February 11th, 2009

MUSIC:

Have fun getting used to this: Santogold is now Santigold.

I missed a crapload of other content over on Pitchfork during my impromptu day off. Working backwards Memento-style, there's a blissful acoustic version of Take On Me, another reason to get into Jeremy Jay, an addictive swooning and syncopated bit from Charles Hamilton, hardcore Palmtree Family melancholy and hardcore Sufjan Stevens-blessed joy, some psychotic neurotic rambling from Cage, and possibly best of all, a seriously wonderful anthemic bit from The Thermals.

There's the usual assortment of gemstones and garbage on RCRD LBL. The really good stuff? For starters, I can't get enough of this Boy in Static track. (Not too in love with the remix, though) The Shadow Dancer stuff is pretty rad. So is the Pterodactyl stuff. Of the Demo Days feature, I recommend Jason Brooks and the Uptown Sound, and Action Painters.

Coathangers want you to stop stomping around.

FILM:

Nolan's got a new, not-Batman project. It's called Inception and has me excited.

New Inglourious Basterds trailer out. If you don't know, it's the next Tarantino film. Cannot describe the awesome. See it for yourself.

Goodbye Solo looks very sweet and thoughtful.

Spielberg wants to make his Lincoln biopic by December. Color me intrigued!

The new Nightmare on Elm Street will not come out this year.

Greta Gerwig is going all non-mumblecore on our asses.

WEIRD:

If you make the peanuts, you'd better fuckin' eat those peanuts.

I feel like this is the best thing I've ever seen.

Sweet lord, this post inspires me to dream of a Kanye/Radiohead collab. (Kanyediohead?)

WORLD:

The New York Times reports on the newly agreed upon stimulus plan.

PERSONAL:

I love this city. Austin's a fantastic place. Just putting that out there.

Anyway, things have been a little hectic, a little busy, but I've been taking it on piece by piece and managing just fine. Anyway, busy with film work- that's my future, right?

If you're wondering why my iTunes count went up so slightly, despite the shit-ton of MP3s I linked to today, it's because a few songs I downloaded (but didn't like enough to post here) were lurking on my 2009 playlist, so I hunted them down and deleted them. That is all.

2009 FILMS SEEN: 1.5
2009 SONGS ON MY ITUNES: 303
Current Computer Situation: MacBook Pro, swampy.