Wilco (The Spinach)
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Sunday’s Popeye comic strip pays homage to two American icons: Popeye and the band Wilco. The artwork prominently features the S.S.Wilco sailing into port to deliver Wilco Brand Spinach. Hoards of people are lining up on the dock as Popeye, Olive Oyl, Bluto and the entire gang assist Wilco in handing out cans of Wilco Spinach to the crowds. The art, created by Frank Caruso and Ned Sonntag, features caricatures of Wilco band members: lead singer Jeff Tweedy, bassist John Stirratt, guitarist Nels Cline, multi-instrumentalists Pat Sansone and Mikael Jorgensen, and drummer Glenn Kotche.
WHAT
Look, I may or may not have gotten naked during a show on Saturday. (I did.) But even if I didn’t get naked (which I did), it was still a resounding triumph.
GUYS! Did you know I’m going to be in NEW YORK CITY next week? Does anyone want to like, hang out, or something? Or alternately, give me some ideas of ‘things to do.’
(You know I’m going to be blasting this song as I get off the airplane.)
This week on Sliders: MOTHER. FUCKING. DINOSAUR.
This week on Sliders: erryone is psychic, and I go so far into character analysis it might as well be fanfic.
5 year old on the unfairness of gendered marketing. Word.
I was holding off on watching this for some unknown “refusal to adhere to internet video” reasons, but now I am glad I did watch it because she is my hero.
CHROMAZOID: RELEASED UPON THE WORLD. RELEASE PARTY COMING SOON. CHROMAZOID IS ESSENTIAL. PLEASE INVESTIGATE.
EDIE FAKE ON CHICAGO
edie fake just did this amazing write up of the chicago comics scene for the comics journal and it includes me and everyone I love and it’s a pleasant reminder that this is the place for me to be right now.
Agreed times a billion.
Bowie's 2002 Predictions Eerily Close
I remember reading this article back in 2002, when my first spat of “I love David Bowie” was culminating in the bewilderingly exciting fact of Heathen being released. In it, as brief summary, Bowie basically proves he’s Paul Atreides and predicts what the 2012 music industry will be like. Which is fine, except he’s right on the money.
“Music itself is going to become like water or electricity.” A poetic way to describe what actually happen. Even the part about copyright not existing, while not exactly true, still gets the direction down. In music especially, in a download/mashup/mixtape culture, how does copyright figure into it? How would Girl Talk exist if copyright actually applied to music anymore?
The sad thing, retroactively inherent in anything Bowie said in the early 00s, is that he didn’t stick around to enter the conversation. I mean, basically was an ‘internet savvy artist’ in like, what, 1999? Way too early. Ahead of the curve. Like always.
40 from 40: 1971: Maria Bethânia
I will be forty years old quite soon, so I suppose it’s time for an assessment of sorts, of a life possibly half-lived, of one over three-quarters lived if I were to die at fifty, as my grandfather did.
So throughout 2012, I will try to recall something from each of the forty years that I’ve…
This is extreme. Perhaps the first new ‘must-read/follow’ of 2012?
50 year old David Bowie gets understandably choked up as Scott Walker wishes him a very cool happy birthday back in 1997. Hope 65 year old David Bowie is having just as good a day today!
On the other side of midnight.
I’ve been looking for this! And, my goodness it is so cute.
“Aw, I see God in the window.”
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