MNFS (My new favorite site)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/sets/72157623594187379/

word

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04animals-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

In honor of this being our first 'hot' day in a very long time, lets listen to jim james's (my morning jacket) cover of dylan's going to acapulco. its often better the original, i think.

now that we've started, whats another early summer song.

blind boy fuller, tobacco road blues.

Yeah its the eagles, but its got perfect hooks.

Not much can top sam beam's first cd. the soundtrack of so many southern gothic novels. perfect.

stuff

hey look what i found. this is good stuff. man i miss them. i dont think ive ever mentioned the everybodyfields once, to anyone, without following it up with 'man i miss them'. really interesting interview too.

i also want to mention this because it was really so good. im budgeting my way to buying it, but i think thats goign to take awhile. bon iver+champagne powder is quite alright.

my dogs are supreme

http://wonkette.com/414502/gay-muslim-nutter-will-burn-down-the-malls-unless-this-filthy-pig-movie-babe-is-not-destroyed#more-414502

wow this is so interesting. interesting in the sense that i feel like hes going to kill me through the screen. i think he quoted ghostbusters in this. does he have a dayjob? if so, what?

oh my

http://wonkette.com/414505/norm-the-messiah-youtube-belongs-to-me#more-414505

this guy name drops better than lil wayne. apparently this guy is the one who threatened eric cantor last week. should he be scared? should we be scared?

es

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/world/africa/30mogadishu.html

hello

new kode 9 is out. its quite good.

this is recent

this isnt

The great thing about portishead, is that when you havent you listen to them for the first time in several months they sound so completely and tragically new.

the libertines are getting back together! if this was still high school, my friend matt hartman and i be getting on a plane come this summer to go see them. this news is maybe not such a big deal anymore. i no longer aspire to be a heroin addicted god. but thats ok.

New Tokyo Police Club! this is great news. so many great stories about these guys. saw these guys on their first us tour. and every tour since.

Yay! the new titus andronicus. new lp is a civil war concept album. and this one is more early springsteen than late camus, which is probably a pretty 1 for 1 switch.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=103846998

?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok1EllhHgoU

what the

Going cuhraazyy

noise

not much time. the day today was usual+started a new puzzle. finished my personal statement for the maine gig. 4 pages single spaced. thats probably too long. im not going to be the judge of that though, its fine as far as im concerned. felt a little bit dostoevskyian? yet that probably wouldnt be the prevailing adjective of the thing. had fun with it anyway.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/03/radiohead-the-horse-readies-for-kentucky-derby.html

theres much irony in this.

also, i found out josh ritter is going to write a novel. i think that ought to be well good.

the big to-do

why is the label of "obamacare" considered an insult?

ok i understand why the right considers it an insult. thats well apparent, though irrational. but it remains that those of us who quite like more than a few things in that bill arent too keen on the term as it is applied. we should be though. because what went through the house yesterday really is something great. put that label on it as far as im concerned. ill embrace it. obamacare. ill say it every day. twice a day. ill make it my own. it should not be that the most important social reform legislation in over a generation should be viewed with such a negative connotation.

If we want to look at history, we can go to the arguments that were drawn by the right against lbj's great society programs. old people thought the government was coming for them in the night. quite literally. well guess what-that single-payer system that is medicare (much much more 'socialized' than any language in 'obamacare') is now universally relied upon by the retired. do these people, those who were young in the 60s but now retired, know what they are protesting against when they attack obamacare? maybe, but more importantly-do they know where they themselves stand? apparently not.

its all really sad when you get to the root of it I think. its also sad when people scream at rep. barney frank for being homosexual. guess what? people are! and they arent subhuman! its also sad when people yell racial epithets at rep. john lewis, one of the great organizers of the student nonviolent coordinating committee. how can a protester expect to win ethos when he is seen doing that? its also sad when the pro-life rep bart stupak is called a 'baby killer' on the house floor. come on, how can that make sense? he negotiated a compromise. its how the world works. you find middle ground. you find what works. you do so in a way that doesnt go against your principles. if you would have listened, he made a pretty convincing argument on the floor. but you werent listening. nor were you over the last 18 months.

