...in other words, the songs I can't stop listening to, this May of 2007.
...or, what happens when a van occupanther meets a bewilderbeast.

Spin Me 'Round, I'm Falling
May 2007, a music mix from Robin
98 MB - download from sendspace

1. I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) / the Electric Prunes
2. Single Life / Pink Mountaintops
3. Je ne te connais pas / Prototypes
4. Bewilderbeast / Badly Drawn Boy
5. And Then She Flung Me the Truth / Edson
6. Make Me Mad / Schooner
7. Branches / Midlake
8. Ears Like Golden Bats / My Teenage Stride
9. Hooplas Involving Circus Tricks / Say Hi To Your Mom
10. Satan Said Dance / Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
11. Her Breasts Were Still Small / Tribeca
12. It Goes Like This / Black Affair
13. Lions and Tigers / Asobi Seksu
14. No Satisfaction / Black Mountain
15. Dear Friend / Leslies
16. Kneebending / Cowboy
17. Isn't Life Strange / the Clientele
18. Liar / Built To Spill
19. I Have No Sister / Oh No! Oh My!
20. In My Head / the Ballet
21. I've Got Pictures of You In Your Underwear / Ballboy

Yeah, it's been a while. I've been hiding under a rock for a few months, what can I say. Some older songs, some songs from last year, some not-yet-released songs, and so on. Here ya go:

C’mon Chemicals
April 2007 mix from Robin
Download here (100 MB), available till 4/27/07


1. Tame Me Tiger / Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies
2. Northern Whale / The Good, The Bad & The Queen
3. Shade and Honey / Sparklehorse
4. There Is An End / The Greenhornes feat. Holly Golightly
5. Let’s Build A Fire / +/-
6. 10 Gallon Ascots / Tapes ‘n’ Tapes
7. Grizzly Bear / All Girl Summer Fun Band
8. Suzy Jones / The Manhattan Love Suicides
9. And She Would Darken the Memory / The Twilight Sad
10. Treehouse / I’m From Barcelona
11. Young Bride / Midlake
12. In A Dream / Corduroy Utd.
13. Jamcolas / Sister Vanilla
14. El Camino / The Rosebuds
15. Penny Waits / The Gerbils
16. Really Now / The Dreamlets
17. Sober / Katie the Pest
18. Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse / Of Montreal
19. Bookshop Casanova / The Clientele
20. Amsterdam / Peter Bjorn and John
21. The Tide Is High / The Paragons

(Crossposted to the usual spots)

Have any N.C. locals been to the new Trader Joe's in Cary yet? I'm planning to go there later this week and was wondering if the crowds have died down yet.

It's been a while since I put a mix up for downloading. This is an end of autumn, oh look Christmas is almost here mix, culled, as usual, almost note for note from my Song o' the Day postings. Plus two surprise songs that I've been listening to a lot this fall. Cheers!

--At Least I Author My Own Disaster--
Autumn's Ending, 2006
download here (100 MB) - link will likely expire on Dec. 31st.

1. Imperial Teen - Lipstick
2. Stephen Malkmus - (Do Not Feed the) Oyster
3. The Cloud Room - Hey Now Now
4. The Foundry Field Recordings - Holding the Pilots/Holding the Facts
5. Casiotone For the Painfully Alone - Scattered Pearls
6. Tapes 'n Tapes - Insistor
7. Thee Headcoatees - What Once Was
8. Ra Ra Riot - Dying Is Fine
9. Califone - 3Legged Animals
10. Of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
11. Destroyer - 3000 Flowers
12. The Cudgels - Joybang!
13. The Handsome Family - Here's Hopin'
14. Serena Maneesh - Sapphire Eyes
15. The Pink Mountaintops - Cold Criminals
16. Okkervil River - For Real
17. Love - No Matter What You Do

(cross-posted everywhere)

Summer's almost over. In fact, I think the first day of autumn is this Saturday? I can't wait. I've been looking forward to autumn all summer long. It's quite possibly my favorite season, although I say that about all the seasons. Except for summer. I don't like summer much.

Here is my end of summer mix, featuring most of the songs I've been listening to the past few months and writing up in my Song O' the Day. Enjoy. And let me know what you think.

