drownedinsoundcloud:

Cat Power covers ‘Crazy’ by Gnarls Barkley

Oh, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, you kill me.

Thanks to @mykebartlett for the tip.

I came across the incredible, thought-provoking photography of Edward Burtynsky today.

From a distance, it’s all a little Busby Berkeley and then you discover it’s actually Deda Chicken Processing Plant, Dehui City, Jilin Province, 2005.

Click on the image to go to the website, and make sure you particularly check out his shots of China’s Three Gorges Dam and Western Australia’s mines. Eerie.

Genius.

o-song:

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart - JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound (b-side, free download)

Wilco’s “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” reimagined as a fairly-authentic-sounding Stax belter circa 1966. The weird stop-start rhythms and the echoey lushness of the original is replaced by snare-on-every-beat and dry, gritty sound. Where Tweedy emphasises the country psychedelia of his lyrics - the American aquarium drinkers, tongue-tied lighting, Bible-black predawn - JC Brooks steamrollers over all that, adding the requisite soul “huh”s and “c’mon”s (and a new middle 8 lifted from Wilco’s A Ghost is Born track “Theologians”).

When Tweedy sings that he is trying to break your heart, you don’t really believe him - he sounds regretful, sad, as if the heartbreak is an unplanned side-effect. JC Brooks sounds like he actually is trying to break your heart. “Why?” he asks, rhetorically, concluding the song, “cos I still love you.”

Won’t somebody think of the hipsters?

unhappyhipsters:

Eames, Aalto — her most significant relationships were with dead designers.

(Dwell magazine, December 2004)

I would very much like to be at Shakespeare & Co right now, thankyouverymuch.