Neil Young, “Cortez the Killer” – 10.22.78

July 17, 2010

Two days before I was born, Neil Young and Crazy Horse played the Cow Palace in California.

It was a great concert. It became an even better concert video: Rust Never Sleeps.

What a killer.

Hi-Fi’s tableau vivant

April 14, 2010

Hey, you know how fantastic classic jazz album art can be?

Well, here’s proof. In live action.

This is “Hi-Fi,” for the Bellavista Social Pub (in Italy) and its upcoming summer concert series. It’s a celebration of Blue Note’s 70th Anniversary. It’s a sampler of living picture form. It’s the type of thing that makes so many of us jealous of talented film producers and designers and other artists on a daily basis.

(Via Stefan Hartwig.)

Jets to Brazil – “Sweet Avenue”

February 7, 2010

Jets to Brazil, “Sweet Avenue” – 10/10/98, Seattle, WA

When Jets to Brazil formed from the ashes of Jawbreaker and Texas is the Reason, they went on tour with The Promise Ring and ran through Minneapolis on their way to bigger and better things. I missed the first song of their first MPLS show, showing up just as they were finishing. It was this one: a song so filled with hope and happiness and love that the crowd was left wondering if this, indeed, was the same Blake Schwarzenbach that had filled an entire career of Jawbreaker songs with depression and broken hearts.

It was. And it (reportedly) was fantastic.

Go buy the new Dessa album right now. Seriously.

January 19, 2010

Yeah, I already posted some YouTube music recently, but it’s rare that a song can drive me to buy an entire album. Instantly. I mean, as instantly as possible, given the album wasn’t for sale until today, and I first saw this video on Sunday, and, you know, it doesn’t really matter. All I’m saying is that those songs are rare.

Dessa‘s “Dixon’s Girl” is one of those songs. Kind-of-I-mean-absolutely-fantastic talent right there, straight out of MPLS and Doomtree.

And if you don’t watch this and immediately buy the album, I have to question your taste.

Don’t take that chance. I SWEAR I’LL DO IT.

(Oh yeah, thanks to Brian Bieber for tipping me off to the video, and, in turn, to the new album.)

At The Drive-In

January 16, 2010

A few of us were wondering why, of all bands, we hadn’t yet scoured YouTube for some classic At The Drive-In shows.

We had no good answer. We had utterly failed as Internet users.

Until now.

Enjoy.

It’s berry good news!

March 9, 2009

I’ve got a few posts in the pipeline, but life is pretty busy with the house and the kid and the work and what not.

So instead, you’ll have to make do with this: The Greatest Cereal Commercial Ever.

It’s for Nintendo Cereal, complete with a theme song that I still surprisingly remember word for word despite not seeing it since the mid 1980s. I can’t remember my own name, half of the time, but I can remember this.

The commercial skips the first 3 seconds (“Nintendo – it’s for breakfast now!”) which explains the sudden switch in music and lack of rhyme.

Also, if I remember correctly, this cereal was awful.

Found at A Tribute to Discontinued Cereal, via brandflakesforbreakfast.

Explaining twitter

May 2, 2008

I know a lot of people who read this aren’t necessarily technological marvels. They don’t care about the inner workings of CSS or about Web 2.23 or what happened at the Yahoo! tent at SXSW. They just read because:
1. They know me
2. They are related to me
3. They don’t know any better

A majority of these people are often completely confused with the allure of twitter. “What’s the point?” they say. “Why would I ever mess with that?”

If that’s you, don’t feel bad. It’s pretty common. I was skeptical myself – as were many of the people I follow today.

Check out this video. It explains twitter as well as I’ve ever been able to. (I used to call it a mini-personal blog, but realized that even that doesn’t paint the entire picture because it doesn’t take the social and networking aspect into account.)

And now that you know, stop by and say hello.

(Via peroty’s tumblr.)

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