Friday, June 26, 2009

4 for Friday

1. Coil - Are You Shivering - From the album "Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1" it is absolutely that. This might be my favorite Coil track. To me their weirdness and darkness and theatricality and intricacies of sound are totally present and at their best here.
2. PJ Harvey - Happy and Bleeding - Old school PJ, before she got all polished and theatrical. I used to have quite the angsty time singing to this album.
3. Ryan Adams - Wonderwall - I never thought an Oasis song could sound good.
4. Iron & Wine - Sea and the Rhythm - My favorite Iron & Wine song. I could die to this.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

6 for Saturday

So I was terribly busy running around adventuring yesterday and wasn't able to post my 4 for Friday, so to make up for that I'll post 6 for Saturday. That's two more for the price of nothing, my friends.
1. The Knife - Got 2 Let U
2. Coil - The Tenderness of Wolves
3. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues
4. Combichrist - Sent to Destroy
5. H.I.M. - One Last Time
6. Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Overheard on Valencia last night

Setting - Guy and girl standing in front of Ritual. I'm walking by with a friend of mine.

Guy: It's fake!
Girl: Pap smears are not fake!!


And scene.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Sunday, June 07, 2009

I <3 you, San Francisco.

(12:20:20 PM) Marie: oh also on my way home
(12:20:27 PM) Marie: there was a girl on the train with her friends
(12:20:34 PM) Marie: who was like doing handstands on the moving train
(12:20:47 PM) Marie: she was really tall and was holding herself with her feet on the ceiling
(12:21:04 PM) Marie: then she was grabbing the handrails and doing flips and shit down the aisles
(12:21:11 PM) Marie: and hanging upside down off of them
(12:21:25 PM) Marie: and then she inspired a random guy on the train to do a backflip too
(12:21:28 PM) Marie: it was pretty magical

Friday, June 05, 2009

4 for Friday

1. Neko Case - That Teenage Feeling - This song is sooo indicative of my life 8 or 9 months ago. It's my favorite song off of Fox Confessor Brings the Flood.
2. Tracey Thorn and Jens Lekman - Yeah! Oh Yeah! - This is a great cover of a great Magnetic Fields song. I love the idea of Jens singing Stephin Merritt. And Tracey (Everything But the Girl)sounds lovely as well.
3. Propagandhi - Gifts - This is one of their more "emo" songs, solely because John Samson is singing it. Well, the lyrics are pretty emo too. John Samson is just emo. Go listen to the Weakerthans if you don't believe me.
4. Whiskeytown - Turn Around (Alternate Version) - Oh Ryan Adams. You were such a little southern-accented rough voiced boy. (I think he was like 23 when this came out). I love it.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

I saw Jens Lekman!

I have video and pictures. He made us promise not to post them on the internet, but I have to show the world a small bit of his dreamy amazingness:

It was too fantastic for words.