Two Tramps In Mud Time

Another month and things are still happening - downturns or no, lay offs or not, things proceed to decay at a pace unprecedented. To our vestigial ape descended brain parts this is another insult thrown by the modern world. We are overcome with despair at times by not what is happening, which is still too fast and recent to comprehend, but on what has just happened. So shuttered from the immediate and blinkered to the future we have to cast about for a path with the blind ineptitude of dumb stones rolling down hills. Anxiety, nervousness, fear and dread, ever present but also on the rise - marking higher on the measure of my own inner metric the the rising tide of ill happenings far beyond my ken or control. There is no ennui among destitute - since there is just too much which remains to be done.Also Ana's birthday is this month - so there is that too. We're thinking of a party in the park with an anti-scavenger hunt. Also, Sket and the Hobo - a project blog for me and Ana (and a compliment to the still undi

Look I'll keep this brief as I've found little succor from expounding on this site to any length. Instead let me divulge my recent doings - for diary purposes:Got a 7 pager posted on Shifter Magazine about Bellisop. Not the best art I've ever made but hey.Made me a composting bin. Ahh yeah I be mulch like a mother' now. Semester 2 is GO!After visiting Florida I now get to crash [on] the slopes of Vermont. Oh these wacky "doing things" thing is nuyts.Also - got this here musical interlude:Camisra - let me show you Sgt Pepper_s Lonely Hearts Club Band _Streetlab mix_Larkin Grim - How To Catch A LizardMan Man-Easy Eats Or Dirty Doctor GalapagosLucky Dragons - Jean's ThemeLeadbelly-C.C. RiderOwl Brain Atlas - Doktor TonguesLCD Soundsystem-New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me DownCamper van Beethoven - Eye of FatimaHigh places - From Stardust to SentienceEzrra Furman - Not Recognized-The Stakes are HighCompany - Firewater - Hey ClownKasey Chambers And Shane Nicholson - Jackson HoleMike Monday - Through the

Another year - but this one seems to have more promise right?It certainly seems that way. So lets keep our fingers crossed and kick it off by listening to my new favorite song that, according to Colin Larkin and a 1998 BBC poll is the worst album ever. Screaming Lord Sutch and the Heavy Friends - Flashing LightsJimi Tenor - Bacon AliveYo La TangoAfuche - Umm Champ ChempTradewinds - Mind ExscursionDo Make Say Think - Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!Unknown Artist - Unknown Jackie Lee - Happy VacationPeggy Sue and the Pictures - Once We Were StrangersBill Cosby - Funky North PhiladelphiaRatatat - TropicanaLattie Moore - Pull Down the BlindsWurzels - Rock DJ & Pushnoy - Satisfaction (Thanks to RadioClash!)Tower of Power - What is Hip The Ramones - Do You Remember Rock N Roll RadioLinda Gail Lewis - Ain't Nothing ShakinThe Whitest Boy Alive - IslandHoagy Lands - Baby Let Me Hold Your HandTakeshi Terauchi & the Bluejeans - So Ren Pushi (? Maybe ?)Puppini Sisters - Crazy In Love (The Real Tuesday Weld Remix)Fiery Fu

Hola,Everything is late - lateness is the order of the day If winding gyres were unwinding daydreamsAnd learning and learning is of the most direAnd the thing I could not do is just to pay attentionMere distractions make me lose the world At my best these are convictions my eventual goals aligned with these passions.FloBots - We Are WinningErykah Badu - Amerykahn PromiseHuman Highway - The SoundDirtbombs - It's Not Fun Until They See You CryBlitzen Trapper - God & SuicideLa Lupe - Con El Diablo En El CuerpoThey Might Be Giants - Seven Days Of The Week (I Never Go To Work)Why - The Fall Of Mr. FifthsAlejandro Escovedo - Chelsea Hotel '78Mr. Scruff - KalimbaThe Pica Beats - Poor Old RacaUSE co-MOTION! - baby don't do itRatatat - MirandoCool Kids - What Up ManThe Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and RollThe Last Shadow Puppets - My Mistakes Were Made for YouThe Chemical Brothers - Battle Scars (Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation)The Raconteurs - Hold UpCut Copy - Lights And MusicHauschka - Blue BicycleNatha

