Michael Showalter & Co. finally make a post-Wet Hot American Summer movie. (I don't mean a sequel). Screwball comedy Baxter premieres at Bobby DeNiro's Tribeca Film Fest.
Hopefully the documentary Wheedle's Groove, the story behind the funk comp of the same name, receives reasonable distro or comes out on DVD in a timely fashion.
Paintings & photos by Jeremy Okai Davis - Project called The Risk of an Early Spring by Bernard Fleuret. I was thinking aloud (in an email, so not really out loud) to my friend Scott that you don't see much modern work of this type in black & white. It's mostly a color thing. You can download the whole book as a pdf, too. That's a cool idea. - Drop bombs (or wasps or spill coffee) on your least favorite website. - Nobody told me that they knocked down the Rock n Roll McDonald's & replaced it with this monstrosity. I can't wait to go there. Bet you didn't know that the first (Ray Kroc era) McDonalds is in my hometown Des Plaines (not pronounced ala Francais in the fine Midwestern tradtion of Cairo (kay-ro) IL & others I can't remember). Or maybe you don't care. - Interview with landscape/place photographer Jem Southam in the 2nd issue of Seesaw magazine. Other images here. - More work by photographer Michael Schmelling, author of Shut Up Truth. - Photographs by Dylan Chatain. (belatedly cribbed from Not If But When). - Library of Congress finds unheard recordings of Monk/Coltrane quartet in the process of digitizing.
I don't know if you've gotten hooked on any of the several singles from Gwen Stefani's solo thing but I kinda have & right now she's performing on Letterman with half a funky marching band ala Drumline & a troupe of tough looking asian dancers in half-cheerleader/half-Fly Girl get-up. I believe that this is one thing a person might be referring to when they say something is fierce.
Since Kyle's getting back on the horse, I guess I can try to keep up. At least it's an excuse to not read what I need to read or write what I need to write or shoot what I need to shoot.
So...
NWA's Straight Outta Compton edited down to just the "explicit content". Maybe not worth owning but definitely worth a listen.
Don't tell anyone that I first saw Bryten Goss's paintings in Nylon magazine. Odd nudes & burning buildings (not at the same time).
Kyle reminded me that I forgot to mention that a new print of Godard's Masculine Feminine is making the "art cinema" rounds at the moment. I saw it a few weeks back & the wacky semi-plot, the pretty girls, the camerawork, the music & the overwhelming attractiveness of mid-60s Paris pulled me out of the sad funk I was in, at least for 103 minutes.
I guess neither is out just yet but the new records by Spoon & Oneida are hot shit good & after their release & your purchase, glue them to your turntable (you need two, I guess) & listen to them alternately. Actually you need 2 copies of each & 4 turntables. Never mind, you get the idea, huh? Both of their websites are newish & great, too.
Do you like maps? I do. I've been all about them for weeks on end now. This book, You Are Here, is great fuel for the fire.
Despite the voice(s) in my head telling me not to, I spent a piece of my financial aid check on The Photobook - A History, Vol. 1. Yes, a book about photobooks. A gazillion pages long, ridiculously high print quality & IT'S ONLY VOLUME ONE.
Here's a review of Lee Friedlander's Sticks & Stones from the New Republic. (registration)
Order yourself a $165 Basquit action figure.
Photos by Justine Cooper - Saved By Science.
ProdBy - this is where to look if you want to know who programmed those hot goddamn drums on the Amerie track "One Thing". (It's Rich Harrison, btw)
That Numark portable turntable is what I want for my birthday or christmas or graduation or whatever. Buy! Buy! Buy!
Matthew Mahon's photos are pretty good but his website is fantastic.
I'm maybe planning to go to NYC one of these dang Saturdays & see this show of work by Aneta Grzeszykowska & Jan Smaga at the Robert Mann Gallery, among other things. Here is Vince Aletti's review of the show from the Village Voice.
The save Arrested Development site is run by Fox. That is odd, no?
This past weekend, my friend Allyson raced a bigweel (actually it looks like a plastic car but...) down Lombard St. in San Francisco. Check out a video from last year's event here.
The list of things that I would share with visitors to Boston is still very short. At or near the top would be this Salvadoran restaurant on the other end of Jamaica Plain that serves up a thing called a papusa (or pupusa), which is somewhere between a pancake & an empanada. Fried goodness served with hot sauce & a side of cabbage that's similar to the "yankee coleslaw" that they have at Wishbone in Chicago. So easy to eat way too much, especially since they're $1.75 each.
