holy crap, has it really been a year since the last time i posted? woah. i should clear the cobwebs. maybe a new mixtape on the horizon.
03/28/2011
03/30/2010
every time i remove someone from my facebook feed for only posting farmville/mafia wars/school of wizardry crap, i feel like i should be adding them to a list and making some kind of poignant oscar death-montage slideshow at the end of the year.
03/23/2010
new mixtape: potpourri for $800, alex
download (separate tracks) (69:00, 112mb zip)
download (single mp3 mix) (69:00, 94mb zip)
ok, folks, your guess is as good as mine on this one. there’s no particular theme here, and the genres range from europop to indie to off-the-beaten-path hip hop to new funk to whatever it is that blends lo-fi and dance. call it a grab bag…a smorgasbord…a what-have-you: it’s basically all the earworms i’ve been meaning to put together into a mixtape for the last few months (and also not coincidentally includes two female artists on whom i have newfound crushes). yeah, yeah - there’s some tracks here that are months and months old (and gasp! some even years), but i always go on the principle that even though there gonna be cats much hipper than me there’s also someone out there who hasn’t heard at least a couple of these and gets into ‘em. so, as always: listen, learn, love, and spread the word. or don’t. do what you want.
01 sleigh bells - crown on the ground
02 blakroc - coochie
blakroc
amazon
03 matt & kim - good ol fashion nightmare
grand
amazon
——> bonus video!
04 marina and the diamonds - i am not a robot
the family jewels
amazon
——> bonus video!
05 breakstra - posed to be
dusk till dawn
amazon
06 peter gabriel - games without frontiers (team9 remix)
07 grizzly bear - two weeks
veckatimest
amazon
08 hot chip - one life stand
one life stand
amazon
09 galactic - dark water
ya-ka-may
amazon
10 veronica maggio - måndagsbarn
och vinnaren är…
itunes
11 erik sumo band - show me the light
the trouble soup
amazon
12 we were promised jetpacks - quiet little voices
these four walls
amazon
13 the heavy - sixteen
the house that dirt built
amazon
14 the slew - shackled soul
100percent
15 cœur de pirate - comme des enfants
cœur de pirate
amazon
——> bonus video!
16 frankel - anonymity is the new fame
anonymity is the new fame
amazon
17 kitty, daisy & lewis - (baby) hold me tight
kitty, daisy & lewis
amazon
12/07/2009
december 10 is a thursday kkthxbye
“Subject: This Wednesday December 10”
“Message: …you should all be there this Saturday December 10…”
it takes a special kind of disregard for reality to be able to send out an email like that.
08/19/2009
We know nothing of each other. We are each trapped in our own mental world where we can only bump up against other people, but never truly touch them. We see others only through the lens of our own experience, prejudices and psychology. Every interaction between people is just two alien civilizations trying to communicate without knowing the other’s language or even what type of life form the other is. We are trapped in our own heads sending out signals saying “I need validation or comfort or recognition” and the person we are talking to is standing next to us sending out those very same signals, but they can’t understand ours and we can’t understand theirs. Friends and loved ones are those whom have recognized this fact and know they can safely ignore each other.
08/12/2009
Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder’s welcome.
