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I was listening to a mix last night and was immediately smitten by the french singer Camille Dalmais

Her second album, Le fil was released in 2006. It was named France’s Best New Album of the Year winning two “Victoire” prizes, at the leading French music awards. Le Fil “the thread” refers to the one note - B - that weaves its way throughout the album and is sustained for 35 minutes in the final track.

Camille is the winner of the French equivalent of the Mercury Music Prize for her last album, Le Fil, which also found devoted champions in this country, not least in these pages: Charlie Gilllett, reviewing here in April 2005, called it ‘extra special’, and it made number nine in OMM’s list of the 100 best CDs of that year. Pretty good going for such an adventurous record - witness the continuous line (or thread: ‘le fil’) of a single note that held the whole thing together - and one also largely sung in French; that its successor is largely sung in English shouldn’t be read as a suggestion that the 30-year-old Parisian is seeking crossover success of any kind.

Gaurdian UK

She has a site for Le Fil

And what timing - turns out she has a new release - Music Hole - coming out in a few days.

And i’d find you some mp3 links but - they are mostly in french. But she has a website . When i just tried the website i clicked and then got a black screen and nothing happened - it must be some avant garde gitane smoking brandy sniffing french joke. but i’m still crushin’ on ya Camille!

update - ok the site loaded in firefox after discussing politics and hemlines with every single stranger between california and the paris metro. its fun. the video documentary about Music Hole is funny and strange and endearing and tres enchanté .

Music Hole Website with videos

A Weather released their debut full length Cove a couple weeks ago.

Some Mp3s from Cove direct from their label

spiders, snakes

oh my stars

screw up your courage

And one more especially amazing song if you haven’t heard them before (from their ep)

one more night stand

A Weather is deep like the pacific ocean and i love them fierce. Some more mp3s on their official site

i get mixes from friends and blogs
often they will name the mp3 file with a number, to describe the order of the mix, like

01 Forgive Me.mp3
02 Gravity.mp3
03 Come on Feet.mp3
04 If You Were Here.mp3
05 Galaxies.mp3

etc

when i select and drop the mp3 files into my itunes window - the order is not recognized, and rearranging them is a pain. But i have just figured out how to do this!

in the finder window you have 3 different choices - icons, list view, and that third one which allows you to drill down through the folders. for some reason if you select the group of files in list view, the order will get messed up, even if the sort is by name. but if you choose the third option - they will be in the right order.

this same thing also applies if you are trying to copy and paste the names of everything in a folder to a text document.

i’m still on tiger - maybe leopard has solved this weirdness.

Nicole Richies Dog Makes a Radical Fashion Statement

On a cold Saturday in New York City, the world’s largest train station came to a sudden halt. Over 200 Improv Everywhere Agents froze in place at the exact same second for five minutes in the Main Concourse of Grand Central Station. Over 500,000 people rush through Grand Central every day, but today, things slowed down just a bit as commuters and tourists alike stopped to notice what was happening around them.

more info from improve everywhere the people who organized it

so somewhere (wonkette.com comment section actually) i saw this reference to brad neely’s twisted tribute to George Washington

yeah i know - you saw it years ago

so then - being completely and all smitten i googled Brad Neely

so then - actually i think i was curious about what this genius looked like - and so there i was, and there were the pix - and then some of them were articles with words!!

so then i found out all about Wizard People,Dear Readers where neely reads or narrates to the first Harry Potter movie, and its supposed to be hilarious y’all! like it was all the rage four years ago or whatevs so of course i’m just learning about it.

wiki explanation of the phenom
and instructions for how to synch up on Ilegal Art

btw Illegal Art is a really cool site.

yeah - so then - after looking at the bio on wiki - i read this interview with mr. neely on Chief Mag

then i was looking at the chief mag home page - and there was a blog post about how Bert Stern - who was the last person to photograph M Monroe - recreated the shoot with L Lo. for new yorker mag. And she was all there bb.

i’m not going to link that because its going to be all over the interwebs. or do a google search.

anyway - after carefully examining every pixel for authenticity and verisimilitude - i browsed Chief Mag for a good long while.

so what i’m going to give you patient readers?

Adrian Tomine

Summer Blonde Covers
((clicky on them to see full size))

Paradoxically one of the best established comix artists is still one of the youngest. At only 27 Adrian Tomine has been producing his Optic Nerve series for over ten years. Tomine’s first break came at 17 when he was hired to create a comic strip for Tower Records’ national magazine PULSE! By 21 he had won the comix industry Harvey Award for Best New Talent. His painfully observant stories of urban detachment and missed emotional connections came to define among alternative comix a Gen-X sensibility and gained national attention for their stylish and literate minimalism. Born in Sacramento, CA, Tomine lives in Berkeley where he writes Optic Nerve and contributes illustrations to The New Yorker and George.

Note - that quote is old - he’s 33 now. Adrian’s newer one is Shortcomings

And there’s a blog here which has a bunch of deets on his appearances, recent work and such like

Ok you bastard - here she is

words words words about l lo as marilyn

HAPPY NOW????

Heidi Klum takes a break from Auffing and chews on Will Ferrell for S.I.

Tastefully named after a Victorian term for a woman who is skilled in the bedroom, The Lake & Stars couples highly tailored wardrobe staples with comfortable fabrics and strong sexy detailing, providing must-haves for the woman who’s preferences demand understated sex appeal, comfort, and ease.

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Or, you know, maybe they won’t. After all, the right has its own heaping bucket of problems right now, not the least of which is the weakest and craziest and least palatable field of GOP contenders in 50 years. There’s the chipper creationist nutball who loves him some Chuck Norris, the stupefied Mormon mannequin who simply cannot believe the world is so icky and complicated, the doddering Iraq-loving war vet who seems to be getting more unstable by the minute, and the cross-dressing former New York mayor who has “9/11″ tattooed on his ego in fake blood. And oh yes, a zany old anti-choice libertarian who somehow keeps raising piles of cash and sending fascinating postcards from the edge of political reason. Cool!

mark morford

more moford

dancing blue footed birds

* On Mitt “Mittens” Romney:
This guy’s tried so many angles, he’s a fuckin’ circle.
Scott San

If his campaign ever survives to super tubersday, he’ll be invoking his Mexican heritage.
HANDELUZIA

* and a little diversion:
So there’s a bear and a bunnyrabbit standing in a clearing in the forest one day, just hanging out, talking over their medial ailments, a common topic of small talk among forest creatures, and the bear says to the rabbit “do you ever have a problem with poop sticking to your fur after you poop? And the Rabbit says “No, I’ve never had that problem.” The bear just says “good,” and grabs the rabbit and wipes his ass with it.
promnightdumpsterbaby

EDIT - sadly that site was taken over by EVIL, they kicked out the brave true and very hot writers.

the new source for snark….

EDIT - ok the new source for snark turned out to be the new source for long winded alcoholic bitter bile. and not funny.

Wonkette is the new wonkette. the commentators bring the funny. wee weevel weditor will weave wooner wor wayter.