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Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:58:17 -0500

best of 2099:
10 - marshmallow coast - phreak phantasy (HHBTM)
9 - jenny wilson - harships! (Gold Medal)
8 - animal collective - merriweather post pavilion(Domino / Paw Tracks)
7 - weezer - raditude (dgc)
6 - montt mardie - Skaizerkite (Hybris)
5 - r.e.m. - live @ the olympia (WB)
4. electrik red - how to be a lady vol 1 (Radio Killa / Def Jam)
3. jason lytle - yours truly, the commuter (Anti-(
2. built to spill - there is no enemy (WB)
1. julian casablancas - phrazes for the young (rca)

honorable mention - “all i want” by toad the wet sprocket + “brilliant disguise” by brooooce

true honor - fever ray and Sir Leonard Cohen Live in London

vanity album (2009)

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:26:00 -0400

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOBE - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?elvzhbj2wmn - IT’S FREE

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, ERRBUDDY

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:25:38 -0400

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, ERRBUDDY

Noel from “Hearts on Fire”

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:40:21 -0400

Noel

from “Hearts on Fire”

good music update

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:30:23 -0400

New music sucks. It all is bad music. No good music anymore. Music sucks.

“Varshons” is just about as excited as I can get about a new record in 2009.

Everything else is disappointing me. Year-defining and slow and low, that is the tempo.

But have been also listening to:

TOP 20 OF FIRST HALF OF 200BAMA

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19. “The Happiness of the Katakuris” soundtrack

18.

17. Best of Martika

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15.

14. Candy Flip ~~

13. Robert Mitchum sings II

12. One of the best albums ever in the whole wide webworld

11.

10. Leonard Cohen ~~ Live in London

Just look at that killer ~~

9. Future Bible Heroes ~ Memories of Love

7. Andrew WK Japan Covers ~~ best rock album of 2009

6. I cannae resists

5. Not as mindmelting as “Eat My Heart Out”, but it’s new Kevy B YEE

4. especially the Big Fun song:

3. Tough Alliance permar00lz

2. “Voyager”

Ultimate 2009 albums list out ~~

“Jazz Police” ~~ Leonard Cohen cover (1988), plus...

Thu, 28 May 2009 19:01:00 -0400

“Jazz Police” ~~ Leonard Cohen cover (1988), plus new original poem http://www.sendspace.com/file/dhl6tw FOR DOWNLOADING PURPOSES

Poo Tee Weet

Wed, 27 May 2009 00:21:35 -0400

ULTIMATE SPRING INTO SUMMER MIX

Tue, 05 May 2009 20:56:55 -0400

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“Birdhouse In Your Soul” cover by Google Boys

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:24:00 -0400

“Birdhouse In Your Soul” cover by Google Boys

TEN AWESOME MOVIES I WATCHED FAIRLY RECENTLY

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:45:00 -0400

3 Women One of the most lazily amusing rides by superstoner Robert Altman. Shelley Duvall curtsies to the clouds as the beanpole weirdo everyone in her apartment complex loves to hate, and Sissy Spacek blushes her love for her. A truly unique work, and with an ending that would make David Lynch squirm in his jockeys. Also, the only (somewhat) serious movie with a gorgeous close-up of a cheese whiz nozzle pooing onto a Sociable cracker.

Splendor in the Grass Any movie that makes me want to punch Warren Beatty in the face and also swoop Natalie Wood off to the nearest dimebag-n-Dairy-Queen corner is a movie for me. John Hughes must have been into Juanita. This movie just amplifies and mythologizes all those insistently epic hormonal moments of teenagerdom. So unbearably cheesy and gorgeous through and through, but hey, DASS LUV!!

Dear Zachary: A Letter To a Son About His Father I have seen around 350 movies or so upon returning to East Hartford, but I have not shed a tear at any of them except this one. Pictured above is an angry adorable man. It made me so frustrated to see this awesome guy get put through the wringer and what a stupid, mindboggling reason why. I reccomend this movie, but I don’t know that I have a clear reason, as it is incredibly, almost relentlessly saddening.

Heathers I was under the impression that I was the only person on earth who hadn’t seen this “ultimate high school black comedy” or whatever it says on the DVD, but then I brought it to my friends’ in New Haven none of them had seen it. Go figure. So many ridiculously implausible lines, and when they are spoken by the likes of Christian Slater and Winona Ryder (pre-dating grunge no less), my childhood me has a boner the size of four adult me’s. In my cellophane reflection-heart.

A Canterbury Tale This is one of those movies where the plot is so all-over-the-place and convoluted yet somehow, as the credits roll, feels perfectly effortless and natural. One-time (and one time only) American actor/G.I. John Sweet did his best fifth-rate Jimmy Stewart as he was on leave from the very contemporary WWII to film this wonderful, picaresque tale about.. the beauty of England, and a mysterious man who pours glue in girls’ hair in the middle of the night?! Well, but..

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Makes masturbating to a picture of a saint seem like child’s play. :)

Synecdoche, New York As much as I am in love with Charlie Kaufman’s unsteady, restless-lid-syndrome handle on aging and pretension and paranoia, I am not sure that this movie could survive without Philip Seymour Hoffman, which, in retrospect, should not make sense because he grumbles and sleepwalks through the entire picture (with an oddly booby-centric first half). Only he can make that sort of ugliness screen-worthy. Some people have called this a meeting of Lynch and Woody Allen, but I really see this as a perfect blend of Lynch and John Hodgman. I have seen this twice but I have a feeling there’s enough weird tiny things going on, as in the former’s books, that I’ll need to see it two hundred more. If that isn’t a success, I don’t know what is.

