:: September 27, 2002
Vanity Treasures has vintage hair net packages, bobby pin cards, and all kinds of classy old beauty products to ogle (or buy, if you're so inclined). ::
Blather introduced me to Funkuncle. Now I want to introduce you. Hi, this is Funkuncle. Funkuncle, this is ... aaaa shit, I forgot your name. I'm so sorry. I'm bad with names. ::
:: September 25, 2002
Boy oh boy has the posting slowed down. I suspect things will pick back up shortly after the wedding, which is in, oh, 16 days. If my mom was calling you approximately every 1.3 hours, you wouldn't be getting much web-time in either. In the meanwhile, I endorse watching these over and over and over again. ::
:: September 17, 2002
(Austin, get ready.)
70s SOFT ROCK TRIBUTE SUMMER BREEZE DEBUTS OCTOBER 5 AT ROOM 710!
On Saturday, October 5, take yourself to Room 710 (710 Red River) for an unforgettable journey back in time with SUMMER BREEZE, a moving tribute to the soft rock of the 1970s. The new group's debut performance will take place between sets by the USS FRIENDSHIP and HUG.
SUMMER BREEZE is a nine-piece musical ensemble featuring members of several Austin-based bands, including Brown Whornet, Honky, Stinky Del Negro, The Peenbeets and Katie & The Groove Regime. This highly motivated troupe of artists is dedicated to energetically reversing the tide of critical invective unduly heaped on the adult contemporary canon during the punk, post-punk, post-modern and post-post-modern-punk-post eras.
Perhaps there was a time when artists like Christopher Cross, Steely Dan and Rupert Holmes posed a legitimate hegemonic threat to the reckless aspirations of youth, but those days are long gone. In an era where punk's fury has been so thoroughly sublimated by commercialism and clichˇ, what could be more 'punk' than to embrace the unabashedly commercial pop songs that provoked punk's development as a cultural force in the first place?
Which isn't to say SUMMER BREEZE is another bottom-feeding endeavor in three-chord kitsch. Instead, the band seeks to reinterpret the soft rock of the 70s in all its studio-sweet, radio-ready glory to whatever extent their collective prowess allows. At the very least, it should be as powerfully uplifting as a non-fine arts magnet high school production of "Godspell."
The first SUMMER BREEZE show will feature lively renditions of soft rock classics such as: Ride Like The Wind/Christopher Cross, Peg/Steely Dan, It's Too Late/Carole King, Baby Come Back/Player, Escape (The Pi–a Colada Song)/Rupert Holmes, Take A Letter Maria/R.B. Greaves, and, of course, Summer Breeze/Seals & Crofts. They really do love these songs, and whether you're ready to admit it or not, you do, too.
So come on out to Room 710 on Saturday, October 5 and let the jasmine in your mind be blown by SUMMER BREEZE!
(p.s. This isn't them.) ::
:: September 15, 2002
"That's essentially my father and me. My father is tied to a tree, with a light set up. I'm standing in a coracle with a pacifier in my mouth and the coracle has no prow, so it just floats like a lily pad. E.T. is reading from the book." Jarvis Rockwell, Norman Rockwell's 70-year-old son, makes crazy diorama art and speaks in poetry. (via Scrubbles) ::
:: September 13, 2002
I am a willing shill for EMusic. It appears that Shanachie/Yazoo just joined their ranks, so now available for download are albums such as Ruckus Juice & Chittlins: The Great Jug Bands -- Classic Recordings Of The 1920's And 30's (on which you'll find songs titled "What's That Tastes Like Gravy" and "Fourth Street Mess Around"); The Roots Of Rap (very deep roots), The Half Ain't Never Been Told (intense old gospel); Juke Joint Saturday Night: Piano Blues Rags & Stomps; and Please Warm My Weiner: Old Time Hokum Blues, and that's just the beginning of what's filed under various artists. They also have Charlie Patton, R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders, and Washington Phillips, a preacher active in the mid-1900s who accompanied himself with a dolceola, a rarely-heard miniature-piano-like instrument. I believe he died in the mental hospital in Austin. Emusic also just made available a five-album retrospective of the Carter Family on the JSP label. Anyone can listen to the song samples; sign up and you get a free 50-song trial. It's so worth the $10/month we're paying. I may just have to say up all night downloading this stuff in case they decide to take it away. ::
:: September 10, 2002
Channel flipping. Sad widow, sad police chief, sad firemen, sad widow, orange terrorism alert tomorrow's memorial services sad widow. On VH-1: an hour-long special about butts. ::
:: September 5, 2002
While my Internet access was away on vacation, I made some desktops. Logo-free, even. Here's the first. Download 800x600 | Download 1024x768 ::
Crashbonsai: miniature cars and trucks crashed into wee trees. Art! ::
:: September 4, 2002
Due to some squirrels messing with the wires or something (or incompetence from Time-Warner Cable? perish the thought), I've been without Internet for four days. I feel weird. ::
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