Fweaky Fwiday

Haiku Review

Devendra Banhart
"What Will We Be"

His songs in Spanish
elicit gyrations of
groinal locations

meow, DB...meow

Seeing A.A. Bondy and Elvis Perkins tonight! I plan on coaxing the lot of them back to my place afterward for wine and cheese and an unbridled all night jam sesh. Pictures coming soon...

Toozday Moozday

This one's for the Scorpios

Real Estate - (errr.. "track 6"?)
The Thermals - "Test Pattern"
Rural Alberta Advantage - "Barnesyard"
Robin Rutenberg - "Carmello"
Juicy Pony - "Your Eyes" (REEEEEEmixed by Peninsolar)
Glass Ghost - "Home For The Holidays"
The High Strung - "Seems It's One Thing"
Heartless Barstards - "My Maker"
TV On The Radio - "I Was A Lover"
Florence And The Machine - "Between Two Lungs"
Animal Collective - "Peacebone" (for my jail baby)
Oh No - "Melody Mix"
Andrew Bird - "Tables and Chairs" (for Zoidberg)
Eef Barzelay - "Numerologist"
Megafaun - "The Fade" (I'll Miss You Jeff)
Swan Lake - "Spider"
Sonic Youth - "Reena"

SAVE CD CONNECTION
SAVE THE WORLD

October 27th

Here We Go Magic - "Only Pieces"
Le Loup - "Sherpa"
The Moles - "Bury Me Happy"
Atlas Sound - "Sheila"
Alec Ounsworth - "South Philadelphia"
Dodos - "Longform"
Elvis Perkins - "Doomsday"
Alela Diane - "Pirate's Gospel"
Evangelicals - "Paperback Suicide"
Broken Social Scene - "Alive In '85"
Kid Koala - "Roboshuffle"
Electrelane - "Cut And Run"
Le Loup - "Beach Town"
Rural Alberta Advantage - "Deadroads"
Chad Vangaalen - "Bones of Man"
Rodriguez - "Sugar Man"
Broken Social Scene - "Prison Province"

Well

I only know of 4 people who actively read my blog, and I know they will all like this, so here:




Be sure to Carpe the shit out of today, it's beautiful outside!

Sunday?

Haiku Review
Alec Ounsworth - "Mo Beauty"

Jazzed up and wailing
shining talent unfailing
Got my arms flailing

...Surprise yourself


Other Current Favorites:
Le Loup - "Family"
Timber Timbre - "Timber Timbre"
Badly Drawn Boy - "Hour of Bewilderbeast"
El Michels Affair - "Sounding Out The City"


This is nice too!

Tonight's Playlist

Wild Beasts - "Hooting and Howling"
Sunset Rubdown - "Apollo & The Buffalo & Anna"
The Deadly Syndrome - "Eucalyptus"
Noah & The Whale - "Shape Of My Heart"
Camera Obscura - "Swans"
Florence & The Machine - "My Boy Builds Coffins"
Serge Gainsbourg - "En Melody"
No Age - "Losing Feeling"
Deerhoof - "Running Thoughts"
White Denim - "Track One"
Battles - "Snare Hanger"
Islands - "Switched On"
St. Vincent - "Jesus Saves, I Spend"
Nurses - "Lita"
Wild Beasts - "The Devil's Crayon"
Steve Martin - "Grandma's Song"

Also..

Blog of the day

Art show curated by Jack Diablo! Saturday night at Bogda Gallery in Avondale. Every artist (including myself) submitted a piece involving their respective spirit animal. Should be pretty incredible!

Song of the day:
Rural Alberta Advantage - "Sleep All Day"

Book of the day:
J. Krishnamurti - Freedom From The Known

Event of the day:
Shooting Range cherry pop

Thought of the day:
Most people are not fit to rule themselves.

A Haiku Review

Sure, I'll review albums. But I'm keeping it concise and letting you judge the rest.

Islands - "Vapours"

Chipper listening,
horned funky creeps creepin' in
starts strong and dwindles



Show Tonight at 11 pm!

Tonight's Playlist

Beck - "Deadweight"
Deerhunter - "Never Stops"
Phillip Oskar Augustine - "Internal Combustion"
Ruby Suns - "These Are Birds"
Woods - "Rain On"
Yo La Tengo - "Periodically Triple or Double"
Built To Spill - "Center of the Universe"
Honey Chamber - "Brain Melts Down"
Generationals - "These Habits"
Nurses - "Caterpillar Playground"
Jon Brion - "Knock Yourself Out"
The Rural Alberta Advantage - "Sleep All Day"
Washed Out - "Luck"
Of Montreal - "Oslo In The Summertime"
Badly Drawn Boy - "My Friends Cubilas"
Black Moth Super Rainbow - "Twin of Myself"
Ruby Suns - "Tane Mahuta"
Koushik - "None In Mind"

An Exercise

I often listen to songs I love as if I am hearing them for the first time. I'll even go so far as to assume I am someone else who actually has never heard it before, whether it be somebody I know or an imaginary personality type. I find that when things are new there is a certain strangeness and feeling of surprise. I suppose maybe I'm trying to recreate that feeling that one gets when they immediately enjoy a song. Some part of it, the melody, a lyric, or something subtle that catches you and for whatever reason you say "This is good."

Pretending to hear, see, feel, taste etc. ANYTHING for the first time is to feel totally in the now. Not comparing with past experiences or songs, and not having that familiar expectation that comes after you've heard a song a hundred times over. Just allow your mind to pass no judgment and give every note your full attention, new or old, and you can find beauty like you've never known.

Don't get me wrong. I almost always burn myself out on new songs that I enjoy right away. I'm comfortable with this addiction. With all that said, I've played these songs way too many damn times this week:

Wild Beasts - The Empty Nest

Wild Beasts - All The King's Men

Enjoy.

Need to smile?

I can has blog?

I was peer pressured to create a blog by a fellow music enthusiast. So far so good. I'll post music news and stuff and videos and things and my playlists etc. and things which I feel are worth sharing and crap.

Listen to the show! That's what I really care about. It airs every Tuesday night form 11pm to 12am on 89.9 NPR in Jacksonville. I believe it reaches as far as St. Augustine and perhaps Fernandina, you might need an aluminum foil helmet to pick it up further than that.

I'm also happily employed at CD Connection in Jacksonville beach and I'm an advocate of BUYING music. CD's, Vinyl, Tapes, what have you. When the internet finally implodes on itself and all the computers in the world crash those of us with physical evidence of our love for music will be the ones on top again. Today is the first Vinyl Sunday at CD Connection. Jeffles and I will be jamming to Nurses, Panda Bear and various selections from the Animal Collective collection, Yim Yames (beautiful!), Neutral Milk Hotel, Fever Ray, Besnard Lakes, Blitzen Trapper, and I'm sure we will sift through some oldies as well. I should start digging for that Shuggie Otis now...I know its there somewhere.

Dang. Music.

Bye!