brain waves

Saw her speak on Saturday...the whole room was drooling. It was awesome.

more more more more more:

tune in, bumblebee

sprung spring, spring sprung! I know it because my shoes are muddy and I have a headcold. There's like four or five days out of the year that have that particular tense and tactile season-turning-magic, and this was one of them.

I adore these songs- they're all growers- and its featuring arthur russell, the king of all growers. the last song is dedicated to my dear craze-y nat-thing-ger who is a young lady about to go on a grandventure (and introduced me to the venerable q lazzarus).

I'm revving up to put together a super-deluxe mix next time in honor of it being number eleven and all. The theme is (duh) adventure and improvisation. So I propose: dive into your own collections and find me delicious tidbits that fall under that grand umbrella, send them via carrier pigeon (levin.elana@gmail.com) and this way we can put one together, together. But for now, fill your earbuds with these 11:

CATCH THIS MIX 10

my kind of man

Shuffle brought jeffrey lewis back to me last night after a long hiatus. Since then I'm pretty sure I've watched nearly every youtube (on which he is very prolific) video and come to appreciate his particularly film-able charm. I'm addicted to something about the way he talks about insane things matter-of-factly.
I found the best live videos of him and made them into a jeffrey lewis mini-mix. I missed this one but it's great (watch 'till the end, its funny and awkward) and from fairly recently:



CATCH JEFFREY LEWIS

ffffriends

this was fished out and shared by my dear buddy claire turner who has begun her own very nice-looking weblog of her own: CARDBOARD NOTEBOOK. This classic little slice of purrfect sounds like my childhood (ignore the hokey text):

reality bites

amazing early moment from the venerable jeffrey lewis.

(so many) future husband

BEIRUT _ CHEAP MAGIC INSIDE from Vincent Moon / Petites Planetes on Vimeo.

vincent moon does the very familiar LA BLOGOTHEQUE take-away show videos. here's one particular infectious hour.




tobias putrih is from slovenia and creates sculpture/architectural pieces based on his obsession with the movie theater.

brain waves/my kind of man

101019 soe tests oe from Studio Olafur Eliasson on Vimeo.

Your split second house from Studio Olafur Eliasson on Vimeo.