So it is spring break and that means I have enough of a moment to put together a couple tracks. Somehow I am able to put together fewer songs each time and still come up against the barrier of space constraints - but so be it.

This last leg of time has seen much puttering around in a confused and exhausted daze, and the track by Okkervil River has been in heavy rotation as a result of said puttering. The unfortunate side effect of that burnt out husk level of life is that two momentous things have occurred directly to me (and two terrifying things have occurred to those close to me, namely heart events and cancer) - that is 1) I realized this year marks the fifth year of this audio time capsule/journal. 

This certainly gives me pause as I think back over what has transpired in those five years and, holy shit, a lot of my life seems to have been terribley recent in vintage. Do you ever have those fears that your longterm self is a fabrication of some nefarious conspiracy constructing a world that never was in order to convince you that the world is other than it REALLY is? I don't actually think that because that is insane (and if I hint that I know the truth then I'll have only forced their hand to take swift action against me) - but sometimes I know the feel.

The second big thing is I got engaged to my longtime life partner Ana. Do you want to hear about ornate conspiracies of minds vastly more intelligent than your own arrayed against you? Nah - it is actually good (and terrifying). 

Last thing, me - my future self - you, you reader - five years ago almost nothing which happens to you now on a daily basis was part of what you expected. It isn't just that the future is hard to predict - it is also that you have really crappy expectations.

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• Quantic - Look Around The Corner (Feat. Alice Russell)
• Ruby and the Ribcage - Horror
• Twin sister - All Around and Away We Go
• Avida Dollars - Joseph & The Argonauts
• Francis Bebey - New Track (1982)
• SUNBEARS! - They Think They're So Philosophical
• Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
• Michael Musika – The Spellbound Traveler Loses all Possession
• Luke Roberts - His Song

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Image From: Hyperbole and a Half

Currently Embroiled In: Ingenious Genes by Sansom, which is - maybe changing my mind abou gene regulatory networks.

Let us ring in the year of the wagon with word salsa and duende!

I've been back in school for only two weeks and am fantastically exhuasted - rotating now through a lab (which I think is THE lab) working on ribosome profiling which is some real hot shit. Figured out with my girl that engagement should have a date on the calendar we're going for Valentines day because it needs some authenticity.

Having a hard time sleeping at night. We Are So Terribly Excited.

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Sweatshop Union - Itchy Rock
Saul Williams - Twice the First Time
Kraak & Smaak - Keep On Searching
Mr Scruff - Ultramagnetic Mc's Ego Tripping
Material - Unauthorized
The Mercury Program - Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta
Wild Flag - Something Came Over Me
Quantic - Quantic - Transatlantic
Neon Indian - Should Have Taken Acid With You
Paper Bird - Lost Boys
Marco Benevento - It Came From You
Bearsuit - Stay Alive
AM - Self Preservation
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Old Sweat

Image From: Don't Know - Sorry, Forgot. Currently Reading: Manara's Guiseppe Bergman, well there is a weird piece of literature. Disappearing Spoon, a fantastic piece of non-fiction science history which uses the Periodic Table as it's setting. And Eclipse Phase - an RPG setting book about a transhuman post-scarcity space setting after the singularity goes bad, I haven't actually played it (yet?) but I am falling in love with the world they've built.

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Happy 101111 033 to me and my new fangled life. I'd be remiss if I didn't add that grad school is exhuasting and frustrating, note the bookending tracks - but that inbetween bouts of wildly oscillating terrors there are hints of hope and joy. Like a sandwich or something.

1. Blood Sausage - Fuck You and Your Underground
2. AM & Shawn Lee - The Signal
3. Sweatshop Union - Time Machine (Feat. Mat The Alien)
4. Gang of Four - At Home He's a Tourist
5. Carolina Chocolate Drops - Cornbread and Butterbeans
6. World's Greatest Dad - Then Up the Ladder
7. They Might Be Giants - Old Pine Box
8. Young Marble Giants - Brand - New - Life 
9. Withered Hand - Religious Songs
10. SBTRKT - Hide or Seek
11. Gloria Ann Taylor - Love Is A Hurting Thing
12. Grizzly J - TOTORO
13. Nick Lowe - I Read A Lot (welcomce to grad school)

Currently Reading: King City - or more realisticly Brandon Grahams RoyalBoilers.

Image from: same as the above.

If this summer has taught me anything it is that good friends are like physical objects that can be picked up at a later time in life, a time after you put them down to begin with of course, and also that they undergo changes in time, such as may be expected for an object coextensive with one's self. That is they exist in both space and time, and in a manner where, even if you do not observe them directly, they continue to persist.

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1. Sweatshop Union - Oh My
2. Holy Fuck - SHT MTN
3. Wire - Outdoor Miner (Long Version)
4. Dick Justice - Cocaine
5. Ty Segall - Caesar
6. Admiral Fallow - Squealing Pigs
7. April Smith - Colors
8. Mekons - Trouble Down South
9. Patrick Sky - Under All Flags
10. Agent Ribbons - I'm Alright
11. Liquid Liquid - Bellhead
12. Wavves - Convertible Ballon
13. Slim Harpo - The Hippy Song
14. Beat Connection - Silver Screen
15. Dom - Bochicha
16. Keoki - Majick (Uberzone Remix)

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Image From: Azumanga Daioh Currently Reading: The Scar by China Meiville Lastly: Thanks and well wishes to all my friends and family who so warmly reinvited me back into their lives this summer.

So.. .

I graduated. And then took a few weeks to relax and pack up and move (not in that order) - goodbye Brooklyn, goodbye Ditmas, goodbye undergrad, goodbye BC, goodbye lab mates and knowing what I'm doing.

Hello Pittsburgh, hello Carnegie, hello folks I don't know, hello a slower life, a safer town, a slice of hope, a machine to kill fascists.

Lastly, my adopted grandfather (and volunteer geneologist) has gone on to the other side. He is remembered fondly and in terms not suited to this genre of delivery. But his passing is noted and is, itself, passed over in silence.

1. King Creosote - Bootprints | I've featrued them before here and this is another standout track of theirs, really good energy combined with a slick parsed down delivery, makes this into a toe tapping tune worthy of running from the cops over ala some trainspotting montage.
2. Bell X1 - The Great Defector | This has been kicking around my que for a bit. I love the psuedo-Talking Heads open delivery and heart on the sleeve self confession over matters mundane. Too bad the album doesn't match the single.
3. Black Pus - Juggernaut | Heavy man, real f'n heavy.
4. Francisca Valenzuela - Quiero Verte Mas | Catchy tune with nice guggle bum pop hooks. 
5. Frazey Ford - Blue Streak Mama | It takes a real solid piece to slow it down and still keep you going, inbetween the vocalist's low key delivery and the backburner walking rhythm this songs has got it going on.
6. M. Ward - Flaming Heart | Oldie but goodie
7. Blackbird Blackbird - Give You Everything | Nothing says summer like oversaturated keyboards with afro-pop jangle melodies and empty, ambitionless lyrics. Very early-esque MGMT.
8. Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears - Humpin' | I'd actually meant to include Joe Lewis in another post but had to skip over it, this track got shunted in because of the low down funk it brings is just too much to pass up.
9. 1,2,3 - Going Away Party | Song title releavance plus locale relocation - oh yes, I went there.
10. Barclay James Harvest - Taking Some Time On | I really, really got into this track from BJH's 1970 debut. The psych'd out lyrics (For those who feel inclined / to talk about their mind) combined with the extended jam with roiling drum swells (unironic cowbell!) and swirling guitar (the jam happens mid song and as a closer, those damn hippies) add up to a reason to put on paisely.
11. Jan & Dean - Heart And Soul | A solid pop gem from '61 with ascerbic undercurrents - dig the flat delivery on the chorus (much too thrilling). The song actually seems to pull out all the stops in the hook department featuring more change ups than an early era TMBG tune.
12. Peter Wolf Crier - Crutch & Cane | What is this song about? Zanzibar? Freedom from hang-ups? Catchy as hell though.
13. Charlie Mars - Listen to the Darkside | On a side note me and the babe and Nick (from pgh) caught Super8 at the theatre. Babe caught on to the Goonies/ET/Cloverfield mashup before any of us knew that was a thing. I think the zombie movie inside the movie is supposed to represent how Spielberg's early work has trapped him, turning himself into the movie which would not die. It is meta plus good, but you knew that already, right?
14. Balmorhea - Clamor | You know what else happened? I got a drafting table off craigslist (of course) any way this fellow Steve Geist, nice kid, he's got it for sale for $40 so I go over and he's got a MoCCA poster with Craig Thompson's work on it - we chat about that a bit. Steve is gradu-macated from CMU and is off to Austin (stomping grounds of Balmorhea) to design UI. I am proud to have such a prestigious lineage for a draftign table. Take care out there man and have some fun.

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Images from: Unknown (saw it on Chive but cropped it for more awesome)

Regards: Lewis Johnson

Reading: The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media (A four and a half out of five stars here, people.)

I wonder what would have happened if space was a tangible frontier. In that small sliver of time when there was an American Frontier we had the myth at arms length and the proximity compelled anyone and everyone to consider its' potential. Was the immediacy of the frontier the compulsion, a niggling sense of the other side, ever constant in the periphery of one's vision?Would our history of space exploration have been different if we had an Oregon Trail to Mars, if it could have been about space colonization?

If you imagine the frontier as a sponge which absorbs the excess and luckless then it is no surprise that high entry costs have prevented the expansion of mankind. It is the hardup, the deviant, the desperate, and the dreamers who live and die out there because they can't even manage just living here in polite company. Half these songs are about getting out there, the other half are about freaking out. 

This has little bearing on things, except that I desire to escape - and space seems like the last best place. Let me take a step back and think for a second on this - right, so apparently since last I posted some things have transpired. I am enrolled for grad school for this fall in a biology program, it is "not easy" I have been told. I am finishing up one month left. A few weeks really and then finals. This can not happen soon enough - not only have I become exhausted at the labor of it I have also become tired of pretending to care. It would have been diffierent if I had a class (besides Advanced Biochemistry) which was relvant to me. So it goes. 

Also zeerust.tumblr.com

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1. Empire of the Sun - We Are the People 

2. Beautiful People - Get Your Mind Together 

3. YACHT- Dystopia 

4. The Savages - Gone To The Moon 

5. Buchanan Brothers - When You See Those Flying Saucers

6. Dave Edmunds - Playing With the Queen of Hearts 

7. The Black Keys - Howlin' For You

8. NewVillager - Rich Doors 

9. Shuggie Otis - Happy House

10. No Monster Club - Wish Me Well 

11. Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armeni

12. Marnie Stern - Patterns of a Diamond Ceiling

13. Explosions In the Sky - Trembling Hands

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image from: http://aqua-velvet.com/2010/12/kate-banazi-astronaut-silkscreen-prints/

A very busy few last months have culminated in a huge success at my first grad school interview. I still have a few more interviews to go on - but without any hesitation I can confidently say that (baring any horrible tragedy) I will be working towards a Ph.d in the not so distant future.

F'n fantastic - now I just need to finish up my undergrad, which is much harder now that I can taste the freedom of the other side. Also I found out you can get some kickass microscopes from eBay for ridiculous prices.

A lot of other stuff happened - but I'm trying to to keep a Positive Mental Attitude so I'll hold off on the narrative.

Stand out tracks; deadmau5's "Hi Friend!" which is the titular feature of the show and served as a bolster for the research year, as after all it was what I came here for. (And look where that got me!). Esg - Dance is an tight low-fi rocker which easily slips into my top 100. A wild feat for an album cut in '83. I spent a lot of time listening to music without words as they often distract me if they are either 1) good lyrics, 2) novel lyrics, or 3) the reason for the songs existence. Not much of this lyricless music made the cut but Stillway and Bonham's "Insomniac Sunrise" certainly demanded a place on the playlist.*

The Challenges of Bringing -omics to the Clinics
deadmau5 - hi friend!
esg - dance
Young Marble Giants - Eating Noddemix
Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl
Tame Impala - I Don't Really Mind
La Sera ‒ Devils Hearts Grow Gold
tUnE-yArDs – Bizness
Chilly Gonzales - You can dance (Fare Soldi Gonzobot rmx)
Stillway and Bonham - Insomniac Sunrise

Image From: Five Fists of Science

Currently Reading: The Universal Traveler, a Soft-System Guide to Creativity, Problem-Solving And the Process of Reaching Goals by Don Koberg and Jimbagnall.

If you ever wonder what Ram Dass would have put out if he'd gone into cybernetic theory instead of eastern mysticism this is your answer. And it is good (if you like this kind of thing).

*Really short episode this time since the hosting company Libsyn has moved to a new platform and some of my dedicated space is presently occupied. Regular Size show next month (or thee months from now. Whatever.)

Almost the holidays (and do I have a gift for you this year) and I may just barely make it. But the chances look good - one last push, right. I remember something about the light brigade at moments like these.

But the music! Got to love the music! It might be the worlds only saving grace 3 times out of 10.

