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The Most Random Celebs Ever Sing 'Let It Be'
The list is long and filled with bizarre surprises
I had the distinct pleasure of seeing the Everything is Terrible Kidz Klub Tour and want to recommend that if you have the opportunity to do so, please partake. It's part stage show, part supercut and all perfectly absurd.
If you are not familiar with Everything is Terrible, well, you're in for a treat. Lots and lots of found footage, rare clips and hysterical editing. Take the deep dive.
If you are not familiar with Everything is Terrible, well, you're in for a treat. Lots and lots of found footage, rare clips and hysterical editing. Take the deep dive.
Bob Odenkirk’s Long Road to Serious Success
always love to see Odenkirk getting his due.
Dada Drummer Almanach
Galaxie 500's Damon Krukowski has a very good substack.
The Green Ray is a new bookstore / record shop in Nashville that carries a phenomenal stock of art & photo books, as well as a good amount of vinyl. It's been open less than 6 months and I've been there a number of times.
They asked me to make a playlist of yk Records music to play in the shop and I was honored to contribute! The resulting mix is not exhaustive (I made sure it would fit on a CD) but it's a great introduction to the roster of yk artists and, even better, a great reminder to visit The Green Ray whenever you can.
Listen here in the embed below.
They asked me to make a playlist of yk Records music to play in the shop and I was honored to contribute! The resulting mix is not exhaustive (I made sure it would fit on a CD) but it's a great introduction to the roster of yk artists and, even better, a great reminder to visit The Green Ray whenever you can.
Listen here in the embed below.
Tarantino's Fan Fiction
Kirby Ferguson delivering a little 5min Everything Is a Remix example using Tarantino
The McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hacking Saga Has a New Twist
tldr: capitalism is cutthroat, even when it’s trying to fix ice cream machinesNope - Official Trailer
New Jordan Peele. I will not watch a second trailer; this is a perfect tease.Meet the Guy Who Went Viral for Explaining How NFTs Are a Bullshit 'Poverty Trap'
Dan Olson on Line Goes Up and other topics
One of my ex-VHX pals recently launched Wavelength, a new iOS and Android party game app. The teaser explains the concept pretty succinctly; you and a group of friends collaborate and try to land on a ruling for some absurd topic. In short, you're trying to read your friends minds!
The app is out now and looks pretty dang slick. I'll be gathering some friends and trying it out very soon.
The app is out now and looks pretty dang slick. I'll be gathering some friends and trying it out very soon.
Trent Reznor in Slam Bamboo #1
got my NIN tickets for May. Hope they break this one out.TV Torso
A splendid 1:45 and an excellent reminder to listen to TV Torso
Machine Learning Gets a Quantum Speedup
Largely over my head but still quite interesting
I don't specifically remember how I ended up here but I've come across a large trove of ZZT Games, an early game development engine that allowed anyone to put together their own games with their own narratives and objectives; through a common set of tools. Every game "looks" the same but this was happening 1991, so that's true of most PC-based things at the time. There are some vaguely familiar titles like the homespun Adventure of Link II or the less widely known originals, ZZT Slayer. If you didn't grow up on ANSI and text adventure games, these are all going to feel fairly crude. They are crude because gaming was crude in the early 90s but there's also something amazingly charming about this plethora of homemade creations.
You can read more about the ZZT in general over on Wikipedia; the most intriguing fact being that it was developed by Tim Sweeney, who also is founder of Epic Games and the creator of the Unreal Engine. The company going head to head with Apple and Google, started by offering a gaming engine for early DOS games. Completely bonkers.
There's more ZZT gaming archive work over in the Museum of ZZT, "a site dedicated to the preservation and curation of the many games and worlds created with ZZT."
After you're done there, cruise through this history of the IBM smiley (the protagonist of ZZT games) and then immerse yourself in Oldschool PC Fonts. You know, for fun!
You can read more about the ZZT in general over on Wikipedia; the most intriguing fact being that it was developed by Tim Sweeney, who also is founder of Epic Games and the creator of the Unreal Engine. The company going head to head with Apple and Google, started by offering a gaming engine for early DOS games. Completely bonkers.
There's more ZZT gaming archive work over in the Museum of ZZT, "a site dedicated to the preservation and curation of the many games and worlds created with ZZT."
After you're done there, cruise through this history of the IBM smiley (the protagonist of ZZT games) and then immerse yourself in Oldschool PC Fonts. You know, for fun!
Back in March of 2021, yk Records released the debut EP from No Stress, entitled Prelude No. 1. It's a wonderful combination of jazz, hip-hop, glitch, ambient and all sorts of styles that blend together masterfully. It's only 18 minutes long but it's a wonderful ride from start to finish... in my biased opinion.
The EP struck a chord with Ryan Norris, aka Coupler, and he started working on a remix EP. The fruits of that labor are now available everywhere in the form of Reinvention No. 1.
