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Thanks to the team at Arnold Worldwide and Jack Daniel’s for allowing me the opportunity to work on such an awesome project. See more on my site here: http://joncontino.com/Jack-Daniels

I’ve met and seen Jon lecture twice while I was at Pratt. Nicest dude, great talent. Authentic stuff right here.

For anyone in NYC tonight, go check out a free screening of David Byrne’s wonderfully strange film, True Stories.

Screening at 7:00pm sharp (Doors 6:30)
FREE Admission (2 dollar donation suggested)
21+ (Cash Bar)

Disjecta hosts a screening of David Byrne’s criminally under-seen True Stories, which is best described as a magical-surrealist-comedy-musical. Made in the mid 80s, True Stories is an eerie prediction of where we are today. The film observes the emergence of computer chips, shopping malls, and modern advertising, as well as comments on how these relate to, and often intrude on, human interaction. However, instead of doing so with pessimism, it does so with such a curiosity that the film could almost be considered joyful, according to promoter Nate Wey. “This is our humble way of helping more people discover this magical work,” says Wey.

This movie does what some painters try to do: It recasts ordinary images into strange new shapes. There is hardly a moment in ‘True Stories’ that doesn’t seem everyday to anyone who has grown up in Middle America, and not a moment that doesn’t seem haunted with secrets, evasions, loneliness, depravity or hidden joy - sometimes all at once. This is almost like a science-fiction movie: Everyone on screen looks so normal and behaves so oddly, they could be pod people.

- Roger Ebert

(Source: theokbb)

Good day followers! Today I have another vinyl haul to show off and a new store to share. It’s a used book and record store located around the intersection of North 8th Street and Wythe Avenue (Williamsburg, Brooklyn). I don’t have an exact address or name, sorry. This store must be new as I can’t find anything about it online but here’s why you should check it out:

• They organize their vinyl alphabetically
• The side of the album with the artists’ name and album name is facing up, which makes perusing infinitely faster
• Most of the records are $5 or $20 for 5. They have lots of great old music. Also, a good number of $1 and $2 bins with similar deals. Lots of organized 45’s as well
• I didn’t look at their prices on books btu my sister got a bunch for $1 each, so they have similar deals all around.
• They also have old comics!

So here’s the gold I lugged off with me today (all for $20)…

1. Decade by Neil Young
2. Tommy by The Who
3. Another Side of Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
4. Out of Their Heads by The Rolling Stones
5. Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
6. Flowers by The Rolling Stones (bonus!)

Go check it out yourself! Happy hunting!

* I’ve had this picture on my desktop for a while and didn’t realize until posting it now that it’s from Sound Fix (my favorite Brooklyn record store). So give them a visit as well.

Yours Truly is headed out east to (unofficially) celebrate the 30th anniversary of CMJ. On Friday, October 22nd, Glasslands is hosting Yours Truly’s first ever Pillow Talk/Pillow Fight barn burner. It all starts around 6pm and it’s free! We’ll even give you free beer between 7pm and 9:30pm. So shake your feathers down to Brooklyn and let these bands whisper sweet nothings in your ear until you pass out, or fight back.

(Via Yours Truly)

If you live around New York I’d suggest checking out this show. I’ve posted about a couple bands on the list so I’m positive the show will be great. Also, it’s free! Don’t miss it. Click here to listen to songs by each artist.

So I apologize for barely posting anything lately but with school starting up again I haven’t had much time to put together a proper quality post. Moving on, yesterday I went to the Brooklyn Flea Market and came home with some amazing deals.

The Brooklyn Flea market is held every weekend at two locations. On Saturday (the one I went to) it is in Fort Greene (176 Lafayette Ave.) and on Sunday there is one at One Hanson aka Williamsburg Savings Bank (1 Hanson Pl.). In the two times I’ve gone I find that there are two kinds of vendors. There are the young hipsters, capitalizing on the neighborhood and selling items which are overpriced, as if they think they are the Sharper Image of vintage. On the other hand there is everyone else (the older people) who are there simply to sell (and it’s possible to bargain with them).

So yesterday Laura & I came upon crates of records. We found a lot of stuff we liked. And then the bombshell was dropped: most of them were going for $5. This wonderful man was selling his personal record collection. So we weren’t going to get ripped off by someone trying to get $10 for unplayably scratched albums. I find that you can judge a vendor or a record store by how much they’re selling their Beatles albums for. If you can find a deal on those you know you’re in good hands.

So here’s the rap sheet for, what I consider to be, my second Christmas. Oh, and I got all of this for $40 and every record is in pristine condition.

1. Live Rust by Neil Young
2. John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan
3. Let It Be by The Beatles
4. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Neil Young
5. American Beauty by The Grateful Dead
6. Artistic Vice by Daniel Johnston
7. 1990 by Daniel Johnston
8. Elvis Presley by Elvis Presley
9. Beach Boys Concert by The Beach Boys

I strongly suggest going if you are even remotely close. Happy hunting!

Here’s some really cool hand painted advertisement totems (I’m not exactly sure what to call them) from Brooklyn artist collective Faile. I wish I could have one sitting in my nonexistent apartment somewhere.