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Song(s) of the Day, 5/14/2011

I'm really shitty at dealing when dating situations start to go south. A couple of years ago, I met the guys in The Globes through a guy I was dating - they were young (not even 21!), they had just moved as a band from Spokane, WA out to Seattle to focus and try and "make it", they were all working at the School of Rock to try to scrape up money to record their record. At the time a few years ago, the guy I was dating was trying to get them noticed by Barsuk.

Well, anyways, long story short, they're a fantastic band, and I remember them as some of the nicest guys I've met. Ever. Their full length came out on Barsuk this week, but I'm going to direct you to their bandcamp where you can listen to their Sinter Songs EP in it's entirety.



I wish I wasn't such an ass and I was able to keep in touch with these guys - regardless, I'm very excited to see their record come out (and it's great!)

Song of the Day, 5/13/2011

Just go listen to PSmoov's remix of Brent Amaker if you haven't yet already.

Just go do it and get it over with.

Song of the day 5/12/2011

[This was all revved up and ready to go last night, on time and under budget as always but there were some weird issues with Blogger and I couldn’t post. I’m using the opening paragraph of this entry to complain about that.]

Frank Black – Headache.

I’m exhausted. Today was long and eventful, there was music and talking, also bug fixing and early morning exercise. Thoughts on going to the gym first thing in the morning: you get to feel smug about having already worked out, but you also get to feel bonefuckingtired all day long – your mileage may vary especially if you’re healthier than I am (which, statistically speaking, you definitely are).

I’ve always really liked this song, and it always reminds me of the first time I heard it – in my friend Dave’s room in college. Then, as now, Dave drank a lot of tea from massive mugs. We later discovered that each of these mugs could hold an entire bottle of dead cheap white wine, and we put this to good use in between learning physics and watching “I Am Weasel”. I miss Dave – I wish unlikely circumstances would bring him, as they did me, to Seattle.

SotD 5/10/11 - Daft Punk's Something About Us

I was going through my posts and renaming them when I discovered that I didn't post anything for May 10th. I'm not sure how that's possible but I'm way too particular to let that stand.

In retrospect, I am posting one of the songs that triggers the strongest emotional reaction in me. "Something About Me" was the song I dubbed "our song" back when I was a naive teenager at the beginning of a 6 1/2 year growth stunting relationship. People used to tell me it was a depressing choice but I'm more appalled at how poorly the song represented our relationship. My romanticism was misplaced: there wasn't anything great about that relationship, I just didn't know better.

Song of the Day, 5/9/11

Whoa! Now this is a find—did you know there was a disco group called Nostromo (for the spaceship in Alien) with a club single that samples and homages Ridley Scott's seminal 1979 sci-fi/horror film?

Via Line Out - this is pretty much the best ever.

Make Up Post - Busby Berkeley's futurism and musical industry

Earlier this week, there was a great post on WMFU's blog about the popular music of the 30s and 40s that you should take a moment to read.

Then you should watch the above Busby Berkeley number Dance Until the Dawn. Watch the machine like choreography, listen for the whistling flutes and piccolos, and think of how this was all captured on film - an industry that is a machine propelling an industry that is a machine propelling an industry that is a machine.....