Incurable paranoia.

Apparently Yoko Ono REALLY likes snow.

2006-04-10T19:00:00.000-07:00

Yoko Ono "Listen the Snow is Falling"

Yoko Ono "Winter Friend"

Yoko Ono "(Don't Worry Kyoko)Mum's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow"

Yoko Ono "Snow Is Falling All The Time"

A message from Bill O'Reilly concerning Yanni's arrest.

2006-03-07T01:07:00.000-08:00

"Talking Points: Further proof the liberal media is out to get us? The persecution of my good friend and fellow fascist, Yanni. I was there that day and saw what REALLY happened. Let's just say it involved rope, lubricant, a relaxing keyboard solo, and her consent. Yanni...guy's just been down on his luck since he went from 'stache to goatee/beard. Conservative new age composer looks like a gangsta and all the sudden the liberal pinkos have to hype this thing up like he killed the bitch. If Sarah Silverman or Ralph Nader had a bunch of facial hair, do you think they'd make a big deal of that? Most people 18-35 don't even know who Ralph Nader is. And no, I'm not including reefer-smoking, devil-worshipping "college students." Fuckin' pussies. We need another 'Nam is what we need. Or an Iran-Contra, only instead of guns we send godless commies with names like Conor who wear more makeup than their girlfriends, who in turn look like guys, with bombs strapped to their puny, hairless little chests. Or better yet, drop them from an airplane without parachutes directly above the jailhouse in Manalapan, Florida, to bust out our good friend and fellow cigar-munching, tantric-sex-having, pinko-punching, queer-bashing, racist, sexist, doesn't-go-down-on-his-girlfriend-but-makes-her-give-him-head-even-if-he's-gassy conservative new age maniac, John Yanni Christopher. Perhaps I'll have to reform the "Stop acting like you enjoy buttfucking me, O'Reilly. Ann Coulter can see from your flacid penis and painted toenails that you are not a satisfying sex partner for Ann Coulter. If only Joe McCarthy were still alive. You are so Gay!"-team, with master-of-disguise Michael Bolton, alto-sax-weilding sex fiend Kenny G(orelick), and "Wonder(which one is the bottom) Twins", Hall & Oates. Seal the borders! Life begins at conception! I assrape myself with a broom handle. Hilary Clinton is the devil! There are cameras in our TV sets! Martin Luther King was a commie! Abraham Lincoln was a commie! Karl Marx, however, wasn't. He was actually a conservative, smeared by the Al Frankens of this world and robbed of his good name, just like Joe McCarthy. Ann Coulter tossed my salad. Afterwards, we ate it with some excellent Paul Newman (fucking commie)(tasty shit, though) Ranch dressing and shared a nice Chianti. Then she licked my asshole. Then Jonathan came in and shot her in the fucking head. What a pinko jerk. Afterwards, I mounted her corpse for a couple of hours while stopping occasionally to drown adorable little puppies in the bathtub. Stop sniffling, you anti-American, puppies don't have souls. Then an ad came on for "Brokeback Mountain." Fucking disgusting. Trying to turn our kids into homos and our homos into AIDS-spraying SUPER-HOMOS, with purple hair and sequined clothes and pink skin pinker than the pinkest asshole of all the little altar-boys that have ever knelt to Jesus (hail Mary) before a priest. Luckily, I had already blown my load on a pile of dead babies. No, I'm not pro-choice, idiots. They were BLACK babies, not REAL babies. Duh! SHUT UP, YOU SECULARISTS! IF YOU DON'T CELEBRATE RAPING AND MURDERING BLACK CHILDREN, YOU HATE CHRISTMAS. CHRISTMAS MAKES CHILDREN...REAL CHILDREN...YOU KNOW, UPPER MIDDLE CLASS WHITE CHILDREN...HAPPY. They probably would have grown up to be gangster rappers anyways, like Will Smith and Sir Mixalot and the Wang Chung Clan. Society made me this way. Priests fingered MY cute little butt at a young age. Stop me before I kill again. Kenny G gives great head. THE ACLU SUPPORTS "GAY" PEOPLE?!? Tell them to stop pushing that subversive sodomite agenda on us real Americans. I am NOT a member of NAMBLA. I am Secretary of Conservative Talk Show Hosts who Act Disgusted by "Perverse" sexual behaviors like homosexuality and Sodomy, but Secretly Enjoy Fucking Young Boys in Thailand. Now onto the Most Ridiculous Item of the Day..."- Bill O' Reilly

Article here. Secularist scum.

