How did I ever miss this? Stay with it until 3:53 at least (via perpetua)

Miles Fisher 
“This Must Be The Place”

Miles Fisher’s recording of this Talking Heads classic is only slightly novel, and doesn’t have a great deal to add to the song. That is definitely not the case for David Green’s extraordinarily slick music video, in which the chilly precision and deliberate twitchiness of Fisher’s version is fleshed out by having him slip into Christian Bale’s version of Patrick Bateman from Mary Harron’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho. On one hand, it’s enough just to nudge the aloof sweetness of David Byrne into full-on sociopath territory, but there’s a lot more going on here. Fisher’s main gig is acting, and so there’s some implied commentary on acting, on Bale’s performance, on Bale himself, on an aspiration to be Bale-esque — or is that Bateman-esque? (Batman-esque?) This is also about the act of adaptation and appropriation — covering songs, remaking films, turning books into movies. Midway through the clip, the music fades out so Fisher can play out a version of Bateman’s most famous tic — his smarmy recontexualization of cheesy ’80s pop music. It’s for laughs, sure, but it’s poking fun at the perceived “greatness” of the song itself, and Fisher himself for attempting to redefine someone else’s work of art.

July 7th

My tomorrow night has just been booked:

britticisms:

So after the disastrously overcrowded scene that was the She & Him concert at Millennium Park, I came home and immediately began watching the above documentary on Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love. The documentary is only available for the next week at Pitchfork.tv. 

When it comes to Kate, I’m always patient with new listeners. They’ll get it. I’ve never met anyone who has not “gotten it” after a little bit of time. 

I have to disagree, however - I have met plenty of people who haven’t understood Kate Bush, or who haven’t had the patience to listen to anything more than “Running Up that Hill”. That said, anybody who can listen to the second side of Hounds of Love once, and want to listen to it again, is aces in my book.

June 7th

EGG CITY RADIO’S POST-PUNK FILM FEST 2!!!!

via lastdancedeathdisco:

I’ll be damned if I ever say I want to go to LA (and I’ll be double-damned if I ever willingly go there) but this is just not fair! If I didn’t have a job and turned my radio show into a full-time thing, I would totally do this for Boston.

That said, anybody in Boston/Cambridge want to do something like this for our little city?

January 25th