where the hell are we america?

a very good album this has turned out to be. not like i anticipated anything less.

jeez

double deuce

what to say what to say. basketball has been fun. so many upsets. always good. go underdog. i like roads that arent interstates. i like people. if the bill passes tomorrow that would be so ace. i just hope its good enough. stu udall died today. what a guy he was. what else? when do the twentysomethings start? is that 22? im scared to know. is that all?

champagne champagne from Black Cab Sessions on Vimeo.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/clarence-thomas-silent-but-sure/?hp

unlike the article i posted a few weeks ago. this one doesn't mention my pops by name. he was, of course, the last person to be asked a question by thomas.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/business/12seed.html?pagewanted=1&hp

only three paragraphs on 'roundup ready'. comeon nyt, cover the real issue. that product is just frightening.

engl paper

fastest way im going to be able to write this is by listening to

on repeat. as loud as my headphones will take it. nights like these are when i wish i had a stack of marshall jtm-45 amps. they go to 11.

society

I dont particularly like pearl jam or eddie vedder, a little too pretentious for me maybe. but i quite liked 'into the wild' and vedder's soundtrack. always see a little of myself alexander supertramp.

Oh it's a mystery to me.
We have a greed, with which we have agreed...
and you think you have to want more than you need...
until you have it all, you won't be free.

Society, you're a crazy breed.
I hope you're not lonely, without me.

When you want more than you have, you think you need...
and when you think more then you want, your thoughts begin to bleed.
I think I need to find a bigger place...
cause when you have more than you think, you need more space.

Society, you're a crazy breed.
I hope you're not lonely, without me.
Society, crazy indeed...
I hope you're not lonely, without me.

There's those thinkin' more or less, less is more,
but if less is more, how you keepin' score?
It means for every point you make, your level drops.
Kinda like you're startin' from the top...
and you can't do that.

Society, you're a crazy breed.
I hope you're not lonely, without me.
Society, crazy indeed...
I hope you're not lonely, without me
Society, have mercy on me.
I hope you're not angry, if I disagree.
Society, crazy indeed.
I hope you're not lonely...
without me.

i really like the second to the last stanza. its like those trustafarians or frisbeehippies. kindof.

buy local, et cetera.

blowing up dams

forgot to mention the patagonia commercial from the oscars where the founder was talking about tearing down that dam. thatll be me someday. damn dams.

hey check this out-im goign to start embedding tracks from lala-which allows you to listen to a track once for free. itll work out better when im not putting up a music video or stressing something visual or whatever, cause sound quality on youtube is so trash, and i feel like im not holding up my end of the deal because of it.

Hard Times - Ryan Bingham

while you wait for the others

MON, 08 MARCH

Mark Linkous RIP

I was very sad to hear the news that Mark Linkous has died. He and his band toured with us in Europe, at the start of OK Computer, and they were great every night. His first two records were very important to me, and I carried his music from the tour into my life, and my friends’ lives too. He was softly spoken, with an Old South courtesy I hadn’t heard before: he introduced me to Daniel Johnston’s music, and the West Virginian writing of Pinckney Benedict. Mark wrote and played some beautiful music, and we’re lucky to have it. Rest in Peace.

Colin

from radiohead's blog.

