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I was up early and decided to go for a ride on the way to the office. I found an amazingly beautiful beach called Cahoon Hollow. Weather was hot and the sun was bright, and it wasn’t even 9am! Cape Cod is such a beautiful place to be in the summer, especially the less touristy Outer Cape.
the vertical dunes / my feet sink in the sand / master cleanse day three
I’m always surprised to see which American (or International) brands make it down to Buenos Aires. Of course we have McDonalds and Burger King on every corner, and even a kosher McDonalds or two. But now Starbucks is opening a new store every few months.
I’ve also seen:
But still no Dunkin Donuts or Taco Bell. Anyone up for an overseas investment?
FYI I don’t have lice, but we found this product at the local pharmacy!
Picasa, the google photo sharing site, has a face recognition feature that helps you tag your photos. In my photos I have some from my trip to La Paz, Bolivia to see the Cholita wrestling, Bolivian women in traditional dresses beating each other up WWF style. Worth the trip! Anyways it was funny when Picasa thought one of the wrestlers was Crystal! I wouldn’t be surprised if she was moonlighting as a Cholita!
I can’t believe it has taken so long to go to a fútbol / soccer match! But finally I went with some friends to the first game of the season, Boca Jr’s vs. Argentinos Jr’s at the Diego Armando Maradona stadium, which happens to be the smallest stadium in the city. It was a really entertaining game (final score 2-2), though we spent way too much money to sit on the Argentinos side (Boca is the favorite and has the craziest fans). But half the fun is being surrounded by the ardent fans, cheering, swearing, chanting, singing. I want to keep an eye out for a Boca Jr’s / River Plate match, South America’s answer to the Red Sox / Yankees rivalry. That game outta be great. GOL!!!!!!!!!
In honor of the last season of Lost starting this month, the Flavorwire blog has a list of books mentioned on Lost. I used to listen to a Lost podcast, and the podcasters would freeze-frame the episode whenever there was a book on screen, and then read it and give commentary on how it related to the show (purgatory, subterranean worlds, mysterious islands, biblical themes). Always interesting, but I left the research task to the super-fans. But a lot of the books on this list sound really good, and it makes me wish I could read really fast and also had an English library at my disposal.
The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares (1940)
The Moon Pool
by Abraham Merritt (1919)
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce (1890)
Lancelot: A Novel
by Walker Percy (1977)
The Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne (1874)
Island
by Aldous Huxley (1962)
Valis
by Philip K. Dick (1981)
The Shape of Things to Come
by H.G. Wells (1933)
Magnetic Felds – [Realism] Hmm, I love Magnetic Fields, but I’m too excited about this one after the first listen. Realism is Stephin Merritt’s “folk album”, and the sister album to 2008’s Distortion, where he wanted to sound more Jesus & Mary Chain than Jesus & Mary Chain.
Spoon – [Transference] Back with their 7th studio album, Spoon keeps putting out great stuff.
Vampire Weekend – [Contra] Will the sophomore album live up to the debut?? I might like it better. Bonus track
Broken Bells – [Broken Bells] The new project from Danger Mouse and James Mercer from The Shins! Pretty great. (Not allowed to post the link due to web sherrif!)
Yeasayer – [Old Blood] trippy awesome
Shearwater – [The Golden Archipelago] Epic. Shearwater started as a side project of Okkervil River, but have continually released amazing records of their own.
Xiu Xiu – [Dear God, I Hate Myself] Though still not “radio friendly”, this latest record is so much more so than the other Xiu Xiu releases. I like it, and the title is pretty awesome. And I read somewhere that they used a nintendo to make some of the sounds?
Real Estate - [Real Estate] Good, mellow. Kinda Fleet Foxes-ish but less dreamy?
Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) – [Heartland] So Owen decided to drop the Final Fantasy moniker for all upcoming releases. This album uses a lot more instruments than just his usual violin and voice.
Nana Grizol – [Ruth] I like this album a lot, and the singer is getting compared to Jeff Mangum, though I don’t quite see it. It kinda reminds me of Hallelujah the Hills, from Boston. Nevertheless, it has a definite Elephant 6 feel to it, as it should. Members of this band run Orange Twin Records with members of Elf Power.
Los Campesinos! – [Romance is Boring] I think they grew up a little with this record. Lot’s of good songs, but less innocent cutesyness.
Liars – [Sisterworld] More cool hipster music.
Harlem – [Hippies] Lo-Fi, garage-y, I think you’ll like it if you liked the Girls album last year.
Moonface – [Dreamland EP] Spencer Krug from Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade gives us 21 minutes of Marimba and drums and lyrics based on his dreams. Offered free or by donation on www.mooonface.ca
Charlotte Gainsbourg – [IRM] French actress, daughter of Serge Gainsbourg, collaboration with Beck…. So good.
Neil Young – [Dreamin' Man] Live takes on every song from Harvest Moon, but in different order. 1992 performance.
This clip is from the show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia which is brilliant!
