http://www.pastemob.org/wp Register of Deeds Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:10:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I went to the SFMOMA retrospective with R (in May), there was one piece that really stood out to me-- a city map doctored with text that seemed sometimes facetious (a contact address is listed as "2470 Purgatoire") and sometimes outside cartography's normal discursive bounds entirely (the legend "Main ... http://www.pastemob.org/wp/?p=1317 Hear it on Youtube I'm temporarily fascinated by this song. As Uffie says early on, "There's two kinds of MCs out there / The ones who rap and the ones who don't care / And frankly I don't give a fuck". In other words, she's too tough to bother ... http://www.pastemob.org/wp/?p=1316 Bloc Party's first album was produced by the exceptional Paul Epworth, their second by middlebrow drama merchant Jacknife Lee. So for the third album, they brought in both producers, and the result plays very much like a battle for Bloc Party's soul, except that really, this is one of those ... http://www.pastemob.org/wp/?p=1280 Fully explores the surprisingly tiny range of styles between old Dressy Bessy (dazed-brat indiepop) and old Breeders. I think I've always underestimated them a little because of their terrible name-- like for example, their two tracks used in "But I'm A Cheerleader" were the ones a friend of mine was ... http://www.pastemob.org/wp/?p=1279 The other day, something reminded me of 12 Inches Of Snow, the first album by Canadian reggae vocalist Snow. Its title is a rare example of a triple-entendre in popular culture: "12 inches of snowfall", "a 12-inch record (i.e. an LP) by Snow", and "Snow's penis is 12 inches long!" ... http://www.pastemob.org/wp/?p=1278 Foil - Reviver Gene (mp3) From 1998's Spread It All Around. By 1998 anyone who listened to "alternative rock" had their bullshit detector wound tight to flash NO NO NO if they were offered a UK guitar band who were "sort of grunge, but not really". But this Scottish ... http://www.pastemob.org/wp/?p=1276 I think I first heard about the Balloon Man from Fluxblog a few years ago. Here's all I can tell you: forty years ago, Bill Morrison had a 'difficult' stand-up comedy act involving balloon animals that was briefly successful, and in 1971 he recorded a bunch of one-minute "bio-vignettes" hoping ... http://www.pastemob.org/wp/?p=1274 I like the Hold Steady's music, but it largely exists as a backdrop-- or occasionally a scaffold-- to Craig Finn's lyrics, and at first, I thought Stay Positive mostly failed lyrically. The three central Hold Steady characters, Gideon, Holly and Charlemagne, are nowhere to be found. Most of the ... http://www.pastemob.org/wp/?p=1273 The first time I posted this, the links didn't work. Sorry! Try this. While I liked other songs on Bluebird (Jagjaguwar, 2000), it was only "Bride" that made Sarah White's name stay in my head long after she seemed to vanish from the indie world. Her voice sounds like ... http://www.pastemob.org/wp/?p=1272 I didn't have the heart to bring Ulysses camping with me, so I stepped sideways to another opaque modern monument that I had wanted a little quiet time with. 77 Dream Songs is the first (and much shorter) of the two books that the Dream Songs were collected into. (Or ... http://www.pastemob.org/wp/?p=1271