I Like This

I like this song. And video.

I like this low concept but amusing and visually engaging Web site.

I like this site of Helsinki street style.

And this ends my trenchant cultural commentary for the day.

FDBD (Sooner or Later You'll Bury Your Teeth)

The air gets colder and thinner by the day, leaves are crunchy brown on the ground, pumpkins somehow surviving on porches have mouths that curve inward as they rot so they look like toothless old men smiling at me as I walk past. Everything I see seems witchy-spooky in that autumn way, still. Maybe that's why most songs I've listened to these last few weeks could be the soundtrack to pagan rituals in the woods. I only like magical faerie sprite music now. FDBD For Druids By Druids.

Joanna Newsom - Monkey and Bear

I completely slept on Ys because I found The Milk-Eyed Mender pretentious verging on unlistenable when it came out. Ys won't let me even think about whether I like it or not, because it's too busy exploding my brain.

The Wicker Man Soundtrack - Maypole

The 1973 "Wicker Man" is one of the few movies that truly creeps me out and the soundtrack really captures its amazing Ren-Fair-gone-horribly-awry spookiness.

The Incredible String Band - The Minotaur's Song

My friend Howard recommended The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter after learning of my Ys obsession and yes exactly.

Tyrannosaurus Rex - Cat Black (The Wizard's Hat)

I get that Rolan Bolan is Marc Bolan and Gloria Jones' son and he probably DID dance himself right out the womb and stuff, but just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Sometimes I feel like I have stack of pancakes for a head

If Hatin' is Your Occupation I Prolly Got a Full Time Job For You.

The fact that my first reaction to this was "Awww, Dirty Jerz!" means that I have officially been away from the Tri-State for so long I'm even romanticizing the most terrible parts. Fist pumpin' like champs! Whatever, I've loved two boys from New Jersey. They grow good tomatoes there.

Mixed Bag

This site started as a way to distribute stuff I was already e-mailing to friends who asked for mp3s after I played them at parties, and then also sort of turned into a depot for my inane ramblings, so I've never considered it a music blog. As such I ignore about 90% of the songs I get e-mailed every day, but here are three recent ones that I like a lot.

Future Islands - Old Dreamer (Pictureplane remix)

If I made an actual non-ADD "best of 2009" list Pictureplane's Dark Rift would be on it. I won't, but it would.

Chew Lips - Seven (Labyrinth Jackals remix)

Chew Lips' songs, unremixed, sound to me like they'd play in an 80s movie montage where a bunch of nerds are building something. At the very least someone would be touching a plasma lamp. If that sounds like it could describe a lot of bands these days: Fair enough.

State Bird - I Don't Love U Anymore

This is off a sampler from The Record Machine and you can grab more State Bird mp3s (as well as some from other artists on the label) on their site.