The latest album from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Beat the Devil’s Tattoo, came out last Tuesday which coincidentally was when they played at Slim’s here in San Francisco. I’m glad I finally got to see this band live, and I’ve been listening to this new album a ton since picking it up at the show.
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As part of their series on infrastructure in the country, PBS ran a segment concerning the transportation troubles of my hometown, Detroit. I can say first hand that its really hard to get around metro Detroit without an automobile, and moving to a city that has a vast public transportation system (San Francisco), I think Detroit could stand to benefit in a huge way with a better transit system. The video brings up a good point, at least in my mind, the importance of how Detroit comes through this tough time. How the issues are addressed in Detroit, and ultimately, how they are solved will be indicative of how we as a country measure what is important to rebuild cities like Detroit, and use it as a shining example of rebuilding urban areas efficiently and effectively for the benefit of the people in them.
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A Retronaut is someone who goes back in time using just perception. Its a trick they pull on themselves, a psychological ruse. But – it works.
A couple albums I’ve been listening to a ton over the past several weeks; I picked them up at my previous trip to Amoeba Records. The album from Spoon is their latest, Transference, which I’ve been enjoying immensely. Budakhan Mindphone by Squarepusher came out in 1999, but I picked it up or two reasons, it’s one of the albums by him I don’t have, and the second being the song Iambic 5 Poetry is how I was introduced to Squarepusher, so it has some nostalgia attached to it. I’ve included the song below as I think it’s a perfect example of how a song can create atmosphere, and I find it’s a great song to listen to while I’m working.
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Both of these awesome pieces are from Room and Board. The Zeichen Press-type Alphabet print + Anson sofa.
Much in the same way radio signals are sent into space in hopes they’ll be received by some form of life; I’ll do the same here.
