CHA CHA TCHOTCHKES

bop shamalama doo dah dang

2011-10-20T16:14:00.000-07:00

the london fog - easy mover (1966)

if kate bush ever released a sparse funk album, it would be filled with jams just like this.

2011-07-26T16:46:00.000-07:00

rachel sweet - it's so different here, 1978

mmmm california

2011-03-08T14:24:00.000-08:00

i want to go to there.

puro instinct - luv goon, 2011

stevie nicks rehearsing 'wild heart' backstage, 1981

2011-03-03T21:25:00.000-08:00

i'm just going to quote fellow youtube user, 007skydog, on this:

I flat out love her deeply. when I hear her voice singing my eyes tear up like I'm going to cry - I have no control of it, its crazy & embarassing sometimes cuz I'm 48 yr old blue collar factory guy who listens to rock & blues.... something inside of her comes out when she sings and it connects inside me... its like a golden white light that penetrates the soul I truly believe she must be a godess, seriously. she's a great songwriter but its not just that, her voice holds something wonderful.

honey i need

2011-02-16T11:41:00.000-08:00

sometimes you just need honey...waves and frequencies and spectrums of them in gooey synth form. this is a huge favorite of mine from Spacemen 3 guitarist Sonic Boom's project, Spectrum. the synth organ repetition is so goddamn satisfying. Boom is really good at tacking simple layers on top of each other to form a delicate fucking mess.

i say this every year

2010-12-19T21:35:00.000-08:00

but 2010 was really a rough one. thankfully mariah is here to usher me through the difficulties. no apologies for the multiple mariah posts. anyway, um, i can't believe this song is nearly as old as an almost legally imbibing college student. in my mind the 90s were just five years ago, the thought of VH1 doing an "i love the 90s" special seemed awkwardly premature, and my parents were still freaking out over Y2K, diligently hoarding gasoline and canned food. but actually, i'm 25 now living across the country from childhood suburbia and the only pleasant part of realizing that much time has passed is that i still really fucking love this song.

mariah carey, "make it happen" (1991)

i can't explain

2010-12-09T20:44:00.001-08:00

that harmonica dude is like a limbo champion, he doesn't even need a bar. he wins.

the who, "i can't explain" (1965)

today sucked.

2010-12-08T16:06:00.000-08:00

thank god this song exists.

prince - erotic city

there is a significant chunk of thesis that needs to be written

2010-12-03T16:44:00.000-08:00

but alls i wanna do is listen to the cranberries and watch episodes of 'my so-called life"

cranberries, "linger" (1993)

for once this is not pop music

2010-12-02T21:02:00.000-08:00

but it is too good to not post. i was having a stressful day, but then i came home and found this in my inbox, sent to me from my sister:

lazy days, the crazes and the fads

2010-11-29T23:23:00.000-08:00

just a friendly warning but you'll probably cringe a little when the camera first shows brett anderson in this vid. he looks completely horrible here but don't be discouraged--keep watching! this performance was the first suede song i heard and it was really all i needed to hear to love these crazy, broken fuckers for life.

suede - trash, live 1996

AW YEAAAAAAAAH

2010-11-28T15:41:00.000-08:00

there are lotsa things i like about this video but here are my top 3:

1. sharp outfits

2. creamy voices

3. reminding me to just keep on keepin' on.

the whispers - keep on lovin' me

smith westerns

2010-11-27T19:20:00.001-08:00

so hooked to this song. every time i hear this chorus my brain gets blown with pop crazy.

smith westerns, "be my girl" (2009)

can't remember if i've posted this before

2010-10-10T13:01:00.001-07:00

but oh well. this is a cover of a field mice song, and usually covers suck but i like this one quite a bit. i like both versions. they cater to different moods.

saint etienne, "let's kiss and make up" (1990)

1993 was a good year

2010-10-06T05:51:00.000-07:00

that was the year my brother got a discman, and my oldest sister, a membership with columbia records' mail-by-order cd service. in her 'get 10 free CDs when you sign up' frenzy, she was gracious enough to let me choose one. and of course i chose mariah. best track off her 'music box' LP, hands down:

mariah carey, "dreamlover" (1993)

this song does not cure my insomnia but makes it a bit more tolerable

2010-10-04T02:28:00.000-07:00

Erik Satie, "Gnossienne, 5. Modéré" (1889-97)

This just has so many layers I don't even know where to start, but it is fun to imagine the conversations that went behind this video.

