i'll be the first to admit, i don't read much. i'm not into fiction. i've been known to fall asleep reading alton brown's latest science style cookbook, free of food photography. yeah, i know, it's weird.
so when i heard that mark oliver everett , aka E from the band EELS, wrote an autobiography i was optimistic to read my second book since college. the tale is simple and the writing style is direct and honest. mark grew up in a screwy household with a quantum physicist father who developed the 'many worlds theory' and was a contemporary of niels bohr from your high school science books. mom was a bird loving housewife. sister was into everything bad. so, with his music as his only outlet, he ventures from virgina to LA with a guitar and a few bucks. it sounds familiar, but it's not. it only gets more strange from their when everyone in the family dies within a short period of time. and did i mention his cousin was in the plane that hit the pentagon on 9/11?
with chapters such as "good old days / shut up or die," how can you resist? it's unlike anything you've ever read and it will grab you from the start. if you think things are bad, trust me, it can get a lot worse. mark oliver will inspire you to see the bright side. years from now, he hopes to write the second half of the story..... the boring half.
seriously different. seriously good.
KCRW is playing a tribute to Michael. I came back u[ stairs and the song i had been waiting for came on just as I wnet to type this entry. Damn...Michael death equates to my loss of innocence. The power of music to move us...can you feel it?
I’m not so sure I agree with the pundits in terms of the juice and fanfare that exhibitors displayed at this year’s E3 conference. However, there is so much going on in the gaming industry now that you cannot help but be intrigued–major advances in story line, super fast processing capabilities, beautiful and diverse imagery and styles, massive multi-player capabilities, accessories, 3-D and on, and on. One thing I really appreciated was the incorporation of modified physical objects as controller into the game play–skateboards, guitars, mics, double fisted controllers, gloves, and thanks to Microsoft’s Natal our whole body. Makes ya wanna grab a Redbull, turn the lights down and connect…
At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't).