Glad to have you back.
Enjoy this pop-gem about the greatest city in the world.
:)
Can't wait for some summer time fun. When you visiting us in DC?
B2
Samuel - I Heart NY
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Loonies to Blow
Hey yo,
Real quick from Londres---everyone's loving Ellie Goulding, kind of a lame-Imogen Heap-meets-Britney Spears. I know I just sold that so well but...check it out here. You'll think you don't like it, but end up feeling it.
Also adding the Arack remix of Money to Blow--did you know in Canada one and two dollar coins are called Loonies and Toonies? (I know, and they wonder why we don't take them seriously). In any event, I give you, Loonies to Blow.
I still don't know how I feel about federalist vs. nationalist policies. I think I'm a socialist, which would make me more of a nationalist, right? Right.
PS: YOU'RE GOING TO EGYPT? WTF
Amanda
Real quick from Londres---everyone's loving Ellie Goulding, kind of a lame-Imogen Heap-meets-Britney Spears. I know I just sold that so well but...check it out here. You'll think you don't like it, but end up feeling it.
Also adding the Arack remix of Money to Blow--did you know in Canada one and two dollar coins are called Loonies and Toonies? (I know, and they wonder why we don't take them seriously). In any event, I give you, Loonies to Blow.
I still don't know how I feel about federalist vs. nationalist policies. I think I'm a socialist, which would make me more of a nationalist, right? Right.
PS: YOU'RE GOING TO EGYPT? WTF
Amanda
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Fail
Hamilton was the Federalist....shit (I was a history major). Though he was strongly in support of the 10th amendment.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Pinched doses of laudanum
Amanda,
Great video chatting with you the other day. You have a very nice comforter. I don't have much time to post. I love being Jefferson (minus the whole slave-owner thing...). Today's post is in honor of my impending trip to Egypt. As mentioned in previous posts I like to listen to songs about places while in those places. I listened to Legionaires Lament once a day everyday I lived in Cairo. Incidentally I also watched Disney's Aladdin once a week. The other song is just a good Raggae song by an artist named Gyptian.
Enjoy!
Federalist Out
(I hope by being Jefferson I am not linked with the crazy tenther frenzy that's sweeping America. Seriously, do we really want a less coherent system and more fractionation of American society, is that what's going to make things better, maybe we should get rid of the dollar as a national currency, and have local militias protect state borders).
pps have you seen Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog. I highly recommend it. Then you will get "Sarcasm?! THAT's original."
Decemberists - Legionaire's Lament
Gyptian - Hold Yuh
Great video chatting with you the other day. You have a very nice comforter. I don't have much time to post. I love being Jefferson (minus the whole slave-owner thing...). Today's post is in honor of my impending trip to Egypt. As mentioned in previous posts I like to listen to songs about places while in those places. I listened to Legionaires Lament once a day everyday I lived in Cairo. Incidentally I also watched Disney's Aladdin once a week. The other song is just a good Raggae song by an artist named Gyptian.
Enjoy!
Federalist Out
(I hope by being Jefferson I am not linked with the crazy tenther frenzy that's sweeping America. Seriously, do we really want a less coherent system and more fractionation of American society, is that what's going to make things better, maybe we should get rid of the dollar as a national currency, and have local militias protect state borders).
pps have you seen Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog. I highly recommend it. Then you will get "Sarcasm?! THAT's original."
Decemberists - Legionaire's Lament
Gyptian - Hold Yuh
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Bonsai Trees and a Blog Niche
Hey B-Sides,
#Nowplaying -- The Bonsai Tree by Peter and the Wolf. LOVING this track, have you heard it? It's beautiful. Who came first, Peter and the Wolf or the Tallest Man on Earth? Both bands have a similar (Dylan-ish?) sound.
I'm also adding Swimming Pool by the Submarines, a great band who deserves to be getting some more play. (I may or may-not have discovered them in a Starbucks in Westchester...lame.com) This song may be worthy of the much-mentioned bbq playlist.
So I've been thinking, besides on-going valiant attempts to categorize and describe that most ephemeral of things the BEST SONGS EVER, I think we've stumbled across doing something a bit different--instead of writing about new music, we end up just with an on-going conversation about good music. And really, there is a difference between the two.