2010-10-01T10:44:00.000-07:00

Ja Rule - Mesmerize ft. Ashanti

Stop Drop and Bop

2010-09-30T12:11:00.002-07:00

Big Boi, "Shutterbugg" (2010)

Hateful

2010-09-13T23:14:00.000-07:00

Gusgus, "Hateful (Ada feat Madyburg Mix)", 2009

wild nothing

2010-08-08T15:06:00.000-07:00

wild nothing, "chinatown" (2010)

block of wood

2010-07-28T20:53:00.001-07:00

the bats, "block of wood"

i want that studded jumpsuit

2010-07-25T17:42:00.000-07:00

rihanna, "rude boy" (2010)

i cant get no satisfaction

2010-07-16T13:09:00.000-07:00

i will never not love this jam

happy birthday amerikkaaaa

2010-07-04T09:45:00.000-07:00

or rather, happy-deflecting-from-you-stodgy-white-parents-from-across-the-pond! i will now celebrate the day of your national teen angst on this gloriously blistering summer day by grilling meats, drinking alcoholic beverages, watching sparkling explosions in the sky with friends, and trying not to sweat too much as i sway to this:

dj jazzy jeff & fresh prince, "summertime" (1991)

don't stay away

2010-06-24T22:15:00.001-07:00

phyllis dillon, "don't stay away" (1967)

ducktails

2010-06-19T07:12:00.000-07:00

i saw this band last night

and they were really good.

ducktails, "landrunner"

scopitone

2010-06-08T23:30:00.000-07:00

this past weekend i was at this roof top party where they projected a dvd of scopitone videos onto a brick wall. set against a moonlight sky, dance music and a bunch of kids doing some kind of improvised street ballet crazy shit on a stage, on a really windy night that had everyone saying "oh boy, tornado weather." bad art made of (what looked like) scraps of aluminum flapped and shimmered, illuminated by a bare bulb that blinded the corner of my eye. some kinda summer, huh. anyway: when i came home i wanted to see more of those clips, found this, and decided, let's bring the bike riding dance back, you guys. imagine all of us doing what they do @0:35, in unison. t'would be a wonder.

alex marco, "the bike" (1967?)

uh oh.

2010-06-08T23:22:00.001-07:00

feeling kinda homesick. not that i am from la proper. or own a car or driver's license. i do have a bicycle [edit: see next post] but whatever. anyway, here is a video with kind of alarmingly good composition and a low-set contrast that feels so in time with the late 80s.
ladies love cool james!

ll cool j, "going back to cali" (1989)

these things happen

2010-05-30T09:43:00.000-07:00

action painting! - these things happen (1990)

pin your heart to me

2010-05-29T09:23:00.000-07:00

luv that whiney ass voice.

the jacobites, "pin your heart to me" (1985)

crush the flowers

2010-05-28T11:32:00.000-07:00

a real cute song with real cute sleeve art.

the wake, "crush the flowers" (1989)

sure...

2010-05-18T18:17:00.001-07:00

i walk around with the most awkward giant boner with your name all over it + listen to the same three fleetwood mac songs over and over again, but it's not that serious.

fleetwood mac, "hold me" (1982)

hi yo i got plenty of time

2010-05-17T21:11:00.000-07:00

home, is where i want to be, or wanted to be, while taking a joyride through manhattan in the backseat of my friend's rental car with my head out the window on a warm, slightly humid spring night, listening to this song on full blast. it felt youth and i thought, hi yo i got plenty of time.

talking heads, "this must be the place (naive melody)" (1983)
(from the 1984 concert movie stop making sense)

spring rain

2010-05-12T21:09:00.000-07:00

When will change come, just like spring rain
Falling down like sheets
Coming down like love
Falling at my feet
Spring rain

i am diggin' the mime-like attire and man sass on lead singer robert forster.
it's been raining a lot here in brooklyn.

