Vigorously Lazy

I bought that Arcade Fire tour doc over the weekend. I love that Neon Bible album and they got a shit ton of footage of them recording it, which was cool to see. Go here to buy it digitally or wait a few months for it to come out on some weird format called a Dee-Vay-Dee. Am I pronouncing that right?

Dear friend, Rose, spotted us on a NYC news stand. Pretty cool!

If you’ve submitted to the mag in the past month and haven’t got a response yet, there’s an explanation over at the mag site.

And for the non-submitters, the explanation is followed by a juicy rant wherein I write something I later regret.

Holy Shit. Hulu just recently posted Howard the Duck. Howard the fucking Duck. The entire movie. For your viewing pleasure. For free.

Here’s a taste of the fruits of me and Bob’s labor. Well, Bob’s labor mainly. I mostly sit around being fed grapes by young Argentinian women and shoot all of Bob’s ideas down whenever he surfaces from the design dungeon.

So this is the new cover. The image is by Justin Gibbens. More on him, and other contributors, in the future. Enjoy this for now and brace yourself for the issue #4 hype train.

Me and this dude are finishing up the new issue today and tomorrow. Don’t bug us. Unless it has something to do with this.

From the department of freaky Friday: Go spend some time in John Casey’s wild wonderful world.

Dear friend, Cara, has been working on some art for this Mexico City musician Natalia Lafourcade for the past few months now. She sent me Lafourcade’s new jam and I loved it (though I’m not sure if I can post it here seeing as the album isn’t out yet and I don’t want to get my friend in trouble with Sony). Check out this jam that appears to be part of some sound track to a Mexican indie film:

UPDATE: Video removed, click here.

This one’s pretty fun too:

UPDATE: Video removed (wtf?), click here.

She apparently started out doing nueva bossa nova type stuff, her new stuff sounds different though. Check out La 4 Estaciones del Amor (The 4 Seasons of Love), an instrumental EP. Very good, uplifting and, at times, sweetly sad stuff. Also, according to wiki, her name is French and means “the forking”, in reference to a road. If I were a music writer I’d point out how symbolic her name is in regard to her shifting musical styles. But I’m not. So I won’t.

The lineup for Annalemma Issue #4 got announced today. Check it out over here. Don’t feel bad if you didn’t make the cut. I almost didn’t put myself in this issue.