What Do You Do When the Music Stops? - download (102 MB)
Summer 2006, vol. 2

1. Henry’s Dress – Definitely Nothing
2. Camera Obscura – Come Back Margaret
3. M. Ward – Poison Cup
4. Spiral Beach – Voodoo
5. Jens Lekman – Black Cab
6. the Gaylads – My Jamaican Girl
7. Jonathan Richman – Circle I
8. Architecture in Helsinki – Do the Whirlwind
9. Bib - I Wanna Be A Better
10. the Zutons – Secrets
11. the Smittens – Sapphire
12. I’m From Barcelona – We’re From Barcelona
13. Galaxie 500 – Temperature’s Rising
14. the Pink Mountaintops – Can You Do That Dance?
15. the Pipettes – Pull Shapes
16. Rigas – Stench Of You
17. Western Graves – My Love Rides With You
18. Ballboy – Where Do the Nights of Sleep Go To When They Do Not Come To Me
19. Headlights – TV
20. the Aislers Set – Falling Buildings
21. Cansei De Ser Sexy – Music is My Hot Hot Sex
22. the Positions – Back To Me

We Were Communicating Through the Stereo (94 MB, link to download is underneath the Google ads)
Summer 2006 (vol. 1?)

1. Cars Can Be Blue - I Like
2. Majestic - So In Love
3. Donovan - Sunshine Superman
4. Sambassadeur - Kate
5. Unrest - Cath Carroll
6. the Essex Green - Penny and Jack
7. Band of Horses - The Funeral
8. Starlight Mints - Seventeen Devils
9. Weeds - Wheatfields
10. Broken Social Scene - Fire Eye'd Boy
11. Tilly and the Wall - Black and Blue
12. Morrissey - First of the Gang To Die
13. die Doraus und die Marinas - Lokomotivführer
14. the Foundry Field Recordings - Buried Beneath the Winter Frames
15. R.E.M. - Shaking Through
16. Club 8 - We're Simple Minds
17. the Fab Five Inc. - Love Me For A Reason
18. Lily Allen - LDN
19. Still Flyin - M'stery Tent
20. Pelle Carlberg - Clever Girls Like Clever Boys Much More Than Clever Boys Like Clever Girls
21. Oneida - Turn It Up (Loud)

1. In two words, explain what ended your last relationship?
I don't have a last relationship.

2. When was the last time you shaved?
a couple days ago

3. What were you doing this morning at 8am?
toasting challah, making coffee

4. What were you doing 15 minutes ago?
getting into work

5. Are you any good at math?
I can't remember.
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1 What are your siblings' middle names?

Eliza

2. Where is your dad right now?

Last I heard, in Connecticut

3. What was the last thing you said?

Bye!

4. What is something you've learned recently?

Having cataloged a few art books of erotic Greek vase paintings lately, I have learned that people have been doing all sorts of sexy things - that are not just put-tab-A-in-slot-B - together for a very, very long time.

5. What color is your watch?

I don't have a watch.
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I have started up a new blog and will be shuttering my old one. I will also likely post my songs of the day over there as well, rather than here.

New blog:
http://everywhichway.wordpress.com/

I'm on an Aislers Set kick. I saw them a few times when I was living in Berkeley, not really ever by design, it's just that they played support for a lot of bands I went to see. I once got a ride home from Popscene with Naomi from Mod Lang Records, two mod guys, and Amy Linton. I didn't know any of them really, but I was blown away with how "cool" they were. I was 18, young, naive, etc. I didn't know who Amy was, that she'd already had a mildly successful band, Henry's Dress. I just knew that I saw her everywhere - she is quite distinctive looking. When I saw them open for Gorky's Zygotic Mynci at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, I finally realized, "Oh, this is the band I've been seeing play around town." I already had some of their releases, just wasn't hooked into the scene enough to put two and two together. They played a nice set, with a full band (in the beginning it had just been Amy), and a huge crowd watching.

And the whole point of this post is that I was browsing through the list of previous shows on their website, and I remembered I'd seen them play the night Gorky's played (March 19th, 2000). But what I didn't remember at all was that GRANDADDY played that night as well. Sean told me this a few months ago when I was lamenting I would never see Grandaddy play (band's split up now), he said, you DID see them. Sadly, I think during the Grandaddy set we were STANDING OUTSIDE on the tiny back patio, chatting, drinking and smoking. What the hell.

Club 8 - "We're Simple Minds"

It's a song from Johan Angergard's "main" band (yes, he of both The Legends and Acid House Kings). I'm beefing up on my Swedish pop again.

This song makes me think of Alicia - she was too well-read.

I spent 5 days in New Orleans recently.

