My baby teeth

In Baltimore for the time being...

[screenprints - 2hawks2fishes]
[music - Civilian by Wye Oak]

Eagerly anticipating

Lykke Li - Love Out Of Lust by LykkeLi

The revolution will not be televised

With his 1968 spoken word track "The Revolution Will Not be Televised," Gil Scott Heron is largely considered one of the pioneers of hip-hop.  His comeback album, "I'm New Here" was released about a year ago, and now we have a souped up remix--"We're New Here"--by Jamie Smith of the xx, out February 22.  SPIN has is streaming until its release:



Sweet beats, from the original:

I've seen stranger things happen before

The New Yorker's epic 25,000 word Lawrence Wright article about Paul Haggis's fight against the Church of Scientology offers hours of mind-bending, Tom Cruise-bashing fun.

   Carrying an empty, locked briefcase, Haggis went to the Advanced Organization building in Los Angeles, where the material was held. A supervisor then handed him a folder, which Haggis put in the briefcase. He entered a study room, where he finally got to examine the secret document—a couple of pages, in Hubbard’s bold scrawl. After a few minutes, he returned to the supervisor.

   “I don’t understand,” Haggis said.

   “Do you know the words?” the supervisor asked.

   “I know the words, I just don’t understand.”

   “Go back and read it again,” the supervisor suggested.

   Haggis did so. In a moment, he returned. “Is this a metaphor?” he asked the supervisor.

   “No,” the supervisor responded. “It is what it is. Do the actions that are required.”

   Maybe it’s an insanity test, Haggis thought—if you believe it, you’re automatically kicked out. “I sat with that for a while,” he says. But when he read it again he decided, “This is madness.”

Read:
THE APOSTATE

The new Bright Eyes album, (out since Tuesday) with its science fiction spoken word interludes and Rastafarian allusions, provides a suitably bizarro soundtrack.

Listen: 

You must have been a beautiful baby

Irina Werning brings us back to the future with her nostalgic and uncannily accurate recreations of beloved family photos.

[via Vulture]

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world

Photo Credit: Heidrun Lohr

Love and marriage (and marigolds)

Happy Valentines Day!