February 1, 2012

Rush /// “Prime Mover” /// Hold Your Fire

“There’s this song I’ve been listening to a lot, but guess who it’s by.”

“I don’t know.”

“Rush!”

“Uh huh.”

[Five hours pass.]

“Oh I forgot to play you that Rush track!”

“Hooray.”

January 31, 2012
Shuffle Mix 1.12

Alcest /// “Summer’s Glory”

Alias /// “Dahorses”

Beat Happening /// “Our Secret”

Belle & Sebastian /// “Too Much Love”

The Big Pink /// “Stay Gold”

Cardinal /// “Silver Machines”

Chairlift /// “I Belong In Your Arms”

Cloud Nothings /// “Fall In”

Fujiya & Miyagi /// “Your Silent Face”

Galaxie 500 /// “Another Day”

Grimes /// “Nightmusic (feat. Majical Cloudz)”

Iggy & The Stooges /// “Gimme Danger”

jj /// “vi”

Matthew Dear /// “Headcage”

Pavement /// “Beautiful As A Butterfly”

Rick Ross /// “Mine Games (feat. Kelly Rowland)”

Screen Vinyl Image /// “Station 4”

Sleigh Bells /// “Comeback Kid”

Trailer Trash Tracys /// “You Wish You Were Red”

The Weeknd /// “D.D.”

When Saints Go Machine /// “Church And Law”

Young Jeezy /// “F.A.M.E. (feat. T.I.)”

January 31, 2012

I don’t think that loneliness is necessarily a bad or unconstructive condition. My own skill at jamming time may actually be dependent on some fluid mixture of emotions, among them curiosity, sexual desire, and love, all suspended in a solvent medium of loneliness. I like the heroes or heroines of books I read to be living alone, and feeling lonely, because reading is itself a state of artificially enhanced loneliness.

Nicholson Baker, The Fermata

January 31, 2012
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Sharon Van Etten /// “Warsaw” /// Tramp

All the good singers have three names.

January 31, 2012

January 30, 2012
Like to browse before you buy? Drop into McNally Jackson.

Like to browse before you buy? Drop into McNally Jackson.

January 30, 2012
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Leonard Cohen /// “Come Healing” /// Old Ideas

Canadian Gothic.

January 30, 2012
Alan Garner /// Red Shift
Time not arrow but braid and how the Anglo clipped.

Alan Garner /// Red Shift

Time not arrow but braid and how the Anglo clipped.

January 30, 2012
125th Street & Broadway
New York, NY
January 28, 2012

125th Street & Broadway

New York, NY

January 28, 2012

January 27, 2012

Pacific UV /// “Orson” /// Longplay 2

“In response to a criticism that Pacific UV’s melodies were ‘derivative,’ former member Lucas Jensen posted on a defunct blog (to paraphrase) ‘Well, we only use two chords.’”