Too.Fucking.Good

2010-05-08T20:35:00.000-07:00

Die Antwoord, "Zef Side" 2010

just want ta dance

2010-04-15T16:31:00.000-07:00

song speaks for itself. trio of awesome invites you to watch:

This is for the music

2010-04-07T06:00:00.000-07:00

while burning the midnight oil

2010-03-29T05:26:00.000-07:00

and squeezing all of this thesis jooze, i need all the 'effin girlie power i can get. cherie currie's phrasing is like a fatal whip to the kisser. can you imagine trying to muster your hormones together to produce this when you were 16? Dammnnnnn....

did you see that dakota-fan/kstew biopic based on these wildcats? it wasn't that bad! it was kind of hot. wait, does that make me a lesbian or a pedophile? either way, i'm an 'effin pervert. thanks skanky teenage girls.

the runaways - "cherry bomb"(1976)

sha la la la la

2010-03-23T18:03:00.000-07:00

yes, i am a sucker for the sha la la la la

the wake - pale spectre (1987)

here's to sunshine,

2010-03-08T01:43:00.001-08:00

wonderful weather, and the first day of the year that has afforded a lazy afternoon lolling around the park with a coffee, book, and friends.

bill withers, "lovely day" (some funky 1988 live remix, in which brotha awkwardly wears a rugby shirt among neon lights, smoke, and backup dance hos)

this is ska

2010-01-27T13:51:00.000-08:00

while i was probing around for videos of the blues busters, i came across something entirely more amusing and worthwhile: this 1965 documentary on the jamaican music scene, called 'this is ska.' i am more a fan of rocksteady (late 60s jamaica) than ska (early to mid-60s) but i like it all the same. it is mostly post-60s stuff, the reggae stuff, that i mostly don't like. too dub/stonery and not as bouncey and energetic, at least for my taste. anyway, this doc is seriously awesome, made in 1964, right around or before rocksteady caught on, i think. check it out. i love the nerdy narration, the clean buttoned-up style in which the ska kids all dress. and the dancing! so fuckin fly.

"This is Ska," parts 1-4 (1964)

the climate is chilly in new york

2010-01-13T16:35:00.000-08:00

perhaps in more ways than one. for me, levels of melancholy are directly proportional to the physical cold. but this song makes me feel alright. missing california, though i don't necessarily want to be there. not quite sure that even makes sense.

neil young, "walk on" (1974)

my heart hurts

2010-01-04T19:42:00.000-08:00

the everly brothers, "all i have to do is dream" (1958)

Burn Baby Burn

2009-12-31T00:17:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year, everyone! Hope 2010 brings all good things. Tear up the dance floor so it's on fire, like a Disco Inferno. Woo hoo hooo!

The Trammps, "Disco Inferno" 1976

DONE, FUCKING DONNNE

2009-12-23T11:16:00.000-08:00

with school, and now preparing to return for a blissfully long two-week stay in the land of real avocados, sunshine, 75 degree weather, and friends. TALLY HO! let's play, y'all.

the clean, "tally ho" (1981)

2009-12-21T22:11:00.000-08:00

perhaps the relevance of the muppets has waned, but in the name of nostalgia and in the interest of upholding the operatic appeal of bohemian rhapsody, here is this magical muppet moment:

makes me wish i were turning 5 again, and not 25, come tomorrow. ugh.

listen, the snow is falling

2009-12-21T02:03:00.001-08:00

we got 10+ inches of snow this weekend in brooklyn. i am usually a huge grump when it comes to snow: it is slushy, it is cold, it is wet, and it hardens into sheets of ice which force you into an uncomfortable hobble to and from whichever destination you debate is worth the hassle. but now that it is my third winter here, maybe i'm used to it or something. the novelty of it has not renewed, but some newfound stamina allowed me to enjoy a late drunken trudge through knee high, fresh powder last night, face flushed and fingers frozen. the snowstorm was still in full effect and the sidewalks had not yet been plowed so my friend and i marched along in the middle of the abandoned streets, peaceful and quieted by the blankets of snow. maybe it was my patron-spiked hot cider, but in those moments i could not help but feel that cloying, cliched sentiment that winter is some kind of magical. it reminds me of this lovely yoko ono song, of which galaxie 500 also does a great cover. but i think i like this original track more.

yoko ono, "listen, the snow is falling" (1972)

pop persuasion:

2009-12-20T18:59:00.000-08:00

voice is very reminiscent of feist. cute, catchy tune.

