shawn avery

this is one of the best clips i've seen regarding the election, via salon.com, could this be the real enemy ? also check this out... 1. this lady does some great art. it reminds me of some of matthew barney's work. 2. she uses dead animals. and - yep... she kills them herself. that's creepy and brilliant at the same time. here's the nathalia edenmont exhibit . and here's the rationale for the art-killings via the host gallery, wetterling. i don't really have an opinion. i just thought i should share that little art nugget. ...moving on... i got the final packaged verison of the jesse payne solo album. it was very well done. the front and back photo is of canterbury church here in birmingham. the liner book is solid white, with plain black text. very simple and clean. i like it. i'll post a pic in a few days. pay attention to rock radio in the next several weeks and you'll probably hear some promos for the album that is slated to drop in election day. ...

still no skybucket complilation of the local rock scene... i bought the (newly reformed) tears for fears cd. i've been a huge fan of tff leader roland orzabal since highschool, although i liked (like everyone else in america) the song everybody wants to rule the world way back in '85. curt (the cute one) left in '92 and roland continued on without him, releasing one of my favorite albums ever - elemental, followed by raoul and the kings of spain, and a b-sides collection. he decided to hang it up in 2001 and released a solo album. unfortunately he had distribution problems (don't we all?) and it was released during the 9/11 north american consumer black hole. well, curt and roland got back together and have essentially recorded the follow-up album to 1989's seminal pop masterpiece, the seeds of love -which it took 4 years and almost $1 million to produce. they put the "big" in "'80s". in the past decade, after both guys ventured off into lush...