Interview with Jeff Tweedy in the Boston Herald:
Herald: Do you have an idea where Wilco's sound is headed next? Tweedy: There's a lot of interest in propulsive rhythms, tunes with more incessant rhythmic structures. But everything seems wide open to this band.
Hat tip ... Largehearted Boy
More good news for fans of Coyne & Co.
15 June 2005: VOID DVD to be released in AugustThe Flaming Lips will release a new 5.1 surround sound DVD, 'VOID' (Video Overview In Deceleration), on August 23rd, 2005. This is a compilation of all of the Lips' 18 Warner Bros videos, with each video presented in both surround sound and stereo. The video for "Mr. Ambulance Driver", from the upcoming 'At War With The Mystics' album, will be included. There will be a commentary track from the band to accompany the videos, which relate to both single releases and other promotional tracks.
The full track listing for the DVD is:
Mr. Ambulance Driver
SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall Of Energy
Fight Test
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Do You Realize? (UK Version)
Race For The Prize
Waiting For A Superman
This Here Giraffe
When You Smile
Bad Days
Christmas At The Zoo
Be My Head
She Don't Use Jelly
Turn It On
Frogs
Talkin' Bout The Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants To Live Forever)
Phoebe Battles The Pink Robots
Are You A Hypnotist??
Do You Realize? (US Version)
The Flaming Lips have created some of the most surreal videos to accompany their head-trippy music. Now I'll be able to watch them whenever I want!!
what’s this? squint and you can make it out… it’s Elvis.
via metafilter
In a Paste magazine interview, Beck discusses career path choices, the state of sampling in hip-hop, and surrealistic vs. metaphorical styles of songwriting.
Hat tip ... Largehearted Boy
What jokes would Jesus tell?
While browsing through the excellent blog, Dark Biliuos Vapors, this morning, I ran across a link to this excellent piece on Lean Left about the chasm between so-called GOP "Christian values" and the actual teachings of Christ. While it is amusing, at the same time it troubles me immensely. I've come to the realization that "Christ" has become a mere symbol, or a brand logo if you will, for many self-professed christians. Instead of trying to understand what Christ taught, or how he lived, and finding their own way down that path, many evangelicals simply believe that if they say they believe in Jesus and they publicly accept him as their personal savior, and spout off the rhetoric that their corrupt and flawed preachers advertise in their services and now in the media (ie. gay marriage, just wars, anti-sex education, etc.) that they will recieve the ultimate dog-treat of eternal bliss in heaven. I understand that this is not indicative of all Christians, but at this time it's definitely indicative of the most vocal of them.
Bush hates press conferences because he can't speak extemporaneously and can't form a complete sentence without mashing up the language like a 5-year-old on Ritalin and can't express a nuanced multifaceted idea to save his life and somewhere deep down in his bowels, he knows it, and he knows we know it, and it makes him mumble and stutter and secretly pray every moment to his angry righteous God he could be somewhere else, anywhere else, like sittin' on the back porch in Texas eatin' ribs and dreamin' 'bout baseball. Ahhh, there now. That's better.
Precisely.
Please read the whole thing.