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Thursday, February 7, 2008
Don't Let It Get You Down
This week's mix is inspired by my love/loathe of Indiana winters. There are warm living rooms, warm bars, and warm tunes - but dang it I need some sun. The first track is by a dude named Dick Plydor. This tune will melt the winter of your heart and make you wish that you were planning some summer mischief. It is from a radio station's compilation of Greasy RocknRoll. I'll throw up a link in the sidebar. Another track to mention is #8 by Sleep. This, if you don't remember, was the song playing while the two kids in Gummo are riding their bikes like badasses with bb guns in hand.
The rest are just plain rad tracks. I included a suh-weeeet and very brief track of thrash punk by Jerry's Kids which I think adds a little kick to this mix.
I hope you download and enjoy another warm batch of tunes painstakingly arranged by yours truly. All of these songs have brightened up my February.
Link to grab the mix: Here
1. Samoa - Dick Plydor
2. Everywhere with Helicopter - Guided by Voices
3. Planes Crashing - My Dad is Dead
4. Dragonaut - Sleep (Gummo Soundtrack)
5. Tragic Carpet Ride - Polvo
6. Girl - Danzig
7. Only Two - Skip Godspeed
8. Some Grass - Sleep (Gummo Soundtrack)
9. Ruby, Are You Mad? - The Osbourne Bros.
10. The Big Picture - My Dad is Dead
11. Wax - Haymarket Riot
12. The Days Go By, But He's Old - Continental Divide
13. Uncontrollable - Jerry's Kids
14. Jesus Loves Me - Gummo Soundtrack
15. **BONUS** Running With The Devil - David Lee Roth VOCAL ONLY TRACK!!! (Try doing reverse karaoke).
PS: I started trying to write everyday again. I'm gonna post bits here. Dig. Fiction.
Penelope felt as if her days began and ended on the escalators. She didn't even completely wake up until she was killing the last swig of a cup of coffee midway up to housewares – trying to fix her hair in a mirrored wall before reaching the top. The smell of fine perfume, leather handbags, and Yankee candles lulled her into a complacent and dull existence behind the cash register for eight hours of work. And then she rode the escalator back down with the other ladies who made funny old lady jokes about customers and bid each other goodnight. The job was okay.
After “taking a semester off from college,” Penelope hoped that a department store job might carry a certain amount of young female prestige. It wasn't grocery store or a burger joint; it was a store in the mall that carries better to fine merchandise. And it was staffed mainly by women, divorcees and widows mostly. Penelope found a certain comfort in them, in their presence and conversations about simple things like sheets and recipes. She had grown up around older women – her great grandmother, grandmother, mother, and all their friends. They had always taught Penelope things, fawned over her hair, and loved her. Then they all started to die, her mother last summer – and the rest became estranged. These things change as one gets older, or at least thats what Penelope told herself. She bought a pretty costume jewelry diamond ring from the flea market and wore it to work to show to them.
Outside of work, without slacks and blouses and rings, Penelope was a punk rocker. She didn't kick in skulls or throw beer bottles at cops. But she did download rare, out of print 7”inches and boasted a fairly vast and eclectic knowledge of rock (and early rap) music. Penelope decided that she was a punk rocker because of her attitude and her unequivocal love for Shellac, Fugazi, and The Pixies to name a few. But since last summer, when both her mom died and she got the job, she had mainly been listening to The Smiths, Belle and Sebastian, and Neil Young. Sonic Youth on Sundays. It was only when she was drunk that Black Flag seemed appropriate – but no one else wanted to hear it because Penelope didn't really have any punk rock friends. Most of her friends listed to crappy Pop and her boyfriend was in a bluegrass phase. Penelope liked Bluegrass okay - but it started to sound like rattling tinfoil after a while.
The rest are just plain rad tracks. I included a suh-weeeet and very brief track of thrash punk by Jerry's Kids which I think adds a little kick to this mix.
I hope you download and enjoy another warm batch of tunes painstakingly arranged by yours truly. All of these songs have brightened up my February.
Link to grab the mix: Here
1. Samoa - Dick Plydor
2. Everywhere with Helicopter - Guided by Voices
3. Planes Crashing - My Dad is Dead
4. Dragonaut - Sleep (Gummo Soundtrack)
5. Tragic Carpet Ride - Polvo
6. Girl - Danzig
7. Only Two - Skip Godspeed
8. Some Grass - Sleep (Gummo Soundtrack)
9. Ruby, Are You Mad? - The Osbourne Bros.
10. The Big Picture - My Dad is Dead
11. Wax - Haymarket Riot
12. The Days Go By, But He's Old - Continental Divide
13. Uncontrollable - Jerry's Kids
14. Jesus Loves Me - Gummo Soundtrack
15. **BONUS** Running With The Devil - David Lee Roth VOCAL ONLY TRACK!!! (Try doing reverse karaoke).
