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O HAI VOX:

TV CARNAGE vs ROMANCE

I forgot all about you. I'm not too into blogging these days. I've spent part of the afternoon watching TV Carnage videos on the YooToob.

currently headbanging to:

Karp suplex

fuck your title. "Oh, this was so interesting"? this is about records.

Jimmy smith hoochie

I found copies of these two records a couple of months apart at Easy Street for a dollar apiece. Both records contain the song "One Mint Julep', though the two versions are worlds apart - Smith does his organ thing over an orchestral backing, while James turns it into a flanged-out proto-smooth jazz piece.

Bob James' first three records have been sampled to death. Listen to any number of early hip-hop songs and you'll hear his shit (including the aforementioned "One Mint Julep") all over them.

James_bob~~_three~~~~_101b_20060811041642

testing, testing...sibilance

Alligator

What the fuck is up, peeps? Here's a dude flying on an alligator.

I'm my dad.

My dad used to always yell for me from downstairs to come and figure out how to record stuff on the VCR, or to set the clock on it, or whatever.

It just took me five minutes to figure out how to make a new post on VOX. I think I am too old for this.

I'm going back to LJ where I know how it works and how to tell you what I ate for breakfast.

what a difference a day makes.

Yesterday

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Finally got around to seeing Borat last night.  It wasn’t the gut buster I was expecting, but it was still pretty funny.  Perhaps it’s a victim of hype overload. 

In other news, I picked this up last night

The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue

Merritt Ruhlen

I haven't gotten very far into it, but it's pretty cool.  In the beginning, it gives the reader exercises on how to group words into families based on their root forms. 

seven songs meeeeeem:

Post seven pieces of music you are into right now. No matter the genre, lyrics or no, they must simply be songs or music you're enjoying now. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to find out what they are listening to.

Crescent - "Abstract Forms"
I'm not much of a pot smoker, but I have to imagine this song would provide a good soundtrack to some wicked bong rips.

Mogwai - "We're No Here"
Another epic rocker from the loud Glaswegians.  Though I can't help but think about how this song was featured prominently in the recent Miami Vice flick.

Bottomless Pit - "The Cardinal Movements"
Bottomless Pit is the new band of the surviving members of Silkworm.  Dare I say it might be one of the prettiest songs they've ever done.

Regina Spektor - "Carbon Monoxide"
I picked this because I had to pick one, but her last two records have been getting more spins in the last week than anything else in my collection.

Gianfranco Reverberi - "Nel Cimitero del Tucson"
Provided the source material for Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy".

The Shins - "Pink Bullets"
Dunno.  It's just good.

Explone - "Slipknot Song"
No, it's got nothing to do with those assclowns in the masks.  This is my buddy and sometime bandmate Pat's outfit, and features Andrea Maxand on the backing vox.

hot damn:

Aries Spears does Jay-Z, Snoop, DMX

To crib what Stereogum said, dude's the Rich Little of rap.

This is what it looks like when the doves cry:

Gloom & doom

It actually looked darker than this about 10 minutes ago.  That's north Capitol Hill to the right, and Lake Union dead ahead.  I used to think that the fact that it got dark so early was great.  Perhaps it was the novelty factor of sunset being before 5:00.  Now?  It makes me want to drink port, listen to the Cure, and slit my wrists.

I was rocking out (or moping out, as it were) to Standing On The Beach yesterday.  Another band that's been getting a lot of spins lately is Crescent, and band that Bryan and I have had mutual admiration for for some time.  Droney, minimalist, and dirty (sound-wise, not in regard to the subject material), they are a fantastic band to listen to on days like this.

02 - Abstract Forms

This is from the Electronic Sound Constructions record.  About 8 megs.  Good shit.