After listening to the KEXP podcast of the Editors at SXSW, I completely changed my fickle little mind and decided to buy the album. I haven’t paid that much close attention to the lyrics YET, but after a few superficial listens, it is definitely exactly the kind of bitter, angry, plodding, yet mellow, kind of music I wanted to be listening to right now. It’s turgid…in a good way. Sweet.
Monthly Archives: April 2006
It’s all part of Bush’s “Leave No Administration Official Behind” program.
Mariko got me addicted to podcasts of NPR’s “Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me” on our trip.
I highly recommend the April 2 edition as a jumping off point.
New Singles Recommendations.
- “All My Life” DJ Harry (from Wallace/Jackie’s makeout scene on Veronica Mars)
- “We All Lose One Another” Jason Collett (from the worst show I watch which I am too ashamed to admit to either here or here)
- “Waiting for You” Ben Harper
- “Reason to Mourn” Ben Harper (looooooove)
- “Hands” Mrs. John Soda
- “Shuffle Your Feet” Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (hmmm, seem to like every song of theirs I try…)
- “I Love a Man in Uniform” Gang of Four
- “Bom Bom Bom” Living Things
- “Speeding Car” Imogen Heap
Why?
My iTunes has 7690 songs. But my iPod only has 7686. No matter how many times I update it.
What four songs won’t transfer? And why? Seriously — WHY? It’s driving me nuts.
Cable: The Firm and The Pelican Brief.
You couldn’t pay me to read a John Grisham book but I do think they make good screenplays. (OK, maybe you could pay me but it would have to be A LOT.)
I cannot turn the TV off if either one of these is playing, despite having seen each of them at least 89,765 times now.
Cable: The Big Easy
Man, I forgot what a great fucking movie this is. And why is it exactly that I don’t own this on DVD? I have an old, very very old, copy taped down from HBO…
There’s a little country girl hidden somewhere in my heart.
And thus I am LOVING this pseudo-country album I bought in Australia:
The Audreys “Between Last Night and Us.”
I bought it purely for its cool cover with no idea what kind of music it contained or
whether I would like it.
Damn damn damn do I ever.
Folk music for Rachael and whoever else….
Art Thieme Live – this is supposed to be a great album and if you read the Chicago Tribune there was a good article about Art and the lack of folk music in the media.
I’ve never heard of Renee Geyer before.
But her cover of Crowded House’s “Into Temptation” is really, really awesome.
It’s from She Will Have Her Way: The Songs of Tim & Neil Finn. Picked up by both Me and Mariko in Australia, but of course.
Crowded House = I can never get enough.
(In Concert:) Josh Rouse might be my new celebrity boyfriend. (When I break up with JP that is.)
He was GREAT in concert. So upbeat and fun. For how mellow his albums are, his concert was totally rocking. He’s a pretty damn good musician, impressive guitar skills. LOVED IT. If you have a chance to see him, and you even think his albums are “oh, OK” I say GO. He is definitely worth seeing live, a very different experience than listening to him at home.
Also good were his openers: Strays Don’t Sleep. I really enjoyed them and bought their EP on the way out!!
I don’t recommend, on the other hand, seeing KT Tunstall live just yet. Although I really love her album, her concert was pretty mediocre. Some songs sounded flat, her stage banter was weird, to say the least, and it was just not as enjoyable of an experience. But it is her first album so I’m expecting she’ll be better on future tours.