other stuff--

glad to see hurt locker won. avatar was cool and all. but lets be fair, it won the awards it was supposed to win-visual, art direction and cinematography. strong argument for cameron as best director, but having his ex-wife win over him is a better story line for the press to cling on, i think. go underdog. glad i saw crazy heart in time too. damn well deserved for bridges. and its always good to see/hear him high as a kite at these things. what else happened? oh yeah neil patrick harris, that was pretty funny. that man will do anything, i think. baldwin and martin did fine, felt like the whole thing moved along a little better than in the past coupla years. wouldve liked the best original song people to perform like they used to. thatd been dope. especially since it was ryan bingham and burnett that won. <-bias. what else. oh yes. the dolphin thing won. thats good. i need to see that. kinda peeved they cut away from the producer when he held that 'text dolphin to 414414' or whatever. probably woulda cost like 300 bucks when you texted or something sketch like that. i need to see that burma one too. that looked alright. the monks comign down from the mountains was probably the first real revolution that wasnt a manufactured conflict since like well. i dunno. its pretty unique is all. food inc is also a good watch. itll make you not eat for a week though and thats kinda risky for pretty much everybody. so keep that in mind if you see it. oh yeah wtf-that red-haired crazy lady rushing the stage. read in the nytimes that she was a producer that was kicked off the film like a year ago but still was able to qualify for the award. maybe she was the rational one and the director was the dick. it didnt come off like that though. came off like a post-feminist kanye, not that there is anything particularly wrong with either of those two things. just when you put them together you get something like a supernova i guess. is she like one of those randos who bum rushes a convenience store singing david bowie, hops over the counter and stabs the clerk in the chest with a steak knife and runs off with just a single scratch and win? i think ive been reading too much flannery o'connor. not that theres anything particularly wrong with that either. ah well, until next year oscar. long paragraph, sorry.

have i written about ryan bingham yet? i dunno. might will tonight . pretty interesting guy, though i guess everybody's pretty interesting when you get their story anyway. even bob dole was a war hero. and hes about as goram boring as one can get.

vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot

we lost another one to depression today. mark linkous/sparklehorse. he had been battling it for at least as long as hes been publicly known and had tried to kill himself a couple times, but over the last three years he had been touring and recording again and showing back up on radar. did a project with danger mouse and david lynch too which sounded great from the songs i heard, but unfortunately EMI in the now predicable incompetence of major label groups has been blocking its release. we have to hold these morons in contempt and at least wonder if hed have been in better shape had this album been allowed to come out.

anyway we'll probably read something from one of the greenwoods or yorke on the radiohead blog this week, as they were really close. linkous went on tour with them at least 3 times in the 90s. lots of good things to say to each other. kind of a convergent evolution type of deal i guess we could say occurred between the two groups. that whole esoteric/surrealistic type of direction seemed to be something mutual. one drawing from the south the other from post-thatcherism->new labour uk. i guess its really not all that different when you get down to it.

today was such a good day, and now this. bleh.

anyway, and as always, here are some good ones.

crazy heart is

really good. hoping it does alright tomorrow.

funny how the world works

"What reason you got say I'm ignorant?"

"That tee-shirt you're wearing, for one thing. If you'd worn it up here in the 1860s it could've gotten you killed, and by your own blood kin."

ron rash wrote this. the kid's wearing a confederate flag t-shirt, if you weren't able to figure that out. funny how in our mountains there seems to be one of the last bastions of the confederacy. driving up us-25, between greenville and hendersonville, there are at least 2 confederate flag shops that i can think of off the top of my head. and of course we can cite countless instances of stars and bars flying in front of a house or trailer. i guess we could say thats all rather ironic, given that most people up in western nc and a good few in the upstate of sc didn't support the confederacy, at all. some things theyd just rather us not know i suppose.

read 'confederates in the attic' by tony horwitz.

the new carolina chocolate drops is quite good.

yes

http://mcsweeneys.net/2010/2/24eisenberg.html

http://mcsweeneys.net/2010/3/4nathan.html

WHAT WEVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR....

right so annual oscar predictions, whoopeee. someyears ive been pretty good at picken'em. other years ive been tooembarassed to show my face the next day.

i guess ill go from the top down

best picture-the hurt locker. sorry avatar, but you ddint really have a story. the hurt locker did, and oh what a story.

director-cameron-it was his vision, and pretty much his vision alone, that led to avatar. cant deny him that recognition.

actor-this is tough, i havent yet seen crazy heart-though i have every intention of doing so, also havent seen a single man. ill give it to renner then for hurt locker, prematurely on my part i suppose.

supporting actor-itll be waltz for inglorious basterds.

actress-toss up between sidibe and mulligan i bet. slight advantage mulligan so thats where ill put my bet.

