Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

James Houston assembled an orchestra of old electronics and taught them how to play “Nude” by Radiohead. Awesome. (read more about it on his site)

This is my friend Michael P’s band.
They rock, and are playing every Thursday this month at the Trash Bar.
Come on out for some great music and free tots! Booyah!

Listen to Schocholautte on MySpace

Folks, this Thursday looks to be quite a treat, with 3 wonderful happenings goin on..

6-8 PM
Donald Jurney @ Arcadia Fine Arts: 51 Greene St, New York, NY 10013
Donald Jurney is an incredible landscape painter, and will be showing works spanning 30 years at Arcadia Fine Arts.

7-9 PM
Adam Stennett @ 31GRAND: 143 Ludlow St. New York, NY 10002
Adam Stennett, know for his gorgeously realistic paintings of mice, will be showing new works and a new direction.

10 PM
Schocholautte @ Ottos Shrunken Head: 538 E 14th St, New York, NY 10009
B51 alum Michael P, of Aquaman karaoke fame, will be playing with his band at a Tiki Bar.

Come on out, it should be a fun night!

Best. Show. Ever.

Going into this, I heard a lot of hype. I heard that people who weren’t even Daft Punk fans (yet somehow went?) described it as a “religious experience”. Personally, I’d not call anything short of playing shuffleboard with Jesus a religious experience… but I certainly get where those folks were coming from.

Awesome show… certainly the best I’ve been to. (though if I could have somehow attended the Pink Floyd: The Wall tour, then this would possibly fall second)

Anyway, here are some clips that I managed to shoot in between frantic dancing and screaming. Enjoy.

PS: the video above, while reasonably good for web streaming, is half the quality of what
it really should be. (plus, this is just more fun to watch on your TV or iPod)
Right click here and choose “save as” to download a high-resolution
(& iPod / iTunes / iTV / iPhone friendly) version

So a friend turned me on to this new site, and it totally rocks. It’s called AudioScrobbler, and it’s like Friendster for music. It tracks all the music that you listen to and publishes your statistics. Then it can tell you what people with similar tastes are listening to, and even provides an internet radio stream of music it knows you’ll probably like. Cool.

http://www.audioscrobbler.com
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/sterlingely/