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Okay...we're really going to try and get regular entries into this thing....


TECH REVIEW

I dig Wired Magazine...enough that I got my dad a subscription a few years back...and brought him into the fold. This month's issue of Wired is guest edited by J.J. Abrams...in what I would usually cry foul as corporate manuevering (his Trek film hits soon and the timing is certainly the device of some cult of doom marketing department...its jokes), but its a pretty good issue.

But...I walked into Other Music (a favorite between class dash) and snagged this month's VICE (a fan since their tabloid days when you could get them at Liquid Sky...downtown vets know the deal...). It was the technology issue...and I gotta say...I enjoyed it more than...or at least as much as this month's Wired. That's saying a lot since there's a Dr. Spock story by Paul Pope in this month's Wired (perfect for when you're tired of reading long winded articles about how much things are going to suck or not in the future) ...Every now and then I think I've read one VICE too many...and then an issue will bring me leaning over the fence in their favor a bit. Man I wish we had this mag when I was in high school.


ANTENNA

Speaking of downtown vets...on my many travels through the NY underground I've encountered the beloved and charmingly eccentric artist's artist Valerie Geffner. Our paths have met on a few mind-warping and entertaining occassions over the years. A few months ago, I had the pleasure of looking hip at the listening party for the first act of her self-described pop-opera Antenna. It's the amped desire of electro crashing against downtempo while flirting with house and every half-living or fully functional form of electronica to emerge in the past ten years. Its like Warhol's take on a Slowdive record tracked in some magic corner of Studio 54 that got a peek into the future. Artsy, with just enough pop. Pop, with just enough art before exploding into pretentious posturing. What? Yes, that means I dig it.

BLAST OFF

Okay, gotta blast off kiddies....so I'll leave you with a present...