Spring

Hello all,

I apologize once again for the extended delay. This one was a doozy. Well its spring and time for a fun, boogy down mix. I don't recommend dancing (ever). Now I present Spring Mix:

Build Me Up – Rhymefest & O.D.B.

Burning Down the House – Talking Heads

Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter – Nina Simone

25 Miles – Edwin Starr

Trampoline – The Grates

Just a Friend – Biz Markie

Black Beatles (Beatles vs. Black-Eyed Peas vs. Ludacris vs. Kelis

Frontier Psychiatrist – Avalanches

Homecoming – Kanye West ft. Chris Martin

We are Jalouse – Fatale

Bohemian Rhapsody – Flaming Lips

Concrete and Clay – Jurassic 5

Weird America

Dear Reader,

I am sorry that this blog took a month hiatus, it was my responsibility and I failed. Never mind that though, here is the next mix.

What month is more American than January? July? NO. In July the country is either an open air sauna, an oven or quite nice. There is the forth of July and everyone takes some time off and enjoys themselves. Sure it is apart of the national psyche to indulge and spend time with loved ones be productive. Those are just the good times. January has a melancholic mystique, the X-Mas buzz is gone, the first day your Auld Langs Syne (times gone by) are trying to get out of your head by boring a hole through your scull. The credit card bills from December are due and its not getting any warmer. Through out it all, we the good Men and Women of these United States work past, stress, fatigue, annoyance and the winter blues, to form a better union between our bills/groceries/co-pays/gas and our paycheck. With this strain, our nerves fry and puddle only to reform weirder than before.

And so I give you WEIRD AMERICA a mix of the movement that is sweeping the nation, there are some favorites but also some new tracks that I think you might just enjoy.

Salute:

1. Good Friday | Coco Rosie
2. Heard Somebody Say | Devendra Banhart
3. The Condition | White Flight
3. Usa=#1 | Avenue D
4. Tour Along The Potomac | The Dirty Projectors
5. Sheer, Make, Serve | Jimmy Edgar
6. Melody Day | Caribou
7. Kick It (Feat Iggy Pop) | Peaches
8. You Know These Boots are Getting Smaller | Totom
9. Japan | Coco Rosie
10. The Last Communist | Momus
11. For Today I Am a Boy | Antony & The Johnsons
12. Wouldn't it be Nice | Kams
13. We Tigers | Animal Collective
14. Nuhorizons | Ladytron
15. New Drug Queens | The Pink Mountiantops
16. 3 Turntables & 2 Microphones | MC Honky
17. Brooklyn | Bumblebeez 81

Autum is November.

When I say, 'autumn is November' I mean this categorically, of course. I'm sorry about not posting in October, I have been under multiple wires. I don't even like October. It's warm (in my part of the world) and weird and I didn't want to make a crappy mix like last time. This mix is as close to that feeling you get when the air turns crisp and you then you shiver for the first time all year. Listen to this mix on your way to no where in particular and imagine your self collecting sugar maple sap. I added 'Alice's Restaurant,' because no November ought to go by with out listening to this song. Below is the drinking game that Colin and I devised to go along with 'Alice's Restaurant.'

Be Good Tokyo Police Club
Holland, 1945 Neutral Milk Hotel
Femme Fatale The Velvet Underground & Nico
Emily Kane Art Brut
Good Friday Coco Rosie
Melody Day Caribou
The Day I Was A Horse The Vaselines
Poughkeepsie Devendra Banhart
Cocaine Blues Uncle Tupelo
Lucinda Tom Waits
The Ballad Of Ira Hayes Johnny Cash
The soda Hell on Wheels
Sand Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
Alice's Restaurant Massacree Arlo Guthrie


Alice's Restaurant's drinking game:

Drink 1 when Arlo says:
Thanksgiving
Kid
Sir
Officer or Obie
Littering
Kill
Sargent
"Mean nasty"

Sing along to:
27, 8 by 10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one [explaining what each one was.]
(if you fail to 'sing' along with this part you will have to drink 2)

You ought to be drunk by the time the chorus comes around on the guitar. So sing loud and smile at you neighbor, because you got drunk at Alice's Restaurant.

September Mix

This is and was and will be all at the same time a great and stupid month. Putting all that aside I am prepared to give you this months mix. I decided to make a mix that is accessible to most types of music, as long as they keep their music a little weird.

Weird September:

Wonderful Witches by Thurston Moore
Cherbourg by Beirut
Milk Crisis by The Go! Team
Ox Broil by Oh No
Metal - Feat Gary Numan & MC C by Afrika Bambaataa
Tras 3 by Battles
Hold Your Hand by Tokyo Beatles
Car Horn Ft Common (DJ Shadow Remix) by Saul Williams
The Taming of the Hands That C by Sunset Rubdown
It's alright Ma (I'm only bleeding) by Roger McGuinn
Some Like It Hot by Amerie
Bambino by Bumblebeez 81
Hitler In My Heart by Antony & The Johnsons
Mistaken Memories Of Medieval Manhattan by Momus
Hoofprints In The Sand by Sage Francis
Cottun by Mahjongg

New Blog / June

My old blog (box3spool5.blogspot.com) has been discontinued (by Google it seems). Good thing too, because it sucked. Well now this blog will be half mixes, half album reviews and half Art.

This was a mix that I made this June. I give you June:

1. The Rosebuds - Leaves Do Fall
2. Datarock - Computer Camp Love
3. Nancy Sit - Love Potion Nr9
4. The Kills - I Call It Art (la chanson de slogan, Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited)
5. Bodies Of Water - Our Friends Appear
6. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Loop Duplicate My Heart
7. Donovan - Get Thy Bearings
8. The Dears - Heartless Romantic
9. Naomi & the Boys - Bad Loser
10. Serge Gainsbourg - Couleur Cafe
11. Black Diamond Heavies - Leave It In The Road
12. Midlake - Bandits
13. Matt And Kim - Verbs Before Nouns
14. Architecture in Helsinki - The Owls Go
15. Datarock - FaFaFa
16. The Leaning Towers - Rich Enough To Ignore It
17. Pit Er Pat - Bog Man