open windows

i've been in paris for a week,
sitting below open windows
letting the accents drift in

new sunset rubdown track - idiot heart
http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/idiotheart.mp3










i like these three videos

kafta? is that you...

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

— Franz Kafka

*if you turn 'book' into 'love' kafka becomes a dream-boat romantic.....
*this is how i spend my time instead of editting papers


also, why did my feist video turn into gruff rhyss... i mean im cool with you 'gruff', if that is even your real name you welsh man peach, but you got to tell a guy if you're going to log into his account and promote yourself... ka-pish?

swamps all around make you feel kinda funny dont they honey...

The malaise of paper writing this morning has hit its climax.
To much to do, so little time.
So why not spend 3 hours playing guitar.
This is my life.

So, I started thinking about the 'chunky' guitar strumming that seems to be prevalent in the 60's and figured why not kill some time and go through my over 30000 songs and make a mix.


Part 1 - Whats Old Is New

1. Arthur & Yu - Afterglow
2. The Impossible Shapes - Florida Silver Springs
3. Benjee Ferree - The Desert
4. Kurt Vile - Beach On The Moon (Recycled Lyrics)
   
5. Pop Levi - Hades' Lady
6. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Free And East, Take 2
7. Papercuts - Future Primitive
8. Young Rivals - 4:15
9. The Shakey Hand - Summer's Life
10. The High Dials - Mornings White Vibrations
11. Beachwood Sparks - Midsummer Daydream (7" Version)
12. Woods - Bone Tapper
13. The Essex Green - Mountain Song (demo)
14. The Clientele - When You And I Were You
15. Okkervil River - April Anne (John Phillips Cover)
16. Mount Analog ft. Karl Blau - Thats How I Got To Memphis
    

Download Link:
http://www.yousendit.com/download/dVlvUGhYTkFRR2RMWEE9PQ



Part 2 -

1. Scott Walker - 30 Century Man
2. The Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
3. T. Rex - Planet Queen (acoustic demo)
4. The Rolling Stones - Not Fade Away
5. The Who - Goin' Mobile
6. Crosby, Stills, & Nash - Marrakkesh Express
7. Donovan - Bajabajagal (I Love Here)
8. Arlo Guthrie - Coming Into Los Angeles (live at woodstock)
9. John Phillips - Mississippi
   
10. Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air
11. Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley
12. The Byrds - I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better
13. The Zombies - Care Of Cell 44
14. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
15. Jethro Tull - Cheap Day Return
16. Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
17. Lovin' Spoonful - Darling Be Home Soon
18. Big Star - Thirteen

Download Link:
http://www.yousendit.com/download/dVlvUGhYTkFsamZIRGc9PQ

*ok the last two songs dont fit the mix but i swear they are two of the best love songs ever written

Also, there has been some confusion.
I you follow the links you can download the mixes.
That is the point here.
They are usually up for about two weeks
as I cant afford a real account.
enjoy.

Most Images From: http://waxandmilk.tumblr.com/


now back to work, sigh.

i have the physique of a heavy reader...

Imprisoned by four walls
(to the North, the crystal of non-knowledge
a landscape to be invented
to the South, reflective memory
to the East, the mirror
to the West, stone and the song of silence)
I wrote messages, but received no reply.
-Octavio Paz

I got really into john fahey last summer and six organs of admittance and my summer project was to learn a bunch of their songs... turned out this more difficult than i thought it would be and only learned 3 fahey songs and 4 six organs of admittance songs. Anyway, I really like listening to ragas or circular classical guitar while I read, dont ask me why I just do. This post might not be stuff most people are into but check it out and give it a try or two.

In no particular order:

1. Balmorhea - March 4 1831
2. Brethren of the Free Spirit - In Him No Sin
3. Bruce Cockburn - Sundance Wheel
4. Carlos Paredes - Canção Verdes Anos
5. Currituck Co. - Requim For John Fahey
6. Eric Carbonara - Lullaby For A Setting Sun
7. Evan Miller - Speel For A Sweeter Past
8. Jack Rose - Revolt
9. James Blackshaw - Celeste Part 2 (open c minor tuning)
10. James Blackshaw - Running To A Ghost
11. Jesse Sparhawk - Light Cycle/Tetrahedra
12. Joan Of Arc - Bobby Burg & Nate Kinsella
    