Much like America is an ongoing conversation about the tension between government size, ours is an ongoing discussion about greatness across any age.
Hamilton out,
asperb
PS: Sorry did you not want to be Jefferson?
PPS: In case you can't tell, I've spent the past week doing discourse analysis on Financial Time's article's on the ICC's indictment of the Lord's Resistance Army, paying specific attention to representations of violence as related to political agency and issues of power in government institutions versus insurgent groups. I live off food from Cafe Nero and am a few days away from becoming one of those people who mumbles to themselves in their pajamas. If this is at all reflected in my blog posts, apologies.
The Bonsai Tree - Peter and the Wolf
Swimming Pool - The Submarines
#Nowplaying -- The Bonsai Tree by Peter and the Wolf. LOVING this track, have you heard it? It's beautiful. Who came first, Peter and the Wolf or the Tallest Man on Earth? Both bands have a similar (Dylan-ish?) sound.
I'm also adding Swimming Pool by the Submarines, a great band who deserves to be getting some more play. (I may or may-not have discovered them in a Starbucks in Westchester...lame.com) This song may be worthy of the much-mentioned bbq playlist.
So I've been thinking, besides on-going valiant attempts to categorize and describe that most ephemeral of things the BEST SONGS EVER, I think we've stumbled across doing something a bit different--instead of writing about new music, we end up just with an on-going conversation about good music. And really, there is a difference between the two.
Much like America is an ongoing conversation about the tension between government size, ours is an ongoing discussion about greatness across any age.
Hamilton out,
asperb
PS: Sorry did you not want to be Jefferson?
PPS: In case you can't tell, I've spent the past week doing discourse analysis on Financial Time's article's on the ICC's indictment of the Lord's Resistance Army, paying specific attention to representations of violence as related to political agency and issues of power in government institutions versus insurgent groups. I live off food from Cafe Nero and am a few days away from becoming one of those people who mumbles to themselves in their pajamas. If this is at all reflected in my blog posts, apologies.
The Bonsai Tree - Peter and the Wolf
Swimming Pool - The Submarines
Friday, April 16, 2010
Ashy
What up A-Team?
Short post today. But a great song for your current environs. I hear you are under a dust cloud. I think my parents are stuck in Austria.
I am also going to start putting a few tracks from my BBQ playlist every post (in order).
1) Boat Drinks - Jimmy Buffett
2) One Love - Bob Marley
3) Blue Sky - Allman Brothers band
Saturday, April 10, 2010
But for now
Two discoveries made in (not of) Berlin.
Future Step-Picture Plane
Andrew-Crystal Antlers
Oh, and of course the obligatory jump shot in front of Hitler's Bunker.
Elaborations on music, travel and life to follow.
Future Step-Picture Plane
Andrew-Crystal Antlers
Oh, and of course the obligatory jump shot in front of Hitler's Bunker.
Elaborations on music, travel and life to follow.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Wow
Holy Shit Amanda,
I totally didn't realize that you posted and it was my turn. Way to let me down Google Reader (yeah that's right I get my own blog in Google Reader, so what). I have been on a mash-up kick recently and I think that's because of my source of music (online blog aggregators), the stuff that tends to go viral and doesn't get busted by the fascists at the RIAA is usually Mashed up. I will do my best to diversify. However, keeping with tradition I am posting a very special track with Young Weezy and Dwigth Schrute. Enjoy! Also, Dave Albarn and Lou Reed together? That's it, the universe is officially ending in 2012. Welcome to the pre-apocalypse.
In the meantime, I can't wait to add Acid Tongue to my BBQ mix. So to give our readers a little understanding. Senior year at Michigan, me and my buddy Noah lived in a dingy apartment next to the band practice field (where they had a propensity for practicing way to early). This grungy little apartment with plexi-glass windows and no washer/dryer had two amazingly redeeming features, it had a deck and it was about as close as you could live to the football stadium (Hail) and still walk to class. Therefore our place became official tailgate location. Naturally a BBQ playlist emerged. Since then, 4 months out of the year I brush it off, update some songs. Add new songs I love, take the ones that were really great a summer ago but that got over played and it's too soon to love them for nostalgic purposes (see Ignition Remix). So that being said. It's coming out. I am going to keep updates on here about what's on and what's not. What's coming and what's going. I am taking suggestions constantly. Can we come up with a criteria?