Butthole Surfers "To Parter"

School begins tomorrow. Joy.

2006-01-30T17:39:00.000-08:00

Amon Duul II "Archangel's Thunderbird"(Krautrock)
Ima Robot "STD Dance"(Post-punky dancerock shit with just a pinch of hip-hop. Better than fucking Moving Units, that's for sure.)
Devo "That's Good"(Need I explain this one? Devo at it's gawky best. For a laugh, be sure not to miss the Devo-approved Dev2.0)(and for more of the same don't miss the utterly astounding Polysics...)
Polysics "Tei Tei Tei"(See what I mean? Now that is Devo 2.0)
Monsters are Waiting "Nobody"(Awesome LA new wave band I caught a few months back opening for theSTART...their LP drops in March, I believe. The singer is a very enigmatic young woman and their songs are among the catchiest I've heard in ages.)
Popul Vuh "Aguirre I"(Haunting theme to my favorite film. This version ends with the native playing the tribal instrument, as seen in the film. And in case you aren't in the know, Werner Herzog's "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" is amazing. Don't rent it. Buy it. Now. You won't be dissapointed.)

There's something down there!

2006-01-01T16:20:00.000-08:00

The Ramones "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement"

Celebrities I've engaged in sexual acts with (ALL TRUE!)

2005-12-16T00:09:00.000-08:00

Kenny G...Very gentle. Wears sweater at all times. Even in the shower.

Yanni...Very rough. Tantric and spiritual, but rough. His moustache is course and doesn't feel very good on the nuts.

Micheal Bolton...Refused to leave. And his receded ass hair clogged up my shower drain.

Sandra Bernhard...I thought she was Peaches and wanted to brag about "fucking HER pain away, har har." All I got was the resoundingly horrible image of Sandra screaming "Oy, yes!" in all her gapped-tooth glory.

Louis Armstrong...After going back in time, instead of invest in stocks or prevent wars, I did Satchmo. He was wowed by my "cellular phone." I was wowed by how he played my horn.

Gary Busey...I know this list reeks of less-than-straightness, but dude, I totally thought they were chicks. Take Busey. I thought he was Courtney Love. I SWEAR!

Neil Armstrong...I figured any dude related to Louis Armstrong would be good in the sack. This "ass"tronaut burned me. Bad. One small step towards the free clinic, one giant wart on the end of my wang. And get this...he couldn't even play a note of the trumpet. Some Armstrong!

Lucy Liu...I'm the reason that she's cross eyed.

Karen Black...her, too.

Ben Stein...you know how he talks all slow? That is because after a marathon 48-hour session with me back in 1978...yep.

Diana Ross...I turned her upside down and inside out. She thanked me in the liner notes of some Christmas album.

Yoko Ono...When she insisted on calling me "John" instead of Jon, I kicked her to the curb. She also made me sing "Yesterday." That was a McCartney song, Yoko...DUHR.

Bea Arthur...You know why they called them the Golden Girls? Golden showers.

Michael Jackson...My first fuck. His nose fell off. Pretty terrifying.

Cher...Ditto with the nose. To my suprise, it suited her well.

Bill O' Reilly...No Spin, eh? Well here's the No Spin truth...his dick looked like a Pay Day bar! How's that for Mr. Morality. He also had a bad habit of calling me "Dubya." "Oh, Dubya. Oh, Dubya....yes."

Fiddy Cent...Could suck the chrome off my weapon and get to steppin.

Conor Oberst...He wanted to hold me afterwards and talk about "feelings." I told him that the only thing he would be feeling courtesy me was a burning sensation in the morning when he takes a piss. "Lover I Don't Have To Love", my ass!

Peter Gallagher...His eyebrow ate my fucking cat, god dammit!

Pamela Anderson...I told her I was the drummer for Ratt. And she believed me! Haha.

