Philip Fibiger

Emily’s parents just left, and now we’re recovering from three weekends(and weeks) of guests in a row. The visit was fun, on sunday we drove up into the hollywood hills to the griffith observatory where there is an amazing view of all of Los Angeles. I took a panoramic picture that doesn’t include the [...]

From a post to the sugar-list, about Bob Mould’s benefit in NYC for one of the firehouses devestated by September 11:
Circle your calendar. Bob said Granary Music was
going to become a fully functioning label, and that
one new album would hopefully hit stores on March 12.
Two other albums would either be in stores as well [...]

I went to see a guy that Andre works with, as well as a guy from FilePile play at a club in LA called The Garage. They were fun, a cross between The Minutemen and The Pixies, playing with a drum-machine backing track. They’re called BlueBook and they’re worth checking out.

This article from the New York Times paints an interesting picture of a post-Taliban town in Afghanistan. Maybe it’s a propoganda-influenced, one-sided view of what is happening, but if it’s true, It gives me a little bit of hope about what is happening to Afghanistan during this military campaign.

I have a Tivo and got the advertisement that Matt talked about and I have a decidedly different take on it. I think this is an interesting take on advertising, a relatively unobtrusive one, and quite a few steps ahead of the curve. While it isn’t really targeted, they’re doing what TV pundits [...]

The last 5 days have been exhausting. My parents flew in on wednesday, and so Emily and I have been playing hosts. My aunt and uncle flew in from San Francisco for the weekend, and we took a trip to the Getty. It’s an absolutely incredible building. Something like 14,000 tons of travertine marble was [...]