so i had some weird dreams last night involving robots, hence the theme of this post is exactly that: songs that are largely to do with people feeling like robots. and if you're feeling super double robotic, you can even do the robot while you listen to them. here we go:
1. self machine by i blame coco
2. one by sky ferreira
3. i am not a robot (starsmith's 24 carat rmx) by marina & the diamonds
6.30.2010
6.28.2010
helping to keep portland weird
i just got back from my very first trip out to the west coast in portland, oregon for my friend tori's wedding! between mormons, salty lakes, crop circles, a blue man, free roadside toilets, and the world's smartest baby, i saw a lot of weird shit this weekend. a lot of weird and awesome shit. tori's got a lot of badass hippie friends, and one of them even smudged me (see video below for further details) on saturday night. so according to native american folklore, i'm invincible or something. or maybe not, i don't really know, but it's basically a purification ceremony involving burning sage and blowing the smoke around people. and here i thought that was restricted to cleansing haunted houses! i figured it couldn't hurt, although, sometimes when they do it on that show 'a haunting' it makes shit worse. let's hope i wasn't/am not a haunted human being.
i also lived it up in my hotel room in a style i like to call 'home alone IV: lost in portland', only this time there was just junk food and jumping on beds and not so much burglary. although, i did momentarily consider constructing a complex rube goldberg mechanism to ward off potential evildoers.
outside the hotel walls, i enjoyed the best weather of all time; as noted in previous posts, my body cannot handle heat and/or humidity. i thrive in freezing conditions, although i prefer a solid temperature range between about 56 and 84 degrees farenheit. portland got to be about 83 at the highest and 54 at the lowest, so we were right in that ideal range. skies were blue, air was breezy, and NO HUMIDITY WHATSOEVER! paradiso my friends, paradiso...you don't even know how much i appreciate not sweating, because i sweat about 85% of the time around this inferno. i was able to really enjoy it yesterday when tori and her family went to mt. st. helens to explore the wonders of volcanic eruptions. i wandered into a bar to watch the world cup match (argentina beat the shit out of mexico and i rejoiced. and drank.) and when i came out of there i was pleasantly buzzed and ready to take on a day of getting lost in a city i know nothing about.
i stumbled upon a ton of great record stores and perused the bargain bins, snatching up about seven gems for a grand total of $2.50. i'm most excited about soeur sourire (the singing nun) because i lovelovelove this cheeseball song called 'dominique' and i've been trying (unsuccessfully) to find the digital album for ages. i listened to that one on repeat this afternoon, and i'm super excited to hear what this one lp sounds like that i snagged for $0.50 that is labeled all in japanese.
after sharking records, i hit up a used book store and grabbed some serious garcia marquez paperbacks including 'leaf storm', which i proceeded to read for the rest of the afternoon in a park in the sunshine. an excellent end to an excellent day.
top three things i learned in portland:
1) public transportation is mad easy to cheat; i didn't pay a cent the entire day because there were no gates to get on or off the train. honor system? i don't think so, bitches.
2) from my personal experience, portland is comprised of 80% homeless people, 15% hippies, 4% hipsters, and 1% normal people. and 99% of these people use backpacks wherever they go.
3) it is awesome.
THE END. oh and i forgot to tell you that i got stuck next to fifteen year old mathletes on the plane from houston to dc today. and they were really annoying and full of hormones and trigonometry. they wouldn't stop talking to me until i politely asked, "hey what's the square root of shut the fuck up?" (except i didn't really say that because i pitied them for having to spend the summer going to mathletics competitions.) NOW THE END.
i also lived it up in my hotel room in a style i like to call 'home alone IV: lost in portland', only this time there was just junk food and jumping on beds and not so much burglary. although, i did momentarily consider constructing a complex rube goldberg mechanism to ward off potential evildoers.
outside the hotel walls, i enjoyed the best weather of all time; as noted in previous posts, my body cannot handle heat and/or humidity. i thrive in freezing conditions, although i prefer a solid temperature range between about 56 and 84 degrees farenheit. portland got to be about 83 at the highest and 54 at the lowest, so we were right in that ideal range. skies were blue, air was breezy, and NO HUMIDITY WHATSOEVER! paradiso my friends, paradiso...you don't even know how much i appreciate not sweating, because i sweat about 85% of the time around this inferno. i was able to really enjoy it yesterday when tori and her family went to mt. st. helens to explore the wonders of volcanic eruptions. i wandered into a bar to watch the world cup match (argentina beat the shit out of mexico and i rejoiced. and drank.) and when i came out of there i was pleasantly buzzed and ready to take on a day of getting lost in a city i know nothing about.
i stumbled upon a ton of great record stores and perused the bargain bins, snatching up about seven gems for a grand total of $2.50. i'm most excited about soeur sourire (the singing nun) because i lovelovelove this cheeseball song called 'dominique' and i've been trying (unsuccessfully) to find the digital album for ages. i listened to that one on repeat this afternoon, and i'm super excited to hear what this one lp sounds like that i snagged for $0.50 that is labeled all in japanese.
after sharking records, i hit up a used book store and grabbed some serious garcia marquez paperbacks including 'leaf storm', which i proceeded to read for the rest of the afternoon in a park in the sunshine. an excellent end to an excellent day.
top three things i learned in portland:
1) public transportation is mad easy to cheat; i didn't pay a cent the entire day because there were no gates to get on or off the train. honor system? i don't think so, bitches.
