Catching Up etc.

First things first:  someone reached this blog yesterday by searching “sexy sherbert” – sorry for letting you down, dude.  Hope you found what you were looking for.

The last few days have been spent hanging out with Bajah + Dry Eye Crew, 3 MC’s from Sierra Leone who are just about to unleash themselves on an unsuspecting American music scene.  These cats are good – I heartily recommend going to their MySpace and turning your laptop up to 11 (also, their Space features what would appear to be the filter section from a Moog product along the right side, which I can get behind like crazy.)  ://grove.nyc is providing visual support for their live act as it develops, with a gig at the Knitting Factory on Tuesday and a larger show at the Roots picnic on Saturday.  As a result I am burning midnight oil like it’s chanukkah, trying to come with content that doesn’t look like wall paper but actually, you know, has narrative and whatnot.  It’s gonna be sick – drop me a line if you come by the Factory and we can hang out after the set.

In other news:  I am knee deep in VDMX and all of it’s Quartz Composer bullshit/glory and while it’s nice to be working on a hotrod it’s making me yearn to do something with my hands and my eyes that doesn’t involve a mouse at all – ideally it won’t even involve a screen, though that may or may bot be wishful thinking.  I’m leaning towards pulling off some oil projections – glycerin + oil + water + dish + overhead projector + practice = this – and maybe some ghetto OptiKinetics stuff as well.  Point is I want to be careful about getting too digital.

So – look for video of the show on Wednesday.

Who’s doing something neat this weekend?  Or has read any good books?