Right anyways, so I missed last month, so this month is a bit of what I've been listening to for both.

The stand out tracks, too many to name, check out the opener by Anita Tijoux - it was going to be my birthday track but whatever. The Smiles make you feel good about the mugging and your lost wages. And the blessed return of Holy Fuck with the Tounces inspired sound track Red Lights. King Khan finally gets some air time - I don't know how I missed that scene. King Charles brings the fuzzed out love, Jeff Spec lays out some fantastic old skool against the Most Sampled Man in HipHop the epynoumous drummer for the funky James Brown in "Clyde Stubblefeild". And the Braids bring the orchestral twee pop - and the stand out modern compositions track from Hauschka, "Alexanderplatz" minimals its way to the blown out rusted tub thumping of Kidkanevil (with helps from the Bonobo) as our closer.

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01. Anita Tijoux - 1977
02. The Smiles - Cala Cola
03. David Vertesi -  All Night, All Night, All Night
04. Holy Fuck - Red Lights
05. King Khan & The Shrines - Land of the Freak
06. MI + AMORE – Wise Blood
07. King Charles - Love Lust
08. Jeff Spec - Clyde Stubblefield
09. STRT SRNS – Wise Blood
10. Terry Ohms - Red Wine on White Pants
11. Broken Bells The - High-Road
12. Braids - Lemonade
13. Hauschka - Alexanderplatz
14. Kidkanevil - Ketto Revisited ft Bonobo

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Image: From Cat and Girl - I wanted to reimagine a whole strip moved from the humanities to the sciences but am still working out the ramifications of it all. But it is also as a small signifier of my own expanse into the science minded bloggosphere where I am abetting my love of music with my other love - pragmatic evaluations of experimental observations. 

What I'm Reading Now: Getting What You Came For by Robert L. Peters (some fine advice there, highly recommended)

 

So we're into the home stretch - last year of undergrad and I can taste the sweet release. Oh there have been and will be trials and tribulations but back, far back, behind it all is the idea that I could do it. And the fact that I have or that I am.

And I am doing it now.

Here my theme: Golden Age

Feels good, man.

 

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01. Swamp Cat - Timun Mas

(my neighb's - good folks)

02. Golden Age - Everything Will be Alright

03. Lissie - Kid Cudi's Pursuit of Happiness

04. Mike Alaska - Jerzy Borowicz recording

05. Go Home Productions - Smells Like Rockin Robin

06. Kaki King - Kiss With a Fist

07. Cookin' with Kurt - Soup du Jour

08. Youthless - Golden Age

09. Les Cowboys Fringants - Les Etoiles Filantes

10. Beat Radio - Golden Age

11. Joost Buis & Astronotes - Brokology

12. Julie Doiron – Consolation Prize

13. California Guitar Trio - Music for a Found Harmonium

14. The Orb - God Less America

15. Justin Townes Earle, 'Harlem River Blues'

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Image from Ward Sutton over at the Boston.com

This summer Ana and I, in preparation for the "great long distance experiment" got to travel a bit around Maine and Canada and Vermont. On one occasion I had a prolonged discussion with a good man, here to be nameless to protect his reputation, about we humans and the big picture and what can be done about it all. It was a real and good pleasure and I hope I hadn't offended him as I usually do when I talk about these things.

Anyways - one last thing. I had mistaken Andrew Bird for Bobby Bare Jr. This is because Mr. Bare has a song which is close to my dyslexic heart called "Strange Bird" hence if I have a few in me I start mixing things up in a poor way; like saying that Andrew Bird has a senior version in the country and western scene. That is clearly not the case. Be sure to check out "Strange Bird" it's really good.

Anyways this is the short version which made the podcast:

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01. Richard Hawley - As the Dawn Breaks

02. Six Organs of Admittance - The Desert is a Circle

03. Bill Callahan - A  Man Needs a Woman or a Man to be a Man

04. Agent Simple - Make a Right at Jordfallsmotet

05. Devandra Banhart - Shabop Shalom

06. The Felice Brothers - Run Chicken Run

07. Larkin Grimm - Dominican Rum

08. Port O'Brien - In Vino Veritas

09. The Precisions - New York City

10. Jens Lekman - A Postcard to Nina

11. Kid Koala - Its All Over

12. Townes van Zandt - Intro Joke from "Mr Gold and Mr Mud"

13. King Creosote - Camels Swapped for Wives

14. Adam Green - What Makes Him Act So Bad

15. Sleepy Jackson Lovers - Mourning Rain

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And these are the tracks which got onto the Long Play version. Most of which can be found on previous podcasts of mine.

16.Adam Green - Castles and Tassels

17. King Creosote and Player Piano - Cod Liver and Orange Juice

18. Jill Barber - Oh My My

19. Bill Calahan - Eid Ma Clack Shaw

20. The Felice Brothers - Frankie's Gun

21. Cluthcy Hopkins Meest Lord Kenjamin - Brother John

22. Larkin Grim - Ride That Cyclone

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image from: Magic Hat

Currently Reading: Locust - The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier by Jeffery A. Lockwood

Young Liars is a series put out by David Latham - I'll leave the critiques and insights for those more versed in these matters, suffice to say that I liked what I read. Not that it mattered - like nearly every series I jump at, I am looking at you Top10, Young Liars died to soon it's story untold. Not just a loss of a title but a loss of a unigue story. A rare thing at any time.

"Young Liars is a wholly different beast  It’s a VERY personal book.  No one could do this book but me because it’s about my brain and everything I like and feel.  Stray Bullets is like that.  No one else can possibly do it.  It’s why I could do things in Young Liars like put in song recommendations and it wasn’t gratuitous.  It was fun, yes, but it also fit the nature of the book.  It became a very unique place to work inside every months and is the toughest part of letting it go."

- David Lapham, from Mindless Ones Interview 

And if you like a thing and that thing has in it little musical references you'll do the only sensible thing which is to wrangle each track from the ether then string them together into a mixtape they were never intended to become. Mixtape Archaeology.

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Here we go, from the top:

David Bowie - Let's Dance

Battles - Atlas

Suicide - Frankie Teardrop (Abbreviated Version)

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Another Morning Stoner

Wire - Strange

Tears for Fears - Mad World

Rolling Stones - Rocks Off

The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love

Pixies - Bone Machine

Sonic Youth - Shaking Hell

The Fall - Oleano

Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver

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Thanks to Mindless One's and David Lapham

Image from: mindlessones.com/tag/david-lapham/

Currently Digging: My Goodness: A Cynic's Short-Lived Search for Sainthood by Joe Queenan

One of these days I'll be in a situation to learn something by following someone else's example. Not that I'm bitter - just frustrated.

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Chain and the Gang - Interview with the Chain Gang

Brian Eno  – Third Uncle

Fun Boy Three & Bananarama - 'Taint What You Do It's the Way That You Do It

Islets - Jasmine

Jill Barber - Oh My My

Panther Hands – Young, Gifted, and Brown

Mother Mother - O My Heart Luther Russel - A World Unknown

The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms

Blockhead - The Music Scene

The Pixies - Alec Eiffel

Brasstronaut - Requiem for a Scene

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Image from: The very excellent short "Don't cry for me I'm already Dead"

Currently digging: Young Liars by David Lapham

Currently Reading: Short Protocols for Molecular Biology by Wiley Publishing (five stars!)

 

Wow .. . Orgo is over. Sweet jesus. 

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Richard Hawley - Tonight the Streets Are Ours

Devin Therrialt - I Don't Think I

Kulturini Project - Half Time Report

DJ Voodoo and the Liquid Method - Everybody thinks i'm high the remix '96 (DJ Kelley)

DJ Harvey - Track 01 (Black Cock Edit)

Teki-Latex - Answers Cut From Set

Siriusmo - Urlaub In Berlin

MGMT - Flash Delirium

MIA - Born Free

Monks - Blockhead

Moneybrother - Born Under a Bad Sign

Jacuzzi Boys - Bricks or Coconuts

Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime 

Dirty Three - Three Wheels

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Image from the late great Teaching Baby Paranoia - you will be missed.

 

Happy Birthday babe.

We're about to tear down that length of road to the distant vistas of tomorrow's tasks and I reflect on the fact that you've been with me for long enough that I can't comprehend what it will be like to be apart.

Things may get rough out there - and who knows what may happen - but it has been good, great, and nice and there may be more in store.

 

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01. Blenders - Don't fuck Around with Love

02. Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks

03. 123 - Confetti

04. Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side

05. Los Mil Jinetes - Pastor de Elefantes

06. La Pompe Moderne - Plus Dur, Meilleur, Plus Rapide, Plus Fort (Daft Punk Cover)

07. Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer

08. Archie Bronson Outfit - Hoola

09. GIFT - Workout Afterall

10. Lodger – Ciao

11. The Blow - Parantheses

12. Andrew Bird - Opposite Day

13. Alt Fenster – Clipée

14. Ezra Furman & the Harpoons - The Worm in The Apple

15. Pelle Carlberg - I Love You, You Imbecile 

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Image from: A Softer World. 

Currently Awesome:  The LHC.

Overworked and got Sick. Overworked and got Active Labelled Protein (I MADE THIS?!). Overworked and Snow Days. Overworked and got to Grad School. Overworked and Got Accepted. Overworked and working with Paul Pope. Overworked and Got Unemployed. Overworked and still making it. . . somehow.

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Adam Green -  Castles and Tassels

Catl. - Church on Time

Egyptian Hip-Hop  - Nifeo

King Creosote, Player Piano and Pictish Trail - Cod Liver Oil and Orange Juice

Flying Lotus - Parisian Goldfish

Hanoi Jane_Across_the_Sea

Caribou - Odessa

Aloe Blacc - I Need a Dollar

Surfer Blood – Neighbour Riffs

Kasper Bjorke - Efficient Machine

Sonny and the Sunsets - Stranded

The Oddword - Hello Goodbye 

Maxwell Panther - My Ex-Identity

Image From: Supremely Awesome - AxeCop.com

I had a dream the other night that I was taken over by some drive which sent me to the hinterlands of the pennisula and into those thick moist brambles of the pacific northwest - this thing in my head was a cancer and an infection. Like the Tasmanian Devils, right? But anyways I had brain cancer and the monster I was hunting out in those patagnian boodocks was it also cancer or real - a thing like that hallucination of a diseased mind only this was flesh and what if the cancer wasn't a cancer but an organism, a bacteria laying down pipe in the brain like an antenna to the broadcasts of it's own obscure gods.

1. Rae Spoon - Come on Forest Fire Burn the Disco Down

2. Ancient Astronauts - Everybody

3. Useless Eaters - Information Freak

4. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home

5. Ocote Soul Sounds - Coconut Rock Deluxe

6. Bill Callahan - Eid Ma Clack Shaw

7. Hey Panny - Cop Car Demo

8. Orquestra - Afro-Brasileira - India

9. frYars - happY

10. Lost Boy - taste butter

11. The Almighty Defenders - All My Loving

12. Astronote - Weerdo (Rmx)

13. Noze - Drums

14. Helvetia - Old New Bicycle

What does it mean that in the weeks leading up to this that I fell into a deep attraction for the heavy ridden droned out sounds of the modern psychedelics? A faint whiff of better times and stronger hallucinogens - an escapist temptation edging in on the clean cut work a day world I've been consumed by? Maybe or maybe not.
Maybe "Junkies Runnin Dry" would have been a better track to open with. But no matter (and no drugs) I open with my neighbors whom are recorded here as the We Three Queens in a recording booth in Indonesia - ahh they are the best neighbors really. And a damn better way to open this than OpIvy (no disrespect, mon amor) - you know how it is.
As for the rest of these tracks and the rest of my life - a well here I admit that this is a monthly diary and the music is the food I feed on to live through it. Heavy times means heavy music, and so: Dad had surgery - he made it and is in better shape, though I haven't talked to him. My mom had one surgery for her leg and is getting the cancerous kidney removed on the 29th - the day after my sisters' birthday. Ana got another raise, got a 800 on the GRE, and has done a lot of hard work trying to mend the separate bits of life - at work, outside of work - together. I got to meet Joshua, who is cool. Her grandmother broke her hip, but is recovering. I got laid off, but yeah whatever, I only worked there for three years and got replaced by the boss's brother - so no hard feelings. Cam got laid off, he was the last non-foreman on the worksite a higher compliment to his industriousness there can not be - but even at that Montana's economy sucks too much. A new thing lives today by virtue of my will and others research grants. The world spins round.
So it goes.
To everyone everywhere I wish it could be better but I'm hanging round even if it never improves.
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We Three Queens - Go Tell It On The Mountain
Butthole Surfers - Sweet Loaf
Man Man - Hurly Burly
White Shit's Shoobaryna's Final Signal (a collapse)
Francois de Roubaix - L'Homme Orchestre - Generique
Deerhunter - Spring Hall Convert
The Botticellis - Awaiting On You All
Time and Space Machine - More Cowbell
Jim Morrison - The World on Fire
Electralane - Spartakiade
When Strangers Meet - The Silk Road Project - Mido Mountain
Gak Sato - Hip Wagging Foot Shuffling (Amon Tobin Remix)
Moondog - Lament 1 (Bird's Lament)
Dan Deacon - Woof Woof
Zac Hryciak and the Jungle Beat - May the Warrior Be True
Family of God - Follow the Lights
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Image from Over Compensating:
http://overcompensating.com/

Follow the Lights People

The busyness is everyday. Not even enough time to do this justice.

