Katamari Damacy combines mundane househould objects with Kosmic Kings and Psychadelic Princes and the ease-of-use of ROBOTRON. Essentially, the player is an amoeba, rolling around, absorbing stuff, getting bigger. Excellent trippy soundrack as well. It should be in the next Whitney Biennial.

Michael Penn's Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947 - if you believe the critics, it's a collection of old-masters sound paintings of Beatles songs. Somewhere along the line in pop culture sincerity got confused with sentimentality. Nothing sentimental about this record, nor is it glazed with a faux patina. Unfortunately, the cover art is a little misleading. Frustrated by legal matters, Penn wasn't able to use the art of his choice. The substitute was sort of a quickie photoshop pastiche that lost all the authenticity of the preferred art. Last night it occurred to me that MHJ might be a kind of West-coast Holden Caulfield. Given the dissatistfaction Penn seems to share with Salinger, I propose this alternate cover:

When I was an artist-in-residence at St. Mary's College last year, Colby loaned me a stack of CDs to check out, including Everyone Alive Wants Answers by Colleen [aka Cecile Schott.] On a trip up to NYC we happened to catch her doing an in store appearance at Other Music in support of her recent record The Golden Morning Breaks.

New toy: iModeller, the application I'm using to build my new work.

From time to time I teach a class or give lectures and I usually have scan a lot of images from books to include in my PowerPoint presentations. This year I discovered that Sothebys.com has images of decent resolution that are ideal for my presentations, so I'm gradually building a library of cool stuff. [In Safari you can right-click on an image and save directly to iPhoto!]