Sun, 15 November 2009  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. 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 thanks to Ana Comments[0] |
Tue, 25 August 2009  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* * Tracks are from Albums 1-3 Image From: The Pain Comic I'm Currently Up to My Tits in: Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol Comments[0] |
Sat, 27 June 2009  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. 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 Image from: Wikipedia's Entry on "Thinking About the Immortality of Crabs" Artist: Greg Williams Online Comic I'm Currently Reading: Templar, Arizona Comments[0] |
Fri, 29 May 2009  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 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 Image From: Tori Miki Comments[0] |
Sat, 7 March 2009  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. 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) image from: Darwin from Mikero - also as a tee-shirt Bellisop - Philosopher for Hire (shifter-magazine.com) Comments[0] |
Fri, 13 February 2009  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: Got a 7 pager posted on Shifter Magazine about Bellisop. Not the best art I've ever made but hey. Made me a composting bin. Ahh yeah I be mulch like a mother' now. Semester 2 is GO! After visiting Florida I now get to crash [on] the slopes of Vermont. Oh these wacky "doing things" thing is nuyts. Also - got this here musical interlude: Camisra - let me show you <snippet> Sgt Pepper_s Lonely Hearts Club Band _Streetlab mix_ Larkin Grim - How To Catch A Lizard Man Man-Easy Eats Or Dirty Doctor Galapagos Lucky Dragons - Jean's Theme Leadbelly-C.C. Rider Owl Brain Atlas - Doktor Tongues LCD Soundsystem-New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down Camper van Beethoven - Eye of Fatima High places - From Stardust to Sentience Ezrra Furman - Not Recognized-The Stakes are High Company - <Snippet> Firewater - Hey Clown Kasey Chambers And Shane Nicholson - Jackson Hole Mike Monday - Through the Keyhole unknown - snippet SoulWax Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band - A Fifth of Beethoven (Hidden Cat’s “Based on the Soulwax” Edit) Otis Redding - Pain In My Heart M.Ward - Rave On Dani Deahland Mike Gillenwater - TheSoundOfDisco Wavves - So Bored Of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like A Promethea Samara Lubelski - Taste the Candy Royskopp - Happy Up Here Port O'Brien - Fisherman's Son Muck and the Mires - Hypnotic Deerhunter - Saved By Old Times Emperor Machine - Aimee Tallulah Is Hypnotised George Harrison - I'd Like to Be a Pirate 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. "Real readers reading real texts don't respond to error as grammarians want them to. Nor, in fact, do the grrammarians." Direct download: Songs_For_February_-_Protein_Electrophoresis_Valentines_Day.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:06 PM Comments[0] |
Sun, 18 January 2009  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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Fri, 12 December 2008  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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Mon, 13 October 2008  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. Danbert Nobacon - Nixon is my dentist I got my Obama shirt in the mail today. I do believe it is an omen. Got the Hope? Hank Williams III - Pills I TookThis was suggested by a certain "Mike Dunn". no no not the track - which is my own twisted sensibilty but the artist. Google on that man and I do hope you see me. BUKE & GASS - Rum for You (Edit)No thanks I'll have the wine. They Might Be Giants - The Shadow GovernmentGot their show at the Le Puisson Rouge. Man brings tears to my eyes. Cult of Sue Todd - Burn TampaTHE STAND OUT track - seriously not only do I find this in my heavy rotation but I also find myself absolutely floored over my own kick ass obscurity. Charlie Haden - Song Of The United FrontNow this cat is cutting country tracks now a days and that is fine for what it's worth. But he cut his teeth with the Liberation Music Orchestra and that is bonus in my book. Erin McKeown - BlackbirdsAlso a suggestion from Mike - now who would have thought that in my yearly return to Missoula the only hombre with an updated playlist of suggestions is a Freak Folk fan? Caesars - Jerk It OutHonest I didn't plan this. Of no bearing to this track, which is oversaturated 60's beach blanket bingo revivalism and nothing more, I must say that while in Missoula I had the chance to play a Dungeons and Dragons game with a group of Elementary Schoolers (let us just ball park the age as an average of 7) ... Carla Bruni - Those Dancing Days Are GoneNow that was exhausting and stupifiyng, good kids but they have the attention span of the cable news cycle. Now in returning to Brooklyn I may actually have the chance to play some 3.5 D&D with some local collegiate geeks. Feist - 1, 2, 3, 4If it happens it will be tough cause I know how distractions can do this to me where I lose focus on the important things and then wham 5 years later I'm wondering why I have a degree in Computer Science. Howard Hello - TelevisionWhich gets me thinking ... just how many CIS kids are where they are because of porn? I'm not saying that I wound up with this because of a brain wired in a pubescant formulation of priorities.. . . I'm just wondering. . . I don't see why it need be about me, right? Jeffery Lewis - The Last Time I Did Acid I Went InsaneWell sure ... yes yes that is the other half of the equation about how I got here, yes. Koufax - AnyMomentNowSee the important thing to remember is that is can all turn around right? That is why I've been working hard and going to school. To make this existence not merely about my mistakes but about my successes. The LK - Private Life of a CatI really think that is all I have to say about this - I mean music is important to me and to my context as a person but this is getting ridiculous I'm just wasting time and space writing down my string of consciousness figuring out the set list. Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju & Giovanni Hidalgo- Dances With WoodAlright alright alright - this is about the music then not about me or some greater 'truth' about myself. Coincedentally this sounds like trance made via organic instruments.... hmmm. Isobell Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Ramblin ManNow do you see what a fine mess this is? I was supposed to be all somber when I was introducing this song. it is supposed to be a reflective consideration of my own compulsion to flee the emotional turmoils of my life -and how they are bound up in other people. How I both want to please BPA - Toejamthem so they don't leave me and also run from them so that I don't have to be responsible for them. Legendary Pink Dots - Torchsongbut really it is just a song, and it doesn't mean anything .. . and I'm just feeling messed up because of midterms and work and how my mom is doing ... she sasy that the physical therapy is coming along pretty ell and she may qualify to retire early. Which is kind of like happiness right? Pernice Brothers - Discover A Lovelier YouBut, actually, things are good. I mean sure they could be better, but that is always the case. If you take a large enough sample of the universe you find out that there is nothing permanent nor certain - and yet we still, by chance, exist. . . Talking Heads - Once In A LifetimeAnd along with us are other chances and people and purposes. And sometimes you find yourself in college and sometimes you find yourself selling your plasma to the Portland blood bank to make rent. The Be Good Tanyas-The Littlest Birds Is anything a surprise? Have I finally quit being crazy? Was all the fun I had when young just a fluke of chemicals and not actually an appreciation of Brooklyn Rider - Crosstownthe world as it really is? Yeah, actually I can pretty much believe that to be the case. I'd like to think that it is entertaining to third parties if I leave out the details that happened in between. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead Certainly it wasn't all just studio apartements and drugs? No. It was the kafkaesque moments of being escourted out of Amazon.com because after two weeks of coming to work and getting paid they realized I wasn't in their HR system. The Velvet Underground - Rock & RollIt was being fired from KFC for building a snowman, on off hours, in their parking lot ... The Dandy Warhols - Easythough admiteddly when it got smashed by that SUV and I threw the
disembodied head at the windshield and it turned out to be the regional
manager I couldn't particularly blame the store manager for his
decision. Really, imagine his position. Ezra Furman - We Should FightBut that is what makes it all the more astonishing! Things have changed - I've changed! This summer I was the lab assistant to a immersive molecular biology course . .. The Slits - Ping Pong Affairexcept it was at a community college. Paul Oakenfold - Ready Steady GoIs this it a string of anecdotes and misremembered memories? Didn't I use to have greater dreams? Do I taste the vomit of my body rebelling or is it the bile of my soul dying? The Clash - Capital Air with GinsbergIs that enough self important omphalous gazing or what? Do I have to have god damn soliquiy with cabeza here to get a MacArthur? Wynton Marsalis Septet-Juba And A O'Brown SquawThis music list is as authentically an accurate representation of my self as one can expect in our modern age. Or at least can be expected from me. 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. 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. Comments[0] |
Sat, 20 September 2008  09.19.08 Pitfalls of CompilationsLike 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 The heavy textures and repititive moments of this are given a lighter and jazzier feel by the diverse organic sounding palatte of samples. 02 - Matmos - Zealous Order of Candied KnightsFollowing on from that orgainc sound is Matmos who has made some of the most insightfult inroads of producing along thematic lines. This is from their Civil War album. 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 Probably on of the most skilled turntabilists of this generation. This is one of the more expansive tracks from his first album - it features a large variety of well meshed vinyl. 07 - Cex - OD'd on First Base08 - Dj Food & DK - Let's Play Drums From thier "Now, Listen!" album this "track" is not the best - but it has a very good beat, yes? 09 - Kid606 - MP3 Killed The CD StarOne of the more accessible tracks from this laptop artist, here edited to a more managable size. 10 - Mum - Abakvid Tvaer Hædir,,,,sundlau11 - Dj Vadim - Dig Yourself Baby 12 - Prefuse 73 & the Books - Pagina Cuatro 13 - Dj Z-Trip & Dj P - Uneasy Listening Track 4 Off of their freely downloadable album of the same name. 14 - Amon Tobin - Foley RoomA studio heavy music concrete with a largely IDM influenced percussion the track is a step away from his earlier jazzy sound. 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 A wonderful printer piece, true electronica image from: Nietzsche Family Circus 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. Comments[0] |