PS: I started trying to write everyday again. I'm gonna post bits here. Dig. Fiction.
Penelope felt as if her days began and ended on the escalators. She didn't even completely wake up until she was killing the last swig of a cup of coffee midway up to housewares – trying to fix her hair in a mirrored wall before reaching the top. The smell of fine perfume, leather handbags, and Yankee candles lulled her into a complacent and dull existence behind the cash register for eight hours of work. And then she rode the escalator back down with the other ladies who made funny old lady jokes about customers and bid each other goodnight. The job was okay.
After “taking a semester off from college,” Penelope hoped that a department store job might carry a certain amount of young female prestige. It wasn't grocery store or a burger joint; it was a store in the mall that carries better to fine merchandise. And it was staffed mainly by women, divorcees and widows mostly. Penelope found a certain comfort in them, in their presence and conversations about simple things like sheets and recipes. She had grown up around older women – her great grandmother, grandmother, mother, and all their friends. They had always taught Penelope things, fawned over her hair, and loved her. Then they all started to die, her mother last summer – and the rest became estranged. These things change as one gets older, or at least thats what Penelope told herself. She bought a pretty costume jewelry diamond ring from the flea market and wore it to work to show to them.
Outside of work, without slacks and blouses and rings, Penelope was a punk rocker. She didn't kick in skulls or throw beer bottles at cops. But she did download rare, out of print 7”inches and boasted a fairly vast and eclectic knowledge of rock (and early rap) music. Penelope decided that she was a punk rocker because of her attitude and her unequivocal love for Shellac, Fugazi, and The Pixies to name a few. But since last summer, when both her mom died and she got the job, she had mainly been listening to The Smiths, Belle and Sebastian, and Neil Young. Sonic Youth on Sundays. It was only when she was drunk that Black Flag seemed appropriate – but no one else wanted to hear it because Penelope didn't really have any punk rock friends. Most of her friends listed to crappy Pop and her boyfriend was in a bluegrass phase. Penelope liked Bluegrass okay - but it started to sound like rattling tinfoil after a while.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Brown and Yellow Snow
Oh man. This week's mix is as eclectic as it is inspired. I mean, this is the golden stuff - not quite super-kitschy but totally fresh shit you probably have not pressed your ears against. Here are the tracks.
Brown and Yellow Snow - Warm Tunes for January 2008
1. Yi Ma - Speedking
2. Bought Your Weight - Haymarket Riot
3. Ever - Flipper
4. Frozen Gtr - Thurston Moore
5. Lovin in the Red - Theoretical Girls
6. Colonel Mustard - Thee Cybermen
7. Eleanor Rigby - Dick Hyman
8. City 2000 A.D. - Beat Girl (From the soundtrack to Beat Girl the movie)
9. Va Va Voom - Low Flying Owls
10. Nazi Apocalypse - Simply Saucer
11. Sleeping Gas - Teardrop Explodes
12. Daddy Love - The Trashwomen
13. Tragedy - The Wipers
Get the mix here. For help with this (downloading, unRARing, etc) - please google, drop me a line in the comments, or check out some of the links.
So, as you see, there aren't too many things linking these tracks together. But, like always, my numbering of the tracks is painstakingly deliberate. I'm not saying that you always have to listen to my mixes in order, but if you do, then you might appreciate the arrangements. I guess this week's mix is inspired by my lo-fi and dreary-eyed experience in another Indiana winter. I think there is a subtle tone to this mix that echoes the raw cough of January - and fuck it anyways. I'm on a warm couch in an afghan tent.
To wet your whistle (or is it "wh-et, whhhh-et"), I'll tell you about the track by Thee Cyberment. This is off of a compilation called Hour of the Gun, an Italian Surf/Trash/Western compilation. This is some rad surf - not the same ol' North American stuff (Shadowy Men, etc) which is okay but, well, just gets to be monotonous musically. You can buy this album and a not more of Spaghetti Western/surf/trash at http://www.onemilliondollarrecords.de/
The Thurston Moore song is off of his new solo album, Trees of the University. I have not seen too many mentionings of this album around the internet - but I find it to be a solid and lovely album. You don't have to be a Sonic Youth freak to appreciate the richness of this guitar-driven daydream. This album may not be lo-fi in production, but seamless mixing doesn't contradict Moore's basic punk-rock aesthetics towards music itself.
