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May 10, 2005

Infoverloaded

This doesn’t need me to point it out, but there are some pretty interesting thoughts buried in this James Murphy interview. Towards the end he gets right down to the deeply spooked soul of the Pitchfork / mp3 blog generation (and me), that being the unprecedented and ever-expanding pile of creative information available, and how to make/consume art in that context. Murphy barely gets past pointing at the problem, but he makes good points while doing so. Too much love, indeed.

Assuming you care, how do you all deal with this stuff? Do you focus on new music, and ignore the old? Or vice versa? Or do you tear your hair out trying to hear everything? Does checking mp3 blogs feel like staring at the void? And does that make you feel like a priveleged little fuck with no real problems?

I think about this stuff, probably too much. At one point I almost suggested the band I’m in adopt the name INFOVERLOAD in honor of this crisis/”crisis”, but decided it sounded too sci-fi. With that as our central premise we’d probably end up just sounding like LCD Soundsystem anyway. Which is not necesarily a diss.

Otherwise: I just got back from a deeply beautiful trip to San Francisco. I saw Gang of Four at the Filmore (AWESOME + my first time there), met all my girlfriend’s friends, hung out with Sonia, saw Shaun O’Dell’s amazing art up in SFMOMA (damn boy!), saw my dear old friend Emily Prince marry him while simultaneously turning 24 (my birthday was May 7th), and had mother’s day dinner with the fam. It was like this crazy this-is-your-life extended weekend, and I’m still catching my breath. More soon.

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September 1, 2004

My new friend, and my old friend Emily Prince’s fiance, Shaun O’Dell has an art exhibit opening up in Seattle at the James Harris Gallery in Seattle. Click. With art I tend to go for stuff that displays a high level of craft – lots of little lines and marks, details – so Shaun’s stuff is right up my alley. It just so happens that I will be in Seattle this coming weekend for Bumbershoot, which means I’ll get a chance to check out the exhibit as well, which is rad.

sean-odell-prophesy

Sean O'Dell - Prophesy Extraction at the Confluence of Kykuit, The Western Medicinal Compact and the Southern Decline of a Blind Consensual Chiming (detail)

ONE THING THOUGH: Shaun is in urgent need of a musician or musicians to play the opening, which is tomorrow. He’s friends with the Devendra Banhart (sp?) / Vetiver / Joanna Newsom weird folk posse in San Francisco (Emily actually created the artwork for Newsom’s album) so anything in that vein would be awesome. If you or someone you love would be up for this please e-mail me post haste, or however that saying goes.

Speaking of Joanna Newsom, this video is really nice, and so is the music.

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May 3, 2004

My friend from high school, Emily Prince is totally blowing up the art world right now. She’s got some work in this exhibition at the Whitney Biennial (her name is in the fucking NEW YORK TIMES, dude!) and she created the artwork for Joanna Newsom’s new CD on Drag City. It’s really, really exciting to see someone from little Auburn, CA impacting the culture, inspiring really – and I have a portrait she drew of me in high school on my living room wall! You go girl!

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Blast from the present!