I think:
1) Repeat listenability
2) Can be put on in the background but is not Jazz or Classical
3) Most culturally aware people know the lyrics
4)Has to illicit some memory of a summer past
That's what I have for now.
How was Morocco? Or as the Arabs say Al-Magreb (Which literally means the place in the west).
When are you coming back to the states? Some mad chilling is in order.
B
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Represent
"B2"
Reading that post literally seconds after I declined to go out to dinner with some friends based on (the inner Austrian duke who sits on my shoulder and reminds me that I shouldn't go out of my way for nobody) and also the 30 degree weather here in Londontown, really crushed my soul.
To that end I have chosen a song that's blowin' up in my neck of the woods--"Right Hand Hi" by Kid Sister. It might take more than one listen to get behind the supreme awesomeness of this song, but play it a few times in a row and you'll be stuntin' like my daddy.
Also, I'm adding a favorite summer song--and possibly one of my favorite songs ever. I've sent this to you already but I'll share it with the masses--"Acid Tongue" by the very talented Jenny Lewis. To me, this track hits all the the requirements of our "best songs of all time" standard--i think that included: spine-tingling, soul-shaking and of course, the requisite passing of the Pepto-Bismol test.
The sun never sets on our empire.
Amanda
Right Hand Hi - Kid Sister
Acid Tongue - Jenny Lewis
Reading that post literally seconds after I declined to go out to dinner with some friends based on (the inner Austrian duke who sits on my shoulder and reminds me that I shouldn't go out of my way for nobody) and also the 30 degree weather here in Londontown, really crushed my soul.
To that end I have chosen a song that's blowin' up in my neck of the woods--"Right Hand Hi" by Kid Sister. It might take more than one listen to get behind the supreme awesomeness of this song, but play it a few times in a row and you'll be stuntin' like my daddy.
Also, I'm adding a favorite summer song--and possibly one of my favorite songs ever. I've sent this to you already but I'll share it with the masses--"Acid Tongue" by the very talented Jenny Lewis. To me, this track hits all the the requirements of our "best songs of all time" standard--i think that included: spine-tingling, soul-shaking and of course, the requisite passing of the Pepto-Bismol test.
The sun never sets on our empire.
Amanda
Right Hand Hi - Kid Sister
Acid Tongue - Jenny Lewis
Rights of Spring
Amanda!
We just broke 60 degrees. The pasty and disheveled have evacuated their winter caves and are crowding their porch steps. This is amazing...how's London btw?
Sorry, that was mean. But seriously I am so ready for winter to be over and to start grilling and sitting outside. Hence my two songs for this week. A previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix track and a song that completely expresses my emotions as I sit here in my artificially lit office that is in all honesty built into a wide wall sandwiched between two hallways. I am essentially working in a glorified doorway.
word,
B2
Saturday, March 6, 2010
I'll be back soon
Hey Amanda,
Sorry for the dearth of posts recently. I have been in a very busy phase of my job that includes creating a model for Honor violations and reactions in Middle Eastern society. Nonetheless I am keeping my eye out for stuff. New Gorrillaz cd sounds great. It's streaming free on NPR's website, which makes me feel strange about liking it, but wth I am giving in to allowing NPR to make my cultural decisions for me. The following you already have already seen, but many more people should see it, cause it's amazing.
best,
Bayan
Sorry for the dearth of posts recently. I have been in a very busy phase of my job that includes creating a model for Honor violations and reactions in Middle Eastern society. Nonetheless I am keeping my eye out for stuff. New Gorrillaz cd sounds great. It's streaming free on NPR's website, which makes me feel strange about liking it, but wth I am giving in to allowing NPR to make my cultural decisions for me. The following you already have already seen, but many more people should see it, cause it's amazing.
