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March 15, 2006
Hot House 5 for March
Jamie Gaughran-Perez
 | I stumbled on Astronaut Jesus over at Kid Robot (store for toys by graffiti kids that I shouldn’t be spending my money on when I have my own kid to feed). Tis awesome. Then I did a little digging and found that DOMA is a group of [sic] Argentines that started out in the Buenos Aires street art scene in the late 90s and branched out from there. No, doesn’t mean shit to me either. Check out their stuff cuz it’s all kindsa hot. |
The other day I was at an ATM at an obscenely early hour and was faced with a new option when entering my pin. The regular “OK” or skip directly to Fast Cash $20. My whole transaction reduced to a 4-digit entry + 1 button pressed. We love the creativity that looks at a simple everyday thing and finds a way to save seconds here, wasted energy there. For real, this development will give back hundreds of thousands of combined hours across lives. Time that can be used to sit on hold while waiting to plead with the bank for an extension to your credit line. Whoever came up with this, you are a genius. |  |
 | There is no better panacea for writer’s block or a mental rut. The Oulipo are (to be way reductive) a group who use rules and constraints to unlock / access new creativity. Poetic formalism on crack, where crack is less harmful. See “A Void” by Perec -- a novel written without the letter e in French, and then translated to English still without e). One fave from the Compendium: n+7 -- replace words in a work with the words that come 7 later in the dictionary. Imagine what happens if The Sailor's Illustrated Dictionary: Full Explanations of more than 8,500 Terms and Phrases Used by Sailors, Boaters, and Seamen is your dictionary… Get it over at Small Press Distribution (or your bookseller of choice) |
Sarah White played in one of the great Charlottesville 1995 bands, Miracle Penny – and then moved out to San Francisco. From there she put out a couple of solo albums on Jagjaguwar – one of which was Bluebird (2000). This song, Crazy T, will stir up all that early-to-mid twenties nostalgia that’s buried deep inside (or will be). At least it’s beautiful to me. Get the album Check out some of her other stuff for free What she’s up to now |  |
 | As the Wu-Tang so presciently stated on their classic 1993 track Clan in Da Front – [Villanova] Killa Beez, we on a swarm! Sure, Villanova is the Wildcats but nobody gets caught up in Nostradamus’ details. Four little guys running their asses all over the court. Shit, they’ll put a 5-guard team out on the floor. Big men? Whodat? And that’s why we picked them as the winner in our Fan the Flames Control Group. |
Posted by Rock Heals at March 15, 2006 12:00 AM
