Rad Thing of the Day: Trifecta!

Skip the add for the mp3s and this page is all love:  kelly hogan writing about lynda barry next to the artwork for the new yo la tengo album.

two nights ago i was thinking about lynda barry.  can't remember what brought her to mind.  i might have been looking at some of her books on the shelf.  as i am meant to be cutting in "impressionistic sound effects" to play against slow motion footage of someone shooting craps i will leave off with my commentary and post this link to ms. hogan's piece on lynda barry over at magnet magazine.

kelly hogan is guest editing at magnet and has written about 10 pieces as of this post (don't look to me for accuracy on this one, i counted as i scrolled down this page of essays! bonus link!)

 here is where you see the 3 other posts mentioning l. barry on this blog..

fun facts:  kelly hogan's album "i like to keep myself in pain" is my most listened to album this year.
snack of note:  double cappuccino
t-shirt of note: the hideout
and: the new yo la tengo album is stunning! love love love it
plans for tonight:  bernie worrell at the mint!

amazing thing of the day: yo la tengo

am at work cutting sound effects for a scene involving a medical emergency. doing this kind of work is both creative and tedious. there is a certain amount of veracity required (less impressionistic say, than the "scary surfing" scene i put sfx on in the cleaner last season. (someday ask me about all the rad stuff that one can use to make the ocean sound scrary and hostile.)

anywhoo, am listening to yo la tengo's latest album "popular songs." (see inset) a minute ago the song playing caught my ear. it was "more stars than there are in heaven." it was in minute six. soooo beautiful.

sometime last month i went to see yo la tengo at the avalon. i was very close to having to miss the show b/c of nutty work happenings (visual effects, don'tchewknow), but through a group effort at the office, got there having only missed about 15 min.

wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. b/c i have to get back to the aforementioned medical emergency scene, i will cut this short.

yo la tengo are the masters of the slow build. they can play a song for 10 minutes at a steady, almost imperceptible build. man, i love it.

this song, "more stars than there are in heaven" is just lovely. makes me want to watch hal hartley movies. and walk around on a windy day. and visit arcata.

after this song comes the delicate, "fireside," then the 15 minute feedback-tacular "and the glitter is gone." that will get things cooking in here. ;)

i love the mail

i came home last night to find some packages on my stoop. four (4!) records/cds had come in the mail!
pkg 1: wilco: the album and grizzly bear: vekatimest -- from a local radio station, thank you gifts from a recent pledge drive

pkg 2: yo la tengo: popular songs (new!) and an lp of their score to "adventureland"

i was too tuckered out from work (got home at 9:30) to give any of them a listen last night, but put them directly into my backpack for quality listening at the office today.

note: it is true that until last night i hadn't owned a copy of the latest wilco album. it came out june 30. this means that i haven't been to a record store in TWO MONTHS. what?! i work 2 blocks from amoeba in hollywood. of course, now that i have 4 new records, i don't need to go for awhile.

but still.

hmm.

fun with yo la tengo

strictly poking around online trying to see if there might be one yo la tengo show i could make this winter when i found this on their website: http://www.yolatengo.com/kaplanskorner.html

it's a short titled "kaplan's korner, or how yo la tengo got their name"

what's not to love?

for the record: i will not get to see any of their winter shows. rats.