31. August 2008 by admin.

In case you haven’t yet seen photos of this beautiful concept car shown by BMW in May of this year:

You can read more about it here.

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31. August 2008 by admin.

Unless you have lived in a musical cave for the last 25 years, you know that David Byrne is the co-founder of Talking Heads and one of the creators of popular World Music, and that Brian Eno is one of the great musical producers (U2, Peter Gabriel, etc.) and performers (Roxy Music, numerous solo ambient albums) and the creator of the 6 second ‘Microsoft Windows 95′ startup sound. 

Their first collaboration resulted in a brilliant early 80s albums, "My Life In the Bush of Ghosts" which was the first (or at least one of the first) albums to fuse 1st and 3rd world musical rhythms.  Paul Simon is credited with being the pioneer here, but it was really Byrne + Eno.

Well, Byrne + Eno have come out with their first new album together since "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts", and, while it’s not as innovative as this earlier album, it’s definitely worth listening to.  In particular, there’s a song "I feel my stuff" which is very good–evocative of previous collaborations between the two on late 1970s Talking Heads songs.

Anytime two artists of this caliber get together and create an album it’s worth listening to, and such is the case with this one.

By the way, the two artists are currently touring in support of this new album.

Now, all we need is for Talking Heads to re-unite–please, David, please!

You can check out a track from the album in the player below:

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31. August 2008 by admin.

In a previous post, I mentioned the documentary about the subversion of the Presidential election process.  Here is a good blog about what is/what is not being done to improve this situation for the upcoming November elections.  Here is a New York Times editorial about how long voters in Ohio had to wait (10 hours or more) to vote in the 2004 Presidential election; here is the opening paragraph:

Everyone complains that young people don’t vote, but consider the experience of students at Kenyon College in Ohio in the 2004 election. Officials in Knox County, Ohio, provided just two voting machines for the school’s 1,300 voters. Some students waited in line for 10 hours, and the last bleary-eyed voter did not cast a ballot until nearly 4 a.m.

Also, here’s a clip from ‘Uncounted’:

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31. August 2008 by admin.

French neurosurgeons used a laser to remove a cancerous brain tumor from a patient who remained fully conscious during the whole procedure, and went home the same day.  Pretty amazing stuff, and cause for hope among many people.

You can read more here.

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