I just got through reading Rob Walker's article in the New York Times called Brand Underground and while I found it interesting and Walker's view possibly more in line with mine on the issue, I found the information and large amounts of the people interviewed troubling and somewhat hypocritical.

Post-modernism to me is a dubious and often bullshit ( Read more... )

In my downtime before I leave for Delphi, my time in Greece so far, through pictures.


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I could fill another notebook from spiral to rough cut edge, but in the end I would just lay the pages out for the furnace to heat my room.

To hell with Materazzi and the entire Azzurri team. Up with Zizou and his headbutt. This thing is being blown way out of proportion.

The Pitchfork review of the Meneguar album is both a) late and b) totally off the mark.

The Greek box office is a liar and almost got Dimitris to buy tickets to Roxy Music, who are appearing without Brian Eno.  Come ( Read more... )

The Peloponnese stretches down from Greece like a hilly, three pronged hand into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Aegean Sea to the east. Despite the relatively small size of modern Greece, the Peloponnese are still spoken of as explorers in Portugal and Spain would speak of the New World in the 15th century. A large landmass, people from Athens ( Read more... )

I've been in Greece for less than twelve hours and I can already say I won't want to leave come August.

I'm jet lagged now, so time to sleep after a lot of souvlaki.

Pictures start tomorrow

I'm leaving for Greece on Saturday, and it still hasn't hit me yet that I will be gone until August 12th.

Just won auctions for the Please Inform the Captain This is a Hijack LP

AND

the Wanna Buy a Bridge? LP

the two records i've been looking for the most, and i got them both.

next record in the sights:  From Monument to Masses.

All this time spent in the grass ( Read more... )

I think I like Gracer?  They played the whole album, and I can't decide.  I think I do, and will probably end up buying it.  I just wish Encrypt Manuscript had played.  It's weird seeing all the people from my favorite bands playing in different bands:  Tom and Lou from On the Might of Princes, in particular, and Chris, too.  It was also pathetic ( Read more... )