First, the social aspects:

-- Friday night I met up with Niamh and Allison at Pat O'Brien's in the midst of two librarian socials. We saw other people we knew, but then headed off to a well-needed dinner at Angeli's, on Decatur St. We had a delightful pizza and salad. Then we went to a bar called dba in the Faubourg Marigny. The Marigny is my new favorite part of New Orleans. This bar dba had an incredible selection of liquors and beers, at great prices, yet the bar was slick and homey at the same time. If only we had a bar like that in town. Suitably liquored up, we braced ourselves for a walk down Bourbon Street, which is an experience I would find horrifying while completely sober, but after a few drinks I just managed to gaze quizzically at it and chuckle a bit to myself. Here's a less-than-flattering picture of me with the always photogenic Niamh, taken by Allison, in which it is obvious that someone has already started drinking on an empty stomach. And it was really hot too.

-- Saturday night I met up with a long-time Internet acquaintance, K. who I'd never met in real life before, and her friend Sophie at the Carousel (I think it was called?), a bar in the Hotel Monteleone that spins around very slowly. We sat at the bar and it creeped around 5 times or so, after which Sophie went to a meeting, and K. and I went to....MOD DANCE PARTY!!!! at the Circle Bar, which is a funny little bar in a funny little lopsided house, totally out of place, on Lee Circle. I'd seen it before many a time, going by on the St. Charles Streetcar, and wondered about it. It was quite possibly the best dance party EVER. We arrived around 10:30, and sat at the bar and chatted for a while before people started filtering in. We met one of the DJs and his librarian wife. We danced in the steamy heat of too many bodies in a not-cooled enough room, sweat sliding down my legs, to the awesome sounds of non-stop 60s rock music. We met two other librarians. We danced some more. And danced and danced. And kept on dancing. A few people asked us, "Are you...librarians?" Ha ha. Because apparently it's obvious. I heard that the party went on until 5 in the morning, but we left shortly after two. My bag was soaked with beer. That'll teach me to leave things on the floor. Everyone there was so friendly and welcoming. I frequently used to feel quite nervous meeting people I've never met before, but now it's so easy, and everyone is awesome and so much fun. Apparently someone else who knows someone who I know (I think???) was also there. I wish I'd met them too. Meeting people is easy.

-- Sunday night I stopped in for appetizers at a library school alumni reception which was sort of dull. I did not win any raffle prizes, but chatted with a few people I hadn't seen in a while. Then Niamh, Todd, Jessica Z., and I went out for dinner. Along the way we stopped at a street corner to watch a lively, not at all cheesy band play stomping jazz, of the sort that I actually like. Loud, exuberant, lots of horns, people dancing in the street. We ate in the Marigny. We ran into the DJ from the night before on the street corner and chatted. He showed me even more unflattering photos of myself dancing, on his digital camera. (I should not let anyone come near me with a digital camera in such ungodly hot climates.) We said goodbye and got dinner at Adolfo's, a fantastic Italian place above a bar. We shared two bottles of excellent Chianti, lovely conversation, and I had a steak. The heat got even hotter and we walked to Cafe du Monde and got beignets and coffee. I will never get used to sweat dripping down my body like that. The beignets were fantastic. I saw a gigantic cockroach, flying. *shudder*

-- No social life Sunday night. Ate dinner, packed, flipped between a show about house hunting on HGTV (?) and rap/hip-hop videos on MTV2 for a while, went to sleep.

I feel so bad I just spammed a bunch of Internet stuff with this, but I am so excited about this show I can barely stand it and want EVERYONE to come see them play.



Acid House Kings
with the Legends

Friday, July 7, 10 PM
Raleigh Music Hall

Two of the best Swedish bands. Please come!
http://www.myspace.com/acidhousekings

( Friday Random Ten )

Still Flyin' - "M'stery Tent"

Oh, this is fun, indie pop/rock/reggage/Idon'tknowwhat. Their echoey saxophones sound like they pulled them out of the same barrel from which Love Is All got theirs. This sounds like a great summer dancing song.

Their myspace has the song.

R.E.M. "Shaking Through"

This might just be my very favorite R.E.M. song.

I thought about this album cover all last winter and the winter before that, as I drove past large expanses of dead brown kudzu tangled up upon it's self, hanging limply over wires and poles.

I have a vox account now. Does anyone else? Also, the other blog isn't working well again, so I'm likely going to jump ship to some other service. Any recommendations?

Another picture I liked a lot, posted to Flickr.

Pelle Carlberg - "Clever Girls Like Clever Boys Much More Than Clever Boys Like Clever Girls"

The title says it all.

It is downloadable from his website, and the song has much in the way of handclaps.

Fun fact - Pelle Carlberg apparently has four children.

( la la la, I don't have anything I want to say right now, so I answer questions )

I've become oddly un-self-reflective the past few days. It's nice.