'Crazy For You'

THE LIST

My Top 3 of 2010:




Joanna Newsom - 'Have One On Me' (Heartbreakers: 'Baby Birch', 'Does Not Suffice')



The Books - 'The Way Out' (Take time: 'Thirty Incoming', 'Free Translator')




MGMT - 'Congratulations' (Favies: 'Brian Eno', 'Congratulations')



The rest of the good stuff:



Sleigh Bells - 'Treats' (Bam Jams: 'Crown On The Ground', 'A/B Machines')




Liars - 'Sisterworld' (Prettiest Evils: 'Scarecrows On A Killer Slant', 'Goodnight Everything')



Fang Island - 'Fang Island' (Happiest happy's: 'Daisy', 'Dorian')




Best Coast - 'Crazy For You' (Dank jams: 'Goodbye', 'When I'm With You')



Titus Andronicus - 'The Monitor' (Bests: 'No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future', 'To Old Friends And New')




Growing - 'Pumps' (Fuzziest: 'Camera '84', 'Massive Dropout')



Dum Dum Girls - 'I Will Be' (Faves: 'Blank Girl', 'Rest Of Our Lives')




Crystal Castles - 'Crystal Castles' (Best remixes: 'Not In Love (featuring Robert Smith)', 'Celestica (Thurston Moore remix)')



HEALTH - 'Disco2' (Chillwave/Sadwave interpretations: 'Severein (Small Black Remix)', 'Before Tigers (Blindoldfreak Remix)')




Wavves - 'King of the Beach' (Impossible to pick just two: 'Mickey Mouse', 'Green Eyes')



Fuck Buttons - 'Olympians [single]' (There's only three songs, I'm not picking two, they're all fantastic.)




School of Seven Bells - 'Disconnect from Desire' (HypnoJams: 'Babelonia', 'Dust Devil')



Arpline - 'The Travel Book' (Goodies: 'Speed (Rush Ah)', 'Amplify')




Avey Tare - 'Down There' (Jammies: 'Lucky 1', 'Oliver Twist')



Lower Dens - 'Twin Hand Movement' (Best make out tracks: 'Truss Me', 'I Get Nervous')




Marnie Stern - 'Marnie Stern' (Goodies: 'For Ash', 'The Things You Notice')



Robyn - 'Body Talk' (Dancies: 'Call Your Girlfriend', 'Dancing On My Own')




Girl Talk - 'All Day' (How can you not dance to: 'Get It Get It', 'Let It Out')



Dom - 'Sun Bronzed Greek Gods EP' (Besties: 'Rude As Jude', 'Burn Bridges')




Girls - 'Broken Dreams Club' (Sweetest romanticals: 'Substance', 'Carolina')



Delorean - 'Subiza' (Sickest grooves: 'Real Love', 'Stay Close')




Teengirl Fantasy - '7 AM' (More sick grooves: 'Cheaters', 'Floor To Floor')



Arcade Fire - 'The Suburbs' (Besties: 'Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), 'Rococo')




Matt and Kim - 'Sidewalks' (Faves: 'Red Paint', 'Block After Block')



Frankie Rose and the Outs - 'Frankie Rose and the Outs' (Nice: 'Hollow Life', 'Memo')




Vampire Weekend - 'Contra' (Super: 'Giving Up The Gun', 'California English')



Small Black - 'New Chain' (Chillest Waves: 'Goons', 'Search Party')




Simian Mobile Disco - 'Is Fixed' (Bams: 'U Can Dance (SMD Mix)', 'Midnight Madness')



There's surely a ton of other albums I didn't get to (and a garbage can filled with overrated trash) but that's what this year is for.

'Rubber' - Yuck

Fever Ray: 'Here Before' (a Vashti Bunyan cover)

Here Before by Fever Ray 

I didn't know that

I wish he was my boyfriend

qt

D.I.W.S.W.T.T.D.

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You And Me, Bess

We picked our way
down to the beach,
watching the waves
dragging out of our reach:
tangling tails, like a sodden sheet;
dangling entrails
from the gut of the sea.

Hoarding our meals (alfalfa and rolls);
trying not to catch
the cold eyes of the gulls--
I hope Mother Nature has not
overheard!
(Though, she doles out hurt
like a puking bird.)

We stayed for the winter.
No-one told us
about the laws of the land.
I hold my own.
But you, with your hunger--
you, on the other hand--
make yourself known.

And when we were found,
I know we both grieved.
My heart made the sound of
snow falling from eaves.
You and me, Bess,
we were as thick as thieves.
So I swore, nonetheless, up and down,
it was only me.
They took me away,
and, after some time
studying my case,
must have made up their minds.
By the time you realized I was dying,
it must have been too late.
I believe you were not lying.

