the oh so quiet show

But I do have the Duck Tales theme song stuck in my head.

Help.

If you’re bored, recommend something to me.

Thanks.

Currently listening to random mixtapes at muxtape. I like the layout: simple, giant text, solid colors. Not much in the ways of controls, but that means less need to use my brain. Which is a welcome thing when I’m doodling away on my computer after midnight, aka, “brain quittin’ time.”

I have, of course, claimed my URL, but haven’t uploaded anything yet. When I do, I’ll let you know.

Things are going on over there

Almost forgot to mention that I saw Caribou two weeks ago with John. My concert excitement has faded so quickly in just a few years. Or less. Not that the show wasn’t great—it was quite awesome, something I’d love to see again. Happy visuals, happy music, happy happies, energy up the wazoo, a strange sensation considering that I was so tired I just leaned against the wall the whole time and probably yawned a lot more than I should’ve, which is what every day is like these days…

This is God’s way of telling me that I should drink coffee.

Alesis Micron 37-Key Analog Modeling Synth

The Alesis Micron 37-Key Analog Modeling Synth looks like its made of candy. Delicious fruity candy.

I can haz?

The Gayest Songs of All Time [via mefi]

Weeee

USB Turntable with Pitch Control & Universal Dock

Plug that iPod in and let ‘er rip.

…Miminal Techno makes a good non-obtrusive soundtrack.

…Even though this morning we had planned to have a Mariah Carey day.

I haven’t been listening to much music lately.  It is sad.  So much sadness, I possess.

Which is why I am quite happy that The Lemur Blog posted a gajillion mp3s by Diego Chavez because that gives me something to listen to. Diego did a remix of Lykke Li’s “Little Bit” that I love to death, perhaps even beyond death (two posts down, or you can get it from The Lemur Blog), so I’m not surprised I like his original stuff as well.  (On a related note, I’ve pretty much only been listening to Lykke Li for the past week.  WHY CAN’T I STOP?)

Beware.

A few songs of mild happiness. If you don’t like them, I’ll cut yew.

Kylie Minogue - In My Arms

This song is Calvin Harris up the wazoo. Because he partially produced it. I’ve never really been into Kylie Minogue, but that might change with her latest album.

Lykki Li - Little Bit (Diego Chavez Remix)

It took me a while to get into Lykke Li, who I will put into the “Swedish pop” category even though that’s kind of vague. And that’s why I give you mp3s. It’s like giving out samples of food instead of having to come up with any kind of well though-out description of what I want you to ingest. Wooo. So yes, this remix is what got me interested, a dancier version of the original. [via The Lemur Blog]

Switches - Every Second Counts (Ocelot Remix)

I didn’t like this upon my first listen, and then quickly became mildly obsessed with it. And I don’t know why. Ocelot transformed the original song into something full of awesome and unicorns and Jolly Ranchers. [via discodust]

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Admitting this will probably make me look bad, but this is the first time I’ve really listened to Neutral Milk Hotel. The whole 10-year-anniversary thing piqued my interest. I’m sure I tried listening to them before; they must not have meshed with my 12-year-old brainwaves a decade years ago. Now they mesh. I am happy.

Once again, I forgot I had a music blog.

I’m really tired.  So I’m just gonna show you this: PILLOWY MOUNDS OF MASHED POTATOES

Entranced, I am.  YTMND never fails to please.

Although it’s unnecessary to say something is a note to myself, this is a note to myself: Taken by Trees (Victoria Bergsman’s solo project)

While bleeping around:

I’m quite surprised I like the above album. It’s…dancey. And I recently had a conversation with friends about my undance-itude. There is visual evidence of me dancing, but it’s more like me being dragged around by other people in a dance-like fashion.

I actually have that Phonem album…on vinyl. Which is completely pointless when you don’t have a good record player. Which I don’t.

I’m tired. Thus ends this insubstantial entry.

Too lazy to write a real entry.

More albums I want but don’t have yet:

• Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
• Caribou - Andorra
• Radiohead - In Rainbows
• Copy - Hair Guitar (This album came out months ago—I suck. Actually part of the reason I held off was because the AD shop was closed and I like to buy all my AD things FROM THE SOURCE, except the source is currently closed, so…there’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.)

I still remember when I was in high school and went to a local record store with a friend on the day that Amnesiac was released. Like giggling schoolgirls (because that’s what we were), we bought…4 copies? We were buying some for other friends as well. It was an event, you see.

Oh, youth. So far away. Now I don’t know when stuff comes out and I’m slow to buy things.

I’m at work. Damn. I should do work.

