quieto :: notas curiosity killed the cat, but cats have 9 lives

If it’s not love…

…then it’s the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb that will keep us together.
The Smiths, Ask
Also, listen to the background voices around second 48, when Morrissey sings “coyness can stop you from saying all the things in life you’d like to”.


La luz, la luz, la luz

Para continuar con una semana de amor-odio a Caracas, subo un videoclip para Los Paranoias que dirigió mi querido amigo Lúber Mujica, para que te deleites con las locaciones y la luz más hermosa sobre la faz de la Tierra.
Algo from guayoyo motion graphics on Vimeo.


Feist on Sesame Street

UPDATE: Apparently this was a leak. If the embedded video above shows “video no longer available,” do not despair and visit the official Sesame Street on YouTube.
via swissmiss


Enthusiasm as Strategy

I am fortunate to have many very talented friends. Some of these I consider my foils (read this post to know what I mean). Enrique Gonzalez Muller is certainly on of these friends. If I had to choose one single person responsible for getting me into music, it would have to be Enrique, with his [...]


Musicophilia

I’m starting a new category here on books I’ve read, mostly to keep track of what I’ve read and what I thought about it.
I’ll start with Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. I read about this in Wired and maybe somewhere else on the web also. I even posted about it before [...]


Best Drummer in the World

via everyone forever


Titles

The First Mortgage
I’m Quite All Right, Thank You
Scientists Removing Flowers from Horse
Dry All My Tears
Unicyclist Turf War
Stringing You Along
Man Trips and Falls In His Own Country
Man Ponders Kicking Friend in Head
Oversized Man Entertains The City
An Elusive Dream
Bear Experiencing Jealousy
A Painful Reminder
Women and Cats Do as They Please

These titles belong to these paintings by Mike Stilkey. I [...]


Moby Gratis

In yet another wonderful turn on the intellectual rights front, here’s a note from Moby:
hi,
i’ll keep this brief.
this portion of moby.com, ‘film music’, is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.
to use the site you log in(or on?) and are [...]


Mixtape to Muxtape

Readers of this blog will know that one of the first things I started doing here were mixtapes. I only got two done, and then I didn’t get around to posting more. Today I learned about Muxtape. Raul mentioned it, you shouldn’t miss his first online mixtape. I found this one pretty interesting. Notice that you can subscribe to [...]


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