futile

i always say songs are in my top 20, but i am pretty sure i have said that about 40 songs. i think i will make an actual top 20 that i will stand by for about 5 mins.

to start i have:

pulp- disco 2000

new order- temptation

notorious big- juicy

13th floor elevators- dust

luomo- tessio

belle and sebastian- lazy line painter jane

tommy james- crimson and clover

charalambides- two birds

electric prunes- i had too much to dream last night

bonnie prince billy- raining in darling

then its a total pile-up of yaz, wire, underworld, walkmen, robert wyatt, rolling stones, a-ha, millennium, love,  dire straits, echo and the bunnymen, dexys, daft punk, autechre, boards of canada, cannibal ox, abba, alphaville, avalanches, etc etc

etc etc

in other news, i didn’t win the lottery last night.

I did have a fantastic time in the city though.

“Paint it Black” by the rolling stones came on the true oldies channel the other day while i was driving. I forgot how completely awesome that song is. It’s like a Morricone score combined with that great Eastern-tinged sitar and rock. Definitely a top three Stones track for me.

Pluramon often reminds me of M83… i dont understand why certain people like pluramon, but not M83 haha.

other musics i am listening to:  Atlas Sound, Plotkin/Gutzeit on Kranky, Roxette Greatest Hits, that junk I just got in the mail and the old stand-bys (Pulp, New Order, Underworld, Charalambides)

I think that I have found someone to go to Green Zebra with me again… so happy.

musics!

JOSHUA BURKETT ~ WHERE’S MY HAT? ~ lp (TIME-LAG RECORDS)

WOODS FAMILY CREEPS ~ S/T ~ lp (TIME-LAG RECORDS)
HEATHER LEIGH MURRAY ~ DEVIL IF YOU CAN HEAR ME ~ lp (not not fun)

VARIOUS ARTISTS ~ BLACK MIRROR: REFLECTIONS IN GLOBAL MUSICS (1918-1955) ~ cd (dust-to-digital)

will report on later… i am listening to wood family creeps now and the name totally fits… very lo-fi, weird folk stuff with sound effects, kinda awesome.

I can’t wait to listen to Black Mirror, what can be better than old music from southeastern asia, africa and various european countries?

some notes

I am obsessed with Scrabulous now.

I am finally getting my car fixed… hooray for windows that will actually work and hooray for new bumper.

I am thinking of getting a custom license plate haha… front-runner right now is “shift 7″ (my love for the ampersand runs deep) let me know what you think.

I am more than halfway through a book on post-communist Russia, it is amazingly good and made me emotional quite a few times.

pluramon is great, props to taylor, james, caitlin for repping them to the point of me listening to them.

awesome

If anyone sent me this ever, i would be in love forever.

hooray for lastfm

poet woke baby blood folks boys.

your telephone line is everlastingly busy

Roughest Gym on Earth

the politics of parking haha

so, i was at the grocery store today and I noticed three (!) people backing into parking spaces. Now, I understand if you like backing your car into spaces elsewhere, but this just seems like they are creating work for themselves so they can look marginally cool or whatever. And I do not want to hear a word about it being easier to pull out of a space that way.