Ramblin' Man....  Happy Birthday.Listening to music makes me happy in some ways. Look, here I am listening to ... .. . good lord: Bauhaus of all things.... and I'm not in a bad mood. I actually remember Seattle '99, a studio with 5 friends. One of whom, Tom (mother' stills owes me for the phone bill) shooting coke and listening to this proto-industrial rumble. Good Times. If music was invented today they'd make it illegal. Music is an altered state in the same way that a deep conversation is mind fuck. I hear the Special's "Ghost Town" and I remember that roadtrip where I totally faked fanhood cause I hoped to get laid.How much of my current list is based off that premise? Shit, I may not be the best with the ladies, but all of them have turned me on to music which is in-arguably essential. The Pixies, The Talking Heads, Paul Oakenfold, Neutral Milk Hotel .. . I should make a list of the the sounds I got turned on to and who did it too me. Honestly, it would be a mixed bag, I should shelve that for a bit I gu

09.19.08 Pitfalls of CompilationsLike every able minded wit in this new century's culture wars, I have a podcast. In all humility it is a simple affair, intended to be bi-weekly, it now struggles along at almost a monthly pace. The original intent, beyond the glorious wealth and epic fame of being a podcaster, was to create a feedback loop of finding new music, making it available as a piece, and then, of course, finding more. Little did know the amount of time needed to put together one hour of music. I bete musicians feel the same, only more so.. .Part of the issue is time spent listening to music. I had seriously underestimated the amount of time and attention that this requires. The basic necessity, to listen intently to a song, compounded by the ridiculous wealth in good music that our age best exemplifies, is basically absurd. Thanks to the internet, WFMU's Antique Phonograph show is as easily available as that Moxie Fruvous bootleg I got kicking around somewhere. By which I mean; the obscure areifacts

Oh there ain't a cloud in heaven which has got more than a single silver lining. the lucky days do come and go but is it just my life that is being lost in this town?or someone else's life?or something else of mine?Does it seems like it's me changing - how do I know it isn't that I've found what someone else lost and since I've not got one of my own I have space to filland fill it I willwith whatever I find in this city specific sorrows. Likethe anonymity is really starting to get to me lately, maybe, butwho knew I needed definitions to be happy?Why the last thing I want to do is burn it down, but there is that list.The list of other things to try before I burn it all down.I don't want poetry I want to punch someone in the throat.===I got accepted to Brooklyn College, but probably shouldn't go. ===Sophie Tucker - School for Red Hot MamasBenny Sings - Get ThereFionn Regan - Hey RabbitSmog - Four Hearts in a CanDrop nineteens - (plus fish)ABBA - You Owe Me OneModern Lovers - I'm StraightRadiohead - Jigsaw Falli

As always and ever it is my great joy to snatch from the hands of time the moment of life unmeasured.This month has been fairly erratic - I've gotten a position as a fancy lab assistant at school which, I humbly must admit, I doubt I am qualified for. Of course there are many things I'm not qualified for which I do anyways, or which people pay me to do. It really is a great thing when people believe we live in a meritocracy and the playing field is uneven. I blame the liberals for the former and the conservatives for the latter, just so you know my stance on these things. The situation makes it so that for each inequality you can leverage in your favor the more open people are to thinking you the rightful holder to that which by error, accident, hook and crook you've been able to obtain. All this leads up to the notion that by attaining something I'm unqualified for I've actually shown how qualified I am. Which makes me feel remarkably good about myself while also putting me in a position where I recognize th

Hey everyone - it has been too long yes? Surely it has but so it goes. This one goes out to the madness of the city, the full time school, the real job, the paid tutor position, the honors project, the 1 month roommate (lots of respect to you bud), the co-worker who went west and went missing, the armory show i caught, the 10,000 shows I missed, the brief light of our lives wasted away on frivolous noise. And, of course my, babe.To put it all in a pot and boiling it all down we find ... what do we find? In no particular order (well a little I did try)Horse Latitudes_sounds of the canyons00 - 12-moby - slipping away - 2005The E.L.F.  - cockroachesBatrider_PinkGuitars02 satellite07 Walking On Clouds12 Europop12 Wavy GravyZoogo-Crazy_vbrpalotai-break_session_07030709_The_Whip_-_Muzzle_No.1_black_ghosts_remixCosmosis - 09 - Down At The CrossroadsNevereverdid-YACHT-RemixThievesLikeUs-DrugsInMyBody06_DJ_Mehdi_-_Signatune_thomas_bangalters_more_kick_edit8PM @ Deep Sounds episode 031 Andain - Beautiful Things  _Megan

The quickest little things often take so much time. For instance at the moment I am posting this are an seemingly endless number of things I rather ought to be doing instead - alas - these are the tepid fruits of my sorely constrained time. This podcast itself has in fact haunted my drive for nearly 3 weeks and is only now being released into the wild - not for a lack of quality but a lack of time.However given the matter of music or edification I have to say that the time I have spent on the latter is well worth it as things are proceeding exceedingly well. For the case of the record I now have definitive evidence that a certain lab materials company is selling Barfoed's Reagent that is in a sad state of reacting. Their Benedict's Reagent is quite fine though.Chad Vangaalen - Flower GardensPastel Vespa - The Boys are Back in TownTomorrow - Am I Glad to see you1900s - When I Say GoBoom Bip - Third StreamChoclate watchband - misty laneElliot Smith - Ballad of Big NothingGiant Drag - SlayerDee Dee Sharp - Baby

