random smattering of electro

basically these are just some of the loose bits i've been meaning to include over the past week or two but that haven't really fit in anywhere in particular. so enjoy this musical grabbag, yeah?

i'll keep it with mine (pocketknife's odd beauty rmx)-nico
maison7 (minimix by jbag)-kitsune
girls (grandtheft rmx)-walter meego
paper planes (papi rmx)-m.i.a.
feeling better (build rmx)-the teenagers
skeleton boy (grum rmx)-friendly fires
1901 (rac rmx)-phoenix
chasing waterfalls-faux pas
destination part 1-damn arms
show me love (blame rmx)-steve angello and laidback luke

stealing the covers

i have a soft spot in my heart for covers...here are a few great ones i've found over the last week. not sure they beat the originals, but they do it up their own way. thoughts? i'm especially fond of the idioteque cover done by calico horse. a+ material.

flume (the chairs cover)-bon iver
single ladies (mccarthy trenching cover)-beyonce
idioteque (calico horse cover)-radiohead
paper planes (pale young gentlemen cover)-m.i.a.
maps (rogue wave cover)-yeah yeah yeahs

step off, betch

so i am still totally completely mayjah-mayjah-mayjahly obsessed with this track by blatta & inesha featuring one of my all-time faves (at the moment, anyway) congorock. this song reminds me of if robots lived in the jungle in outer space. so if you think you might not like that scenario so much, perhaps you should skip this jam. but i still am absolutely gaga for it.

real estate is real good

here's a lovely little band i've just discovered that sounds very much like something i would listen to during an epic roadtrip through the american southwest. which i haven't exactly done, and haven't exactly made plans to do, but is definitely something i dream about doing. want to come on the almost sort of yet to be planned imaginary adventure? anyways, here are some tuneskies for you to mellow out to...very reminiscent of some of yo la tengo's stuff, like maybe nowhere near or green arrow.

beach comber

snow (instrumental)

suburban dogs

fake blues

troop beverly hillz

we're the girls from beverly hills, shopping is our greatest thrill. spoken like pros. it gave girl scouts everywhere hope that maybe, just maybe, one day shelley long would sweep in and fashionista-fy their troop. i know my girl scout troop sucked, which is probably why i stayed in it for about a year in third grade. my troop leaders were not unlike the hated velda, only unfortunately no one was there to shut them down and force them to work at kmart. instead we were stuck earning badges the lame way, including the horseback riding badge, which for some reason involved camping in hell for a night. first of all, it was about twenty below zero (i'm exagerrating, but not much...), we were forced to stay in cabins that even lincoln would've frowned upon, we had to eat food cooked on a sterno stove which was prepared by the middle school girl scouts (at least two issues here...why would anyone think it was a good idea to allow middle schoolers to cook food for others, and why would anyone think it would be okay to stay in girl scouts past elementary school???), and mostly me and the other normals cried the entire trip wishing we were at home watching nickelodeon and playing with our dogs. anyways, here's the first part of troop beverly hills. i highly recommend it, esp. if you have the swine flu like i do. and for the rest of the parts, here are the links, respectively: part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12.

wednzilla jamz

here we go, another midweek playlist to lift your spirits. and possibly (slash not really) motivate you to be productive...

alpha river-eclier
i got you dancing (jack beats rmx)-lady sovereign
frankmusik, when you're around (boys noize rmx)-frankmusik
gifted (ashton shuffle rmx)-n.a.s.a. ft. kanye, lyyke li, santigold
dancing machine (gigamesh rmx)-jackson five
tomorrow (jim abbiss radio rmx #1)-ladytron