It is the day.
I wake,
with my ears cocked up like a gun
(like every day, of course),
yanked by my wrists
to the sugar-front courtyard--
now tell me, what have I done?
It seems I have stolen a horse.
I step to the gallows.
Who do you think you are--
arching your hooves like a crane,
in the shallow gutter
that lines the boulevards,
crowded with folks
who just stare as I hang?
It's all the same.
Kindness comes over me;
what was your name?
It makes no difference.
I'm glad that you came.
Forever, I'll listen to your glad neighing.

I would like some peace of mind, I've got such a heavy heart, and you were broken down before you had a chance to start

It's been a while, I think. I've kind of been avoiding any sort of...internet...stuff.

Something happened somewhat recently and since then I've decided to give up facebook (I was already on the verge of disowning it to begin with) and my cellphone; I'm just avoiding instant/constant social interaction for some indefinite amount of time.

All I'm going to say is that I lost someone incredibly close to me and even as I'm typing this I can feel my eyeballs turn to cotton as the sadness boils up in me.

But because I've become a recluse lately I just want to type this out to hopefully let a few people know I'm still alive, etc. etc.

Was upstate at this years ATP, which was...bittersweet. It was far too soon and I'm still not sure if going was a right choice or not, but nontheless I did have a good time. Favourite show of the weekend was without question The Books, who also came out with my album of the year. Second place goes to Beak>, who I'm currently very obsessed with. And third goes to my personal faves Fuck Buttons, who pretty much played the same set I've heard twice before but they still kicked so much ass.
Also saw: Girls, Vivian Girls, Shellac, The Breeders, Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions, Kurt Vile, Papa M, Tortoise, uh...I know there's more...I'm just forgetting them.

I think I'm going to change this blog layout. It's kind of getting on my nerves. Title and junk too. EXPECT CHANGES.

New Battles!

Hopefully I will never have to post about Twilight again, but for now I have to mention that a new Battles song (finally) is on the Twilight: Eclipse soundtrack. It is called 'The Line' and it is badass, however it sounds a lot more...commercial, maybe. It's hard to really put into words. It sounds like Battles but it sounds toned down...maybe. Fuck I don't know.

Click HERE to stream the soundtrack.

Things are awesome.

YES

FUCK BUTTONS TOMORROW

IT'LL BE MY THIRD TIME

I HOPE THEY'LL BE ANYTHING BUT GENTLE

OMG

I'm Here

Finally got around to seeing Spike Jonze's latest short film 'I'm Here', a half-hour masterpiece about love and robots in L.A., based on Shel Silverstein's (of whom the main character is named after) 'The Giving Tree'.

Sheldon is a robot who lives an uneventful life in a society where robots and humans coexisting is commonplace. He works at a library, takes the bus, sits in his sparsely furnished apartment, recharges, then does it all over again the next day. Then by a chance meeting he comes in contact with Francesca, a robot who dreams, drives, listens to music, and collects tissue paper to mold into a family of rats.  As you can guess Sheldon fall head-over robot heels in love and in no time Francesca shows him everything he's been missing out on.

As the movie progressed, not unlike the tree in the book, Francesca begins to lose herself. And I mean literally. First she loses her left arm in the audience of a concert hall, then later she loses her right leg in some unknown accident, and even later on she loses much, much more. But for every limb and ligament detached from her body Sheldon offers up his in return. 

It's such a raw, heartfelt, heart-breaking film that deserves to be seen and appreciated. I'd urge everyone who reads this to give it a try.

I'm Here official site

Accompanying the movie is quite the soundtrack. With Sleigh Bells 'A/B Machines' and 'Crown On The Ground' blasting on car stereos, Girls' 'Hellhole Ratrace' appropriately playing at a party, and faux-band The Lost Trees accompanied by Aska Matsumiya and the movie's obvious theme song 'There Are Many of Us' which is used frequently and to great effect.

A few movie trailers

I love love Catherine Keener.

And a new Michel Gondry film that will break my heart.

Listen/Learn/Love

www.whoismgmt.com

Sisterworld

Growing all the way and back

A while ago I got to see my most favourite band in the world (Fuck Buttons, duh) and opening for them was Growing, a band I was not so familiar with though I have heard a few tracks here and there.

Anyways, I got ahold of 'All The Way', a six track bundle of froggy blurps, bubbles, and invisible beats. I swear I've never been so motivated to dance by something without an actual beat (no drums, yo) and I just cannot contain myself.

It's glitchy and repetitive and everything I could ever ask for in noisey/drone/electric album. I'm surprised to find that the bulk of their other work is alot more moody and lengthy and drone, which is fantastic don't get me wrong, it's total aces, but please, Growing, more of this!

Beta Baby

Totally just made my very own, very first megamix. It's a healthy 50 minutes and 03 seconds and is chock full of Crystal Castles, Justice, Fever Ray, Test Icicles, and etc. (I've actually forgotten the rest.)

Probably won't post it here for fear of the unknown but maybe I'll change my mind in the future.

NEVER MIND.

It done fucked up on me.

NEVER MIND AGAIN.

I fixed this fucker. Now it's 38 minutes and 20 seconds. Whatever, it's great.