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

Office Muzik

Gorrillaz and Lou Reed- Some kind of nature

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

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

Jimi Hendrix - Lullaby for the Summer

Cults- Go Outside

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.

Tallest man on earth - These Days (Nico Cover) - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

More soon...

best,

Bayan