“Changes”

Buddy Miles, talented musician and drummer on arguably the greatest live album ever, passed away last night in his Austin home.
Onward Buddy!

Happy to see the brothers get their due. I loved how uncomfortable they looked accepting their awards. There won’t be an odder, trippier, or bleaker film to win best picture for a looong time.
The best part of the entire show was when they let the Once girl come back on stage to […]

PJ Harvey - White Chalk

Title song from a great album she released last year.
While I always had been more partial to the raw power of her rockist tendencies, this brief collection of fragile, hypnotic songs highlight dramatically her talents as a songwriter. There’s an air of timelessness I find here that’s rarely […]

Early voting in the Texas Primary has been out of control. It’s up 1000% in some precincts. But because of some f’ed up gerrymandering by Texas Republican and probably just dickish qualities, the closest voting precinct for the students of Prairie View A&M University is 7 miles away from campus.
So what […]

much has been written about Maya Deren..filmmaker, choreographer,poet, writer,Surrealist, and Authority on the Haitian religion of Voodun..
her circle included the likes of Andre Breton, Anais Nin, John Cage, and Marcel Duchamp (with whom she made an “unfinished’ film ; the “Witches Cradle” in 1943.
I will say that for me this film, made in a paranoid, […]

Did you catch this video last week?
a great piece of work; showing off the creativity of our new generation; fused with 21st century technology. wonderful stuff to see.

and as a follow up released today…the “McCain campaign” has fired back with a copy-cat release of their own…

These shots are from earlier in the morning. By the end of the day the entire sky was painted with this stuff, resembling clouds almost. I’ve never seen so many…

I was out surfing in the morning and could see as one floated overhead a faint black/grayish matter slowly falling off the trails down to […]

This is a great little film doc on the recording sessions which led to the just released, and excellent, Daxaar on Domino Records.
From Domino:
Steve Reid made his recording debut in 1964, aged 19, playing on Martha and the Vandellas’ classic “Dancing in the Street”. He went on to accompany the greatest of the jazz greats […]

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