Paris Hilton...I told her I'm a Greek Millionaire. And she believe me! Haha.

Mary Kate or Ashley Olsen...I told her I'm old enough to be her dad. And she believed me! Haha.

Carson Daly...He kept telling me "I fucked Tara Reid. I have it on tape! Wanna see?" And I was like "Not even she is THAT famous any more. Just give it a rest, dude."

R. Kelly...Did you know he was originally cast as Sophia on "The Golden Girls"? When he left, so did the reason for the show's risque title.

I've also boned Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Magic Johnson, Tyra Banks, Kate Moss, that whale from "Free Willy", "Cafe Patron #2" from "City Slickers 2", and Alanis Morrisette, amongst many others. Feel free to inquire-- I kiss and tell.

basquiat vs. parsons

2005-12-14T21:18:00.000-08:00

Flying Burrito Brothers "Wild Horses"

dead dog on the highway

2005-12-14T21:16:00.000-08:00

The Raveonettes "Attack of the Ghost Riders"

my hump, my hump, my lovely lady...hump day post

2005-12-14T21:09:00.000-08:00

A Tribe Called Quest "Scenario"

hallelujah

2005-12-12T08:48:00.000-08:00

Melt Banana "Free the Bee (Live)"
Spiritualized "Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space"
Minor Threat "Stepping Stone"
Soft Cell "Sex Dwarf"

McDonalds vs Yanni Pt 2: Electric Boogaloo

2005-12-12T04:26:00.000-08:00

The Neon Boys "Blank Generation (Live)"

The Ramones "Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World"

Franz Ferdinand "Sexy Boy"(Lame Air cover)

Bruce Li appreciation day.

2005-12-06T21:19:00.000-08:00

Devo "Girl U Want"
Dr. Octagon "Moosebumps"(Instrumental)
Lightning Bolt "Assassins"

Just a 5-for-1

2005-12-01T14:07:00.000-08:00

Beck "Missing (Air Remix)"

Sham 69 "If the Kids are United"

Modern English "I'll Stop the World"

Subways "Staring at the Sun (TVOTR cover)"

Pavement "Texas Never Whispers"

I can't fucking sleeeeepppp-

2005-11-30T02:10:00.000-08:00

Brian Eno "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More"

The Turtles "Happy Together"

Can "Vitamin C"

The Faint "Some Incriminating Photographs"

A Tribe Called Quest "Award Tour (Instrumental)"

Christmas shopping tomorrow at South Coast Plaza. yay

Anyone else been listening to a lot of NMH lately?

2005-11-29T20:46:00.000-08:00

theSTART "Like Days"
Can "Sing Swan Song"
Neutral Milk Hotel "Two-Headed Boy"(Live)

...and a knife

2005-11-27T15:34:00.000-08:00

theSTART "You, Me, and a Knife" (My girlfriend has been a fan of theSTART before they were even theSTART...back when they were called "Hero" I believe. Anywho, if all goes as planned, I'll be attending their show this Thursday at the Troubadour, their last show for a while as they will be heading back into the studio. I really loved the direction the band took on their last album, "Initiation"; grittier production adding a nice raw touch to the perfect pop melodies of "Life is Sweet" and "Dead End Queen". "You, Me, and a Knife" is one of the more downbeat songs on the album, trading in the energy and anger of previous songs for a more resigned, mournful tone. It's also, like, TOTALLY FUCKING AWESOME.)

Lydia Lunch "Gloomy Sunday"
Lydia Lunch "Touch My Evil"
Lydia Lunch "Lost World"
Lydia Lunch "Unearthly Delights"
Lydia Lunch and Mick Harvey "Some Velvet Morning"(Anyone else seen Fingered?)

What's on your winamp playlist?

