I witnessed wisdom tonight. The DC Independent Film Festival had its opening ceremony tonight, and although I couldn’t stay for the entire evening, I did manage to a catch a show put on by a 77 year old creative. It was inspiring. The man has been around for so long how could he not have [...]
Music Monday #09 – Los Campesinos!
“You! Me! Dancing!” on Hold On Now, Youngster by Los Campesinos! (2008) Busy Week.
Stunningly Beautiful Professor Forges New Teaching Method
(AP) –Washington DC — Local professor Miriam Hayes is ecstatic. Despite statistics highlighting a decline in academic performance throughout the United States, Miriam Hayes’ class is excelling. The thirty-four year old professor recently obtained a PhD in educational instruction from Towson University and is responsible for pioneering a new teaching method rapidly catching on across [...]
Dexterous Metacarpal Extraordinaire
Caution. This may be you. If you are a serial-texter, that is. You know who you are. When convenience isn’t an issue, and neither is availability, you still desire to degrade the traditional transmittal of information, also known as speaking, into an absurd mixture of emoticons, short-cut words lacking vowels, and abbreviations. Perhaps it is [...]
Music Monday #08 – Coconut Records
“Minding My Own Business” on Nighttiming by Coconut Records (2007) Busy Week.
Music Monday #07 – Thao
The capricious and reflective articulations of Thao are introduced with a backdrop of subdued beatboxing, simplistic percussion, and a guitar that continually drops piercing high to low accents. Initially I pictured the Mario Brothers throwing hammers, but this was quickly replaced with a frustrated woman carrying a bag of hammers. Around 1:00 the lyrical intensity [...]