Hilarious the idea that this is a diary to help me remember these days - but that the days are so packed that I can't make time to remember them.

Anyways. Music is a constant - hell yes.

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nomeansno- Everyday I Start to Ooze
Metatron - 10 Psychedelic Culture
The Time and Space Machine - The Joys of Living Un-hung Up
Blind Boys of Alabama - Run on for a Long Time
Capitol K - City
Al Caiola - Experiment In Terror
Bobby Bare Jr. - Stay In Texas
Fugazi -Waiting Room
Marc Shearer - Magma on My Mind
Blood Red Shoes - Its Getting Boring By the Sea
Matias Aguayo - Rollerskate (album version)
Doves - Kingdom of Rust (Prins Thomas Discomiks Instrumental)
Learn the Songs of Phil Ochs - That's What I Want to Hear
Pet Politics - When I Get Old
Sea and Cake - a man who never sees a pretty girl that he doesn't love her a little

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thanks to Ana

August already? - I am surprised but yes apparently I missed July. huh.

Finished classes for summer - so yeah this was Physics and a film and fiction class. Happily I have good things to report from the conclusion of that as my GPA continues its trend unabated.

Sorrows in breaking as this month saw the leaving of:
Hannah from downstairs, is off to other Brooklyn 'hoods
Mollie, another import by way of Portland, is leaving to Princeton - we're all quite proud of her and, also, ashamed of ourselves.
Tim Krieder, of incomparable artist behind The Pain (see illustration), is walking away from stripping to take up a columinst job at the Times. Respectable stuff and lordy but I feel it.

So times are at a turning point, right? This month is heaving on the tracks of Lux and Ivy's from WFMU. Lux passed on not too long ago and this list was compiled by fans of his band The Cramps. The total is about 11 albums of selected tracks and they've been on heavy rotation here this summer. So ... here we go:

1. Candy Claws - Don't Turn Around
2. Jack Nitzsche - The Lonely Surfer*
3. Blues Rockers - Calling All Cows*
4. Lightnin Slim - Its Mighty Crazy*
5. Shinichi Osawa - Love & Peace
6. Bosstones - Mope-Itty Moope*
7. The Symbols - Do the Zombie*
8. Mcfadden and Dor - Noisy Village*
9. David Bowie - Oh You Pretty Things
10. Doctor Ross - The Boogie Disease*
11. John Buck and his Blazers - Forbidden City*
12. The Big Pink – Velvet (Gang Gan Dance Remix)
13. Sheriff and the Revels - Shombolar*
14. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'*
15. Storey sisters - Bad Motorcycle*
16. Robert Mitchum - Ballad of Thunder Road*
17. Can - Turtles Have Short Legs
18. Roy Brown - Butcher Pete - Part 1*
19. Roy Brown - Butcher Pete - Part 2*

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* Tracks are from Albums 1-3
Image From: The Pain
Comic I'm Currently Up to My Tits in: Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol

Title from Unamuno.

Happy June - and what a summer! Record rain fall has preserved my mind from migranes and hallucinations of divinity. Summer classes have preserved my embalmed, pickled, and thoroughly petrified extracurricular activities. And yet, wondrously, only one week to go and then I am done with Spanish, which is a thing I never really liked - but admittedly it is a bit of fun even if you don't like it.

You see, and this isn't just me here, talking in a foreign language does things to your mind. I've been a language user for years and have always been bowled over from what a good chat can do to me - but another language . . . is more like an out of body experience of the mind than a hallucination of the tongue.

To embrace it I would like to share my new favorite Spanish idiom (narrowly beating out the phrase, "The Devil is the devil because he is old") - in espanol:
Pensar en la inmortalidad del cangrejo
 
that is ... as the cartoon lovingly illustrates:

Thinking about the immortality of crabs.

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Generationals - When They Fight They Fight
Hey Penny - Cop Car (demo)
cazwell - Money Back
Get Back Quinozzi - Carpet Madness (demo)
Cheveu-Lola -langusta
Das Racist & Wallpaper. - Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wallpaper. Remix)
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Little Girl (Julian Casablancas)
Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha-  Orgasmatron (Motorhead)
Illinois - Shes So Blonde
SilverJews - SanFrancisco BC
The House of Apples and Eyeballs - Psychic Swelling
Regina Spektor - Machine
YACHT- Psychic City
Jimmie Rodgers - TB Blues
Vaqueros Paganos - Asesinos

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Image from: Wikipedia's Entry on "Thinking About the Immortality of Crabs" Artist: Greg Williams
Online Comic I'm Currently Reading: Templar, Arizona

A belated month - but only because of the harried pace of life. And while I would love nothing more than to dedicate my self (again) to the twin frivolties of 'fun' and 'communication of ones emotional state through artistic means' which drive this haphazard ship of woebegotten delights into the ragged rocks of alliterative allusions and malaproped metaphors.

All hands on deck our cavorting has run out of spare time.

So as a brief summary too congrats to Ana on her promotion and Molly on getting into her Doctoral program. Happy Birthday Craig and Ana. And lastly yay me. I did things too:

Short and Ugly Comic: shifter-magazine.com/shifter13.pdf
Quick and Brutal Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQmdQPy_3yg

So that was then - also on a small not the format is going down from 80 min shows to a brief 50 min. this is mainly due to space and time considerations

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Intro
Led Zepplin - Immigrant Song
Women - Black Rice (Green Go remix)
Krazy Baldhead - The End ft. Beat Assailant
Bruce Springsteen - Erie Canal
Lisps - Documents
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Feel The Drip
Elliot Smith - Twilight
Passion Pit - Little Secret (Nouveau!)
Cat Power - Love and Communication
Le-Face - Salvador Dali
Vagabondopera Kabarista - Farewell
Honeycut - Shadows
Curious Hands - Birthday Song For Ana (Ed.  thanks guys!)
Lynne Richards with the Jimmy Etta Orchestra - Hydrogen Nitrogen Potassium

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Image From: Tori Miki

Says Simon I been face to face with a Serpant, Demon and a Saint, think it is what it aint... Aint that right baby face?, cutie pie?, good lookin'?, twinkle in your Daddy's eye?

Another month and things are still happening - downturns or no, lay offs or not, things proceed to decay at a pace unprecedented. To our vestigial ape descended brain parts this is another insult thrown by the modern world. We are overcome with despair at times by not what is happening, which is still too fast and recent to comprehend, but on what has just happened. So shuttered from the immediate and blinkered to the future we have to cast about for a path with the blind ineptitude of dumb stones rolling down hills. Anxiety, nervousness, fear and dread, ever present but also on the rise - marking higher on the measure of my own inner metric the the rising tide of ill happenings far beyond my ken or control. There is no ennui among destitute - since there is just too much which remains to be done.


Also Ana's birthday is this month - so there is that too. We're thinking of a party in the park with an anti-scavenger hunt.

Also, Sket and the Hobo - a project blog for me and Ana (and a compliment to the still undisclosed Autoshop project) has gone "live" with the completion of a poorly illustrated and woefully written 7 pager, soon to be published, maybe - by an online magazine. Or not. Who knows. So here are Hobo themed songs (three really) to celebrate.

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Hobo Jug Band <- hobo song
The Beginning Of The End - Funky Nassau, Pt. II
The Who - the Kids are Alright
Benjy Ferree -Fear
The Standells  - Medication
The Holy Modal Rounders - Give The Fiddler A Dram
The Fugs - I Saw The
Southeast Engine - Black Gold
Death - Politicians
The Long Blondes - Once And Never Again
Soko - I'll Kill Her
TMBG - (She was a) Hotel Detective in the Future
Dan Deacon - Snookered
Casey and Brian - Rumble in the Jungle
The Moving Sidewalks - Set Me Free (Feat. Billy Gibbons)
Link Wray and the Raymen - Baby What You Want Me To Do
Les Ambassadeurs Internationales - Mousso Gnaleden
The Frames - Lay Me Down
The Raincoats - Fairytale In The Supermarket
Papercuts - Future Primitive
Girls - Hellhole Rat Race
Deertick - These Old Shoes <-hobo song
Rt. 78W Outlaws - Too Much Tequila
Ame - Rej (Sonar Kollektiv Orchester cover)

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image from:
Darwin from Mikero - also as a tee-shirt
Bellisop - Philosopher for Hire (shifter-magazine.com)

Look I'll keep this brief as I've found little succor from expounding on this site to any length.
Instead let me divulge my recent doings - for diary purposes:

Also - got this here musical interlude:

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Image from: The incontestable excellence of B. Patrick, Akimbo
In memory of:
Joseph M. Williams (1933-2008) who wrote The Phenomenology of Error which I found to be clear headed and rational a scare trait in composition studies. That he purposefully included 100 errors in it was both smart and funny.

Another year - but this one seems to have more promise right?

It certainly seems that way. So lets keep our fingers crossed and kick it off by listening to my new favorite song that, according to Colin Larkin and a 1998 BBC poll is the worst album ever.

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1. Screaming Lord Sutch and the Heavy Friends - Flashing Lights
2. Jimi Tenor - Bacon Alive
3. Yo La Tango
4. Afuche - Umm Champ Chemp
5. Tradewinds - Mind Exscursion
6. Do Make Say Think - Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
7. Unknown Artist - Unknown
   
8. Jackie Lee - Happy Vacation
9. Peggy Sue and the Pictures - Once We Were Strangers
10. Bill Cosby - Funky North Philadelphia
11. Ratatat - Tropicana
12. Lattie Moore - Pull Down the Blinds
13. Wurzels - Rock DJ & Pushnoy - Satisfaction (Thanks to RadioClash!)
14. Tower of Power - What is Hip
15. The Ramones - Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio
16. Linda Gail Lewis - Ain't Nothing Shakin
17. The Whitest Boy Alive - Island
18. Hoagy Lands - Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand
19. Takeshi Terauchi & the Bluejeans - So Ren Pushi (? Maybe ?)
20. Puppini Sisters - Crazy In Love (The Real Tuesday Weld Remix)
21. Fiery Furnaces - Here Comes The Summer
22. Unknown Artist - Mama Loochie
23. Detroit Cobras - I Wanna Holler But The Town's Too Small
24. Quiet Village - Circus of Horror

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Image from: A Softer World

Hola,

Everything is late - lateness is the order of the day
If winding gyres were unwinding daydreams
And learning and learning is of the most dire
And the thing I could not do is just to pay attention
Mere distractions make me lose the world
At my best these are convictions
my eventual goals aligned with these passions.

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1. FloBots - We Are Winning
2. Erykah Badu - Amerykahn Promise
3. Human Highway - The Sound
4. Dirtbombs - It's Not Fun Until They See You Cry
5. Blitzen Trapper - God & Suicide
6. La Lupe - Con El Diablo En El Cuerpo
7. They Might Be Giants - Seven Days Of The Week (I Never Go To Work)
8. Why - The Fall Of Mr. Fifths
9. Alejandro Escovedo - Chelsea Hotel '78
10. Mr. Scruff - Kalimba
11. The Pica Beats - Poor Old Ra
12. caUSE co-MOTION! - baby don't do it
13. Ratatat - Mirando
14. Cool Kids - What Up Man
15. The Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll
16. The Last Shadow Puppets - My Mistakes Were Made for You
17. The Chemical Brothers - Battle Scars (Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation)
18. The Raconteurs - Hold Up
19. Cut Copy - Lights And Music
20. Hauschka - Blue Bicycle
21. Nathaniel Mayer - Village Of Love Going Back To The Village Of Love
    

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Image From: Sconeborough
Congratulations to: American Progressives
Condolences: Nathaniel Mayer

Ramblin' Man....  Happy Birthday.

Listening to music makes me happy in some ways. Look, here I am listening to ... .. . good lord: Bauhaus of all things.... and I'm not in a bad mood. I actually remember Seattle '99, a studio with 5 friends. One of whom, Tom (mother' stills owes me for the phone bill) shooting coke and listening to this proto-industrial rumble. Good Times.

If music was invented today they'd make it illegal. Music is an altered state in the same way that a deep conversation is mind fuck. I hear the Special's "Ghost Town" and I remember that roadtrip where I totally faked fanhood cause I hoped to get laid.

How much of my current list is based off that premise? Shit, I may not be the best with the ladies, but all of them have turned me on to music which is in-arguably essential. The Pixies, The Talking Heads, Paul Oakenfold, Neutral Milk Hotel .. . I should make a list of the the sounds I got turned on to and who did it too me. Honestly, it would be a mixed bag, I should shelve that for a bit I guess.

