disarm//smashing pumpkins

I used to be a little boy so old in my shoes// and what I choose is my choice, what's a boy supposed to do

This Pinkpop rendition of Smashing Pumpkins performing Disarm is so beautiful and wistful. I love how Billy Corgan's laughing through the chorus when the crowd is singing completely off pace from what he's trying to sing. Learn the chords to this song here.

Xochimilco

This series of canals in Mexico near Lake Xochimilco is filled with colorful 'Trajineras' boats. Each boat has a female name painted at the top in white block letters. All the colorful paints, flags and flowers make photos of the Xochimilco canals look like a carnival. 

la Plage de Bidart

Nicolas Vigier takes beautifully lit photos of French sceneries. The photos below are taken at "la Plage de Bidart" or Bidart beach during the blue hour! On his website boklm.eu, you can find more of his work.



All photos property of Nicolas Vigier

Harmony Korine + Chloe Sevigny

Korine was 23 when his screenplay he'd written for the film Kids was released as a feature film in '95. Chloe Sevigny, who played the leading role in the film, was 17. The two apparently met by chance in Washington Square Park in NYC when she was still in high school. "The two became close friends which resulted in her being cast in the low-budget independant film Kids."



Filter magazine has a cool recent interview with Korine here.

Smashing Pumpkins at Pinkpop '94

Smashing Pumpkins play "Today" at Pinkpop festival '94. It's a white sky day there like it is today.

Mac DeMarco "My Kind of Woman"

May mix/// free times

Monomania// Deerhunter on Jimmy Fallon

Deerhunter recently performed their new song Monomania on Jimmy Fallon's show. Lead singer Bradford Cox was wearing a shaggy black wig and a leopard print shirt. His fingers and mouth were bleeding. The other members of the band were wearing similarly patterned shirts. At the end of the performance, Cox leaves the stage and is follwed by cameras as he walks out of the studio and down the hallway to the elevator. Since the performance video is no longer up on Jimmy Fallon's site, I feel the need to describe it. The performance felt cinematic; seeing Bradford Cox's strange idea of a rock and roll character spitting out the song and then wandering off down the hall.
The song's name Monomania (also the title of their upcoming album) apparently means, according to wiki... "In 19th century psychiatry, monomania was a form of partial insanity conceived as single pathological preoccupation in an otherwise sound mind." This makes me think that Monomania, like their previous album Halcyon Digest, has taken an idea or story to keep in mind while making the record. Monomania comes out today.