Family Tree, TV on the Radio {YouTube}

“Anda my love

Wake up to your window

The day calls in billows

It’s echoing moonlight onto the blue nightmare of your heart

In cosy red rainbow

It’s shaking off halos

And the memory of our sacred so and so

Oh take my hand sweet

Complete your release unbury your feet

And married we’ll be

Alone in receiving ours is a feeling not that they would see

They don’t know that we could be

Down where your cradle escaped the sea

And your raven haired Mama cought told you so’s

Were hanging in the shadow of your family tree

Your haunted heart and me

Brought down by an old idea whose time has come

And in the shadow of the gallows of your family tree

There’s a hundred hearts or three

Pumping blood to the roots of evil to keep them young

Ah me all mine

Is it safe to say that we’ve waited patiently

Call me on time

And recall the tune that has place us gracefully

All into line

There’s the garden grave and a place they’ve saved for you

I’ll fall by your side

Though your silver haired Mama throws told you so’s

Were laying in the shadow of your family tree

Your haunted heart and me

Brought down by an old idea whose time has come

And in the shadow of the gallows of your family tree

There’s a hundred hearts or three

Pumping blood to the roots of evil to keep it young

And now we’ll gather in the shadow of your family tree

In haunted harmony

Brought down by an old idea whose time has come

And in the shadow of the valley of your family tree

There’s a hundred hearts or three

Pumping blood to the roots of evil to keep us young”

If not the best, Before Sunrise is one of the best romance movies I’ve ever watched. Why? Because of its simplicity. Unlike the usual romance movie formula – couple in love with something between them (family, distance, culture…), there is nothing between. The argument of the film is just natural dialogue while wandering on the streets of Vienna during less than 24 hours. This movie is for the romance genre as Apocalypse Now is for war.

During my usual after movie reading, I noticed that it was directed by Richard Linklater, director of Dazed and Confused which I’ve watched one week ago. The similarities are evident, time frame of a single day, simple argument based fully on natural dialogues. I also have the DVD of Before Sunrise sequel, Before Sunset next to me…

Deerhoof was one of the most insane concerts I’ve experienced, they are unique and experimental both on studio and stage. Greg Saunier drum style is as close as it gets from the Animal. Here is a clip of a live performance of Spirit Ditties of No Tone and Giga Dance.

By the way, some photos of the concert, Tavastia – Helsinki (22.4.2009), by TimoH:

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Where the is unresolved ambiguity in communication, there is no communication, or at best communication must be incomplete.

Just look at the word “communication” for a moment. Its root is related to the word “common”. We speak of a community as a group of people who have something in common. Communication is an effort on the part of one person to share something with another person (or with an animal or a machine): his knowledge, his decisions, his sentiments. It suceeds only when it results in a common something, such as an item of information or knowledge that two parties share.

When there is ambiguity in the communication of knowledge, all that is in common are the words that one person speaks or writes and another hears or reads. So long as ambiguity persists, there is no meaning in common between between writer and reader. For the communication to be successfully completed, therefore, it is necessary for the two parties to use the same words with the same meanings —in short, to come to terms. When that happens, communication happens, the miracle of two minds with but a single thought.

Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren — How to Read a Book

(…) It turns out Dark Night Of The Soul is an album and the songs were written by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse (Mark Linkous), though the myriad singers featured on each track also had a big hand in composing and producing the work. The album was initially going to be packaged with a book of photos taken by David Lynch. But now there’s word that the music may never be officially released at all.

An unnamed spokesperson for Danger Mouse says that “due to an ongoing dispute with EMI” the book of photographs will “now come with a blank, recordable CD-R. All copies will be clearly labeled: ‘For legal reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.'” While offering no specifics, EMI has acknowledged the legal dispute with Danger Mouse and released a statement saying, “Danger Mouse is a brilliant, talented artist for whom we have enormous respect. We continue to make every effort to resolve this situation and we are talking to Brian Burton (Danger Mouse) directly. Meanwhile, we need to reserve our rights.”

You can order the book, sans music, from the official Dark Night Of The Soul Web site. In the meantime, you can hear the entire album here on NPR Music as an Exclusive First Listen.

Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse Team Up With David Lynch – NPR

I am listening it right now and it sounds good so far, well it was expected with, J. Casablancas, Iggy Pop, James Mercer, Vic Chesnutt…