Sorry posting has been slow on my end. I got back to New York two days ago, and between seeing temporarily-returned far-flung friends, setting up my new apartment(!), running a million errands, doing my real job and preparing for school on Monday, the blog has taken a back seat.
But I have a ton of great stuff in my email box, including a very important call to action on behalf of Jamie Leigh Jones (the woman raped by KBR employees in Iraq) which will be posted very very soon. Things will pick up over the next few days. If you’re looking for some good reading and you somehow haven’t come across this post by Brownfemipower, you should really head over there. It’s also on my list of “things to link and respond to,” but I’m really sucking at the whole blogging thing right now and it’s so good I don’t want to hold onto it any longer. So go read.
Now, the FRT:
1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – That’s What Jazz Is To Me
2. Ray Lamontagne – Hannah
3. Mogwai – Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep
4. The Pogues – The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
5. The Capstan Shafts – The Flowering Universe Confounds
6. Sonic Youth – Drunken Butterfly
7. Franz Ferdinand – Darts of Pleasure
8. Guided by Voices – My Valuable Hunting Knife
9. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra – Jelly, Jelly
10. Tom Waits – Gospel Train
Friday videos:
There’s a version that I like better than this one, but I couldn’t find it on Youtube. It’s slower and acoustic, if anyone knows what I’m talking about.
Jenny Lewis, whose hairstylist I bow down to:
and Mark Lanegan:
It’s the weekend. Yay.
Artist — “Song”
Lacuna Coil — “Comalies”
Nine Inch Nails — “You Know What You Are?”
Rage Against the Machine — “Township Rebellion”
Against Me! — “Mediocrity Gets You Pears (The Shaker)”
Cradle of Filth — “A Scarlet Witch Lit the Season”
Herbie Hancock — “Driftin’”
Public Enemy — “Rebel Without a Pause”
Sevendust — “Enemy”
System of a Down — “Sugar”
Gravity Kills — “Superstarved”
Bonus Track from my new favorite TV show:
Dëthkløk — “Awaken”
Memphis Minnie-”When the Levee Breaks”
Rasputina-”Antique High-Heeled Red Doll Shoes”
Saint-Saëns/Yo-Yo Ma-”Concerto #1 for Cello and Orchestra Op. 33″
Portishead-”Sour Times”
Seatbelts-”Forever Broke”
Frank Zappa-”The Man from Utopia Meets Marry Lou”
Gorillaz-”Dare”
Aaron Copland-”Variations on a Shaker Theme”
Vinicio Capossela-”Che Cosse L’Amor”
Kenny Rogers-”Conditions”
Oh, I need this weekend.
1. Band of Horses – Part One
2. Mink Deville – Spanish Stroll
3. Clash – Bankrobber
4. Interpol – NYC
5. Patti Smith – Ask the Angels
6. Nick Drake – Parasite
7. Beirut – Cliquot
8. Lily Frost – Enchantment
9. Sweet – Ballroom Blitz
10. Velvet Underground – I’ll Be Your Mirror