interview - Aesthetic Apparatus

There is less screaming this time. enjoy.

music - los campesnios!

I believe in using suggestive words and descriptions to make you like stuff. I dig this band, you might as well. I will let the tunes and imagery do the work. Who does not like cute talented kids getting attacked by cute kittens, rainbows, unicorns, and ribbons...oh did i mention vomiting flowers? Yes I like to emphasize that they are talented.

video - Goodnight Rose

Ryan Adams and The Cardinals performing "Goodnight Rose" from their recent release Easy Tiger. If you doubt Ryan and the Cardinals skills, you should check this out, extended rock-out sessions and lazers shooting from their eyes!!! Yes my friend, you heard right: lazers, madd skillz indeed. enjoy.

music - Chris Walla "Field Manual"

Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie fame recently released a solo album titled, Field Manual. To those not familiar with Christopher, he is the guitarist, as well as the producer of Death Cab for Cutie. In addition to the Death Cab recordings he also produced The Decemberists Picaresque and Crane's Wife, Tegan and Sara's The Con, as well as many others. If you are scratching your head and asking if its worth checking out, imagine how awesome a Death Cab albums sounds and the song "New Candles," plus any other song with sweet back up vocals and thats a should give you a clue to how the album sounds. If that is not enough check out the links below. By the by, later this year Walla and company will release their 2008 release, Narrow Stairs, in the spring. Oh yeah, turns out he was born exactly ten years before me, maybe thats why he is cool?

Field Manual ecard - mp3s, video, & photos
Barusk Records
Hall of Justice Recordings

movie - Mister Lonely

Official Japanese trailer for Harmony Korine's new film, Mister Lonely, starring Diego Luna, Y tu mamá también, works as a Micheal Jackson impersonator in Paris meets a Marilyn Monroe look-a-like invites him to an impersonator commune in the Scottish Highlands, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple. The cast also consists of Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant, Rachel Korine, Anita Pallenberg and Werner Herzog. The film is not yet released but can be viewed at SXSW for two special screenings next week.

Mister Lonely on IMDB
Mister Lonely at SXSW
SXSW List of Film Screenings

book - Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far

As many of you may already know, Stefan Sagmeister has recently released his new book titled: Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far as well as an exhibition with the afore mentioned name at the Deitch gallery in Soho. Enjoy images and excerpts from the exhibition here, read words from Stefan, himself at Times Magazine as a guest blogger, here, and/or buy his book at hnabooks.com or amazon.com.

And last but not least you can check out solutions from the book on the book's special website with the same lovely title. www.thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com

movie titles

A bunch of great movie titles including but not limited to: "Juno", "From Russia With Love," "Amelie," "Stranger Than Fiction," and more. Work from design greats as Robert Brownjohn, Saul Bass and the guy who did "Seven."