tis the season

Merry Christmas, happy holidays, crisp Kwanzaa, etc. Hope the season treated everyone well. I thankfully received a brand new, pretty decent digital camera, so I should be able to throw a lot more pictures up on this here blog. But for now, a new song! This one is from a band known as American Analog Set, hailing from the Austin, Texas indie scene (spoon, okkervil river, explosions in the sky, etc). This band defines simple, low-fi, mellow music. A great band to listen to when relaxing in a nice heated room on a cold winter day with a cup of hot chocolate. The lyrics are really simple but I like them a lot, so I've decided to post them.

And her mom's from Indiana and she
She married an Asian man and they
They brought her from Japan to be
Happily suburban and I
I met her one summer when I was
I was just visiting ten days
Her wrists were island thin but she
She smiled like her Indy kin
And she's half

She's into strictly rich and
Overworked businessmen
She don't remember when
She used to hold my hands
After the Rollerland
After she closed the stand
Now it's supply and demand
And it just comes down to the math
And she's half

American Analog Set - She's Half

off we go, or so we say

So I have officially decided that my favorite band is most definitely Modest Mouse. Anyone interested in the band should check out this really cool documentary that was shot while they were making the amazing Lonesome Crowded West. Part one of five can be found below.



And my favorite mouse song of late? check it. off "Building Nothing out of Something"

Modest Mouse - Other People's Lives

record year for rainfall

It's raining out. It has been raining for I think three straight days now. I love the warmth for this time of year, but when you wake up at 4 in the afternoon hungover, it's pitch dark, and raining once again, it gets pretty depressing. Luckily, the Decemberists have a new song that can help us share the pain of this rain. This new song on their new series of singles, "Always the Bridesmaid: A Single Series" is shaping up to be one of my favorite Decemberists songs. I saw them the other night at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston and it was an amazing show, with this song being one of the highlights. BTW, These pics were all taken when I was in Chicago for Lollapalooza this summer.





The Decemberists - Record Year

let's try this again

The best music usually rewards repeated listening. A great test to this is animal collective, an extraordinarily strange sounding band that took me quite some time to get into. The interesting thing about animal collective is for such an odd, random sounding band, their music is really centered in pop. Once you've listened to their songs enough to understand it's form this becomes pretty evident, you just need to get use to it. So anyway, my favorite animal collective jam of late has been off their album "Feels" and it's called "The Purple Bottle." Listen to it a few times, check out the cool lyrics, and enjoy.

Animal Colletive - The Purple Bottle

make everyone happy?

Alright, it has been quite some time since I last updated, but the long wait it over! Here's a song for all you folks that includes an awesome, emotional, wierd, guitar solo at the end that I think is amazing. It's a song from the first official Modest Mouse album, called "This is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about." A great title indeed. Lately Modest Mouse has been my favorite band, speaking to me and others who are cynical and like to drink.

Modest Mouse - Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds

It's about that time

It's just about 2:45am right now. So what better song to give you all than Elliott Smith's 2:45am?

Elliott Smith - 2:45 AM

if only you were lonely

Hello all! Today I shall share a nice song to get depressed and drink to, everyone's favorite activity! Bring the kids along! I'm just getting into this band, The Replacements (a punk/post-punk/indie band from the 80s for those that don't know), and this song is apparently a b-side or some kind of rarity. Check it out. btw, if anyone actually reads this blog, feel free to comment or share your blog. It's hard to tell if anyone actually looks at this.

The Replacements - If Only You Were Lonely

And in case your not in the depressed drinking mood...listen to this?