Guitar Shovel is HARDCORE

The epic guitar playing/singing...can be seen starting at 3:00.

The Wilderness Downtown

I think this is probably the most beautiful thing I've seen/experienced in a very long time. At first I didn't know what to expect, but by the end I was in tears. Please give it a whirl (and use Google Chrome for your browser, as it's optimized for it). I won't explain any more than this, just because I liked being surprised. Just as a hint, I'll let you know that it'll make you fall even more in love with Arcade Fire...

The Wilderness Downtown

Saturday

New Song, Old Stylings

So, I saw Cee-Lo Green's new video today, and was immediately reminded of Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries' "Dakota". Green's piece is kind of a simpler version of the yhchang piece, but both are really enjoyable. Now I shall share them.



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Dakota

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring...

Lobster phone!

Lobster Phone, Dali, 1936

Heat

It's been hot in Bellingham of late. I enjoyed this.

Meteor Meteor

Thursday night (or rather, Friday morning between 12am-3am) is the best time for those of us in North America to view the Perseid meteor shower. According to all the articles this past week, this year will be one of the best for seeing the shower, as there's a new moon and lots and lots of pretty comets-per-hour. I remember a few years back when the Perseid came by, but the full moon washed out all but the most stubborn meteors.

Having recently seen Joanna Newsom in concert (as you may have gathered from my post a few days back), I'll probably have "Emily" chiming through my head the entire time I watch the comets. In fact, it's already chiming around in there, at least the chorus is...

Meteor showers always make me stare at the sky and start thinking those big, freaky questions about how insignificant we all are (such a tiny dot on a slightly bigger tiny blue dot in an immense blackness)...but I'm similarly comforted by the small joys of holding someone's hand in the Perseid meteor shower, and snuggling deeper into piles of blankets and sleeping bags to enjoy the show.

Joanna Newsom--Emily

Animated Fit

Remember that news story circulating this week about the flight attendant from Jet Blue who quit in a blaze of glory (and expletives)?

Enjoy a Taiwanese reenactment via anime-esque CG hilarity.

hey hey hey

Robin Pecknold (of Fleet Foxes) covering "On a Good Day" (originally by Joanna Newsom), with such power and elegance. Nearly as good as the original.



I got to see him (and her) last Wednesday at the Moore. I leaned over to tell my friend that I'd be crying during the whole concert, and that was very nearly true.

Modern Vintage Tech

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Russia With Love

Vintage photographs from the 50s and 60s in Russia.

Strange Angels

In Vitebsk, Russia millions of tiny butterflies flocked to a bridge one night and began to die.

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For Emily

disney loops

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So, so weird. Kind of sad.

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old things like all others

I've been immersed in old movies lately. The kind of old movies that nobody's really seen, and I've never heard of, and maybe you don't even have to see to get the gist of. Most recently I watched James Whale's Waterloo Bridge (1931). I found it in a boxed set called Forbidden Hollywood that featured several films that were banned or censored for their "racy" content. Waterloo Bridge was certainly the tamest of the bunch, but also, for me, the most passionate...and I guess "truest" in a sense. Anyway, Mae Clarke (you may have seen her in Frankenstein) plays the main character Myra, and she's got the most expressive and beautiful face--I had to constantly kick myself for thinking of Laura Mulvey every 10 seconds so I could just enjoy how pretty she was when she cried. Sometimes I forget to enjoy things when I'm so busy enjoying not enjoying them...er well...that's not exactly what I mean, but you English types will get that. But seriously, she has the prettiest crying face ever, and that's no easy feat.I couldn't find a picture of the crying, but check out how foxy she is in general.

and from Frankenstein:

It all makes me want to wear gauzy dresses and traipse through London alleys with a soldier boy and a grin.

Speaking of Trash

from BB -- "buy our product or your baby will end up in a grave"

Finally Until

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Hello blog. It's me. Remember me?

You probably don't, it's been quite awhile since we've spoken. But I'm back, for the most part, and I still love you--even though I've neglected you into quiet submission.

The last few weeks have been chaotic and strange, and I wasn't sure if I could hold myself together let alone a little old blog like you. But never fear.

I moved into a new place last week--it's a big yellow house on a hill overlooking Bellingham bay. I have a little downstairs room with a big, beautiful view and very white walls. It's been one of those moves where it feels like your whole world has tilted a little bit, and it's taking me awhile to get my balance again. Today was a good start--the sun lit up all the white sails on the water, a woodpecker perched on the telephone pole on the alley below, and I started my final ever undergraduate course at WWU. I feel nervous and excited and twisted up all at once. This summer I want to prove to myself that I can be a grad student, teacher and scholar (though I seem to have everyone else convinced...I'm just not sure yet).

You little blog will be my creative outlet, my source of joy and beauty and wonder in the world. Sounds like a big job, I know, but you can do it. We can do it together.

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