allaboutgeorge's vox(elgänger)

Vox Hunt: Funny Photo

nobody@vox.com(allaboutgeorge) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:21:07 -0800

Neighborhood dispute

"This would be so much more satisfying online! 'Sensitive thugs, y'all need blogs.' Or Second Life, or something."

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Vox Hunt: Cityscape

nobody@vox.com(allaboutgeorge) — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:57:32 -0700

Show us a cityscape.

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Vox Hunt: Enjoy The Sunset

nobody@vox.com(allaboutgeorge) — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:16:19 -0800

Show us your favorite sunset picture.
Submitted by B. Mag.

Pescadero sunset

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Vox Hunt: Overdubbed

nobody@vox.com(allaboutgeorge) — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:46:47 -0800

Audio: If you could sing like anyone, living or dead, who would you choose to sound like? Share a song of theirs.
Submitted by aa.

I like my singing voice, but I think of it as a fat crayon and myself as a bit of a toddler. One day I aspire to pencildom, and perhaps simple line drawings. Not everyone can be Leonardo da Vinci. That's why I'm glad ~~Wacom tablets~~ GarageBand or Pro Tools and autotune came along. (Not everyone should use them on every Top 40 hit, mind you, but I can appreciate technology without advocating its indiscriminate use.)

When I was a kid? Lou Rawls, Johnnie Wilder Jr. or Bobby Womack. When I was a teenager? Prince, George Michael, Lionel Richie or Sade. When I was twentysomething? Philippe Wynne, N'Dea Davenport or Maxwell. Now? I don't know, someone who could just plant their feet in front of you and saloon-croon or pub-belt it out.

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Vox Hunt: I Love This Part

nobody@vox.com(allaboutgeorge) — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:28:55 -0800

esotsm - "okay" "okay"

Video: Show us your favorite movie scene.
Submitted by Caroline.

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Vox Hunt: A Favorite Song from '06

nobody@vox.com(allaboutgeorge) — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:59:14 -0800

Audio: Share one of your favorite songs from 2006.

01 Something Isn't Right

Herbert

Pitchfork: There was a track written about on Pitchfork recently, "Something Isn't Right", the first track on Scale, and the writer, Mark Pytlik, said that you could tell in a few moments it was a Herbert track. And I think that's true; despite how different your records sound from each other, there is something there, a thread through them. I know that at various times you've talked about music as a way of getting away from ego, but I do feel like there is something you can't get away from. I'm not sure exactly what it is; to me it seems like a rhythmic sensibility that informs your work, a swing that sound like Herbert. Are you aware that a part of yourself is in there, regardless of the materials you're working with?

MH: I'm not. I'm really not. I know I have patterns and I've always tried hard to avoid them. There are definitely certain things in my music, if I'm looking back, "Well, that was a period where I was experimenting with a certain kind of chord structure or a certain kind of sound." I've tried really hard, but I'd be hard pressed to tell you what that sound, what that tangible sound of "me" is. I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing that is at least common or familiar to the audience. Other than rhythm, the only thing I could say is that I take a great deal of pride in every single sound I use. I'm always making sure that I'm not using a pre-set or something that everyone else has done. I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.

Pitchfork: Let me ask you-- that moment in "Something Isn't Right" where he sings, "Do you re-mem-ber?" First time I heard that it reminded me of "September" by Earth Wind & Fire. I was sitting with my wife and I asked her, Do you think that's a direct reference to that song, or is it just a few notes that sound similar?

MH: There is a very slight reference there. It's a reference to the 11th of September because that's what the Earth Wind & Fire tune was called. I almost had it "Do you remember? The 11th of September?" But there was no way I could possibly put that in.

Pitchfork: So that's the kind of reference you're talking about, where you embed those kinds of things in the music.

MH: Exactly. And the record's full of them in different places. It's kind of like, trying to use every weapon in your arsenal to point people in a certain direction.

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Vox Hunt: Jump Around

nobody@vox.com(allaboutgeorge) — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:14:18 -0800

Show us a picture of someone or something jumping.
Submitted by Elizabeth Lee.

Tic and Tac fake their leap

This photo was part of last year's trip to New York City.

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Vox Hunt: Desk Drawer Stash

nobody@vox.com(allaboutgeorge) — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:34:28 -0700

Show us what's stashed in your desk drawer.
Submitted by Vee.

You're looking directly into my drawers

Annotations are at the Flickr page.

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Vox Hunt: I Know This Great Coffee Place

nobody@vox.com(allaboutgeorge) — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:59:14 -0700

Show us your favorite place to get a cup of coffee.
Submitted by danatmedog.

When I drank coffee regularly, I usually sat up at home with the coffeepot. (The exception was the fresh hot cup that went well with a burrito at Berkeley Bowl's cafe-gallery.) When I lived in Walnut Creek, I never got over to Pacific Bay as often as I should've. I mean, really: free Wi-Fi, an in-shop roaster and excellent service?

At this summer's CampCamp, I started off the day with several cups. I blame the rich, dark, thrilling smell hanging around. (Um, I failed to bring along the tea I like to drink, and I'm now more of a energy-drink guy in the mornings.)

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Vox Hunt: Look Outside

nobody@vox.com(allaboutgeorge) — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:24:16 -0700

Show us the view outside your window.
Submitted by Cat.

Outside my window (work)

Outside my window (home)

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