The Saddest Music in the World I have no idea what the fuck this even is. It’s like what would happen if an alien with a nagging, blurry head cold watched a lot of silver screen movies and then shat out something for the pope to watch while getting his hurr did. Guy Maddin is the coolest thing to come out of Canada since, well, Mark McKinney, who is also in this shit.

Magnificent Obsession I love Rock Hudson and I love his hunky teeth. I want him to take me on a speedboat, then show off and get into a life-threatening accident with it while I cheer him on from the shore. Then I want him to offer me money for absolution for inadvertantly killing my husband. Then I want to fall in love with him after he makes me blind. Then I want him to operate on my brains. Oh wait, nevermind — Thank you, Douglas Sirk!

The Long Goodbye Gorgeously shot by the legend Vilmos Zsigmond, Altman’s reinvention of Philip Marlowe is an obvious forerunner to the likes of “Chinatown”, “The Big Lebowski”, “Punch Drunk Love”, and I’m sure countless others. Casting throughout the movie is absolutely out of the park, with Elliott Gould at the lead as perhaps the coolest movie detective ever, down to Arnold Schwarzenegger in a bit background role as a hired goon who accidentally looks into the camera once or twice. Gnarly.

new Google Boys EP ~~ click the back cover to "D.L."

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:41:00 -0500

presented by Dagis Micromanagement Solutions:

CLICK THE BACK COVER

Purest Poetry

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:27:30 -0500

“Stereo Sandy” by Dagis Micromanagement Solutions. ...

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:46:02 -0500

“Stereo Sandy” by Dagis Micromanagement Solutions. From the forthcoming release “Wanda And The Winter Women”.

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:28:14 -0500

Do You Wonder What Went Right?

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:23:00 -0500

I have never written about Andrew WK ever. So why start now?

I’ll tell you why.

2006’s “Close Calls With Brick Walls” is, without a doubt, at least in the upper echelon of amazing, instant classic pop records of the 21st century. Andrew WK is what you you get when you make a sandwich out of just a hint of the Lords of the New Church, and full and equal doses of Rancid and Meat Loaf. I know. It sounds really, really, really lame.

So why the fuck does it work? It actually works. It actually, some days, doesn’t get any better than this. This man is a silent, slippery saint. A giant one, at that.

By the time the disc’s sixth track, “Hand On The Place”, boots up, it’s clear that Andrew WK is not interested in partying as a means to an end. A lot of these songs, if they didn’t have computerized keg parties smothering them (and if arranged a wee bit less abrasively), could easily have been written by Wayne Fontana or Gary Puckett. Even if those guys only had, well gosh, less than a half dozen hits, they still banged around in a healthy morsel of American radio.

And though those sixties cheeseball super-dayglo-popper groups were basically peddling glorified jock jams unto themselves, none of them really talked about the existential crisis of playing to a packed club and not knowing what to project as a performer. Naw, those old song were about love.

So sure, he’s not partying, but it’s almost like he’s bringing the misery to the party and putting a Virtua Boy headset on. He’s distracting himself, but it’s not with more love. He realizes that only application and dedication to the moment will reveal themselves to be his downfall. He wants to keep partying, but he’s not sure that’s what it will take to get the people together.

By the time we hear “The Moving Room”, we wonder how our favorite party animal could possibly turn a normal song into an audio love-child of Journey and Bryan Adams, but we want him to outdo Kanye West in the electronic torment department anyday in the future, too.

“Come Dance With Me” is what would happen if Fats Domino recorded pump-up music for the Cavs in 2015. And then the album ends. And you have to put it on the next time you get drunk, and cry into your Orange Julius with vodka in it.

My 25 Favorite Albums of 2008 (Because I Turned 25 This Year)

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:07:45 -0500

25. Todd Rundgren: Arena (Hi Fi)
24. Of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)
23. R.E.M.: Accelerate (Warner Bros.)
22. Joel Alme: A Master of Ceremonies (Sincerely Yours)
21. Bonnie “Prince” Billy: The Letting Go (Drag City)
20. The Magnetic Fields: Distortion (Nonesuch)
19. Yussuf Jerusalem: A Heart Full of Sorrow (Florida’s Dying)
18. Hercules & Love Affair: Hercules & Love Affair (DFA)
17. The Teenagers: Reality Check (XL)
16. Lee “Scratch” Perry: Repentance (Narnack)
15. Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron: Lost Wisdom (P.W. Elverum & Sun)
14. Nordpolen: Pä Nordpolen (Sincerely Yours)
13. The Pretenders: Break Up the Concrete (Shangri-La)
12. The Music Tapes: Songs For Clouds and Tornadoes (Merge)
11. Dido: Safe Trip Home (Cheeky/RCA)
10. Marie Modiano: Outland (Naive)
9. Max Tundra: Parallax Error Beheads You (Domino)
8. Silver Jews: Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
7. Adam Green: Sixes and Sevens (Rough Trade)
6. Negativland: Thigmotactic (Seeland)
5. Blevin Blectum: Gular Flutter (Aagoo)
4. Jonas Game: ADHD (Sincerely Yours)
3. M83: Saturdays=Youth (Mute)
2. Roísín Murphy: Overpowered (EMI)
1. Black Affair: Pleasure Pressure Point (V2)

Milford Showcase: Closed (Milford, CT) by Nicholas...

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:02:00 -0500

Milford Showcase: Closed (Milford, CT) by Nicholas DiMaio

DiMaio runs an amazing blog called The Caldor Rainbow, documenting, with loving care, dead strip/shopping malls around the U.S. Northeast.

“Retail blight” (Manchester, CT) by John Boren

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:54:00 -0500

“Retail blight” (Manchester, CT) by John Boren

new Dagis Micromanagement Solutions single

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:55:14 -0500

new Dagis Micromanagement Solutions single

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:40:04 -0500