I'm pretty mixed up about all this stuff actually. Torn between celebrating and crying have I been reduced to that?  I actually started to deal with deep buried emotional pain earlier this week, I might be getting to the point of maturity where I can spout masturbatory monologues of how life done me wrong and not actually be sarcastic anymore.

Ah shit! Another round! Round the sun - open the bottle and let us listen to this music that I like ... . .

I may never be Lester Bangs, I may yet be E. O. Wilson though. Fuck this life is getting on without me. I better lower that bar; I may never be myself but at least I won't be my dad.

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Danbert Nobacon - Nixon is my dentist
Hank Williams III - Pills I Took
BUKE & GASS - Rum for You (Edit)
They Might Be Giants - The Shadow Government
Cult of Sue Todd - Burn Tampa
Charlie Haden - Song Of The United Front
Erin McKeown - Blackbirds
Caesars - Jerk It Out
Carla Bruni - Those Dancing Days Are Gone
Feist - 1, 2, 3, 4
Howard Hello - Television
Jeffery Lewis - The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane
Koufax - AnyMomentNow
The LK - Private Life of a Cat
Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju & Giovanni Hidalgo- Dances With Wood
Isobell Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Ramblin Man
BPA - Toejam
Legendary Pink Dots - Torchsong
Pernice Brothers - Discover A Lovelier You
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
The Be Good Tanyas-The Littlest Birds
Brooklyn Rider - Crosstown
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
The Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll
The Dandy Warhols - Easy
Ezra Furman - We Should Fight
The Slits - Ping Pong Affair
Paul Oakenfold - Ready Steady Go
The Clash - Capital Air with Ginsberg
Wynton Marsalis Septet-Juba And A O'Brown Squaw

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image from: Berkely Breathed, "Opus" - hey I'm sure you get this all the time Mr. Breathed, but I really was influenced by your stuff when I was young and I've found it to be a well spring of wisdom throughout my life.

note to future self, you once lived with a girl, and every morning you woke up to find flowers at the foot of the bed. each of you thought the other had put them there. It turned out to be the cat though.

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POSTSCRIPT: The birthday day itself was absolutely incredible featuring Central Park, Thai Food, Tequila shoots and a Mathematical based tattoo from Greenwich village, a walk in on Banksy's Pet Store, a dine and dash of margaritas and churros, a creepy deep house experience at club LOVE, and then the two hour train ride. Top it all off with a roll out of bed and go to morning Sunday class moment.

Thanks for everything Babe.

I guess I was just having a stupid moment there taking life seriously.

09.19.08 Pitfalls of Compilations

Like every able minded wit in this new century's culture wars, I have a podcast. In all humility it is a simple affair, intended to be bi-weekly, it now struggles along at almost a monthly pace.

The original intent, beyond the glorious wealth and epic fame of being a podcaster, was to create a feedback loop of finding new music, making it available as a piece, and then, of course, finding more. Little did know the amount of time needed to put together one hour of music. I bete musicians feel the same, only more so.. .

Part of the issue is time spent listening to music. I had seriously underestimated the amount of time and attention that this requires. The basic necessity, to listen intently to a song, compounded by the ridiculous wealth in good music that our age best exemplifies, is basically absurd. Thanks to the internet, WFMU's Antique Phonograph show is as easily available as that Moxie Fruvous bootleg I got kicking around somewhere. By which I mean; the obscure areifacts are everywhere it just listening. And once you start you realize how endless it all is.

I spend more time now "culling the herd" than finding the selections. My average show starts at around three hours long - then I spend a few days listening and removing and adding on, until I've gotten to that CD-R sweet spot of 80 min. Usually another couple of days are spent juggling the order of tracks until their sequence is coherent. Another dat tweaking levels and getting the fades right, and often a last minute substitution or two. Fianlly the set list is compiled, and depending on time constraints I may link to the artists and I may write comments. In the olden days of "leisure time" I'd even record spoken bits to intro and seqway songs and sections. this is unlikely to happen now.

In the interests of saying something, here are the rationalizations for track inclusion and highlights for the mix I have here:

01 - Amon Tobin - Get Your Snack On
02 - Matmos - Zealous Order of Candied Knights
03 - People Like Us - My Son Jim (excerpt)
04 - Hifana - Wamono PV
05 - The Books - It Never Changes to Stop
06 - Kid Koala - Fender Bender
07 - Cex - OD'd on First Base
08 - Dj Food & DK - Let's Play Drums
09 - Kid606 - MP3 Killed The CD Star
10 - Mum - Abakvid Tvaer Hædir,,,,sundlau
11 - Dj Vadim - Dig Yourself Baby
12 - Prefuse 73 & the Books - Pagina Cuatro
13 - Dj Z-Trip & Dj P - Uneasy Listening Track 4
14 - Amon Tobin - Foley Room
15 - Dj Shadow - Building Steam with a Grain of Salt (excerpt)
16 - Proem - Negativ - Bolt Action A17 - Proem - Negativ - Bolt Action A
17 - Skalpel - Tension
18 - Plastiq Phantom - Experimentation on Foreign Light
19 - Negativland - What's Music (excerpt)
20 - Radio Soulwax - paul simon - ladytron - (guitarsolo)
21 - Volcano The Bear - Five Hundred Boy Piano (excerpt)
22 - Richard Devine - block, variation
23 -Kid Koala - Basin Street Blues
24 - Squarepusher & MC Twin Tub - Full Rinse
25 - The Art Of Noise - How To Kill
26 - Man or Astroman - A Simple Text File

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image from: Nietzsche Family Circus

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Coincidentally this is from a music diary for the Brooklyn College cc1.3 class. The mix itself was done in the vein of finding electronic music of a certain odd caliber after a discussion of the matter with the professor.

For those curious, yes, college is going well, thanks for asking. I may not be making these show too often anymore but it is a nice break from the studies - and in this case fits in well besides them.

Oh
there ain't a cloud in heaven which has got more than a single silver lining. the lucky days do come and go but

is it just my life that is being lost in this town?
or someone else's life?
or something else of mine?

Does it seems like it's me changing - how do I know it isn't that I've found what someone else lost and since I've not got one of my own I have space to fill
and fill it I will

with whatever I find in this city specific sorrows. Like
the anonymity is really starting to get to me lately, maybe, but
who knew I needed definitions to be happy?

Why
the last thing I want to do is burn it down, but there is that list.
The list of other things to try before I burn it all down.

I don't want poetry I want to punch someone in the throat.

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I got accepted to Brooklyn College, but probably shouldn't go.
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Sophie Tucker - School for Red Hot Mamas
Benny Sings - Get There
Fionn Regan - Hey Rabbit
Smog - Four Hearts in a Can
Drop nineteens - (plus fish)
ABBA - You Owe Me One
Modern Lovers - I'm Straight
Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling into Piece
Blind Boys of Alabama - Servant's Prayer Amen
Dustin's Bar Mitzvah - Artrocker (Feat. Dan Treacy)
Books - Read, Eat, Sleep
cLOUDDEAD - Physics of a Unicycle
Devo - Speed Racer
Black Moth Super Rainbow - The Afternoon Turns Pink
Robin Thicke - I'm A Be Alright
Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Solomon Burke - Baby I Wanna Be Loved
Kung Babar Elefant
Spoon - Believing is Art
The Sea and the Cake - Polio
Damon Albarn - Closet Romantic
Matt Costa - Trying to Loose my Mind
Josh Ritter - Mind's Eye
The Guess Who - Rain Dance
Gaelic Storm - Nancy Whisky
The Mountain Goats - Blood Royal
The Sparrows - Wofee Woyaa He Ni (bra-dipo beat ga)
atans rieger blakc metul 666 teh bark ov teh tevil vnd barg biekernis DER SECOND SONG FROM TEH EVOL ALBAM! - DER TRUE BLAKC ME
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Image From: Big Fat Whale's The Classy Dozen

As always and ever it is my great joy to snatch from the hands of time the moment of life unmeasured.

This month has been fairly erratic - I've gotten a position as a fancy lab assistant at school which, I humbly must admit, I doubt I am qualified for. Of course there are many things I'm not qualified for which I do anyways, or which people pay me to do.

It really is a great thing when people believe we live in a meritocracy and the playing field is uneven. I blame the liberals for the former and the conservatives for the latter, just so you know my stance on these things. The situation makes it so that for each inequality you can leverage in your favor the more open people are to thinking you the rightful holder to that which by error, accident, hook and crook you've been able to obtain.

All this leads up to the notion that by attaining something I'm unqualified for I've actually shown how qualified I am. Which makes me feel remarkably good about myself while also putting me in a position where I recognize the pointlessness of my situation.

On that note, let's listen to some music.

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Twilight Hotel - Viva La Vinyl
Ralph Gean - star trekkin' rock n' roll cowboy
Kate & Anna Mcgarrigle - sugar baby
Gorillasuit - Everybody at the beach
Hal Blaine - Trippin' Out (June)
Bull Moose Jackson - Big Ten Inch Record
Nylon Rythm Machine - Been through so much together
Islands - 08 Volcanoes
Luigi and Antonio Russolo - Corale
Arrah and the Ferns- Skylark
Nellie McKay - Identity Theft
Conor Oberst - 12 I Don't Want To Die In The Hospital
American Breed - partridge weiners spot
The Seeds - mr. farmer
Noonday Underground - boy like a timebomb
April Aloisio - Duid Deed
Faith no More - something for the girl with everything (with sparks)
Ernest Ranglin - Memories of Baber Mack
Laibach - NSK
Salty Pirates - Black minds and white lies
Jorge ben - amor de carnaval
Ennoi Morricone - L'estasi Dell'oro (The Ecstasy Of Gold)
Cinematic Titanic - Piece of Eights
Los Campesinos You Me Dancing
COIN-OP - Karl killed Nicholas
Scientific Cricket - barbarashop cricket
Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
Flaming Lips - One Shot
Archie Shepp - Scag
Mice Parade - Guitars for plants

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Image from:
Teaching Baby Paranoia

Hey everyone - it has been too long yes?

Surely it has but so it goes.

This one goes out to the madness of the city, the full time school, the real job, the paid tutor position, the honors project, the 1 month roommate (lots of respect to you bud), the co-worker who went west and went missing, the armory show i caught, the 10,000 shows I missed, the brief light of our lives wasted away on frivolous noise. And, of course my, babe.

To put it all in a pot and boiling it all down we find ... what do we find?

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In no particular order (well a little I did try)

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image courtesy of a certain babes flickr account:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ana_leigh/

The quickest little things often take so much time. For instance at the moment I am posting this are an seemingly endless number of things I rather ought to be doing instead - alas - these are the tepid fruits of my sorely constrained time.

This podcast itself has in fact haunted my drive for nearly 3 weeks and is only now being released into the wild - not for a lack of quality but a lack of time.

However given the matter of music or edification I have to say that the time I have spent on the latter is well worth it as things are proceeding exceedingly well. For the case of the record I now have definitive evidence that a certain lab materials company is selling Barfoed's Reagent that is in a sad state of reacting. Their Benedict's Reagent is quite fine though.

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Chad Vangaalen - Flower Gardens
Pastel Vespa - The Boys are Back in Town
Tomorrow - Am I Glad to see you
1900s - When I Say Go
Boom Bip - Third Stream
Choclate watchband - misty lane
Elliot Smith - Ballad of Big Nothing
Giant Drag - Slayer
Dee Dee Sharp - Baby Cakes
Leadbelly - Pigmeat
Tom Waits - Sea of Love
The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World
The Spinners - One of a Kind
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Make It Good To Me
Belle & Sebastian - Dress Up In You
M.Craft - Love Knows How To Fight
Marvin Gaye - My Mistake (Was To Love You) (feat. Diana Ross)
Bill Wyman - Si Si Je Suis Un Rock Star
Noah and the Whale - 5 Years Time
Hospital Bombers - The Devil's Music
Chubby Checker - The Twist
Barbara Lewis - Pushin' A Good Thing Too Far
Bjrn Svin - Mer Strm 2
Peter's Faces - I Don't Care
Unknown Artist - Sherburne (From World of Music Compilation)

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Image from:
The excellent and inimitable
http://katebeaton.com

This is more about the Contrast Podcast Cd Swap then Valentines Day . When the Final Selection is made by Andrew from Circles of Concrete  -- I'll update the page an throw a link to the other contributers selections . Until then enjoy - and ask yourself which would I pick?

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Mojo Nixon - Rockin' Religion
Led Zepplin - Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
The Pixies - Subbacultcha
Village Stomper - washington square
The Bonzo Dog Band - Humanoid Boogie
Diesler - Cotton Wool
Badly Drawn Boy - Bewilderbeast
Ralph Gean - Kill for a Cigarette
Tiga - Far From Home
Huggy Bear - Herjazz
Atari Teenage Riot - Destroy 2000 Years of Culture
Fatback Band - Got to Learn How to Dance
Future Kings of Nowhere - Ten Simple Murders
Strip Squad - Pervert Expert
Beat the Devil - Plea Bargain
Bitch and Animal - Best Cock on the Block
Dj Food & DK - Square Off - Mirror in the Bathroom
Professor Longhair - Big Chief
The Bees - No One Better Than You
KRS one - The Bridge is Over
Man or Astroman - Evert 1 Pipkin
Shocking Blue - Ink Pot
B.B. King - I Like To Live The Love
Murray Attaway - Allegory

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image from - www.pspealman.com

now what happens...