Tallest man on earth - These Days (Nico Cover) - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
More soon...best,
Bayan
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
langour on divans
Amanda,
The reason I have not been posting is because I have been wallowing away in my own idle time like 18th century Austrian nobleman. My bourgoisie lackadaisical manner of posting aside, there was no need to get significant others involved
Jennifer (9:25am): amanda's upset you no longer blog. please blog. for her. for me. for
the sake of the blog.
Well that's just fine. And I can't really hate because it got my lazy ass to post. But there were alternatives to that kind of escalation. Checkit.
Now. I love your posts as usual. Spring is knocking on the door here in DC and that means I start to allow myself to ever slowly listen to songs associated closely with summer (see my Barbecue playlist). Highest among that list are the Olympian Allman Brothers. I chose One Way Out. And so did Cameron Crowe in Almost Famous. Amazing. Second track I put on here is Amadou and Miriam. They are a blind husband and wife duo from Mali. I was first turned on to them by their album produced by Manu Chao. This song I am posting now is off a more recent album and is produced by Damon Albarn of Blur/Gorillaz fame. Enjoy.
I know you probably have a ton of stuff to post because of my tardiness. Pace yourself. Also I have some vids I want to post. Stay tuned...
sincerely and with tons and tons of promises to regularly post,
Bayan
ps a big shout out to my awesome girlfriend from whose computer this music has come.
pps can you have a ton of promises? my English is appalling.
Allman Brothers - One Way Out
Amadou and Miriam - Sabali
The reason I have not been posting is because I have been wallowing away in my own idle time like 18th century Austrian nobleman. My bourgoisie lackadaisical manner of posting aside, there was no need to get significant others involved
Jennifer (9:25am): amanda's upset you no longer blog. please blog. for her. for me. for
the sake of the blog.
Well that's just fine. And I can't really hate because it got my lazy ass to post. But there were alternatives to that kind of escalation. Checkit.
Now. I love your posts as usual. Spring is knocking on the door here in DC and that means I start to allow myself to ever slowly listen to songs associated closely with summer (see my Barbecue playlist). Highest among that list are the Olympian Allman Brothers. I chose One Way Out. And so did Cameron Crowe in Almost Famous. Amazing. Second track I put on here is Amadou and Miriam. They are a blind husband and wife duo from Mali. I was first turned on to them by their album produced by Manu Chao. This song I am posting now is off a more recent album and is produced by Damon Albarn of Blur/Gorillaz fame. Enjoy.
I know you probably have a ton of stuff to post because of my tardiness. Pace yourself. Also I have some vids I want to post. Stay tuned...
sincerely and with tons and tons of promises to regularly post,
Bayan
ps a big shout out to my awesome girlfriend from whose computer this music has come.
pps can you have a ton of promises? my English is appalling.
Allman Brothers - One Way Out
Amadou and Miriam - Sabali
Sunday, February 14, 2010
you popped by heart, seams/on my bubble dreams/bubble dreams
Bayan!
ATTENTION. ATTENTION. This is a big deal. You know when you find a new song that you listen to on repeat and rock out to in your room/in the car/on the subway? A song like that comes along every few months for me. And this is the first time it's happened while we've been working on this blog. Exciting!
I needed to write about it immediately. My friend Sam is visiting from Berlin and I'm excited for her to leave so I can freak out in my room to it, I will be belting loudly.
Speechless--by the Lady herself. Gaga, my friend. The new frontier takes it old school with a ballad. Don't judge until you've listened.
I have to take a shower but I don't want to because it means I can't listen to the song. Yea, I'm in that place.
That is all.
Amanda
Speechless-Lady Gaga
ATTENTION. ATTENTION. This is a big deal. You know when you find a new song that you listen to on repeat and rock out to in your room/in the car/on the subway? A song like that comes along every few months for me. And this is the first time it's happened while we've been working on this blog. Exciting!
I needed to write about it immediately. My friend Sam is visiting from Berlin and I'm excited for her to leave so I can freak out in my room to it, I will be belting loudly.
Speechless--by the Lady herself. Gaga, my friend. The new frontier takes it old school with a ballad. Don't judge until you've listened.
