This was an interesting concept:  half hip hop video / half documentary about a social issue-- gentrification in Detroit.

Reformat the Planet: Great movie about people who like to make music from old 8-bit hardware and gaming systems.
playing Tuesday and Wednesday at the Alamo Drafthouse

Radiohead - "Ceremony"

More from New Order:

New Order - "True Faith"

New Order - "Everything's Gone Green"

New Order - "Round and Round"

New Order Technique commercial

I've been spending lots of time with my nieces and nephews lately.  Its not that childhood is totally free from problems, it’s just that possibilities seem so unlimited.  

Sigur Ros - Glósóli

Megan and I watched David Byrne through a chain linked fense from outside the Austin City Limits festival.  It was fun to watch people jump the fence and then get chased around by security.

Talking Heads - Blind

A kind soul gave me her wrist band so I got to see Band of Horses Sunday night.

Band of Horses - The Funeral

Last week, at the Alamo Draft House, we listened to a talk by Josh Frank, author of In Heaven Everything is Fine, a book about the crazy-ass host of New Wave Theater, composer, yoga master and culturalist, Peter Ivers.  Josh showed two episodes of New Wave theater which were awesome.  Peter Ivers would hilariously taunt and jab at the punk rock bands he featured on his show.  I guess the show was originally on public access and then picked up by Night Flight on the USA Network.  In 1983, Peter was murdered in his bed which remains an unsolved crime.  Josh is supposed to be back in Austin in November for the Texas Book Festival.  Hopefully he'll have more un-YouTubed clips.

She started out as an illustrator for the Spiderman comics, worked her way up to principal animator of the Ren & Stimpy show, started a few bands and recently added a super cool track to Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse soundtrack.

Wikipedia entry

Neon Neon's retro-futurist ode to the life of auto mogul John DeLorean has been nominated for a Mercury Prize for 2008's best album.  I'm also pleased that Burial's Untrue was also included in the list.