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June 2014

Pre-Finland playlist

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The Greatest Form of Flattery

As I’ll be spending a lot of time in airports, railway stations and between countries starting this afternoon, I thought a new playlist might just be in order. I give to you, then, a collection of some great covers (and one remix) of 80s new wave songs. What’s not to love?

  1. “Strangelove” – Bat for Lashes
  2. “The Killing Moon” – Pavement
  3. “The Chauffer” – Warpaint
  4. “Never Tear Us Apart” – Record Club
  5. “Age of Consent” – Geographer
  6. “Six Different Ways” – Rainbow Arabia
  7. “Don’t You Want Me” – Neon Trees
  8. “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” – Just a Gent
  9. “Stop Me” – Mark Ronson
  10. “Let’s Go to Bed” – Cassettes Won’t Listen
  11. “Blue Dress” – Hungry Lucy
  12. “Slowdive” – LCD Soundsystem
  13. “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” – Nouvelle Vague
  14. “Smalltown Boy” – José González
  15. “True” – Joanna Wang

Download all 15 tracks for a limited time here.

I want to be a multi-hyphenate

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In his prime, ZanFagna was a dizzyingly prolific multi-hyphenate. He exhibited in museums like the Whitney and LACMA. He hung out with Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono and John Lennon. He designed the Rutgers School of Art and was a beloved professor at the school. By all measures he was was a successful artist, and yet, he’s barely Google-able.

From WIred‘s piece “The Brilliant, Forgotten Futurist Who Predicted the Kindle“.  I’d never heard of Don ZanFagna (proving the “barely Google-able” qualifier above) but I’m now entirely intrigued.  I also want to spend an entire afternoon rifling through his notebooks to see the weird clippings and drawings in context.  It’s sort of like he predicted the best of Tumblr, too…