Some thoughts on change and building things
Just because I’m blown away by what this band is about, I’m going to start with this before I talk about what’s been happening around my life lately.
Anamanaguchi is an 8 bit hardcore punk band that plays music they create with hacked Nintendo NES hardware.
I’m going to repeat that, because it bears repeating.
Anamanaguchi
Is an 8 bit hardcore punk band that plays music they created with hacked Nintendo NES hardware.
They sell their “album” directly from their label site for $5 using Google Checkout. And they allow anyone that wants to to embed the following multimedia version of their album anywhere on the interwebs. What’s stunningly, joyfully and aesthetically exciting about all of this is how it is simultaneously nostalgic, contemporary, and completely different.
Enjoy.
It’s been a pretty interesting first half of 2009. Halfway through it seems, at a national level, that 2009 is living up to being a year of the really hard work that creates lasting change. We’ll see if we manage to do it without furthering the empty saber rattling and mind-numbing hate that is the “culture wars”. Don’t you have to have a culture worth fighting for to have a culture war? Seems like we’re starting to get into cultural scorched earth territory.
On a more personal note, this year has been a year of really dramatic change. My work continues to challenge, surprise and puzzle me. I like puzzles so it’s been pretty cool.
David is getting ready for Kindergarten and amazes me daily with his maturity. Wednesday morning this week he announced, after he put on his shoes.
