Rilo Kiley: June 2 and 3, Terminal 5, NYC
Architecture in Helsinki: June 8, Irving Plaza, NYC
Sigur Ros: June 16, The Grand Ballroom, The Manhattan Center, NYC
Kimya Dawson: July 2, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Kimya Dawson: July 16, United Palace, NYC
Akron/Family: July 24, Castle Clinton, Battery Park, NY
Wolf Parade: July 31, Terminal 5, NYC
Grizzly Bear: August 8, All Points West, Jersey City, NJ
Animal Collective: August 9, All Points West, Jersey City, NJ
Cat Power: August 10, All Points West, Jersey City, NJ
Anyone interested in going to any of these shows? I’ll definitely be going to a bunch of them… Sigur Ros, Wolf Parade, and Animal Collective, at a minimum. Jed, you’ll be in town, won’t you? Come with me.
Love, Inga
Cool. I might be interested in going to a few… So, as of this morning, I have my very own apartment in Philly (until the end of june), and there’s multiple couches and a futon and a big bed (and a huge balcony deck with a grill!) - so if anybody wants to come visit (jed, inga, + homefris:where are you? + robert adams?) come visit!
here’s a bunch of shows in philly:
http://www.r5productions.com/
I’m going to the Battles Sunday afternoon show June 15.
May 31st, 2008 | #
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May 31st, 2008 | #
Hell yeah!
I’m bummed to be missing sigur ros. I’m in colorado now, coming back to NY on the 22nd to go to the Columbia Summer Program. But let’s all go to Animal Collective on aug 9! all of us. The ones in July I haven’t heard of, but I’ll be in town, so if you think I’ll like them, give me a call. Actually, I’ll go to Wolf Parade. (Inga, I forget if I told you that I’m going to India next year on an Arnold Fellowship. I’ll be living in New York again starting Fall 2009, if life follows its plan. And congraduations to you).
May 31st, 2008 | #
dude i love the song!
June 1st, 2008 | #
i wish i was around to hit ac with you guys, water curses is playin in my dreams lately - anybody ever got that inside fever?
June 1st, 2008 | #
hi — i am just reading. in new york and boston. thanks for checking, sg - yes to a crash sometime.
June 4th, 2008 | #
Jed, don’t be too bummed about Sigur Ros… I can’t afford to go anyway. Sold out, and tickets on craigslist are starting around $200. AC is on though! Also, Wolf Parade will be fantastic. Have you heard the new album?
Sturgeon, I love the song! I’m down for a little party in Philly sometime… I’m in NY for at least a year or two. What are you doing down there?
June 5th, 2008 | #
When did Sigur Ros get so huge?
Random thing to share with the Pinko’s community:
I started a blog off of my webpage: http://www.jedicist.org/blog
I’ll be using it to let everyone know where I am when and what I’m thinking about, as well as rambles, personal narrative type things, whatever comes and needs a place. The fact that I’m going to be in India seems to make some people more interested in reading a blog of mine, as if I’m automatically more interesting just because I’m somewhere else. Of course I’ll still use Pinko’s for all my real work.
June 5th, 2008 | #
Sigur Ros just came out with an amazing film about their tour across Iceland called Heima. They had posted it to youtube for a few days, and I happened to stumble across it in my geekish nomadism, but I guess they took it down quite soon after they put it up.
I’d love to see AC also + make ‘nother chinatown bus adventure to nyc sometime. But even better would be for you new yoakas to make one to the underdiscovered delph of filos.
Inga, i’m working at the fabric workshop and museum. it’s half studio/residency program, half museum - the collection being based off the work produced in the residencies. they invite artists who do or want to experiment in new materials and/or textile design/screenprinting/fabric. My job is to shoot video of the works in progress and the openings, and to help with new media art. The next exhibition will be up July 14th (I think) - its a huge tapestry produced with Ed Ruscha in Belgium based on his painting Industrial Strength Sleep.
June 8th, 2008 | #
ps. how do i dissuade a friend of mine from getting “Viva la Vida” tattooed big on her stomach? she says she’s getting it tomorrow!
June 8th, 2008 | #
What else could vida do but viva?
June 8th, 2008 | #
did i mention she’s a coldplay fan?
June 9th, 2008 | #
so did she actually do it? i can at least admire the boldness of the choice…
June 10th, 2008 | #
i know nothing of coldplay, in my ignorance I do not even know if i ougt to like them or not. advice?
June 10th, 2008 | #
Jed, you are pure as the breastmilk of a loving sow, cheers. Don’t ever change, and don’t ever give Coldplay a chance!
June 11th, 2008 | #
Ok -
so this is the story of the tattoo, which I found out last night.
When my friend first told me about her plans, a fiery ur-image was at once struck with blinding sparks upon my tabula mentis. Ricky Martin gyrates/ akimbo, cheekbones/ aquiver/ in ecstatic rhapsody. This is an image which I do not, of course, derive pleasure in conjuring (except for a somewhat sado-masochistic fancy). I knew my friend had to be stopped before forever engraving upon her marble metope a phrase inspired by the latin lover’s sultry poetas. I posted the plea for advice.
Later, I was researching the history of the Beastie Boys in lieu of my responsibilities at work. It turns out that they were a noted punk trio before Def Jam offered them their hip-hop baptismal. I opened the iTunes store to check out what their punk stuff was like (it’s like every other punk band ever, there I said it), and right on the store’s front page I espied an advertisement displaying the familiar silhouetted enraptured forms against neon backdrop to which Apple has grown us accustomed. This particular call to commerce was programmed to inscribe into my corpus the release date of the newest Coldplay product, entitled “Viva la Vida” (July 17th).
The plot thickened. I took this new turn of events to signify that my friend had in fact never truly intended to tattoo the titular truism into her torso, and had instead meant only to string me along for a gag.
So I posted the Coldplay reference here.
Last night I uncovered a deeper truth.
Despite its vacuity, pop culture is not born within a vacuum. Vulgarized vocalizations such as those of Ricky and Chris Martin are not spewed forth a priori.
They have origins and those origins have origins.
To wit, my friend originally found the phrase in question written upon a slice of watermelon. That melon wedge was painted 54 years ago by the pop populist, Frida Kahlo.
What I like about the phrase “viva la vida” is its grammatical ambiguity. Is it a directive, a plea, a command, a tip? Is it rather an exalted exclamation, as if life had just appeared before a marble balustrade and was now waving to the crowd of simians cheering riotously amid the streets below? Or is it a stoic statement: life lives (and not we who would live it)?
I leave you to mull the possibilities with the muses.
June 12th, 2008 | #
“They have origins and those origins have origins.”
there’s some form of experimental narrative brewing in the way that you engage with culture. I almost see you as a detective, following the lead of a certain trope to the most bizzare places in the darkest corners of the internet, but there is no resolution, no final explication, just this endless journey. It’s not just this; you always have the most amazing links to share and connections to make. I don’t want to be pushy, but I want you to write a piece that would simply follow you following the flow of culture. In my mind, it’s noir-sounding. Like Slothrop following around the Rocket, but less spatial.
June 13th, 2008 | #
viva la independencia fiesta a mi casa en filadelfia esta viernes… mande a me el correro electronico para los detalles… possiblemente una viaje a la playa en sabado tambien
July 1st, 2008 | #