October 2009
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New Yeasayer Song! →
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the phantom of the opera... returns?
I’m sorry… but I can’t decide if I want this to happen!
I had heard rumors circulating last year, but now it is proving certainly true that theatrical god Andrew Lloyd Webber is crafting a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. Unlike the original Broadway adaptation, which was based upon Gaston Leroux’s 1909 work, this new show does not draw from any source, and Lloyd...
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From the Mess to the Masses!
How important has Lisztomania been this year?
Well it started with this (shout out to Spring 2009!) …
but led to this (shout out the Mill) …
which inspired this (shout out to Billysburg hipsters) …
which was honored on the other side of the world by this (whoa) …
Ladies and Gentlemen, I rest my case for the best song of 2009.
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Junot Diaz at Hartford Public Library
Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, is speaking in Hartford this weekend
DATE Friday, October 23
TIME - 6 PM
PLACE - Hartford Public Library (500 Main St)
The Brief Wondrous Life won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has received enormous amounts of critical acclaim. The book is an insightful look at masculinity, Dominican culture and history, the struggles...
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Dopeness →
Here’s an ill track from Kennedy. It’s got the same swagger as Mickey Avalon but a little more soul and rhythm without all the dry lines that make you feel more cynical about living. It’s probably a little more clever too but that’s enough of comparing one artist to another. Check it out for yourself.
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sit around and enjoy the sun/i just love everyone
Summer 2009 breakout hip-hop act Theophilus London released a new video last week that makes for an excellent 3 minute break from reality. Made up entirely by time-lapse photos of sunsets, the video is as enjoyable as the song’s cheery chorus and vibrant synth. I’m glad to see that his new material is living up to the mixtape, and that he can hold his own on non-remixed songs.
Enjoy...
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just in time for halloween
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a chilling, somewhat magical novel by Shirley Jackson (maybe you’ve read her short story The Lottery in an American Lit class; I know I did in high school). Not something I would have necessarily picked up by myself — it was assigned to my contemporary fiction course — but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I wouldn’t call it ‘scary,’...
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My God. I can’t believe I am four days late...
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we went where the wild things were.
I have been trying to avoid all things wild in the past weeks. With a movie as highly anticipated as Spike Jonze’s latest adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s book, you have to be careful to stop yourself from forming preconceptions. Otherwise you will end up as I was at the end of the most recent Harry Potter film: bemused but mostly dissappointed. It was actually...
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¡Vuelve Pedro!
Pedro Almodovar, director of Spanish classics Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Talk to Her and most recently Volver, is coming out with a new film next month.
Broken Embraces is the story of four lovers in Madrid. While the movie has many of the standard Almodovar elements (most attractive being the return of Penelope Cruz), it is also his first attempt at creating a noir-style film.
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Monsters of Folk →
Monsters of Folk- a new (formed in 2004) supergroup of awesome people (Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes, Jim James from My Morning Jacket, and M. Ward). They’re currently on tour, and will be in Boston on Nov. 3rd and in NYC on Nov. 6th and 8th. Unfortunately, tickets are $50 (I just checked at Beacon Theatre in NYC).
Check out their myspace to see if you like how they sound!
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Hey all. I recently discovered Nurses, an indie...
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Red House Painters - Make Like Paper (Live 11/29/96 at Black Cat DC) Part 1 - Part 2 Over the summer I found out about this thing called Interview Project that’s brought to you by film maker and artist, David Lynch. Interview Project is a series of interviews with people that a crew of film makers met while on a road trip across America. Some are heartwarming and some are nothing but the...
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We all know actors should never make music- just...
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CMJ finally posted their list of bands! I have...
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"Horchata"
Fresh from the boys of Vampire Weekend - check out the first single of their upcoming sophomore album, Contra.
The track has an understated bounce to it with some fun drumming for the chorus. Not as catchy as Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, but still an enjoyable song.
All in all it makes sitting on the beach of Martha’s Vineyard, listening to African drums and sipping on some...
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I don’t really enjoy mashups where...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Remix
so much activity on the Mill blog - i love it.
here are 2 fantastic remixes off a recently released mixtape of Phoenix’s 2008 summer jam-filled Album
Rome (Neighbors Remix with Devendra Banhart) - a nice trance effort by Neighbors with Devendra Banhart adding some funky echoes to Phoenix’s vocals
Love Like a Sunset (Animal Collective’s Remix - Deakin’s Jam) - Animal...
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"god is away on business."
hi. here’s what’s been on my mind recently. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4XqTl0ACoY cat power - metal heart live in ‘98 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ou-6A3MKow howlin’ wolf - how many more years live ‘66 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo4Y0TxW41g tom waits - i don’t wanna grow up music video directed by jim jarmusch cold cave signs to matador -...
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yet another where the wild things are link →
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where the wild things are art exhibition →
a tribute to where the wild things are
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the shoe’s remix of marina & the...