I have to take a shower but I don't want to because it means I can't listen to the song. Yea, I'm in that place.
That is all.
Amanda
Speechless-Lady Gaga
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Long Live Lil Wayne Or: The Ruffio Reference
Hey Bayan,
I've been avoiding writing a blog entry as I want that phenomenal picture of Paul Wall to be at the top of the the site for as long as possible. Maybe we should replace the boom box image with that photo. The image just makes me believe.
I hope you've been following the arrest of the Greatest Musician of Our Time-Lil Wayne. I'm in the middle of watching his farewell address right now. It's an hour long, a bit of a commitment (things are a bit hazy on his end), but well worth it. He really focuses on the important stuff--though of course in true Lil Wayne fashion his sentencing was postposed due to a chipped tooth. For further information I'd recommend Lil Wayne's Mysterious Tooth Ailment: A Dentist Weighs In--informative, to say the least.
To celebrate the career of the man who inspired so much in the name of coedine, I'm including 'Money to Blow' the new song by Birdman featuring Drake and Weezy himself. Best part of the song? The line about Captain Hook and Ruffio (Ruffio, Ruffio, RU-FI-OHHHHH!) If you don't know exactly what part of the movie I'm quoting, I'm quitting the blog.
In other music commentary, you're doing really well with the remixes/hip hop. I've been having trouble finding good stuff from that genre so the Hood Internet is currently making my day. And you're so right about Girl Talk, listening to his stuff is always a bit unsatisfying because he cuts between songs and beats so quickly, I like that White Panda sticks with a few themes.
Besides the Lil Wayne soundtrack I'm including 'Trashcan' a sweet song by Delta Spirit and 'Who Says' from Jon Mayer's new album. It's a good song, I think he deserves more credit for it, and I hear you have a girlfriend going to see him live next week.
Both 'Trashcan' and 'Who Says' are songs that beg you to jump in a car and drive and contemplate life, pretty much my favorite activity of all time (ask the aforementioned girlfriend about the time I forced her to drive to Boston with me at 1 AM?)
Have fun at the roller derby this Saturday!
With much-jealousy-because-it's-my-dream-in-life-to-be -snowed -in,
Amanda
Money to Blow-Birdman, Drake & Lil Wayne
Trashcan - Delta Spirit
Who Says -John Mayer
I've been avoiding writing a blog entry as I want that phenomenal picture of Paul Wall to be at the top of the the site for as long as possible. Maybe we should replace the boom box image with that photo. The image just makes me believe.
I hope you've been following the arrest of the Greatest Musician of Our Time-Lil Wayne. I'm in the middle of watching his farewell address right now. It's an hour long, a bit of a commitment (things are a bit hazy on his end), but well worth it. He really focuses on the important stuff--though of course in true Lil Wayne fashion his sentencing was postposed due to a chipped tooth. For further information I'd recommend Lil Wayne's Mysterious Tooth Ailment: A Dentist Weighs In--informative, to say the least.
To celebrate the career of the man who inspired so much in the name of coedine, I'm including 'Money to Blow' the new song by Birdman featuring Drake and Weezy himself. Best part of the song? The line about Captain Hook and Ruffio (Ruffio, Ruffio, RU-FI-OHHHHH!) If you don't know exactly what part of the movie I'm quoting, I'm quitting the blog.
In other music commentary, you're doing really well with the remixes/hip hop. I've been having trouble finding good stuff from that genre so the Hood Internet is currently making my day. And you're so right about Girl Talk, listening to his stuff is always a bit unsatisfying because he cuts between songs and beats so quickly, I like that White Panda sticks with a few themes.
Besides the Lil Wayne soundtrack I'm including 'Trashcan' a sweet song by Delta Spirit and 'Who Says' from Jon Mayer's new album. It's a good song, I think he deserves more credit for it, and I hear you have a girlfriend going to see him live next week.
Both 'Trashcan' and 'Who Says' are songs that beg you to jump in a car and drive and contemplate life, pretty much my favorite activity of all time (ask the aforementioned girlfriend about the time I forced her to drive to Boston with me at 1 AM?)
