I made a mix on 8tracks using songs from the albums I selected for my recent "What's In My Bag?" feature on Amoeba.com. Not entirely the easiest thing to do considering some of the disparate genres represented. Still, I think it kinda sorta, possibly maybe works. Check it out here.

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Boosted from weebull  which makes this very much apropos:

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

...shake my ass to this.

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...I'll probably cry when Yukimi sings this:

No sympathy really here
All the sweetness is left somewhere
On some street miles from where we seem to be
No love, no love

No compassion really here
Even the reason why we met
Has vanished in the air
You keep talking as I sit and glare
Just can't understand how it disappeared no

No love in this room
No ( Read more... )

The second half of the new Junior Boys album is soooooooooooo creamy.

I'm just sayin'...

...to miss New Orleans.

Happy Mardi Gras, y'all!!

I've been listening to WWOZ all morning and, amidst alternating smiles and tears, am aching to be home right now. I live my life entrenched in music of all kinds. But listening to "OZ" right now is reminding me how infrequently I hear New Orleans music outside of New Orleans. These are sounds that ( Read more... )

I didn't pop champers Tuesday, despite having a perfectly good bottle of Gosset Brut Excellence to ice down and toast with, not to mention a perfectly fantastic reason to celebrate. Early in the a.m. and bereft of coffee, it didn't occur to me that I could have brought the bottle to my buddy Joe's place which is where I went to watch the ( Read more... )

There may be impending justice: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/14/BART.shooting.arrest/

But there's still no peace: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/09/new.orleans.shooting/Read more... )

Thanks to gordonzola  for the heads up.

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Hi,

Have you heard about the shooting death of Oscar Grant by a BART police officer? Did you know that BART police have been accused of using excessive and unnecessary force in two other shooting deaths in the past? And that BART has resisted creating a civilian oversight board to provide public accountability?

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