Crying kids

These are bad parents not only for videoing while driving, but also for enforcing confusing gender roles on their son. However, this is an endearing and entertaining video.

What the what?

Music for you

I know you think that I only post YouTube videos of music, but never post anything you can download. You're basically right. I wish I could say that another OKDJ was in the pipes, but I just haven't had the inspiration or time. My crate on Beatport is getting really big which should mean that once inspiration strikes, I won't be lacking for that perfect track.

So, to sate your voracious appetites, I'm directing you to some of the things I've been loading downward:

A lovely compilation from Thomas at AM180 featuring 2 of my all time favorite songs, Arthur Russell's "This is How We Walk on the Moon" and Johnny Osborn's "Truth & Rights".

Make Like a Tree podcast by Basic Soul Unit

Stacey Pullen and Donnacha Costello's mixes on Little White Earbuds

And that's all I got right now!

Friday with Tracy and Tina

Pop the glock

I cannot get this freaking song out of my head. It is featured prominently on Ellen Allien's new mix for the Watergate series which I highly recommend. Ellen has always been one of those crossover artists who, for some strange reason, gets radio play on KEXP and the like. Maybe its because she owns her own record label. Maybe its because she works with Apparat.
Or maybe its because on regular basis, bitch turns it out:



And for good measure the original from that sassy bitch who makes her name on her dope rhymes and dick-riding grandstanding:

Kids say the darnedest things

Will Phillips clearly deserved this award and deserves a couple more in my book.
I look at the next generation and am filled with hope.



Previously.

iPad, shmiPad

While I do think the iPad looks pretty cool (that's a big screen!), I think the closest thing to it that I'll ever get is going to look something more like this:




Add Windows Phone 7 to that, and the end of 2010 is looking pretty good in the gadget department!

Great Scott!

It appears that Adam Scott, the likable lead in the painfully funny TV series Party Down has gotten a more permanent gig over at Parks and Recreation. While I love Parks & Rec, I really hope this doesn't mean the end is nigh for Party Down.
Party Down returns to Starz for its 2nd Season on April 23rd. I'll be in New York, but will tune in while I unpack from what is sure to be a memorable trip.

Perfect Traxx

I love this track so much. It is one of those perfect accompaniment tracks for a drizzly ride into work. Of course, it has Italian roots. They sure knew how to knock it out back then, didn't they? And this isn't even as indulgent as some of those Cosmic-era tracks which can go on for . . . well, until the cocaine runs out, I guess.

Bonus: Site of the day!

Of course

I won't be in town for Ame's Seattle debut at Chop Suey on April 23rd.
Totally lame. (I will, however, be in NYC w/ that guy, so that's awesome!!!)

Caught Kim Ann Foxman from Hercules and Love Affair on Friday. A handful of old house and rave tracks that were awesome. Horrible problems with the cd players. The opener was awful. Annoying crowd. That's my last Trouble Disco.

Perfect Traxx

This is the frist track out of the gate for Man Parrish. I was thinking about this track because of the Sasha Frere-Jones review of the new Massive Attack album in the latest issue of the New Yorker. Jones put Blue Lines and the whole, uh, Bristol scene on the tail end of music created by Parrish. So I looked up some of that late-80's Parrish, pre-trip-hop music, but all I came up with was a slew of trash.
I'm sure there's some intersection I'm missing. Somewhere in 1991 where Hip Hop Be Bop (another *great* Parrish track, featured in Shaun of the Dead) gives way to Safe From Harm, but I can't seem to find it. Its times like these I wish Sasha Frere-Jones had twitter (that man's music knowledge blows my mind).
But, to the track at hand, this is one of those few disco tracks that manages to be both maudlin and hopeful. It is also an early use of vocoder that proves you cannot take emotion out of a robot voice. If I've had enough drinks, this song can make me tear up. Also, I love the typo on this Disconet release--"Heartstroke".

Perfect Traxx

If you know this song, you probably know the Chas Jankel version. Chas wrote it, but Kitty owned it. Although, Chas owned the sexy dance moves, aviator jacket, and jeans tucked into . . . pre-Uggs?

Cover dude

My valentine to, uh, my valentine is on the cover of The Stranger! Sure, its upside down, but, hey, cover!

Can you guess which one it is? (Update: That link now puts you closer to the answer.)

About last night

The library is still full of fascist pigs.
I learned the correct pronunciation of Sabre.
I finally got to meet Meat Cat.
Jan Hooks and Jane Krakowski sang me a duet of "Do That to Me One More Time." [Ed. note: 30 Rock delivers so big, its too hard for me to pick one highlight.]
I sang about the baby penis in my mind.
A building from Manhatan crashed into a building from Manhattan.
That guy with colored contact lenses (read: no taste) who should have left a couple weeks ago finally got cut.
An angel without wings landed on the hood of Thunderbird in 1978.

And I still don't know what Michael Westin did--or those wacky vampire brothers!



[Parks & Rec, 30 Rock, The Office, The Sarah Silverman Program, Fringe, Project Runway, Supernatural, Burn Notice, The Vampire Diaries]

Colors

Pretty video directed by Michel Gondry

via ReelFanatic

Shows I will see this year

This is the only show on the menu for sure this year. . . and I can't wait--April 22nd at 8pm to be exact--Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes in Promises, Promises.
Its based on Billy Wilder's absolutely-perfect-in-nearly-every-way film "The Apartment," and it features one of my all-time favorite musical numbers, "Turkey Lurkey Time" (which as been posted on this site too many times to count.)

So, instead of giving you the same ol' again, I'll put up the actual "hits" from the show.
Enjoy!
(P.S. Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara will always be the amazing voices I think of when I think of this show.)






Oh man, I just watched this one and it brought tears to my eyes. Seriously, Jill O'Hara (could do without Tony Roberts, though!)

Oh I just realized I've never posted the 1968 Tony Award performance of Turkey Lurkey Time featuring the abso-fucking-tasti-mazing Donna McKechnie (aka, one of Broadway's greatest dancers). So you don't get away without a little more turkey:

Shows I've missed so far this year

I'm still blaming it all on the graveyard shift:

Expansions Live Show @ Neumo's
Andy Compton @ Artifical Limb Co.
Bryan Zents @ Church of Bass
Prefuse 73 / Gaslamp Killer @ Neumo's
DJ Krush @ Neumo's

Shows I will miss:

The Album Leaf @ Neumo's
Daedelus @ Neumo's
Mark Farina @ Neumo's
Four Tet @ Chop Suey

But someday soon, a Carl Craig or someone is going to blow through town and I'll just have to skip work.

When I grow up

I want to be as badass as Rip Torn. Bank break-in?!? How cool is Don Geiss now?

Whitie Tightie

This is going to turn Phil on, but its main purpose is to entertain you.

This is George