November 22, 2004
LiVE SMiLE
KCRW is broadcasting the entirety of Brian Wilson and his band playing
SMiLE, live at Carnegie Hall, this Thursday from 2-4PM Pacific Time, with a repeat sometime Friday. They stream at www.kcrw.org.
All should listen to the won-won-wonderful!
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...which seems in perfect context, in my gaudy apartment complex
There was a story today on
All Things Considered about how U2 and other bands are exploring newer, alternative ways of distributing their music (once again demonstrating that as in so many ways, here Prince was way ahead of his time). The reporter separately mentioned Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service as groups benefitting from alternative marketing, without mentioning that Ben Gibbard and his boy voice fronts both of them.
So I've championed The Postal Service - the duo, not the delivery enterprise - for a looong time now, and it was amusing to learned that these guys were actually served a cease and desist order by the United States Postal Service - as though *anybody* would confuse the two and drop off their power bill at Tower Records. In any case, weep not. There's no death cab on the way for the Service.
They've cut a deal.
So the USPS - the Post Office y'all - is now going to feature Postal Service music on their website and in their ads and promote Postal Service music along with stamps, packing peanuts, and other Post-Moderne doodads. Meanwhile, Postal Service enjoys innovation free of litigation. Let's hear it for synergistic distribution.
And so I hereby announce the formation of two new music projects called FedEx and Microsoft. FedEx will rock hard and fast and will give you a pick up, and Microsoft will suck and release innovative music once every 15 years. FedEx and Microsoft will fill in the gaps left in my schedule by the occasional hiatus of my full-time band the 84 Olympics. And with no deal on the way my classic band, K-Mart, is officially disbanding.
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Urbane Suburban Mundanity, My Love
It was a gorgeous fall day in Santa Clara, and I took some pictures as I strolled to the cable office this morning.
I love that Santa Clara is a town where someone can actually say, "Yeah, I live the house at the corner where Chromite meets Borax."
Click on the pictures above for more pretty blueness.
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