supporting actress-anna kendrick i reckon

original screenplay-hurt locker

adapted-in the loop, obviously. really strong category this year though, and no one saw that film, so it wont win. everyone should though, at least 6 times. (an education- go nick hornby, go)

having seen the foreigns yet cause thy wont be here for like another 3 months. annoys me that that happens.

original song-hopefully the crazy heart one, ryan bingham and t-bone burnett cannot be denied.

for all the visual and sound ones, avatar will win im sure.

seems kinda meh this year.

i guess i just implied some gender hierarchy here. my bad.

lets go to glasgow. ahh b&s. the band that one day, for at least a day, will follow me around and make up a continuous song as we go. it would just be so great. you know a band is great when one member's sole job is to clap. it would have to be a day that is both rainy and sunny at times. lots of binaries. thats ok though. wes anderson can direct.

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20100302/NEWS/303020013/Greenville-to-get-visit-from-Britain-s-Prince-Edward

DONT LET HIM IN

without

i didnt bring all my books back this year, and my ongoing cashflow crisis has prevented me from buying as many as i thought i would be able to. what do I do when I want to read a section from one of them? nothing. because I cant. easy answer. i mean in a way its pretty logical that i didnt, for one thing i would never get anything done (not like i do anyway). That being said, i just submitted my birthday book wish list to my parents, and gosh is it long. this event is important to me as alistair darling bringing in the annual budget to parliament. theres a name for that day but i cant seem to remember it. and i guess in fairness they all already know wahts in the budget, as opposed to my parents who dont. so really the two are nothing alike. crimony i hope all my metaphors arent this useless.

*a book not on the list-british parliamentary procedure.

oh well, im going to go to mcclure's tomorrow for some retail therapy-but if its a snow day-to malaprops fo sho. even if it results in me driving up us-25 sideways in the ice, blasting 'born to run.' my gosh early springsteen was so great, and still is mind you. there is a great great thing about parents who are audiophile's-its very easy to convince them of paying for 2 $80 tickets to remind them of their youth. Hold on now, dont question my motivations. thats a bonafide Experience. it really must piss that generation off though that there was a time when they could see springsteen once a month in cleveland for like 5 bucks. that to me, would be the American/Dream.

have i posted the low anthem yet? i dunno. i lose track. most of the stuff i want to post never end up making it until like 6 months or a day or two post facto. better late than never, i always say. unless its like a kid or something. in which case early and late are bad, and to some extent so would be never at all. MORE BAD METAPHORS. logically i shouldve put springsteen on here, but you see, i wrote that first paragraph and this paragraph (barring this sentence, which came much much later) before the second paragraph. so really, i dont know what the hell has gone on with this one.

Book angst->UK Parliament->Bad Metaphor->Books->Reckless Driving->Springsteen->America->Low Anthem->Charles Darwin->Kids->MGMT? no->Bad Metaphors->hyperlink cinema?

my bad guys, too much happening in this one. not so digestible i would assume? like hard tack? more bad metaphors?

Hell have some bruce.

what to pick though- so much to choose from.....

15 minutes later

-and for no real reason other than i referenced it earlier-

Somethings are better with shitty audio

flag day

Big fans of these guys, seems fitting for tonight, waiting for the inevitable, etc etc. the inevitable being snow. the waiting being not really waiting at all.

genius

or the galapagos. same thing really.

THIS IS AWESOME

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/03/01/arts/entertainment-us-jolie.html

THIS IS AWESOME. one of my favorite authors, perhaps my favorite novel (at least published in the last 2 years), one of my favorite directors. now all we gotta do is get jolie OUT. hmm who to replace her with...

ARONOFSKY//// DO NOT MESS THIS UP FOR ME YOU ARE TREADING ON HALLOWED GROUND////

maybe after this, clemson will bring rash back to teach here... hell probably stop teaching, because hes about to get PAID.

i will be an extra in this if they film on location, even if they try to turn me away, no matter what the cost (haywood/swain/jackson/buncombe counties). however, if they do like they did in cold mountain and film in romania or whatever instead of in the blue ridge, like it was set, i will crush them, and then probably go fly out and be an extra.

take a lesson from deliverance, and film here.

THIS COULD/BETTER BE SO GREAT.