Two Tramps In Mud Time

Happy 101111 033 to me and my new fangled life. I'd be remiss if I didn't add that grad school is exhuasting and frustrating, note the bookending tracks - but that inbetween bouts of wildly oscillating terrors there are hints of hope and joy. Like a sandwich or something. Blood Sausage - Fuck You and Your Underground AM & Shawn Lee - The Signal Sweatshop Union - Time Machine (Feat. Mat The Alien) Gang of Four - At Home He's a Tourist Carolina Chocolate Drops - Cornbread and Butterbeans World's Greatest Dad - Then Up the Ladder They Might Be Giants - Old Pine Box Young Marble Giants - Brand - New - Life  Withered Hand - Religious Songs SBTRKT - Hide or Seek Gloria Ann Taylor - Love Is A Hurting Thing Grizzly J - TOTORO Nick Lowe - I Read A Lot (welcomce to grad school) Currently Reading: King City - or more realisticly Brandon Grahams RoyalBoilers. Image from: same as the above.

If this summer has taught me anything it is that good friends are like physical objects that can be picked up at a later time in life, a time after you put them down to begin with of course, and also that they undergo changes in time, such as may be expected for an object coextensive with one's self. That is they exist in both space and time, and in a manner where, even if you do not observe them directly, they continue to persist. Sweatshop Union - Oh My Holy Fuck - SHT MTN Wire - Outdoor Miner (Long Version) Dick Justice - Cocaine Ty Segall - Caesar Admiral Fallow - Squealing Pigs April Smith - Colors Mekons - Trouble Down South Patrick Sky - Under All Flags Agent Ribbons - I'm Alright Liquid Liquid - Bellhead Wavves - Convertible Ballon Slim Harpo - The Hippy Song Beat Connection - Silver Screen Dom - Bochicha Keoki - Majick (Uberzone Remix) Image From: Azumanga Daioh Currently Reading: The Scar by China Meiville Lastly: Thanks and well wishes to all my friends and family who so warmly reinvited me back

So.. . I graduated. And then took a few weeks to relax and pack up and move (not in that order) - goodbye Brooklyn, goodbye Ditmas, goodbye undergrad, goodbye BC, goodbye lab mates and knowing what I'm doing. Hello Pittsburgh, hello Carnegie, hello folks I don't know, hello a slower life, a safer town, a slice of hope, a machine to kill fascists. Lastly, my adopted grandfather (and volunteer geneologist) has gone on to the other side. He is remembered fondly and in terms not suited to this genre of delivery. But his passing is noted and is, itself, passed over in silence. King Creosote - Bootprints | I've featrued them before here and this is another standout track of theirs, really good energy combined with a slick parsed down delivery, makes this into a toe tapping tune worthy of running from the cops over ala some trainspotting montage. Bell X1 - The Great Defector | This has been kicking around my que for a bit. I love the psuedo-Talking Heads open delivery and heart on the sleeve self confession over ma

I wonder what would have happened if space was a tangible frontier. In that small sliver of time when there was an American Frontier we had the myth at arms length and the proximity compelled anyone and everyone to consider its' potential. Was the immediacy of the frontier the compulsion, a niggling sense of the other side, ever constant in the periphery of one's vision?Would our history of space exploration have been different if we had an Oregon Trail to Mars, if it could have been about space colonization? If you imagine the frontier as a sponge which absorbs the excess and luckless then it is no surprise that high entry costs have prevented the expansion of mankind. It is the hardup, the deviant, the desperate, and the dreamers who live and die out there because they can't even manage just living here in polite company. Half these songs are about getting out there, the other half are about freaking out.  This has little bearing on things, except that I desire to escape - and space seems like the last best

A very busy few last months have culminated in a huge success at my first grad school interview. I still have a few more interviews to go on - but without any hesitation I can confidently say that (baring any horrible tragedy) I will be working towards a Ph.d in the not so distant future.F'n fantastic - now I just need to finish up my undergrad, which is much harder now that I can taste the freedom of the other side. Also I found out you can get some kickass microscopes from eBay for ridiculous prices.A lot of other stuff happened - but I'm trying to to keep a Positive Mental Attitude so I'll hold off on the narrative.Stand out tracks; deadmau5's "Hi Friend!" which is the titular feature of the show and served as a bolster for the research year, as after all it was what I came here for. (And look where that got me!). Esg - Dance is an tight low-fi rocker which easily slips into my top 100. A wild feat for an album cut in '83. I spent a lot of time listening to music without words as they often distract me if

