Photophonic

So yeah, posting has pretty much ground to a stop.  I don’t even know who I’m addressing this to since I don’t imagine this blog has an audience of “regular readers” who miss having frequent updates or are demanding some sort of explanation, but blogging just hasn’t been a priority lately.  For one thing it seems like there’s not much point in posting links to things on other blogs when people who are interested in those things are far more likely to just find them directly.  Secondly, I haven’t had much of an urge to publicly document my life lately.  So this space might lay dormant for a while, and if you stumble across it and say to yourself “hey look, another abandoned/neglected blog,” well, thanks for looking and there’s the explanation you didn’t ask for and probably aren’t interested in.

I like Danish band Mew. I like cartoonist Ron Regé Jr. Here they are together! (Via RR Jr.’s blog, where there’s also a Mew/Yes Girls song to download).

July 22 is the date. Read lots of information at TVShowsOnDVD.com.

New song from a band I like a bunch:

Bearsuit - Steven Fucking Spielberg (MP3)
from Oh:Io on Fantastic Plastic

Loads of new entries in my ongoing Yoda theme sketchbook from this past weekend’s Stumptown Comics Fest (click thumbnails for credits and more info on Flickr):

1. New Sloan album in June! 4 Andrew songs!

2. Stereolab signed to 4AD! My 20-year-old self just high-fived my 23-year-old self!

3. My Bloody Valentine to headline mind-blowing festival in U.S. for rich people! Photophonic last blog in the world to mention it!

The A.V. Club rediscovers Unrest. The accompanying Eurythmics song they put up as a comparison is pretty boss, too, believe it or not. Some shoegazer band, get on covering that, stat!

Good: the fact of their existence! Bad: they’re blind boxed! Not that it really matters, since I’m too poor to be buying toys, but I sure wouldn’t want to end up with Squidbillies when what I really want is Avenger. CAW! Via The Beat, again.

Click the photo for more on Flickr. From the same Lego builder behind the Lego heroes series. Via The Beat.

My first feature article for Performer magazine is on Seattle-based solo artist PWRFL Power. It’s in the April issue and online now. It was heavily condensed for print — in the not-too-distant future I’ll publish my original draft here, which is quite a bit longer.