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Daft punk - Something About Us
The Indelicates- Julia, We Don't Live In The '60s
The Modern Jazz Quartet - For Someone I Love (Live)
The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died
Brendan Benson And The Wellfed Boys - Alternative To Love
Bishop Allen - Things Are What You Make Of Them
Monty Python - Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

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Time is getting short once more and you know what that means. A sudden decrease in the quality of the posts.

Now now.. . follow me here into this backroom for I've a shady secret to share - see here, I only have time to do so much. We both know how that is.  I want to maximize the music I share not create a thickness of links and tangents, digressions, and filler. Things that provide my identity - that personal touch to the selection - must take a back seat now.

But it is a fine line - this detachment puts me within range of that absentee dj which factory radio craps out. Certainly nothing I'd like to have in my life. But harsh times call for harsh hash biscuits with a side of resignation gravy (a little light please - the doctor, you know, says I need to watch my diet). This loss of voice is a problem I acknowledge and will work against - but some slippage is bound to occur.

So here I'll post with the notion that this could be done better, ought to be done better, by time and life are short and the main motive is, as it always has been, to kick out the jams.

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1. People Like Us - Music of Your Own
2. Future Wives - Dark Side of the Man
3. eMiL Jensen - Ghana mot Italien
4. Flaming Lips - God's A Wheeler Dealer
5. Chocolate Watch Band - Let's Talk About Girls
6. The Mark Four - I'm Leaving
7. Rufus Thomas Jr - Tiger Man (King of the Jungle)
8. Donovan - Barabajagal (Love Is Hot)
9. Pendulum - Girl in the Fire
10. Tullycraft - Our Days in Kansas
11. Volumen - Battle for Chromozon
12. Rocket From The Crypt - Middle
13. au P'tit Bonheur - Padam (Piaf)
14. Janis Joplin - Easy Once You Know How
15. Ariane - Moffatt Montreal
16. Ruth Brown - This Little Girl’s Gone Rockin’
17. Mighty Joe Young - Ain't Nobody Home
18. Balloon Farm - Question of Temperature
19. Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat
20. Tinariwen - Cler Achel
21. Tarwater - 70 Rupees to Paradise
22. Nervous Norvus - Transfusion
23. Eddy Cochrane - 20 Flight Rock
24. Frank Zappa - I'm Not Satisfied

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Backing Tracks:

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Brevity this day my loyal readers. A busted keyboard and little to prattle on about means that original text is at a premium and I shan't bother with the niceties.

So welcome to 2008 and enjoy two hours of some selected tracks. Like a very special after school special I hope that we can all learn a very important lesson from what just happened. And so, drugs are bad (or at least expensive), you don't need friends like that, and, of course, time is precious. Oh so precious - I wouldn't read this verbiage I spew grab the tracks and go do something for christ's sake.

Lets get started.

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1) Sargasso Trio - Heels on Fire

2) The Field - Fall From A Height (Remix)
Tied and Tickled Trio - Aelita 1

3) B.C. Camplight - Soy Tonto!

4) Lisa Portelli - A Mon Meuble

5 ) Chromeo - Fancy Footwork

6) Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

7) The Magnetic Fields - Three-Way

8) Enon - Mirror on You 

9) The Shermans - Dumbhead
Let's bring it down with this jangle pop series of insults.

10) David Vandervelde - Nothin’ No

11) The Whitsundays - Sorry James

12) Dr. Dog - Ain’t It Strange

13) Tunng - Bullets

14) Steve Dawson - Fun Machine One

15) Miss Li - I’m Sorry, He’s Mine

16) Patrick and Eugene - Postcard From Summerisle

17) Midnight Juggernauts - Dragonette's I Get Around (Remix)

18) DJ Logic feat. Miri Ben-Ari

19) Mandragora - La Cumparsita (Tango Christ Superstar)

20) Hungry Marching Band - Gde Si Bre

21) Lou Reed - Perfect Day

22) Kerkko Koskinen - Sparkling Arsenic

23) Mariee Sioux - Wizard Flurry Home

24) Mekons - Dickie, Chalky and Nobby

25) George Bush - Imagine

26) Grails - Silk rd

27) Emir Kusturica & No Smoking Orchestra - Who killed the D.J.

28) MC5 - Kick out the Jams

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For the more perceptive of you - you may have noticed an interesting spelling of name than the common hum drum consonant-vowel-consonant type. For the more Dutch of you you may have not thought anything of it. And if your are as perceptive and Dutch as I am you'd be completely confused about nearly anything - especially this bit.

I'll cut right to the quick - I share my name with the Santa's black friends. The helpful and kind, and once enslaved, but now just friends, assistants to Saint Nick.

I could pillage this Sedaris piece for cheap laughs but I've got a classy angle here to up hold so I'll spare the sallacious back story of pseudo-sobriquets for another occasion when I'm feeling even more like boring everyone with a ham-fisted intro.

So here is David Sedaris and his "Six to Eight Black Men" from his Live at Carnegie Hall performance.


Enjoy and Happy Holidays from all of me to all of you.

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My self proclaimed hiatus seems to have been declared in haste. Admittedly this has much to do with the matter of my being recently relieved of my scholastic concerns and let loose in those green pastures of leisure time.

And like all things leisurely, such as strolls, it is a constitutional, a blam on the jaded nerves and jangled devices of self defense. Not to put too fine a point on it this is a bit of a mix up more leaning to the classics as would befit a peace of mind.

Enough blather - oh but one thing, before I continue - be sure to take a tab and catch up on your folk's eye candy by checking out the adventures of Quasi. Still un-inspired? Catch the 1967 video for Pierre Henry's Psyché Rock. Astounding enough that it's machine evolution predates Kurzweil and more effective because of it.

One last video, sure how about the entire 1929 movie from Communist Russia Man with Movie Camera. Your grandfather's jaw presumably dropped during the raw 'documenting the world as it is' scene.

Alright enough of that. Lets listen to some music.

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Hombres - Let it Out (let it all hang out)
Creaky Boards - Brooklyn
Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
Les Problemes - Je ne Vois Rien
Olympic Runners - Just Funkin` Around
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour
Ian Dury - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Loose Salute - Deathclub
Jimi Hendrix - 1983... (a Merman I Should Turn to be) (podcast cut)
Pierre Henry - Psyché Rock
Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation

Bram Tchaikovsky - New York Paranoia
Panda Bear - Bros edit
Bill Justis - College Man
Chandler Travis Philharmonic - Wireless
Joe Turner & His Blues Kings - Shake, Rattle & Roll
Andrew Sisters - Beer Barrel Polka
Caribou - Melody Day
The Raveonettes - Christmas Song

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Thanks for searching out my page and I'm happy enough to supply the source of John Peel's Top Gear "Signature Tune" here's the blog that got to it first and even included a download of the full album.

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Did you know I get first page ranking on Google for the search terms Tuba Vocal Podcast?

Double Bonus! I also got first page for the same term in the image directory.
It's like winning Noble prize of weird. Do I really have that many tuba songs with vocals? Have I - somehow mistakenly - cornered the market on an over looked subgenre of tuba backed tracks?

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Also a shout out to France, the UK and South Korea! I've never been to any of those places but they seem real nice. Thanks for the support guys.

The Great Divide of the Weeklies and the Monthlies has fallen - and the podcast to prevent podfade must relinquish the hectic ground of the twice a month update to those whose endeavors are more seasoned for such epic things. Seasoned with garlic and time.

So the contemporary crap will mix with golden oldies in a sonic stew unpalatable to anyone but the deaf. Somehow I'm sure you'll all struggle on.

Also a 'hello' to everyone (all two of you) visiting me from Tim's Contrast Podcast! For those not in the know - he's done a democratic thing and had everyone vote on the best songs of 2007. Surely a smoking year and my opinions were long thought out and my reasons honed by the sweat of the ear tightly encased in headphones - but alas I thought to long and my votes  were rejected because of deadlines being missed and what not. Still Tim was nice enough to let me introduce two fine sparkling tracks and I highly suggest you check out the rankings of everyone's submission.

How is it that I get to be a representative without being able to vote? Well Tim's British and the democratic thing doesn't naturally so there is that. Or maybe he is trying to make things better in the British American rift (that whole secession thing lingers I've been told) by some strange inversion of the traditional processes. It very hard to tell, really.

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Al Duvall - The Squirrel Shucking Bee
Sharon Jones & Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
Jo Jo and the Fugitives - Chips Chicken Banana Split
Dark Meat - One More Trip
Life In a Blender - Showers Lose the Girl
Dj JD - Falling
Dmitrij - Fuck MNML, Fuck Trance - We Wanna DANCE vol. 3
(Unattributed) - Cold Cut Solid Steel 10-17-2007
Bokusatsu Shoujo Koubou - 80's dream parasol
C64 Orchestra - Monty on the run

Clear Tigers - Boredom
High Places - Golden

Seventeen Evergreen - Burn the Fruit
The Rumblestrips - Alarm Clock
Mountain Goats - Alpha Incipiens
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television The Drug of the Nation
Vitalic Remix - Cardboard Lamb
Steve Hefter and Friends of Friends - Bullshit

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And with the holidays and everything what the hell.

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1. Lee Dorsey - Confusion
2. Slim Harpo - Te-ni-nee-ni-nu
3. Page France - A Belly To The Sea
4. Byther Smith - What My Mamma Told Me
5. The Old Ceremony - Hearts Were Made
6. Mavis Staples - This Little Light
7. Howard Roberts - Sack O'Woe
8. Sam Cooke - Another Satruday Night
9. Mason Jennings - Where the sun had been
10. Little Milton - Who's Cheatin' Who
11. Champion Jack Dupree - Louise
12. Led Zeppelin - Dancing Days (Live)
13. Brazilian Girls - Sweatshop
14. James - Fine
15. Thee Headcoats - A Town Named Squaresville
16. Language Of Flowers - Songs About You
17. Charlie Feathers - tongue-tied jill
18. Jens Lekman - Pocketful Of Money
19. Neil Young - Expecting To Fly

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Backing tracks:
Skeleton Keys - Watch The Fat Man Swing
Skip James - Catfish Blues
Skwei - NuFruit
Tierneys Fugitives - Did You Want To Run Away
Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide
Plaid - porn coconut co

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It's my birthday so the post needs no introduction blather.

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1. The Feelies - Big Cheese
2. Uberzone - Satisfaction
3. Supermayer - The Art of Letting Go
4. Animal Collective - Peacebone
5. Jens Lekman - Drive In Bingo
6. Dave Grusin - Gasoline Alley
7. Cherrystones - Crawl Back To Mine
8. Jamie Lidell - Multiply
9. Roosevelt Franklin - Red Pepper pt. 1
10. Tom Brosseau - Committed to Memory
11. Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freak Out
12. Shack Shakers - Swampblood
13. The National - Fake Empire
14. Six Organs of Admittance - Hazy SF
15. Psapp - King Kong
16. Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler
17. Madvillian - Accordion
18. T Bone Burnett - I'm Going On A Long Journey Never To Return

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Backing Tracks:
Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone
Kelpe Yippee Space
Tom Tyler - Drinking Tea From an Empty Cup
Papercuts - John Brown
Digitalism - Zdarlight

Johnny Otis - Crazy Country Hop
Ray Cannon and the Chorals - Mule Skinner
Band of Horses - Our Swords

Dyke and The Blazers - Let a Woman be a Woman

Hank Williams - Lost Highway

Tony Rivers & the Castaways - Come Back Baby

Michael Talbott & the Wolf Kings - Passenger I

Brain Wilson - Vegetables

Vince Taylor - Brand New Cadillac
Iron & Wine - Beneath the Balcony
Carl Perkins - Restless
Larry Williams - Slow Down

Bobby Byrd - Hot Pants ... I\'m Coming, I\'m Coming
Byther Smith - Walked All Night Long
Septeto Nacional Ignacio Pineiro - el Adois De este Momento
Ann Peebles - Somebody\'s on your case
James Brown - Don\'t Tell a Lie on Me and I
The Tams - The Greatest Love
African Music Machine - Black Water Gold
The Remains - Hang On Sloopy
Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - Wooly Bully

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Byther Smith - Funky Man
Wynonie Harris - I Got a Lyin\' Woman
Curtis Mayfield - If I were Only a Child Again
Bobby Kuban - The Cheater
Buddy Guy - What kind of woman is this

A brief but rousing little mini-cast cause my day is slow and indie pop is rocking the office headphones

Murder by Death - Dead Men and Sinners

A boisterous sea chanty gets the punk push in this piece by the blurred concept artists.

The Essex Green - Julia

A sweet memento is waiting to be claimed by this song by the now elsewhere and too busy to work on music music group Essex Green. No fear next time I hear them playing again I'll be sure to go.