13. Joan Of Arc - Tim Kinsella & Mike Kinsella
    
14. John Fahey - The Yellow Princess
    
15. John Fahey - Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Invisible City Of Bladensburg
    
16. Jose Gonzalez - Suggestions
17. L'ocelle Mare - Track 2
18. Leo Kottke - Watermelon
19. Mark Fosson - Variations On A Thumb
20. Message To Bears - Green
21. Peter Walker - Rainy Day Raga
22. Richard Crandall - Shamrock
23. Richard Crandall - Boxcar
24. Six Organs Of Admittance - V
25. Six Organs Of Admittance -Procession Of Cherry Blossom Spirits
26. Six Organs Of Admittance -Lisboa
27. Six Organs Of Admittance - Attar
28. Tom James Scott - Flickering Shadow
29. Vinaya - Ete
30. Vinaya - Fin Siecle

Download Links:
Part 1: http://www.yousendit.com/download/UmNKQndOWkJiR0tGa1E9PQ
Part 2: http://www.yousendit.com/download/UmNKQndOWkJiR0ozZUE9PQ

Only by approaching the subject from some distance and, initially, foregoing any view of the
whole, can the mind be led, through a more or less ascetic apprenticeship, to the position of
strength from which it is possible to take in the whole panorama and yet remain in control of
oneself...

It’s not that what is past casts light on what is present, or what is present its light on what is
past; rather, image is that wherein what has been comes together in a flash with the now to
form a constellation. In other words: image is dialectics at a standstill....
-Walter Benjamin

All library images from google image search for 'beautiful library', go figure....

"im not like other girls..."

Things I Like:

1) wool sweaters and fires
2) old men
3) winter landscapes that remind me of home
4) sad music and pensive sighs
5) old photographs
6) scarves and pea coats
7) blankets
8) cillian murphy (he is a top 3 man crush, and i have argued this with many people)
9) long music videos with credits at the end
10) feist (she does what she does well and makes me image her humming in the kitchen on a summer morning making coffee in a sun dress, sigh)

So with that in mind the new Feist video meets all criteria...
Sigh, I am a lost cause...





And just because I think its amazing and going with the video theme of femme fatales:

hunting a ghost in the fog...

The alley was walking slowly
like an empty handed hunter
trying to stumble to the place
where typos could be reclaimed,
someone has dragged the lake
and left the rubble of edited memories here

1. Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move
2. Dirty Projectors -Stillness Is The Move (live at SXSW)
   
3. Dirty Projectors - Useful Chamber
   
4. Dirty Projectors - No Intention
   
5. Dirty Projectors - Fucked For Life
   
6. Dirty Projectors - Depression
7. Dirty Projectors - Six Pack
8. Dirty Projectors -(Throw On) The Hazard Lights
9. Dirty Projectors - Two Young Sheep
10. Dirty Projectors and David Bryne - Knotty Pine

hunting a ghost in the fog
your janus-faced smile
my pillar of salt,
the stillness collides
with the static of antler felt

1. Deradoorian - Shallow Water
2. Deradoorian - Grey Teeth
3. Deradoorian - You Carry The Deed
4. Deradoorian - High Road

the streets were different
somehow more intangible
a stranger's bed
no tempo, no tempo,
a hollow cadence
lost time

1. Inlets - You Are An Effigy
   
2. Inlets - Pictures of Trees
   
3. Inlets - Deadly Disclosure (Dept. of Eagles Cover)

Download Link For the Above Tracks:

https://www.yousendit.com/download/UmNJWGJONEhrYURIRGc9PQ

#55.1 - Dirty Projectors - Part 1
by lablogotheque

I'm loving the new Dirty Projectors (Bitte Orca), complete with angular ballads and bangers. Angel Deradoorian sings in Dirty Projectors and has a new solo project, Deradoorian, haunted with the hiss of tape static. She also sings back up in the equally haunting and hissing Inlets who sounds like a soundtrack to lost reels of film noir.

Oh art rock women...sigh...

and it seems...

that my imaginary muse has a new video....

returning as the heron king in a flock of cranes...

Two essays down, one to go. My brain is fried.
So I figured its time to make another brief post
as a lot of new music has been leaked this week.
I'll take the time to make an actual mix again soon.

So the new St.Vicent album (Actor) leaked, and I've been quite enjoying it (and fantasize and muse over her).

