Friday music weekend

A Sparks is not exactly the way to "relax" on an early Friday afternoon, but there is no other booze in my 'board, so it will have to do. For dinner I am eating the rest of my steak fries from last night.

The itch to dance is in my legs, but it may have to wait for another time.

Last night I saw Matthew Barney's Cremaster 4 and Drawing Restraint 10. For a long time a friend had recommended Barney's films to me, but the opportunity finally arose for free at LACMA. The instant I posted my plans on Facebook, I received responses from friends wishing to accompany me. I biked over and met up with a friend I have not seen in a while and a friend I had not yet met in person.

Cremaster (Which is, deceptively, actually the first of the cycle) was very good in my opinion. There was some really beautiful imagery of masculinity, femininity, and something in-between. I would need to view the film a couple times again before I can even begin to access it, but I was certainly captivated.

Restraint, however, was a different story.

I think - though I am not sure - that the idea, the message, the concept...was lost in the presentation. The lack of any kind of soundtrack elongated the time and the space to almost unbearable degrees. Art by attrition. I initially believed the intent drowned in the endurance test, but maybe some of the "restraint" is the determination of seeing a thing to completion, rather than giving into the impulse to leave.

And so...now it's Friday! And I have something for everyone on my playlist for the weekend.

Check out my MySpace for The Vital Transformation, Monorail Riders, Torches in Trees, Amps for Christ, The Mod Pods, Spoken Arms, The Studiofix, and The Deep Sea Goes.

I would personally recommend Monorail Riders because not only are their remixes refreshingly good, they responded when I reached out to them. I should be getting some tracks in my email soon!

If you need plans:





And lastly, a lesson in futility.



(Which my weekends inevitably deteriorate into.)