Ryan's "Stepping out of the darkness and into the light" Mix

Happy Valentine's Day!!!


To celebrate, my very own valentine Ryan Hora has created an extremely magical mixtape for this day of burning hearts and sweet love letters ... Really though, it's an awesome mix for any occasion ... You can shake and shimmy in your kitchen to it ... You can drive all around town to it ... You can take a long bubble bath to it ... You can even work out your taxes to it! It's chock full of intriguing brand new tunes from nowadays, along with some sparkling gems from way back when ...


Thanks, Ryan! XOXO


Now, get ready to step out of the darkness and into the light!

You can download the mix HERE.





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Happy Birthday, Psychic Tuesday!!!


Roughly, 3 years ago (Feb. 17th, 2009) I was looking at the Deerhunter blog and listening to one of Bradford Cox's many incredible "micromixes" on there when suddenly I was inspired and compelled to start my own blog ...


You can view the 1st ever entry I made for this blog on that fateful Tuesday RIGHT HERE.



And below is the 1st ever mixtape I made for it (entitled the "Rainy Power Bill Mix"), which today is 3 years old! Back then, I hadn't discovered a way for folks to instantly listen to the mix, so celebrationally, today I'm presenting the mix as a P.T. flashback ... ENJOY!

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and now ... some random news




Ryan posted this great link full of ridiculous clip art versions of famous album covers ... You can view them RIGHT HERE. Thanks, R!




And HERE is a great link I found listing the "top 5 regrets of the dying" ... It really puts things into perspective somehow.




Also, if you've never seen or heard of it, check out "TV Carnage", which collages a ton of delightful and weird old school television moments together ... YES! View the insanity RIGHT HERE.





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VIDEOS! VIDEOS! VIDEOS! VIDEOS! VIDEOS! VIDEOS!




Hey look! Alabama Shakes were on Conan!!!

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Some psychedelic beauty, thanks to Julian House and Belbury Poly =




Enter the surreal world of Julia Holter =

Wow! Elise sent this great 80's underground nugget by Trees ... cheers, E! =




Elise also posted this rather awesome India hand puppetry thingy ... thanks again! =




Haha ... David Faust posted some great live Captain Beefheart stuff ... But I'm at a loss for words at 12:58 ... haha ... Gracias, David! =




Wes Reid (Tan Lnz) sent me this rad clip by Hobo Cubes ... danke, Wes! =

I somehow stumbled upon this wonderful 1966 clip of Cherry Wainer & Don Storer ... Groovy! =




This next bit is pretty bizarre ... Lindsay Denniberg is working on a film called "Video Diary Of A Lost Girl" (Teadorra does the soundtrack, too!) and this is the intro ... !!! =






A double decker dessert!



Charlie Sanders posted this nutty "Tim & Eric" clip ... thanks, Charlie! =




Charlie also posted this one ... haha! Merci! =