My Bloody Valentine

US tour has been announced. NYC shows September 22 and 23 at Roseland, tickets on sale Friday, ticket info here and here!

(Massive) Attack Ships On Fire

Pitchfork has the first details on the Massive Attack curated Meltdown Festival and the most interesting bit is this: Massive Attack will mix a live performance of the Blade Runner soundtrack by the Heritage Orchestra. Brilliant.

This One’s Optimistic

Optimistic from Radiohead’s In_Rainbows_From_The_Basement special from VH1 last Friday. Start at the beginning and view the rest here.

The Whole City Was a Playground

Via Gothamist: the trailer from the upcoming documentary Deathbowl to Downtown - the Evolution of Skateboarding in New York City.

More clips and info here.

feliZ cinco de mayo

It’s midgets and margaritas all day long—

Penguins a-tumblin

Some fellow named Max Wheeler has put together a very nice translation of the Penguin Classics book style to web as a Tumblr Theme. But, unlike the books, there’s no content to back up the aesthetic; I don’t know who’d use it—other than Penguin Classics itself.

Philip Marlowe

The world first met Philip Marlowe, the fictional detective created by Raymond Chandler, in 1939 with the publication of Chandler’s first novel The Big Sleep. Since then, through 6 novels, several short stories and a slew of radio and film adaptations (most famously Howard Hawk’s 1946 version of The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall), Marlowe has become the template for the anti-hero private eye.

In Character, a regular segment on NPR’s Morning Edition, revisits Marlowe and features a great clip of a BBC interview where Ian Fleming and Chandler, who were great mutual admirers, talk about the character and how he measures up to Fleming’s own literary creation: James Bond.

Listen here.

(And in related news you can listen to the “In Character” segment on Indiana Jones here.)

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

The full trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out this weekend, watch it in glorious 720p HD Quicktime here.

Rene Belloq

Watching Top Chef last night I saw this commercial from Travelers Insurance, which is lovely in its own right, but why post it? Because the man with the umbrella is none other than Paul Freeman, the actor who played Indiana Jones‘ nemesis Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark!

no dot, no stop

Limited to 500. Consume.