I read the New Yorker every week (someone please buy me a subscription for Hannukah. The New Yorker costs $12.50 in Australia!)
The first thing I do is flip to the back, to the cartoon caption contest.
I'll start posting my captions.
I can't draw from memory. I can only draw what I see in front of me. I think this inhibits my chances of being a world classic cartoonist. That is a dream of mine. I put the R.in R.Crumb
Electronic music from Hamburg, Germany. Early 80's.
Makes me want a Korg MS-20 real bad.
My copy of 'Teenage Tapes'- a collection of Felix's early work, just arrived in the mail.
I also just bought this guitar today. So it should arrive in the mail next week.
I love getting mail.
Gyokuro is my favourite green tea.
It has a strong grassy flavour.
Gyokuro Yamashiro is shaded for 6-7 weeks prior to plucking, so it's dark, extra energizing and extremely rare outside of Japan.
Two bands I loved growing up; Codeine and Cranes.
I think I found out that Codeine was a legal downer drug, found in stomach ache tablets, that people took to get down, when I was 15. Then I heard the band Codeine and they sounded slow, like the drug, and I thought 'what a perfect name'. I love 'Frigid Stars A Lot'. I know it wasn't meant to be a record for teenagers. It really is quite sophisticated in it's simplicity. Somehow it made it's way into my 15 year old frame. I listened to this album so much when I was a sad teenager, in a lot of pain. It was my Codeine.
I've been listening to 'Forever' by Cranes a lot lately. It's made a comeback in my life. I couldn't listen to it for about 10 years, because it brought up so many crushing emotions for me. But, I'm realigned with it again. It truly is a beautiful piece of work.
Happy belated Halloween.
Hope you got crunked out on candy. Hard or soft, all textures welcome.
One of my favourite John Carpenter scores is Halloween III.
The end credits: CHARIOTS OF PUMPKINS
And, a no brainer...because your brains got eaten!
Ministry's EVERY DAY IS HALLOWEEN
Today is my bat mitzvah anniversary. Wow, nearly 20 years ago, I officially became a woman. Not sure what that means exactly. Some days I feel like a woman. Other days I don't. I think I should have a bar mitzvah to balance things out.
Fatima Al Qidiri, who is probably the most exciting person making music these days, in my opinion, released her brilliant Desert Strike E.P today. Go and buy it. It's a masterpiece.
And last but not least, Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d city also got released today.
Believe the hype, for once. It's true, Kendrick is the saviour of rap music. This is going mainstream and he just outright takes all the commercial rappers out there to school. Congratulations.
There are a lot of good girl rappers around right now.
Sasha Go Hard is one of my favourite. Chicago. Stripped back. Good tempo. "The honest truth". Young and Real. Nothing flashy, just real.
