If you live in Europe and are visiting Brooklyn in the coming months you are really going to want to plan to visit the Brooklyn Museum while you are here and see the Murakami show. Actually even if you live somewhere in the NY area you may want to check it out. I went this weekend with my family (visiting from Boston for Passover) and it was pretty cool. His is apparently the founder of the Super Flat movement, which is apparently a comment on the Otaku lifestyle, which apparently is an obsession with anime and manga. I don't know any other artists in the Super Flat movement, but I like the sound of it anyways. Plus the art is pretty bizarre and interesting. Also we deep friend the Turkey (as I think I mentioned) and that was also pretty cool. The Turkey was super delicious and cooked really fast. The only real drag was draining and straining all the oil the next day. Still I highly recommend a Turkey Frying rig, plus this summer I am going to make buffalo wings, fried chicken, chicken friend steak, and I hope, chicken fried bacon, which I saw on TV the other day.
Crystal Castles was a video game that my wife used to be really good at back when we went to college. Now it is a techno group with music that sounds slightly like video game music from the 80s, but not quite enough to be much more than a CHUBBIE. Don Covay is a Soul/Blues musician from the 60s. This album was maybe a little too bluesy for my liking and also rated as a CHUBBIE. The Roots were a little better than I thought they would be, although they had one poetry slam like track that I REALLY could have done without. Still and all I give them a WOODIE.
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*I* live in Europe AND I will be visiting Brooklyn in the coming months AND I love that Murakami. My little wife and myself have been fans of his since way back in the day. So hot dog! I did not know about the Super Flat movement however, but I like the name of it. Seen some kerazy Japanese art in the Cartier gallery in Paris (that's over here in Europe, but that's that OLD Europe, we live in the NEW USA-friendly Europe) that might have something to do with this. Stuff seeming to comment on Otaku I guess. And I think that's where we saw Murakami too, so that makes some sense. Am I boring you? I'll shut up.
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