Entries from July 2009 ↓
Benjamin Parzybok —
July 28th, 2009 — And so it is., civilization, technology is so awesome, the future
There’s an excellent post over at Fake Steve Jobs about what, I expect, we all consciously or instinctively know about our culture right now. Fake Steve’s rant is inspired by this great comparison of the fears of Aldous Huxley vs George Orwell in comic form, the words of which were taken from the book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Stuart McMillen, which will definitely be going on my must-read list.
Brave New World is still one of the most amazing books I’ve ever read.
I recently finished Feed by M.T. Anderson, which was an incredibly adept, modern take on Brave New World and highly recommended.
Now then, I’m off to play Risk on my iPhone. And did I mention it’s efffking hot here?
WTF? I live in Portland! The city will drown in a sea of heat wave.
Levin Schersvanaskitty —
July 8th, 2009 — levin, movies
The people of Edmonton, Canada, voting in the Bike Shorts Film Festival, chose Levin’s Bicycle as their favorite film!:
After a successful evening in Edmonton the People chose a movie by Levin Schersvanaskitty.
Read the full post: Bike Shorts Film Festival
I am so happy and Edmonton, I love you too! You can watch our film here:
Levin’s Bicycle
Benjamin Parzybok —
July 8th, 2009 — Uncategorized
A few years ago a handsome, charming young couple from North Carolina answered a craigslist ad we posted for a house sitter – something about: “must love chickens and cats, like to read, etc”. We were on an east coast family tour and decided to trust the internets to take care of our house.
Theirs was one of the many responses to the craigslist ad, but they answered most charmingly and explained they were going to play around in Portland for a few weeks and maybe play a gig or two, and yes, they loved chickens.
Beth and Phil turned out to be The Bowerbirds – and they’ve since become one of my favorite bands, as well as the favorite band of many others, I imagine, as they’ve done quite well for themselves.
Last I’d heard they were building a log cabin – here’s Beth flexing her impressive, accordion-playing muscles:
And Yesterday they released a new album: Upper Air
Nice work!
See The Bowerbirds here: http://bowerbirds.org or check out their music on iTunes
