I just wanted say that you can stream a few songs from the I'm Not There soundtrack here, but do not even bother with the other two and just listen to Jim James's version of "Goin To Acapulco." I have been searching for a recording of it since seeing the movie about two months ago, and here it is. It's one of the only covers that actually appears ( Read more... )

Last night I saw Animal Collective. On either side of the stage, they had set up these skeletons wearing tutus and had propped their arms up like they were ready to attack. At one point, a sweaty guy next to me wearing a big plastic headband grabbed both of my wrists and positioned them in the air. I looked back at him in confusion, and he leaned ( Read more... )

American I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
American two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956.

We intended to see The Mountain Goats three times this weekend. We were going to hit DC, Baltimore (more like Balti-less, if you ask me) and then Philly. We just may have referred to it once or twice as "All Up The Seething Coast 07." We only ended up seeing them once, in DC on Thursday night, but that's okay. It was a great show, even though I ( Read more... )

"Anyway, my advice is to not go to a 'political' school. Almost everyone here is full of shit."
-from a letter I just found that I wrote to my sister but never sent, March 2006

I guess what put it over into "best week of my life" territory was probably yesterday afternoon when we were walking down the street doing fake Werner Herzog accents and all of the sudden someone we were with got really quiet and pointed very subtly behind him and we all looked over our shoulders enough to see that Werner Herzog and his wife were 5 ( Read more... )

INSOMNIA?! This is new. This is strange ( Read more... )

So I just booked one of my favorite live bands in the world right now, Mika Miko, to play a show in the Kay Basement on Oct 13th!!! We have at least 2 other shows in the works for the fall right now but this is the first one that's completely confirmed and look at how awesome it's going to be.

"Just the place to bury a crock of gold," Sebastian said. "I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I was old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember."

And hey, I choose my company by the beating of their hearts, not the swelling of their (dicks).