Fri, 11 July 2008  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. === I got accepted to Brooklyn College, but probably shouldn't go. === 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) [From Voodoo Funk welcome to town hope the show goes well] atans rieger blakc metul 666 teh bark ov teh tevil vnd barg biekernis DER SECOND SONG FROM TEH EVOL ALBAM! - DER TRUE BLAKC ME=== Image From: Big Fat Whale's The Classy Dozen Comments[4] |
Sat, 12 January 2008  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. 1) Sargasso Trio - Heels on Fire 2) The Field - Fall From A Height (Remix) Tied and Tickled Trio - Aelita 1 The much ballyhooed Swedes in rough mix with the post jazz of the trio. 3) B.C. Camplight - Soy Tonto! 4) Lisa Portelli - A Mon Meuble I don't know French but I know what I like. 5 ) Chromeo - Fancy Footwork The best electro-pop funk educated 2 step duo since the 80's. 6) Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma And their back for a second track. Less Paul Simon more lerft field. 7) The Magnetic Fields - Three-Way The opening track on their new album is this stellar piece of heavy drenched erotic propulsuion. buy 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 And let's bring in the fuzz with some psychedelic retrospective on the pressing interests of love. 11) The Whitsundays - Sorry James Let us know put that to the task of age. 12) Dr. Dog - Ain’t It Strange To close this set let's get a bit of Beatles-esque revival. Oh that is nice - a balm on the frazzled soul it is. 13) Tunng - Bullets Is it a narrative, a survivalist trope on the dangers of forgetting and trying? A rumination on loss and life? A spectacular folksie sing along? yes 14) Steve Dawson - Fun Machine One Get up and jig now. An open plain and ample night clothe this track and bring the guitar a quality of lyrical fire. 15) Miss Li - I’m Sorry, He’s Mine "And it started like love should. I tole him from my best friend." Doesn't get any straighter than that. 16) Patrick and Eugene - Postcard From Summerisle Oh that is nice piece of weird right there. Electronica can't do no wrong. 17) Midnight Juggernauts - Dragonette's I Get Around (Remix) A solid bass bin kick is elemental to any good groove. The vocal samples with additional reworking takes the head bop and hand dance into pure pop infection territory. 18) DJ Logic feat. Miri Ben-Ari A very ambient track of Logic working with the instrumental hip hop violinist Ben-Ari. 19) Mandragora - La Cumparsita (Tango Christ Superstar) A re-working (orgaicmash-up, jazz riff, etc) of the Cumparsita with Jesus Christ Superstar's bassline. Encore! 20) Hungry Marching Band - Gde Si Bre This lively outfit just did a show that I missed. My greatest regret of the year so far. Coincidentally how cool is the album name: "Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias"? 21) Lou Reed - Perfect Day Mr. Reed just keeps getting better and by the gods of if this track hasn't aged half as well as the rest than the geometrical growth of goodness shall soon outstrip the entire catalog of crooning whelps of the present day. Saccharine pop bullshit and all. 22) Kerkko Koskinen - Sparkling Arsenic A whirlwind orchestral set of the ex-Ultra Bra-ist with the Umo Jazz Orchestra. Sounds like Yoko Kanno with a spy movie OST. 23) Mariee Sioux - Wizard Flurry Home Haunting and hurt - chills all around. But the warm instrumentation and rhythmic lyricism saves it from being a melancholic dirge or sap fest all to common in these tropes. 24) Mekons - Dickie, Chalky and Nobby oh I needed this. 25) George Bush - Imagine 26) Grails - Silk rd And this PDX track to give me a little room to breath before I go claustrophobic shit for brains insane on the closed in breathing that I feel when I think of the next 366 days. 27) Emir Kusturica & No Smoking Orchestra - Who killed the D.J. Alas the song is too solid for the fog of memory to be contained in only by the original release and has spawned from the first the denizens of strange continents interjoined by oddity and inspiration. 28) MC5 - Kick out the Jams Just what I needed to get the old blood sloshing around these old collapsed and bruised tubes to half aspirated ventricles and world weary capillaries. Join me now for the head long rush into what is bound to be a spectacular year. image from: Backing tracks: Band Of Horses - Is there a ghost Be Mine (Ocelot Mthrfckrs Remix) Pratique - Death for Blushing Rogue mini mix nine Digitalism - Idealism Xiu Xiu - I Do What I Want When I Want Blur - Country House Comments[0] |
Sun, 23 December 2007  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. Image from: Subterranean Homepage News Comments[0] |
Thu, 27 September 2007  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
The Essex Green - Julia
Franz Ferdinand - Cheating On You
Hot Chip - Plastic
The Olivia Tremor Control - Grass Canons
The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
CHAOS - Grune
image is the Warren Commision's report which came out today in 1964. Comments[0] |
