A Tribute to Jeremy Lin

Jimmy Fallon's musical impersonations are always spot-on. Along with Neil Young and Jim Morrisson, the host also makes a great Eddie Vedder imitation. Judge for yourself.

Haroshi

I'm a big fan of artists who use recycled materials or even trash to create sculptures and paintings or to facilitate the process. Artists such as Nick Gentry who uses old computer disks as a canvas, Julian Schnabel and his pottery paintings and Vik Muniz who brings to life the garbage from the dumps of Rio and NYC. And then there is Haroshi, who I learned of recently, belongs to this group, using as his material, broken and discarded skateboards. Here are a few of his creations.

Tucano's

Is there anything more depressing than getting a free birthday meal from Tucano's knowing that you now live nearly 2,000 miles from said restaurant? Sometimes I really miss Provo.

Lately

Batman: Black Mirror by Scott Snyder. The best Batman comic I've read in some time. Snyder has given the Dark Knight the writing that it deserves.

It was a sad day when I found out Borders was going out of business. It was the one place where I could go and find just about any graphic novel I was looking for. Beckie and I would go on our date-nights (sans the little guy) and spend a couple hours browsing and reading. Athens still has Barnes & Noble but their selection pales in comparison to the once-great Borders. But, recently I found that the former had the most recent copy of my favorite graphic novel The Walking Dead. The past few volumes haven't been as good as previous ones but after reading this one I'm optimistic about the future of the comic. 

Found this book the other day on Amazon while looking at Maximiliano Ruiz's latest, Walls and Frames: Fine Art from the Streets. Street art in Latin America is huge, and just like most things from our southern neighbor, it is underrated. There seems to be obvious links between the classic muralists (Rivera, Orozco) and the new wave of graffiti artists. It's really something I want to explore going forward in my studies.  

The best album so far in 2012. Going against such recent indie trends as chill-wave,  and "weepy-rock" ala Bon Iver and The Antlers. An album that, for a lack of a better term, rocks. Loud, abrasive, fun and strangely moving.