The writeup for the record goes into some detail about some of the original seeds of inspiration for Norris being Madlib, DJ Shadow, MF Doom, J Dilla and other "left-field hip hop" artists. Over the years, Coupler has become more associated with ambient music than hip-hop but hearing Reinvention No. 1, it's clear that Norris is getting back to his roots.
Obviously I'm biased whenever a yk Records release comes out but I think this is a wonderful piece of work. These reinventions manage to have their own identities but don't lose any of the magic of the original tracks. They are much longer form than the original songs but if you let yourself be a little patient, it really pays off. The drums on "Wake Up (Wide Awake Remix)" are stellar.
Get it on Bandcamp or streaming.
The EP struck a chord with Ryan Norris, aka Coupler, and he started working on a remix EP. The fruits of that labor are now available everywhere in the form of Reinvention No. 1.
Obviously I'm biased whenever a yk Records release comes out but I think this is a wonderful piece of work. These reinventions manage to have their own identities but don't lose any of the magic of the original tracks. They are much longer form than the original songs but if you let yourself be a little patient, it really pays off. The drums on "Wake Up (Wide Awake Remix)" are stellar.
Get it on Bandcamp or streaming.
Wavelength ✧ A party game in your pocket
Several friends I know worked on this and it looks legit fun. Sign up for release updates; app available Feb 10th.
Van Dale - Of The Valley II
getting some early Weezer vibes here and I'm liking it
the new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed
quite a dramatic saga! apparently this is a real thing...Nintendo lofi study beats
essential"Just You and I" for 1 Hour Except James Never Starts Singing
Endurance challengeMidlake - "Bethel Woods"
First new Midlake since 2013? Yes please. Produced by John Congleton? Approved!
If you've heard of NFTs you probably have thoughts on NFTs. It's a topic that is wrapped up in a lot of, understandably, heated opinions. Many believe it is the future of transactions and the Internet as a whole, while others believe it is a eco-terrorism grift that overlays capitalism on anything and everything. I tend to veer more towards the latter but try to keep an open mind about legitimate and decidedly fun versions of it.
As I sort through my thoughts on the matter, I found this Folding Ideas documentary - Line Goes Up - The Problem with NFTs - to be immensely enlightening. Yes, it is two hours long and that is an absurdly long runtime for a YouTube video but it's well researched, entertaining and educational. You don't have to watch it all in one sitting but I do recommend you watch it all.
I find discussions about NFTs to be the most exhausting part of the whole endeavor, so it's nice to be able to sit back and soak in some facts about the whole thing.
As I sort through my thoughts on the matter, I found this Folding Ideas documentary - Line Goes Up - The Problem with NFTs - to be immensely enlightening. Yes, it is two hours long and that is an absurdly long runtime for a YouTube video but it's well researched, entertaining and educational. You don't have to watch it all in one sitting but I do recommend you watch it all.
I find discussions about NFTs to be the most exhausting part of the whole endeavor, so it's nice to be able to sit back and soak in some facts about the whole thing.
Sean Thompson's Weird Ears - Saturday Drive
country music gets a deservedly bad rap but sometimes you find an artist that does it right and you put that song on repeat.
A few months back I was flying to New York and posted an Instagram Story of our descent set to the Jay Leo Phillips song "You Might Not Like What You See When You Get There." It worked quite well in my opinion and sparked the idea to try fleshing out some footage set to the song.
Cut to a few months later (aka today) and now there's an official video for the track set to various bits and bobs of video that I've captured over the years. It's not really a narrative piece but the track is instrumental and I think the two pair together well. At the very least, I'm happy with it and Jay seems to be, too.
The EP from which the song comes is called DAYS and you can get it on Bandcamp or streaming. If you're into Tortoise, The Sea and Cake or some of the instrumental Jim O'Rourke stuff, I believe you'll dig it.
Cut to a few months later (aka today) and now there's an official video for the track set to various bits and bobs of video that I've captured over the years. It's not really a narrative piece but the track is instrumental and I think the two pair together well. At the very least, I'm happy with it and Jay seems to be, too.
The EP from which the song comes is called DAYS and you can get it on Bandcamp or streaming. If you're into Tortoise, The Sea and Cake or some of the instrumental Jim O'Rourke stuff, I believe you'll dig it.
Jeff Goldblum Reviews Impressions of Himself
Am honestly delightful 8 minutes
¡kirbia!
you like Kirby music? how about peruvian cumbia music? well, here's some Kirby music done in the style of peruvian cumbia.
John Wilson on Filming 'How To' Spontaneously
pretty surprising to read how this show is made. very much not what I expected.
IMustBe Leonardo - Punk To Rest
nice DIY record from a Berlin artist that caught my ear, good and noisey. Read the About and start with Radio Strip.