Last Nights Parties & Last Nights Horror Show -or- Will You Call me When You Get There?

November 2009
1. Bat for Lashes: Sleep Alone
2. The XX: Heart Skipped a Beat
3. Bjork: 5 Years
4. Belle & Sebastian: Expectations
5. Elvis Perkins: All the Night Without Love
6. Yo La Tengo: Autumn Sweater
7. Bjork: So Broken
8. Joanna Newsom: Cosmia
9. Bowerbirds: Dark Horse
10. Great Lake Swimmers: Bodies & Monds
11. Espers: Black is the color
12. Marissa Nadler: Ghosts & Lovers
13. Portishead: The Rip
14. Spiritualized: Broken Heart
15. Joanna Newsom: Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
16. Feist: Intuition

In Between The Lines

In Between The Lines

1. St. Vincent/ The Strangers
2. Taken By Trees/ To Lose Someone
3. Ramona Falls/ Russia
4. Monsters Of Folk/ Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.)
5. St. Vincent/ Save Me From What I Want
6. The Postal Service/ Against The Odds
7. High Places/ From Stardust To Sentience
8. Taken By Trees/ Watch The Waves
9. Calexico/ Two Silver Trees
10. Vandarveer/ Turpentine
11. The Avett Brothers/ My Last Song To Jenny
12. Sufjan Stevens/ The Dress Looks Nice On You
13. The Avett Brothers/ I And You And Love
14. Great Lake Swimmers/ Where In The World Are You
15. Willard Grant Conspiracy/ Another Lonely Night
16. Sufjan Stevens/ Redford
17. The Antlers/ Bear
18. Blind Melon/ Walk

October 2009 MM

The Weathers Fine

The Weather’s Fine
August 2009

1. Andrew Bird: Weather Systems
2. The Raconteurs: Carolina Drama
3. The Black Keys: Psychotic Girl
4. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Ain’t No Easy Way
5. The Raconteurs: Old Enough
6. The Beatles: Rain
7. Blur: Tender
8. Sweet Tea: If I Were A Carpenter
9. Castanets: Worn From The Fight (With Fireworks)
10. Dirty Projectors: No Intention
11. Grizzly Bear: Southern Point
12. Neil Young: Tell Me Why
13. Great Lake Swimmers: Your Rocky Spine
14. Blitzen Trapper: Furr
15. Fleet Foxes: Blue Ridge Mountains
16. Andrew Bird: Untitled
17. Bob Dylan: Tell Me Baby
18. Portishead: Deep Water

Waitin' Around To Die

New Mix from July 2009


Waitin' Around to Die
1. Terry Callier: You Goin’ To Miss Your Candyman
2. 13th floor Elevators: You’re Gonna Miss ME
3. Bobbie Gentry: Ode To Billy Joe
4. Gillian Welch: One More Dollar
5. Warren Zevon: Keep Me In Your Heart
6. The Handsom Family: The Giant Of Ilinois
7. Adela Diane: The Ocean
8. Magnolia Electric Co.: Little Sad Eyes
9. Willie Nelson: Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
10. Townes Van Zandt: Waiting Around To Die
11. Vic Chesnutt: Chain
12. Bon Iver: Creature Fear
13. Fleet Foxes: Oliver James
14. The Tallest Man On Earth: Shallow Grave
15. Iron & Wine: Cinder And Smoke
16. Gillian Welch: Orphan Girl
17. Karen Dalton: In The Evening (It’s So Hard To Tell Who’s Gonna Love You)
18. Roky Erickson: Goodbye Sweet Dreams
19. Nico: The Fairest Of The Seasons

July 2009 MM

Leave me Alone to Pine and Sigh

1. White Antelope: Silver Dagger
2. Alela Diane: White As Diamonds
3. Simon & Garfunkel: The Blues Run the Game
4. White Antelope: It Ain’t me Babe
5. Mazzy Star: I’ve Been Let Down
6. Marissa Nadler: Little Hells
7. Townes Van Zandt: Our Mother the Mountain
8. Headless Heroes: To You
9. Marissa Nadler: Heart Paper Lover
10. Sharon Van Etten: For You
11. Radiohead: Pyramid Song
12. Metric: Help I’m Alive (Acoustic)
13. Neko Case: Middle Cyclone
14. Mazzy Star: Flowers in December
15. The White Stripes: Jolene
16. Townes Van Zandt: Kathleen
17. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: People Ain’t no Good
18. White Antelope: Wild Mountain Thyme

June 2009
MM

Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh's work is being featured at the Parlor Gallery in Asbury Park now through June 20th. I took the opportunity to check it out last Saturday and was far from disappointed. It's nice to know that the Jersey Shore can attract artist as influential and innovative as he. Check it out!

