New Scientist Breaking News - Billboards beam adverts to passing cellphones
Wow, so it looks like those weird ads from “Vanilla Sky”, the ones that talk to passers by, are not far away. I guess this is not surprising that ad agencies would find a use for wireless technology.
Yup, this post is about nothing. Every once in a while its good to do nothing. This weekend was one of those weekends. We had thought about going to see Nora O’Connor and Kelly Hogan at Schubas, in the end decided to stay in. Kirstie made some copies of various live shows of bands like The Kings of Convenience and Jeff Buckley. The Air and Water show was this weekend, so that pretty much excluded doing much bike riding on the lakefront path (way to crowded).
Slowly going through all the recently purchased albums. After having seen them at Intonation Fest I really wanted to hear a Xiu Xiu album and so we picked up “la forét” which is ok, but I think I liked them better live. May just take time to grow on me. From a recommendation of a friend we picked up Devotchka record which is amazing. John at Dr Wax thinks he remembers that they sometimes back up burlesque shows, which is fairly fitting due to the lead singers crooning voice and odd gypsy-like instrumentation. I listened to that Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah record almost constantly last week, along with the new Sufjan Stevens record. We are now 2 discs through the 6-disc box set of the complete fall peel sessions and so far WOW! What an amazing band. Listened to one side of the 6 sided Albert Ayler vinyl release of Holy Ghost. I guess they are going to release the whole 6 (or is it 9) cd set on vinyl in batches. This is my first foray into his stuff and so far I really enjoy it. He has a tone that is very distinct and creative.
Still have a huge stack to go through. I cant believe that summer is almost over. Hopefully I can get a few more months of biking in.