I don’t mind admitting that I pretty much buy all my music on amazon.com these days (hey, I do buy music) and it’s been so long since I stepped inside a music store that I forgot how fun/wallet gouging it can be to just browse shelves and stumble upon music you didn’t even know you wanted.

stinkweeds

I’m currently vacationing worlds away from my New Jersey homebase in the ‘ZONA! …I mean, Arizona. Phoenix, to be more precise. (I’m here for all fun and no work, unless you count eating as work…and it is partially work, but work of the awesome tasty kind, not the, “Oh god I hate my life please kill me,” kind.) My friend Alex brought Lee Anne and me to Stinkweeds, which he said is the only indie music store in the area, a very nice one at that (and happens to sit between a vintage clothing store and designer toy shop). We oogled their letterpressed business card, OH HOW WE OOGLED THE BEAUTY OF THE RECESSED TYPOGRAPHY.

store!

Anyhoo, while browsing the store and thinking, “Gee, there isn’t anything that I want,” I ended up taking Les Ondes Silencieuses by Colleen, Pan Or Rama by Console and the latest Interpol into my squishy arms. I didn’t know what the Console album sounded like at all (not that I knew what the other ones sounded like either, but if I really like a particular artist I figure I will like everything that they’ve churned out) so the nice guy managing the store unwrapped it and popped it into the stereo for all of us to listen to. Bleepy bloops filled the air with melodious bleepy bloopage.

“I like this. …Um, I’m going to take this from you,” said Alex.

With each passing day I honestly feel more music-lazy than ever (as in, too lazy to seek stuff out myself or go to live shows), but…I really shouldn’t be so lazy. Yeah. Shouldn’t.

Stinkweeds
12 W Camelback Rd
Phoenix, AZ 85013

What makes Andrew Bird 100000% cooler than most other musicians? Because he was on Jack’s Big Music Show as Dr. Stringz.

Oh. Jesus. Knowing that I will never be as cool as him makes me want to crawl into a hole…with an oven…and gas myself to death. I don’t think I could even be a competent puppeteer.

I don’t care to watch people dancing. Unless the “dancers” are wearing bathrobes and invading public spaces throughout Paris.

Institut Bonheur to the rescue:

I don’t know what the point of IB is, but they amuse me. So. They’re cool. [via le méchant garçon]

Changing hosts. Need to back-up all my crap and haul it over to Dreamhost. Hopefully I’ll get it done in the next week…or sometime in April.

This can go two ways.

“WTF?”

- or -

“YES, THIS IS SO AWESOME, THERE IS A GOD.”

It’s possible to say both though. I think that’s what I did.

—

I took down the Mew mp3 and the Shins mp3 because they were hugely screwing with my bandwidth. Solution? Buy the albums: Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites, The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

Logan Whitehurst: November 15, 1977 – December 3, 2006

As the title says.

Bichi

I first listened to Bichi by randomly looking through Hobby Industries’ website. Yeah, it’s a common pastime; I am weird. Bichi makes the kind of fluttery glitchy plinky electronic repetitive music that I enjoy for some reason that I don’t know. Maybe my brainwaves are messed up (okay, not maybe so much as “yes, definitely”) and the pinks and pops line up with them. [shrugs]

Melodium

I also like Melodium (myspace), whose latest album is out on audio dregs, a label that is notable for providing me with happy music for the past four years. Melodium sounds quite happy to me. At least, I hear xylophones, and those things make me happy. And acoustic guitars. And pianos. And pings. And tinkles.

…I’m easily soothed. Especially when I don’t have to pay attention to lyrics. I’m too lazy for that stuff. Like right now. Can you tell. From my disjointed sentences. And lack of question marks. Okay.

Bring on the Gondry! Here’s Beck’s new video for “Cell Phone’s Dead”:

Read more about it at Director File.

I must admit that this video doesn’t elicit an automatic “OMG AWESOME!” from me, but it’s pretty cool. Beck turns into a door…over and over. Or maybe it’s the door that turns into Beck.

…Uh, let’s not mull over that for too long.

Also check out Gondry’s latest film, The Science of Sleep. I found it more “OMG AWESOME!”

Who made up that saying?

Immi fans talk about Magnet cancelling his supporting dates. Hey, I’m bummed and I couldn’t even go to any shows. Of course, I was most annoyed by the comment, “the nonchalant attitude on the website about it is highly annoying”. Sorry, but I’m not given the exact copy to write on the site (I was given one sentence of information) and left to my own devices, I thought I may as well be marginally funny.

Actually, sometimes I don’t want to edit the website because whatever I write ends up representing Magnet, which is not necessarily good. I love to write in my own style and when I don’t feel like I have the freedom, coming up with something can be very hard. Even for a blurb that is only a few sentences long.

On a totally random note, I’m liking Beach House at the moment.