This is more about the Contrast Podcast Cd Swap then Valentines Day . When the Final Selection is made by Andrew from Circles of Concrete  -- I'll update the page an throw a link to the other contributers selections . Until then enjoy - and ask yourself which would I pick?Mojo Nixon - Rockin' ReligionLed Zepplin - Bron-Y-Aur StompThe Pixies - SubbacultchaVillage Stomper - washington squareThe Bonzo Dog Band - Humanoid BoogieDiesler - Cotton WoolBadly Drawn Boy - BewilderbeastRalph Gean - Kill for a CigaretteTiga - Far From HomeHuggy Bear - HerjazzAtari Teenage Riot - Destroy 2000 Years of CultureFatback Band - Got to Learn How to DanceFuture Kings of Nowhere - Ten Simple MurdersStrip Squad - Pervert ExpertBeat the Devil - Plea BargainBitch and Animal - Best Cock on the BlockDj Food & DK - Square Off - Mirror in the BathroomProfessor Longhair - Big ChiefThe Bees - No One Better Than YouKRS one - The Bridge is OverMan or Astroman - Evert 1 PipkinShocking Blue - Ink PotB.B. King - I Like To Live The LoveMurr

now what happens...Daft punk - Something About UsThe Indelicates- Julia, We Don't Live In The '60sThe Modern Jazz Quartet - For Someone I Love (Live)The Jim Carroll Band - People Who DiedBrendan Benson And The Wellfed Boys - Alternative To LoveBishop Allen - Things Are What You Make Of ThemMonty Python - Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

Time is getting short once more and you know what that means. A sudden decrease in the quality of the posts. Now now.. . follow me here into this backroom for I've a shady secret to share - see here, I only have time to do so much. We both know how that is.  I want to maximize the music I share not create a thickness of links and tangents, digressions, and filler. Things that provide my identity - that personal touch to the selection - must take a back seat now.But it is a fine line - this detachment puts me within range of that absentee dj which factory radio craps out. Certainly nothing I'd like to have in my life. But harsh times call for harsh hash biscuits with a side of resignation gravy (a little light please - the doctor, you know, says I need to watch my diet). This loss of voice is a problem I acknowledge and will work against - but some slippage is bound to occur.So here I'll post with the notion that this could be done better, ought to be done better, by time and life are short and the main motive

Brevity this day my loyal readers. A busted keyboard and little to prattle on about means that original text is at a premium and I shan't bother with the niceties. So welcome to 2008 and enjoy two hours of some selected tracks. Like a very special after school special I hope that we can all learn a very important lesson from what just happened. And so, drugs are bad (or at least expensive), you don't need friends like that, and, of course, time is precious. Oh so precious - I wouldn't read this verbiage I spew grab the tracks and go do something for christ's sake.Lets get started.1) Sargasso Trio - Heels on FireJust about perfect. And this is the stand out track of the ol' cast. buy2) The Field - Fall From A Height (Remix)Tied and Tickled Trio - Aelita 1The much ballyhooed Swedes in rough mix with the post jazz of the trio.3) B.C. Camplight - Soy Tonto!A masterful piece of eclecticity by a man I can really identify with.buy4) Lisa Portelli - A Mon MeubleI don't know French but I know what I like.5 ) Chromeo

For the more perceptive of you - you may have noticed an interesting spelling of name than the common hum drum consonant-vowel-consonant type. For the more Dutch of you you may have not thought anything of it. And if your are as perceptive and Dutch as I am you'd be completely confused about nearly anything - especially this bit. I'll cut right to the quick - I share my name with the Santa's black friends. The helpful and kind, and once enslaved, but now just friends, assistants to Saint Nick. I could pillage this Sedaris piece for cheap laughs but I've got a classy angle here to up hold so I'll spare the sallacious back story of pseudo-sobriquets for another occasion when I'm feeling even more like boring everyone with a ham-fisted intro. So here is David Sedaris and his "Six to Eight Black Men" from his Live at Carnegie Hall performance. buyEnjoy and Happy Holidays from all of me to all of you.Image from: Subterranean Homepage News

