Advent Sleep has arrived.
Yes, indeedy. Airplay on all seven continents just wasn’t quite enough. We had to conquer another frontier: You can now download your very own copy of Vision in Black from the iTunes Music Store. Rock!
Don’t have iTunes? Well, what are you waiting for, fool?! It’s free! Go download it now. Then you’ll be able to access the afforementioned Vision in Black as well as the Advent Sleep remix of Anita Haxsaw’s “Guardian Angel” and the AS remix of “Return (Coming Home)” for Crüxshadows.
When I was growing up, our family didn’t have cable. This did not prevent me from seeing my fair share of that mind-blowing, brand-new network, MTV. It looked like nothing I had ever seen before — something out of my deepest and most intriguing nightmares. And the part that fascinated me most about MTV wasn’t the videos (which were pretty bad, generally), but the idents, those blips of bizzaro animation the network would throw in to get the top of the hour to line up properly and identify themselves as the weirdest cool thing on cable.
I suppose, in a way, MTV is responsible for me being where I am today. Seeing those IDs consistently inspired a dull ache in my belly, a longing to do something that obscenely cool — that freaky moonwalk, the TV as hood ornament, the meaty logo — not to mention “Liquid Television.” All that stuff got inside me somehow. And is still trying to get out.
I ramble. But all this was triggered by a memoir I found this morning, written by Candy Kugel, the animator who launched the whole thing when she did the MTV “Moonwalk” ID. Thanks Candy, it’s all your fault.
Slate has a nifty article about the visual end of the blog world.
My new favorite blog this week: quarlo.com. Yum!
On a completely unrelated note, Is it just me or is the word “blogosphere” the biggest load of pretentious hooey?
some cause for alarm
my front wheel has dug in deep
damn my SPDs
Oh. My. Gawd.
I am, at this very moment, very deeply in awe. You see, I was poking about the previously mentioned ArtBots web site, checking out the exhibitors, when I discovered the page about LEMUR. Way down at the bottom, you’ll see links for movies of LEMUR founder Eric Singer’s GuitarBot. You must watch these movies.
Add this to my persistently itchy curiosity about 50 Drones and you can bet your sweet ass I’ll be there!