Betsy Olson
pacific northwest blues
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Monday, November 09, 2009
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Monday, November 02, 2009
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down
the band battles giant space kittens, twizzlers and hall and oates!
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Metric
best video of a band playing in an empty room ever! wait for the butterflies at the end...
that video was filmed in one shot...here's what it looked like behind the scenes
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Thunderheist
strangely compelling and sexy video in which it appears not much is going on. stick with it, though, and you will see
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Monday, May 04, 2009
Tender Validations
So, I am vice-president of a new CD of the Month Club, called Tender Validations. We just got our first batch of CDs in and are taking submissions for May. All you have to do is make a mix CD, send it in by the due date with $2 (or stamps) and you'll receive a fresh mix CD in the mail. In addition, you will receive exclusive online access to all of the submissions for that month in which you participated.
Check out our blog to see last month's submissions and this month's theme and requirements.
Friday, May 01, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
I just finished this extraordinary novel by Samuel R. Delany. It takes place some unknown amount of time in the future when humans have left earth and are spread among 6000 different worlds and integrated into many different alien cultures. Every citizen, whether human or otherwise, is referred to as a woman; the word 'man', and it's variations, is an outdated term only used in poetry. The pronouns 'she' and 'her' are used exclusively, unless the person is speaking about someone to whom she is sexually attracted; in that case the pronouns 'he' and 'him' are used. People's gender is ignored, unless they are seen as a sexual object. The protagonist is a homosexual male, and any other characters with which he comes into contact in a sexual way (either propositioned by or had an encounter with or was attracted to) are identified by their biological gender at some point. Every one else is always referred to as a woman, so you, the reader, never know what sex they are. It was interesting for me because I found myself wondering about the sex of the characters and getting frustrated by not getting the answer and then having to ask myself why it mattered what gender that person was.
Besides very convincing details about sexual relationships, the novel is incredibly detailed about the differences between customs on the different worlds and even in different areas of the same world. For instance, as the main character talks to both humans and aliens, he is constantly aware of how something as simple as a nod could be interpreted differently by each person, depending on what world they come from. This makes the universe Delany has created as real and the characters as true as anything set in our present day world.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Other Lives
i normally don't post live performance videos, but this one has two things going for it: non-annoying camera work and this song is totally gorgeous
Other Lives - How Could This Be - Luxury Wafers Sessions from Luxury Wafers on Vimeo.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
The Sound of Arrows
...speechless...
The Sound of Arrows - M.A.G.I.C. (Mini-video) from The Sound of Arrows on Vimeo.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Monday, March 09, 2009
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Pree
they are so cute and sound so good
AON Sessions: Pree, "In the Parlor" from All Our Noise on Vimeo.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Codebreaker feat. Kathy Diamond
photo effects that makes real-life look like model-life. you can watch it bigger and in HD at the Vimeo site.
Fire (Jimmy Edgar Remix) from Erik West on Vimeo.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Scout Niblett and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
wig, skeleton costume, skee ball, beautiful shots in portland locations and an amazing amazing song
Youth Group
amazing vintage video of a mid-80s pre-teen basement party. let the memories come flooding back...
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Can't sleep
Woke up from a dream in which I had discovered the best internet application ever. Was thinking about how I wanted to post a link to it on my blog or facebook when the clarity of the dream started to fade. I realized that I had made it all up in my dream, and that I could no longer remember what this most perfect web application had done. The details went fast and I was just left with the feeling that it was clever and funny and useful and that if I could just remember I could then make the best website ever. You know how it goes when you try desperately to remember dreams...nothing.
This post was brought to you, courtesy of my G1 phone and Blogger's email function, from my comfy bed in the middle of the night.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Here We Go Magic
this is one of my favoritist new songs
super close-up, out-of-focus, fucked-up found footage kaleidoscope
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Macbeth: The Graphic Novel
I don't think I have attempted to read a Shakespeare play since high school, but I could not pass up this graphic novel version when I passed it by at the library. Macbeth is the source of some of the most heard Shakespeare quotes which you may not realize are Shakespeare.
"Double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble."
and
"Out damned spot! Out I say!"
Classical Comics, publishes three versions: one with the complete original text, one with the complete play translated into plain english, one with the complete play translated into modern english. I read the original text version and was impressed at how much the comic book conventions added to my comprehension of the story and still allowed me to enjoy the poetry of Shakespeare.
Click on this scans of the pages that contain the above famous quotes to see larger versions.
Monday, February 09, 2009
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Lilofee
Put "Lock and Key" on repeat, dance, sing along, delete "I Kissed a Girl."
Lilofee on MySpace
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Monday, February 02, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Looking for Jake
a book of short stories by China Mieville, one of the most inventive fantasy writers I have read. Labeling what he writes as "fantasy" brings up visions of wizards and sword-fighting, which is not what Mieville writes about at all. He creates new worlds or takes small aspects of our real world and unravels a totally unique, but somehow universal, tale around new species, undiscovered laws of physics and undiscovered human talents. One story in this collection is set in New Crobuzon, the world he writes about in his three fantastic novels (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and Iron Council), expanding on a minor character from them. I love the stories where he takes an ordinary and mundane from our world an tells of the whole other world hidden within. In one story one old window pane, bought an installed on whim, shows the narrator an entirely different scene than the original window panes, populated with scary, ghostly children. The last story tells of the creatures that live in reflections, their hatred of humans as mirrors became ubiquitous and they were forced to take our shapes and mimic our actions, and war against humans as they discovered how to subvert the laws of physics and stop being reflections. This collection is a good introduction to Mieville's talented world building.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
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