book called Limits to Growth and the Club of Rome think-tank who would create a "map of the problematique" detailing the "global problematique" - a set of likely challenges the world might face in the near future." MuseWiki via Ultra8201
+ Map of the Problematique [Does It Offend You, Yeah?] Remix
+ Muse - Knights of Cydonia form the HAARP DVD
Lykke Li by Nilina Mason-Campbell
+ Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone @sxsw
+ LiveDaily SXSW: March 15, 2008
+ FADER Video: Lou Reed & Friends | Fader Issue 52
Longwave @ SXSW's Filter Magazine Showdown from AchtungBaby on Vimeo.
+ Spin: Minipop SXSW '08 Pick
+ (This one is for my Austin pals) I didn't see this one coming: Live from SXSW the Barton Creek Food Court.
+ Austin Chronicle: Off the Record - "For those of you in town for South by Southwest who didn't get the memo, 2008 is the Year of Austin Music. Seriously"
Zooey Deschanel is way prettier in person. The number of men and women that were swooning in the 90+ heat was high.
She & Him at SXSW - short clip from AchtungBaby on Vimeo.
Priceless: The faces of the radio personnel when Devonte Hynes said "This song is called Happy Fucking Birthday" at the NPR/World Cafe live broadcast.
+ NPR blog: Lightspeed Champion
+ SXSW Review: Duffy ("Shelby Lynne, your career will be history when Duffy’s “Rockferry” is released in the U.S. in May.")
Duffy - from her first US performance, sxsw from AchtungBaby on Vimeo.
+ R.E.M., SXSW hope big show translates to bright 2008
+ R.E.M. sxsw MP3s
+ South By Southwest Day Two: New Trend Alert!
+ Joseph Arthur Kicks Off SXSW at KUT
+ SXSW Keynote: Lou Reed
"Here's looking at you, kid."
Lou Reed.
Joseph Arthur - Pale Blue Eyes from AchtungBaby on Vimeo.
+ My Morning Jacket @ SXSW Levi's/Fader Lou Reed Tribute
+ Lou Reed & Moby, Walk on the Wild Side | part 2
+ Over at SXSW, Lou Reed had a Perfect Day moaning about digital music
Joseph Arthur - South by Southwest + Venus in Furs from AchtungBaby on Vimeo.
Tricia Kanne of Minipop
Minipop sxsw 2008 from AchtungBaby on Vimeo.
+ R.E.M. Stubbs, SXSW 2008 | another one
+ Daryl Hall singing Sara Smile
+ The Raveonettes @ the current
+ DeVotchka @ the current
+ Six-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW Mp3s [via]
+ My Brightest Diamond Covers Roy Orbison
Saul Williams Sunday bloody Sunday
the Kills - sxsw 2008 from AchtungBaby on Vimeo.
+ SXSW Videos » U2 Cover Band...
+ RCRD LBL RND UP: Austin
+ The Whip
+ IFC @ sxsw
+ Exclusive Interview: Michael Stipe talks about new album Accelerate
+ Hear the Complete R.E.M. Concert from SXSW
+ Video: R.E.M. Stubbs, SXSW 2008
+ SXSW ‘08 Review: R.E.M. @ Stubb’s
+ MTV @ sxsw
+ The Kills @ BBC 6 Hub Sessions
+ What's been happening at Austin's SXSW Festival which is happening in Austin, Texas?
+ 'Spring Break for the Internet' Returns to Austin
+ How SXSW parties kick it VIP-style
+ At SXSWi, the new Twitter is...Twitter [ might I add, I've never seen so many iphones out and about in my life. I guess I can file that under "obviously expected" ]
Saul Williams' promo post card:
" I can't move my arm for the fear that you will wake "
elbow - the bones of you
Because I heard about them from a girl when they came to showcase during it back when their first album came out, SXSW reminds me
of Elbow. Their latest album continues the trend that it's always worth waiting for a new Elbow album.
* whose name escapes me
now, but I do remember one thing about her: she didn't like the word
'Danish'.
/ J. Wood: The Constant & Non-Local Brain Games (icon via)
/ Are Lost's New Time-Travel Physics Junk Science? Maybe Not..
/ The Constant is now DarkUFO readers` favorite episode..
/ SXSW 2008 filtered by your taste: the SXSW Group page @ Last.fm
/ There's a SXSW Baby iphone version. I'm looking for anything SXSW & iphone related. Share a link, please.
/ Austin Stateman's SXSW 2008 page
/ SXSW Breakout App of 2008: What Will it Be?
/ FABLES: 1,001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL comes out in paperback this week.