Franz Ferdinand - Cheating On You

Boy wow these guy's will be big someday soon. That's right ttmt bringing you the freshness.

Hot Chip - Plastic

A shame I used up the popularity joke on Franz.

The Olivia Tremor Control - Grass Canons

Never forget the Elephant Six. Some great bands came of off such a small label

The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)

Yeah I played them before too but that was a shitty live recording. Damn all this time And I still love that song. The rest of it, not so much.

CHAOS - Grune

A really really impromtu show includes the random members of the audience and these folks are keeping the dream of the anything goes alive and well.

 

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image is the Warren Commision's report which came out today in 1964.

Ahhh - September when the air is cool and New York is less violently antithetical to human existence. To ring in the Calculus course and the Brooklyn Book Festival I bring you another mildly amusing number of songs that I heard in recent car commercials and funeral processions. Am I doing any of this right yet?

No. I still make to many mistakes.

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1. The Fugs - Skin Flowers

A long and semi-distinguished career has brought the Fugs a small amount of fame. Their Final CD compilation even got voted on highly by Rolling Stone for Greatest Album. The just had a reunion tour this year and are working towards releasing a DVD of it via CdBaby.

site | buy

2. Portishead - Stranger (Live)

The infamous live a Roseland show I believe.

site | buy

3. The Hives - I Hate to Say I Told You So

Not to often to I post straight up pop but the energy on this track (a sort of over produced punk) fit my mood too well to let it go.

site | buy

4. The Fiery Furnaces - Navy Nurse

New album 'Widow City' finds the old gang in bed with delerious amounts of heavy sounds. An altogether larger departure from previous tones than the infamous (and heart warming) signing with Grandma album. Highly recommended for the variety of ways it compels you to invest in a bass amp.

site | buy (available October 2007)

5. They Might Be Giants - First Kiss

Well the FF track preceding this was just so damn heavy I had to lighten the groove some how so this is the obligatory palate reset track. TMBG also came out with a new album and I've every intent to make a smart purchase of it the moment I get the hookers under my thumb again.

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6. Acid Casuals - Wa Da Da

Nothing says a good time for all like a music collective. And these guys are that and a massive clooective it is - and welsh too boot!

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7. Devendra Banhart - Long Haired Child

The real stand out track of freak folk on this podcast. I was delighted to hear it the first time I stumbled upon it and was doubly excited to find he's putting out a new album here on the 26th.

site | buy

8. Echu Minga - Pueblo Nuevo

A sister on nonesuch records alongside superstars Buena Vista Social Club Echu takes a track and reworks it to an understated dj haze. Well I liked it a lot.

site | buy

9. The Replacements - I Will Dare

The preeminent punk band on a straight forward track here.

site | buy

10. Brazilian Girls - All We Have

A more mellow offering than what their known for, this track is for the thoughtful moment before we dive into the aural catastroph of the next track.

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11. Polysics - New Wave Jacket

Someone brought 'technicolor pogo punk' and it was loud but still good.

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12. TullyCraft - Fall 4 U

Not one of my favorite TullyCraft songs (check the grammophone for 'Our Times in Kansas'). But they've got another album coming out in October so I'll show the so-saids the whatfor by then. Be sure to check back in sometime.

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13. Mahala Rai Banda - Romano Dance

What a damn miracle find! I do hope that there is some enjoyment in the various headphones when this gets the listen to. Dig the Bucharest Ghetto Gypsies.

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14. Sugababes - Red Dress (Caged Baby Remix)

A bit of the electro remix can revitalize even the mainest of pop songs on this it does double the work turning the piece into a solid work dance floor propaganda.

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15. Man Man - Push The Eagles Stomach

Man Man here with a second song (I did - if I do recall put the other under the Weird Road Trip - the most despised podcast I have here, tune into it and find out what you're missing). This one; even less intelligble. 

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16. Wolf Parade - You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son

The British Colombia's indies with a moving tune about the extinction of hedgehogs in the British Isles.

site | buy

17. Ok Go - Invincible

A stupendous lack of exercise machines! Yet the haircuts are brilliant!

site | buy

18. Grassella Oliphant - Ain't that peculiar

Fancy and underrated mid '60s jazz funk brimming with the busted stuttering that breakbeats will one day embrace. How is it that this is unknown?

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19. Tipper - California Rolls

Tipper is a smart piece of IDM by British Nu Breaker Dave Tipper. Mostly eclectic sometimes elegant - the pop-ish inflections make the access easy and the chill out warmer and more inviting than some other of the similar sort (nothing against you Amon Tobin, but really).

 site | buy

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Backing Tracks:
Alexander Robotnick - Dance Boy Dance
Yoshida Brothers - Storm
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
Ernest Ranglin - Undecided

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A weird road trip is soon to ensue and what with the tornadoes and floods, school and work, moving and weddings - the summer wouldn't be complete were it not for the obligatory road trip.

The omens do cloud the horizons just last night I was set upon at my window by may cockroaches trying to find their way inside. So spooked was I when one alit upon my head that in a panic my library book (Collected Anthology of Shakespearian Criticism 1945-2000) was lost out the window and into the inaccessible yard of my neighbor three floors below. Why were cockroaches trying to get into my house - seriously weird animal behavior .. . what dark portents.

For the occasion of our outing I will share with you the mix cd that shall pilot us north-northwest to the capitol of cool Das Buffalo!

1. 50 hertz - Dagen da kriget kom till stan
2. bonzo dog band - trouser song
3. Lords of the New Church - Gun Called Justice
4. bruce haack - electric lucifer
5. mr bungle - chemical marriage
6. the soft boys - only the stones remain
7. fatboy slim - weapon of choice
8. buck 65 - the floor
9. Cibo Matto - Sugar Water
10. jan turkensburg - remkesmars
11. Cream - Wrapping Paper
12. telex - rock arond the clock tonight
13. Booby Coon - Never get ahead
14. yy snonos - cracking codes
15. Kid Koala - Bonus Materials on the set of Fender Bender
16. Man Man - Man who Make You Sick
17. protman - 125whrrd_20070601
18. Beck - Tunder Peel
19. Spike Jones And His Cuty Slickers - The tennessee waltz
20. William s Burroghs - place of dead

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Hello everybody.

Ahh the good times don't last long, not just yet recovered from a summer session of pre-calc (I got me an A, but the calluses betray my efforts for the pains it made of me) and already I find myself again in another class. English this time and good for it.

First day out the gate and I've got four poems by Frost to analyze (and no, not a one of them is the eponymous "Two Tramps in Mud Time"). Nevermind I've never done it before - it seems that is the point to this learning endeavor.

Also word has come down that a movement of my home to another house is in order. So while I'll be moving about I may, or not, have time to do anything podcast wise.

Please be nice and patient with all this. I promise the slapdash haberdashery of these tiny collections will someday revert to the quality curio shop it once so proudly was.

Till then; trucker speed and whores!

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Takako Minekawa - Fantastic Cat
Forro In The Dark - I Wish (David Byrne)
Dead Milkmen - Methodist Coloring Book
Dj Jester - Marwa (off of Filipino Fist)
Negatek - Hole in My Head (unreleased demo)
Jackie Mittoo - Nature Boy
Vic Thrill - Circus of Enlightenment
Raking Bomb's -  Adaptor
Fireballs of Freedom - March of the FOF
Arnaud Rodrigues - Murituri
Ronnie Ronalde - The Yodeling Whistler
Binary Finary - 1998 (From Paul Oakenfold's Tranceport)
Paul Van Dyk - Words (For Love) (From Paul Oakenfold's Tranceport)
Ludovic Beier (accordéon) & Angelo Debarre - Paris Plage X
The Books - Be Good to Them Always
The Fall - Faust Banana
The Gongs - The Dinosaur
Stark Reality - Rocket Ship
Dj Jester - Marwa (from Filipino Fist)
Patricia Kass - Black Coffee
Roger Miller - The Moon is High (and so am I)
Agent Simple - Make a Right

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Faster and faster - this podcast goes out to my high score on the last test in Math 206. I do apologize for my priorities but I'm sure you all understand that the podcast takes a back seat to school.

And now on with the show.

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1. Brooklyn Qawwali Party - Mustt Mustt
2. Shawn Harris - Today's a Day
3. Sir Douglas Quintet - She Digs My Love
4. Amos Lee - Listen
5. Yardbirds - Drinking Muddy Water
6. Hank Mars - Mars a nova
7. Roy Docker - Mellow Moonlight
8. Breakstra - Take My Time
9. el Polen - Mi Cueva
10. 007 The Scene - Looking for Love
11. Wall Of Voodoo - Tsetse Fly
12. Mark Strand - The Poem
13. Pigmeat Terry - Black Sheep Blues
14. Eux Autres - Ecoutez Bien
15. The Easybeats - Sorry
16. Andy Friedman - I Don't Want to Die like Andy Kaufman
17. Hypnotic - Balicky Bon

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backing tracks:
Elgar - Chanson de Matin
Stewart Walker - Cleopatra's Needle
Tomatito & Michael Camilo  - Spain Intro
Herbie Hancock - Fat Mama
Ludovic Beier & Angelo Debarre - Dinette
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Summer is going by quick. I've got little to post but with a bit of music in the mix I hope you won't mind that too much.

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1. Juno Reactor - Pistolero
2. Fluke - Absurd
3. Justice - Dance
4. Nicola Conte - Jet Sounds
6. Gionata - Niente di Giovane Dietro Una Droga
7. Amon Tobin - Always
8. Four Tet - No More Mosquitoes
9. Dansbanan
10. Aquasky - Shadow Breaks
11. Batdarrell - Danza
12. Erlend Oye - Every Party
13. Baka Beyond - Rendezvous
14. Pinataland - Velocity
15. Prefuse 73 & the Books - Pagina Siete

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Backing Track: Tatrai Tibor-Blues, Pierre Bastien - Eggs Air Seas Dust Hill, Medaphors - Place Your Bet, Zombies Ate My Neighbors Neighburger

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Oh Boy and Howdy everybody - Long time since my last podcast and all apologies. You must understand that these times dissertations are cause for desperation and all my education has left me little time for communication. And so I've managed to pull myself together just in time for the monthlies 05. Lets get it on.

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01. John Lee Hooker - Hard Hearted Woman
02. Holy Modal Rounders - Synergy
03. Thee Headcoats - Mantrap
04. Cocorosie - Terrible Angels
05. Pink Martini - Anna (El Negro Zunbon)
06. John Mayhill - Mexico City
07. La Piedrera - El Cool Dude
08. Al Caiola - Experiment In Terror
09. Har-You Percussion Group - Feel Me Good
10. Bango - Motor Maravilha

11. Barney Bigard Sextet - Sweet Marijuana Brown

12. Contours - Can You Jerk Like Me
13. Optiganally Yours - Walk & Chew Gum
14. Rusty York - Tremblin
15. David Karsten Daniels - Jesus and the Devil
15. Albert Washington - Bettie Jane

16. Lazy Lexi's mystery track!
17. Polyphonic Spree - Section 12 (Hold Me Now)
18. The Owls - Air
19. The Roulettes - Junk

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Thanks for tuning in everybody - just a heads up. Like I say in the podcast I'm shifting to a bi-monthly format because of time constraints due to summer school. But if anybody wants to submit a guest podcast drop me a line.

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backing tracks: Keisuke Egusa - Summer Samba; April Aloisio - Nica's; Dream; Skatallites - James Bond Theme; Yesterdays New Quintet - Daylight; Yardbirds - Honey In Your Hips.

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Hey everybody,
My names Pieter and I've got a horrible crush on the random noise of our musical landscape.

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1. Quintronics - Drum Buddy Intro (Reversed and Reverbed & Kick Opener)

2. Herbert - Moving Like a Train

3. Henrick Schwarz - You Rock, I Rock, We Rock

4. Charles Leonard - Funky Driver on a Funky Bus


< I talk too much. The volume of my speech may lead one to suspect I'm an idiot >

5. Mavis Staples - On My Way

6. Life in a Blender - Dead Get Down

7. Kaiser Chiefs - Oh My God

8. Fabulous Entourage - Theme Song
9. Keb' Mo - Kind Hearted Woman

10. Matt & Kim - Verbs Before Nouns

11. DAT Politics - Viper Eyes

12. Hefner - Hymn for the Cigarettes

13. Thieves Like Us - Drugs in my Body

14. Lady Bug Transistor - Here Comes the Rain

15. Soophie Nun Squad - Donkey Call

16. Cocorosie - Noah's Ark

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Another boisterous hour of music to show what little I've accomplished this month with my life. In jest though. Actually this month was exceedingly good in terms of what I've managed to do, school, work, etc are plodding along a staid course and I managed to do enough extracurricular math on the side to test out of math class and into math 206. Thrilling right?

So on to the tunes. This month I want to highlight for your listening enjoyment my new favorite obscure band The Godz - a group hailing from NYC their infinitely weird take on music was unable to secure the necessary interest of times and the group has since faded to an odious obscurity. For my part in reviving this tragic tale I hereby swear to play too much of them for anyone who has actual taste in music.