Nugget of Awesome

2009-12-16T00:13:00.000-08:00

In my sleep deprived haze before I likely crash and burn on two finals, little could make me smile. But watching this live performance of "Cars" managed. There's some awesome mild swaying with a back to the audience and the casual sipping of a coca cola. Wish I were swaying to this tune in my own car.

Gary Numan, "Cars" 1980

Italo

2009-12-09T21:55:00.000-08:00

They are so shameless about being something they're not. They'd obviously want to be better looking than they are, if they could change it they would. Freddy Mercury or Sid Vicious wouldn't. Everyone in the audience seems to take them seriously as performers, fascism comes to mind. There has to be something special about this.

Closed, "Living In Your Eyes" 1986

shhhhhh...

2009-12-04T14:10:00.001-08:00

don't judge. just watch. and be amazed..... so i'm late to hop on the gaga train. but this video is seriously amazing. as everyone and their mom has been saying, gaga is "singlehandedly resurrecting the music video as an art form."

lady gaga, "paparazzi" (2009)

Chu Chu Train

2009-11-29T20:48:00.000-08:00

Eruption, "One Way Ticket (To the Blue)"

i fucking love this song !

2009-11-29T20:36:00.000-08:00

a lot.

madonna, "crazy for you" (1985)

It's time to relive the 90's

2009-11-19T18:56:00.000-08:00

I've been hearing a lot of Ace of Base as of late. As the 00's come to an end, it does actually make sense. There's a rather embarrassing video of myself and 3 friends at the tender age of 8 bouncing around my brother's room and belting the lyrics to this song, but I don't think I had ever even thought about the lyrics until just now. In any case, this is the kind of video I am surprised even exists. It's more along the lines of a video that you'd expect to see while you karaoke super drunk in Chinatown. In any event, without much further ado, please enjoy the tunes of some sweet Swedes.

Ace of Base, "All That She Wants" 1993

2009-11-19T13:48:00.000-08:00

never fails to get me all worked up

hey look

2009-11-14T15:14:00.000-08:00

it's me on the baby piano:

paper cut outs

2009-11-12T22:30:00.001-08:00

slight disconnect between what the combination of words 'middle east' and 'blood' might conjure up and the feelings this gentle eulogy will actually elicit. pretty offsetting/pretty listen.

spring

2009-11-12T20:06:00.000-08:00

it is fall, i am in denial. love this remix

saint etienne, "spring" (air france remix)

because the weekend is almost upon us...

2009-11-12T13:31:00.000-08:00

....and ive got my dancing shoes ready to go.

past (party) is prologue.

check out these

2009-11-11T17:00:00.000-08:00

milky mothaaas. vertical montanas is an oxfordian supergroup (youthmovies + jonquil) + they is friendly. i like how it begins congested + develops into a pretty little pop number. this post is for all the oxford homies yaaaaaaaaaa:

vertical montanas, "thick mugs" (2009)

Italians

2009-11-09T14:57:00.001-08:00

Before and after

Umberto Tozzi, "Tu" (1979)

???, "Tu" (????)

and then these two

Al Bano & Romina Power, "Felicita" (1982)

In the discotheque

2009-11-05T08:48:00.000-08:00

This is so honest, and full of good intentions. If people listened to more of this shit the world would be a better place. And there's so much confidence.

Squash Gang, "Moving Your Hips"

HOLY SHITS X2

2009-11-02T19:31:00.000-08:00

As soon as I remembered this video, I had to share immediately. I saw it first in a conversation that involved a practice where Jamaican dudes were banging their girlfriends so hard they broke their dicks. You can't do that, actually, but they were definitely going to the hospital. I gotta give props to MIA (I know, I know) for introducing Switch and Diplo of Major Lazer to one another.

Watch and freak the fuck out.

