Put your MP3 player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs.
Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first song is the title.

My Heartbeat is Dyin

I'm not knocking your want to carry that home
Throw another log on the fireplace
Baby, baby it looks like its gonna hail
I feel just like a child
A cause des ( Read more... )

For realz. Listen to me on RADIO 1190 AM tomorrow morning. 10 AM - NOON.

Lily asked if I would be her guest host and do the entire show. She's awesome. And so am I.
Gimme feedback though, I love being on the radio and haven't been since high school.

xo

The other love of my life, Mr. Jason Schwartzman, is releasing his sophomore album in January - again under the name Coconut Records.


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10. Vampire Weekend | Vampire Weekend

9. The Kills | Midnight Boom

8. Laura Marling | Alas, I Cannot Swim

7. The Cool Kids | The Bake Sale

6. Fleet Foxes | Fleet Foxes

5. Crystal Castles | Crystal Castles

4. Does It Offend You, Yeah? | You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into

3. White Denim | Exposion

2. Bon Iver | For Emma, Forever Ago

1. Lykke ( Read more... )

And he can yodel. JEALOUS!?? Hahaha.

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Damn it felt good to see a ska show again (Green Room Rockers and Potato Pirates). Last night Karl, looking his most dapper, helped book said show at Owsley's. Sean and I went, and he had said to me "I'm not even sure I know what ska is." He tends to have tunnel vision about music, and may not musically identify anything without comparing it to ( Read more... )

Paci, you will like this. Ian's a Denver cellist and all around awesome dude.



For you Denverites, he's playing at Hi-Dive tomorrow night; I'm thinking about going...

She rules; even if she weren't Swedish.
Here's the awesomely bizarre video for her song "I'm good, I'm gone".

It has stop-motion animation! And silver body-builders! And dancing!

Thanks for the heads up on the new vid, Chris (gorillavsbear)! By the way, check out his site, he rules too.

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Keelivine - A pencil which uses lead.

On 18 October 2006, I wrote a blog about Scarlett Johansson doing a solo album exclusively covering Tom Waits songs. Now the album is finally releasing 20 May 2008 and titled "Anywhere I Lay My Head".
The leaked mp3s have since been taken down (I've looked all over!), and the feedback has been mixed at best. Certainly, covering Tom Waits is risky ( Read more... )

But I'm feeling swimmingly. Nice low key night out.

*flutter*  *what-er?*

I don't know when to start or when to stop
My luck's like a button
I can't stop pushing it
My head feels light
But I'm still in the dark
Seems like without tenderness there's something missing
Tenderness
Where is the
Tenderness
Where is it?

I don't know where I am but I know I ( Read more... )