Also the last track has a bounty on it - $50 to the first person to name it and the artist.

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01. Love - Stephanie Know Who
02. 1910 Fruitgum Company - 1, 2, 3 Red Light
03. Human Beinz - Nobody but Me
04. G.P. Chiti & S. Montori - Desperation and Money (Cindelic Records)
05. Jennifer Gentle - Take My Hand
06. Beck - We Dance Alone (acoustic)
07. The Godz - Lay in the Sun
08. Thee Headcoats - All My Feelings Denied
09. Johnny Pate - Can't Even Walk in the Park.
10. Meri Wilson - Telephone Man
11. Soft Machine w/ Hibuo Anemone
12. Cat Empire - Two Shoes
13. Nash - Aggregation
14. Moving Sidewalks - 99th Floor
15. Harry Nilsson - 1941
16. The Majority - One Third
17. The Coasters - Down Home Girl
18. Mystery Track - I don't even know.

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Yes I did call Greenpoint Brooklyn a post-industrial wasteland. And don't think that it isn't. The Toxic Brooklyn series from VBS.tv did an episode on Greenpoint and the Newton canal.

Foul stuff. I Wonder why more folk here aren't Enviro's. Maybe they don't know how bad it can get. It's one thing to have pristine wilderness and another to be a Superfund site. There is a lot of gray area in between.

Me, I'm writing my congresswoman.

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I flaked on the 2ManyDJ's show and all I got to show for it is this wide ranging and reeling falling over selection of Mashups, Bastard Pop, Bootlegs, and plunderphonical audio expositions.

I now have a mike and nothing worthwhile to say, as evidenced in this weeks podcast.

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1. Pirate Sound System - Selektah Ringtone
2. 2ManyDj's - Radio Soulwax Montage
3. DNA feat. Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
4. Sherpa - Tecnologic Pop
5. Unknown - Caitlin
6. Wisp - Turquoise Tinged Pennies
7. Go Home Productions - Flaming Mary Can Out (Run) Prince
8. Dj Paul V -  Peaches vs. Gary Glitter - Didn't Know The Lips Wanna Be Her
9. Jackson and his Computer Band - Teen Beat Ocean
10. Dj BC - Einstein on the Beast
11. The Avalanches - I am a Cuckoo
12. Jan Turkenburg and Chenard Walcker - 42 "De Sirenes"
13. Hamburglars - Quality, Service, Cleanliness, and Value
14. Thin - Stoopid, Dreemer Nightmare
15. Yuhzimi - Top of The Pops
16. Osymyso - Not Quite Fool
17. Negativland - Gimme The Mermaid
18. kARSTEN pFLUM - Bflonk 03

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Take a minute to mail your representative to stop the royalty rate increase on internet radio services. Expecting the stations to pay rates even more than comparable broadcasting methods is grossly unfair.

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Thanks for your time and help on this matter.

It might be a ways off from today, but if I don't post it here I doubt I'll recall  it otherwise:
DJ Food & DK are doing a tour to promote their second collaboration; Now, Listen Again!

Jun 14 2007 9:00P

Studio B

New York, New York

For those who missed the first Now, Listen - or are unfamiliar with the artists involved, my deepest sympathies. To remedy the situation of this potential obscurity I'll put up a track from the album in the next podcast.

And for those who can't wait that long to feel the cold icy chill of solid steel ignite their blue suede dancing shoes; have you heard of the alternative:

Fixed brings 2ManyDjs back to Brooklyn:

Apr 18 2007 11:15P

FIXED Presents- Radio Soulwax Tour

@ Studio B- Brooklyn

A wednesday night riot - but you better call the boss this midweek rocker starts late and goes till 4 in the morning. Upside? $12 tickets at the door. Hope to see you there.

A catalyst is substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being destroyed in the process, more colloquially it is something, a person, event, or anything that propels one to act. And there is no finer introduction to the podcast that is The Yank Sizzler than the twined notions of inspiration and the active instigator that remains undestroyed.

Last month I wrote lyrically of the John Peel and how his program had rekindled my fascination in the outer fringe of music. This month I want everyone to hear the podcast that inspired me to make my own.

After I had gotten my filthy mitts on the bygone radio programs of Peel's shows I still yearned to find more - such is the nature of musical greed. Once you turn over a rock that has a vein of gold underneath you search the land to find more rocks just like it. Thankfully the modern era has the Internet and my trolling for music turned up Mike's Yank Sizzler. This would have been around episode two or three, showing that even the powerful catalyzing force of the Yank Sizzler was only enough to provoke me to take action over the course of nearly a year.

The Yank Sizzler is a popular show - I have no idea what the exact count is, but on episode four Mike admits an audience of 300 and now that the show has exceeded that number by twenty, I can only imagine the billions who tune in every day - foisting love and rolled up wads of twenties to the man who won our hearts.

Meanwhile in reality, Mike's site is sparse of comments on the music he shares with us. While part of the curse of our wretched postmodern online culture is the effort we must expend to be heard, the fact that even a show of such great quality exists without a communal bedrock of commentary is unfortunate. Part of the idea behind showcasing other peoples podcasts is to expand the community and make the ties that bind us more and more meaningful by reinforcing the communication that happens between fans. In short I hope that everyone who reads this will strike up a comment or two and engage Mike in a dialogue - his show is worth it.

The other part of the idea is expose myself as the fraud I am by giving credit where it is do. Mike's selections are fantastic, and while I kick myself every time he nabs a track before I can post it, I must admit that the mixtapes I've mailed my friends would missing half their tracks if it wasn't for the hot white infusion that the podcast has provided.

Last thing - I tried my damndest to include a righteous swath of the excellent ecletic tracks that Mike chooses. Sadly though this was impossible due to both time and space constraints. I picked tracks that I myself felt were great, and invariably my bias has eaten out a part of the raw mix that the actual experience conveys. But for every German Breakcore I couldn't include I was able to smuggle in a small piece of  my own personal heaven. That said let's begin the listening experience that is The Yank Sizzler:

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Mike's Mission Statement
1. The Make Up - Born on the Floor

2. Bobby Bare Jr. - Strange Bird
3. Caribou - Bees
4. Jacques Dutronc - "Responsible"
5. Billy Mbowa & The AGS Boys - Jane Wagne
6. Beta Band - Dry The Rain
7. Woody Guthrie - I Ain't Got a Home In This World Anymore
8. The Black Eyes - Deformative

9. Bearsuit - Steven Fucking Speilberg
10. Tapes and Tapes - Sister Sister

11. The Sonics - Strychnine
12. Josh White - Takin' Names
13. Love - Hey Joe

14. Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple
15. Cleveland Crochet - Drunkard's Dream
16. Kid Koala - cut from Side 1

Mike's Parting Words and Declaration

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Thanks goes to Mike for letting me take snippets and review his show. And of course for his show itself.

Please Don't Podfade.

Ana's birthday has come and gone - a more festive time out than she'd thought it would be (still I was hoping for more but as these things go I am always more optimistic than is reasonable).

The night began with a re-visit to the Tea Lounge in Park Slope, a gathering and launch off point for the various parties who I had hoped would congregate there before setting off to trip the light retrotastic at the Culture Club.

Such was not to be the case - as ominously a Fleetwood Mac CD (Greatest Hits, I do believe) had gotten stuck in an infinite loop and everyone was subjected to two hours of breathless early 80's pap. Due to time constraints Fleetwood Mac will not be represented in this podcast. When complaints were lodged with the staff the music quickly got shuffled around to the likes of Modest Mouse - here freely intrepreted in a nice piece by World Famous Audio Hacker.

The highlight of the first phase of the night was the presentation of the video compilation done by our friends back in Portland. A lot of good memories and sad nostalgia got built up and released by this singularly awesome reminiscence. This kernal of solid awesome is represented here by our friends doing a birthday ballad to Ana, a fine little track that is a bit more coherent than anything I've ever done.

The fun continued with a surprise visit from super-student Tomohiro. Luckily enough he is a conspicous character, and was quickly besieged by the family of English teachers and their various lessons of puppy and "hanging in there". Tomo is here represented by Hifana a not to be missed breakbeat group that I have featured before. It was due to Tomo that I myself was introduced to their fiery tempo of heavy breaks. Be sure to check out their incredible video over here.

When we finally did set out it, wasn't to any high-falutin' Manhattan culture hole, but a half-block down to the Union Hall! A Brooklyn Birthday entirely contained in the space of a football field. Upon entry to the Home of the Park Slope Famous Bocci Ball Courts, we got a the first taste of the retro back pedalling that is a bar playing the Clash's Rock the Casbah. Here to keep the feeling alive I've replaced the original with the mildly modified Rythm Scholars version.

The downstairs dance floor was awash with the solid dance tracks of the obscure, which unfortunately I could not find representatives for, such as a track from the Mo'Wax label I couldn't place but know I've heard before, a track from Hot Butter, and many more. Great Fun was had by all and is here represented Blondie's "Heart of Glass", The Beastie Boys "So Whatcha Want", a clip from Grant Stetski, and Belle and Sebastian's "We are the Sleepyheads". Incredibley of those four songs - three were played on the dance floor but the one that was not is actually the most dance dance song of them all. To clarify, yes I shook it like I made it to the intermitentment beats of Belle and Sebastian.

Rounding this all out is a bit of primal scream therapy from Aa the tribal electro punk outfit from (drum roll) Brooklyn. Nothing like a soul shattering mournful yelp to express the rightful existential quagmire that are birthdays.

Thanks for having another year on Earth with me Babe - we'll try our best to keep this all together. Thanks also to all the well wishers, visitors, guests, dancers, and contributers who helped make it a good night out.

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1. World Famous Audio Hacker - Dashboard 2.0 Retouch2
2. Snikative - Gettin High on Yer Birthday Day
3. Hifana - Wamono PV
4. Rhythm Scholar - Rock The Casbah (Boogie Bombs Remix)
5. Blondie - Heart Of Glass
6. Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want
7. Grant Stetski - Bonzai Breaks 2006
8. Belle and Sebastain - We are the Sleepyheads
9. Aa - Thirteen

 

March is eye donor awareness, womens history, kidney, colorectal cancer, nutrition and, of course, National Noodle Month. More importantly it's Uner's birthday month.

While we're shaking it down to 80's music this weekend the Monthlie is still what it is, a recap of the likes for the classic set. Tune in for the next weeklie for the birthday music.

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Sonny And Cher - The Beat Goes On (Live)
The Monkees - Buy Me a Dog
Dale Hawkins - Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town
Trini Lopez - Corazon De Melon
The Five Blobs - The Blob
The Piglets - Johnny Reggae
Dislocation Dance - You Can Tell
Claire Torry - Midnight Train
Procol Harum - Boredom
Varetta Dillard - That's Why I Cry
The Small Faces - Hey Girl
Traffic - House For Everyone
10CC - Worst Band in the World
Richards' People - Yoyo
Richard Penniman - Ooh! My Soul
Michael Liggins & The Super Souls - Loaded to the Gills
Unknown - Unknown
Willie Mitchel - Oh Baby You Turn Me On
Smoosh - Free to Stay
Stereototal - Wir Tanzen 4-EckFrankie Ford - Sea Cruise
Thanks for tuning in. Requests are always wanted - and comments too. Incedentaly I'm none to bright about what month this is so the file name is month04. I'd love to rename it but that function is temporarily unavailable. Stay tuned for further fuckups.

It's been one of those weekends that make NYC seem like a great place to live. Not that it isn't usually - but honestly it's not (more or less). I guess New York is OK.

It all kicks off as a birthday party for a friend. We go out to a place called Le Souk (East side above Houston) a tidy little restaurant with a tiny little dance floor. I'll cut to the chase, on this; thanks to the friend for the birthday party and thanks to all the friends who could make it. I had fun despite the venue. My recommendation to any potential customers - don't go. The DJs sucked, dropping beats, dead air, and trainwrecking when ever they played more than one record at a time. The staff were courteous fuck jobs. Three words, one expletive: red velvet fucking rope. Additionally, unbelievably, a table could only be had if you bought a bottle - a bottle of Absolute costs $200 here. The music started off as Mediterranean Inflected House, then dropped it's pretenses and was just House. Sadly, the DJs were not even able to play House without trainwrecking.

Fun is fun and it got late, we headed home and on the train back I saw an indie kid with the Polmo Polpo vinyl "Like Hearts Swelling".

Day two found us at the Metropolitan Museum of Art playing a scavenger hunt for clues to reveal the murderer of the curator. I highly suggest this as fun for the people who like fun. So much fun that I must play TMBG. We didn't win but we did get the MC to say "Slick Nipples" to the gathered crowd.

Leaving there we're off to the Lower East Side for Indian food. Getting misdirected with the best of intentions, I get to walk by the store front shop of the best revolution in radio EVR! Sadly, I was the only one in the group who knew, loved, and cared.

