If You Find The Earth Boring...

Here’s an absolutely fascinating BBC documentary about the legendary Joe Meek from 1991 for your viewing enjoyment. [youtube 4tcS91fL8jQ 600 400]

Let your fingers do the walking and put a little poetry into your life. John Giorno’s Dial-A-Poem from 1970 is now online at the MoMA website. Among the first telephonic artworks, Dial-a-Poem allowed the public to access an archive of recordings of work by contemporary poets; by calling a local telephone number, participants could hear a well-known poet like John Ashbery or Allen Ginsberg recite a short poem selected at random by a primitive answering machine system.

For your enjoyment on this fine thursday afternoon, here’s Brian Eno’s video painting of Thursday Afternoon.  You’ll have to tilt your monitor for full effect. [youtube Riz6AKeBpa0 600 400]

I know this video of Mister Rogers remixed by Symphony Of Science’s John D. Boswell is all over the interwebs, but I don’t care because it’s great.  Watch it again and again and think about supporting your local or national PBS or NPR affiliate. [youtube OFzXaFbxDcM 600 400]

I hope you are enjoying the longest day of the year (for those of you in the northern hemisphere).  In honor of the solstice, here’s a link to an highly informed and entertaining article on the church of nature and the music of its adherents.  Read more about the summer solstice here and here.