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April 30, 2005
Gulager!
(Photo redacted due to me being sick of looking at it.)
Goldenfiddle interviews Project Greenlight contest winner/director John Gulager.
Posted by timothompson at 05:21 PM
April 28, 2005
Austin's Rude Mechanicals Theater Troupe Adapt Get Your War On
Austin Chronicle: “Rude Mechanicals, the innovative theatre troupe who brought us stage versions of Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces and James Kelman's How Late It Was, How Late, now turn their considerable adapting powers to Get Your War On, David Rees' riotous clip-art comic about the War on Terror®.”Posted by timothompson at 12:49 PM
April 27, 2005
Ask David Berman, Week 2
DCB tackles a modern-day Jesus (not literally) this week.
Posted by timothompson at 10:40 PM
Pavement Space Ghost MP3s
Altruist Mike B. (nice front page!) provides mp3s of Pavement's performance on Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
Posted by timothompson at 10:32 PM
URL ABCs
Jumping on the Defective Yeti conga line (Because I too "don't want to go through the bother of writing something funny or clever or thought provoking")...
These are my URL ABCs:
- A is for austinchronicle.com - Thursday morning reading.
- B is for bloglines.com/myblogs - My sad addiction.
- C is for cainer.com - Will my life change (even if I don't)?
- D is for del.icio.us.com/omit35 - Cataloging sites I never look at again (but was I first post?)
- E is for ecreditgroup.com/faq/faqcindustry.asp - Work research
- F is for flickr.com - Obvs
- G is for gmail.google.com/gmail - Obvs again.
- H is for houstonsoreal.blogspot.com - Devin the Dude!
- I is for ipodlounge.com - I do not own an iPod. I just lust after them.
- J is for jound.com/okkervil/ - Go local boys!
- K is for kottke.org - Still the king (of something).
- L is for lollapalooza.com - I'm not going, but I want to know about it.
- M is for mmmbed.com - Joanna's site is cute.
- N is for news.google.com - Generic news site.
- O is for orbitz.com - Generic travel site.
- P is for pricegrabber.com - Generic price site.
- Q is for quicksilver.blacktree.com - I do not own a Mac. I just lust after them.
- R is for rapidshare.de - You can download half an album for free, after 45 seconds.
- S is for statesman.com - So we can research what we will bitch about next.
- T is for timothompson.com/journal/ - Still hasn't updated.
- U is for upcoming.org - What am I missing tonight?
- V is for veerle.duoh.com - Best design tutorial site.
- W is for waxy.org - God of the links.
- X is for xanga.com/item.aspx?tab=weblogs&user=iiquidblue&uid=248485077 - You know how, even if you're a good singer, you typically can't stand your own voice?
- Y is for yeweiblog.blogspot.com - The bridge between music blogging and music journalism.
- Z is for zabasearch.com - There is no privacy.
Posted by timothompson at 10:20 PM
April 24, 2005
Recommended
Posted by timothompson at 10:23 PM
April 22, 2005
Lone Star Rebus Caps
The other night, I noticed that Lone Star Beer was using rebus on the back of their beer caps. We need more rebus in our lives.
Update: I guess Rainier, Falstaff, Pabst and Ballantine have used rebus caps for a while. Here's another blog with one.
Posted by timothompson at 12:28 PM
Glorious Noise Reveals...
The Morning News' much loved wannabe indie musician Gary Benchley turns out to be none other than FTrain's Paul Ford. And it's a book (and there is no Santa Claus).
Posted by timothompson at 12:35 AM
April 21, 2005
Ask David Berman
Do you have a question for the Silver Jews' David Berman? fittedsweats is here to help (you can email questions here).Posted by timothompson at 05:16 PM
April 14, 2005
Marty the MC
If you've ever seen the Shins live, you'll notice that between songs lead singer James Mercer will take a break while keyboardist Marty Crandall handles the between song banter. I always wondered how they came to that arrangement. Well, according to this interview with Mercer in the Montreal Mirror, you have his father to thank for that:
(My father) watches us and gives us pointers about things, like how to handle yourself between songs. My dad was a big proponent for having Marty as the emcee, with me off to the side. There are rare occasions where I'm talkative on stage, but Marty just seems to naturally love the spotlight, so he can have it.
Posted by timothompson at 03:38 PM
April 13, 2005
New York Dolls Working on New Album
Jason Gross (of Perfect Sound Forever) reports that the New York Dolls have about 11 songs lined up for a third album (despite David Johansen's comments at SXSW saying he was quitting the business because he had a fellowship at Columbia University).
Posted by timothompson at 03:15 PM
Year of the Music Festival?
Yet another summer music festival, the CMJ-Rock Hall Fest, will take place June 9-11 at the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, Ohio. MTV reports on the artists who are headlining:
The Pixies, Futureheads, Spoon, Stephen Malkmus and the Misfits have been added to the lineup of the inaugural CMJ/ Rock Hall Music Fest. The three-day event (June 9-11) in Cleveland will also feature the Art of Modern Rock Poster show, a discussion with Grandmaster Flash, a guitar competition judged by Joe Satriani and additional gigs by the Digable Planets, Powerman 5000, Keoki, Mushroomhead, From First to Last and Nashville Pussy.
Posted by timothompson at 12:49 PM
April 07, 2005
Casting Begins For New Project Runway
"Project Runway" will be trowling the nation for new fashion design hopefuls [via]. Can they come up with something as "captivating" as the John Galliano creation above?
Posted by timothompson at 12:50 PM
April 06, 2005
EasyTree Goes Down (And Back Up)
Live music sharing suffered a serious blow with EasyTree.org being taken down today:
We got a call from our provider, they had received a few letters from a couple of lawyers. They requested EZT to be shut down immediately, otherwise we and the hosting service would be sued.
I'd like to know which parties and lawyers were involved. This site only shared live music, BTW.
Update: As you probably know by now, EasyTree has a new host and domain set up here.
Posted by timothompson at 01:53 PM
April 05, 2005
Wolf Eyes + School Project = Free Jazz Noisefest
A high school jazz band covers Wolf Eyes for a school project.
Posted by timothompson at 05:00 PM
April 03, 2005
Another View of Rubber Soul
Posted by timothompson at 10:00 PM
April 01, 2005
SXSW Hipster Bingo
Hipster Bingo, Ventura Edition [via]
Posted by timothompson at 02:54 PM