LSD PLANTAE

(Full Screen Recommended, In Dark Room)

Ten-minute Sun Araw "At Delphi" official video immediately succeeds fifteen-minute "Impluvium" official video both directed by one Daniel Brantley, both making me scratch head and wonder how Sun Araw's music can hypnotize one into voluntarily staring dead into a computer screen for upwards of twenty-five total minutes.

Why is the above video so unbelievably psychedelic? It's just plants.

...Which brings me to my next argument: Why is THIS video so mundanely unpsychedelic? It's just body. And it goes on for so long, the viewer just waiting for something or some things to happen. And it does. And they do. Did you see that drugsniffer dog? It was there, I saw it. And those hikers? They were women. I saw them. So worth it. Ain't gona give away the big reveal though. I'm not some fucking fool over here. Sun Araw it for yourself.

P.S. How many dance moves do you think were birthed and named during this video shoot? Two dozen? Three dozen? I need an intern for this sort of research.

P.P.S. Sun Araw/Hype Williams collaborative cassette forthcoming.

Dedication 3

Paul Taylor Dance Company performed at the UMass Fine Arts Center last night and it was absolutely packed. First piece was called Arden Court (1981) and was very ballet-oriented. The music was jittery, and the dancers moved like nymphs, the incredible build of the male dancers highlighted in lifts and leaps. A single large rose was the backdrop as the dancers fought gravity nimbly. The second piece was Eventide (1997), an even more ballet-oriented piece, seemingly set in the Civil War South a.k.a. precisely reminded me of Gone With the Wind. This was a fairly boring affair, full of specificity and technique which went way over my head. The third piece was the clear favorite, Le Sacre Du Printemps (1980), a black, white, and grey exercise in brief, 2-D movement, with steps resembling the "Walk Like an Egyptian" video, Charlie Chaplin, or any early, early video game side-scrolling movement. The piece told some story of romance, the police, and a baby in red, with everyone eventually killing each other in the end until the mother goes nuts after her offspring is slain. Use of mirrors and illusions of mirrors were prominent, with much mimicking and symmetry. Totally reminded me of Spy Vs. Spy.

(Speaking of which, these are fly.)



So Lil' Wayne's Dedication 3 mixtape with DJ Drama just dropped so I'm giving it a listen. First track's a silly intro, second's a nearly seven minute track with endless DJ watermarks. Next track's ragging on Sarah Palin as well as yelling and laughing in general, followed by "Dick Pleaser," which is about, well, you guessed it (it's very filthy). Some dudes I'm not familiar with are all over song credits, Gudda Gudda, Willie the Kid, and Jae Millz. Up and up is Weezy's trajectory, with no sign of him ever slowing down. Great.

Lil' Wayne & DJ Drama - Dedication 3 Mixtape



Sesame Street Bandaids tonite - gentleman Max is sitting in and spinning some tunes so tune in, 91.1FM in the Valley or stream from wmua.org elsewhere. Giving away tickets for M83 + School of Seven Bells at the Pearl Street nightclub in Northampton Sunday so call in and claim em, first caller. Peep the preview here and listen for the M83 jam(s) on the show.


"Kim & Jessie"


"Graveyard Girl"


"Don't Save Us From The Flames"



Unrelated: Norwegian cutie pie Sondre Lerche will perform at the Iron Horse in Northampton Monday night with Sylvia Lewis.

Paul Taylor Dance Company

Part 1 of Paul Taylor Dance Company's Promethean Fire. Pretty beautiful stuff. His company is coming to the UMass Fine Arts Center this Thursday.



Also, I was thinking about Nirvana for some reason and wanted to hear the original "Where Did You Sleep Last Night," the last song from their MTV Unplugged record. Dude's Huddie William Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly (or Leadbelly). He had quite the prison record, though he learned songs there and it was where he was tracked down to record hundreds of songs on some ancient audio device. The song, as of 1981, had at least 160 variations from the initial "In The Pines"/"Black Girl"/Where Did You Sleep Last Night," which are each bound by the themes of shame, decapitation via train, and sexuality. Heavy.

Also here's the printed review of Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band.






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