This was so much fun.
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Friday, November 06, 2009
Thursday, November 05, 2009
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUTTERNUTS!
Generator ^ First Floor - Freelance Whales
Ambling Limb - Yeasayer
Light At The End Of The Tunnel - The Bloodsugars
Don't Give Up - Lake
Which Song (Passion Pix Remix) - Max Tundra
Despicable Dogs (Washed Out Remix) - Small Black
Mfamu - The Very Best
Whats In It For? - Avi Buffalo
Dare - The Mary Onettes
Birds Of A Feather (Feat. GZA) - MOCKY
Bear - The Antlers
Here's to many more nights like this
Friday, October 30, 2009
Happy Hallowqueenie!
Here is a mix tape.
Zombie Hop - Zombina & The Skeletons
Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps
Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
Day-O - Harry Belefonte
Ghost Town- The Specials
Dracula - Gorillaz
Welcome To My Nightmare - Alice Cooper
Nice To Be Dead - Iggy Pop
Bat Dance - Prince
Thriller - Do I even have to say it?
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
Ouija Board, Ouija Board - Morrissey
On Our Own (Ghostbusters) - Bobby Brown
Halloween feat. Notorious BIG
'The Munsters' Theme - Los Straightjackets
Have fun. Be safe.
Zombie Hop - Zombina & The Skeletons
Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps
Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
Day-O - Harry Belefonte
Ghost Town- The Specials
Dracula - Gorillaz
Welcome To My Nightmare - Alice Cooper
Nice To Be Dead - Iggy Pop
Bat Dance - Prince
Thriller - Do I even have to say it?
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
Ouija Board, Ouija Board - Morrissey
On Our Own (Ghostbusters) - Bobby Brown
Halloween feat. Notorious BIG
'The Munsters' Theme - Los Straightjackets
Have fun. Be safe.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Life is Better
This new Q-Tip track features Norah Jones and reminds me of walking around Clinton Hill in the Fall. Like all spice and everything nice.
No Contest
Mariachi El Bronx filmed the video for "Cell Mates" at one of my favorite watering holes in Los Angeles. If you can tell me where this was filmed, I will make a mix tape just for you on the blog. Go!
Darktober
Oh wow you guys! It's been a minna since I've posted here. Apologies for my absence, we've had a few set backs on this end. BUT here is a short mix tape I made for early fall. It's just short of a half hour, the attempt here is to make one every week in October, feel free to call me out if I fall short.
Darktober
1. Ted Zancha - Maps & Atlases
2. All The Kings Men - Wild Beasts*
3. A Hundred Hearts - The Swimmers
4. Crocodile - Hatcham Social
5. Horchata - Vampire Weekend*
6. On My Way - The Sweet Serenades
7. You've Got The Love (The XX mashup/remix) - Florence & The Machine
8. My Heart Still Beats For You - Klader and Vapen (Feat. Anna Ternheim)*
*obsessive
Speak Soon,
RnR
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Design on a Dime & Mix Tapes From Last Week
... aaaand we're back. Here is what you came up with for fliers, what does everyone think?
Personally, I think if you took the time to try anything you deserve something. Maybe I'll order pizza for everyone next Monday.
First design that came in was from @mandaxwp
the second in was from @livinginpink
and last, but certainly not least, this from @leesnelgar
Then I thought I should probably take a stab at it, here it what I came up with
If you are going to be in NYC on Monday night come by Arrow Bar, it's the first night of my Monthly listening party F*CK TUESDAY! We're going to be discounting Old Fashioned's all night and kickin' out some laid back party jams... and as some of you kids know already, you never know who might show up.
Four days later she tells you what is on the mix tape from Friday. It was a shortie, if you haven't snagged it yet you can snag it here.
Beds And Dishes - Anois
I Want You Back (MJ Cover) - Discovery
Pull My Heart Away - Jack Penate
A Doctors Lament - Papercuts
Revenge (Feat. Wayne Coyne) - Sparklehorse
Ambivalence Avenue - Bibio
I Felt Stupid - The Drums
Ok off for a bike ride, I don't understand why it's legal to ride in NY without a helmet. If it's illegal to ride on the sidewalk it should be illegal to ride without a helmet. Bitches be crazy drivers here.
Personally, I think if you took the time to try anything you deserve something. Maybe I'll order pizza for everyone next Monday.
