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Monday, August 17, 2009

Actual serious blog entry

No really.

Not music related, but I just watched the documentary "Carts Of Darkness" and apparently I can embed it here, so I am going to do that because it is amazing. Homeless people in Canada that in their spare time race shopping carts down hills, filmed by a former snowboarder with a permanent spinal injury. It is stunning. No jokes this time. Wow.

Murray Siple, director

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

TWIN CITIES OH YEAH MPLS/STPL ALL THE TIME ROCK FRENZY YAAAAAH ok maybe not rock all the time but uh WHEEE ok

So I probably remiss in making the case for my fair city(ies) on a regular basis, and yes, my pimping of Gay Witch Abortion is the exception to the rule, but what have I done for you lately awesome place where I live?

OK fine. I don't think that I have spent enough time talking about Maps Of Norway (rip) and Zebulon Pike which is mighty mighty mighty. But today I am focusing on something new (NEW!) to me that has crawled out of the back alleys of mpls/stpl, wet behind the ears, terribly handicapped by our lack of bitrate love and probably public transit.

Unicorn Dream Attack. gameboys. an MPC. a vocorder. love for you.

B34utifule 3y3s
Live
and for the unadverturous that can be swayed by this sort of thing, a cover of the Pixies

!!!!!

bonus: Future of the Left (who uh how many times do I have to tell you this) are mindpunching fantastic. Live at the Turf Club thanks to M@tt for pointing this out btw.

Monday, August 3, 2009

MY ahem MINE ALL MINE FAVORITE SONG I NEVER LISTEN TO

biting my co-bloggers steez here, but so here are my genius results for "Another Perfect Catastrophe" by Firewater

Another Perfect Catastrophe - Firewater
Tell Me When It's Over - Dream Syndicate
Little Drop of Poison - Tom Waits
Think Locally, Fuck Globally - Gogol Bordello
Guero Canelo - Calexico
Medication - Son Volt
Blown A Wish - My Bloody Valentine
I Got Stung - Elvis Presley
Paradise - Firewater
So Like Candy - Elvis Costello
T.V. Eye - The Stooges
When The Day Is Short - Martha Wainwright
El Picador - Calexico
The Long Cut - Uncle Tupelo
The Good Ones - The Kills
Engwish Bwudd - Man Man
Chocolate Jesus - Tom Waits
So Long, Superman - Firewater (no available youtube. this is a great song tho so find it plz)
I'm Not In Love - Tori Amos
Woke Up New - The Mountain Goats
I Only Said - My Bloody Valentine
I Think I Need A New Heart - The Magnetic Fields
Cure For Pain - Morphine
Deep Red Bells - Neko Case
Blindness - The Fall

my feelings on this are

unknown. huh.

clearing my throat

ok so yeah i am terrible at this blogging thing and i know that you have all been waiting breath baited on the next musical dribblings that might spill out of my um keyboard?

ok starting over, i have a bunch of stuff that is all thematically linked and clever and worthy of the blogosphere and whatever, but first i just have to get some stuff off my chest. of a musical nature. things you need to hear. now.

first up is Bloodshot Eyes - Wynonie Harris, which i only found out about because of one of those 2 cd copyright violation Cds you can find in cutout bins in your local not terribly reputable record store. THANK YOU PR1MO RECORDS (yes that is the real name! pregoogleproofed!) FOR SHOWING ME THAT THE CZECH REPUBLIC KNOWS HOW TO GET DOWN.

so yeah, i love me some Louis Prima and this is obviously a dude that is maybe sort of owed some checks from the estate - i will buy some legal versions of this soon so that the executor of the Wynonie Harris estate who is probably the second cousin with the best lawyer can get his 74 cents. DONT SPEND IT ALL IN THE SAME PLACE VULTURE DUDE!*

*yes btw, Pat Benatar (who i normally have some affection for) covered this song. it is terrible. i will not link to it, because it has nearly 10 times the views of the original. watch it if you want, but it sucks and you are a traitor.

Next, we have Portal - Glumurphonel which is awesome because A) EVERYTHING LOUDER AND FASTER THAN EVERYTHING ELSE B) serious note, this is really kind of mindnumbing levels of playing across the board and makes geek fucks like Meshuggah look like boring arrythmic douchebags C) the lead singer is wearing a cuckoo clock on his head and that is 10000% more metal than leather pants.

and to totally destroy my credibility, i cant stop listening to the acoustic version of Silversun Pickups - Panic Room. shut the hell up.