Burn to Shine

...I had you worried there for a minute, didn't I? The Bachelor, Billboard music, Target: next I'm going to exhault the virtues of Olive Garden and Rob Thomas.

No!

Here's a nifty (and Indie) film series I discovered with Jason:

Burn to Shine is a film-making crew that goes city to city looking for houses scheduled to be demolished. A local musician rallies his/her troops, and the bands have one hour to set up, record a song live on DVD, and get out. At the end of the day, the house goes up in smoke.

I bought the Portland one and it's really good. I'd like to go back for the DC edition (ahem ahem, X-mas pressie...) if they still have it at Sound Exchange.

Other non-conformist recommendations:

An Inconvenient Truth
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Stephin Merritt, have you LOST YOUR MIND???
Buy my friend Jillian's stuff.
TFA on NBC and in Fortune Magazine!!! (Cue Evita, "And the Money Kept Rolling In...")