in the tea room…
along the back wall
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Muddy Waters – You’re Gonna Miss Me (When I’m Dead and Gone)
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in the fantasy tea room juke box
this morning…
music…
for some reason i got on a Mick Jagger Solo kick…
I think it’s because this song was stuck in my head…
But i couldn’t think of the name of it…
Somehow though, listening to solo Jagger lead me to this gem…
saturday morning…. sharing.
yesterday i cashed in a $40.00 gift card for Amazon…
I actually spent $44.00 and change.
I bought three things… two movies and some music.
Look At What The Light Did Now
and White Fence Is Growing Faith
Which is what i am listening too as i write this. that and my baby’s hollers – she is hollering hollers of enthusiasm because she is dancing and she likes the music, so do i… i can’t say that it is fool proof, but generally the recommendation of a 1 year olds wiggling bottom is a a pretty good gauge for what is good music.
Before I remembered that i had a new record to listen to I listened to two songs, Walk With Me by Damien Jurado and Yulunga by Dead Can Dance.
The LCD Soundsystem movie is great. I watched the first half on the treadmill – and then started it over last night on the ipad, with headphones, while rocking the baby in the middle of the night.
I have not watched the Feist movie yet. It is coming in the mail… hard copy… so 20th century. I am excited to have a tactile box.
LCD Soundsystem and Feist are two of my favorite artists… i have not been able to find much fault with anything either of them has done.
I have turned on the coffee machine, but i have not had any coffee yet today, or tea…
I will have coffee first, and tea later… The coffee will be a Newman’s Kcup…
The tea will be either some jasmin pearls from J-Tea or some Earl Grey from Tazo…
I could make chai… but i probably wont…
Today is National Record Store Day. I will go buy some records. I will go to Phat Kat…
And probably Mothers Records… possibly Orange Records – but it opens a bit later, and i am afraid it will be crowded, and it doesn’t open until 11:00 AM – I have to go out a little earlier than that.
I have not spent a lot of money on records in the last few years… it has not been a financial priority… I will not spend a lot today… but some…
often on saturday mornings we have donuts… but, in my mind since we went out for cheeseburgers last night we should show restraint this morning and have eggs and toast, or cereal, or leftover pork carnitas…
thats all for now… the baby wants to play, and i need my coffee…
location inspiration
i love tea.
i have a dream to have a tea room.
a place to share tea with people. to share music and art and conversation.
a place devoted to those things, and to experimentation, and culture.
three places that have inspired this dream in me.
october: halloween music pick 1
Longboard Girls Crew
This is my latest on line fascination…
Longboard Girls Crew
I love showing the vids to my daughter Maya, who is totally into skateboarding – it is nice to see girls skating who have great flair, and its all about the skating – and the style, not a bunch of “extreme” or glamour model bikini crap… just chicks skating – brilliant.
pj harvey’s new album
on the flight to singapore, i listened to the newest gomez album, which was very, very good. i also listened to the new pj harvey album, ‘let england shake’. i listened to it twice all the way through, and i listened to a handful of the songs (all and everyone, england, in the dark places, written on the forehead), several times. buy this album. buy it now. it is brilliant. i haven’t been as moved by a whole album as i was by this one in a very, very long time. this album made me cry. it is dark and ethereal and mysterious and mournful and subversive. it is a lament. it sounds like long lost music that she found in an old chest in a dusty attic and has brought to light, to life. it’s very english. i can’t say enough good about this album. i’m not going to talk to any of you again until you own it. thinking about the songs on this album is giving me goosebumps. thinking about what else i can say in support of this album’s brilliance is giving me goosebumps. you don’t need to hear anything else for awhile, just this. pj harvey, ‘let england shake’.
matt’s playlist – 11 september 2011
mexico city blues – la maison tellier
blues – stiv bators
l.a. blues – the stooges
loose – the stooges
i got a right – the stooges
1970 – the stooges
1970 – mission of burma
jive talkin’ – the bee gees
you should be dancing – the bee gees
1970 – ennio morricone
you’ve made me so very happy – lou rawls
loop garou – dr. john
up around the bend – credence clearwater revival
hitchhiker’s smile – victoria williams
crazy mary – victoria williams
i believe i’ll dust my broom – jack johnson
keep it loose – amos lee
born a hootchie kootchie man – jimi hendrix
vapour – loop
heaven’s end – loop
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so, not altogether sure about anything about martin creed…
i googled him, went to his site, and found this…
which i quite liked.
i’ll see what else i find.
my initial thoughts on conceptual art are these…
sometimes…
when something is all concept,
or, i guess… highly conceptual…
well…
here’s it i guess…
i like conceptual art that has more to offer than strictly concept i guess.
something else that turns my crank, grabs me,
whether that be aesthetic appreciation or cleverness, or
if the concept grabs me…
so, that’s my initial reaction/thoughts on conceptual art.
Thomas & Thomas 