Wear what you dig.

Bright Lights, Big City

NYTimes.com you are quite a guy. Thanks for the INTV with Jay McInerney.


I recently finished Bright Lights, Big City. Jay will be glad to know it worked. I had to consider the story and its characters in relation to my life. As someone who chose NYC as the place to achieve my definition of status, I look at where I am and what I have and wonder what it's supposed to add up to. Toward what purpose am I angling to exploit the opportunities that NYC is meant to represent? Would I be better off chilling in Kansas, glorifying the family name by shepherding my genetic material into Little League and tending the tomato garden with my mother on weekends? Is all this New Yorky competitive striving just a narcissistic gang bang starring me as the aspirant record breaker, lubricating the proceedings with a steady flow of nightlife and brunches to smooth out all that annoying humping? "This is my New York Dream!!!"

something cool

biting from Chell's blog but this here....I don't know if it truly is the "coolest" thing I've seen in a while, but it feels like the "coolest". there's something (pardon my language) zeitgeist-y going on there.

A.R.E. Weapons "F What You Like" from THE FEAR on Vimeo.

It reminds me a little of this.

dead horses, but was tooling around and found myself face to face with a blatant example of something I've mentioned in this space before...read on, reader. beware the lengthy backstory.

twas back in the day and we were trying to book MGMT for an online music show. It wasn't me that had their manager's number but nonetheless they ask us, "why should we be on your show? you're not that big." and right they were. Soon after they were playing Letterman, and I remember seeing it thinking "there's no way we're getting MGMT." it feels like a long time before "Kids" was being played in clubs alongside "Day And Night and "Just Dance". Anyway compare the Letterman performance to the one from Later with Jules Allison.



I was trying to watch intently and got bored. And I like the song. And this is way better.

Simulacra

I heard this song, instantly liked it and assumed it was recorded in the early 90s by a day glo leotard wearing sex-machine R&B singer (black of course) who managed to fly under my radar all these years. I thought he and some sassy Puerto Rican chica from the block made a song in the vain of I Got A Man, Excuse Me Miss, and Knockin Boots. Should I be impressed or dismayed that it was actually made by two Danish dudes (white of course) in 2006?

Junior Senior - Can I Get Get Get


I guess I should be thankful they like aping good shit. (note: I couldn't find "Excuse me miss"..."No I'm not havin it"..."Well excuse me miss"..."no I'm not havin it" anywhere on the internet. What??? Who's that damn song by? Anybody? It's even referenced by Positive K, an homage to precursor.)

Positive K - I Got A Man


Candyman - Knockin Boots

Posterity.

It's a Band-laden visual summary of my 2009 SXSW.


SXSW 2009: Rawful Montage from Sam Winter on Vimeo.

I had this detailed (for me) itenerary of who I wanted to see and shoot. If I were Michael Keaton from Multiplicity I could have seen 3.5 times as many bands, while maintaining regular eating and sleeping habits.

Simple pleasures, but my favorite part is when dude pours beer into the Team Robespierre snare drum, creating the percussion-spritz a la the g.d. Blue Man Group.

Levels

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Sadly it's been 2 weeks and I'm just getting around to posting from my trip to SXSW '09. Instead of knocking out videos I been training for super marathons and visualizing swimming the English Channel round the clock.....but recently, in a borderline obsessive fit of editing I chewed up and spit out this live perf by The Thermals. The almost-not-sloppy result is my effort to make my one camera look like 4 or 5 cameras.

The Thermals - Pillar Of Salt (live @ SXSW 2009) from Sam Winter on Vimeo.