Almost the holidays (and do I have a gift for you this year) and I may just barely make it. But the chances look good - one last push, right. I remember something about the light brigade at moments like these. But the music! Got to love the music! It might be the worlds only saving grace 3 times out of 10. Right anyways, so I missed last month, so this month is a bit of what I've been listening to for both. The stand out tracks, too many to name, check out the opener by Anita Tijoux - it was going to be my birthday track but whatever. The Smiles make you feel good about the mugging and your lost wages. And the blessed return of Holy Fuck with the Tounces inspired sound track Red Lights. King Khan finally gets some air time - I don't know how I missed that scene. King Charles brings the fuzzed out love, Jeff Spec lays out some fantastic old skool against the Most Sampled Man in HipHop the epynoumous drummer for the funky James Brown in "Clyde Stubblefeild". And the Braids bring the orchestral twee pop - and t

So we're into the home stretch - last year of undergrad and I can taste the sweet release. Oh there have been and will be trials and tribulations but back, far back, behind it all is the idea that I could do it. And the fact that I have or that I am. And I am doing it now. Here my theme: Golden Age Feels good, man.   01. Swamp Cat - Timun Mas (my neighb's - good folks) 02. Golden Age - Everything Will be Alright 03. Lissie - Kid Cudi's Pursuit of Happiness 04. Mike Alaska - Jerzy Borowicz recording 05. Go Home Productions - Smells Like Rockin Robin 06. Kaki King - Kiss With a Fist 07. Cookin' with Kurt - Soup du Jour 08. Youthless - Golden Age 09. Les Cowboys Fringants - Les Etoiles Filantes 10. Beat Radio - Golden Age 11. Joost Buis & Astronotes - Brokology 12. Julie Doiron – Consolation Prize 13. California Guitar Trio - Music for a Found Harmonium 14. The Orb - God Less America 15. Justin Townes Earle, 'Harlem River Blues' Image from Ward Sutton over at the Boston.com

This summer Ana and I, in preparation for the "great long distance experiment" got to travel a bit around Maine and Canada and Vermont. On one occasion I had a prolonged discussion with a good man, here to be nameless to protect his reputation, about we humans and the big picture and what can be done about it all. It was a real and good pleasure and I hope I hadn't offended him as I usually do when I talk about these things. Anyways - one last thing. I had mistaken Andrew Bird for Bobby Bare Jr. This is because Mr. Bare has a song which is close to my dyslexic heart called "Strange Bird" hence if I have a few in me I start mixing things up in a poor way; like saying that Andrew Bird has a senior version in the country and western scene. That is clearly not the case. Be sure to check out "Strange Bird" it's really good. Anyways this is the short version which made the podcast: 01. Richard Hawley - As the Dawn Breaks 02. Six Organs of Admittance - The Desert is a Circle 03. Bill Callahan - A  Man Needs a Woman

Young Liars is a series put out by David Latham - I'll leave the critiques and insights for those more versed in these matters, suffice to say that I liked what I read. Not that it mattered - like nearly every series I jump at, I am looking at you Top10, Young Liars died to soon it's story untold. Not just a loss of a title but a loss of a unigue story. A rare thing at any time. "Young Liars is a wholly different beast  It’s a VERY personal book.  No one could do this book but me because it’s about my brain and everything I like and feel.  Stray Bullets is like that.  No one else can possibly do it.  It’s why I could do things in Young Liars like put in song recommendations and it wasn’t gratuitous.  It was fun, yes, but it also fit the nature of the book.  It became a very unique place to work inside every months and is the toughest part of letting it go." - David Lapham, from Mindless Ones Interview  And if you like a thing and that thing has in it little musical references you'll do the only sensib

One of these days I'll be in a situation to learn something by following someone else's example. Not that I'm bitter - just frustrated. --- Chain and the Gang - Interview with the Chain Gang Brian Eno  – Third Uncle Fun Boy Three & Bananarama - 'Taint What You Do It's the Way That You Do It Islets - Jasmine Jill Barber - Oh My My Panther Hands – Young, Gifted, and Brown Mother Mother - O My Heart Luther Russel - A World Unknown The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms Blockhead - The Music Scene The Pixies - Alec Eiffel Brasstronaut - Requiem for a Scene --- Image from: The very excellent short "Don't cry for me I'm already Dead" Currently digging: Young Liars by David Lapham Currently Reading: Short Protocols for Molecular Biology by Wiley Publishing (five stars!)

