leave them all behind

oh george w., you rascal! check out the latest offering from mylo, a new video for "muscle cars" - features a surprisingly realistic bush lookalike doing blow with hookers. nice.

lots of exciting speedrail action in the next few days, come see me in manhattan tonight or in williamsburg on saturday

and it doesn't matter which day you come out, i'll probably be drunk on sparks (!) and playing zongamin over and over either way...

speaking of which

i found one of my favorite remixes from a few months ago on mp3, here you go:

chromeo - me and my man (fly whitey fly mix)

i used my vinyl copy so much that shit's all beat up and won't play anymore...

take two and pass

el-p - deep space 9mm

low profile - the dub b.u. just begun

thems the breaks.

(thanks to cocaine blunts for turning me on to low profile)

take me to the station

good saturday night:

first we stopped off at 69 14th st. to see the fixed crew (jdh and dave p) throw their last party of the year. they fucking killed it. absolutely out of control. they have officially overtaken tim sweeney as my favorite new york city djs. even though we had to wait in line for the bathroom for 30 minutes, the free pbr helped pass the time.

and

jdh started off his set with another one of my singles of the year:

zongamin - the bongo song



after fixed, it was off to check out the new gbh after-hours party. melody nelson came on at 4, and dropped all of your favorie indie rawkers from the past year (including we are scientists!). michael t sashayed up to the decks at around 6, and we only stayed for another half hour or so. have to say i was a little skeptical about the whole email-for-secret-location deal, but it ended up being a great time.

until then.

girls in the back

i've started to think about year-end best of lists...need to spend some time narrowing things down, here's my off-the-top-of-my-head initial notes for albums:

m.i.a. - arular
lcd soundsystem - lcd soundsystem
sufjan stevens - illinois
kings of leon - aha shake heartbreak
young jeezy - let's get it
kanye west - late registration
diplomats - more than music, v. 1
maximo park - a certain trigger
low - the great destroyer
the go! team - thunder, lightening, strike
tom vek - we have sound
devendra banhart - cripple crow
spoon - gimme fiction
bloc party - silent alarm
fischerspooner - odyssey
a.r.e. weapons - fire in the streets
the juan maclean - tito's way
broken social scene - broken social scene
franz ferdinand - you could have it so much better
jamie lidell - multiply
ladytron - the witching hour
vitalic - ok cowboy

looking at this rough list, i realize a bunch of my favorite singles of the year wouldn't make the album list. such as:

we are scientists - nobody move, nobody get hurt

tonight's a big night for parties moving locales in nyc - misshapes leaves luke and leroy's (but will we still be able to smoke??), and disco-not-disco favorites jdh and dave p are taking the fixed party to 69 14th st.

so where are you going tonight, eh?

i got a 21 on the now-infamous gawker "are you a hipster?" quiz.

that makes me an "unabashed hipster"

mix of shame and pride.

quick as they come they go

one for the road, more later:

ears - happy dayz

she wore blue velvet

as if i needed one more reason not to go to far east russia:

A Lazo man who called himself only Mikhalich said there had been "no pine cones at all" in the local forests this year.

"The little beasts are agitated because they have nothing to eat," he added.

one more reason to get momongas instead of squirrels - momongas don't maul local dogs.

go momonga, go!

this song just came on my itunes after the dfa holiday mix, it's amazing:

rockin' berries - he's in town

waiting for a factory girl

i haven't read any of the harry potter books, nor have i seen any of the movies. but i am intrigued by the new one since jarvis cocker plays is featured in a fictional band. pulp is still one of my all time favorite bands, and i think jarvis can/should/will be remembered as the 90s' fey mick jagger.

speaking of which


how come more people didn't latch onto relaxed muscle? i mean c'mon, jarvis dressed up in a skeleton outfit playing electro fuzz rock under a pseudonym? genius.


for your listening pleasure:


relaxed muscle - tuff it out



in a similarly sinister vein, i haven't heard much about she wants revenge since i picked up a free promo cd that they had put out at happy ending. like so many other joy division meets williamsburg and/or silverlake bands, i think the live show would make or break them. but i do like their stuff

she wants revenge - sister

it might be a different story

time for some internet radio / dj mix downloads:

radioclit - i stumbled across this a few weeks ago, they've got filthy filthy screw edits and mixes. and the most recent show starts off with a live kraftwerk track.

jdh / dave p - another live mix from my favorite new york dj team, this one from the last edition of the fixed parties at the tribeca grand. (link via cliktrax and flavorpill) and the mix includes tiga's "you gonna want me" and !!!'s "intensifieder"!!

dfa - go buy the $.99 dfa holiday mix from itunes. right. now. it is ridiculousness.

diplo - live mix from xm radio, i've played it so much at the office it's been officially banned.


and

since i promised downloads:

!!! - take ecstasy with me

now that every other blog in existence has posted it, i figure i can too.