Check out our spruced up website designed by @yewknee at https://t.co/F605HqvfMb and get ready for @BillandTed3 and stream our past interviews with Bill and Ted luminaries like Chris Matheson, @aestoch13, @TerryCamilleri, @dnewmanm5 and more!
Great read on the dichotomy between Bandcamp and Spotify and it nicely tees up a conversation around an Indieweb-based future for bands. ???? https://t.co/wxrSv5gQxv
I've been posting about all of the videos from the Meadownoise album Threeve for the past twelve weeks and today that cycle comes to an end with the release of For Zero Donelson. The track is the midway point of the album and serves as an ominous bridge to the back half of. If there was an LP, this would surely end side one.
I can't stress enough how engaging I find this video. It's one take of a painfully slow grin from our subject (Matthew Glassmeyer, Meadownoise himself). The control to smile this slowly is beyond my comprehension but he manages to take it through all of the stages of subtlety and end up in a wildly grimacing place. In my opinion, it's wild.
I hope to remind you about Threeve again in the future but, for now, do yourself a favor and watch the entire record, it's a treat.
is there a universe where Dan Connor and Claire Hanks Huxtable could meet and fall in love and I could watch the two tv families that raised me in peace?
You Gotta Eat - during a flight delay in 2006, Daniel Box and I filmed this stupid Checker's commercial. I quote it often so I'm dredging it up from the archives.
@yewknee If you say "blockchain" three times in the bathroom mirror, a guy in a Patagonia vest will appear and bore you to death by monologuing about cryptocurrency
I recorded about three hours of easy listening and classical music a couple Saturdays ago off AM radio and put it up for some chill out listening. https://t.co/GYg8eWuRM3
For the past few weeks ten weeks or so, I've been sharing Meadownoise videos as part of promotion for his newest release, Threeve. There are only two videos left and they may be my favorites among the bunch. It's tough to say that because I think there is a little something wonderful in all of them but when an artist is able to make something perfectly simple and it's still incredibly engaging; I'm over the moon.
"Lyk Wool" is a prime example of that. On paper, there's nothing to it. A hand gestures through a series of movements for 2 minutes but in that short span of time it covers a lot of ground. There are jokes and sentiments and real communication, without saying anything at all. For me, it's hard to look away.
The song is a b-side from the Threeve album and probably one of the more challenging of the bunch musically. It's a bit of droning ambience mixed with some field recording observations and Glassmeyer's signature falsetto floating over top; weaving some enigmatic poetry. That's not a negative tho, I find the seemingly stream of consciousness lyrics engaging; especially when he remarks that "clear is his favorite color."
I'll give a longer wrapup about Meadownoise in the coming weeks but I hope you'll spend some time with these videos; they are quite rewarding.
I love my wife very much, but over the past few weeks she has been making a long furby for a friend's birthday and it has made living here very uncomfortable https://t.co/N5FbTEewb5
Ran across this hacking gif and it serves as a nice reminder that maybe it's time to rekindle that tradition of watching Hackers every five years. Couldn't hurt.
On to your distractions. Let's start with some small morsels and drag you into longform time waster.
Antoine Dodson Realty - the "hide your kids, hide your wife" guy is here to pitch you real estate! Honestly, just feels good to see him doing well.
500lb Gingerbread Winchester Mystery House - look, I don't expect you to watch this whole thing but if someone makes a 500lb gingerbread house in the form of the Winchester Mystery House and it's historically accurate, respect should be paid.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things - not your typical absurd distraction video but a new Charlie Kaufman movie is always reason to celebrate. Especially when it looks this good.
Only in New York #4 - there are many of these and I can't recommend enough watching every single one.
Stay safe out there. Wear a dang mask. Don't be an idiot.
My buddy J. McVay recently launched Stereoactive Media, an Austin based project incubator for all sorts of media projects. J has been involved with the NYC music scene for some 20 years as he ran Fort Useless and StereoactiveNYC; a media undertaking in itself. Oh, and he serves as the Chief Content Officer over at BTR Today, another podcast, music, video undertaking on its own. All that is to say, the man has plenty of experience working in this realm and I'm excited to see what comes of it.
The first project launched today in the form of The Subtle Incline, a compilation and collaboration album from a host of talented bands.
A compilation album of new artists is intriguing in and of itself but 100% of proceeds from the release will go to support The Beat Shop, a music production studio that helps students explore songwriting and recording. A good project that also does good. Win win.
Stereoactive Media is off to a good start and I suggest following them for future updates.
