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Next week should be interesting, full or opportunities to be mired in the past, present, and/or future. This past month was characterized by the sort of non-stop busyness that generally interrupts awareness. Firstly, the current gig ends and I am turning down a similar one right after (quitting, kinda). This will be the first time in long while that I'll actually be hustling, and figuring out what sort of prospects I have. I still have a vague fantasy of my career somehow filling in the blanks in my life, and that meeting different people will be the answer to everything, even though that has not happened so far. The idea of running away to foreign cities or to a shack in a forests seem to have more merit of late. Also, next week I'll be 26. This is full of discrepancies with how I act, live, dress, & think, but no more-so than 25. I just noticed that my main interest in "living in the now" is to prevent Eric at 40 from being a bitter and hurtful bastard, which really isn't concerned with now at all.
Anyway, the one recreational thing I resolved to do recently was pretty awesome. Jamie Lidell put on a really good show. For those who don't know, he's sort of an abstract electronica guy who suddenly started being really good at classic Soul music. Pics and an mp3 are here. I am faintly visible in this one. He alternated between singing clean album versions to a backing track and improvising on a huge bank of gear. He was particularly good at live sampling, gradually manipulating a snippet of his beat-boxing into chorus of powerful analogue noise.
Some media to suck you time.
Four Tet remixes Madvillain
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover Bjork
Short film with Aziz Ansari as clerk at 'Other Music.'
Wes Anderson makes an American Express ad.
Cakey! The Cake From Outer Space
This website consists of 5 minute TV shows, the slate of which is determined by the votes of the audience at a packed monthly screening (which I'd recommend attending). Also good is 'Puppet Rapist' which is made by my associates at Waverly films.