Here is a cool video surprisingly brought to you by Chipotle, with Willie Nelson covering Coldplay. Read More »

Here is a video from the show Don't Move Here filmed in Portland, OR. This episode takes you inside the house of Isaac Brock, the frontman for Modest Mouse. He gives you a tour of his house, talks taxidermy and home renovations, and plays a little music for you as well. Enjoy. love, Howie Read More »

The Movie A recent review on the NY Times website on Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch reminded me of the dark beauty of this movie, a hallucinatory western in which a man heads west in search of a job.  The mythic landscape of the American West is haunted by memories of genocide and environmental disaster, with characters overtaken by greed and violence. The Cast Starring Johnny Depp as William Blake, an accountant / poet, the movie has an amazing supporting cast that includes Gary Farmer, Gabriel Byrne, Crispin Glover, Alfred Molina, Robert Mitchum, Iggy Popp, Billy Bob Thorton and John.. Read More »

Walker Art Center and the High Line Park The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is hosting a dialogue/interview about the High Line in New York City. If you haven't had a chance to see it yet, the High Line was an abandoned elevated railway running on the west side of Manhattan. After years of work, it was converted into a public greenway that opened last spring to both critical and public acclaim. The webisode airs tonight at 7:00pm. http://channel.walkerart.org/play/new-yorks-high-line/ Read More »

Early morning winter train into the Great City I once rode an early morning winter train from Beacon, NY, down the Hudson River valley, and into the great city, listening to this record on my headphones. Steaming smokestacks, frosty steel signs of industry awakening, snow dusted hills and cliffs, and the black and rolling river, all in rhythm to the perpetual chug of machinery beneath my body. It was a truly beautiful experience. Johann Johannson ^ IBM 1401 It also created for me a visual companion for this song that would be hard to match. BUT! this video is spot-on.. Read More »