Have fun at the roller derby this Saturday!
With much-jealousy-because-it's-my-dream-in-life-to-be -snowed -in,
Amanda
Money to Blow-Birdman, Drake & Lil Wayne
Trashcan - Delta Spirit
Who Says -John Mayer
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Sitting crooked in my slab...or something like that
Amanda,
Just to give readers the kinds of email chains that led to the creation of this blog I am posting the following:
(Amanda) Subject: the people are hungry! Text: So I poste
(Bayan) Re: good bc I have a backlog of shit I want to post. I am prepping a post dedicated to Paul Wall. Also The Hood Internet is blowing up my spot as I type
(Amanda) Re: hahahahahahahahahahaha. I just laughed out loud in a really formal library.
I am not actually going to write about Paul Wall, other than to say I love him and I am also convinced that he was the smelly kid in elementary school. We all had a smelly kid in our class.
I really only like one Hood Internet song, and Lw Fi Fnk is pretty awesome. I am going to toss in some older shit soon but I have been writing on my work computer for the most part so I only have access to the music I pilfer from other blogs.
I have been meaning to see The Wackness since you got me stuck on 'can we kick it'. Which may have been the beginning of all of this.
Speaking of Roller Derbies we are going to one on Saturday night!
Amanda, we have followers now, we seriously can't let them down.
SnOwMG,
Bayan
Monday, February 8, 2010
White Gnarls Barkley
Bayan,
My brother just sent me this. Pretty sick. He's like a hipster Gnarls Barkley but with a bit of doo wop. The video's decent as well.
Mayer Hawthorne - Just Ain't Gonna Work Out
Hope all is well in snowy DC and that you're as excited about the Saints victory as I am!
WHODAT,
asperb
My brother just sent me this. Pretty sick. He's like a hipster Gnarls Barkley but with a bit of doo wop. The video's decent as well.
Mayer Hawthorne - Just Ain't Gonna Work Out
Hope all is well in snowy DC and that you're as excited about the Saints victory as I am!
WHODAT,
asperb
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Unlike boots that go thigh high; I ain't here to keep a bitch dry
Bayan--or should I call you by your cool nickname, Glockenspiel,
My friend and I have been discussing how long it's going to take before rappers start referencing the disaster in Haiti in their lyrics. As in " I make the bed shake/like an earthquake" etc. Somewhere in that really intellectual conversation I started talking about my passion for rainboots and he whipped out that genius line that is the above title of this post. I think that lyric holds a lot of potential.
Excellent musical choices yesterday. I'm adding White Panda to my ever-growing run/dance playlist. The Pepto Bismol rule applies ten-fold to any pregame/work out playlist. I'm glad you're keeping busy posting instead of translating important intelligence from the Middle East.
Your compliments on the redecoration are too kind--I was actually 10 minutes late to discuss a paper on the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya with a very distinguished Professor from Cambridge because I kept resizing the boom box. Have you seen the movie The Wackness? If you haven't you should. I was trying to channel it as I worked on the blog decor. It definitely captures music and the summer and teenage infatuation perfectly.
Speaking of movies I just saw "Whip It!" Drew Barrymore's directorial debut. A decent flick, with an AWESOME soundtrack. One of my favorite songs on it was by Jens Lenkman. Along with that, I'm including music by Maxamilian, my new favorite white rapper.
I hope your clementine was delicious. I'm getting Polish food tonight, and I'm excited.
In the words of Snoop Dogg--"Lodi Dodi, we likes to party,"
Amanda
Your Arms Around Me-Jens Lenkman
Can I Have It-Maxamilian
My friend and I have been discussing how long it's going to take before rappers start referencing the disaster in Haiti in their lyrics. As in " I make the bed shake/like an earthquake" etc. Somewhere in that really intellectual conversation I started talking about my passion for rainboots and he whipped out that genius line that is the above title of this post. I think that lyric holds a lot of potential.
Excellent musical choices yesterday. I'm adding White Panda to my ever-growing run/dance playlist. The Pepto Bismol rule applies ten-fold to any pregame/work out playlist. I'm glad you're keeping busy posting instead of translating important intelligence from the Middle East.