  Wow .. . Orgo is over. Sweet jesus.  --- Richard Hawley - Tonight the Streets Are Ours Devin Therrialt - I Don't Think I Kulturini Project - Half Time Report DJ Voodoo and the Liquid Method - Everybody thinks i'm high the remix '96 (DJ Kelley) DJ Harvey - Track 01 (Black Cock Edit) Teki-Latex - Answers Cut From Set Siriusmo - Urlaub In Berlin MGMT - Flash Delirium MIA - Born Free Monks - Blockhead Moneybrother - Born Under a Bad Sign Jacuzzi Boys - Bricks or Coconuts Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime  Dirty Three - Three Wheels --- Image from the late great Teaching Baby Paranoia - you will be missed.  

Happy Birthday babe. We're about to tear down that length of road to the distant vistas of tomorrow's tasks and I reflect on the fact that you've been with me for long enough that I can't comprehend what it will be like to be apart. Things may get rough out there - and who knows what may happen - but it has been good, great, and nice and there may be more in store.   01. Blenders - Don't fuck Around with Love 02. Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks 03. 123 - Confetti 04. Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side 05. Los Mil Jinetes - Pastor de Elefantes 06. La Pompe Moderne - Plus Dur, Meilleur, Plus Rapide, Plus Fort (Daft Punk Cover) 07. Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer 08. Archie Bronson Outfit - Hoola 09. GIFT - Workout Afterall 10. Lodger – Ciao 11. The Blow - Parantheses 12. Andrew Bird - Opposite Day 13. Alt Fenster – Clipée 14. Ezra Furman & the Harpoons - The Worm in The Apple 15. Pelle Carlberg - I Love You, You Imbecile  Image from: A Softer World.  Currently Awesome:  The LHC.

Overworked and got Sick. Overworked and got Active Labelled Protein (I MADE THIS?!). Overworked and Snow Days. Overworked and got to Grad School. Overworked and Got Accepted. Overworked and working with Paul Pope. Overworked and Got Unemployed. Overworked and still making it. . . somehow. --- Adam Green -  Castles and Tassels Catl. - Church on Time Egyptian Hip-Hop  - Nifeo King Creosote, Player Piano and Pictish Trail - Cod Liver Oil and Orange Juice Flying Lotus - Parisian Goldfish Hanoi Jane_Across_the_Sea Caribou - Odessa Aloe Blacc - I Need a Dollar Surfer Blood – Neighbour Riffs Kasper Bjorke - Efficient Machine Sonny and the Sunsets - Stranded The Oddword - Hello Goodbye  Maxwell Panther - My Ex-Identity --- Image From: Supremely Awesome - AxeCop.com

I had a dream the other night that I was taken over by some drive which sent me to the hinterlands of the pennisula and into those thick moist brambles of the pacific northwest - this thing in my head was a cancer and an infection. Like the Tasmanian Devils, right? But anyways I had brain cancer and the monster I was hunting out in those patagnian boodocks was it also cancer or real - a thing like that hallucination of a diseased mind only this was flesh and what if the cancer wasn't a cancer but an organism, a bacteria laying down pipe in the brain like an antenna to the broadcasts of it's own obscure gods. 1. Rae Spoon - Come on Forest Fire Burn the Disco Down 2. Ancient Astronauts - Everybody 3. Useless Eaters - Information Freak 4. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home 5. Ocote Soul Sounds - Coconut Rock Deluxe 6. Bill Callahan - Eid Ma Clack Shaw 7. Hey Panny - Cop Car Demo 8. Orquestra - Afro-Brasileira - India 9. frYars - happY 10. Lost Boy - taste butter 11. The Almighty Defenders - All My L

What does it mean that in the weeks leading up to this that I fell into a deep attraction for the heavy ridden droned out sounds of the modern psychedelics? A faint whiff of better times and stronger hallucinogens - an escapist temptation edging in on the clean cut work a day world I've been consumed by? Maybe or maybe not. Maybe "Junkies Runnin Dry" would have been a better track to open with. But no matter (and no drugs) I open with my neighbors whom are recorded here as the We Three Queens in a recording booth in Indonesia - ahh they are the best neighbors really. And a damn better way to open this than OpIvy (no disrespect, mon amor) - you know how it is. As for the rest of these tracks and the rest of my life - a well here I admit that this is a monthly diary and the music is the food I feed on to live through it. Heavy times means heavy music, and so: Dad had surgery - he made it and is in better shape, though I haven't talked to him. My mom had one surgery for her leg and is getting the cancerous ki

