David Byrne + Marcel Dzama + Chali2na = very good
Noah showed this to me today. It is quite something.
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Two cigarettes in the dark
A zen moment of modern performance art from choreographer Pina Bausch. Perfect surreal start to the week. Thanks mudd up.
Burak at Detroit Electronic Music Festival
This weekend my good friend Burak was in Detroit for a music visualization performance at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. I’ve been keeping up with him on his photo feed, and his post has some great videos of previous performances. Wish I could’ve gone with him. Only a year out of PLW and el Burak is already emerging as a rockstar.
Pelican & Mono at the Middle East
Just now returned from a Pelican/Mono show I attended with Jeevan Kalanithi, David Bouchard, Dave Merrill and my sister Erin at the Middle East. From the tall cans of PBR to the sludgy, stoney opener, it was a very rocking evening. Mono was absolutely epic, soaring and crushing. I’d never seen them, but had heard good things from Jennifer Lillie, Anita’s sister, knowledgable of things Japanese. And Pelican, the headliner that we weren’t actually there to see, vastly exceeded our non-existent expectations with a heavy, droney but tight set.
Outside between bands Jeevan and Dave and I also got to talking about what to do after the lab, and I think we all agreed it was a difficult topic. Before the Mono set Dave playfully mentioned the idea of a tech company in a warehouse space in SOMA in San Francisco, and it was such a poetic, perfect sort of vision, one that I’ve thought about many times myself but never really vocalized. Jeevan and I have joked about starting a company, but it dawned on me then that it really is a possibility, that companies and ideas really do form like this. I thought about it all through that Mono set. It was a nice daydream, and it was an appropriate soundtrack.
Coming home I found my sister looking for a new apartment in the bay area on craigslist. She was checking the prices of places in San Francisco. Looking over her shoulder I was surprised how expensive it all is there. I didn’t remember it being so pricey, and it was a harsh buzzkill on the daydream. How did that happen? So maybe I’ll have to revise the dream a little.