1. St. Vincent - The Strangers
   
2. St. Vincent - Just The Same But Brand New
   
3. St. Vincent - Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood
   
4. St. Vincent - The Party
   

The enigmatic band The Shivers have a new album out. I can't really put my on their style, which in the past has been synth-dance and at other times springsteenish ballads. So here are two new songs and two old ones...

1. The Shivers - Cold In The Morning #2
   
2. The Shivers - Just Didnt Need To Know
   
3. The Shivers - Soho Party
   
4. The Shivers - Beauty

Also, two new live Beirut tracks surfaced and, continueing with my love for Balkan brass an Adrian Orange track whose lyrics I love.

1. Beirut - East Harlem
   
2. Beirut - La Javanaise (for some reason I think this is a serge gainsburg cover but im not sure)
3. Adrian Orange & Her Band - Fire Dream
   

I really need to make a trip out to Montreal soon for music and friends. Tune-Yards is the Merrill Garbus who is the ukulele player in Sister Suvi (who, unfortunately a has members in the train wrecks called Islands) who remind me of a less cock-rock Bad Company and at others they seems to channel the Velvet Underground and Yard Birds.

1. Tune-Yards - News
   
2. Tune-Yards - When You Tell Lions
   
3. Sister Suvi - Golden
   
4. Sister Suvi - The Lot
5. Sister Suvi - Lightning Train
   

Clues are also from Montreal and have a new self-titled album out. The band is Alden Penner (formerly of the Unicorns) and Brendan Reed (formerly of the Arcade Fire) and a host of other musicians who i'm sure have been in bands but I too lazy to google...

1. Clues - Perfect Fit
   
2. Clues - Cave Mouth
   
3. The Unicorns - Tuff Ghost
4. The Unicorns - Jellybones
   

Wooden Birds is the new project by American Analog Set frontman Andrew Kenny. Being a huge fan of AmAnSet I not sure if I'm sold on his new project yet, but in time I assume I will be.

1. Wooden Birds - Quit You Once
   
2. Wooden Birds - Never Know
   
3. Wooden Birds - Hailey
   
4. American Analog Set - Haily (demo0
   
5. American Analog Set - Hard To Find
   

Scottish folk balad singer Alasdair Roberts has a new album (Spoils) out. To be honest I had forgot all about his work, he puts music to old poems or re-works folk ballads, and was pleasantly surprised when he popped back into my memory (plus it reminds me a lot of bonnie prince billy, who Roberts has collaborated with). I actually emailed him once for an album many years ago and he sent me two albums with a very nice hand written note, quite the guy. Here's on track of the new album and two old ones I love.

1. Alasdair Roberts - Hazel Forks
2. Alasdair Roberts - Magpies Nest
3. Alasdair Roberts - As I Came By Huntly Town
   

And here is some other randow new stuff I have been enjoying recently.

1. Woods - The Hold
2. Haunted House - Sierra Trail
3. Throw Me A Statue - Ship
4. Mt. St. Helen Vietnam Band - Cheer For Fate
5. White Rabbits - Percussion Gun
   

Download Links

Part 1:
https://www.yousendit.com/download/UmNMZm1UMGMxUUFLSkE9PQ
Part 2:
https://www.yousendit.com/download/UmNMZm1aYUk1UjVMWEE9PQ

All images from Polanoid or FFFound...

glayva is not an acceptable drink to bring to a party.

I have a friend named Dave.
Dave lives in Korea right now.
We like to tell people we are cousins.



Sometimes we play drunken croquette.
Dave comes in second.


I usually win.

Dave, Adam and I play disc golf (frolf).
They are dirty hippies and beat me.


Dave dates a lovely little ferocious cutlet name Shanna.
I saw them on new years.
They are swell.


Sometimes Dave and I go to art shows.
We get serious.


Then we go to theme parties.
Or ride busses with talking cigarette packs.


One time Tyler and Dave poured me a St. Petersburg sapphire shot.
It had pickle juice in it.
Yuck.



Dave likes the band Women.
So do I.
He asked me to post their Album to download:

https://www.yousendit.com/download/UmNJYUp3T010NjlMWEE9PQ


Also, a gold star to anyone who can spot my head in this video



And Just for fun

Lavomatik Session - Chad VanGaalen - Molten Light
by imuzzik

.historic amnesia.