First design that came in was from @mandaxwp
the second in was from @livinginpink
and last, but certainly not least, this from @leesnelgar
Then I thought I should probably take a stab at it, here it what I came up with
If you are going to be in NYC on Monday night come by Arrow Bar, it's the first night of my Monthly listening party F*CK TUESDAY! We're going to be discounting Old Fashioned's all night and kickin' out some laid back party jams... and as some of you kids know already, you never know who might show up.
Four days later she tells you what is on the mix tape from Friday. It was a shortie, if you haven't snagged it yet you can snag it here.
Beds And Dishes - Anois
I Want You Back (MJ Cover) - Discovery
Pull My Heart Away - Jack Penate
A Doctors Lament - Papercuts
Revenge (Feat. Wayne Coyne) - Sparklehorse
Ambivalence Avenue - Bibio
I Felt Stupid - The Drums
Ok off for a bike ride, I don't understand why it's legal to ride in NY without a helmet. If it's illegal to ride on the sidewalk it should be illegal to ride without a helmet. Bitches be crazy drivers here.
Monday, August 24, 2009
10 Songs I Used To Sing In Front Of The Mirror
Ok so clearly I'm not getting any writing done today, instead here are ten songs I used to (and sometimes still...) sing into my hairbrush... in front of the mirror... in no particular order.
I had the single of this song on tape; I bought it at the Sam Goody in Kings Plaza… probably with Hanukah gelt. I still know all the words. I learned how to do the Roger Rabbit to this song and thought it was genius until I learned what sampling was all about... it still is kind of genius. Cute babies doing the Running man!
My first boyfriend gave me Violator for my 12th birthday because I liked the song Enjoy The Silence. I was hooked after that, most of the CD’s in my early music collection consisted of Depeche Mode releases. I had absolutely no concept of what they were singing about as a 12 year old, but who cares, this song is totally worthy of brush singing.
I was OBSESSED with this song. Obsessed! When Rhythm Nation came out I wanted to dress exactly like Janet. I got as far as a black hat; Mona cut me off after that.
When I was 16 I did this program called SCA, I went to the backwoods in Nowheresville, Colorado we weren’t allowed to have any technologic implements with us… You know that I snuck in my yellow Sony Walkman. I had one mix tape one side was Suede and the other side was U2. I listened to this song the entire summer at 9,000 ft.
The first two bits of vinyl I owned aside from Sesame Street 7” were Madonna’s Like A Virgin and Michael Jackson’s Thriller. I grew up in a very large apartment building, the boy who lived upstairs from me would come down and we would jump on the couches singing along to this song.
I don’t even know where to begin with Erasure, in 1988 my aunt and her friend Randi bought The Innocence and put it on in her apartment. She had just graduated from college and it was the first adult apartment… literally one building over from where my Grandparents lived. The two of them danced to this song like there was so tomorrow, pin wheeling around this empty space. I think that was the day I fell in love with music. Erasure would later be my first concert at The Beacon theatre, the night I learned the hard way what a drag queen was.
This song was also on the mix tape I had with me in Colorado, it was playing as we were driving from Gunnison to Creede, Colorado. If I were in a movie I couldn’t have placed that song in the better spot. The San Juan mountain rage is G-D’s country. Joshua Tree is still my favorite U2 album.
I didn’t get to Morphine until my senior year of high school, it seemed all the smart kids were listening to Morphine or maybe they all played wind instruments in band or whatever… I didn’t drink, smoke or do anything bad except cheat in high school. I literally got drunk three times before I went to college, and once was in San Nicola on the beach… So I don’t count that because I was on exchange in Italy. I remember when Mark Sandman died, I remember thinking that I was so lucky I had the chance to meet my lyrical idol who told me at the H.O.R.D.E show that he was glad he didn’t inspire me to be a serial killer after I confessed to him that Morphine inspired me to pursue a career in the arts. F.T.W
Blur. What can I say? I was (and still am) an Anglophile. My cousin Keri gave me her 10-hole DM’s and everyone at school called me Frankenstein until they showed up at the mall and then everyone was wearing them. I have two older British cousins who treated me like a younger sister when I was growing up. Imagine, you’re 19 in London at Soho House with your cousin watching Graham Coxon and Damon Albarn play a game of Snooker… I don’t even know how many times I played hardcore air guitar to this song.
I used to edit music videos to the songs on I Should Coco, when In It For The Money came out it blew my mind. I think I actually learned how to play this song on guitar. I still have this CD but it won't even play through anymore it's so badly scratched.
