#7: First Press, New Paintings, Laughing Last & RubiconFirst thing's first: last night via Google, Nina spotted our first bit of press: a newspaper article from the Northwest Arkansas Times. It was a surprising find considering no one from their staff tried to contact us, but we are thrilled that they decided to run something on us nonetheless. And it certainly goes a long way toward explaining the Fayetteville phenomenon.
My favorite line from the article is the closer--"Our strange little world just keeps getting stranger." So true. By the way, don't get weirded out when you notice the address is nwanews.com--it's not that NWA.
In other exciting news, Nina just finished work on three paintings which are now up for viewing on her site. All three are portraits of people with birds, much like a self-portrait she painted last year. Check them out and let her know what you think--I think the lady's got talent.
An article in the latest issue of Time Magazine correlates life expectancy to the state in which one lives (the literal, United States sort of state, not the mental kind). Turns out folks in Louisiana have the third-lowest life expectancy of U.S. residents. Who'da thunk?
Not to be outdone are their neighbors to the east, Mississippi, and in the number one slot, winner of the life expectancy booby prize, Washington D.C., the "chocolate city with a marshmallow center... and a graham cracker crust of corruption." Best off? Hawaii, of course.
Continuing with my personal theme of songs I love but didn't know there were videos for, yesterday I stumbled across a clip for Alan Braxe and Fred Falke's "Rubicon," a track featured on both Braxe's The Upper Cuts and Erlend Oye's DJ Kicks:
Some folks don't like the video, but I think it really nails the essence of the song. The devil's in the details: the boxy car she takes her test in, the wardrobe choices for the girl and her DMV supervisor, the hokey teen drama tension. Download the track here.
xoxox
Danny
Labels: MP3, Music video
posted by Danny&Nina @ 9/21/2006 09:45:00 AM
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hey guys,
this is alexander over at noise for toaster. firstly, thanks for linking us over fluxblog and stereogum.
secondly, i believe you had a correspondence with shan for a while, which might be why this is so. how's it going at this point?
thirdly, i would vote the crap out of boston or cambridge, but i'd say i'm a little biased. personally, shan and i would love to spend some time living in new york specifically, but also a bunch of other places on your list and elsewhere.
basically, good luck with everything you're doing, the art, the careers, the site, the voting...the move. and thanks again, i think we're all in it for the music in the end.
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