Archive for December, 2009

End Hits, 2009

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Side A
01 - Jon Hassell - “Aurora”
02 - Mountains - “Add Infinity”
03 - White Rainbow - “Major Spillage”
04 - Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - “Rett Pa”
05 - Julianna Brawick - “Bode”
06 - Skyramps - “Dripping Water Hollows Out a Stone”
07 - Animal Hospital - “Memory”

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Side B
01 - Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - “Anglo Ethio […]

Jack Rose, R.I.P.

Planet Earth lost a tremendous talent on the guitar a couple weeks back, and waaaaay too early. Jack Rose died of a heart attack on the morning of December 5th. He was 38.
Rose was as well rounded a threat on guitar as they come; incorporating elements of drone, ragtime, folk, blues, and Eastern […]

Scrapple

Scrapple
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Tension? Check.
Sarcasm? Check.
Passive aggression? Oh yeah.
That sinking feeling when intention and expression don’t match up? Check mate.
From the Duplass Brothers, this short film has more emotional terrain to unpack in its ten minutes than most do in ninety. There’s no “tells” or “short-hand” explanations here, just […]

Carbon Is Life

Have you heard? Global warming ain’t for real. Thanks to those like the reputable human beings at The Competitive Enterprise Institute, who produced this prescient video spot back in ‘07, we no longer have to second guess that uncontrollable urge to rev the shit out of our Ford Tundras. It’s all “life” […]

the Front Fell Off..

Senator Collins, then Australian Minister of Maritime Transport, responds to a oil spill incident off the coast of Western Australia in 1991.

Surf Rules…

I think there’s a message here;
wake up in the morning, find your own (motivation) and waves,have a little respect, and please, turn off your cell phone.
that pretty much should take care of it.
a couple good rides is just icing on the cake.

Tom Carroll..21 years ago

Tom gives a clinic,
(no jet ski, no paddle).
Simple poetry.