What the fuck?
this is where all my stuff is stored. It better not be messed up or messed on.
David Sedaris on yesterday’s Daily Show
the one person in life I’ve always thought it would be fun to stalk. Just ordered my copy of the book last night. GODSPEED Amazon!
New Music: Animal Collective: Micromixes [MP3s]Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox has been known to post “Micromixes”— so titled in honor of forthcoming third LP Microcastle— of his favorite tracks on his bands’ blog. While Cox recently posted his 16th such mp3 mix, the sometime Atlas Sound dream-popper has also commissioned mixes from tourmate White Rainbow, Deerhunter guitarists Lockett Pundt and Whitney Petty, and even a skeptical music blogger. Now, Cox has posted mixes by three members of the headliners on Atlas Sound’s just-finished European tour, none other than Animal Collective. That’s right: Panda Bear, Avey Tare, and the Geologist each contribute their own song selections. Track listings are below the links.
Having just enjoyed, at a BBQ over the weekend, mojitos made with fresh mint picked straight from someone’s garden, might I especially recommend Geologist’s mix?
MP3:> Panda Bear’s Bookie Pad Micromix
MP3:> Avey Tare’s Micromix
MP3:> Geologist’s Mojito Micromix
Panda Bear’s Bookie Pad Micromix
1. Mogollar - Katip Arzuhalim Yaz Yare BoyleAvey Tare’s Micromix
1. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Rocky Road
2. Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows (First Version)
3. Disco Inferno - It’s A Kid’s World
4. Public Nuisance - Please Come Back
5. Replacements - Within Your Reach
6. Misfits - Brain Eaters
7. Prince Far I - Joshua Dub
8. Talk Talk - I Believe You
9. Dettinger - Untitled (Track 6 from Intershop)
10. Rodriguez - Sugarman
11. Moby Grape - 8:05
12. Spacemen 3 - We Sell Soul
13. Kate Bush - Army Dreamers
14. Thin Lizzy - Randolph’s Tango
Geologist’s Mojito Micromix
1. Joe Jackson - Steppin’ Out
2. Phil Collins - I’m Not Moving (Idjut Boys Edit)
3. Big Cherry - Come in Bonzo
4. The Byrds - Dolphin’s Smile
5. Mamas and the Papas - Snowqueen of Texas
6. The Honeycombs - I Can Tell (Something’s Up)
7. Music Makers - United
8. J Dilla - Bye
9. Home - The Bogeyman
10. Thin Lizzy - Little Girl in Bloom
11. 13th Floor Elevators - May the Circle Remain Unbroken
12. Bjorn Olsson - Minnesstund
We are pleased to announce an outdoor concert featuring Björk, Sigur Rós, Ólöf Arnalds and special foreign guests. The concert will take place in Reykjavík, Iceland, on the June 28th. The exact location will be disclosed later on.
The goal of the concert is to raise awareness on environmental issues in Iceland:
“Neither me or Sigur Rós look at ourselves as experts on nature, or as politicians, but we do travel a lot and we believe we know a lot about what image Iceland has abroad, and that we are far behind when it comes to being” Says Björk when asked how the concert came to be. “I spent for example 2 months in South-America and there you saw the poor doing recycling. We can’t be 30 years behind, we need to work together on this and preferably we should be leading the way.”
“Too often battles being fought for nature turn into something negative and into mudslinging. We will not go that way, we are not saying that this and that is forbidden, we are rather asking “what about all these other possibilites?”. The 21st century is not going to be another oil century but rather a century where we need to recycle, think green and design both power plants and our surroundings in harmony with nature.”
Hitchhiking in Alaska…
So what happened was about 1 am I ran into my buddy Joe that works here and he gave me a beer. This was the second night that he had given me one so I pointed out to him that I’d be willing to contribute next time someone went to town to get some. He said they’d probably go tomorrow or if I wanted we could go to this old broad’s house they call Granmma. She lives in her liquor store and will wake up 24 hours to sell you liquor. However the store was about a 40 minute drive. We didn’t have a car so we decided we were going to walk the whole way. He doesn’t have to be at work until Wednesday and I don’t until Monday night. So we took off into the night with the 12 beers Joe had left and cameras, no water. Two or three miles out we started hitchhiking. First car zoomed past us. The second car was going the wrong way but we thought we’d try it anyway just to go somewhere. They passed us by and then U-turned and came back and picked us up. It was a couple of the Native kids that went to high school. We paid them for gas and they took us about 80 miles total to Grammas. The legends were true. She’s a crazy old bat that lives in a cave.. a liquor cave and you ring her door bell and she’ll come out and open her liquor store for you. But if you bullshit around too long she gets crabby and starts yelling at you that she wants to go back to bed so get your shit and get out. I love Granmma. Anyway, on the way back I saw my first live bear out here which was in the middle of the road. I no longer want to encounter a bear in the wilderness as I saw the enormity of the beast and the speed at which it took off out of the road into the woods was amazing. They dropped us off back at the road leading into the lodge and we hiked the trail back up to the lodge. Took some really cool pictures as it was like a 3:30 am dawn. Though I was prepared for a 2 day journey, it was 2-1/2 hours of the most exciting time I’ve had since I’ve been up here. The story keeps going till about 7 am but this is where I stop telling it for now. I’m pretty sure the rest of the story might result in me getting in a little bit of trouble here to come. I’m going to try and lay low the rest of the day and keep rolling back and forth in bed till this hangover goes away.
oh yeah.. hitching hiking is stupid.. don’t do it!
Alaska can be a lonely place for a guy seeking another guy. So I turned to Craigslist… again.
After talking to a guy for a little while in back and forth emails, I finally got a picture of him which among many things that was wrong with the scenario showed him to be at least 25 years too old. At the same time I got the picture was an invitation to go for a getaway on our first date up on a place called ‘Sheep Mountain’ for a few days in his travel trailer where we’d go filming baby sheep and hunting grizzly bears.
no seriously
Sheep Mountain? is that supposed to be like..i remember that summer up on Brokeback
While that sounds completely exciting there is no way I’m going on a first date with a crazy looking old man out in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of guns and no one to hear my screams…
oh Alaska…
i’m going to continue feeding off the energy of my loneliness and the homophobic gay and AIDS jokes that fall so easily from the mouths of people in my housing