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“If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.”
–Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
This video has been making it’s rounds on the interwebs this week and I just thought it would be appropriate to remind everyone what a thoughtful, passionate and remarkable human being Carl Sagan was. I mean if autotune can get the kids to listen to anything these days it’s better this than Kanye. If you’re not familiar with his Cosmos series or his numerous books, let me share one of my favorite anecdotes about Dr. Sagan.
He chaired the NASA committee responsible for the content of the solid gold record (not sales, we’re talking Au) that accompanied the Voyager I & II probes into the depths of space containing a message from Earth. This record included greeting in 55 languages and music from Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chuck Berry and Blind Willie Johnson among other representatives from non-western and indigenous cultures. Sagan wanted “Here Comes the Sun” from Abbey Road, but EMI said no. Also on this record is a brain scan of someone in love. For more on this, check out this episode of WNYC’s Radiolab. The probe is now well over 14 billion kilometers from the Sun. In 40,000 years it will be within 2 light years of a star in the next galaxy to us, Andromeda.
Sagan was also a great popularizer of the search for extraterrestrial life and of science in general. Sadly, he passed in 1996 and no one since has quite managed to replace his enthusiasm, love and selfless promotion of a higher understanding of life and its relationship with the universe.
I got excited last night talking to Victor about tightening up our CB slang game for texting and live conversations. Little did I know that the citizen’s band is no longer the exclusive domain of truckers and teenage hobbyists. In Sydney, Australia, the citizen’s band has been taken over by thugs!
If that’s too much for you, enjoy the grave nostalgia of Dick Curless below. If you like that one, then listen to his 1970 track “Truck Stop” about the gentrification of the greasy spoon by a “swell cafe…a brand new coffee shop.”
Wait. I thought I was done here but check out Sir Mix-a-Lot’s alter ego, Prime Minister. He broadcasts and converses regulary on Channel 6.
was digging through some old VHS tapes the other day, and found this really weird interview with french filmmaker Verene Sandrine from The Valentine Sainsbury Show and just had to share it.
In 2007, Partizan constituent, Saam Farahmand (27 at the time) was crowned “Best Director” at the CAD Music Video Awards, after a prolific year of creating promos for Good Shoes:
As if this all wasn’t enough, Saam’s opened an art gallery in London to help expose emerging artists, and continues to produce films with his beautiful mix of simplicity, effortless chic and a twist of sci-fi. I for one can’t wait to see what he comes up with next.
As a remedy for the insanity that is the last workday before a holiday weekend, I recommend this clip of Donovan and Bobbie Gentry performing “There is a Mountain” together on Bobbie’s TV show.
Donovan needs no introduction, of course, but Ms. Gentry deserves credit for more than her best-known hit, “Ode to Billy Joe.” Born and raised in rural Chickasaw County, Mississippi, she moved to California in her early teens. As a musician on the nightclub circuit in LA, she used her childhood experiences in the South as inspiration for her expertly crafted lyrics. Her sound was somewhere between sophisticated, pop-oriented country and sweet, mellow blue-eyed soul. Sadly, after the initial success of “Ode,” only her 1968 duet album with Glen Campbell and her 1970 single “Fancy” received much notice in the U.S. charts. Even so, she continued to tour, record, and make numerous television appearances. After 1978, she vanished from the public eye. Apparently she is still alive, but what she has been up to all these years is a mystery.
