Kick-Start the Weekend
Posts to kick-start the weekend, usually with musical content.
Contemporary Chicken
I’m still trying to figure this one out. Since I like chickens, I’ll post about Koen Vanmechelen’s contemporary Chicken Project exhibit at Connor Contemporary Art through December 31st. I guess I don’t get the contemporary art part except for it’s sparseness in style and explanation. I was more drawn to the Belgian artist’s chicken illustrations, which I thought were quite interesting. I have an affinity for chickens because of a little known secret, I used to raise them in my back yard. I tended to these chickens from egg to chick to adult. I can attest to them all having distinct personalities. Unfortunately, I had to let them go back…
Le Loup
I learned of Le Loup recently and can now recommend them for Kick-Starting-Your Weekend. On their new album, Family, I enjoyed Beach Town the best: Here’s a profile of the band that started in 2006 in Washington, DC, by Moira E. McLaughlin in the Washington Post. Loup means wolf in French and their sound is reminiscent of Radiohead in a non-typical, discordant way. Their music also reminds me of Theresa Andersson in it’s chamber-like acoustics. By the way. Hope you’re not superstitious about Friday the 13th, as I am, which was coincidentally when I first wrote about Theresa Andersson.
Momix
I recently learned about Momix; however, they have been performing for the past 20 years. They are an innovative modern dance troupe using props, humor and the human body to express themes such as “Orbit,” “Passion,” “Lunar Sea,” which looks amazing and even “Baseball,” among others. They remind me of Pilobolus. You’ll just have to go to their website to see incredible bodily maneuvers and manipulations and photography. There are so many I like but this one seems fitting in the pumpkin patch, now that Halloween is past and November is upon us. I particularly like the quote on their website from The Washington Post: “The snooterati love to pooh…
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