From the depths (of my external hard drive): Peaches - Lovertits

 

Peaches - Lovertits (The Teaches of Peaches, 2000)

Personally...

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Good morning fellas! How are you finding the latest Swan Lake album? Personally, I find it delightful...

Heartswarm
Settle on Your Skin
Peace

My body is a cage but my mind holds the key.

photograph by Bettina Rheims

Sara Lov - My Body Is a Cage (Arcade Fire Cover)

I woke up this morning with boy-girl harmonies in my head

Photo by datahbi

Entire Cities - Coffee

First song on the list an indie countryish gem...I mean a country indiepopish...uhm that is...an indie-folk road-type... well nevermind. In their own words: "My personal contribution to the ol' pigeonhole is 'psychedelic cow punk'; I'm not really worried about it though because I've tried to define the music myself and failed miserably. If I don't know what it is, then how the f*** is anyone else gonna know?" Check out their myspace for more songs.

Orouni ft. Mlie - Panic at the Beehive

Orouni ft. Mlie - Open It In May

Moving on, french pop band Orouni have got a new album and boy is it good! The same sweet French voices that made us love them in the first place are there, plus some really catchy melodies so what else is there to want? We've posted another song of theirs a while ago (that was recently featured on Said the Gramophone) and now we're back with more.

The Deer Tracks - Slow Collision

And last but not least we have The Deer Tracks. We're getting tons of songs and band recommendations e-mailed to us so we try our best to listen to them all. It's not that often that we find something as good as this, though. Beautiful.

BONUS: We got a request for more Watercolor Paintings songs, so here you have an album that I received last time I posted about them (Steven R. M. or Dora K. - can't remember which, thanks). It'll only be available for a short period of time so do yourself a favour and download it!

Things You Can Fight With (zshare)

It Is Finally Time to Tell the Story

'It Is Finally Time to Tell the Story' was written by Dave Eggers I would guess sometime in 2004 (and is kind of relevant what with all this elections-talk in the U.S.). Find it in 'Short Short Stories'.

 

'Yes, it is finally time to tell the story about the sheep from that one island whose name is forgotten but which rhymes with Godiva. There were too many sheep on this particular island, so some of them got on a boat and left for Spain. In Spain, however, they were not welcomed. Everyone in Spain, waiting by the shore for the boat to come in, had expected something more unusual than sheep. When the gangway was lowered and the sheep descended, the Spaniards said many things to them, the overall gist of which was 'Go back to your island, sheep, and send some gila Monsters or Komodo dragons.' It is well known that the Spanish have always longed for gila monsters and Komodo dragons and perhaps some of those child-sized ancestors of Homo Erectus everyone's talking about. So the sheep set sail again, this time looking for Franz Josef Land, which they'd heard had a balmy climate and universal health insurance. But when they arrived, six months later, they found neither. Franz Josef Land was desolate, treeless, and obsessed only with wireless internet access. So the sheep set sail again, this time landing in Montana, which no one - no one but these seafaring sheep - realized had a deep-sea port. They walked around Montana for a while, but found the people to be unfriendly and with very poor taste in music. Everywhere they went, they heard Thin Lizzy and Bachman Turner Overdrive, and though the sheep enjoyed much of the music by these bands, they actually preferred early King Crimson and later XTC. So they set sail again, this time looking for - you know what? Hold on a second. Wait one damned second here. The author of this irrelevant narrative just woke up, momentarily, from a self-induced mental coma, and now something is worming into his consciousness. It couldn't be. Did that really happen? Did we really elect Bush again? Holy fucking shit. Screw the sheep and pity us Americans. Have we ever wanted pity before? We have not, but now we do. Shower us with pity as we cloak ourselves in shame.'

 

And now music.

Shotgun Jimmie - Bedhead

Belly Boat - Little ('Dear Robert Hanoy', dld full album here)

Belly Boat - City ('Dear Robert Hanoy', dld full album here)

Perhapst - Quote ('Perhapst', order it here)

Don't judge a song by its cover

Of Montreal – Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up (Love is all)

CSS – Knife (Grizzly Bear)

British Sea Power – Caribou (Pixies)

Ladytron – Open your heart (Human League)

Pavement – Something (Beatles)

Final fantasy – Peach, Plum, Pear (Joanna Newsom)

The Postal Service – Against all odds (Phil Collins)

Lou Barlow - Cold as Ice - (Foreigner)

After winning the game, the player is given the option to start the game again in "Hard Mode"

This little pixellated black screen you see here once generated a significant amount of pondering for my brother and I. Circa, oh, I would say 1988.

We jumped, pushed and pulled. Kicked, punched and shouted. But nothing happened. We did it again and again and again. We were stuck and couldn't for the life of us get any further, we couldn't even get back out of the room.

It drove us mad.
It was hopeless.

You have to remember this was pre-internet days. No cheats.
No 'how-to' hints. Just our 10 and 11 year old brains respectively.

It had taken a long time to reach this point, and so this in itself was an accomplishment. I remember looking forward to getting into this room. But once we were there, well of course we wanted to go further, beyond this (now cursed) screen.

Of course we did eventually figure it out, and of course another, more difficult, obstacle appeared soon afterwards. (I remember fire, spikes and difficult jumps).

And at some point, we just stopped playing it altogether.

Anyway, a Crystal Castles song reminded me of being in this room, this place without exit or escape, the repetitive bleeping, the frustration...

Crystal Castles – Alice Practice

+ some others:

Weezer - Heart Songs
No Age – Teen Creeps
Rappers Delight Club – When we were Kids
Flight of the Conchords - Inner City Pressure