St. Vincent Sings INXS
From Beck’s Record Club, an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day. The album chosen to be reinterpreted is used as a framework. Nothing is rehearsed or arranged ahead of time.
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L.A. Looks Great When You Take Away the Cars
Ross Ching shows how attractive L.A. is when you get rid of the cars in Running on Empty. Ching was inspired by a similar project of still photographs, Empty L.A., from L.A. photographer Matt Logue.
Cannonball
Fresno’s been hit hard by the bursting of the housing bubble, where 12% of the homes there had some type of foreclosure filing in 2009. Few have benefited from this abundance of vacant homes like skaters. Cannonball, from the great new short film blog California is a place, shows how the backyards of Fresno have become one, big skater amusement park.
Reggie Watts
This is amazing. Reggie Watts deconstructs the shite out of classic rap cliches. And the beat is irresistible. Bad words are used.
Roadtrip With Lee Friedlander
Go along on a roadtrip with one of the world’s greatest living photographers and you’ll see it’s all about the crackers.
Vic Chestnutt
Take Away Show #74.1: Vic Chesnutt.
Vic Chestnutt died on Christmas day from an overdose of muscle relaxants. He was 45.
Obsessively Good Pizza Coming to San Francisco
NATURALLY RISEN from Michael Evans.
Anthony Mangieri, who ran the Una Pizza Napoletana in New York until he closed up shop earlier this year, is going to reopen the restaurant in San Francisco next Spring. A notable zealot fringe leader of the recent Naples-style pizza revolution in New York, Mangieri’s obsessed with using perfect tomatoes, perfect flour and having the perfect wood-fired oven. (At Pizza Napletana in NY, Mangieri ripped out the last oven which he had custom built for the restaurant for another one custom built in Naples just two years later–at a cost of $40,000). Mangieri makes only four kinds of pizza: Margherita, marinara (no cheese), bianca (no sauce), and filetti (with fresh cherry tomatoes). There are no appetizers, no desserts, no salads, no slices, no substitutions, no delivery, no extra toppings. Each plate-sized pizza is $21. Watch him make a pie in Michael Evans’ short film Naturally Risen.
St. Vincent and Andrew Bird
St. Vincent and Andrew Bird at a party in Paris.
If you want to skip ahead to the St. Vincent parts, go to What Me Worry or to Black Rainbow
Got Sandy Talent
In case you missed it, here’s Kseniya Simonova, the 2009 winner of Ukraine’s Got Talent.
Live From Tokyo
Live from Tokyo is an upcoming documentary on Tokyo’s independent music scene, directed by Lewis Rapkin.
I’d Like to Welcome Our Fire-Breathing Amphibious Dragon Overloards
Japanese artist Yanobe Kenji created an animatronic fire-breathing dragon boat for the ongoing Aqua Metropolis festival in Osaka.
Robochan
Let me be the first to welcome our iPhone robot overlords.