Major Lazer, "Pon de Floor" (2009)

holy shits

2009-11-02T19:14:00.000-08:00

is all i gots to say. that, and i miss california. because the sun has now started to set at 4pm here. 4pm WOT THE FOCK.

dick dale, "surfing and miserlou" (1963)

for the impatient, skip ahead to 0:42

Get Monay

2009-11-02T19:08:00.000-08:00

Junior Masters at Finding Intelligent Attitudes (honed by the Notorious B.I.G.). This song has always had a risickulous beat to me, but after hearing it two nights in a row this past Halloweezy, I realized this is a tune to spin and span through time.

junior mafia, "get money" (1995)

dark weather trax

2009-11-02T15:23:00.000-08:00

Check out the latest tiptronic offering from our fuzzy little friends, Fuck Buttons. LP Tarot Sport is just out, produced by Andrew Weatherall (you'll remember him from that one time he took a song from a tiny little band called Primal Scream and made it into their first single, "Loaded," leading up to Screamadelica).

Fuck Buttons, "Surf Solar" (2009)

all the girls

2009-11-02T11:03:00.000-08:00

savage, "only you" 1989

roberto zanetti, is either stupid, and doesn't know it, or he's very confident. It is my opinion that he is the second. modernism in his minimal core ography. less is more. but with contrast, because that is what makes you remember. his clothing too. I'm thinking a bouncer is keeping the males from attending the stage. The so many people clapping on the second and forth beats, make it legitimate, they like him. And the echo in this version, goes well with the low quality of the video.

i'm suffering

2009-11-01T15:04:00.000-08:00

from a freddie astaire obsession. he looks good even when he's not dancing. i'm not sure that he's actually playing here. some little birds claim that there's an off-screen grand piano providing bass support at the 0:54 mark, but i don't care. there's usually something so blindly optimistic & asexual about freddie when he sings & dances that he needs someone else to define his sexual role, someone like ginger rogers. but his solo work operates dialectically, the process in which one thing turns into its opposite - he so asexual that the event transforms him into a musical machine, a fetish object -- which is wildly sexual. BUT NOT HERE. freddie can tune my piano whenever he wants & that sailor-ciggy is lighting all my hetero-fires fine, thank you.

my freddie in follow the fleet (1936)

halloween hangover

2009-11-01T09:27:00.000-08:00

for this sunday, sweets you can stomach

the sweets, "something about my baby" (1966)

i dream of a dance club where people dance like this existing in today's world. maybe it does exist? if anyone knows, please do tell.

my shoes don't fit, my hat don't fit, my clothes don't fit, i'm a misfit

2009-10-30T11:09:00.000-07:00

but i'm growing fast, too fast, i'm growing fast, much too fast

maximum joy, "stretch (discomix & rap)" (1981)

everything 99 records put out was awesome.

good morning friday

2009-10-30T05:27:00.000-07:00

leo sayer forevvvvaaaaaaa !
or at least, this song forevvvvvaaaa !

leo sayer, "you make me feel like dancing" (1976)

i hope you appreciate this posting because when i youtubed (yea, it's a verb, deal with it) for it i caught sight of THIS, UGH. of course curiosity killed this cat because IT MADE MY EARS BLEED and almost, almost ruined the entire song for me. if you, reader, are curious too you will see what i mean but i really don't recommend you click that link.

entre dos aguas

2009-10-28T22:25:00.000-07:00

Paco de Lucia; the way he moves his hands is like second nature and to watch the look on his face is to understand the implicit confidence he has in the melody. It's so honest. He just exudes it, you can see that he feels it in his bones. This is how it should be; nothing is held back and it is better this way. Some years ago I was on vacation in Barcelona and I saw a beautiful Spanish boy playing his guitar in a cafe with a group of friends, and, having a simliar feeling as listening to this song below, was completely transfixed. There is such freedom, such heart. What a beautiful thing to share.