Arriving at the substitute destination - (I will find the name and info later) -  the place is six kinds of awesome. Hallucinogenic interior decor, cramped to beat the band, and cheap honest food. And my babe got the birthday treatment by the house with a single candle, mango ice cream, crazy bhangra goa happy birthday song and a light show involving flicking the light switch on and off. (The entirety of the birthday part lasted thirty seconds at most - but will be a lifetime's worth of memories.) Eating out? I recommend this place, five stars. Try to find the Glorious Gold Godzilla hanging from the ceiling.

That night we watch "A Scanner Darkly" and are reminded of our tenuous grasp of reality. A funny sad movie - an honest depiction of life as I know it.

Sunday morning rolls along and I get a call from old-skooler Shawn, down and out and automobile mobile in LA. Going for the long haul he's getting back into school and graciously grants me two tracks for podcast.

Sunday, and we got to go shopping for the professional attire for future potential interviews for certain wayward girls. Is Century21 really a soul sucking commercial monstrosity. Oh yes it is. Nothing makes me yearn for a DIY "up against the wall motherfucker" revolution like shopping in Manhattan.

Then we're off to the tutor session at the Barnes and Noble - represented here by the likes of Arcade Fire's No Cars Go, because ever since the Neon Bible came out B&N have been piping in the Fire over the speakers. Inexplicable indie mega hit takes the muzak air waves, B&N cashes in on hip and the world goes around the sun one more time.

Wrapping it all up (I've got to get to work and soon). I leave you with the seminal track of Amon Tobin's - Shawns submission on this one. Mind fucking blowing and I'll never forget the first time I heard it way back when in the Rockin Rudy's of Missoula. Thanks Shawn for the blast from the past.

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1. Le Suck's Mediterranean Inflected House - AnkrJdhv - China Town
2. Le Suck's House - Peppermint Bone - Beat Conductor
3. Hipster on Train - Polmo Polpo - Requiem For a Fox
4. Slick Nipples the Met Detectives - They Might Be Giants - (She was a) Hotel Detective
5. East Village Radio (Sandy Acres) - Bobby Gentry - Fancy
6. The Good Food - Dj Baba G - Holy Prophet What Are You
7. The Good Movie - A Scanner Darkly - Darkly Mix
8. Shawn's Submission #1 - Bright Black Morning Light - Everybody Daylight
9. Death To Century21 - Who Boys - Revolution Uber Alles
10. B&N Muzak Spectacular - Arcade Fire - No Cars Go (Live in Berlin)
11. Shawn's Submission #2 - Amon Tobin - 4 Ton Mantis

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The Inaugural OPP
I decided I wanted, in addition to the weeklies and monthlies, something more communal to the general world: an homage show for fellow podcasters while it is unlikely that anyone who visits this backward little page would  not know the vastly more popular sites, I'm still rather ignorant of the world so my naivete allows me be ignorant of better sense - even if I know better.

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This one goes out to John Peel.
I want to nominate John Peel as the patron saint of indie music, podcasters, and the overlooked.

While Peel never (to my knowledge) had a podcast his singular taste in music, self effacing humor, and influence has left on indelible mark on the music of today.

Beginning in the late sixties as a pirate radio broadcaster with his Perfumed Garden show to his death in 2003 he played music that never would have made air time otherwise. Odd and particular tracks, his vast selections always straining for that rare thing of uniqueness. His passion itself often clouded the choices he made since he valued uniqueness over quality.

More personally he lit the fire for music under my ass. I came across the 1986 Festive Fifty selection by more accident than anything and immediately knew that at least 40 of the tracks I had never heard and never would have heard without the benefit of his show. And so it goes - music is shared and we all learn a little bit more about the world. Not too long after that I launched into finding out what I was missing in the music of today and quickly abandoned the comfort songs of familiarity for the jagged edge of the unknown.

For all the horrible noise I've heard since then I can only blame the musicians and for ever jaw dropping and heart pounding track buried in the mess of it - I can only thank John Peel.

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1. Canned Heat - Rollin' and Tumblin'
2. Electric Prunes - Wind Up Toys
3. Marc Bolan - Hippy Gumbo
4. Top Gear Signature Tune
5. The Jam - Down in a Tube Station at Midnight
6. Pigbag - Papa's Got a Brand New PigBag
7. The Woodentops - Well Well Well
8. Ironmasters - The Men They Couldn't Hang
9. Weather Prophets - Almost Prayed
10. Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling
11. House of Love - Destroy the Heart
12. Stump - Charlton Heston
13. Gorkys Zygotic Mynci - If Fingers were Xylophones
14. Cornershop - 6am Jullander Shere
15. White Town - Your Woman
16. Hefner - Alan Bean
17. Detroit Cobras - Alabamallama
18. The Fall - Theme from Sparta FC
19. CLSM - John Peel is Not Enough
20. John Peel - Talking

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Listen up folks, like CLSM said - John Peel is not enough. It is the duty of each of us to love and cultivate music. Throw it down and seek it out with passion. Play it loud and it fills the yawning emptiness we all have inside our alienated hearts. Play it for a friend and feel the connection of shared experience bridge the gap of our lonely islands of consciousness. Music to share is music to live by. Let's take off the headphones folks - we've all got that one golden track. Get it out there and make Peel proud.

I've discovered that there might be more music I listen to that I want to post then I can. This week showed that while I was using the monthlies as a main drop off of good tracks not all those tracks could meet the mood that the monthlies was originally created for - hence the weeklies. But the weeklies were originally intended to be brief 15 minute episodes that could, by enterprising individuals be combined into a hour long show at the end of the month. The largess when moved from the monthlies has made the weeklie post swell to a once per month proportion. But I like to think that the slate is clean now and ready for a much more stripped down post next week. Is it possible? meh.

Thanks to contributers Craig, Leah and Jay.

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me - Calcutta (by Aphrodite) - compressed remix
Page France - Here's a Telephone
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood (Laika), Live @ White Sessions
Grant Green - Ain't It Funky Now
Talat - Hasidic Monk

Danielson - Did I Step on Your Trumpet?
Antibalas - Obanlae
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - Ban the Gin
Frank Freeman - Security
Eat Tapes - NOS
Madness - Baggy Trousers
Blackalicious - Side to Side
Pendulum - Fasten Your Seatbelt
Palomar - Our Haunt
Freiwillige Selbstokontrolle - I Wish I Could Sprechen Sie Deutsch (John Peel Session)
Beck - Hollow Log
me - Jay vs. Soft Circle "Whirl"

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Photo Credit: FGA

Do to limits of space we can only host so much, and podcasts must be taken down after their moment in the sun. Each one is given a lovely apartment in shared space on some damnable CD I put somewhere and golly I don't remember to well anymore.


If you would like a copy of the podcast drop a note in the requests page and I'll see what I can do.

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The following podcasts are in the back forty:

Month 01 - January
Month 02 - February

So I really really enjoyed putting together the sounds for week 10 podcast, and in reflection - I really enjoyed putting together the sounds for the week 9 podcast. Which isn't to say that the Months aren't fun to make - digging through the dust for the sacramental sound is an unrivaled joy. But there is the old and the new, different but equal.

I originally started this podcast because I was already putting together mix tape selections of the golden eras of rock n roll, soul, mo-town, funk, jazz and swing. And this is something I'm still dedicated to. But I also want to do another collection that showcases the diverse sounds of everything I like.

So I've settled on a schedule that will allow me the freedom for both. A weekly (or bi-weekly) show that hosts the music that I and my newest collaborators find that excites our souls. And then the more rareified form of the monthlies that will feature the exclusive groove that comes from the golden oldies crates. It is a win win for everyone and a solid split right down the middle.

Almost went out to a birthday party, almost went out to a live show at a coffee house, almost went out to the EarFarm gig, and almost went out to a rave.

Ana has never gone - so this mix is for her. She still hasn't gone because, as implied above, the almost was the closest realization of the thought to reality. Instead we stayed home and talked all night long. Better than all the other options, if you ask me.

But still there is a rhythm inside me that yearns to be expressed in motion and groove on the close perimeter of the bassbin on the dance floor. And so here's the mix.

Careful with the speakers on this, some of the levels aren't even so keep aware. Oh, and if you don't like dance music, yeah sorry and pity on you.

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Track listings:

1. 0:00 - 2:59 : Brooklyn Bounce - Bring it Back (svenson gielen rmx)
2. 2:56 - 6:56 : Adam Freeland - Live at One Live
3. 6:40 - 9:44 : Nic Fanciulli - Essential Mix Live from Club
4. 9:02 - 12:37 : Meat Katie - Rotten Dot Com
5. 12:24 - 13:16 : Diplo - Percolator
6. 13:30 - 14:20 : Baby Anne - Freaks Groove
7. 14:12 - 15:12 : Electric Skychurch - Dun Dun
8. 14:44 - 15:14 : Peven Everett
9. 15:04 - 16:04 : DJ Icey - Hardway's Working
10. 15:58 - 17:20 : 000000000001- Sex Disco Sleaze
11. 16:32 - 18:48 : Lord of Bass - Hardstyle Mix
12. 18:16 - 19:18 : DJ Icey - Hardway's Working
13. 19:04 - 20:32 : The Euroboyz/DJ Amaya - You Get Me
14. 19:44 - 21:01 : The Flaming Lips - A Machine in India
15. 20:32 - 24:22 : Trance Wave - Mystic Paradise
16. 24:00 - 25:18 : DJ Dan - Do What You Feel
17. 24:48 - 27:22 : Unknown - Unknown
18. 26:52 - 29:13 : Plump DJs - Weighed Down
19. 28:46 - 35:22 : DJ Baba G - Ali Mola

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Journal Entry: Week09
We're going out to dinner with Ana's folks. Get on the A - whoosh out of Brooklyn .  We get to this little Cuban place in the village and are treated to a hearty eat and drink session as we hear about the modern dance ballet of Carmen.

Packing up and heading out into the cold - we are aimed towards the bar Fat Black Pussy Cat. While shooting some pool we've got a multimedia experience courtesy of one of those wide screen LCD bastard intrusion devices bars are so found of now a days. Besides a lot of music I could have lived without I did get to see the video for the Scissor Sister's "I Don't Want to Dance" which is incredibly good and may I suggest YouTubing that particular piece.

I take a break and head to the men's room where I find a delightful little CD hanging out waiting for me to help myself. Hail modern distribution techniques! While there are only 3 of 6 tracks that aren't scratched to oblivion, I find at least one of them tolerable and think it significant that I have not thrown it away yet.

Across the street from the juke joint we're at is the Blue Note - I take a peak in and see that it is Ahmad Jamal playing tonight. I swoon but it is not meant to be, we walk on.

Seeing the trendy masses yearning to recreate authenticity (but this time with less anguish) at various clubs and bars Ana nearly goes into berserker kill mode over the tragedy of recapturing the village's spirit by capitalist means. Before the slouching towards Bethlehem begins we load up on the A and head back home.

Good Night Brooklyn

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1.  Leaving Brooklyn: Luz Mob - The Selecter
2. Cuban Food: Cubanismo - Cuborleans
3. Video Killed the Night Out: Scissor Sisters - I Don't Want to Dance
4. I Found it on a Urinal: iBeat - Strangest Dream
5. The Blue Note has Long Lines: Ahmad Jamal - Misdeamoner
6. The Myth of The Village: Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
7. Back Home in Bed-Stuy: Will Stratton - Night Will Come
   

This Podcast has been retired, if you would like a copy made available to you please let me know.
 

A nice day to post my first podcast. Sure earlier this week would have been better - I think it was Tuesday. Tuesday would have been better.

But today I'm posting my back catalog - this is from the month of January and is mainly focused on rock n' roll in the 50' to 70's. A little background as to why may help understand the purpose of this focus.

I grew up in house of rock n roll - anytime there was work to be done the tunes to toil to would be motown and pre-Beatles tracks. Some how my mom's sense of aesthetic  made it through two decades of musical upheaval with only the addition of Janis Joplin to show the passage. Rooted in the primordial four four time, call and response, and songs about high school love my understanding of music was a bit different than those of my classmates. Their parents listened to prog-rock and late seventies rock anthems. They knew power chords - I knew that a girl named Sue ran around with every single guy in town.

Growing up in house of re-issued compilations I must have heard the same limited catalog of the greatest hits of every year. Many were spectacular but the fact that the same songs would crop up on every album left a massive yearning for something more diverse.

So a while ago I started seeking out the rarities that my mom would like so that a bit of extra music could be added in to the house sounds. This of course developed into an idea for a monthly mix tape which I could send her to lift the mood and keep a connection between us. So I proudly present the Months, a collection of good music that I think most people, not just my mom, ought to hear.

Explanations out of the way please enjoy Month01

This Podcast has been retired, if you would like a copy made available to you please let me know.
 

Geez, got a lot to get down and quick - first podcast going up this weekend. ahhh I'm all a twitter. What a shame too you all seem like such nice folks. I'll be on a first name basis here, you can call me Pete.

I'll be back later with .. . what else more music.