Well I'm back in a hotel that isn't shady, haunted, or lacking in modern amenities like an ability to get air into the room, lock your door properly, etc. They did however offer me the ability to dial up the Internet. I don't even know how to any more. I'm flying back West tomorrow for a few days before going on to Japan.
Anyway here's some things to share that have been piling up, I'll write up everything else in a moment.
Arcade Fire playing an elevator in Paris on their way down to the crowd with the most creative use of a magazine I've ever seen. They're my favorite band in the world, obviously, and I'm one of those annoying Arcade Fire fans so I love everything they do - busking in Union Square unannounced, walking their show out onto the street to play. I have to admit it was pretty funny when someone said soon they're going to be playing their shows on their tour bus, or in the bathroom and everyone will have to crowd in there.
New track from half Korean goddess Amerie. I hear that NY is getting sunny and wonderful again. Here's a jam for it.
Listen to the mp3 of Gotta Work at Idolator right here.
Summer movie I'm most looking forward to without a doubt is Spider-Man 3, out of sheer love for Sam Raimi, my time with the character back in the Secret Wars days, and how pitch perfect the other movies have been. I like how it's an epic trilogy really about Peter Parker, recounting the archetypal story of a earnestly kind nerd who finds out they have a talent and how to cope with it. Part 3 looks to be very interesting, cause this one looks like it's about self corruption and maintaining your sense of self along with success as you battle men made of sand and alien symbiotes who make your suit dark. Lots of jokes have been made about Spidey going emo in this one:
But at least he's got better taste in music now. The previous soundtracks had that fucking poodle man from Nickelback and a lot of those bands with like three or four words who have gelled up hair and moves borrowed from Power Rangers. Now Spidey's got bangs and new songs coming from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Flaming Lips and here's a Snow Patrol song for the movie. Fuck you for not letting me love Snow Patrol.
I don't know if you got a chance to see the I Heart Huckabee's videos before they were pulled off of youtube (in which director David O Russell goes apeshit batshit insane on his cast in a profoundly unsettling way), but it seems they went full blown viral. My friend Julie dug up this old NY Times article in which his methods are explained. Or at least, recounted. He was publicly furious at writer Sharon Waxman after the article hit.
Hilarious article in the Seattle Weekly that points out the dark secret of indie rock - a lot of those dudes are frustrated frat dudes. I have to take exception to John Roderick's hurt feelings as I was one of the ones who called him a frat guy on that night, but only after he called me a ninety pound weakling. It also reveals Zach Braff is a frat guy. I KNEW IT.
And you can Download a chunk of the Decemberists DVD here to watch what our live show footage is like and so on.
Anyway here's some things to share that have been piling up, I'll write up everything else in a moment.
Arcade Fire playing an elevator in Paris on their way down to the crowd with the most creative use of a magazine I've ever seen. They're my favorite band in the world, obviously, and I'm one of those annoying Arcade Fire fans so I love everything they do - busking in Union Square unannounced, walking their show out onto the street to play. I have to admit it was pretty funny when someone said soon they're going to be playing their shows on their tour bus, or in the bathroom and everyone will have to crowd in there.
New track from half Korean goddess Amerie. I hear that NY is getting sunny and wonderful again. Here's a jam for it.
Listen to the mp3 of Gotta Work at Idolator right here.
Summer movie I'm most looking forward to without a doubt is Spider-Man 3, out of sheer love for Sam Raimi, my time with the character back in the Secret Wars days, and how pitch perfect the other movies have been. I like how it's an epic trilogy really about Peter Parker, recounting the archetypal story of a earnestly kind nerd who finds out they have a talent and how to cope with it. Part 3 looks to be very interesting, cause this one looks like it's about self corruption and maintaining your sense of self along with success as you battle men made of sand and alien symbiotes who make your suit dark. Lots of jokes have been made about Spidey going emo in this one:
But at least he's got better taste in music now. The previous soundtracks had that fucking poodle man from Nickelback and a lot of those bands with like three or four words who have gelled up hair and moves borrowed from Power Rangers. Now Spidey's got bangs and new songs coming from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Flaming Lips and here's a Snow Patrol song for the movie. Fuck you for not letting me love Snow Patrol.
I don't know if you got a chance to see the I Heart Huckabee's videos before they were pulled off of youtube (in which director David O Russell goes apeshit batshit insane on his cast in a profoundly unsettling way), but it seems they went full blown viral. My friend Julie dug up this old NY Times article in which his methods are explained. Or at least, recounted. He was publicly furious at writer Sharon Waxman after the article hit.
Hilarious article in the Seattle Weekly that points out the dark secret of indie rock - a lot of those dudes are frustrated frat dudes. I have to take exception to John Roderick's hurt feelings as I was one of the ones who called him a frat guy on that night, but only after he called me a ninety pound weakling. It also reveals Zach Braff is a frat guy. I KNEW IT.
And you can Download a chunk of the Decemberists DVD here to watch what our live show footage is like and so on.
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