offshoot of bscbscbsc post

i think we should bring back the bsc books in a big way. the big comeback novel will be called "kristy and the mystery of the swine flu", in which kristy recruits the rest of the babysitters to tackle the swine flu epidemic (a very pertinent issue that is sure to grab the attention of american, canadian, and mexican audiences). sure there will be challenges along the way...like, for example, how they possess minimal credibility in the scientific world...middle school biology is just not going to cut it, even if mallory probably DID get straight a's. it's not her fault she has glasses and is thus stereotyped as the smart one, slash nerdo-4-lyfe. i know for a fact that claudia would not be able to contribute much, considering she was flunking her class in dawn and the haunted house. *sidenote, i don't know why dawn was the protagonist here considering claudia ended up being at the center of the mystery. actually, this title makes little to no sense considering there was no haunted house involved, just a crazy old cat lady who they all assumed was a witch after jumping to conclusions.* but back to the pending novel. mallory will clearly be the one doing all the research. dawn will be out saving the pigs or whatever it is californians with blonde hair (slash californians) do all day, while claudia will be designing fashionable swine flu masks to sell at the arts and crafts fair like in claudia's missing jewels. stacey will be baking cakes and cookies that look like pigs, aka things she can't eat since she has diabetes, to raise money for research. kristy will be out bossing people around and stealing some of the research money to buy herself a new baseball mitt. meanwhile maryanne will be quietly commenting on how sorry she feels for everyone who has swine flu, and getting shut-down on all her ideas by the rest of the babysitters. together they will come up with an unlikely solution inspired by the rodowsky kids. now, i'm not saying i have a real solution to the swine flu, i'm just saying it might not hurt to check the healing properties of a little finger paint and glitter. the novel will be available for purchase through the scholastic book company in the fall of '09. oh, and i forgot, a couple of the babysitters might catch the flu (i'm not saying who, but i'm sure you can guess), and thus will be permanently quarantined. to make up for their abscence, i'll introduce some guest-star babysitters, probably mischa barton and lindsay lohan seeing as how their careers are tanking and they'll take any work they can find. despite my dislike for mischa, and semi-dislike for lindz, i figure i'll at least save $$$ on food expenses by hiring them. i plan on paying them in cigarettes and black nail polish.
*amateurishly edited image courtesy dibblyfresh.com

bscbscbsc

kristy, i hate to break it to you, but you're going to get swine flu if you keep up this behavior. not that i would mind...but if you do catch it, could you plz take mal down with you? i really think it would be for the best as the whole bsc would increase in likeability. here is another episode of the best/worst show ever, entitled maryanne and the brunettes. not only does it teach us that we should dislike brunettes (like myself...it taught me the value of self-loathing), but that we should also always trust boys with southern accents, especially ones named logan, because they're super nice. this episode also teaches us that kristy is a super betch, and that girls with accents reminiscent of new jersey, long island, and other places we associate with hair gel, tanning salons, and the mafia, are always trying to steal your boyfriend but in the long-run will ultimately fail due to their poor reputations. and overuse of blue eyeshadow. really, marcy, you're on the road to prosti-dom. (ps i really have nothing against people with accents...in fact, i sometimes wish i possessed the street-cred that i assume comes along with having an accent. unless it's a midwestern one...in that case, thanks but no thanks.) and just in case you'd like a rendition of the bsc themesong as performed by alex hurst and myself, here is the link to our masterpiece (which i've blogged about before but will do so again).

zapatillas huija

so i realize i have an unhealthy obsession with my hi-tops (the one pictured above is similar, but mine are a brighter, almost neon, pattern of awayo fabric) that i bought from huija when i was in argentina...i never understood why people would rob someone of his/her shoes, or resort to violence over someone stepping on their own kicks. but now i get it. i go to great lengths to keep them clean, thus defeating the very purpose of shoes, which is eventually to mess them up. i only wear them on days when there is slim to no chance of inclimate weather, and if someone even THINKS of treading over my feet while i wear them, i shoot them with mind bullets before they can carry out their sick and twisted plan. but enough about MY shoes, which are infinitely better than yours. go check out the new collection from designer mariana marrari, creator of huija (granted it's their winter down there) and i'm sure you'll fall in love like i have. and then maybe next time you see me you'll remember not to eff with my footwear.

parle a ma main, betch

bonjour, mon ami! een zee speereet of zee around zee world partee een stone zees eeveneeng (attempt at a french accented 'in the spirit of the around the world party in stone this evening'), i am about to knock yo socks off with some french beatz. i spent last night digging around my itunes for zee best of zee best french electro/rap (basically the whole cast of ed banger records), with french vocals of course, since my friend megan asked me if i would be so kind as to make a playlist for their room (which is obviously france). so grab a baguette and put on a beret and jam out to these tunes avec moi. ps i really tried to hold back on the yelle songs to balance it out, but i love every single one so it was hard to pick. if nothing else, listen to ce jeu...it will blow your mind.

ce jeu (rogerseventytwo bounce mix)-yelle
je veux te voir-yelle
fais rentrer les euros-m.i.t.c.h. feat. feadz/uffie
chanson d'amour (grandmarnier rmx)-catherine ferroyer-blanchard
a cause de garcons-yelle
positif-mr. oizo
chantez!-tepr feat. cuizinier
cargo (tepr/grandmarnier rmx)-quentin mosimann
dans la boite-gg babthug feat. cuizinier
tlphone (ghislain poirier remix)-ttc
eurovision (mad kids rmx)-zombie disco squad

...and check out this video below of parle a ma main. fantastique. it's where my favorite saying, slash the title of my blog, originated back in the day.