Monday, January 14, 2008

NJ Transit + Small Town Fires + Legos

Trying to buy NJ Transit bus tickets online is a practice in amateur acupuncture - The kind performed by the shaky assistant when the master had too much to drink... I must have conversed/cursed at 10 telephone menus. Some of these menus are just unecessary-

"Press 1 if you really meant pressing 4 just now... or press 2 if you meant to press 7. Para habla espanol press 9."

So this may end up as some sort of Op-ed, although I'm working on a San Francisco piece right now... I would much rather complain about something that bothers me directly than indirectly. I'd tell you what the SF piece is about, but I don't want to jinx it.

Hey Kiddies! Some new stuff!
The Jetsons and American History 1960-2007 by Me
Tidbits Vol. 1: Urban Art by Me
The Place to Pee by Nissa Lee!

Small Town Fires reviewed on LosingToday.com!

excerpt from the review-
"Currently to found applying the finishing touches to their debut EP these four treats serve as indication as to the ensembles deft knack of turning up pop pearls of the highest order from the strangest of sources - the slinky electro buzz of ’pink pixels’ sounds like ’penthouse and pavement’ era Heaven 17 submerged in the cosmic fluffiness of Stereolab, distant memories of Devo are dispatched into textured wells of motorik techno funk servitude on the Tom Tom Club meets Front 242 like ’mother of keith moon’. Yet it’s the strangely obscured ‘the abdomen drum’ where the band excel, a crooked sugar pop gem dipped in lysergic glitter and reformed into a buzzing bubblegum bomb to mainline perfectly into the fried melodic territories of Roy Wood’s Move only to be sprinkled with the wayward tendencies of Apples In Stereo and Of Montreal. We await that EP with baited breath."

I'll take it!

Legos- I need a bulk of legos for a project i'm working on for The Next American City. I'm back to crazy schemes and impossible tasks, just like the old days. Anything to keep me away from the election.


Have you caught Obama fever?

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