It Sounded Better in My Head

• 27 August 2010

  Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)

  It does not really get better than this.

• 24 August 2010

  Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

  — ~Jean Cocteau (via theimpossiblecool)

• 15 August 2010

  To function efficiently as a writer, 95% of your brain has to teleport off into nowhere, taking its neuroses with it, leaving the confident, playful 5% alone to operate the controls. To put it another way: words are like cockroaches; only once the lights are off do they feel free to scuttle around on the kitchen floor.

  — Charlie Brooker from Forget those creative writing workshops. If you want to write, get threatened.

• 8 August 2010

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  I got the opportunity to remix my favourite song from Au Revoir Simone’s beautiful album Still Night, Still Light. While listening to the song I realised how nice it’d be to transform their straight 4/4 time synthpop into a whirlwind waltz or maybe a barcarole if you will. It took a long time to chop up all the syllables and the tiny tiny samples, but I think the result got the song into a whole swirling new direction.

  While making the remix, my mind started working in 3/4 and 6/8 time. I started looking around for tracks in that time signature to make a mix, I wasn’t intending to but I couldn’t help it. It was all a big swirl. After a while I heard it everywhere. In soul ballads, in polyrhythmical african pop, in old movies. In the ocean waves tumbling in against the shore, in the beat of a lovers heart. One two three, one two three..

  Jens Lekman on this mix entitled “A Summer in 3/4 Time.”

  This mix deserves a sweltering night, but it looks like it will be a week before Seattle gives us anything resembling heat. For tonight at least, the mix’s longing can serve a yearning for real summer weather.

  Edit: Jens also has a new single out entitled “The End of the World is Bigger Than Love” that you can download if you’re willing to hand over your email address.

• 24 June 2010

  

  Names blurred to protect the sycophantic innocent.
  I miss these kids so much.

• 14 June 2010

  I guess this is pretty old, but I’m just so happy to see Richard E. Grant again. It’s certainly an amusing juxtaposition to his role as Withnail.

• 13 June 2010

  The season finale of AMC’s brilliant Breaking Bad is tonight. The New Yorker recently had an article on La Familia Michoacana (subscribers only), a violent drug cartel that has captured parts of the state and the private sector in Mexico. The piece offers a fascinating look at the real world of drugs and violence that likely inspired the fictionalized turf across the border from Walter White’s Albuquerque. Much of the violence that once seemed sensational (such as what happens to Danny Trejo’s character) now appears grounded in a disturbing reality. If you have a subscription, I definitely recommend you read the article, however, the next best thing is this 16 minute interview with William Finnegan, the journalist who reported the story.

• 8 June 2010

  

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  The glorious return of The Perry Bible Fellowship.

  I don’t think I’ll ever tire of seeing Nicholas Gurewitch follow his cute premises to their hilariously dark conclusions.

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  From J.Crew’s current homepage:

  For our latest collection, we explored the crumbling colonial architecture and sun-drenched cobblestone streets of La Antigua, Guatemala. Unearth your own summer wardrobe - and learn a bit about our shoot location while you’re at it.

  Emphases are mine.