Firebrands
Portraits from the Americas Justseed Artists' Cooperative Edited by Shawn Slifer and Bec Young
at Amazon Microcosm Publishing File Under: Biography, Art, Fight the Power
This is a great book. The introduction says this book is:
"For all our ancestors, especially those misrepresented in those textbooks, left out because they were too brown, too female, too poor, too queer, too uneducated, too disabled, or because they daydreamed too much.".
Live records are tricky. They either sound a mess because the best live mix is not necessarily the best recorded mix or they sound so produced that you lose all the excitement that you might get from a live show. Only a few live records seem to be able to somehow.
In Bad Taste
a Quest for the Word's Most Exotic Foods Dr. Massimo Marcone
Key Porter Books ISBN: 978-1-55263-882-8
Buy at Amazon File Under: Nonfiction, funky food fun
From reading the back of this book, I pictured Massimo Marcone to be some cross between Indiana Jones and Sheldon Cooper. After reading it I would also add a a bit of a Bill Bryson when he is in his adventure/travel writer mode.
Massimo is a food scientist. He explores the world in search of the most exotic and often times bizarre foods. Many have heard of Kopi Luwak otherwise known as scat coffee, but is it real? Marcone sets out to find out. Indeed he finds finds the coffee that is collected by the scat (ie: poop) of the civet. He then scientifically test it to find out if there is a difference between it and other coffee.
I haven't had a chance to see the whole documentary, but this new documentary about politics and music sounds promising. It seems like it follows Fat Mike and mostly Anti-Flag.
When I was a kid and my band wanted to record in the basement we would set up a boombox with a blank tape turn it on, count to three and start recording. This record sounds like they did the same thing. I of course mean that as a compliment. Garage rock is suppose to sound like it is recorded in a garage or a basement. It is suppose to have that kind of drive, muddy production and most importantly lack of overdubs.
