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Blagentine's Day

Every year for Valentine's Day, I put together a mix of songs that are about the opposite of Valentine's Day in order to help people keep perspective.
Here it is.
Tracklist:
"Sorry" by The-Dream (intro)
"Whatever Happened to Us" by Loudon Wainwright III
"When You Were Mine" by Dump
"I Never Learnt to Share" by James Blake (segue)
"Don't Fall in Love" by Still Corners
"To Love Somebody" by Nina Simone
"What Can I Say" by NRBQ
"My Marriage" by Woody Allen (segue)
"Wishing He Was Dead" by The Like
"Guest House" by Ghostface Killah featuring Fabolous
"You Lie You Cheat" by Spiritualized
"The Mermaid Parade" by Phosphorescent
"Girl Don't Come" by Sandie Shaw
"Femme Fatale" by Aloe Blacc
"You're Breaking My Heart" by Harry Nilsson (segue)
"Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad" by Prince
"Only Love Can Break Your Heart" by St. Etienne
"I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" by Giorgio Moroder (segue)
"What Goes Around Comes Around" by Tony! Tony! Toné!
"Thousand Dollar Wedding" by Gram Parsons
"Can't You See" by J. Dilla
"Non Non Non" by Les Sultans

Destroyer's Kaputt Video

I have heard three albums that have been/will be released in 2011. There's G-Side's amazing The One...Cohesive, James Blake's hype-fullfilling self titled debut, and Destroyer's Kaputt. It's an ambient-space-jazz-funk dream of an album, my favorite of the three. It takes a whole bunch of sounds previously thought to be too cheesy for "proper" art rock (sax solos, flutes, jazz-funk fusion) and integrates them flawlessly into Destroyer's palette.
Here's the video for the title track.

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"Where You've Been Hiding" by Architecture In Helsinki
"That's Where It's At" by Sam Cooke
"You Will Find Me" by Micah P. Hinson

Christmas EP

I recorded this EP in GarageBand. The songs sound a lot different from what I do as gleams, so I gave the project a different name. The cover art is above.
Here's the download link.

No Holiday/No Future/No Friends by Endless Teen
1. Snowed In
2. On Holiday
3. A Dime (Ice Cold Mix)
4. B & B Rap
5. Blue Blue Trisha Blue
6. The Science of Endless Teen
7. Swinger Club

SAT 002: a video for a song from the gleams album endless teen

"))<>(( Forever" by gleams from Endless Teen.

"Britain is a country haunted by its past. It is possessed by the memory of a golden age-- a time long ago when this country was the most powerful on Earth."-from "The Attic," part of BBC2's The Living Dead documentary series as referenced here.

"She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina" by The Kinks
"Parklife" by Blur
"Oh England My Lionheart" by Kate Bush

In other news, I just got my first DMCA "takedown notification" for this post (the songs now link to YouTube videos). I guess this means the blog is now LEGIT.

The craziest part of Sunday's Mad Men

was definitely Lane's dad hitting him with a cane. Pow!

Now Lane knows how Charles Sumner felt.
Do I have to do everything for you? Look it up.

It's crazy how Charles Sumner was a BIG DEAL and now all anyone (i.e. me and now you, too) knows about him is that he got caned on the Senate floor and it had something to with slavery. I hope that in 10 years we don't look back at Lane and think of him as the guy on Mad Men who got caned. Let's remember him as the guy on Mad Men who dated a Playboy Bunny who used to be in 3LW.

Anyway, thanks to Videogum, Wikipedia, This Recording, and This Recording's Gif Party for the dope pics that I straight copied & pasted from their sites like A COLD KILLAH.

That is all.

(Yo, this is reposted from my Tumblr, which I use more often because I am a lazy dumb head.)