November 13, 2006 at 3:53 pm · Filed under Music
Rainy days like today often call for the starless melodrama of abstract/experimental ballads, but I’ve discovered some vibrant chip music that will surely banish all greyishness away…
Datassette is a one-man outfit from London who makes music influenced by 8-bit culture and most notably the Commodore 64 chip (remember those days?). Every page on his website has tons of free, lip-smacking downloads, so go ahead and dig in!
Also check out Datassette’s Datashat Project, which produces oddball “bastard” remixes covering 80’s space-related TV themes, Italo-disco, Tone Loc, and the ever-appalling Electric Six.
November 13, 2006 at 3:45 pm · Filed under Literature, Music
Got up early on Saturday and headed for Book Passage in Corte Madera, where Lemony Snicket and Stephin Merritt performed their newest batch of bleak ditties for a mob of adoring young fans. Merritt appeared in his wonted dolorous mood. As Snicket fanned his accordian and gleefully warned children of the Complete Organic Pregnancy, Merritt hung his head low, strummed his uekele and crooned of the Baudelaires’ encounters with despair, death, and Count Olaf’s eye-shaped tattoo.
Later, I went home and made short work of Snicket’s last installment in A Series of Unfortunate Events, The End.
