Oh, Carlos.

Art.
Life.
Whatever.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →

  1. Au Revoir Simone (31)
  2. Björk (20)
  3. Nite Jewel (13)
  4. M.I.A. (8)
  5. Nellie McKay (5)

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Monica Bonvicini, Not For You (2006).

Monica Bonvicini, Not For You (2006).

Olafur Eliasson, Mikroskop (2010).

Olafur Eliasson, Mikroskop (2010).

There’s little in taking or giving,
There’s little in water or wine;
This living, this living, this living
Was never a project of mine.
Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is
The gain of the one at the top,
For art is a form of catharsis,
And love is a permanent flop,
And work is the province of cattle,
And rest’s for a clam in a shell,
So I’m thinking of throwing the battle-
Would you kindly direct me to hell?

[ Dorothy Parker ]

Bill Murray on LA vs NYC →

No, no, no. Never. It just never took. It’s like the first day you check into a hotel in L.A. there’s a message under your door. The second day, there’s eleven messages under your door. The third day, there’s thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy messages. And I realized that they just want fresh blood. They. Just. Want. Fresh. Blood. You gotta get the hell out of there. And you really feel, if you live in New York, that you’re three hours ahead of them—I mean that literally. It’s like, Oh man, we gotta help these people! And the longer you stay there, the less ahead of them you get, and then you’re one of them. No way, man. Not for me.”

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18) →

  1. Frankie Rose and THE OUTS (27)
  2. Au Revoir Simone (14)
  3. Best Coast (13)
  4. M.I.A. (12)
  5. Neon Indian (12)

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Panda Bear.

Panda Bear.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11) →

  1. M.I.A. (54)
  2. Dirty Projectors + Bjork (7)
  3. Au Revoir Simone (4)
  4. Panda Bear (2)
  5. Arrested Development (1)

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Compose compose beds. Wives of great men rest tranquil. Come go stay philip philip.

— Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily.

Carl Andre, Sunday Mass Grand Procession (1975).

Carl Andre, Sunday Mass Grand Procession (1975).

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-4) →

  1. Björk (9)
  2. M.I.A. (7)
  3. Joanna Newsom (5)
  4. Sleigh Bells (5)
  5. Matmos (4)

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27) →

  1. The Mantles (8)
  2. Joanna Newsom (6)
  3. Wavves (4)
  4. White Denim (3)
  5. Jacuzzi Boys (1)

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-13) →

  1. Mulatu Astatke and his Ethiopian Quintet (4)
  2. cults (3)
  3. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti (1)
  4. Sven Libaek (1)
  5. Mark Mothersbaugh (1)

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