Josh Reisner

Plusorminus: Steal the Blueprints

I love this song (by plusorminus)!

Recently Discovered

Via BoingBoing, an early art project by young M.C. Escher. Teachers are mean!

Dressy Bessy: Electrified

I know this is so *last year* but I hadn’t heard it.  Dressy Bessy’s single Electrified is the first track to really stand out at me from the aforementioned SxSW free trove of mp3s .

I’ve heard the phrase “brusque female libido” bandied about, appropriately.

The Site of the Year

Despite its pedestrian-sounding name, Netvibes is totally rad.  In fact, I am honoring Netvibes with the much-coveted JRDC Site of the Year award for 2006.

What does it do? Why don’t you just go find out for yourself and stop reading this? Ok, Netvibes is a fully customizable, fully AJAX web portal with an emphasis on RSS aggregation.  It’s like Bloglines or My Yahoo, but more elegant and less corporate.  If you’re already a blog reader, you can start by importing your OPML file and you’ll be up in no time. If you’re not, note that the RSS feed for this site is http://feeds.feedburner.com/jrdc.

Happy Friday!

The Small Faces: Itchycoo Park

In a futile attempt to return this blog to respectability after the last post (it’s probably better if you never download that last song), here’s a classic:

The Small Faces – Itchycoo Park

SxSW 2006

As they sweep up plastic cups in Austin in the wake of this weekend’s South By Southwest Music Festival, music fans such as myself are rooting through the 942 free mp3s from their site.

• Torrent 1
• Torrent 2

I’ll let you know when I find something that jumps out at me.

Jessica & Erik

My friends Jessica Grindstaff and Erik Sanko are having an art opening this Tuesday at John Derian, a store in the East Village.  Please come and see their fabulous work!

Pictured above is one of Erik’s marionettes.

A Day in the Life of Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman does a hilarious rap about her life on SNL last night.  Clearly, hiring Andy Samberg and the other Lonely Island guys is really working out.  NBC, please don’t sue anyone.

A Load of Old Famous

I love this.  The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces that they’re inducting the Sex Pistols, and in response they get called a ‘piss stain.’  Rock!

Strokes: I’ve Got Nothing To Say

That’s a lyric in this cool remix of the Strokes’ Ask Me Anything done by a friend of a friend.