An old high-school friend, Carly Bodnar, and I reconnected not too long ago on facebook. And, it turns out we both grew out of high-school nerd-dom to become something altogether different. Well, grown up nerds, I guess. Doing art and such.
Anyway, she has an Etsy store with some really, really nice handmade cards. I just bought a valentine’s day card for my valentine. And I encourage everyone to check out her cards and pick a couple up, as they are really well priced.
Also, if you are a Portland reader, live vicariously for me and check out the Robot Love show over on Mississippi tomorrow night. Carly has a painting in the show, and the whole evening sounds pretty cool, indeed.
The details:
What: Good Gallery Group Art Show
When: February 6th, 7-10 pm
Where: 4325 N. Mississippi Ave.
Out of Portland, Oregon, The Blow are an über-indie supergroup of sorts. Khaela Maricich has long been releasing albums under the Blow name, most recently a collection of soft and affecting folk songs. Also, she has a made quite a carrier out of performance art. So, it was fitting when Jona Bechtolt, the man behind Portland’s YACHT, joined the team. YACHT is not instantly digestible, with beats turning back on themselves and Atari-like clicks, but using YACHT beats as solid backbones to Blow lyrics is like pie for the ears, digestible all the way down.
Paper Television is the band’s latest and it brings together the earlier released ‘Pile of Gold’ (find an early version on the PDX 2005 comp) with nine new songs, all of which have strong moments. Not all songs are as dancey as ‘Pile’ but the disc starts out strong and pulls together strongly at the end for three closing tracks that make any drive a joy. This disc is short, only a drop over 30 min., but it is worth it.
