Aesop Rock
This is a great album overall, but I cannot get enough of this song! [Though "Catacomb Kids" is pretty awesome, too.]
I just found the “None Shall Pass” video today and it makes a good thing even better.
Please, please listen to the uncensored version because the censoring in this video really interrupts his amazing flow. You can buy the album or single or video online here.
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//RECENT
Vincent Moon and Arcade Fire Walk Into An Elevator….“[T]he crowd seemed really emotionally engaged with the music.”
Water Water Everywhere…. “Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An extended version of Bon Iver’s La Blogotheque Take Away Show of “For Emma, Forever Ago” with three versions of the song and some very startled tourists. I think this is one of my favorite things in the whole world. Not just that the song is so beautiful, and is so beautifully sung, but that [...]
So, This Stephen Malkmus-looking Guy Who Went to High School with My Boss Wrote a Children’s BookA man once said, “Childrens do learn.” and I believe childrens should learn to dream big dreams. Even better is to dream arty dreams like a hipster might draw. This hipster author’s name is Dallas Clayton. Although I do not know for sure that Dallas Clayton is a hipster, he looks like this: And, I [...]
Matilde UrrutiaIt isn’t simply that you are loved gloriously, or loved beautifully. But rather that a pitch perfect expression of love for you sounds and sounds, Rises into the very air. Though the love itself may fade, I do not know, The poetry you inspire ascends, ascending Becomes stars and you, who are so loved, Look [...]
//FROM THE ARCHIVES
Regulating the Internet“The problem with the Internet today is that it’s too accessible. When some mom and pop gas station can put a home page on the Internet and advertise that their twinkies are a good twenty-five cents cheaper than anyone else around, there’s a problem.”
If You’re Wondering When You Get to Stimulate the Economy“Dear Government and IRS: you guys are dicks.”
Busboys of the FutureI was having brunch at a well trafficked and long lived Los Angeles café the other day, and I noticed a new busboy, literally. A boy, who looked to be about twelve years old, bussing tables, taking refill orders and delivering the odd bowl of granola. And he was quite obviously overjoyed to be doing [...]
Declare Your Independence…From Witchcraft500 years ago — before the birth of our wonderfully Christian nation — many of the maladies of the day were attributed to “dark magic” and witchcraft. This was a period during which thousands of innocent women were ripped from their loved-ones and violently burned at the stake for their “crimes”. Clearly we’ve made one [...]
Prufrock Meets the Strenuous Briefness“You’ve written your muscular love poem to a muscular painter.”