Simply Saucer is a great underground find from the annals of deep-cut history. From the website Epitonic
"If you're a serious afficionado of underground rock music history, hearing Simply Saucer for the first time borders on the miraculous, perhaps just a notch down from Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. Their music was the offspring of the dense, abrasive, streetwise proto-punk of The Stooges' Funhouse and The Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat, the proto-metal crunch of The Kinks at their very loudest, the moody and ethereal intricacy of early Pink Floyd, and the huge, hypnotic electronics-laden grooves of Can. They also added a brilliant sci-fi element, offering lyrics about cyborgs and metalloid bodies while making ample use of the theremin and loopy sound generators -- in addition to their potent dual guitar attack and ferocious runaway rhythm section."
Then there is the Trashwomen. This all female trash/garage/surf band originated in San Francisco in 1991. They put out a few records, a few splits, and were on several trash/surf comps. Very lo-fi and high-awesome.
The rest of the bands are fairly recognizable - so I'll spare you the Dr.Bullshit-music info. Download, enjoy, and check back for more Warm Tunes.
And if you dig it - drop me a line in the comments baby.
Monday, January 7, 2008
A prompt: from my myspace blog
Because soon the internet as we know it, have come to love it, will be no more. Overdramatic? Paranoid? You bet. And all for good reason. I'm not going to try and pretend that I completely grasp the whole "net neutrality," debate. I understand that at the very core, though, the very fact that we are debating whether the four major media corporations should get to decide who gets what content for what price is, well, its a bad sign. A sign saying "we've almost figured out how to control every virtual blip and boop."
But that really isn't what this blog is about. It is about you and me and the fact that thousands of resources for the free and abundant exchange of information and media and ideas exists right now - and most of us barely learn how to harness this power that is
THE FUCKING INTERNET!
Sure I think things get censored, search results bought, search engines controlled for profit - but the fact that millions upon millions of users are constantly on their fat-watch-dog-asses, sniffing out bullshit and calling it out immediately----FUCKING AMAZING CYBER-ANARCHY!!!
And the hilarious part is THEY created US. We're sheparded to the shiney, gleaming, flashing distractions: except now they are interactive. Television be damned, I'll watch videos online and leave a shitty comment right below it. When was the last time you flipped across Scrubs on TBS and thought, "if this is whats funny, I'd like to shoot myself in the face." Well, if you'd seen that clip on youtube or some other more obscure video player - you could leave that thought right under the video. Immediate participatory entertainment.
Dang, this didn't start off as a late night rant - but the dork-orific passion just creeps up with a little Lambrusco.
Okay, what this is REALLY about is my love of piracy and all that it heeds, represents, and uncovers. But its really dangerous, right? Well, sort of. It is getting more press as far as arrests and shut-outs. But piracy is the potsmoking of cyberspace: everyone does it, and everyone who does it knows that it really should be okay....unless you get into dealing, selling, etc. Eh, anyhow - with major sites like the almighty OINKME going down, this shit is getting hairy.
Should that stop you?
Fuck no!!!
So it isn't as easy as clicking a file and hoping it isn't the NSA or RIAA. You just have to search out the tricks.
First I tried a proxy. That was complicated and didn't seem foolproof. Then I tried PEERGUARDIAN but got paranoid about it and again - I didn't really get how it would cover my ass. (These are all cautions taken in regards to torrents, mind you)
So really, I say get out of the neighborhood where all the crime is if you don't want to get caught. Get into the suburbs of Blogs and Directories. Below is a great video explaining a little bit about what I mean.
Here is another way to use search engines - but it is made completely simple. Just click on either firfox or ie and use the search window that pops up to search for any music! Svens Blog!!!!!
Totally fuzzy has made this search engine that searches music blogs that put up mp3s. The blogs included in the search are all willing to be a part of the search.
Totally fuzzy search engine
Okay so there are a few things to learn once you start locating these files of songs and/or albums or whatever. Some of them come in zip files or rars. These are just compressed files - like wrapping your mp3s up in one of those vaccum sealers. You just need WINRAR or something similar to get them out. If the program confuses you - just drag and drop the file onto the program window and hit "extract."
