Mix: False Memories

1. Julian Plenti – “Only If You Run”
2. Surfer Blood – “Swim”
3. Jason Lytle – “Ghost of My Own Dog”
4. jj – “Ecstasy”
5. Yeasayer – “Ambling Alp”
6. Megafaun – “Guns”
7. Small Black – “Despicable Dogs (Washed Out Remix)”
8. Washed Out – “Feel It All Around (Toro Y Moi Remix)”
9. Toro Y Moi – “My Touch”
10. These United States – “I Want You To Keep Everything”
11. Here We Go Magic – “Tunnelvision”
12. The Dodos – “Fables”
13. The Kingsbury Manx – “Well, Whatever”
14. Built to Spill – “Things Fall Apart”
15. Atlas Sound – “Shelia”

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Thursday Music Videos: 11/19/09

Grizzly Bear – “Ready, Able” – I really appreciate the thought and effort Grizzly Bear puts into their music videos. This one is a tripping balls kind of a video made with claymation.

White Denim – “I Start to Run” – Nice bass line on the first single from this Austin band’s latest album Fits. I predict big things for them in the future.

Rain Machine – “Give Blood” – Rain Machine is the side project of Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio. The self-titled debut is available now on Anti- Records. Not a bad song.

 

Linkdown: 11/19/09

- AV Club’s top 50 albums of the decade; I can’t find too much wrong with it

- Interview with Ty Burrell of “Modern Family”

- The Oscar Documentary shortlist includes Food, Inc. but snubs Anvil! The Story of Anvil! (boo)

- Interview with Carla Gugino, who plays a porn star who gets unexpectedly preggers in her latest movie Women in Trouble

- Avatar will be nearly three hours long

- The Emmys are moving back to August next year

- High Def Digest’s Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Blu-rays for the Folks Who Have…Issues (kinda dumb)

- Here’s the Beach House single “Norway” from their forthcoming album and Sub Pop debut Teen Dream

 

Crazy Heart movie poster

Nice photography-slash-use-of-Photoshop.

(via Slashfilm)

 

Toro Y Moi – Causers of This album art (+ mp3)

Toro Y Moi is releasing two albums next year, and the first one Cause of This drops on February 23, 2010 (birthday present, anyone?). Here is the album art as well as an updated version of the opening track “Blessa”,  the original of which I included on my Seersucker Porn mix from the summer.

(via Gorilla Vs. Bear)

 

Tuesday Trailers: 11/17/09

Kick Ass – The latest film from Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, Stardust) stars Aaron Johnson and McLovin and is based off the graphic novel by Mark Millar.

Crazy Heart – Everything I’ve read calls it this year’s The Wrestler. Originally a CMT movie, it is now being released on Fox Searchlight and stars Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, Sarah Jane Morris and Colin Farrell.

Reservoir Turtles – A well done mash-up trailer of Reservoir Dogs and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The syncing of the Reservoir Dogs dialogue with the turtles’ mouths is pretty impeccable.

 

Linkdown: 11/16/09

- Interview with Bradford Cox, singer of Deerhunter and who recently released a solo album under his Atlas Sound moniker

- A pretty lengthy interview with Bill Simmons

- MGM is officially for sale

- Cinematical’s five ways to save Joss Whedon, whose latest show “Dollhouse” was recently canceled

- Brooklyn record label Slumberland Records is 20 years old

- “Final Fantasy XIII” is coming to North America on March 9, 2010

- Slashfilm: Is the Hollywood Movie Star Dead?

- A screenshot confirming an R2-D2 easter egg in Star Trek

 

Thursday Music Videos: 11/12/09

You should notice a theme with all of today’s videos…

Surfer Blood – “Catholic Pagans” – A live performance in a cramped bathroom from the Palm Beach, FL band.

Fanfarlo – “We Live by the Lake” – Been a while since I posted a Black Cab Session, but here’s an older session from Fanfarlo.

 

The Avett Brothers – “Will You Return” – With a bunch of friends on the back of a bus. It really gets going at the 1:41 mark. From the YouTube description:

Tim Nackashi directed our live from-the-bus version of ‘Will You Return’ while we were stopped off in Anaheim, CA. We piled as many people into the back of the bus as possible. Things got appropriately crazy.. Thanks for watching and listening!

 

Linkdown: 11/10/09

- AV Club has a couple of great tv lists so far this week: the best one-season wonders of the 00s and the best late-night comedy/talk shows of the 00s

- AV Blog: 30 Rock’s dangerous decline and the shadow of Will & Grace

- James Franco explains why he is doing “General Hospital”

- Several articles on Brooklyn’s current music scene

- “Mad Men” finalewas the most watched since season debut

- Sigur Ros’s homecoming concert film Heima is available to watch for free on Pitchfork.tv

- Duh AficionadoMagazine: 2012 is not a documentary

 

Top 5: TV Shows I’m Breaking Up With

1. “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (FX) - The first season of this show was very good. And then Danny DeVito came in and ruined the show in my opinion. Then I heard the fact that most of the dialogue was improvised (a la “Curb Your Enthusiasm”), and I realized how much I noticed their improvisation during the show and how much it took me out of the experience.

2. “Man v. Food” (Travel Channel) – You were a nice show to watch during the summer when little was on. But I can only take so much of Adam Richman’s forced descriptions of the food he is eating and the faux news conferences.

3. “Gossip Girl” (The CW) – Yea, I know. I tried to start watching it again once “House” moved time slots on Monday nights.  So, so bad and not even in a guilty pleasure kind of way.

4. “The Simpsons” (Fox) – I started watching again once it switched to HD. And its not a bad show, good for some chuckles every once in a while. It’s just not worthy of DVR-ing on an already crowded Sunday night.

5. “Weeds” (Showtime) - “Weeds” was a nice breath of  fresh air when Showtime was trying to establish itself as a player for original cable programming a few years back. But slowly, over 5 seasons the show lost its way when it consistently made Nancy an unlikeable character while it moved further and further away from its original premise.