Parlor Gallery
717 Cookman Ave
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
www.parlor-gallery.com






Also included in this exhibit is the work of industrial artist Isaac Krady.



Skout is an installation of cement furniture created by Isaac. On view through mid June.

Check out his website!
www.isaackrady.com

Gram Parsons: Codeine

I am just discovering Gram Parsons and found this today. So Good! I'm in a funk today so it's perfect...



Lyrics

An' my belly is craving, I got shakin' in my head

I feel like I'm dyin' an' I wish I were dead

If I lived till tomorrow it's gonna be a long time

For I'll reel and I'll fall and rise on codine

An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

When I was a young man I learned not to care

Wild whiskey, confronted I often did swear

My mother and father said whiskey is a curse

But the fate of their baby is many times worse

An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

You'll forget your woman, you'll forget about man

Try it just once, an' you'll try it again

It's sometimes you wonder and it's sometimes you think

That I'm a-living my life with abandon to drink

An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

Stay away from the cities, stay away from the towns

Stay away from the men pushin' the codine around

Stay away from the stores where the remedy is found

I will live a few days as a slave to codine

An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

An' my belly is craving, I've got a shakin' in my head

An' I've started heating whether my body said

Steady yourself with the grains of cocaine

An' you'll end dead or you'll end up insane

An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

An' my belly is craving, I got shaking in my head

I feel like I'm dyin' an' I wish I were dead

If I lived till tomorrow it's gonna be a long time

For I'll reel and I'll fall and rise on codine

An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

We are here...

Here's my new mix. Lot's of old repeats...but i had my reasons...
1. ELLIOT SMITH: PRETTY (UGLY BEFORE)
2. BAT FOR LASHES: USE SOMEBODY (KINGS OF LEON COVER)
3. GOLDFRAPP: LET IT TAKE YOU
4. LYKKE LI: MELODIES/ DESIRES
5. BJORK: POSSIBLY MAYBE
6. THE KNIFE: HEARTBEATS
7. BJORK: I GO HUMBLE
8. CLAP YOUR HANDS AND SAY YEAH: IS THIS LOVE
9. SUFJAN STEVENS: CHICAGO
10. NEKO CASE: TEENAGE FEELING
11. MODEST MOUSE: BUKOWSKI
12. THE SHINS: NEW SLANG
13. DAMIAN JURADO: MEDICATION
14. MODEST MOUSE: LIVES
15. JOHNNY CASH: I SEE A DARKNESS
16. ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS: KNOCKING ON HEAVENS DOOR
17. THE VASELINES: DYING FOR IT (THE BLUES)


4/2009 MM

Good Ideas Grow on Trees!

Micheal Arthur is currently the official artist for Joe's Pub in NYC. All of his drawings are live reactions to whatever he may be watching or experiencing.



HERE'S SOME OF HIS ART!




CHECK OUT HIS SITE
http://www.michaeldarthur.com/

Recently he collaborated with Mike Viola contributing some live drawing for his video Good Ideas Grow on Trees. In my opinion its beautiful! Michael Arthur...I think you are a genius! Thank you for this!

Here's the Video...

Catching Fireflies & Popping Pills

March 2009 Mix



CATCHING FIREFLIES & POPPING PILLS
1. XIU XIU: I LOVE THE VALLEY OH
2. FEVER RAY: NOWS THE ONLY TIME I KNOW
3. THE BOOKS FEAT. JOSE GONZALES: CELLO SONG
4. DAN DEACON: OF THE MOUNTAINS
5. THE BOOKS: THERE IS NO THERE
6. MAGNETIC FIELDS: 100,000 FIREFLIES
7. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE: WINTERS LOVE
8. DNTEL FEAT. JENNY LEWIS; ROLL ON
9. THE HANDSOM FAMILY; WEIGHTLESS AGAIN
10. SUFJAN STEVENS: YOU ARE THE BLOOD
11. BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE: HOTEL
12. HOT CHIP: THE WARNING
13. DNTEL: THE DREAM OF EVAN AND CHAN
14. THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA: DAWN
15. THE DECEMBERISTS: SLEEPLESS
16. JEFF MAGNUM: ENGINE (LAST PERFORNANCE EVER)

When I Grow Up

My new mix is finished! Here's the tracklisting

When I Grow Up, I’ll Stop Having These Dreams


1. Andrew Bird- The Trees Were Mistaken
2. Ane Brun- The Treehouse Song
3. Fever Ray- When I Grow Up
4. Bloc Party- Biko
5. Ane Brun- The Fall
6. Micah P. Hinson- I Keep Havin’ These Dreams
7. TV On the Radio- Stork & Owl
8. Refused- Bruitist Pome #5
9. Andrew Bird- Sectionate City
10. Beirut- The Penalty
11. Deerhunter- Activa
12. Sufjan Stevens- Lets Here the String Part Again Because I Don’t Think
They Heard it All the Way Out in Bushnell
13. Pseudosix- Put Your Back to The Sun
14. The Arcade Fire- My Body is a Cage
15. Sufjan Stevens- In This Temple, As in The Hearts of Man For Whom
He Saved The Earth
16. Beirut- In the Mausoleum
17. Devendra Banhart- Fall
18. Xiu Xiu- Sad Redux-O-Grapher




If you want a copy just let me know and I'll send it.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

If you pay attention, and succumb to your surroundings, everything that we come into contact with, if we allow them, can be strangely related to each other.



My favorite book of all time is The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. McCullers skillfully intertwines 5 characters wherein which she creates a story which explores the struggle with isolation and loneliness. Recently, I started reading The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, an equally satisfying read, which focuses on the same themes as The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
In my research on McCullers, I stumbled across a poem by Charles Bukowski, who happens to be another favorite author of mine.


Carson McCullers


she died of alcoholism
wrapped in a blanket
on a deck chair
on an ocean
steamer.

all her books of
terrified loneliness

all her books about
the cruelty
of loveless love

were all that was left
of her

as the strolling vacationer
discovered her body

notified the captain

and she was quickly dispatched
to somewhere else
on the ship

as everything
continued just
as
she had written it

Charles Bukowski


It's not necessarily surprising that Bukowski would write of McCullers and her lost battle with alcoholism being that he was an infamous alcoholic himself.





While on the subject of depressed alcoholic artists, here's Modest Mouse at Albert Hall doing Bukowski. One of my favorites!


Bukowski
by Modest Mouse

"Woke up this morning and it seemed to me, that every night turns out to be a little bit more like Bukowski. And yeah, I know he's a pretty good read. But God who'd wanna be? God who'd wanna be such an asshole? God who'd wanna be? God who'd wanna be such an asshole?"

Bonnaroo!

Back in 2002 after leaving Tennessee I vowed I would never return to Manchester. It was hot, dry and dusty, unorganized and much too far away! But after the announcement earlier this week, I have to eat my words. With Phish and The Boss headlining and others signed on such as Bon Iver, Animal Collective, David Byrne, Wilco, Girl Talk, MGMT to name a few I will be purchasing my ticket immediatly!


Here's the link to the full line-up.

First Aid Kit

At the height of my Fleet Foxes infatuation last summer, I stumbled across a cover of Tiger Mountain Peasant Song. Two teenage sisters, Klara & Johanna Soderberg, who I've recently come to learn go by the name of First Aid Kit, retreated to the woods to perform this beautiful cover. Apparently Fleet Foxes aggreed with my opinion because during a recent show in Den Haag, Netherlands, the duet joined Fleet Foxes on stage to add some back-up harmonies. If you are one of the few who haven't had the pleasure of seeing the video, here you go...



As a result of First Aid Kits new found fame, Rabid Records, whose founders are Karin Dreijer Anderson and Olof Dreijer from The Knife, recently signed them. Their new EP Drunken Trees is now available for download on their myspace page I wish both of these two talented girls the best of luck.


While on the subject of the Driejer siblings, Karin recently released her solo album under the name of Fever Ray. Here's the video for "If I had a Heart".



I suppose it should have been expected that this album would follow in the same vein as The Knife. Although, I thoroughly enjoy the new album from Karin, I hope there's a project in the works for The Knife in the not too distant future.

MOVIE TRAILERS

The 2008 release of the Nina Simone box set To Be Free appears to have re-awakened some peoples interest in her music. The trailer for the new Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Jarhead, Road to Perdition) film, Revolutaionary Road features my personal favorite Nina Simone song, Wild is the Wind.




While on the subject of movie trailers featuring great music, The Arcade Fires My Body is a Cage is used in a short but beautiful trailer for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.



While I must admit that i cannot say that I've seen either of these films but they are both on the top of my list!

Revolutionary Road recently just reached wide release so those of us who aren't in the major cities will be able to see it!

Favorites Albums of 2008

To start the New Year, I decided to create a new blog here rather than on Myspace in an attempt to reach out to more of you. Be it just a resolution or an effort in self rejuvenation, Im going to try and post as much as possible and keep you updated on what's happening in my head.

Here are my favorite albums from the past year which i feel need to be recognized. (I usually would have this on my Myspace page but feel that it belongs here instead.)


Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago


Fleet Foxes
Sun Giant EP

Fleet Foxes


Portishead
Third


Dr. Dog
Fate


Ane Brun
The Changing of The Seasons


Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend







I am well aware many of you will criticize my choices, but they are the albums which I felt the most attachment to.