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The Go! Team
—Apollo Throwdown (Star Slinger Remix)
the Go Team. Go!
The world’s biggest collection of Pharaonic antiquities.
Symbolic maybe? Still sad.
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Cut Copy
—Need You Now
New album in a week!!! It’s been a long wait since In Ghost Colors. 
(Source: danielhilding)
I’ve been listening to “chinatown” and “kaputt” for 2 weeks straight. Travis and I can’t help but jam to the smooth sax, which sounds just as amazing on Sunday morning as it does on Saturday night. And for the last several weeks I’ve been fantasizing about that glorious Tuesday January 25th, when I hop off the bus at the corner of Ballard and Market and buy the record for my very own. But of course, there it is today, a big fat link to stream the whole album and I can’t resist. Yes I’m listening to it, and yes it’s so good, but dang it. No willpower. Next Tuesday analog. And March 18th, I’ll see you at the Croc Mr. Bejar.
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Apparently Mark McGuire has been around for a long while - I’d never listened to him until a month ago when I came across a few tracks from Living with Yourself. The album is heavily instumental yet deeply personal ”focus[ing] on [McGuire’s] family, early friendships and the problems that inevitably develop through years of knowing someone.” The most captivating aspect of the album are the recordings he laces into his tracks. Taken by his father, they span between 1991-1998. In “Brothers (for Matt)” Mark is 5. It’s a simple and familiar father-son exchange that pulls you in and leaves you curious about the boy and his father - the dad’s past and the boy’s future. It made me reflect on all the little details of growing up that I don’t actually remember, but I’m pretty sure happened.
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Miike Snow
—Song for No One
miike snow tonight!!!! Far too much fun for a Wednesday.
song for no one - miike snow
i met you on the palisades
the sun was spilling kerosene
and i was feeling wide awake
girl, you can be so obsceneyou cannot deny the happiness in these riffs. don’t you think this sounds like something peter bjorn and john would do? man those talented Swedes…
I will be in Manhattan during Halloween this year, and I’ve decided I want to keep it classy. If I can find a cat mask, I’d like to make this happen….
Otherwise, it’s back to my original plan of Lebowski’s Maude - terrorizing the upper east side in a dirty green rode and bad red wig.
Tiltshift San Francisco
I spent a summer working in the Frisco during a very uncomfortable part of my life. It was unfamiliar, foggy, and I was over-worked and stressed. I flew home every weekend to Seattle, so I had no time to get to know the loathed SF: my weekday torture chamber.
But, then there was one weekend I did stay. Travis flew down and we explored. Somehow, it wasn’t foggy that weekend - it was downright gorgeous. We did everything, walked everywhere. As I settled into my hotel on Sunday night, bracing myself for going back to my miserable work-a-day situation, something inside me just snapped and I was determined go full-steam ahead in the direction I actually wanted to go, get the job I want, and stop being a big whiny waste of time. About 10 months later, I got my first job in advertising.
Thank you San Francisco. You have been terrible, beautiful, and my inspiration when I needed it most. And now you are also miniature.
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Blue Hawaii
—Blue Gowns