2005-11-21T06:21:00.000-08:00

David Bowie "Always Crashing in the Same Car"(From Low. Perhaps my favorite Bowie song)

Tenacious D "Jesus Ranch"(Cock pushups so work)

Bad Brains "Banned in DC"(Punk)

DNA "Not Moving"(No Wave)

Frank Sinatra "That's Life" (Dj Erb Remix feat. Nas)(Mash Up)

David Axelrod "Human Abstract"(Sampled in, amongst many others, DJ Shadow's "Midnight in a Perfect World")

Cody ChesnuTT "5 On A Joyride" (Indie-soul. Used in the tasteful, strangely touching teenage double-blowjob scene in Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know. One of the more achingly beautiful songs on my Nano)

Madonna "Hung Up" (Best dance song of the year! I mean, it samples ABBA's best song. And the sloganeering is intentionally mindless. I love this. So much so that I officially forgive the woman for American Life. And Swept Away. And that godawful gay dad courtroom drama with Rupert Everett. And...acting in general. And...the faux-Brit accent. And...)

LL Cool J "I'm Bad" (Hip-hop)

Beastie Boys "Shadrach (Peanut Butter Wolf remix)"(Hip-hop)

Spacehog "In The Meantime"(Rock. Anyone else remember this song?)

Pixes vs. Bob Dylan "Blowin' My Mind" (Mash Up)

Beastie Boys vs. Jay Z "99 Hits" (Mash Up)

Interpol "Next Time" (The stirring first track of Interpol's otherwise dissapointing sophomore effort Antics)

Nirvana "Heartbreaker"(Led Zeppelin cover, live)

Atmosphere "The Woman with the Tattooed Hands" (From the incomparable Lucy Ford EPs, proof that Slug used to be so much more than just some "emo" rapper; sincere, heartfelt, and a million times better than anything on the last three albums)

Cypress Hill and The Fugees "Boom Biddy Bye Bye" (Hip-hop)

Geto Boys "Straight Gangsterism" (Gangsta Rap)

Prince "Let's Go Crazy (12" Dance Mix)" (I want this man's eyebrows and 'stache...maybe I'll draw them on later)

Richard Hell and the Voidoids "Time" (Check the lyrics on this one; perfection. Ask and I'll upload the D. Boon cover version)

2005-11-17T12:12:00.001-08:00

I'll be back in a couple of days.

2005-11-17T12:12:00.000-08:00

Ladytron "Oops! Oh My" (Tweet cover)

Shouldn't I be in Geology class right now? Shit.

2005-11-14T11:07:00.000-08:00

Nostalgia 77 "Seven Nation Army" (White Stripes cover)

Holy shit this is hot; puts the original to shame.

Yeah, I said it.

Hot damn.

2005-11-13T16:41:00.000-08:00

Some gloomy/downbeat music to offset a great weekend; the Weegee exhibition at the Getty blew my mind and a party last night in El Monte was great fun. Los Angeles has been kind to me these past few days, but I can't return the favor. Orange County is still better. Hate though you may, I love...

...being surrounded by hateful conservatives whose politics are to the right of the John Birch Society
...begging my girlfriend not to make me accompany her to South Coast Plaza
...OC WEEKLY.
...taking a swim in the dark brown waters of Huntington Beach
...and the fact that the residents are so dense that they don't bat an eye when referring to their home as "The O.C." Would you ever see San Francisco residents name-dropping a show called "'Frisco" that is set in a fictionalized-beyond-recognizablity version of the titular city but filmed in Malibu?

Iron & Wine/Calexico "Wild Horses"(Stones cover)
DJ Krush "Candle Chant (A Tribute)"
Fat Lip "What's Up, Fatlip?"
DJ Shadow "Mongrel...""...meets his maker"
RIP Arrested Development. How I'll miss your accurate portrayal of my county. And David Cross in cut-off shorts/as a Blue Man. Yum*.

*By yum, I mean hairy.

BEASTIE BOYS: PAULS BOUTIQUE DEMOS

2005-11-09T18:56:00.000-08:00

The sound quality is really spotty and in a few places unlistenable, but Adam Yauch's x-rated boasts on the "Car Thief" demos makes it all worth it. "You was holdin' my dick while I was pissin' on yo' girl/ I got so much cum I can drown the whole world." Does he kiss the Dalai Lama with that mouth?!

1. Shake Your Rump
2. Three Minute Rule
3. Car Thief (#1)
4. Johnny Ryall (#1)
5. Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
6.Egg Man
7.Sounds of Science
8.Johnny Ryall (#2)
9.Car Thief (#2)
10. Thirty-Three Percent God
11.Hello Brooklyn

Mysterious Skin is a must see.

