spencer kingman - aljazeera

rain runner, necktie needer, darkroom dweller, a fine musician amongst things.

I've lost count of how many hours I spent today watching back episodes of 24. I feel bad about myself as a person when I start to think of watching 12 episodes of one tv show as an accomplishment worthy of any sort of praise. I like to think of this as a song you can listen to when you start to look back on your life and think "wtf?" The change toward the end makes it all worth while.

Grizzly Bear - Fix It

Panda Bear - Take Pills

I don't have anything to say. I just like this. A lot.

pretty persuasion - r.e.m.

i'm exploring my back catalogue. great song.

Happy VD all. Here's a list of songs for you to make love to your lover to. I know that last one doesn't really fit, but I don't have a sneakier way to let the internet know that it's my birthday today too.

Karl Blau - Ode To Demons

The Shivers - Beauty

Darondo - Didn't I?

The Free Design - Michelle

carrie underwood - jesus take the wheel

i can't even write about this right now.

please, please listen. books will be written about why this song is important. remind me to have a conversation with you about it.

Hand claps. Hand claps are an ok thing. These songs seem to use them well.

Tokyo Police Club - Citizens of Tomorrow

Fujiya and Miyagi - Collarbone

many rivers to cross - jimmy cliff

if you ask me how i'm doing these days, this is near.

i unsucessfully watched the harder they come recently without subtitles.

Incorporating a lisp into your speech simply because the king has one is just plain foolish. We all know that. So the fact that they even pronounce "Barcelona" incorrectly is a dead give away. They're not from Spain at all. Damned liars. Were they from the great city they would pronouce it BarTHelona, but you know what, I'm glad they dont. Give it up already, Spain.

This is a happy bit that sounds like the Polyphonic Spree, maybe with the cult-ish thing toned down a few notches. Listening to this song I was struck by one thought...I think Lee the Douche is really going to like this one. Here you go, man.

I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona

I'm a girl, and thus, am hardly impervious to cute girl voices. Feist, Mirah, whatever you got, I'll listen to it. I'll probably sing along to it, alone, in my car, and dream of being up there on stage with that lilting alto easing out of me. That wishing-i-were-something-i'm-not paired with my recently discovered penchant for playing the air piano have earned this song innumerable plays.

Casey Dienel - Doctor Monroe

gonna find you - operation ivy

this record is skipping class, mountain dew, the basement, cruising the 'stang, and losing too many dollars to matt at tetris. 16 wasn't so bad.

take warning - operation ivy

This seems like a song Lou Reed would've appreciated if he'd been knocking about in a late 1970's Cambridge. I like when Hitchcock ask if I "would care for a lump of steak?".

The Soft Boys - I Got The Hots

yojimbo (titles) - masaru satoh

possibly the most astonshing and appropriate theme from any movie i've ever seen. someone once asked me what song i'd want to play everytime i walked into a room. one worthy day, i hope it will be this song.

i love this still of mifune from the film. so fantastic.
























special thanks to dinosaurgardens for fielding a fine site and posting many treasures like this one.

I've noticed recently that my subconscious mind is far more interesting than my conscious one. After weeks of being plagued by nightmares and anxiousness, I've been blessed with some really creative, sweet dreams involving a theme park called Dr. Pepper Land, rollerskating with Mike Kelly, Mexico, and a picture book called Mean Serpents. May the good dream luck continue.

Saturday Looks Good To Me - Cant Ever Sleep

The Donkeys - In The Morning

I've a sneaking suspicion that I wont be the only person posting this song this week. Hope you had a very merry christmas, audience, and a happy New Years.

i finished college this morning. i slapped my last ever final in the face of my elderly instructor, pushed in my ear buds and walked out into today's sharp december. dropping away from the curb, this track shuffled up my tunes and it sounded the way i feel.

mazarin - at 12 to 6

What blog would be complete without a post about Leonard Cohen? Is there one on here already? I don't even know anymore. At any rate, I think this song is very good. And I think he looks like cool in that picture. I don't know what cool is anymore though, as I was lovingly told by my 16 year old volunteer at work today when I asked her if she'd rather listen to classical, christmas music, or npr.

Anyway, Leonard...

Leonard Cohen - Lover

if only i'd seen
them off the screen

one day.

hella - post-ivy league depression

Fa alala la, la la la la.

CSS - Alala

apologies for the drought. i would have posted sooner had i not broke both my shins a shakin.


















the shadows of knight - shake