NLDS: Game Two.
The guys from Bavco were nice enough to take me to my second Dodger game while in LA. This time it came with the added bonus of meeting Alyssa Milano and sitting four rows back at a Divisional Series playoff game. Mentioning the baseball game and the amazing seats should of been first, but c’mon…it’s Alyssa Milano.
Check out more photos from the nail bitter that was game two and video of Slash performing the National Anthem just after the jump.
The Orpheum Theatre.
Last night in Los Angeles, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke debuted his new band with at L.A.’s Orpheum Theatre. Backed by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea (who did, in fact, keep his shirt on), Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Beck/R.E.M. drummer Joey Waronker, and percussionist/multi-instrumentalist Mauro Refosco of Forro in the Dark, Yorke performed his 2006 solo album The Eraser in its entirety. For the encore, Yorke premiered three new songs completely solo: “Open the Floodgates”, “Lotus Flower” and “Super Collider”. The band then returned for takes on the Radiohead Com Lag EP track “Paperbag Writer”, which Thom dedicated to Colin Greenwood (who was in the crowd and happen to run into my dad and myself before the show in the bat), another new track “Judge, Jury, Executioner” and finished with the new 12″ tracks “The Hollow Earth” and “Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses”.
Q. Tip + Norah.
Two of my favorite voices together on the same track…and it makes an even better video.
Alive.
I have about 30 posts saved up… They will be live soon. Promise.
Gorenje Collection.
Gorenje collection designed by Karim Rashid is a minimal fusion of functionality, technology, interactivity, and purity. The full length handle is both the visual and the interaction focal point of the collection; a quality enhanced by the integrated, customizable colored lighting and elegant graphic treatment. Gorenje is the first home appliance manufacturer to offer a solution that allows the users to change the color of their oven or refrigerator exterior. The vertical LED light stripe allows several color versions, providing the option to adjust the appearance of the appliance to one’s current mood, or indeed one’s lifestyle.
Cody ChestnuTT.
It’s been too long. I’ve truly missed my man Cody ChestnuTT, but now he’s back! Please continue to perform CC. Don’t disappear any more.
Above is his performance this year at Sunset Junction in Silverlake, performing all new material.
Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.
Kingdom of the unreal but also a higher state of being, ultimately free of the limitations of the material world through the agency of science, technology, and imagination.
The Great Escape.
Album Of The Week.
Ok… I know I have been slacking hardcore on posting, but life has been busy since returning to the states. But here is my promise to continue my posts of sharing travel, art and music to the masses. With that I introduce my new album of the week…Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion.
Now I can’t lie, I’m a little bit late on this one considering it was released way back in January, but according to my iTunes I picked up this piece of art back in late May. Nine albums into their career, and Animal Collective have finally struck gold. Not that they struggled to turn up riches before: on the contrary, their career has been pretty fruitful. But Merriweather Post Pavilion finds the group–here represented by three of their four members, Avey Tare, Panda Bear, and Geologist–ditching the gloopy guitars of Strawberry Jam, enlisting a new collaborator (Ben Allen, a US hip-hop engineer who worked on a personal favorite of mine Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy”, who supplies pleasingly thick crests of bass) and embracing a new, sunny dancefloor bounce that owes little to chemical abandon and everything to the warm rush of a natural high.
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Take a minute and enjoy a track stating during the ongoing economic meltdown, “I don’t need to seem like I care about material things like social status/ I just want four walls and adobe slabs for my girls!”
Side Note: How great is that album cover!
Sandpeople.
As many of you know I talk openly about my interests on this blog and music is generally the number one topic after traveling. From Album’s of the Week to new music videos I find intriguing it all ends up here and when I can mix posts about my friends/family and music that makes it even better. Above is the video for “Hate Aside” from the Sandpeople, a large hip hop group from Portland, Oregon that boasts ten members (one being a good childhood friend). Now if you’re from the City of Roses you’ll the North Portland landscape/bridges just as much as I did. This video is also currently in the MTVU: Vote For Your Favorite Freshmen Video contest, so head over there and drop a vote off for the guys and show some PDX Love.
But: The Dodgers??