Somehow, I always return to this

Au Revoir Simone - Shadows

Love Triangles of Cavalli's L'Ormindo

Pretty much in love with this website that explores the love triangles in Cavalli's rarely seen opera, L'Ormindo. It's the perfect balance of simple and complex. The site is by This is Real Art in London; Cavalli's L'Ormindo opens at Sydney's Pinchgut Opera in December. via Human Resources

Linda Perhacs - Chimacum Rain

HEAD OVER HEELS for this song. Only knew the Prefuse 73 version, which was already ridiculous, but never thought about the source until I recognized it immediately in le film (via Ringo, have a banana!) - a Vanessa Bruno fall promo video directed by Stéphanie Di Giusto, which is gorgeous but you need to be into Lou Doillon aka pouty, skinny French models. Anyway, the emotions for this aforementioned version of this song runs deep:

Everyone has THAT time in their lives; that was mine. Now, to find the 1970 LP of Linda Perhacs' Parallelograms in a thrift store would pretty much complete the circle...

Two Are One

"Two Are One" by Dri, directed by Neil Krug. via the blue hour

The BQE

We were lucky enough to attend the world premiere of The BQE at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2007 - the symphonic/cinematic piece composed by Sufjan Stevens commissioned by BAM. Two years later, its release from Sufjan's label:

The official album release of The BQE follows nearly two years after its original performance at BAM, providing the songwriter (and his various collaborators) ample time to wrestle out all the thematic incarnations of the project, and to attempt an appropriation of Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work"). The resulting album might be best described as a grand creative franchise-incorporating movie, symphony, comic book, dissertation, photography, graphic design, and a 3-D Viewmaster® reel-in which a songwriter's interrogation of one of New York's ugliest landmarks expands athletically to forums and formulas outside of the song itself. In fact, the BQE is everything but a song.

Makes me love Brooklyn even more. via Pitchfork

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The humid muggy NYC summer embraces us. We have been so busy as of late but have a lot to share as you will see in the posts that follow.

Is everyone sick of this song already? We were, until we saw this video...



[via swissmiss]

Geometry of Circles

Philip Glass + Sesame Street: I was so happy to receive a heavy dose of nostalgia this morning, and be able to appreciate it in a different way, two decades later:



[via VSL]

The woman in a polka-dotted dress...

...is Andrea making out with Sam in the brand spankin' new New Pornographer's music video featuring Neko Case. The video premiered today on MTV2's Subterranean Blog and was mentioned in Pitchfok's Forkcast as well.

Congratualations to Courtier for being photogenic, good kissers (I presume) AND being kind to animals (they take care of our cat while we're on vacation).

Another Andrea & Sam moment featuring polka-dots if you can't get enough: she wears polka dots and plays the accordeon by Sasha.