art music: gohomeproductions mark vidler mash-ups music
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sex pistols + cece peniston = ?
Mark Vidler (aka Go Home Productions) makes the best mash-ups you’ll find anywhere.
On his latest album, Spliced Krispies, Vidler introduces Luther Vandross to REM. He gets the Stone Roses, Billy Joel, and the Byrds together for a beer, plays spin the bottle and and CeCe Peniston (remember her? I know, right?) has to kiss the Sex Pistols.
show me all the rules, girl. i just want to get ‘em wrong.
Choke is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It has also been made into a movie (winner of the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for work by an ensemble cast).
I haven’t read the book. Nor have I seen the movie. But I bought the soundtrack back in October and it’s excellent.
The playlist:
1. The Rules - Ben Kweller
2. Don’t You Ever - Natural History
3. Navy Nurse - The Fiery Furnaces
4. Reckoner - Radiohead
5. Sin Terror - Alap Mornin
6. Satan Said Dance - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
7. Orgasm Addict - Buzzcocks
8. No Sunlight - Death Cab for Cutie
9. Wicked - Blitzen Trapper
10. If You Feel It - Ms. Tyree “Sugar” Jones
11. Touch Me I’m Going to Scream, Pt. 1 - My Morning Jacket
12. Bicycle - Shout Out Louds
13. There’s Been an Accident - Twilight Singers
14. Crystal Ship - Nicole Atkins
art music: josh ritter kings of leon lists music the book of lists
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listing
When I was young, my parents had a book called The Book of Lists.
It was a favourite for bedtime reading - lists about baseball players, presidents, actors, science, criminals, and animals.
In the tradition of the best striptease, the lists suggested a story, but only a hint. My imagination was required for the rest. Nothing was more captivating to my adolescent mind than the list of the people who had died during sex or the list of the most popular positions for intercourse.
Around the same time, Billy Joel released the album Storm Front with the song “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” a song that lists dozens of historical events over the course of his life to that point - piecing together the political and cultural history of the world.
My dad loved this song and I remember him telling me that lists were where it was. That wasn’t necessarily where the money was, but people liked reading them.
Even though I was proof of that, it never clicked. It still hasn’t, really. But I remember it all the same.
art music: art contradiction music philip roth teenage fanclub
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blank canvass
Yesterday afternoon, I was listening to the song, ”What You Do To Me,” by Teenage Fanclub, from their album Bandwagonesque.
The album was released nearly 18 years ago and has been a staple in my music collection for pretty much that whole period.
About a year ago, someone, I can’t remember who, twigged me to listen to the lyrics. I knew them but I had never really listened to them before. It was like hearing the song again for the first time.
art literature photography: art commerce hugh macleod philip roth photography politics
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art in balance
I have spent most of my life trying to figure out the two halves of my life: art and, for lack of a better term, commerce. How to resolve these two sides - these contradictions? I had always assumed that I had to choose one or the other. The two couldn’t co-exist.
So I would choose one. And I’d be happy for a time. But only for a time.
I would grow restless. The other side of me, left dormant, would begin to stir. And then take over. Leaving the other to wither.
With photography, I believe I’ve found the balance. Answered the riddle I’ve been puzzling for nearly 15 years.