gargoyle drumming

smattering of scatterings

I’m just busy busy busy. Oy. But some quick things.

I’ve been hearing a lot of this Thao Nguyen, a local woman, and her band, but hadn’t actually heard any. Then I’m driving to Whole Foods Saturday and catch the tail end of a Studio 360 feature on her, and they play a little music, and oh man I know I have to hear more. Unfortunately she’s not on eMusic, and I’m pretty much only buying music on eMusic these days, plus I’m a little short on the moolah. But I want to hear more. Listen to the feature at Studio 360’s website. (And who’s this Jesse Dukes? He’s in my city reporting on my artists. Not like I’m doing any of that, but I’m already very possessive of my potential freelance subjects, even the ones I’m not doing anything about (that is, nearly all of them).)

That is a sexy, sexy picture on Thao’s website. Speaking of sexy: Marion Cotillard. Whew. I’m convinced that America cannot allow this encroachment of French actresses on our cinematic turf. Because, if we do, they will dominate. Or, if there is any justice in the world, they should. France has a long history of actresses who are effortless scenery-chewers. Moreau, Signoret, Bardot and so forth. They will eat our young, stick-proportioned actresses for lunch. Only Scarlett Johansson may be equipped to save us. She needs to be drafted into service.

The more I don’t listen to the Postal Service, and then hear them on ads and mix CDs, the more I like them. That’s a compliment, really.

Radio Lab’s Jad Abumrad: “More porn composers should utilize the woodblock” (from here).

I saw Idlewild the other night. One reviewer apparently called it “neither fish nor fowl,” which I think is pretty accurate. It was mostly unlike anything I’ve seen, but worked primarily as straight-up entertainment and not so much on a deeper level. I guess most musicals are like that, though, aren’t they? So I probably shouldn’t have expected more. Three Netflix stars out of five.

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