Some of them are hosted on weird download sites.
Some of them use passwords.
I mean, you kind of have to learn by trial and error and asking questions/researching. But its worth it! When I actually put together a stellar mix of rad shit that you'd never heard and never would have - its because awesome ppl on the net have made it available and I've figured out how to get it! So far, I've heard of NO cases of ppl getting in trouble for downloading files this way....but it won't be long.
Its just too fucking rad for it not to get fucked up - so learn it, try it, and enjoy it while you can.
Dude, I have not typed that much alllllll year. Maybe I can turn this in as an essay? If this shed any light for you, please comment and feel free to ask me any questions.
But that really isn't what this blog is about. It is about you and me and the fact that thousands of resources for the free and abundant exchange of information and media and ideas exists right now - and most of us barely learn how to harness this power that is
THE FUCKING INTERNET!
Sure I think things get censored, search results bought, search engines controlled for profit - but the fact that millions upon millions of users are constantly on their fat-watch-dog-asses, sniffing out bullshit and calling it out immediately----FUCKING AMAZING CYBER-ANARCHY!!!
And the hilarious part is THEY created US. We're sheparded to the shiney, gleaming, flashing distractions: except now they are interactive. Television be damned, I'll watch videos online and leave a shitty comment right below it. When was the last time you flipped across Scrubs on TBS and thought, "if this is whats funny, I'd like to shoot myself in the face." Well, if you'd seen that clip on youtube or some other more obscure video player - you could leave that thought right under the video. Immediate participatory entertainment.
Dang, this didn't start off as a late night rant - but the dork-orific passion just creeps up with a little Lambrusco.
Okay, what this is REALLY about is my love of piracy and all that it heeds, represents, and uncovers. But its really dangerous, right? Well, sort of. It is getting more press as far as arrests and shut-outs. But piracy is the potsmoking of cyberspace: everyone does it, and everyone who does it knows that it really should be okay....unless you get into dealing, selling, etc. Eh, anyhow - with major sites like the almighty OINKME going down, this shit is getting hairy.
Should that stop you?
Fuck no!!!
So it isn't as easy as clicking a file and hoping it isn't the NSA or RIAA. You just have to search out the tricks.
First I tried a proxy. That was complicated and didn't seem foolproof. Then I tried PEERGUARDIAN but got paranoid about it and again - I didn't really get how it would cover my ass. (These are all cautions taken in regards to torrents, mind you)
So really, I say get out of the neighborhood where all the crime is if you don't want to get caught. Get into the suburbs of Blogs and Directories. Below is a great video explaining a little bit about what I mean.
Here is another way to use search engines - but it is made completely simple. Just click on either firfox or ie and use the search window that pops up to search for any music! Svens Blog!!!!!
Totally fuzzy has made this search engine that searches music blogs that put up mp3s. The blogs included in the search are all willing to be a part of the search.
Totally fuzzy search engine
Okay so there are a few things to learn once you start locating these files of songs and/or albums or whatever. Some of them come in zip files or rars. These are just compressed files - like wrapping your mp3s up in one of those vaccum sealers. You just need WINRAR or something similar to get them out. If the program confuses you - just drag and drop the file onto the program window and hit "extract."
Some of them are hosted on weird download sites.
Some of them use passwords.
I mean, you kind of have to learn by trial and error and asking questions/researching. But its worth it! When I actually put together a stellar mix of rad shit that you'd never heard and never would have - its because awesome ppl on the net have made it available and I've figured out how to get it! So far, I've heard of NO cases of ppl getting in trouble for downloading files this way....but it won't be long.
Its just too fucking rad for it not to get fucked up - so learn it, try it, and enjoy it while you can.
Dude, I have not typed that much alllllll year. Maybe I can turn this in as an essay? If this shed any light for you, please comment and feel free to ask me any questions.
To punk to Stumble
It is weird to stumble to the end of a cyber-universe, but indeed, I did. For those of you familiar with stumble and do so on a regular basis - make sure to thumb-up and review your favorite punk rock sites, because there are not near enough crawled.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Your car's heater may not work - but your stereo still does.
This round-up of songs is directly inspired by my holiday experiences with my boyfriend's family's celebrations. It was a long day of driving down desolate stretches of dead Indiana landscape; it seemed as if we were driving perpetually into the bright, cold sun. From Muncie to Lapel - from Lapel to Alexandria - then to Anderson, the hub of us all. We ate ham and chili at Jim's brother's house. We stopped in and visited his sulking dad who is going through a divorce and staying at his mother's old house. It seemed extra lonely considering his mother doesn't live there anymore but did leave a subway-sized picture of cherubs above the couch to keep watch. He handed Jim a package of socks but declined coming over to eat with the family.
