The Window

December 31, 2006

The Verlaines

Filed under: Music — thewindow @ 7:15 am

A good article about Graeme Downes and The Verlaines.

http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/dunedin/downes.asp

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A previously unreleased MP3 track of recorded live at the Southern Cross Hotel, Wellington, 12 November 1988. Made available from the Andrew Ellis Archive.

Death & the Maiden [mp3 : 5.9MB] (right click then click “save target as…”)

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The video for “Death and the Maiden”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eeuy8PD0bFM

December 30, 2006

Jackson Pollock websites

Filed under: Art, painting — thewindow @ 3:18 pm

Pollock House on Long Island, New York – http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/pkhouse.nsf

Pollock – The Movie – http://www.sonyclassics.com/pollock

December 26, 2006

Waiting for Rudy

Filed under: Music — thewindow @ 6:07 pm

Mecca Normal – “Waiting for Rudy” video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXkE1ShfsUQ

December 21, 2006

Fictional Movie Trailers

Filed under: Movies — thewindow @ 6:28 pm

Blue Velvet – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Q0GFlu1Yg

The Shining – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf7h6o3I8yw

Snoqualmie Falls – November 10, 2006

Filed under: News — thewindow @ 6:24 pm

a view of the falls during the November flood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Z3w0ly7

Can’t Go Wrong Without You

Filed under: Music — thewindow @ 6:19 pm

His Name Is Alive – “Can’t Go Wrong Without You” video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsMYOeOIZYE

Cast A Shadow

Filed under: Music — thewindow @ 6:15 pm

Adam Green performs Beat Happening’s “Cast A Shadow”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM6BhBf5LO4

Magnetic Fields

Filed under: Music — thewindow @ 6:07 pm

Magnetic Filelds – “Love Goes Home to Paris” video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDsnxLPEB-Y

The Bats – Courage

Filed under: Music — thewindow @ 6:00 pm

video – The Bats – “Courage”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE7j6tQkV60

The Bats official website http://www.thebats.co.nz/

An excelent song from The Chills

Filed under: Music — thewindow @ 5:52 pm

“Pink Frost” – video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3ULozS5BJw

Filmspottting – a weekly movie review podcast

Filed under: Podcasts — thewindow @ 5:38 pm

http://filmspotting.net/

Snoqualmie Valley Podcast

Filed under: Podcasts — thewindow @ 5:38 pm

An entertaining podcast from a Snoqualmie, Washington resident that chronicles the events in Snoqualmie , North Bend, and the general Seattle area.

http://www.snoqualmiejoe.com/

Brian Jonestown Massacre

Filed under: Music — thewindow @ 5:37 pm

http://www.brianjonestownmassacre.com/

http://www.bjmarchives.com/index2.HTML

“Seeking dark rivers far underground”

Filed under: Music — thewindow @ 5:37 pm

The High Dials – War of the Wakening Phantoms (2005) – an excellent album

http://www.myspace.com/thehighdials

from Montreal/Quebec, Canada

Pavement – Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition

Filed under: Music — thewindow @ 5:37 pm

Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition (ole-722 dbl CD)

Release Date: Nov 7, 2006

In the rich tradition of our mega-deluxxxe reissues of ‘Slanted & Enchanted’ and ‘Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain’, we’re pleased to announce the November 7 re-release of Pavement’s widely misunderstood 3rd album, ‘Wowee Zowee’, henceforth entitled, ‘Wowee Zowee : Sordid Sentinels Edition’”

The full track listing :Disc 1
01 We Dance
02 Rattled by the Rush
03 Black Out
04 Brinx Job
05 Grounded
06 Serpentine Pad
07 Motion Suggests Itself
08 Father to a Sister Of Thought
09 Extradition
10 Best Friend’s Arm
11 Grave Architecture
12 AT & T
13 Flux = Rad
14 Fight This Generation
15 Kennel District
16 Pueblo
17 Half a Canyon
18 Western Homes
19 Sordid [previously unreleased Wowee Zowee session outtake]
20 Brink of the Clouds [Rattled by the Rush b-side]
21 False Skorpion [Rattled by the Rush b-side]
22 Easily Fooled [Rattled by the Rush b-side]
23 Kris Kraft [Father to a Sister of Thought b-side]
24 Mussle Rock [Father to a Sister of Thought b-side]
25 Give It a Day [Pacific Trim EP]
26 Gangsters & Pranksters [Pacific Trim EP]
27 Saganaw [Pacific Trim EP]
28 I Love Perth [Pacific Trim EP]
29 Sentinel [previously unreleased Wowee Zowee session outtake]
Disc 2
01 Sensitive Euro Man [I Shot Andy Warhol soundtrack]
02 Stray Fire [previously unreleased Wowee Zowee session outtake]
03 Fight This Generation [recorded March 3, 1994 at Hilversum, Holland]
04 Easily Fooled [recorded March 3, 1994 at Hilversum, Holland]
05 Soul Food [Wowee Zowee jam session w/Doug Easley on piano]
06 It’s a Hectic World [from Homage to Descendents tribute album]
07 Kris Kraft [BBC in-studio; Steve Lamacq Evening Session, March 15, 1995]
08 Golden Boys/Serpentine Pad [BBC in-studio; Steve Lamacq Evening Session, March 15, 1995]
09 Painted Soldiers [BBC in-studio; Steve Lamacq Evening Session, March 15, 1995]
10 I Love Perth [BBC in-studio; Steve Lamacq Evening Session, March 15, 1995]
11 Dancing With the Elders [from Medusa Cyclone/Pavement split 7″]
12 Half a Canyon [live; Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994]
13 Best Friend’s Arm [live; Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994]
14 Brink of the Clouds/Candylad [live; Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994]
15 Unfair [live; Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994]
16 Eaily Fooled [live; Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994]
17 Heaven Is a Truck [live; Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994]
18 Box Elder [live; Wireless JJJ Radio, Australia, July 7, 1994]
19 No More Kings [from Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks comp]
20 Painted Soldiers [from Kids in the Hall in Brain Candy soundtrack]
21 We Dance (alternate mix) [previously unreleased Wowee Zowee session outtake]

For more info go to http://www.matadorrecords.com/pavement/

December 16, 2006

Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings

Filed under: Art, Interviews, News, painting, Podcasts — thewindow @ 3:19 pm

Click here to download the audio commentary at The Museum of Modern Art: http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/audio/2006/spec_exhib/Marden/downloadMarden.html

The MOMA Podcast page: http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/audio.html

The MOMA Podcast feed: http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/podcasts/feed.xml

8 minute interview/documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KBt3jofm4E

December 11, 2006

Recollections of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

Filed under: History, Podcasts — thewindow @ 4:28 pm

a 21 minute audio recording of William R. Rathvon’s audio recollections of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address recorded in 1938
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/lnfsound/19991110.lnfsound.02.rmm

Other Gettysburg Address related recordings: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gettysburgaddress.htm

December 10, 2006

LibriVox podcasts

Filed under: Books, Podcasts, Reading — thewindow @ 4:13 pm

http://librivox.org/newcatalog/

LibriVox: free audiobooks

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net (via podcast and catalog). Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.

December 9, 2006

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

Filed under: Art, painting, Podcasts — thewindow @ 4:41 pm

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, an affiliate of The Museum of Modern Art, is the oldest and second largest non-profit arts center in the United States solely devoted to contemporary art

http://www.ps1.org/ps1_site/content/view/13/46/

December 2, 2006

Sonic Youth – Sugar Kane

Filed under: Music, Sonic Youth, Video — thewindow @ 6:30 pm

Sonic Youth – “Sugar Kane” video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGML3ntx7Gc

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