I once drove through the worst rain storm followed by heaviest fog I have ever experienced. I was somewhere between thunderbay and northbay at 4 in the morning following the two red tail lights of a semi (I had one burnt out headlight and couldn't see anything) and the only thing that got me through that experience was some afro-beat played as loud my car stereo could play.

Writing essays, though less traumatic, seems to bring out my craving for 'African music' or music inspired by the afro-beat, highlife, groat singing, etc...

so I have made a three part mix, that flows pretty nice if you follow the order...

Side A:

1. Fela Kuti - Roforofo Fight
2. The Funkees - Akula Owu Onyeara
3. George Akaeze & His Augmented Hits - Business Before Pleasure
4. The Don Isaac Ezekiel Combination - Amalinja
5. Gilberto Gil/Jorge Ben - Taj Mahal
6. Boozoo Bajou - Night over Manaus
7. Group Inerane - Kuni Majagani
   

Part B:

1. Andrew Bird - Hot Math
2. Plants and Animals - Guru
3. Ducktails - Island Flavor
4. El Guincho - Antillas
5. Adrian Orange & Her Band - You're My Home
6. Adrian Orange & Her Band - Then We Play
7. Marvin Pontiac - No Kids
   

Side C:

1. Mahikwani Makhuvele - Hayilolosa Amale Ye Matshangana
2. Alemayehy Eshete & Hirut Beqele - Temeles
3. Amanaz - Khala My Friend
4. Ali Farka Toure - Hani
5. Boubacar Traore -Benidigmamogo
   
6. Boubacar Traore - Pierrette

1. 

Download links:
Part 1:https://www.yousendit.com/download/UmNLYnU4Q1B0TW5IRGc9PQ
Part 2:https://www.yousendit.com/download/UmNLYnV4SU9OMUJMWEE9PQ

Images: You Should Know Who These People Are

Side Note: Amazing Blog http://awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com/

a manifesto of sorts...

alright im not sure if this is a manifesto (its not at all but should be), but, i came across this blog ( http://www.igotuggs.com/ ) and was filled with the rage of an old man sending soup back at a deli...then i read a post of a similar sort and figured id make my own (as i make make no claim to be completely original)... this is a problem seems to transcend all socio-economic, geographic and ethnic boundaries (thanks to cheap chinese knock offs we call all look like ho-bags, is this truly mao's the emancipation of the global proletariat?) .... here are some thoughts, because if there is one thing i stand for its judging people, and being right (those are two things, yes, a bad joke)....

1) time to harp about abominations of beauty... ok so is there a machine that dispenses 'those girls', you know the ones, that come from the same cookie cutter: $150 dollar haircuts, ugg boots (i doubt all of you are hiding cankles, and if you are, is the swamp foot really worth is), straight bangs, 4mm thick eyeliner (leaving you looking like a deer caught in the headlights about to get rearranged by the grill of a ford f150) and god knows how much pancake cover up, spandex-stretchy pants (replaceable with sweat pants only if you are going to the library to 'study'), long shirts from american apparel, bug-eye sunglasses, big purses, one hair elastic around your wrist, 'saying' you used to have an eating disorder, two-door red honda civics pumping maroon-5, bleached hair at least ocne a year, 12.745 pounds of lip-gloss used a week, a fake tan (where you get to the point that you cannot remember your original skin colour and tone so you end up looking like a half-hearted attempt to have black face) and listening to feist (this does not make you counter-culture)... this is no joke foos...there needs to be an end to the malaise... this is the last cry of one man trying to reclaim the right to having a boner...

2) i think we all need to see some long bangs, some freckles, a face that you can remember, a face that looks better than the night before asleep beside me in the morning, if you have curly hair dont feel you need to straighten it, someone who isnt afraid to be a little neurotic but not bat crazy, maybe some opinions or a personality, an audible laugh, someone who thinks ruffies should not be an inherent danger when you go out, someone who thinks 8-bit music is fucking shit, etc etc etc.... be warned, this does not necessarily mean a move towards the "more edgy" flannel tops, short hair cuts, telling everyone your wardrobe is all thrift store but you got a few urban outfitters tops for 'christmas', converse shoes, keifahs, and raybans....

these are my demands,
seduction should be an art,
who will join the revolution with me,
the time has come,

-m.


ps - feel free to add to the lists in the comments...