thanks be to b. howell for pointing me at this fleet foxes cover by stockholm kid group first aid kit. features a pleasing garfunklean harmony and happens in the woods where we'll agree most great things occur.

here's the original for those without:

fleet foxes - tiger mountain peasant song

i wanted to post just this video, because it's rather fantastic and i've always really liked the song. i could have done it too, with a dvd to which i have access, but i know the books are selling that dvd on their website and you should just buy it because the other videos are great too.

this performance started the best thing i saw in '06, despite being in the venue which is lousy and everybody should boycott.

anyways heritage.

I dont get sad about celeb deaths generally speaking, but i did get a little sad thinking about DFW. So that's been stuck in my head today. So has this song. I dont think the two really connect, but, well, who am i to say?

Os Mutantes - Baby

nothing even to say about this at all.

tom waits - lost at the bottom of the world (live)

This one employs a common theme in rap music: drugs. Also, I think the artist may have overdosed. You can read more about his mysterious death here.

Demon Attack - Alien Drugs

I apologize in advance for posting the low point of a man's career. I guess when you give up creative control, this is what you reap. But, it is a rap.

Brian Wilson - Smart Girls

And another.

The Velvet Underground - The Murder Mystery

another of my own favorite raps

this one is from the 80's

Sonic Youth - Master Dik (Beatbox Version)

Did you know that this is a rap song? A short search on the net and I come to find that the definition of rap leaves a lot of room open for interpretation. So for the next little while I'll be posting, for you, my own favorite rap songs.

Modest Mouse - Dirty Fingernails

angeles - elliott smith

wistful days, these. my 10 year high school reunion came and went and i didn't go. this song reminds me of then, long past. someone told me once the past is our own mythology and i think that's true. on a ride sunday night in my old hometown i passed the IFA and remembered once, about 13, riding my bmx fast back from the park. there's a tunnel housing the weigh station with tubes up above for the grain to fall and land and get weighed. coursing along, i felt i'd ride through it, a daring do. near the end, my eyes just adjusting to the dark of the tunnel, i see the chain stretched across the entrance, slack there, waiting to break my bones. eyes -> brain -> nerves -> muscles i slide back down over the seat, the rear tire buzzing my jeans, my eyes even with the handlebars... the chain barely rustles as my hair brushes under the links and i shoot out the other side like a rocket. unbroken, i never felt gladder to be alive and riding a bike than just then, my heart thumping grandly.

I've seen one movie twice this week.

Modest Mouse - Tundra/Desert

pavement - stop breathin

in my head

Panda Bear - Untitled

Dont ask me why it took me multiple years to post this. I couldn't answer that question.

darondo - didn't i

you said it, darondo.

never let down - andrew w.k.

now you're thinking, no no that is ridiculous. well, you are right it is, but can you say you've never let a friend down? that you haven't written them off when they've taken a bad turn? i certainly can't. so it's ridiculous, yes, but that's the kind of friend i want to have, and saying so makes me want to be that kind of friend to mine. fend-mencing.

I'm not sure what the lyrics say, but I think this song is probably about The Joker.

Can - Spoon

andrew w.k. - i get wet

an example of the the hard of his rock and maybe what i first liked. this particularly on my running mix is phenomenal. as soon as i hear those synth horns, i know that it is time to
step
ma
game
up.

and a cover of i ran across by jon sebastian. here, wif wife.

jon sebastian - i get wet

i'm always skeptical of hero worship. i think people use it as a crutch to get out of building their own identities. i am a fan of this musician or writer or film director, so you may take the attributes that i admire of them and please apply them to me. thank you.

that said, i'm a pretty silly fan of andrew w.k.

guy is a unabashed force of positivity and that's something i value and aspire to emulate (i'm rubbish at it). i lost track after i get wet and the wolf went by unnoticed by me. i picked up the thread again during his rash of motivational speaking dates and found his philosophical ramblings sound a lot like my philosophical ramblings, reading the same bullsh, buber, maslow, rogers, etc. since then i've padded the back-catalogue and am following close. i'm on the ship, wherever she sails.

i'll be doing a string of songs from him coming up, but i chose this one today to puzzle in with hoon's love theme and because it could be about a girl who lives in my building.

let's go on a date - andrew w.k.

Romance.

Animal Collective - Tikwid

saw reprise last night at the broadway for free money (thanks darlin) and it was about so many things. got nearly all of them right, including guys and how lovably awful we are. you must see this for hundreds of reasons one of is this scene:

deceptacon - le tigre