It's a rare song that makes you think "yeah...I should really do that". The advice Prototokyo gives us in this one is something I plan on taking to heart.

Prototokyo - Bananas Du Brasil

(Also, the image search for Prototokyo was boring so here's a picture of Danny being force-fed a chip.)

all over again - jay reatard

i like this much. very much.

this next track i dedicate to my blagmate, hoone.

fading all away - jay reatard

If you've ever wondered what the scariest f*&%ing song in the universe is...there's no need to ask yourself that any more.

Sunn O))) - It Took The Night To Believe

bibio - bewley in white

the mysteryes the summer portends.

I meant to post this song years ago. Sorry for making you wait.

Bonnie Prince Billy and Tortoise - Daniel

many of you are aware that i hate space. maybe it has to do with the everyday reality of the incomprehensible, or perhaps to do with my own expanding feelings of insignificance. for whatever reason, if i never had to think about outer space again, i'd name myself content.

i'm in love, however, with those early days of space exploration, when our ambitions reached hardly further than our own earth's orbit. i seeped more than one tear of joy last sundance in the shadow of the moon, and wished i'd been born sooner, when immediate space was ours and we spun rockets off this planet with glee-shouts and beaming optimism.

this track then is that: those innocent days, when the final frontier seemed not so very far away and we were the kings of our small universe.






















the tornados - telstar

some late summer night, when the highway's unfolding empty up ahead, turn this up, up and let the earth fall away beneath you.

Who doesn't love a good banjo?

Department of Eagles is the side project of Dan Rossen (from Grizzly Bear).

Department of Eagles - No One Does It Like You

Department of Eagles - Balmy Night

galveston - glen cambell

i'm half through vernon god little which is tremendous.

dee dee king - german kid

née ramone.

The other day, my roommate asked if I would rather go to hell or jail. It's suprising how difficult that question is to answer.

Link Wray - Fire and Brimstone

late for the sky - jackson browne

Manta Ray - The Godfather

Dear Terrence,

We still have to finish this.

Forever your co-author,
Hoon.

Ps. Thank you 1.618 for posting this originally.

rave on - buddy holly and the crickets

watched the buddy holly story again the other night. a favorite. look at it.

Subtle - Middleclass Haunt

This guy's a nut. Bad puns. Knives spliting open creepy mannequin heads on stage. The works. This song is filled out by Dan Boeckner, his Wolf Paradeness.

round 2













salt lake city - the dwarves

in the interest of fairness, a less flattering view. though, i suppose if i were the dwarves and my worldview necessitated constant abject debauchery, slc wouldn't be high on my list either.

salt lake city - the beach boys

home s. home.

Ferraby Lionheart - Before We're Dead

This should be your new favorite, if for no other reason than the sweet face he makes when he sings really high. It looks like he ate something sour then stuck his head out the window of a jet going at full speed.

the kinks - living on a thin line

what are the next 30 years?

Some truly amazing music was made in Brazil in the late 60's and early 70's. These songs are a sampling. The one little brother I have is about to spend his next two years in Brazil, so this post is for him.

Lula Côrtes & Zé Ramalho - Nas Paredes da Pedra Encantada, Os Segredos Talhados por Sumé

Joyce e Nelson Angelo - Vivo Ou Morto

Thank you's to Motel de Moka for leading me to these.

Feist - My Man My Moon

If you aren't still mushaboomed out, give ear to new Feist. A bouncey track.

The Veils - Advice For Young Mothers To Be

I have to admit that I partly just like the creepy undertones to the name "The Veils".

Goths.

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

I know they changed your life. I know they put a bunch of songs on that one movie Scrubsy McGardenstate. I even know that their second album was neatly wrapped poo. AND I know that you were disappointed when you listened to their second album and discovered that it was neatly wrapped poo because their first album really DID change your life and that blow caught you way off-guard. And I know that that scares you, scares you more than you will ever readily admit.

But this song's good.

The Shins - Sleeping Lessons

the monks - complication

the monks - monk time

a closer look

Noah Georgeson - Walking on Someone Else's Name

Noah Georgeson seems to be on top of the world these days. And by the world I mean Nevada City, CA. He's lent his name to The Pleased (with co-Californian Joanna Newsome) and a few other Nevada City projects that are beginning to get to gain momentum and spread east. This song comes from his solo effort, and is one of the best things I've heard on the blogs recently.

tonight, the underdog hawks face the cocksure miners in a bitter cross-valley grudge match for the 5A football state championship. it's been years and years since i strode those hallowed halls, but tonight, i'll don the black and silver and revel as the sacred strains of ac/dc shake the sheets at rice-eccles, confident in victory. as you enjoy this vid, peep the number on brian johnson's jersey.

AC/DC- Back in Black


lo, is it not the self-same 22 as alta's star tailback, s. shakerin?















who rocks the house? the hawks rock the house.

charles mingus - mood indigo

this tune is a rainy day sidewalk, a brushing windshield wiper. it's sadness, yes, but robust, fibrous sadness. comforting sadness. sadness that sits next to you on the porch swing and whispers, this too shall pass. and you, both of you, swing.

The Free Design is a very old act, but it's new to me. Elinita played them for me this evening and I thought to myself as I listened along "I like bands who concern themselves with the second coming of Christ". Its true, I like that quite a bit.

The Free Design - Bubbles

you ever have something in your tunes that you think is very good and then two years later you're listening to a shuffle and it comes on and all of a sudden it's the most brilliant thing that has ever occurred? sometimes that happens to me.

0078h - m83

So...anyone feel like doing the electric slide?

Georgie James - Need Your Needs