My self proclaimed hiatus seems to have been declared in haste. Admittedly this has much to do with the matter of my being recently relieved of my scholastic concerns and let loose in those green pastures of leisure time. And like all things leisurely, such as strolls, it is a constitutional, a blam on the jaded nerves and jangled devices of self defense. Not to put too fine a point on it this is a bit of a mix up more leaning to the classics as would befit a peace of mind. Enough blather - oh but one thing, before I continue - be sure to take a tab and catch up on your folk's eye candy by checking out the adventures of Quasi. Still un-inspired? Catch the 1967 video for Pierre Henry's Psyché Rock. Astounding enough that it's machine evolution predates Kurzweil and more effective because of it.One last video, sure how about the entire 1929 movie from Communist Russia Man with Movie Camera. Your grandfather's jaw presumably dropped during the raw 'documenting the world as it is' scene.Alright enough of that. Le

The Great Divide of the Weeklies and the Monthlies has fallen - and the podcast to prevent podfade must relinquish the hectic ground of the twice a month update to those whose endeavors are more seasoned for such epic things. Seasoned with garlic and time.So the contemporary crap will mix with golden oldies in a sonic stew unpalatable to anyone but the deaf. Somehow I'm sure you'll all struggle on.Also a 'hello' to everyone (all two of you) visiting me from Tim's Contrast Podcast! For those not in the know - he's done a democratic thing and had everyone vote on the best songs of 2007. Surely a smoking year and my opinions were long thought out and my reasons honed by the sweat of the ear tightly encased in headphones - but alas I thought to long and my votes  were rejected because of deadlines being missed and what not. Still Tim was nice enough to let me introduce two fine sparkling tracks and I highly suggest you check out the rankings of everyone's submission. How is it that I get to be a representative wi

And with the holidays and everything what the hell.1. Lee Dorsey - Confusion2. Slim Harpo - Te-ni-nee-ni-nu3. Page France - A Belly To The Sea4. Byther Smith - What My Mamma Told Me5. The Old Ceremony - Hearts Were Made6. Mavis Staples - This Little Light7. Howard Roberts - Sack O'Woe8. Sam Cooke - Another Satruday Night9. Mason Jennings - Where the sun had been10. Little Milton - Who's Cheatin' Who11. Champion Jack Dupree - Louise12. Led Zeppelin - Dancing Days (Live)13. Brazilian Girls - Sweatshop14. James - Fine15. Thee Headcoats - A Town Named Squaresville16. Language Of Flowers - Songs About You17. Charlie Feathers - tongue-tied jill18. Jens Lekman - Pocketful Of Money19. Neil Young - Expecting To FlyImage from Kingdom of LoathingBacking tracks: Skeleton Keys - Watch The Fat Man SwingSkip James - Catfish BluesSkwei - NuFruitTierneys Fugitives - Did You Want To Run AwaySix Organs of Admittance - Dark NoontidePlaid - porn coconut co

It's my birthday so the post needs no introduction blather.1. The Feelies - Big Cheese2. Uberzone - Satisfaction3. Supermayer - The Art of Letting Go4. Animal Collective - Peacebone5. Jens Lekman - Drive In Bingo6. Dave Grusin - Gasoline Alley7. Cherrystones - Crawl Back To Mine8. Jamie Lidell - Multiply9. Roosevelt Franklin - Red Pepper pt. 110. Tom Brosseau - Committed to Memory11. Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freak Out12. Shack Shakers - Swampblood13. The National - Fake Empire14. Six Organs of Admittance - Hazy SF15. Psapp - King Kong16. Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler17. Madvillian - Accordion18. T Bone Burnett - I'm Going On A Long Journey Never To ReturnImage From: www.samugliestdog.comBacking Tracks: Fujiya & Miyagi - CollarboneKelpe Yippee SpaceTom Tyler - Drinking Tea From an Empty CupPapercuts - John BrownDigitalism - Zdarlight

Johnny Otis - Crazy Country HopThe mustachioed Mr. Otis takes us up with the first track with the rosing jangle rock of a fictional hop party of the rural south. Johnny almost made it into this podcast twice but, unfortunately I pulled the plug on the second track because of skips and blips.buyRay Cannon and the Chorals - Mule SkinnerNot sure about the attribution of this track. I pulled it off the radio and got the name from the dj's and now can't find anything about the man - the sadness because this is such a fine track.Band of Horses - Our SwordsA contemporary radio pop ditty from sub-pop's signed folksie creatures list.Dyke and The Blazers - Let a Woman be a WomanI swear the opening rhythm section of this track is the kind of kick ass funk that would later be birthed into the dance floor era's best breakbeat syncopated shake downs.buyHank Williams - Lost HighwayIt's golden.buyTony Rivers & the Castaways - Come Back BabySadly, out of print Columbia recording. What a lovely blur of mod-ish brit pop, th