The holidays seem to exacerbate any turmoil: divorce, death, money problems. The glow of an xmas tree seems sick and foreboding to someone down on their luck.
I look over at Jim sometimes and feel nervously lucky that we love each other so much and that the best thing about the holidays is going home together. I want to hold him and tell him that he'll never have to sit alone on xmas - writing names and putting bows on packages of socks for kids he never sees.
There were highlights, though. Meeting Jim's sister's new boyfriend: a cussin, smokin, ponytail-sportin sonofabitch who relayed a story about a cat that pissed on his firewood. And there was stopping by Jim's Grandma's house across the street from the 4h fairgrounds. The whole house is covered in angels and doilies and was so warm and comfortable that I fell asleep.
And for a little holiday reflection - download this 8 track mix of wintery blended songs for those lonely drives home. Cause your heater doesn't work - but your stereo still does.
Get the mix here, dude.
Track List
1 Cat Power
2 Dyckman and James
3 Magik Markers
4 The Features
5 John Lennon - Mother
6 Modest Mouse
7. R.L. Crutchfield's Dark Day
8 Thurston Moore
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Merry or not, its Christmas.
Hey everybody. A few dozen months have passed since my last stellar mix, but I'm back with a holiday treat. As you drive from store to store, maxing your credit cards and sipping hot coffee, listen to this! Sure to get you in the mood, this eclectic Christmas card mixtape is full of jolly shock and holy awwwwe. Seriously, this stuff is grade A holiday raddness. Come and get it.
For those of you new to the whole "sharity-blog," deal - here is how it works: First thing, you need to get winrar.
Now, click here, and click on one of the download options. Rapidshare is the fastest but you have to wait for a few seconds "in line." Once you get the download window to pop up, just hit "save to disk." Once it downloads, it will look like a little stack of books
Then, drag that little stack of books onto the winrar program. Hit extract, ok, and it should appear on your desktop. It sounds harder than it is. Seriously, it is worth the couple of steps. Again, start here, .
Album Art to look at and enjoy
1. Ambassador - Christmas Rush
2. Mike Sammes Singers - Carol of the Bells Medley
3. Living Strings and Living Voices - My Favorite Things
4. Buzz of Delight - Christmas
5. Robert Way Orchestra - Sleighride
6. Tammy Faye Baker - O Come All Ye Faithful
7. Three Wisemen - Thanks for Christmas
8. Barbara Morgenstern - White Christmas
9. Mike Sames Singers - Do You Hear What I hear
10. Robert Way Orchestra - Jingle Bells
11. Loretta Lynn - Country Christmas
12. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
13. 101 Strings - Hark the Herald Angel
14. Judy Garland - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Well, I hope you dig it. Hit me with a comment if you listen and love it (or hate it). Make copies and give them to friends or cats. Then check back - cause I'm comin atcha with mo'.
For those of you new to the whole "sharity-blog," deal - here is how it works: First thing, you need to get winrar.
Now, click here, and click on one of the download options. Rapidshare is the fastest but you have to wait for a few seconds "in line." Once you get the download window to pop up, just hit "save to disk." Once it downloads, it will look like a little stack of books
Then, drag that little stack of books onto the winrar program. Hit extract, ok, and it should appear on your desktop. It sounds harder than it is. Seriously, it is worth the couple of steps. Again, start here, .
Album Art to look at and enjoy
1. Ambassador - Christmas Rush
2. Mike Sammes Singers - Carol of the Bells Medley
3. Living Strings and Living Voices - My Favorite Things
4. Buzz of Delight - Christmas
5. Robert Way Orchestra - Sleighride
6. Tammy Faye Baker - O Come All Ye Faithful
7. Three Wisemen - Thanks for Christmas
8. Barbara Morgenstern - White Christmas
9. Mike Sames Singers - Do You Hear What I hear
10. Robert Way Orchestra - Jingle Bells
11. Loretta Lynn - Country Christmas
12. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
13. 101 Strings - Hark the Herald Angel
14. Judy Garland - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Well, I hope you dig it. Hit me with a comment if you listen and love it (or hate it). Make copies and give them to friends or cats. Then check back - cause I'm comin atcha with mo'.
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