Paco de Lucia "Entre dos Aguas" (1976)

i feel a passion

2009-10-28T22:20:00.000-07:00

for when we actually listened to cassette tapes instead of sampling them and sounding like the same bands (...)

i will dutifully spare you from the unfateful foo fighters cover

the passions, "i'm in love with a german film star" (1981)

midnight epiphany

2009-10-28T21:45:00.000-07:00

in the twilight of my procrastination, i've discovered that one of my favorite serge gainsbourg songs, sung by jane birkin and titled, appropriately enough, "jane b.," is actually a, um, chopin song. behold:

exhibit A:

serge gainsbourg/jane birkin, "jane b." (1969)

exhibit B:

frédéric chopin, prelude in e-minor (op. 28 no. 4), a really long time ago

i've always found "jane b." to be so sultry but maybe it is really just chopin that is sultry. yea. also, maybe this is common knowledge and maybe sharing this as personal epiphany only reveals me as a philistine? probably.

additionally, how creepy-and-not-sexy is serge's furtive, from behind glance at 1:49? totally not sexy, even if he is wearing a leather jacket (or acid-washed black denim jacket? the lo-res obscures). serge, you are usually sexy, but not here.

i think this is the most verbose i've gotten on this micro-blog and, why, oh yes. did i mention i'm supposed to be writing a paper? knowing me, more posts to come tonight..... burning the midnight oil, oh yea.

just came home

2009-10-26T20:44:00.000-07:00

to my roommate getting some. going to my happy place:

"looking for my leopard" (undated, go to your happy place here)

if i could write poetry...

2009-10-26T19:18:00.000-07:00

i probably wouldn't waste the day away watching youtube and listening to music

television personalities, "if i could write poetry" (1982)

monday morning,

2009-10-26T10:08:00.001-07:00

and encouragement comes in the form of this song by the feelies, one of my favorite bands:

the feelies, "it's only life" (1988)

gratuitous post

2009-10-25T13:19:00.000-07:00

another song by washed out that i'm addicted to:

washed out, "belong" (2009)

all this neon indian & washed out talk

2009-10-25T11:15:00.000-07:00

makes me bust out the ducktails/real estate/julian lynch unicorn forest juice that is goin' on right naaaa. fanks aileezy for posting the jowwwce.

ducktails, "parasailing" (2009)

washed out

2009-10-25T09:59:00.000-07:00

sounds a lot like neon indian--nice n' gooey with the synth.

washed out, "feel it all around" (2009)

isn't this a lovely day

2009-10-24T21:14:00.001-07:00

to be caught in the rain?

freddie & ginger in top hat "isn't this a lovely day" (1935)

i always post this

2009-10-24T11:13:00.000-07:00

but it's my favorite rainytime music:

fats waller, "ain't misbehavin' (stormy weather)," 1942

there are no words

2009-10-24T07:27:00.000-07:00

ok, there are a couple. fever ray may create unsuspecting-jonesing for the knife tunes, but the girl can work that non-descript tribal aesthetic like no other. it is dark, it is stunning. thank you director andreas nilsson for making us all look bad.

fever ray, "stranger than kindness" (nick cave cover) (2009)

i just went all the way

2009-10-19T05:11:00.000-07:00

to the airport to pick up a friend. that is about a 20-block stroll and 3 trains at 4am. TOO BAD I GOT THE DATE WRONG. she arrives tomorrow. thank baby jesus that this exists so i can laugh again:

liam kyle sullivan, "shoes" (2007)

dolly mixture

2009-10-18T22:37:00.000-07:00

wikipedia tells me that dolly mixture is "a British confection, consisting of a variety of multi-coloured fondant shapes, such as cubes and cylinders, with subtle flavourings," but it is also a post-punk/new wave/twee/whatever genre name you want to slap on it band from the 1980s who are equally sweet. i think the vivian girls have heard of them, too.

dolly mixture, "everything and more" (1982)

i have no idea what is going on

2009-10-18T11:30:00.000-07:00

chiru, "full of energy" (date: the year leather daddies make a come back)

i can't believe

2009-10-13T16:28:00.000-07:00

this is going into that vampire tween twenterprise. you can't win them all:

le grizB & victoria legrand, "slow life" (2009)

but my-boo chris taylor has released his unicorn seed in the form of "ghosts." check check check it

because i am in a cheesy mood,

2009-10-01T21:04:00.000-07:00

as i so often am, i am enjoying this song and enjoying living in new york right now:

jay-z featuring alicia keys, "empire state of mind" (2009)

i can't help it. my apartment has windows, and all the cars that drive by them blast this all day. you have to admit, as the autumn cold creeps in, and thoughts of how hard the winter will be cross your mind, it's kind of uplifting to hear.