That’s all. Who did you sing into your hairbrush and play air guitar to?
I had the single of this song on tape; I bought it at the Sam Goody in Kings Plaza… probably with Hanukah gelt. I still know all the words. I learned how to do the Roger Rabbit to this song and thought it was genius until I learned what sampling was all about... it still is kind of genius. Cute babies doing the Running man!
My first boyfriend gave me Violator for my 12th birthday because I liked the song Enjoy The Silence. I was hooked after that, most of the CD’s in my early music collection consisted of Depeche Mode releases. I had absolutely no concept of what they were singing about as a 12 year old, but who cares, this song is totally worthy of brush singing.
I was OBSESSED with this song. Obsessed! When Rhythm Nation came out I wanted to dress exactly like Janet. I got as far as a black hat; Mona cut me off after that.
When I was 16 I did this program called SCA, I went to the backwoods in Nowheresville, Colorado we weren’t allowed to have any technologic implements with us… You know that I snuck in my yellow Sony Walkman. I had one mix tape one side was Suede and the other side was U2. I listened to this song the entire summer at 9,000 ft.
The first two bits of vinyl I owned aside from Sesame Street 7” were Madonna’s Like A Virgin and Michael Jackson’s Thriller. I grew up in a very large apartment building, the boy who lived upstairs from me would come down and we would jump on the couches singing along to this song.
I don’t even know where to begin with Erasure, in 1988 my aunt and her friend Randi bought The Innocence and put it on in her apartment. She had just graduated from college and it was the first adult apartment… literally one building over from where my Grandparents lived. The two of them danced to this song like there was so tomorrow, pin wheeling around this empty space. I think that was the day I fell in love with music. Erasure would later be my first concert at The Beacon theatre, the night I learned the hard way what a drag queen was.
This song was also on the mix tape I had with me in Colorado, it was playing as we were driving from Gunnison to Creede, Colorado. If I were in a movie I couldn’t have placed that song in the better spot. The San Juan mountain rage is G-D’s country. Joshua Tree is still my favorite U2 album.
I didn’t get to Morphine until my senior year of high school, it seemed all the smart kids were listening to Morphine or maybe they all played wind instruments in band or whatever… I didn’t drink, smoke or do anything bad except cheat in high school. I literally got drunk three times before I went to college, and once was in San Nicola on the beach… So I don’t count that because I was on exchange in Italy. I remember when Mark Sandman died, I remember thinking that I was so lucky I had the chance to meet my lyrical idol who told me at the H.O.R.D.E show that he was glad he didn’t inspire me to be a serial killer after I confessed to him that Morphine inspired me to pursue a career in the arts. F.T.W
Blur. What can I say? I was (and still am) an Anglophile. My cousin Keri gave me her 10-hole DM’s and everyone at school called me Frankenstein until they showed up at the mall and then everyone was wearing them. I have two older British cousins who treated me like a younger sister when I was growing up. Imagine, you’re 19 in London at Soho House with your cousin watching Graham Coxon and Damon Albarn play a game of Snooker… I don’t even know how many times I played hardcore air guitar to this song.
I used to edit music videos to the songs on I Should Coco, when In It For The Money came out it blew my mind. I think I actually learned how to play this song on guitar. I still have this CD but it won't even play through anymore it's so badly scratched.
That’s all. Who did you sing into your hairbrush and play air guitar to?
Friday, August 14, 2009
Summer. Act Two.
Call it what you want; Summer of Michael, Summer of Death, the summer that everyone decided to whip out their best Blossom tribute outfit, the summer of love (revisited)… The summer in Brokelyn is past the halfway point.
My right ear has been ringing since Glucky’s birthday last Saturday night, three of four people I’m crashing with have chosen Michel Foucault as lite summer fare, I know this because they are stacked on the toilet next to my copy of Blue Monday. New York is hot and humid and I gave up on throwing gay parties because I’m friends with everyone… So yeah, eff that. Besides my friends do it much better…
So let’s see what happened this week:
Simian Sunday
Simian Mobile Disco does a DJ set @ The Pool Parties. I run into a woman I’d met once before, but the last time she was making out with a couple at the end of a dinner party. She’s preggers now. I don’t think those two events are related however.
