Month: December 2009
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Five Photographs Jordana Took
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New Year, New Kicks
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Turning Off My Sinatra Holiday Radio Station On Pandora, Turning On Beck’s RECORD CLUB For Some Velvet Underground & Nico, Leonard Cohen and Skip Spence… And Hitting Repeat
While I’m sitting here on my Nigel Godrich trip, Aimee Kramer (thank you!) just woke me up to this newish Beck project. Beck and friends gather informally as a RECORD CLUB to record a full album in a day. So far they’ve done Velvet Underground & Nico, Leonard Cohen and (most recently) Skip Spence. Here’s…
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Rad Live Performance of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” & Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face”
Britney. Gaga. Three dudes in a dorm room. Simply cannot be beat…
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The Most Inspiring Doctor In Brooklyn (& Beyond): Dr. Jay Parkinson
In the midst of the health care debate, here’s a small story about Dr. Jay Parkinson, a Williamsburg, Brooklyn doctor, whose revolutionary approach is inspiring his colleagues and any of us who use social media. (Special thanks to Jordana for telling me about this guy.) Dr. Parkinson began his practice in NYC on September…
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UPDATE: Peter Kay Does It Again
A few months ago, SomethingBurning dared my colleague and friend Peter Kay (rocket scientist by day, John Cage/Brian Eno by night) to compose music for the last corner standing of Thomaston State Prison in Maine. Here’s a photo I took of the architectural ruins that inspired the challenge… Peter accepted the challenge and composed this.…
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Please Support Jamie Tworkowski’s “IMAlive” Initiative, Inspired By “To Write Love On Her Arms”
Today I got to hang out with a new hero of mine, Jamie Tworkowski. You know Jamie, right? He founded TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS, a non-profit movement “dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest…