Protest Song of the Year

When the President Talks to God--Bright Eyes

Can you hear the truth?

Several Symptoms of Recovery

Listening to indie hip-hop and eating nothing but apples and peanut butter. Sigh.

Tune In
Bush: DeLay is innocent until proven Republican
O'Reilly fucks up in the name of Christmas
Churches will help poor just as soon as they're done kissing unborn babies

Tune Out
F.K.O.--Subtle
By Purpose Not By Plan--Ninja High School
Public=Shopping--Giant Robot
Play--Kleptones
Hump (cover of BEP)--Dog Eyed Welders [site not found]

Combating a Cold Through an Interesting Military Tactic Commonly Known as Giving Up

Amid drifting in and out of cold medicine-induced slumber, finishing dog-eared novels, and rationing kleenex, a new post doth arise.

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Indonesian man dies from bird flu. Birds irked at decidedly one-sided media coverage.
DNA continues to be a problem for people not on death row
Morgan Freeman criticizes Black History Month. Ukranian History Month said happy to take its spot.


Tune Out
I Hear Your Drowning But I'm Tied--Letting Up Despite Great Faults
The Life of a Total Square--The Snow Fairies
Plea From A Cat Named Virtue--The Weakerthans

Mix of the Hour

UPDATE (12/10/05 2:26PM): The direct link I gave you to to the below mix is a dud, so you'll just have to go by way of the AOL Music page. Look under the Editor's Picks section for the LCD Soundsystem mix, but for the DFA Holdiday Mix, check under the Featured Artist section. Happy listening campers!

For those of you who don't know me that well (and judging by a show of hands that would be... yep, all of you.) I loves me some DFA-style dance mixes. I found this one by way of Beats in Space, who pointed towards a handy AOL Music page which led me to "AOL Mix 09/16/2005' - Part 1" by none other than LCD Soundsystem.


This mix boasts a 1:05:42 running time and starts out relatively slow with a single repeating loop until around :50 where it breaks into full disco beat. At 1:25 the lyrics kick in. The mix ends in a glorious hail of feedback and various Halloween-esque sound effects. The transitions are seamless and it's a great soundtrack to waking up at 11:00 and calling it early.

Nine Inches...

...of snow on the east coast!

You know what that means: Back-breaking shoveling! Songs for you to clothe a chiropractor's children by!

Things Are What You Make of Them--Bishop Allen
Nobody Move--We Are Scientists (cover by Ethan Fogus)
Incommunicado--Man in Gray
Sha La La--Chris Stamey and Friends
Mr. Freeze--Dressed For the Bomb
Why Bother At All--Koufax
In This Home on Ice--Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

So Here I Am, There You Are...

Checking in between this that and the other thing. I haven't decided when and where I should actually start promoting lift, so if you're one of the few people who has found it, go ahead and run to your nearest message board and promote. Thank yee kindly.

Tune In
McMoon: Supersizing the Last Great Frontier
Keep your eyes off the government and on their huge tree
I want Miss Beazly in my next movie.


Tune Out
Chicago (Live in Brussels)--Sufjan Stevens [mediocre quality]
Wordless Chorus (Live in Toronto)--My Morning Jacket
Sofa King--Danger Doom
Flies--A-Frames
Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)--Bloc Party
Don’t Ask (Final Fantasy Remix) --Grizzly Bear

First Conception

It was a virgin birth, unfortunately, but he'll make a good carpenter. Or a soccer player for that matter... Talk to the angel, I know nothing.

Tune In (News and Such)
Darwinist Attacked in Kansas. The year 1925 unavailable for comment.
Christian Porn: Not just for the pastors anymore.
Abba promises never to reform. Millions celebrate...er, mourn.
See that? Censorship was a privilege all along!


Tune Out (Music and The Like)
Helicopter (Whitey Remix)--Bloc Party
Romantic Rights--Death From Above 1979
This Isn't It--Giant Drag
Sweet Troubled Soul (James Iha Remix)--Stellastarr*
The Godfather--Harry and the Potters

fin.

A Messy Birth

Well not quite messy, shall we call it "unexpected pregnancy?" Yes.

Alright, quick summary of what I intend this humble mp3 blog to be. I'll be posting (in)frequent bursts of thoughts as well as mp3s and quite possibly news, reviews, etc al infinitum to the end. Indie rock will be the main focus, as well as humor, but I don't confine myself to just four walls, I hire a contractor to put in an additional two as well as a patio while he's at it. Enjoy.