Your compliments on the redecoration are too kind--I was actually 10 minutes late to discuss a paper on the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya with a very distinguished Professor from Cambridge because I kept resizing the boom box. Have you seen the movie The Wackness? If you haven't you should. I was trying to channel it as I worked on the blog decor. It definitely captures music and the summer and teenage infatuation perfectly.
Speaking of movies I just saw "Whip It!" Drew Barrymore's directorial debut. A decent flick, with an AWESOME soundtrack. One of my favorite songs on it was by Jens Lenkman. Along with that, I'm including music by Maxamilian, my new favorite white rapper.
I hope your clementine was delicious. I'm getting Polish food tonight, and I'm excited.
In the words of Snoop Dogg--"Lodi Dodi, we likes to party,"
Amanda
Your Arms Around Me-Jens Lenkman
Can I Have It-Maxamilian
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
You rearranged the furniture
Amanda,
I really like what you've done with the place. I've never had any decorative sensibilities so I am glad you took care of this rather than going to your classes or researching Genocide in Africa.
Good picks last week. I like where your head's at on the instrumental, way to widen the playing field. On the theme of Dylan covers I've got Spanish Harlem Incident covered by the lead singer of the Shins. It's about a gypsy girl. Not as whiny as the original. Just as amazing lyrics.
I think our criteria list looks like this:
1) spine tingling
2)toe tapping
3) gut punching
I vote to add the pepto bismol rule. I am the kind of person who goes through neurotic song listening binges where for like 3 months I will only listen to one band or even one song. As you can probably tell I am still obsessed with Jay-Z and Marvin Gaye. Naturally like a Miley Cyrus song without Biggie, it gets so overplayed that you want to throw up when you listen to it again. So for me the song should be at a level that no matter how many times I listen to it whenever I hear it again I don't go grasping for the antacids.
As for a second song. I can't say enough about The White Panda. It's like Girl Talk if he let a song play for longer than 9 seconds. Better when through headphones.
That's all I've got. I should get back to work. I just found a clementine in my bag. Today is going to be a good day.
pg chillin,
Bayan
Monday, January 25, 2010
HOW DO I POST HOW DO I POST
Bayan,
In case you couldn't tell by the 9 frantic responses I sent you, I am SO happy you set up this blog. Way to make moves. I am excited to take our witty words and hip taste in music to the masses.
Remember when I said I spend much of my time constantly revising my BEST SONGS OF ALL TIME LIST. What did we say our criteria were for this again? Soul stirring and spine-tingling? Songs like "I Want You Back" by the Jackson 5, "The Weight" by, the Band and "Love Story" by, Taylor Swift. Songs that get you in the gut, and make you feel like the little kids in Slumdog Millionaire. Here's hoping that all the songs we post attain that level of greatness.
To that end, the first two I offer are: Richie Havens singing Dylan's classic "Just Like A Woman"--best cover of all time, as far as I'm concerned. The second, a beautiful fiddle duet by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason.
3 Cheers and Blogosphere,
Sperb
Inaugural Post
Dear Amanda,
While I know that this blog will not be read by anyone other than our loved ones and our immediate friends and furthermore they will glean from it how tragically uncool I actually am, they will however discover, if they give it time how much fun and love we derive from music and how bombass our tastes are and how I am utterly incapable of properly using, punctuation. Let's kick this shit off right. Two songs. One I gave you a long time ago, but is still amazing and the other is to encourage you to save the date for the new Hot Chip Album which comes out on Feb 1st. I don't know if I can post a song yet. We'll see.
best,
Bayan
While I know that this blog will not be read by anyone other than our loved ones and our immediate friends and furthermore they will glean from it how tragically uncool I actually am, they will however discover, if they give it time how much fun and love we derive from music and how bombass our tastes are and how I am utterly incapable of properly using, punctuation. Let's kick this shit off right. Two songs. One I gave you a long time ago, but is still amazing and the other is to encourage you to save the date for the new Hot Chip Album which comes out on Feb 1st. I don't know if I can post a song yet. We'll see.
best,
Bayan
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