something good

listening to cloudbusting, by kate bush from hounds of love

amazing track, beautifully sampled by utah saints and renamed 'something good'

hey - channel 31 got a temporary digital license!

woot

so, our long trip, what did we end up listening to?

i put on kings of convenience early, then we had beck, first presets album, an mbug mix

kyuss on the way back, a best of
and presets apocalypso
underground lovers
john lydon



my cousin who got married, why we went on a long drive, walked down the stairs/aisle to the notes of one of the shorter and more sparse versions of that lovely music by yann tiersen for amelie


i'm at home getting together a dj set for a friend's work christmas party :) it's a whole month away, but i want to have everything i might need

or at least a good three or four hours' worth

tangent - i've noticed a disproportionate number of apostrophe misuses lately.

it's a possessive. so the thing has to be possessing the next word in the sentence, usually.

so in a way they are the pizza's toppings, i suppose, but i don't think that's quite what you meant.

but it doesn't pluralise. that's just and extra 's' on the end, no extra '

i'm a word fascist, i know

twelve fold chain by the books is playing on my itunes now

they are magnificent

possibly, along with do make say think and amiina, one of my favourite contemporary groups

and the french love them, which is always a good sign :)

they remind me of miranda july too

i notice that after seven years, july's site (see? possessive. the site, of miranda july) - learning to love you more - is no longer accepting submissions. what an amazing project that has been. i wish i had got off my bum and contributed, but i always enjoyed what i found there

anyway, time for bed now

love

~ listener

this will destroy you... with laughter

in the instrumental vein, 'this will destroy you'... a band with a complicated and lengthy title. not quite as gothic as, and you will know us by the trail of dead, which remains one of the most unbelievable bands names ever, to my mind

explosions in the sky, friends of dean martinez, godspeed you black emperor, silver mt zion... not normal names.

in the playground of band names those are the ones with "strange parents"

this is from the album with the yellow bear on the cover



this band interest me. turned up in some threads about post rock... and in one comment, a kid who's dad has all the usual postrock records (explosions, tortoise...) but this was the only one that the kid had really got into. i liked that comment. wondered if the music i love will sound good or bad to my kid.

good music, or really music in general, was one of the things that me and my dad could talk about together. and good red wine.

a relationship with one's parent can be a hard-won thing.

i should mention at this stage in the blog, that i don't traffic in euphemism. i won't be making any fnar fnar jokes

i love a good laugh though

and this is one that makes me laugh



being able to hear the crowd laugh during this (even if the sound isn't that great) is part of the charm

there are at least two very distinct versions of home-made youtube music clip. one is just a still image of the artwork for the record, and a full playing of it, the other is a little home made bootleg live show...

i think it's awesome that this professional one, by a group of creatives called pleix, a track called 'birds,' is still embeddable though



enjoy

~ listener