2005-11-09T11:48:00.000-08:00

Slowdive "Golden Hair"(Syd Barrett Cover)

Slowdive "Some Velvet Morning"(Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra Cover)

Massive update, or, my does the sky looks sunny today!

2005-11-07T11:12:00.000-08:00

I'm in an aggressively sentimental mood. As of next month I will have been with her for a year a half. Considering we are both strong, often difficult personalities, it is no small feat that we've lasted this long without killing each other. I realize with each passing day how lucky I am to have her--is your girlfriend so cool that she listens to hip music without succumbing to a trendy haircut and lame boho threads? Whenever we get around to going to the Getty, I'll throw up some pics.

I Am Spoonbender "Stopwatch Static"

Fiona Apple "Better Version of Me" (Jon Brion Version)
Fiona Apple "Better Version of Me" (Mike Elizondo version)

Let me know what y'all think, but for me, the better version of "Better Version of Me" is without a doubt Brion's. The album version drops the organic nature and whimsy of Brion's production in lieu of a rougher-edged feel that suits Apple's edgier vocals, but doesn't do the song itself any favors.

James Iha "Lover, Lover"

Why? "Darla"
It took me a while to fully embrace Yoni Wolf's acoustic-hop indie-pop, but now that I have, it's practically all I listen to. This is perhaps the most thoughtful, sensitive song you'll ever hear about poultry.

Why? "Bad Entropy"
If you download one song and one song only from this post, let it be this one. I can't adequetly describe in words what an amazing track this is- one part poetry, one part shoegaze, and wholly amazing; conjures up emotions of young love, childhood and memories you wish to recapture but never will.

Themselves "Good People Check"
More avant-garde hip-hop from the good folks at Anticon.

The Capricorns "The New Sound"
Quite the infectious little ditty; lo-fi organ-heavy garage new wave.

Slayer "Raining Blood"
Elliott the Letter Ostrich "Do the Reign in Blood"

They Might Be Giants "Ana Ng"
As with most TMBG songs I only have the slightest idea of what this song is "about", not that it matters. It's unbearably catchy. "I don't want the world, I just want your half." Beautiful.

Ol' Dirty Bastard "Brooklyn Zoo"

The Clash "The Guns of Brixton"

The Carpenters "Rainbow Connection"(Kermit the Frog cover)
Diamanda Galas "Gloomy Sunday"
Cafe Tacuba "Las Flores (Unplugged)"
Busdriver "Imaginary Places"

IF ANYONE CAN HOOK ME UP WITH A GOOD-QUALITY MP3 of the Zit Remedy's "Everybody Wants Something", I will be FOREVER GRATEFUL.

I'm a hopeless Degrassi fanatic and Joey Jeremiah is God. Yes, I realize that to admit this is nerdy beyond repair and drops my indie cool level down to about a two. Okay, okay, a negative two. Seriously, I'm only .5 away from being a Paul Mitchell student who digs the "scene look", listens to The Killers and wears girls' pants. Then again, I do have panic attacks when separated from my flat iron for more than an hour and I do refer to the patchy facial hair I've grown to make myself look less fat as an "indie beard." Who am I to judge?

Long live the new flesh.

2005-11-06T13:05:00.000-08:00

Since I have almost no classes this upcoming week and am therefore in a brilliant mood:

Beastie Boys "Rock Hard" (Beasties sample AC/DC)
Refused "Back in Black" (Refused covers AC/DC)
Madonna "Hung Up" (Madonna samples ABBA)
White Stripes "Walking with a Ghost" (Jack and Meg cover Tegan and Sara)
14 Iced Bears "Summer Nights" (Shoegazey Grease cover with just a dash of "Wild Thing")
Iggy Pop and Francoise Hardy "I'll Be Seeing You" (Iggy and Hardy do Kahal and Fain's WW2 standard)
Nirvana "Song of a Gun" (Nirvana takes on the Vaselines)
String Quartet Tribute to The Pixies "Here Comes Your Man" (The title is kind of self-explanatory)
Clipse "One Thing" (Clipse and others dropping napalm all over Amerie's "One Thing"...which in turn samples The Meters. Insta-boner.)
Xper.Xr "Wu-chu-tung" (A possibly schizophrenic Chinese man's take on EMF's "Unbelievable")
Sonic Youth "Personality Crisis" (I love the fact that Sonic Youth would willingly release this--little more than Kim Gordon mumbling over a tape of the New York Dolls original. Shitty, but shitty in the good way that only a great band could be. Or something.)

