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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Ryan's Record Crate Mix 1

This mixtape was created for you by sifting through a big crate of my amazing boyfriend, Ryan Hora's records ... And boy, does he have immaculate taste in music!!! I get dizzily overwhelmed just thinking about his complete vinyl collection ... haha

So this is part 1 (the sparkling instrumental half) of music collected from Ryan's record crate, and it's quite an adventure of a mix! I have to say that it's truly an eclectic listening experience and also an extremely unpredictable one, which is probably one thing that makes it so incredibly listenable ...

And now here it is, folks ... Try to get yer unprepared ears ready to delve into Ryan's magic RECORD CRATE!!!

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1st of all, just when I was gettin in a chilly weather / Halloween frame of mind, what does it do here in Alabama? Of course it gets HOT again! ARRRGH!!!

Aaaanywaaay, I'm still trying to get "in the spirit" cuz surely it'll turn nippy again before All Hallow's Eve (*knock on wood!!!*) ...

So with that in mind, as always this time of year, I start foraging for hot fresh undiscovered online Halloween music and creepy sound effects records ... and this awesome site (Music You Possibly Won't Hear Any Place Else) always has these really great Halloween "Slaylists" ... check em out if you find yerself craving some spooky October music!

ENJOY!!!

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This past Saturday, Ryan and I packed up a ton of our old clothes, records, CDs, DVDs and VHS tapes and participated in Bottletree's fleamarket ... It was pretty fun and Ryan ended $elling a good deal of his stuff!

Here's some photo evidence =

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This past Sunday, my friend Nancy threw another wonderful Green Central Station picnic ...

Witness my boo-boo from being a little too enthusiastic in my badmitten playing ... wow ... my blood is "horror movie red" ... ouch! =

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Let's have a warm round of applause for this week's VIDEOS!!!

Male Bonding ... always entertaining =

I dedicate this pretty one from Avey Tare's upcoming solo album ("Down There") to RYAN =

Holy shit this video from Mumdance is FUNNY!!! =

Elise sent me these 2 glowing hot embers from Efterklang (thanks, Elise!!!) ... I dub them "beautifully bizzare" =

Crystal Castles are also trying to get you in that creepy Halloween mood ... mmm hmmm =

I CANNOT get this song out of my head ...

so what can I do but to try & get it stuck in YER head now! haha =

Weston recently posted this nugget by The Standells (thanks, Weston!!!) =

And here's a pretty amazing video by the local musical phenomenon known as Ponyboy =

I made this video for Enon's "Grass Geysers, Carbon Clouds" album 2 whole years ago, and I recently chanced upon it and thought I'd go ahead and post it ... ENJOY =

And finally, once again my awesome twin brother Peter is responsible for a double-decker dessert full of absurd humor and insane parody shits & giggles ... thanks again, Peter!!! =

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Defaced Mix

This mixtape just might be perfect for:

A. throwing caution to the wind

B. taking risks and chances

C. making a conscious change, big or small

D. rearranging a room

E. catching leaves before they reach the ground

I had fun making this playlist ... it was a good way to clear my head after certain events ... I named it so because of what's on the cover ... Let me describe what happened using my latest facebook status update:

‎(my profile pic is photographic evidence of what some kind soul added to the Hank Williams portrait I did for the bathroom stall of the Bottletree men's room ... thanks, you pathetically ignorant a-hole)

Anyway, to say the least, it was a rather upsetting experience seeing one of my works defaced in such a way (there was even worse stuff written on Hank's hat) ...

I'm actually thinking about having an art show where I ask folks to deface the paintings and then I'd photo-document the slowly growing layers of graffiti ... haha

Well, HERE's the mix in all it's glory ... ENJOY!!!

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Happy October!!! my favorite month has finally arrived!!!

Speaking of the 1oth month, here's a poem by one of my all-time favorite poets:

October Paint

by Carl Sandburg

Flame blue wisps in the west,

Wrap yourselves in these leaves

And speak to winter about us.

Tell winter the whole story.

Red leaves up the oaken slabs,

You came little and green spats

Four months ago; your climbers

Put scroll after scroll around

The oaken slabs, "Red, come red,"

Some one with an October paint

Pot said, And here you are,

Fifty red arrowheads of leaf paint

Or fifty mystic fox footprints

Or fifty pointed thumbprints.

Hold on, the winds are to come

Blowing, blowing, the gray slabs

Will lose you, the winds will

Flick you away in a whiff

One by one, two by two... Yet

I have heard a rumor whispered;

Tattlers tell it to each other

Like a secret everybody knows...

Next year you will come again.

Up the oaken slabs you will put

Your pointed fox footprints

Green in the early summer

And you will be red arrowheads

In the falltime... Tattlers

Slip this into each other's ears

Like a secret everybody knows.

... If I see some one with an

October paint pot I shall be

Full of respect and say,

"I saw your thumbprints everywhere,

How do you do it?"

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A couple of nights ago, on one of my walks I chanced upon Jason Barker on his bike and he told me that the one man band, Gull (an amazing experience you'd have to see to believe!) was about to play the 1st ever outdoor show at Magic City Wholesale ... so I wandered over there and it was pretty damned incredible!

HERE is an mp3 of the 1st song he did for yer listening pleasure.

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Saturday evening, my band Nowhere Squares had their 1st practice in 2 1/2 years! Andy Sizemore is our awesome new bass player ... It went really well! We're playing a Halloween show October 3oth with Three Happening Guys and Shining Path at Eclipse in Montevallo ... Can't wait!!!