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Now featuring FRT, Guilty Pleasures, Music I’m Not-Ironically Into, and Friday Cat Blogging, all in one single post! Warning: this post is very heavy on video, ego-stroking, and bad taste. Friday Random Ten Because if it’s Friday somewhere, we might as well. Tanya Stephens - Man Fi Rule
Friday Random Ten - The Super Retro Edition Posted by Linnaeus @ 9:
Friday Random Ten - the En Route edition Posted by Jill @ 8:
First, a video, because I’ve been playing this song on repeat while I study and it’s stuck in my head: Voxtrot - Your Biggest Fan Bonnie Rate - I Can’t Make You Love Me Cat Stevens - Oh Very Young The War On Drugs - Buenos Aires Beach Tom Waits - Lost in the Harbour
Modest Mouse - Bury Me With It Bill Evans Trio - All of You (take 2) Jens Lekman - It Was a Strange Time in My Life Ryan Adams - My Blue Manhattan Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Sugar Sugar Sugar Bob Dylan - Corrina, Corrina Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Buriedfed
As in, I’m going to commit one if the bar isn’t over soon. But this video relieves my anger (how cute is this? I saw her last week and she was fabulous. Now, the 10: Mark Lanegan - Come to Me Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Is This Love? Santogold - Your Voice Bob Dylan - Absolutely Sweet Marie
The Rules: Set your MP3 player to shuffle, and post the first 10 songs that come up. Friday video: Since you were all such fans of Santogold last time around, here she is again: The Ten: Rhett Miller - Our Love Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - Evidence
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Tupelo Erykah Badu ft. Common - Love of My Life Rufus Wainwright - Tower of Learning Tom Waits - Russian Dance The Notwist - Formiga Kaki King - Doing the Wrong Thing Death Cab for Cutie - 405 Portishead - Roads Feist - Inside and Out
Tall Birds - Internalize Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Lost Brigade Tom Waits - Anywhere I Lay My Head Jets to Brazil - Sea Anemone Cat Stevens - Oh Very Young Des Ark - Send Jolly to Raleigh Rolling Stones - Factory Girl Rufus Wainwright - Across the Universe
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.
Maxwell - For Lovers Only Jill Scott - Sweet Justice Ray Charles - Night Time (is the right time) John Coltrane - My Little Brown Book The Notwist - This Room Yo La Tengo - Tiny Birds Spoon - Believing is Art Bob Dylan - Temporary Like Achilles Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla
OMG TOO CUTE! Thanks to Sam for the video. Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling into Place Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - God’s Hotel Tom Waits - Big Black Mariah Les Savy Fav - Blackouts on Thursday Spoon - I Could Be Underground The Shins - Weird Divide Mogawi - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
I am still working off my post-Valentine’s Day hangover — that’s what happens when you spend V-day with a friend, TeleMundo (it’s the only channel that was working on my TV last night) and two bottles of red wine. But I am not so out of it that I would forget the FRT (as I apparently did last week).
This basically been my life lately. Radiohead - All I Need Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - One Good Son Death Cab for Cutie - Company Calls Epilogue Les Savy Fav - Fading Vibes Yo La Tengo - Georgia vs. Tom Waits - Ruby’s Arms [live] Guided by Voices - Motor Away
Although in other news, I have taken up boxing as my new way of relieving the Bar-studying stress. Yoga was the original plan, but sadly none of the classes fit into my schedule, so boxing it is. Everyone else in the class is really good. I am inept, but learning. I have never sweated (sweat?
The “my brain is so full of bar exam information that I can’t even think of a title for this FRT” edition. The Cure - Boys Don’t Cry Redman - Smoke Buddah Erykah Badu - Tyrone Can-U - The Fire The Pogues - Fairytale of New York Beck - Atmospheric Conditions
Friday Random Ten - Psychedelic Apocalypse edition Posted by Donna Darko @ 2: