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Past Future Perfect

Friday, August 22, 2008

I’m really enjoying the blocky Constructivist-style stage set up in this Yellow Magic Orchestra clip from 1981. And somewhere around the 2:20 mark, this beautiful space-age table shows up for a few seconds.

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Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Or maybe tomorrow. David Byrne and Brian Eno’s new album will be posted to their site everythingthathappens.com tomorrow, August 18. There’s one preview track on the site now - a bit more pop sounding than their earlier collaborations like My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, but still promising.
This track is from the Bush [...]

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Love will tear us apart (again)

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

For the updated version of the video, director Jonathan Steamish mixed old video footage from the John Peel show together with stills.
From the junction.

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Disorder. A Space Odyssey.

Monday, July 14, 2008

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1981

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

A great year, I’m sure. I have very little direct memory of it, but clips like this one make me wish I’d been born a decade earlier. I especially like the part where the guy in the red beret takes a swipe at pirate fashion. Some revealing Depeche Mode moments in there too. [...]

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A Forest

Monday, April 28, 2008

Had to take a trip way out into west Berlin this morning. Staring out the window, I kept catching myself thinking about how green Berlin is—parks, plants, forests appear everywhere. Somehow, this is going to segue into a post about a brilliant performance of The Cure’s A Forest from 1980.

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What are Curses?

Monday, April 21, 2008

Very Short List guided me to a bizarrely edited clip of Charlie Rose talking to Charlie Rose about technology, which somehow led me to Animal Collective’s new video for Water Curses, directed by Andrew Kuo, whose data visualization of recent Boredoms shows was featured last week in the New York Times.

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Taken by Trees

Monday, April 7, 2008

Seems to go with the weather here in Berlin. Taken by Trees.

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Re-TROS! Live!

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

We’d never actually seen Re-TROS (Re-establishing the Rights of Statues and Rebuilding the Rights of Statues) play live but we’d heard a lot about them from our friend Damon, who’s been extolling the band’s virtues for several months now. We finally had the chance the other night at one of Beijing’s most popular live [...]

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Song Beijing

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Beijing music connoisseur and promoter extraordinaire, Neebing, is launching his new restaurant/bar venture, Song, inside of The Place on Guanghua Lu. Described as a location to “promote local creativity in Beijing, Sòng has brought the best local design and creatives together to create a warm, cosy and chilled environment for good food, great music and [...]

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