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Be back soon with a more substantial update, including a long post on music criticism. For now...
Looking at/Watching:
+These incredible images of QSL cards over at Cantab
+"Tough as old boots" - a tour through the Alden shoe factory
+A guy brushing his teeth during last weekend's (unjust) Chelsea-Manchester United match
+An animated short about Dock Ellis tripping balls and tossing a no-no
+Engrossing tour of producer RJD2's
Listening to:
+The legendary Andrew Weatherall's "London Belongs to Me" audio tour
+Funkineven and Mr. Wonderful's Cosmix! outer-space-boogie/fusion/disco mix
+Even outer space: Dam Funk!
+Spooky Fever Dream Field Recording micromix over at Bradford Cox's (Deerhunter/Atlas Sound) blog
+Funky16Corners anniversary Beatles mix
+Everything all at once: a live mix from Optimo
Reading:
+Suite 2046 asks: is Bored to Death simply Stuff White People Like in televised form?
+Respect game, 2012: a primer on famous not-quite-apocalypses
+Are too many students going to college?
+Related, in a weird way: the intriguing case of Latavious Williams...
+A preview of Luc Sante's incredible new book, Folk Photography
Results tagged “nba”
Be back soon with a more substantial update, including a long post on music criticism. For now...
Looking at/Watching:
+These incredible images of QSL cards over at Cantab
+"Tough as old boots" - a tour through the Alden shoe factory
+A guy brushing his teeth during last weekend's (unjust) Chelsea-Manchester United match
+An animated short about Dock Ellis tripping balls and tossing a no-no
+Engrossing tour of producer RJD2's
Listening to:
+The legendary Andrew Weatherall's "London Belongs to Me" audio tour
+Funkineven and Mr. Wonderful's Cosmix! outer-space-boogie/fusion/disco mix
+Even outer space: Dam Funk!
+Spooky Fever Dream Field Recording micromix over at Bradford Cox's (Deerhunter/Atlas Sound) blog
+Funky16Corners anniversary Beatles mix
+Everything all at once: a live mix from Optimo
Reading:
+Suite 2046 asks: is Bored to Death simply Stuff White People Like in televised form?
+Respect game, 2012: a primer on famous not-quite-apocalypses
+Are too many students going to college?
+Related, in a weird way: the intriguing case of Latavious Williams...
+A preview of Luc Sante's incredible new book, Folk Photography
Via Free Darko, the most bizarre YouTube video I've seen in quite a while: Ron Artest's "Afghan Woman"
As Shoals put it: "I never understood all those metaphors about faces melting and brains collapsing until now."
As Shoals put it: "I never understood all those metaphors about faces melting and brains collapsing until now."
Last night marked the opening of a new NBA season. The perfect modern sports league, really, and I don't mean that in a good way.
If you have a couple hours to kill, this is a fairly moving, charmingly biased, labor-of-love documentary about the NBA's willful negligence during the much-protested move of the Seattle SuperSonics to Oklahoma City.
If you have a couple hours to kill, this is a fairly moving, charmingly biased, labor-of-love documentary about the NBA's willful negligence during the much-protested move of the Seattle SuperSonics to Oklahoma City.
Sonicsgate SD Full Version from sonicsgate on Vimeo.
(In case you're wondering, that lyrical jewel is from Kobe Bryant's best forgotten "K.O.B.E.")
Last night I read Grant Farred's Phantom Calls (part of the consistently amazing Prickly Paradigm pamphlet series). Farred situates the Yao Ming Event within larger discourses on race and globalization--I won't get into it here--but one thing that did stick with me was Yao's unironic self-identification as just another Chinese worker. Because, obviously, most Chinese workers--most workers anywhere, really--would hardly view Yao's position as equivalent to theirs.
Anyhow, I was thinking about this while watching the trailers for Spike Lee's latest documentary, Kobe Doin' Work, wherein Kobe's already-remarkable ego finds reason for further growth. (The film airs Saturday night on ESPN--free of commercial interruption!) Lee trained 30 cameras on Bryant for a single playoff game against the Spurs; he also received access to the Laker locker room before, during and after the game. There is certainly something sublime about watching the body control of an ace athlete, and to this end Kobe Doin' Work is as good a use of 30 cameras as any. But I was struck by this idea that the film was designed to offer a typical "day at work" for Kobe--that the behind-the-scenes access, all of the cameras which put us on the court alongside him, all of it somehow makes Kobe one of us, just another guy putting in a day of work.
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Last night I read Grant Farred's Phantom Calls (part of the consistently amazing Prickly Paradigm pamphlet series). Farred situates the Yao Ming Event within larger discourses on race and globalization--I won't get into it here--but one thing that did stick with me was Yao's unironic self-identification as just another Chinese worker. Because, obviously, most Chinese workers--most workers anywhere, really--would hardly view Yao's position as equivalent to theirs.Anyhow, I was thinking about this while watching the trailers for Spike Lee's latest documentary, Kobe Doin' Work, wherein Kobe's already-remarkable ego finds reason for further growth. (The film airs Saturday night on ESPN--free of commercial interruption!) Lee trained 30 cameras on Bryant for a single playoff game against the Spurs; he also received access to the Laker locker room before, during and after the game. There is certainly something sublime about watching the body control of an ace athlete, and to this end Kobe Doin' Work is as good a use of 30 cameras as any. But I was struck by this idea that the film was designed to offer a typical "day at work" for Kobe--that the behind-the-scenes access, all of the cameras which put us on the court alongside him, all of it somehow makes Kobe one of us, just another guy putting in a day of work.
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