The busyness is everyday. Not even enough time to do this justice. Hilarious the idea that this is a diary to help me remember these days - but that the days are so packed that I can't make time to remember them.Anyways. Music is a constant - hell yes.nomeansno- Everyday I Start to OozeMetatron - 10 Psychedelic CultureThe Time and Space Machine - The Joys of Living Un-hung UpBlind Boys of Alabama - Run on for a Long TimeCapitol K - CityAl Caiola - Experiment In TerrorBobby Bare Jr. - Stay In TexasFugazi -Waiting RoomMarc Shearer - Magma on My MindBlood Red Shoes - Its Getting Boring By the SeaMatias Aguayo - Rollerskate (album version)Doves - Kingdom of Rust (Prins Thomas Discomiks Instrumental)Learn the Songs of Phil Ochs - That's What I Want to HearPet Politics - When I Get OldSea and Cake - a man who never sees a pretty girl that he doesn't love her a littlethanks to Ana

August already? - I am surprised but yes apparently I missed July. huh. Finished classes for summer - so yeah this was Physics and a film and fiction class. Happily I have good things to report from the conclusion of that as my GPA continues its trend unabated. Sorrows in breaking as this month saw the leaving of:Hannah from downstairs, is off to other Brooklyn 'hoodsMollie, another import by way of Portland, is leaving to Princeton - we're all quite proud of her and, also, ashamed of ourselves. Tim Krieder, of incomparable artist behind The Pain (see illustration), is walking away from stripping to take up a columinst job at the Times. Respectable stuff and lordy but I feel it.So times are at a turning point, right? This month is heaving on the tracks of Lux and Ivy's from WFMU. Lux passed on not too long ago and this list was compiled by fans of his band The Cramps. The total is about 11 albums of selected tracks and they've been on heavy rotation here this summer. So ... here we go:1. Candy Claws - Don't T

Title from Unamuno.Happy June - and what a summer! Record rain fall has preserved my mind from migranes and hallucinations of divinity. Summer classes have preserved my embalmed, pickled, and thoroughly petrified extracurricular activities. And yet, wondrously, only one week to go and then I am done with Spanish, which is a thing I never really liked - but admittedly it is a bit of fun even if you don't like it. You see, and this isn't just me here, talking in a foreign language does things to your mind. I've been a language user for years and have always been bowled over from what a good chat can do to me - but another language . . . is more like an out of body experience of the mind than a hallucination of the tongue.To embrace it I would like to share my new favorite Spanish idiom (narrowly beating out the phrase, "The Devil is the devil because he is old") - in espanol:Pensar en la inmortalidad del cangrejo that is ... as the cartoon lovingly illustrates: Thinking about the immortality of crabs.Generation

A belated month - but only because of the harried pace of life. And while I would love nothing more than to dedicate my self (again) to the twin frivolties of 'fun' and 'communication of ones emotional state through artistic means' which drive this haphazard ship of woebegotten delights into the ragged rocks of alliterative allusions and malaproped metaphors.All hands on deck our cavorting has run out of spare time. So as a brief summary too congrats to Ana on her promotion and Molly on getting into her Doctoral program. Happy Birthday Craig and Ana. And lastly yay me. I did things too:Short and Ugly Comic: shifter-magazine.com/shifter13.pdfQuick and Brutal Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQmdQPy_3yg So that was then - also on a small not the format is going down from 80 min shows to a brief 50 min. this is mainly due to space and time considerations IntroLed Zepplin - Immigrant SongWomen - Black Rice (Green Go remix)Krazy Baldhead - The End ft. Beat AssailantBruce Springsteen - Erie CanalLisps - Docume

Says Simon I been face to face with a Serpant, Demon and a Saint, think it is what it aint... Aint that right baby face?, cutie pie?, good lookin'?, twinkle in your Daddy's eye?39 minutes ago · Comment · LikeUnlike You like this. Says Simon at 9:44pm April 10So hollow the ground and don't put up a fight Cause when it comes it'll come like a thief in the nightYeah, obey the laws and do everything rightBut when it comes it'll come like a thief in the nightFor real we take 'em away...  Read MoreThey take 'em awayWrite a comment...