Enjoy.

2005-11-02T15:15:00.000-08:00

Themselves "Grass Skirt, Fruit Hat"

I'm speechless. Perhaps the most awkward thing I have ever seen. This isn't a slam on Asians, gays, young people, or erotic posing. That is just...everyone in this picture seems so genuinely uncomfortable that it in turn makes you feel a bit...it's like when the student teacher massages your neck for just a bit too long when you stay behind after class for "help." Well, the guy on the bottom right doesn't look too ill at ease. Which makes things just a bit odder. Its as if he coerced his friends into a picture they had no desire to take just so he could have the other dude sit on him.

"Grass Skirt, Fruit Hat" seems the only song surreal enough to accompany this astounding work of art. God bless that conniving little cad for tricking his pals into satisfying his closeted homosexuality and providing us with puzzled looks, muffled laughs, and taste of Lynchian surreality I'm always on the lookout for in everday life.

Bonus batter.

2005-11-02T15:08:00.000-08:00

The Ramones "53rd and 3rd"

I think I'm making a political statement or something. Nah, I'm just laughing because I know how Bush feels. No sane guy can turn down a blowjob.

Elections are coming up in a week or two. I'm going to vote as liberally as possible...in vain perhaps...so that my tuition doesn't increase nearly 40% again.

Well I was dressed for SUCK...cess it never comes...

2005-11-02T14:58:00.000-08:00

Pavement "Here"

It might be more appropriate to post the Pixies' "Wave of Mutilation", but today is a much more "Here" day for me. Much like Malkmus often seemed too lazy to write "real" lyrics for his song, I'm too lazy to blah blah blah. Look at the big wave! Whoa.

Happy Halloween! And remember, there is no such thing as broken mirrors...

2005-10-30T13:01:00.000-08:00

Goblin "Suspiria"

...just broken minds.

Goblin "Dawn of the Dead(theme)"

I'll do a Halloween post when I feel like it. Get off me. Hearing a baby cry during "Rape Me" is disturbing enough, no?

2005-10-30T12:29:00.000-08:00

Nirvana "Rape Me(demo)"

Growing up, I wasn't much of a Nirvana fan. I associated them with shitty grunge bands and, unable to put their music in the appropriate context, didn't understand what was so special about Kurt and the boys. Some of my earliest memories are of watching the "Smells like Teen Spirit" video, so I wasn't stunned by how different they were from any other mainstream rock bands. It's like growing up with cool parents; your friends might think they are hot shit, but without a day gone by in your life having not seen them, you don't know what the big deal is. Not to mention the fact that once Kurt offed himself, not an hour went by without a Nirvana song on the radio for about the next three years.

Fast forward to senior year. I'm sitting in Ms. Pryor's class, flipping through her copy of Kurt's journals, when something occurs to me. Kurt Cobain had stunningly good taste in music. His lists of favorite bands read like my list of favorite bands-- The Vaselines, Shonen Knife, Sonic Youth, The Stooges. His anti-social scribbles were like my anti-social scribbles, what with the violence and hatred of Catholicism and beady-eyed Republikkkans. And most importantly, so many of the things he wrote about and thoughts he expressed were so similar to my own thoughts that I could not believe I once scrawled "Nirvana sucks" across my folder, so tired of hearing Killing Joke's "The Eighties" slowed down, whined over, and thrown on at the end of every shitty KROQ playlist that if Kurt hadn't shot himself, I would probably have taken a bus up to Seattle and done the honors.

So yeah, Kurt was a cool dude. And the "Rape Me" demo on that box set is pretty awesome, what with Frances Bean wailing in the background. Time to throw together a Halloween post.

Crispin Glover's off kilter dancing in some shitty "Friday the 13th" flick just made my day.