2) from my personal experience, portland is comprised of 80% homeless people, 15% hippies, 4% hipsters, and 1% normal people. and 99% of these people use backpacks wherever they go.
3) it is awesome.
THE END. oh and i forgot to tell you that i got stuck next to fifteen year old mathletes on the plane from houston to dc today. and they were really annoying and full of hormones and trigonometry. they wouldn't stop talking to me until i politely asked, "hey what's the square root of shut the fuck up?" (except i didn't really say that because i pitied them for having to spend the summer going to mathletics competitions.) NOW THE END.
6.24.2010
anthem du jour
because it's just such a good lazy summer song, i'm going with 'green arrow' by yo la tengo:
6.22.2010
anthem du jour
this song has been stuck in my head since i woke up this morning for no particular reason other than it's awesome. so, here's 'straight up' by paula abdul. shazam!
6.19.2010
so much to say!
well, not really to say...my life has been pretty engulfed by the world cup and not much else. watching the games has become my pseudo job to feel better about my lack of employment at the moment. but i've found time to download lots of new music, so buckle your seatbelts and get ready for a barrage of youtube videos:
i suppose we can work our way into this by kicking things off with some minimalist electro...'stick to my side' by pantha du prince has been looping in my brain for a few days now. i'm pretty bummed that i missed his performance @ u street music hall this week, but i have minimal friends who enjoy minimal music i guess.
continuing along the same track, i've recently discovered the amazing jon hopkins. he worked with imogen heap back in 2004 and he helped to produce coldplay's record viva la vida. so basically it's all the good stuff about that album and imogen heap's records, minus the bad stuff (aka the vocals!). i would recommend any/all of his albums for download (you can find them online hint hint) but here's one song i particularly like called 'circle' off contact note:
and still continuing along with this instrumental electro trend, i'd like to move on to some slightly faster paced music. a good transition would be 'the ballad of gloria featherbottom' off mux mool's new record skulltaste, which is chock full of good tunes. this one's been on repeat for me this week, though:
okay and before we leave this no-words electronica in the dust for a bit, i'd like to give you one last song off ratatat's LP4 titled 'grape juice city'. hadn't heard it until it appeared on shuffle while i was driving around dc the other day and i really liked it. geez i haven't really listened to ratatat since...well, whenever my last computer died. so over a year!
moving right along here, i downloaded uffie's record sex dreams and denim jeans at the beginning of the week. i could take some songs and leave some songs, but i will always have a soft spot in my heart for uffie. here are two that i'm OBSESSED with, the first being 'hong kong garden' and the second 'difficult':
and last but CERTAINLY not least, i am COMPLETELY COMPLETELY in love with the new crystal castles record. it's hard to pick which song(s) to post since they're pretty much all amazing...they'll be in dc in august and it should be super interesting to see how the live dynamic changes (if at all). i say that because i've seen them three times now, and every time has involved sweaty, frantic mosh pit scenarios. this album is much more chilled out and less mosh-able, so i just wonder if the kids will calm down? doubtful but we'll see. okay so i'm going to have to go with 'celestica' 'baptism' and 'vietnam', although i love all the others (especially the bass in 'violent dreams')...basically just download the album, it's too good not to.
and there you have it...that's not an exhaustive list of what i've been listening to recently, but i am exhausted so i'm signing off for now. until then, do what i tell you and grab those albums!
i suppose we can work our way into this by kicking things off with some minimalist electro...'stick to my side' by pantha du prince has been looping in my brain for a few days now. i'm pretty bummed that i missed his performance @ u street music hall this week, but i have minimal friends who enjoy minimal music i guess.
continuing along the same track, i've recently discovered the amazing jon hopkins. he worked with imogen heap back in 2004 and he helped to produce coldplay's record viva la vida. so basically it's all the good stuff about that album and imogen heap's records, minus the bad stuff (aka the vocals!). i would recommend any/all of his albums for download (you can find them online hint hint) but here's one song i particularly like called 'circle' off contact note:
and still continuing along with this instrumental electro trend, i'd like to move on to some slightly faster paced music. a good transition would be 'the ballad of gloria featherbottom' off mux mool's new record skulltaste, which is chock full of good tunes. this one's been on repeat for me this week, though:
okay and before we leave this no-words electronica in the dust for a bit, i'd like to give you one last song off ratatat's LP4 titled 'grape juice city'. hadn't heard it until it appeared on shuffle while i was driving around dc the other day and i really liked it. geez i haven't really listened to ratatat since...well, whenever my last computer died. so over a year!
moving right along here, i downloaded uffie's record sex dreams and denim jeans at the beginning of the week. i could take some songs and leave some songs, but i will always have a soft spot in my heart for uffie. here are two that i'm OBSESSED with, the first being 'hong kong garden' and the second 'difficult':
and last but CERTAINLY not least, i am COMPLETELY COMPLETELY in love with the new crystal castles record. it's hard to pick which song(s) to post since they're pretty much all amazing...they'll be in dc in august and it should be super interesting to see how the live dynamic changes (if at all). i say that because i've seen them three times now, and every time has involved sweaty, frantic mosh pit scenarios. this album is much more chilled out and less mosh-able, so i just wonder if the kids will calm down? doubtful but we'll see. okay so i'm going to have to go with 'celestica' 'baptism' and 'vietnam', although i love all the others (especially the bass in 'violent dreams')...basically just download the album, it's too good not to.
and there you have it...that's not an exhaustive list of what i've been listening to recently, but i am exhausted so i'm signing off for now. until then, do what i tell you and grab those albums!
6.14.2010
6.09.2010
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