FoeWeel !!! ???

Verdi Club, San Francisco

Blackbird, Fly twin-lens reflex camera

Apple, the new Braun, or just ripping off Dieter Rams ?

Bjork Guest DJ’s on NPR’s All Songs Considered

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Mason Proper - Safe For The Time Being - Off of the Olly Oxen Free release, somewhat off-kilter pop that can’t help but make your feet start to sweat and your nose start to itch.

Lee Curtiss - Vibrant Member - Menacing voice over techno. As if you’re walking down a long and dark narrow hallway, 300ft below the street. The air is damp, you hear unrecognizable squeaks and you have no idea where you are going.

Tim Green - Exercise - This would be the perfect soundtrack to an instructional Tae Bo infomerical, but I can’t help but think about a friend with her former dreadlock extensions dancing as if to systematically remove all of the glitter from her facial region. It is funky.

Mark Kozelek - Send In The Clowns (Live) - A great song about when you have too many clown paintings in your house. Happy Sad.

Fox Theater, Oakland, 2009

One of my favorite films, which along with Noah Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming helped to shape the power of dialogue in movies for me was Hal Hartley’s Trust…..One of the Onion’s AV Club Cult Canon.

SomaFM for your iPhone

Brendan Monroe, an incredible artist living in the Bay Area.

Follow me on Twitter, and some of the interesting people I follow for insight, laughs, and the unknown: Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office), Richie Hawtin, (techno god), Kevin Smith (director), Mike Doughty (musician, Soul Coughing),  David Lynch (director), MC Hammer (trend setter), Michael Ian Black (The State), GeneX (SF socialite for real people),

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Bibio - Lover’s Carvings - On Warp, from Ambivalence Avenue, an eclectic mix of electronic pop songs perfect for the summertime.

Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - From Mingus Ah Um 50th Anniversary (Legacy Edition). One of the great jazz bassists, and composers.

Miike Snow - Animal - Take 2 internationally known, and Grammy winning producers and pair them up with a singer who has worked with Jeff Buckley’s old band mates, and you get pop with no bubbles, or is it fizz ? Their show at Popscene had the crowd moving, in what looked to me as if I were a chaperone at the high school prom, including all of the so-called 80’s, or John Hughes stereotypes. Here’s one of the standout tracks from their self titled debut.

Kevin Saunderson - World Of Deep (Jesse Rose Respect To Detroit Remix) - One of the godfathers of techno gets the respect from one of today’s thumpiest? producers. That’s rhythm with thump and no murkiness.

Miike Snow, off of Downtown Records (Spank Rock) will be making their San Francisco debut at where else, but Popscene on Thursday Night.

Twin Peaks, 2009

The Wighnomy Brothers show last weekend was……late. They went on at 2am and played until 6am. We left about an hour, or so into the set which was building and building, but we were tumbling and stumbling.

We have some good news which is still in the planning stage, but after a 2year break, we might be playing in front of real people once again.  Well, we would be playing surrounded by fish, water….and people.  The perfect environment to provide a soundtrack for.

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- Are you Happy ?

- Have you seen UP, a good film, but not as good as Wall-E. Squirrel? Here are some other Nail Homes.

- I love how we live in one of the healthiest cities, in terms of access to organic and healthy foods, but this city is fast becoming a mecca of decadent foods, the creme brulee man, bi-rite creamery, humpry slocombe, and now…. Anthony’s Cookies ( the Cookies and Cream is probably the best cookie I have ever tasted).

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Ra Ra Riot - Each Year - Compared often to the Weekend filled with Vampires, sweet melodies in pop form is not such a bad thing.  Sad lyrics disguised in happy music ?

Harry Belafonte - Sweetheart From Venezuela - From the excellent 1961 release, Jump Up Calypso. I always thought this guy and his daughter were just regular guests on the Love Boat. Who knew?

Jeff Buckley - Grace (Live @ King Theater, Seattle, 1995) - This track is part of the bonus bonus thing from Jeff Buckley’s Grace Around The World release. I have yet to see the documentary or the other DVD, but the CD release of the DVD is not anything special.  What makes this set worth it, is a live Seattle bonus disc which covers a whole concert because with only a finite number of songs that Buckley wrote, or covered, it’s his unique live take on these songs that fans are waiting for.

Rist - Slush - Morning harvest, everything is starting to wake up, you start to notice the light reflecting on the dew…and then you roll over and go back to sleep hoping to return to that dream. I see fishies in my future.