2005-10-29T15:52:00.000-07:00

Belle and Sebastian "Lazy Line Painter Jane"

The perfect antidote to my current listlessness.

Trailer for Crispin Glover's "What is it?" Wow.

"What is it?" trailer

Early morning jog music.

2005-10-29T15:00:00.000-07:00

DJ Shadow "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt"

The soundtrack to early morning jogs at my grandparent's mountain estate in Northern California.

the taste of blood. why kill?

2005-10-29T14:47:00.000-07:00

Deep Puddle Dynamics "More From June"

Tortoise's John Herndon handles the production as Slug, Eyedea, Alias, Doseone, and Sole all spit some of their oddest poetry over some of the glitchiest, fast, impossible drums this side of, well, a Tortoise record. Wow.

Who knows?

2005-10-29T14:34:00.000-07:00

Marion Black "Who Knows?"

The backbone of one of my least favorite RJD2 tunes, I was suprised at what a low key, mournful slice of soul perfection this song is; jazzy piano, an amazing bassline, and that beeyootiful hook. Very simple, undeniably catchy. Sort of like "Ain't No Sunshine" but not sucky.

Not sucky...and to think, I'm going to become an English teacher. The future looks bleaker by the minute, no?

"Yes, Bobby, calling Jimmy Carter a 'decent president, though his handling of the energy crisis was startlingly inept' is correct, but doesn't 'Jimmy Carter wasn't sucky, and, like, his brother had his own beer. Beer is cool' sound better?

If anyone requests it, I'll put up the RJD2 song as well.

The Outback

2005-10-27T16:22:00.000-07:00

Fatlip "What's Up, Fatlip?"

The Pharcyde's Fatlip flips some of the most self depricating rhymes of his career over a beat that is unlike any I have yet heard in or outside of hip-hop; antiquated turn-of-the-century piano playing through the haze of an old radio on a sunny summer morning. Every morning I force myself out of bed, wipe my eyes, yawn, scratch my balls, and slip in my earbuds. "What's Up, Fatlip?" is what will usually be coursing through my ears...either that or Gogol Bordello's "When a Trickster Comes A-Poking"...though I feel far less ashamed when hipsters overhear the former as opposed to the latter as I bop about campus looking for my girlfriend.

Am I the only one that misses Sam Keith's brilliant comic book "The Maxx"? I grew up on that book and I consider it responsible, to a large degree, for many of my enduring fascinations (parallel universes, insanity, the homeless), and were my college-age financial doldrums not at their worst, I would so try to make my own Maxx costume. As for now, I'm looking for a good bear mask. "Bi-polar bear." I'm such a genius. Why does nobody else recognize my utter BRILLIANCE?!

Shakes your hand, takes your gun, once you are on the sun...

2005-10-27T11:29:00.000-07:00

Ladytron "Destroy Everything You Touch"

It's nigh impossible to choose just one, but were a gun placed against my head, I'd choose this as my favorite song on Ladytron's latest. An irresistable melody, lush synths, and just the right tinge of late 60's British pop counterbalance the bleak lyrics perfectly. Perfect soundtrack for wallowing about in the winter gloom. The rest of the album holds up just as well; well worth purchasing.

No gamelans in sight...

2005-10-27T11:07:00.000-07:00

Everybody Loves Irene "Memento Mori"

Lame aside- the phrase "memento mori"(Latin for "remember the dead") was perhaps my thing to scrawl across my many notebooks of goth-tinged poetry back in grade school, when Siousxie and Robert were gods and "Bela Lugosi's Dead" didn't make me giggle uncontrollably.

The song- downtempo, organic trip-hop with sad, whistful female vocals. I downloaded it on a rainy day and it fit the mood splendidly.

The amazing part- the band is Indonesian(and not a gamelan in sight). I never would have guessed this had I not ran across the band's myspace (Everybody Loves Irene Myspace).

The best part- their myspace contains a similarly organic, mournful cover of, get this, The Misfits'(?!?) "Hybrid Moments" that sounds like Cocteau Twins. Weird. I was able to find it available for download here: Everybody Loves Irene "Hybrid Moments"