Flashdance on the big screen, my maiden voyage. I have an aversion to Jennifer Beals. I will say only Shakti and leave it at that. But now I get the full circle of Jesse Spano on the last season of that show.
Joe Eszterhas!… Flashdance, 1983… Showgirls, 1995… Showdance Flashgirls. Zack! I just took too many no-doze and I’m… scared girls.
P.S. Someone told me that this is a dude dancing.
Monkey Town Monday
Holly played with label mates The XX at Monkey Town, the kind of venue that gives dinner theatre a run for its money. Holly and Timmy played to Ashes and Snow on four large screens while we all reclined, it was like Passover without the lamb’s blood. Here is the AA Bondy tour vlog from Spring '09.
Go see The XX if they come through, they are waaaay cooler than I was at 18. It’s like the indoor kids all met one another, shared a mutual appreciation for all things The Joy Cure Depeche Siouxsie Division Mode complete with Chelsea hair, Doc Martins and black eyeliner. Don’t be fooled though… The XX are the real deal… I think.
TV On The Radio Tuesday
What can I say… those dudes are brilliant and I don’t like throwing that term around. They are all f*cking brilliant… and you know how you know? Their side projects are also f*cking brilliant… I’m not biased. No, no.
What The F*ck Wednesday
What was Le Poisson Rouge before it was Le Poisson Rouge?
TJO approved Phenomenal Hand Clap Band kicked off the evening opening for Friendly Fires who after some technical difficulty played a set that I danced so hard to I pulled a muscle in my groin… One way ticket to Awesometown.
At least I didn’t get pwned by Ed Macfarlane like this girl at MHOW. Ok blossom, time to go.
You can come back later with these brohammers
I haven’t danced that hard since the Pentecostal Church on my block spilled onto the street. They day I got rid of my Daniel Johnston.
Throwback Thursday
I grew up on the boarder of Brighton Beach and Coney Island. You can see the Cyclone from my Gramma’s apt. So when The 40-Sometime finally agreed to come to a show with me, the heaven sent double bill of Pat Benatar and Blondie coupled with the draw of Raimy roots garnished a yes… and I made a picnic.
Asser Levy Park is normally lined with residents ringing heaven’s doorbell, it’s been this way as far back as I can remember. The benches lined with dying Jew - Haitian aid, sick Jew - Jamaican aid, Russian guy in a tracksuit and scattered Irish Italians. I have never seen this many people in Brighton Beach.
We stood with Mike and Gina who had baked ziti as the screensaver on her phone. Don’t ask me why I know this. I knew too much about everyone standing with us, but that’s my outer Brooklyn not the white homogenized version you see on blogs. The hairy, tank topped, my brother is NYPD, my other brother is a FDNY, my cousin drives the ‘F’ train my sister works for a doctor on Ocean Parkway and my mother and father own their own business Brooklyn.
So imagine all that, add some Chelsea fags, recovering East Village punks and their teenagers, Pat Benatar and Blondie and this Michael Jackson cover.
FTW!
Frhigh Day
Here I am, somewhere in Clinton Hill. No music tonight but I made a mix tape to ring in Act Two of Summer h0’9. Here is that playlist:
Kiss Of Life - Friendly Fires
Ecstasy - JJ
Human Nature (Michael Jackson cover) - Toro Y Moi
Black Magic - Magic Wands
Starry Eyed (Ellie Goulding Cover Produced By The Knocks) - Samuel
Nonsense In The Dark - Filthy Dukes
Cruel Intentions (Feat. Beth Ditto) - Simian Mobile Disco
Rome (Def Starr Runaway To Rome Bootleg) - GRUM & Phoenix
Deli - Delorian
Love The Nite Away (Tiedye Mix) - DJ Kaos
Burial - Miike Snow
I’m almost broke, if the sudden resurgence in 90s fashion has anything to do with the fact that when we were in Middle/High School we lived at home and didn’t have our own money then I’m going out and getting a pair of saddle shoes and a Hypercolor t-shirt… oh wait. I already did.
Animal Collective plays at the Prospect Park Bandshell tomorrow.
Hex Oh,
RnR
My right ear has been ringing since Glucky’s birthday last Saturday night, three of four people I’m crashing with have chosen Michel Foucault as lite summer fare, I know this because they are stacked on the toilet next to my copy of Blue Monday. New York is hot and humid and I gave up on throwing gay parties because I’m friends with everyone… So yeah, eff that. Besides my friends do it much better…
So let’s see what happened this week:
Simian Sunday
Simian Mobile Disco does a DJ set @ The Pool Parties. I run into a woman I’d met once before, but the last time she was making out with a couple at the end of a dinner party. She’s preggers now. I don’t think those two events are related however.
