Set to Sea p. 45

on December 18, 2009

If you’ve ever wondered what American-style English sounds like to non-speakers – the actual sound and flow of it, without the content – this Italian “pop song” is probably as close as you’re going to get without some sort of terrible brain trauma. Also, the song is pretty great, it wouldn’t sound out of place on that “Nuggets” anthology.

Quiet times around here. Eleanor’s working hard getting pieces together for a joint Giant Robot art show she’s doing in January. I’m plugging away on Set to Sea. We’ve been drinking lots of hot toddys in these cold and rainy days.

Yeesh, Christmas is sneaking up on me fast. Time to declare war on this here Christmas.

Currently reading: To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
Currently listening: Fear and Whiskey (Mekons)/The Age of Faith (Will Durant audiobook)

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Set to Sea p. 44

on December 16, 2009

I’m going to post up S2S three times a week for a while, since I’ve missed so many days recently.

The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook

Secret Science Alliance may be sold out on Amazon right now (they’re bringing out a 2nd printing, but it probably wn’t hit stores till January) but if you need it for Christmas and have a spare $161.84, this guy can hit you up on Ebay! And holy crap, someone on Amazon’s trying to get $130.05 for a used copy! Who are these people?

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Deathly Pale Ale

on December 15, 2009
Deathly Pale Ale

A little late, from this past Halloween. Before we went on our parade, we had some fun drawing labels for this pale ale I had just brewed. I wanted to document them before I scraped them off the bottles. Most of these were drawn by David Mack, Aaron Fu, or the lovely Eleanor Davis.

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Set to Sea p. 43

on December 14, 2009

My cell phone is broken, and now I’m trying to decide its fate. I barely use this thing a couple of times a week. Maybe one of those pay as you go phones? Do you get to keep your number with those?

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Set to Sea p. 42

on November 30, 2009

A week or two back I was reading the AV Club’s “Best Music of the Decade” list and it brought on the dismaying notion that maybe there had been no good music for the last decade! But I couldn’t believe that, so I sorted through my music “library” and made a list of the 25 albums I enjoyed the most these last ten years, in rough order:

25. Joanna Newsom – Ys
24. The Black Mages (self-titled)
23. New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
22. The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
21. The Blow – Paper Television
20. The Knife – Deep Cuts
19. Jay-Z – The Blueprint
18. MIA – Arular
17. Morrissey – You Are the Quarry
16. Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
15. Outkast – Stankonia
14. The Advantage – Elf Titled
13. Viktor Vaughn – Vaudeville Villain
12. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
11. Katamari Fortissimo Damacy
10. The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?
9. Hot Chip – Made in the Dark
8. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Greatest Palace Music
7. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
6. The Decemberists – Picaresque
5. Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala
4. The White Stripes – Elephant
3. Deltron 3030 (self-titled)
2. Of Montreal – The Sunlandic Twins
1. Madvillian – Madvillainy

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