I’ll be playing a live set as part of Jarret Keene’s Operation: Desert Word Storm event at First Friday, as well as doing live backup for some of the poets who will be performing. This will be a “full” live performance, meaning I’ll be playing actual electronic music as opposed to just having an acoustic […]
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Yes, We Can.
[From Marc Ambinder’s blog on The Atlantic‘s website, this is the full text of Obama’s victory speech last night.] If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions […]
The Great Work has begun
And so it begins — this Great Work before us, of rebuilding America. It’s not going to begin by attacking the conservatives — much as that’s my first instinct, the one and maybe most important thing I’ve learned so far from President-Elect Obama (!!!) is that it is the wrong instinct. So instead, I’m going […]
I'd Share A Life And You'd Share A Life
I asked Alex and Laurenn, and they said it was cool, so here you go: the official Red State Soundsystem cover of “I’ll Believe In Anything” by Wolf Parade. This doesn’t sound much like my other stuff — I think it sounds like the Polyphonic Spree a bit, crossed with maybe Vespertine-era Bjork, until the […]
OMFG
So I agreed many months ago to record a version of Wolf Parade’s “I’ll Believe In Anything” for my friends Alex and Laurenn’s wedding. They wanted to have their first dance to it, but the original is way too fast and indie rawk to slow dance to. I’ve put together a massive orchestral version that […]
Green Panda
A new image of the Zenarchery panda; I’m trying out a new illustration style. (If you like it, I’ll totally sell you a print of it.)
Paul Smith ripped off Robert Hodgin!
Apparently one of designer Paul Smith’s patterns is a pixel-by-pixel copy of a Flickr image by Robert Hodgin (who wrote the Magnetosphere visualizer that is now the default visualizer in iTunes, and who has also been an immense help to me with my Processing code)! Robert says, to be fair, that the “birds” in his […]
Secret Halloween Cover
If you were to point your browser here, you might find a special (and ridiculously silly) Red State Soundsystem Halloween cover. Because I love you. And I was really bored on this late Saturday night / early Sunday morning. Happy Halloween, folks.
Pimpin' Lost A Hero
Rudy Ray Moore, better known as “Dolemite”, died today. Sigh. Way down in the jungle deep, The bad ass lion stepped on the signifyin monkey’s feet. The monkey said, “Muthafucka, can’t you see? Why, you standin on my goddamn feet!” The lion said, “I ain’t heard a word you said.” Said, “If you say three […]
DIY Storage
A couple of years ago, I read an article online about a dude who bought a tiny house in Marin County — so tiny he didn’t really have space for all of his computer gear. So he got himself a wire bread rack, replaced the crappy plastic shelves with hardwood, and stored not only his […]