Flashdance on the big screen, my maiden voyage. I have an aversion to Jennifer Beals. I will say only Shakti and leave it at that. But now I get the full circle of Jesse Spano on the last season of that show.
Joe Eszterhas!… Flashdance, 1983… Showgirls, 1995… Showdance Flashgirls. Zack! I just took too many no-doze and I’m… scared girls.
P.S. Someone told me that this is a dude dancing.
Monkey Town Monday
Holly played with label mates The XX at Monkey Town, the kind of venue that gives dinner theatre a run for its money. Holly and Timmy played to Ashes and Snow on four large screens while we all reclined, it was like Passover without the lamb’s blood. Here is the AA Bondy tour vlog from Spring '09.
Go see The XX if they come through, they are waaaay cooler than I was at 18. It’s like the indoor kids all met one another, shared a mutual appreciation for all things The Joy Cure Depeche Siouxsie Division Mode complete with Chelsea hair, Doc Martins and black eyeliner. Don’t be fooled though… The XX are the real deal… I think.
TV On The Radio Tuesday
What can I say… those dudes are brilliant and I don’t like throwing that term around. They are all f*cking brilliant… and you know how you know? Their side projects are also f*cking brilliant… I’m not biased. No, no.
What The F*ck Wednesday
What was Le Poisson Rouge before it was Le Poisson Rouge?
TJO approved Phenomenal Hand Clap Band kicked off the evening opening for Friendly Fires who after some technical difficulty played a set that I danced so hard to I pulled a muscle in my groin… One way ticket to Awesometown.
At least I didn’t get pwned by Ed Macfarlane like this girl at MHOW. Ok blossom, time to go.
You can come back later with these brohammers
I haven’t danced that hard since the Pentecostal Church on my block spilled onto the street. They day I got rid of my Daniel Johnston.
Throwback Thursday
I grew up on the boarder of Brighton Beach and Coney Island. You can see the Cyclone from my Gramma’s apt. So when The 40-Sometime finally agreed to come to a show with me, the heaven sent double bill of Pat Benatar and Blondie coupled with the draw of Raimy roots garnished a yes… and I made a picnic.
Asser Levy Park is normally lined with residents ringing heaven’s doorbell, it’s been this way as far back as I can remember. The benches lined with dying Jew - Haitian aid, sick Jew - Jamaican aid, Russian guy in a tracksuit and scattered Irish Italians. I have never seen this many people in Brighton Beach.
We stood with Mike and Gina who had baked ziti as the screensaver on her phone. Don’t ask me why I know this. I knew too much about everyone standing with us, but that’s my outer Brooklyn not the white homogenized version you see on blogs. The hairy, tank topped, my brother is NYPD, my other brother is a FDNY, my cousin drives the ‘F’ train my sister works for a doctor on Ocean Parkway and my mother and father own their own business Brooklyn.
So imagine all that, add some Chelsea fags, recovering East Village punks and their teenagers, Pat Benatar and Blondie and this Michael Jackson cover.
FTW!
Frhigh Day
Here I am, somewhere in Clinton Hill. No music tonight but I made a mix tape to ring in Act Two of Summer h0’9. Here is that playlist:
Kiss Of Life - Friendly Fires
Ecstasy - JJ
Human Nature (Michael Jackson cover) - Toro Y Moi
Black Magic - Magic Wands
Starry Eyed (Ellie Goulding Cover Produced By The Knocks) - Samuel
Nonsense In The Dark - Filthy Dukes
Cruel Intentions (Feat. Beth Ditto) - Simian Mobile Disco
Rome (Def Starr Runaway To Rome Bootleg) - GRUM & Phoenix
Deli - Delorian
Love The Nite Away (Tiedye Mix) - DJ Kaos
Burial - Miike Snow
I’m almost broke, if the sudden resurgence in 90s fashion has anything to do with the fact that when we were in Middle/High School we lived at home and didn’t have our own money then I’m going out and getting a pair of saddle shoes and a Hypercolor t-shirt… oh wait. I already did.
Animal Collective plays at the Prospect Park Bandshell tomorrow.
Hex Oh,
RnR
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