double dutch

2009-09-29T20:35:00.001-07:00

i love the initial syncopation of beats between the visual and audio in this video, and how they converge then build up by the end. i had also always wished i knew how to double dutch as a kid, so seeing these smoove mooves makes me really jealous. anyway, malcolm mclaren is a pretty wacky cool dude.

malcolm mclaren, "double dutch" (1983)

BJM + godard

2009-09-29T08:43:00.000-07:00

watching/listening to that girls track made me nostalgic for the bay area sound. youtube binging proved fruitful in this respect, and led me to find this:

i don't even really know if it makes sense but it's a combination of two things i like so here's another vapid post so as to gesture: "hi, this is cool." consume. i guess that's what media is for.

brian jonestown massacre, "the devil may care"

loves of a blonde

2009-09-28T13:23:00.000-07:00

"this love of mine turned me into a hooligan"
opening credits from milos forman's loves of a blonde (1965)

lust for life

2009-09-27T22:19:00.000-07:00

Oh I wish I had a suntan
I wish I had a pizza and a bottle of wine
I wish I had a beach house
And we could make a big fire every night

girls, "lust for life" (2009)

perfidia

2009-09-27T22:02:00.000-07:00

phyllis dillon, "perfidia" (1967)

thanks taz

2009-09-27T17:52:00.000-07:00

i don't miss things, but small black makes me miss summer (all 2 weeks of it). queen of the night taleen turned me on to small black. now i am sad/happy, dead/alive.

small black, "despicable dogs" (2009)

top o' the morning to ya

2009-09-23T02:56:00.000-07:00

i'll have a cup of coffee and this song for breakfast, thanks.

micachu & the shapes, "golden phone" (2009)

here is new york

2009-09-14T12:06:00.001-07:00

reading e.b. white in the stale incubated air of an economy flight from los angeles back to new york city, and listening to this song by bobby d., well, it's all sorts of bittersweet wonderful. new york, you're a bitch but i love you. my skin is used to your water. my comfort levels are used to your crowds. and my feelings are used to these feelings:

bob dylan, "positively 4th street"

wordless music meets miller festival

2009-09-12T08:24:00.000-07:00

who knew there were humans above 14th street?

i trekked up to columbia uni's miller theatre to catch some fuzzy wordless aural yoga. i've seen julianna barwick before & i think she fell ill to technical difficulties & an unforgiving gowanus gang, but this time, the christian-rock naivety of her work was especially vexing. liz harris / grouper showed us all how it's done - successfully tranquilizing an entire auditorium of people. it is all about sophisticated spatial tricks: there is a woman on a stage twenty-feet away from you, but what she produces sounds like something twenty-thousand feet away - but glutted with sound and image residue, like prominent smoke signals in a pink sunset sky. tim hecker played with sentiments too similar to cinematic forms and epic clichés. it was like being stuck in a video game & realizing that the clothes you wore when you were five don't fit you anymore - embarrassing & claustrophobic. in conclusion, you need grouper in your life:

grouper, "second wind / zombie skin" (2006?)

one for the babe file

2009-08-31T18:57:00.000-07:00

i told you once & i'll tell you again, because john maus is a babe.

john maus "through the skies for you" (2006?)

ice cream for breakfast, grizzly bear for lunch

2009-08-31T09:55:00.000-07:00

best thing about that brooklyn pool-party-sans-actual-pool thing that happened yesterday was bassist/sonic sorcerer chris taylor's summer shorts that were blue AND SHORT. but for now, enjoy this sweet treat that was released earlier this season:

grizzly bear, "two weeks" (2009)

get out of my dreams!

2009-08-25T20:42:00.000-07:00

i just screened the latest tarantino obnox-fest (but really babe-fest) & all i can say is, beefcakes:

billy ocean, "get out of my dreams" (1988)

but being the brooklynite that i am, what i really mean is, "get out of my dreams & into my...bicycle basket."