Here are some mighty impressive watermelon carvings from Takashi Itoh. The multiple colors in a watermelon give the dedicated and insanely meticulous artist a bounty of possibilities.

It has been an exceptionally mild season so far in the Washington DC area; normally we jump from bitter winter to suffocating summer with only a week or two of spring between. This year however, it only snowed once or twice and the spring has been glorious and long.

That’s apparently about to end though, and golden summer swoop in on glistening wings of humidity, so it’s probably an appropriate time to showcase some people’s favorite viney, edible and nutritious summer friend.

There’s something for everyone in the Citrullus lanatus, whether you like them gargantuan, pyramidal, or cubist.

You should probably watch this introduction to watermelon eating if you are a beginner, and even the skilled melon masticator may learn a trick or two.

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Artist: Kammerflimmer Kollektief
Song: Lichterloh
From album: Absencen
Genre: Organic Instrumentartifice
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The song starts like the dawn, stirring as stars wink out, and you realize you are at sea. You hear the ropes of your tempest-tossed transport, creak-like in relaxed and satisfying ways. Your thoughts are arrested by an exquisite breeze and your gaze begins to focus on a distant verdant slope, luscious to the eyes as a sparkling fruit and circled in mist.

Oddly fearless though memory lost, you incline and bubble up all awkward manner of excitement like a newly sprung sandy spring. You drift closer, detecting hints of waterfall and cliff. The weights of time and age crumble from your shoulders as you fall deeply in love with breathing.
You are a once sinking-ship captain, reborn.

Well, I guess it had to happen. As someone intending to facilitate the spread of music it seems almost impossible to escape the beastly yawning maw of myspace. That gaudy fiend has pursued me for years, hell’s swelter pouring from its heaving flanks. Now I guess I’m turning to meet it, more resignation than resolve.

In other words: Let’s be e-pals!.

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How are you? I’m a little tired, thanks for asking. downy = love. I entreat you to enjoy this video. I’ll let it speak for itself, but I’m trusting you to listen delicately.

Sorry to people who have subscribed to comments, there was a big spamwave there. Should be mostly taken care of now, I made a big list of banned words…

Artist: At Dusk
Song: In the Background
From album: You Can Know Danger
Genre: Wandery Tumblechordia
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Good day mateys, and welcome back I say. Today you are getting a deftly stumbling gait of a song. It starts on a morning of typically spanking newness, but soon you’ll realize that it has plans to use its day off for supremely venturous exploits; certain endeavorous enterprises. The sounds, they gallop from cobbleystoned neighborhood streets to wide nature roads with airy space that you can hear and feel. They round a corner and suddenly dive into a somersault at the end of which they jump up, and into the air in a, “reaching for the sky” position with a twist that gets a cumulative 9.5 from the judges.

What I want to say is that the song feels like a rapturously restless amble through everyday spaces and feelings. The kind of feelings that are only possible in the amalgam of remembering certain days of intense living. Maybe then you were wrapped up in heartbreaky drama, but looking back you just remember it as a sort of sepia tone mixed with the feeling of the sun against your skin. It’s an odyssey that feels like it should end with you, exhausted and glowing, sauntering into a convenience mart for a catharctic frozen beverage of your own design.

You can download this song and its 9 brothers and sisters and more than several cousins on their site. And soon you can also buy it, on everyone’s favorite anthropomorphized music buying place, cd baby. Perfect for anthropomorphized songs I would imagine.

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Here’s another video, which is staged in abandoned buildings. Lovely. I knew these things went together somehow… These guys/girl strike me as aggressively introspective. They seem to be thinking a lot, in a mindset free of distraction they are playing their thoughts in real-time, decanting a stream of curious detatched fervor.

I’m only using a very small percentage of my bandwidth currently so I’m thinking about posting streaming videos every now and again, but I’m curious how it would work out. Here’s a test, does it work for you? Does it screw up or bog down your computer? Do you hate music videos? Presumably you need the Flash 7 player to view it, but I’m not sure how many people have it so your input would be greatly appreciated.

This is really not my favorite song of theirs but I like it because the guy in the video illustrates quite exactly how energetic I don’t feel right now….