Dewey Decimal and the Librarians September 4, 2014 – Posted in: Content

The year was 1963. The place was St. Paul, Minnesota. The band was Dewey Decimal and the Librarians. The rest they say is history. What we do know is that they “produced a sensation at Macalester College and throughout Minnesota during the 63-64 school year” and went their separate ways soon after. But alas, they have since reunited. Here they are playing ‘Winkin, Blinkin and Nod’ at the 25th reunion of the Class of 1964 at…

Finnegans Sleep March 11, 2014 – Posted in: Conceptual Art

[youtube]http://youtu.be/iL0dV2OvHMM[/youtube] If reading James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake in bed isn’t enough to put you to sleep perhaps Elling Lien’s 12 minute music box version will. Lien “took the first few paragraphs from the first ten chapters of Finnegans Wake… printed them onto strips of paper… then punched out the vowels (including Y!) and ran the cards through a punchcard music box player” Good night! h/t BibliOdyssey

The Smiths on the shelf April 2, 2013

It seems like the taking of one art form and reimagining and repackaging it as another is all the rage these days. Christoph Gowan is probably the best known artist in this genre for his ongoing series The Record Book.Now thanks to Standard Designs in London I get to see how my favorite band looks in books. They have transformed the four studio albums released by The Smiths into shelf candy. Wow!and if you like some…

A ‘Radical’ Library for the Hip-Hop Set in the South Bronx March 25, 2013

“If we make it cool to read books in the South Bronx…then it’s a victory” –Rodrigo Venegas, aka Rodstarz, one-third of the rap crew, Rebel Diaz, and founding member of the cultural collectiveWelcome to The Richie Perez Radical Library, a new library created by the Rebel Diaz Arts Collective. The library, which was named for a South Bronx educator and activist who died in 2004, features “works by influential thinker-agitators, such as Angela Davis and Malcolm…

Singing about "Gods’ Man" March 20, 2013

Original edition of God’s Man, 1929 The music kind of started pouring out for this when I was looking at the “God’s Man” book- Jim James Jim James is best known as the frontman for the very successful band My Morning Jacket. In 2008 while performing at the University of Iowa James fell off the stage and got banged up pretty bad. In the months following, while recuperating, James was given a copy of Lynd Ward’s seminal…

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