East Village Radio

I love spreading the word about quality music to friends because I want to share the experience with them. iTunes has made this sharing difficult and easy. Difficult because any music bought through iTunes can not be imported into a different/un-authorized account. Easy because iTunes has ignited the podcast revolution. Record labels like Stones Throw (songs/mixes by J.Rocc, J Dilla, Madlib, Peanut Butter Wolf, Egon, Baron Zen, James Pants, Rhettmatic, etc) and Mad Decent (Diplo, BlaqStarr, DJ Sega, South Rakkas Crew, Bonde Du Role) have been making quality music available for free for several years now.

This past week I happened upon East Village Radio and was blown away by their content. "East Village Radio is dedicated to streaming and linking the music, art, culture and community of the East Village, NYC into the world's conscience." A sampling of their line-up:

"The Wax Poetics Record Rundown" with J.Kirby, & Josh D.
"Authentic Shit" with Mark Ronson
"Turntable Lab Radio" with Snack & Cmish
"The Let Out" with "The Fader" Magazine Crew
"Fat Beats Radio" with Monster and Bill Sharp

Need I say more?

Some of these Podcasts are only available through the website via xml web addresses (and not through the iTunes music store). To acccess the schedule, and the podcast xml addresses, E.V.R. requires a login and password. Once set up you can access the schedule and add as many podcasts as you want.

To add podcasts via an xml web address in your iTunes go to "Advanced">"Subscribe to Podcasts..." a pop-up box will appear where you can type (or paste) the xml address then click "OK."

Get There!

Hope / Nope

You knew this one was coming.

Hal 9000 + Mac

Apple is known for having brilliant commercials. One that has always stuck out as my favorite feature's Hal 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey." A few days ago I was discussing how appropriate it was for the time it came out and felt inspired to seek it out on youtube. I believe it first aired, and perhaps only aired, during the 2001 Super Bowl (January 2001).

Cranes in Hollywood

Cranes in hollywood mean progress, condos, higher floors with higher rents and hallow walls. All balls don't bounce. Some collide and give rise to new facades, like those in "day of the locust." What happened to Indy? Greedy. Business without Finesse. James Pants in the Club. Eclectic DJs always need to do the homework otherwise it sounds like they didn't put in any. make a decision. playing your favorites for 30 sec does more bad then good. Hollywood is all show. Don't go west of western. Sometimes I count the homeless to my car. A rich city with everyone needy. How do you rest fully dressed on cold cement. Santogold is played out already. I have an ibrick with lots of tricks but isn't worth shot because it can't not drop a call. Purpose, focus, last call.

LEE SCRATCH IS COMING TO TOWN.

My Client

Cannes Fetish

The other day I was working on a photo shoot for a friend. As we were shooting the shit between models he showed me some photos David Lynch had recently taken. Actually it was a collaboration between Christian Louboutin and Lynch; Louboutin designed the shoes and Lynch shot images of models wearing the shoes. The project was called "Fetish."



Later that week I was checking in with my facebook account, yes I have one, and I got a request to become a fan of the Cannes Film Festival. I opened it to find the poster, which appeared to be an image taken from David Lynch's "Fetish" shoot. I did a little research and it was indeed a Lynch image. While the connection between the two events was never made it's undeniable.

Kudos to Lynch for getting paid for the same creative work twice.



PS: I love the fact that Lynch can make cheesy black bar glasses a profound statement about censorship.

More Lynch Images

"a woman in trouble."