Archive for March, 2007
Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren (usually just called ‘Matta’) was a Chilean surrealist painter who made some breathtaking art. You don’t need any background information to appreciate the paintings – but if you find it useful, read the passage below. Otherwise, just skip to the pictures!
[Matta] presented the landscape as the signifier for human [...]
Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren (usually just called ‘Matta’) was a Chilean surrealist painter who made some breathtaking art. You don’t need any background information to appreciate the paintings – but if you find it useful, read the passage below. Otherwise, just skip to the pictures!
[Matta] presented the landscape as the signifier for human [...]
Chico Marx on piano. Could anything be more charming?
Youtube has a compilation of four songs here: Link. Make sure you get to see his performance at about the halfway mark of ‘Everyone Says I Love You’, which turns my heart to butter.
Chico Marx on piano. Could anything be more charming?
Youtube has a compilation of four songs here: Link. Make sure you get to see his performance at about the halfway mark of ‘Everyone Says I Love You’, which turns my heart to butter.
An amazing, rocking video of a curious 1960’s band, Les 5 Gentlemen, can be seen here: Link.
Linked from Boing-Boing.
An amazing, rocking video of a curious 1960’s band, Les 5 Gentlemen, can be seen here: Link.
Linked from Boing-Boing.
The setup: Alan has been falsefully telling his Ukrainean girlfriend Sonia that he is close friends with U2’s lead singer, Bono. When Sonia pressures him into taking her to Bono’s house to meet Bono, Alan takes her to a historical castle, which is full of tourists, and tries to pass it off as [...]
The Pretty Things – Parachute
Parachute is the kind of album that, when you hear it for the first time, you can’t believe you’ve never heard it before. This is the kind of thing that makes me regret my habit of over-using superlatives, because it is simply one of the most perfect albums I’ve heard. [...]
This has some classic double-entendres: Link. The vulgar Archie panel pictured really hit the spot.
The setup: Alan has been falsefully telling his Ukrainean girlfriend Sonia that he is close friends with U2’s lead singer, Bono. When Sonia pressures him into taking her to Bono’s house to meet Bono, Alan takes her to a historical castle, which is full of tourists, and tries to pass it off as [...]
The Pretty Things – Parachute
Parachute is the kind of album that, when you hear it for the first time, you can’t believe you’ve never heard it before. This is the kind of thing that makes me regret my habit of over-using superlatives, because it is simply one of the most perfect albums I’ve heard. [...]
This has some classic double-entendres: Link. The vulgar Archie panel pictured really hit the spot.
Slate has a long, but fascinating (and educational) piece of travel writing about central Australia. I highly recommend it. Link.
Slate has a long, but fascinating (and educational) piece of travel writing about central Australia. I highly recommend it. Link.
Superb: Link.
Note the ludicrously deep note at 0:32!
