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GLOBAL POP CULTURE MEDIA STYLE WEBLOG
FRESH TAKES
ON MOVIES, MUSIC,
PEOPLE & MORE
CONSUMING CULTURE, SPITTIN' HYPE
ON OUR STEREO
The Top 10 discs that get us through the night...
1. Deerhoof - "Friend Opportunity" (Kill Rock Stars)
2. El Perro Del Mar - "El Perro Del Mar" (EMI)
3. Lily Allen - "Alright, Still" (Regal/Parlophone)
4. Cat Power - "The Greatest" (Matador)
5. Kanye West - "Late Registration" (Roc-A-Fella)
6. Gorillaz - "Demon Days" (Virgin)
7. M.I.A. - "Arular" (XL)
8. Kaiser Chiefs - "Employment" (B-Unique)
9. Bright Eyes - "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning" (Saddle Creek)
10. Mos Def - "The New Danger" (Geffen)
Kickin' It Ol' Skool on Our Stereo...
1. Bob Marley and the Wailers - "Exodus"
(Island)
Favorite Kicks ...
Adidas "Adi Color Winner"
-- Fresh high-top sneaker design from the German tennis shoe maker.
Favorite Video Game on Our PlayStation...
Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas
(Rockstar Games) -- The greatest GTA eva'! It's been out for over two years and we're still freakin' playing it!
Overheard...
Guy talking into cellphone on West Broadway in Soho, NYC:
"Hey man, can you hear me? Got a new cell phone -- it's a Treo, man! That's right, a Treo. Yeah, the Palm Treo 650 and it's aaaawesome ... uh ... hello, can you hear me? Hello? Hello ... Shit!"
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Supercore:
Ivan Corsa
Princess Lower
East Side:
Reiko Oishi
OK Computer:
Typhoon
Lost in Translation:
Ken Taniguchi
Sources Direct:
Rob Samra
D. Carter Witt
Damon Smith
Adrian
Tharani
Jess Eddy
Gravy to Potatoes,
Luke to Darth Vader:
Lao Tzu
Hardware:
Apple Macintosh PowerBook G4 + G3 Computers w/ OS X
Toshiba Satellite Laptop w/ Windows XP
Krups Il Caffe Duomo Espresso Machine
Resources Directory [Beta]:
TECH GEAR
Mobile Devices We Like:
T-Mobile Sidekick and Sidekick II
Easy to use, unbusinesslike and not too techy-looking, we like the Sidekick 'cause it's easy on the thumbs for typing and is probably the most comfortable cell phone and text-messaging device in terms of keyboard size and design.
Palm Treo 650
The treo 650 is to the Sidekick what Prada dress shoes are to Adidas sneakers. Despite that analogy, the Treo will not win points for style compared to many cell phones, though the Treo is well-designed and nice on the eyes. The Treo is a so-called Smartphone and runs an OS for its Palm PDA functionality. Part phone, part PDA and part e-mail and Internet-enabled handheld computer, the 650 comes in slightly different versions for Cingular, Verizon, and Sprint. The best part of the 650 is its keyboard and high-resolution color screen.
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August 23, 2004
Bjork Profiled in the New Yorker as Her New Disc "Medulla" Gets Set for Release!
In this past week's New Yorker magazine is an exhaustive and brilliant profile of Bjork by music critic Alex Ross. His article reads as both a carefully observed literary portrait of the Icelandic singer-songwriter and as a personal journal of a travelling musicologist. For his profile Ross met with Bjork several times throughout the many months she spent preparing for and recording her next album, "Medulla," which will be released August 30. The journey takes him from New York to London, Brazil and Iceland.
The article is a must-read for any Bjork fan and certainly one of the finest pieces of music journalism we've read in a very long time. In typical New Yorker fashion, Ross's story is a sprawling many-paged feature. It is the magazine's generous space and astronomic word counts that allow the luxury of such a long, detailed and keenly drawn account of the muscial artist's album-making process.
Iceland gave us the Sugarcubes, whose international success helped launch Bjork's solo career and made her the Nordic island's most famous export. It is, at first, hard to fathom how anyone from such a tiny, remote and relatively obscure island country could rise to become such a beloved and eccentric international pop star and style icon, but Bjork's talent is of the most extraordinary type, forged in an extraordinary place.
Though for now you'll only be able to find the Bjork profile (with a photo of the singer by Richard Avedon) in a New Yorker hardcopy, you can see some excellent personal photos of Iceland and Brazil on Ross' blog web site (The Rest is Noise). The images were taken while the writer was hanging out with Bjork for his New Yorker article.
--Supercore
RELATED LINKS
The Rest is Noise: New Yorker music critic Alex Ross' Blog
Bjork Official Web Site
The New Yorker Web Site
Posted by Supercore at August 23, 2004 12:47 AM
Posted by: Jay Rossi at September 6, 2004 12:48 PM
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