insomnia must be a monday disease.

chromatics - running up that hill

insomnia

radiohead - videotape

we went to deerhoof last thurs and it was the best thing that's happened in months. high-five to those guys for picking up ed rodriguez because they crush as a four piece—though good for the curtains too, who was their old fourth. third time for me and maybe best. it definitely rivals their show in brooklyn i saw some years back. if they're coming to your town and you like pure joy, i recommend going there.

plus, get their new album, offend maggie, where this song is from that they opened the show with, and i thought appropriate, having come from a utjzz pre-season, and yes, the shirt is from the last album, which also i like.

deerhoof - basketball get your groove back

Dear Dow,

Looks like we're back in business.

Not holding my breath,
Michelle

melodious. good luck on all your dates this weekend, guys.

vivian girls - where do you run

En Melody - Serge Gainsbourg

Weird sexy giggle lady. Serge Gainsbourg must be hilarious.

I have one thing to say about Kate Bush...



hooray!

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.