My friend Jon ran this old R.E.M. video on his site, Phawker, today. And man does it takes me back. He posted it in connection with a piece he linked out to about the 25th anniversary of Fables of the Reconstruction. I’m having trouble believing that I’m actually old enough to remember an album that old. In my mind, a 25-year-old album is a Beatles or Stones record, not something that I owned on cassette in high school.
Aside from this song, which is now and probably will remain one my favorite R.E.M. tunes, and maybe “Can’t Get There From Here,” I never cared much for this album.
Life’s Rich Pageant was the one that I really obsessed on for months when it came out. That might’ve had something to do with the fact that it was like one of maybe five CDs I owned at the time.
Back then I used watch this video and the one for “Fall On Me” over and over again (I used to tape them off of MTV), trying to extract something deep from them. Now they seem like crappy first year film student projects.
I can’t for the life of me fathom why a major news network would waste another second on Michael Brown, the fraudulent washed-up stooge that the Bush administration installed as the head of FEMA. He’s the same guy who botched emergency response to Hurricane Katrina. And now he has the nerve to come out criticizing the Obama administration’s response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
For whatever reason, the news folk have been batting this story around for the past 24 hours, and frankly I think it has about as much legitimacy as Brown’s phony resume.
I tell you what Brownie, next time we need a quote about Arabian horses, you’ll be at the top of the list of contacts. But when it comes to anything remotely related to national disasters, I beleive your record speaks for itself.
We had never done a newscast with guests before. So we were a little nervous that they wouldn’t get us, or worse be offended. But they were both charming and wonderful. They said as long as we didn’t criticize Brian Tierney or the newspapers (this was in the run-up to the bankruptcy auction), it was anything goes. We all had a good time having them riff with A.P. to make this episode.
Art Phag is an arts (duh) focused program that I help make with the Scrapple.TV folks. Believe me, I’m not crazy about the name. I wanted to call it Phartsy. Nonetheless, its a fun way to learn more about making video and keep in touch with Philly’s arts community.
In this episode, I was lucky enough to interview New York artist Duke Riley. He contributed “Reclaiming the Lost Kingdom of Laird,” to Philagrafika 2010.
In this video, which is essentially where I cut my Final Cut teeth, Joe Walker (of Breakfast at Sulimays fame) interviews DJ/producer extraordinaire, RJD2. Enjoy.
I know, it’s like I’ve lived under a rock for the past 10-or-how-many years, but I know nothing of this Ben Folds fellow. However, after seeing this video, I’m certain that he’s a cool cat.
I had my ass handed to me last Saturday at the Oyster House during their first annual oyster shucking contest.
I was confident going into it, but quickly realized my shucking skills are rusty. Though trounced in the competition, it was still a fun afternoon of drinking beer and eating oysters.
