February 2004

the physics of running, and dance music.

February 28, 2004

Every other day or so I run laps (this is how I attempt to amuse myself these days) while listening to a different album. I’ve been experimenting with albums that will cause the largest amount of cognitive interference and physical resistance with the act of running, which by nature (also physics!) is a forward-vector motion. [...]

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haha.

February 28, 2004

Jess: g, when i plunk down 8 bucks for a copy of the wire i expect more than one review from you Geeta: haha i’m sorry…i had to plunk down 8 bucks also! Jess: hahaha Geeta: oh was that my fahey book review? Geeta: the name of his 2000 anthology was ‘how bluegrass music destroyed [...]

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the freelance mentalists.

February 28, 2004

Hooray! Scott Seward has started a blog, with Matt Cibula, here. I don’t know Matt as well as Scott, but here are a few reasons why I love Scott: here, here, and here.

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friday.

February 28, 2004

New obsession, beginning with tonight’s kung-fu movie explosion: Free Fridays at the American Museum of the Moving Image. You know you’re psyched.

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voluminfo.

February 26, 2004

People have been emailing me about this for some reason, so I figured I’d mention that I was in Other Music today and they had just gotten the first batch of tickets ($16) for the much-hyped Kompakt vs Rephlex night at Volume. Kompakt’s in the big room; Rephlex is in the small room. Miss Kittin [...]

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i.

February 26, 2004

Just heard the new Magnetic Fields record i and here are my first (very) rough thoughts: 1) it’s pretty good but not as good as [insert prior record here] 2) uugh it’s too ‘unplugged’! it’s even more acoustic-instrument-heavy than ’69′, but the songs don’t stick to the brainpan as strongly 3) the solitary synthpop-sounding track [...]

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finish.

February 26, 2004

The words “free whiskey tasting event” are sweet, sweet words.

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in stereo.

February 24, 2004

My latest piece for the Village Voice — on the new Stereolab album — is out this week: Ablaze at All Angles: Stereolab’s Margerine Eclipse Let me know what you think! I’m currently pleased as punch because I unearthed both discs of ‘Aluminum Tunes’ — which I hadn’t gotten to listen to in years cuz [...]

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animal kollektiv.

February 23, 2004

Was all set to write about the phenomenal Animal Collective show I saw on Saturday, but then I saw that Andy already wrote it up on his blog, and put what I was thinking into better words than I could have. So go read that instead! I will say this — they made Numbers’ jittery [...]

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parody xxtreme

February 23, 2004

Press sheets are a pretty reliable source of cheap amusement when I’m feeling a little blue. Today’s stab at relentless hyperbole was the best in recent history, though — the press release with the new Deerhoof record. “On the surface this is an album for the mp3 generation: 11 hit singles, no two alike, with [...]

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