morning web browse running over (as usual), need to get to work. will have to check these out later…
NEW N.A.S.A. (FEAT. DAVID BYRNE) VIDEO - “THE PEOPLE TREE”
NEW N.A.S.A. (FEAT. M.I.A., SANTOGOLD, SPANK ROCK & NICK ZINNER) - “WHACHADOIN”
NEW N.A.S.A. (FEAT. KANYE WEST, SANTOGOLD & LYKKE LI) - “GIFTED”
WHITE STRIPES GENTLY ROCK CONAN’S FINAL LATE NIGHT
Tim Hecker: An Imaginary Country
VNC | Venice Neighborhood Council (VNC)
A little while back I went for a drive where I was able to give myself over to the moment pretty effectively. Every light, every sound, every driver seemed more there. More a part of the whole. Every sensory input and every one of my movements a delicate piece of the great dance of life. During this time my mp3 player was on random and Radiohead’s Videotape came on. Up until that moment, it was probably my least favorite track on the amazing In Rainbows. It sounded to me too much like some sad dude leavin a somewhat lame suicide video to someone he loves. Too depressing and bleak. But I head read in a Rolling Stone article that Thom and producer Nigel Godrich considered it their favorite track on the album. This gave me pause and made me think I should probably give it another chance. A closer listen.
Now I think it may be my favorite track on the album. I get it now. There’s a part around the 1:30 minute mark where Thom’s voice starts echoing around itself and begins to sound like so many ghosts. It was then that the song hit me on another, deeper level. Not as some sad guy’s final goodbye video, but as a song awake to our entire world culture’s final goodbye, happening now. Our artifact to leave behind when we’re here no longer to tell our story.
I recently read an article in the LA Times reporting that Youtube had recently hit the 75 million video mark. And is growing by 200,000 videos a day. So much media. So many moments. So many lives. A videotape of humanity. Our desperate attempt to say to someone, anyone, this is who we are. And this is how we’re saying goodbye, not in monuments, but in media. We are our media. Someday perhaps, our media will be all thats left of us. All our hopes, all our dreams, all our triumphs, all our tragedies, all our love, entombed in red blue green. red blue green. One long day on Videotape.
“No matter what happens now. Shouldn’t be afraid. Because I know today has been the most perfect day I have ever seen.”
Of course my next phone would be called “Android.”
This is my kind of fucked-up.
Call and Response from wreckandsalvage on Vimeo.
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