MacArthur Park is “The Bridge” Chili Pepper AKiedis was under, shooting up in 1992 song. Well, at least it’s a lovely place to wrestle your personal demons, but I’m so glad the park’s a lot nicer than it was back then.
Of course, I go to the same area to wrestle MY personal demon, which, technically, is the exquisite, award-winning #19 pastrami and swiss sandwich at Langer’s Deli, a block or so away. You have your burdens. I have mine.
As one of its more endearing public services, Flavorpill pulls together links each week to five albums that are being streamed for free on various music services. This week’s offerings include the latest Neil Young & Crazy Horse project, the throwback sound “Americana;” Scissor Sisters; Marissa Nadler; Liars; and Japandroids.
Me, I’m all about Neil and the Horse, but also looking forward to checking out Nadler’s stripped-down acoustic piano work. And the chance to sample the Sisters’ disco revival against the frat-rock of Japandroids and reputedly excellent Liars sixth disc does promise a very nice week indeed for my ears.
One of the things I did today, pinch-hitting on an interview for ENTV with Pete Hammond about the movies that won awards (and the many solid US films that didn’t) at the Cannes Film Festival 2012.
Jack Kerouac on fellow Beat poet/writer/personality Allen Ginsberg, from a nifty collection of pages from the journals of famous artists and writers that Flavorpill put together here.
Fascinating idea: Amazon may begin wrapping targeted ads around the ebooks it sells, while continuing to cut the “cover” price for the books themselves.
It’s an interesting idea, one that Google and Apple and possibly even Barnes & Noble would quickly want to copy. What do you think, though? If you’ve only recently come to accept ebooks on your iPad or Kindle, could you now handle contextual ads worked into them as you read?
A new model for magazine publishing: associate with a well-liked TV brand. Scripps and Hearst look to replicate success with Food Network magazine with HGTV magazine.
Cool and potentially powerful next step in using gestures to control and manipulate data on cell phones, tablets and computers. Love this stuff, the next step beyond the wildly popular and fascinating Microsoft Kinect technology.
Nice rundown of some interesting programs, especially (for me) some interesting image-/video-editing apps that can do lots of more exotic stuff than just drop a Lomo filter in and ship it to Instagram.
If you’re an iPhone geek, there’s probably something in this list you’ll love, and several apps are free!
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