/ Members of Arcade Fire performing "A Change Is Gonna Come" at a Barrack Obama Rally in Ohio
/ Going global with Mario Kart Wii
/ Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Opening Cinematic
/ JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER SPECIAL comes out tomorrow. JL: New Frontier (Dafna's review), Comics Worth Reading Review ( "There must be crazier things to do than trying to adapt a critically acclaimed — as well as beloved — 400+ page graphic novel into a 75-minute animated film, but I can’t think of any. But that’s exactly what has been done with Justice League: The New Frontier.." )
/ Unitard Meditations/American Apparel
/ DC Comics is proud to present 30 Essential Graphic Novels
/ Dave McKean Graveyard Book cover sketches in - above, the one liked
/ Roy Orbison - She's a Mystery to Me
Lou Reed, (born March 2, 1942)
+ Lou Reed & U2 - Satellite of Love (live)
+ Heroin (acoustic live)
+ David Bowie & Lou Reed - White Light, White Heat
+ The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs - Live
+ Lou Reed and Julie Christensen sing Cohen
+ lou reed & jim jarmusch
- THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME ANNOUNCES ITS PRESENTERS FOR 2008: Leonard Cohen will be inducted by Lou Reed live on March 10th on VH1 Classic.
Spin Magazine, February 1998
It wasn't until I was done watching Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights" that I realized it was the sort of film I was missing, needed, required. Romantics need only apply. The performances the director generated out of all the actor's was great but to me the highlights were David Strathairn & Rachel Weisz. They were just amazing. As usual in his films, music was a character of its own, wrapped between a Norah Jones song and with an appearance in the film and soundtrack by Chan Marshall herself. The soundtrack comes out April 1st.
+ Trailer
+ Norah Jones - The Story
+ Cat Power: "The Greatest" Live
+ "My Blueberry Nights" - The Kiss
"How do you say goodbye to someone you can't imagine living without?"
If you are a regular reader then you can imagine that I am besides myself with the fact that Hawksley Workman and Spottisswoode & His Enemies are coming for SXSW.
Others I'm interested to see: Kate Nash, Joseph Arthur, Sia, The Kills, The Raveonettes & Minipop.
+ 2008 showcasing artist list for SXSW Music
+ Making Friends with Spottiswoode and His Enemies
+ Hawksley Workman "Don't Be Crushed" / "Anger As Beauty"
+ The Raveonettes: “You Want The Candy”
+ Capitol Records in association with Dentyne Ice are offering an all access trip to SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas this March to one lucky winner and a guest for playing the Ben's Brother "Stuttering" Music Quiz
[ David Bowie - Looking for a friend ]
Bjork: Homogenic, Original Release Date: September 23, 1997. This Is My favorite Bjork album.
Live performances: Hunter // Joga // Unravel // Bachelorette // All Neon Like // 5 Years // Immature // Alarm Call // Pluto // All Is Full Of Love
ACL Fest LOVES Regina Spektor, she had a Huge crowd and was visibly overwhelmed when she first came on stage. She said she wanted to just stand and stare at us.
More videos later.
ACL Fest 2007 Bjork from AchtungBaby on Vimeo.
+ "Toward the end of her set Bjork's speaker, which was behind a huge ACL banner, spontaneously caught on fire!"
+ The (Non-Arcade) Fire
+ Four burned at Austin City Limits Music Festival
+ ACL: Where The Streets Are Paved With Vomit
+ ACL (Day 1): A Rant: I learned today I have an incredible superpower: I have the power to
turn whoever I stand next to at a large outdoor concert into the most
annoying person in the world.
Songs that my pal considered highlights and made the kids go wild:
+ Killing In The Name ( Live in L.A )
+ Girls just wanna have fun ( live in Paris )
+ Back That Ass Up (Remix)
+ New York City Cops ( live Fiji Festival )
+ Gimme More
+ Freedom
// A global nightlife brand tries to grow up // We have the book // "it was amazing" // the grand finale // The Last Night of Misshapes: Hip, Post-New-Wave and Through // Misshapes Ends, Hipsters Divide
+ Wired: First-Person Shooter BioShock Owes More to Ayn Rand Than Doom
The architecture is all Albert Speer does art deco (A), but the world, called Rapture, is beginning to crumble and let in water. You're soon beset by deranged flappers and dandies, like Jay Gatsby's party guests gone feral (B). And, as in any first-person shooter, you reach for your gun...
Or do you?
+ 2K Games Announces The BioShock EP Featuring Period Songs Remixed by Moby and Oscar The Punk
Moby - "Wilde Little Sisters"
+ Bioshock And Ayn Rand
+ Creative Director Ken Levine on BioShock
+ Bioshock Videos
+ Review & screens
+ BioShock Art Book Now Available For Download
+ Gary Cooper as Howard Roark
" The first LADIES OF THE 80s Sing-Along was one of our most popular shows of all time, but it was also one of the most difficult Sing-Alongs to put together. After compiling all of the videos we wanted to put into the program, we realized that we were trying to make a Sing-Along show that was almost five hours long. The solution, of course, was to put together a whole new show that built upon the awesomeness of the first but added even more. This time around we'll right the wrongs we committed by not having ELECTRIC YOUTH in the first show. We'll put in more Cyndi Lauper with SHE BOP and TRUE COLORS. Our Mondays will be manic and the rain will come again, falling on our heads like a memory. "
You wish you lived in Austin. You know it.
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