Beatles offspring, Sean Lennon, speaks to writer Nathan Jolly about his new album, Friendly Fire. What was the idea behind making a short film for each of the songs on the album? ‘I wanted to do something different than just make a commercial for myself. I wanted to make art. There’s no chance of me getting on MTV, so why cater to that if they aren’t going to invite me in. I wouldn’t say that I have more interest in film than music or any other art form, but it is a merging of film and music anyway. It is a combination of different mediums and that is attractive’. You have both your parents listed under influences on your MYSPACE page, [as Mum, Dad]. It seems you aren’t worried about living under their enormous shadows. ‘I’m not trying to move away from it, and I don’t see it as a shadow. I mean they are just my parents. I’m happy about that, and about the fact that they are artists and musicians. I suppose I see it differently. I’m just continuing on the family business’. Did your mother encourage you to follow this career path? ‘She encouraged me musically, but only as much as she encouraged me to, say, speak English. Watching her as a kid is how I learnt how to be a person. She taught me how to live. I just imitated my mum, and all the adults around me. It wasn’t just my mum. We had Andy Warhol and John Cage and adults like that around when I was growing up, and I was influenced by them’. I know you must have been asked this a million times, but what is your favourite Beatles album? ‘Ahh, I’m not into the favourites. It’s hard, especially with this, for me. It’s like picking your favourite ever movie. Maybe, Revolver. I don’t know. It’s hard. I think Revolver’. [see also Greg Dulli]
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Crimea X is the coming together of two offbeat, disparate characters, DJ Rocca (Ajello, Super Sonic Lovers, Maffia Sound System) and Jukka Reverberi from 90s Italian glam cult rockers, Giardini di Mirò, who have often have been compared with the sound of Mogwai, Arab Strap, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. We asked them about their favourite music and they started with The Smiths song, Ask [listen below] ‘I saw them playing live on Italian TV. It was during the 80s when I was extremely young, and I’ve never stopped listening to this song’. Read the rest of Crimea X’s Secret Playlist.
I love the curated selection of abandoned swimming pool photos on Feature Shoot today, featuring work by Carlo Van de Roer and Albert Jodar, amongst others.
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MARGARET said | 2 January, 2007
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A BEATLES FAN, BUT, AFTER MEETING SEAN, I LOVE JOHN AND YOKO EVEN MORE THAN BEFORE. HE IS QUITE A GENTLE MAN, SOFT SPOKEN, VERY APPROACIBLE. I HIGHLY SUGGEST EVERYONE GO SEE HIM IN CONCERT. YES, HE LOOKS ALOT LIKE BOTH PARENTS, BUT, HIS MUSIC IS “HIS OWN”, I LOVE HIM AND HIS MUSIC, AND PLAN ON SEEING HIM AGAIN IN 2007. GREAT CONCERT SEAN!!! GOD BLESS!
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With his dazzling electro-soul-jazz fusion, Jamie Lidell is quite the showman. He has a new album out — the dryly named Jim — and a head full of sparkling melodies to share. So we stopped him in his tracks for a chat. Read more
If words like twentieth century, architecture, salvage, furniture and hodgepodge turn you on, then Retrouvius will enter into The Hall of Fame when it comes to showing off your new digs. I am quite partial to the Central Line Tube Table, being that I take the line everyday. ’Dining on’ instead of ’schlepping in’ could expand relations with the city. You also might enjoy poking through their project page for home inspirations.
Love your Converse All Stars? Well, designer Daryl Van Wouw has taken his obsession to the next level, creating an entire pant and shoe configuration. Yes, it’s a very interesting design. But practical? That depends entirely on the whims of the individual.
San Fransisco-based artist Alexis MacKenzie must be patient. She has to be in order to create beautiful collages from the vintage books that she collects. There’s an amazing amount of detail in each piece. Elements are painstakingly transplanted from book to paper with scissors and glue. No Photoshop cut n’ pastes here.
Shorpy is a great blog dedicated to digitally restored photos, mostly from the first half of the 20th century, but some from as early as the 1840s. Read more
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a reminder of why the medium of film is so special. It features first rate visuals, performances, direction and acting, all of which fits together into one of the most insightful, powerful and touching pieces of cinema ever. Read more
Tallest Man on Earth, the rasping Swedish folk singer-songwriter and one of the unsung heroes of 2008, recently recorded the beautiful song A Field of Birds, a nice adjunct to his summer album release, Shallow Grave. His sound is so loose and unmanicured, and carries a poignancy reminiscent of the rusty, early Bob Dylan.
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Forget battery powered vehicles. Cars made from ice are the future of transportation: no pollution, no honking horns, no painful rap music blasting out of souped up stereos. And if they melt, they melt. You just swim the rest of the way down the slipstream.
Wheeeeee! This game is so freaking fun! You move your cursor over each dot to make them split into four smaller dots ad infinitum.
Trip out with Sparrow Vs Sparrow’s retro illustrations, I love their aesthetic, color use and sense of humor. Read more
There is not a medium that UK illustrator Lizzy Stewart cannot wrap around her little finger to make the most beautiful, whimsical images. Read more
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Made from 100 percent organic cotton and eco-friendly, this super soft tee celebrates a sinister world of kaleidoscopic colours and ripples of psychedelia, of serenading Queens, of dancing flamingos, of unimaginable euphoria. It’s all the work of Sydney label, Das Monk and it’s available through the Lost At E Minor online store for just US$40. Now, there’s one hell of a Christmas present, even if we do say so ourselves! Read more
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Zac said | 22 November, 2006
I’ve been listening to this CD for the past week or so, and gotta say it’s a good listen. Worth a go if you like the chilled, semi-Beatle’s style sound he conjures up so nicely …