I Am Like A Crow

Or at least I am like the crows of conventional wisdom, said to appreciate shiny. Appreciation augmented by vivid colour in the shiny. Lost At E Minor recently featured the creations of one Linda Dolack, who is probably a crow like me.

Linda Dolack’s foodie artwork – New Food and Packaging | Lost At E Minor: For creative people.

Prolly Witness Nasty All The Time

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Wallpaper’s got the interactive floor plans and photo galleries of London’s Open Houses, set to erode your contentment later this month. Tidbit from the description of the one pictured here:

“From a street elevation that is plain and discrete, with an expansive panel of frosted privacy glass hinting at the glassy wonders within, the visitor steps into a light-filled world of technology and visual drama. The concrete-framed house is effectively a pavilion that opens up to the verdant expanse of the cemetery, a romantic landscape of mossy tombstones and crooked monuments.”

Etcetera.

So Her Hair Was Like That Then

That’d be Laurie Anderson playing her Viophonograph in days of yore. Wait now: in 1976, to be precise, before the watchful photographic eye of Bob Bielecki. She is one of the many awe-inspiring names on the list of Duke’s Nasher Museum’s vinylphile show “The Record” planned for 2010/11. Christian Marclay and Ed Ruscha are a couple of others. You now have just under a year to plan your attendance at the opening, or if that date is already blocked out on your calendar, you will have six months more to at least get in to see the show.

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Any Major Dude Will Tell You

Sometimes it seems like I am always in a near-dustup defending the honourable pastime of Steely Dan fancying. So know, as you prepare your eye-roll or snarky reply to this post, that I have seen it all before and care not.

In case you can’t bear to tear yourself away from EVEN MORE LEGENDARY right now to get this sweet news, here is the upshot: they are performing classics Aja and Pretzel Logic in their entirety currently on the Rent Party tour.

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Steely Dan sets albums free on Rent Party tour :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Music.