Majical Cloudz - Bugs Don’t Buzz
Geater Davis - Wrapped Up In You
Bonobo - First Fires [Feat. Grey Reverend]
Chance The Rapper - Favorite Song (ft. Childish Gambino)
The Thermals - Here’s Your Future
The National - Don’t Swallow the Cap
Hiss Golden Messenger - Red Rose Nantahala
The NSJ Crew - Khaki Pants (Ok, maybe you’re not as amused by the tiny little dudes scrunching their tiny little faces and wagging their tiny little limbs around in their tiny little khakis. It’s just that they’re like… y’know… tiny versions of regular people.)
Daft Punk - Contact (Can’t find a video that captures just how bonkers this crescendo is.)
And, cause I’ve been daydreaming bout late breakfasts of late..
Awww, It’s A Bear Chasing A Monkey On Bicycles And…. (Inevitable Horrifying Violence!)
Oooh, Right. It’s A Bear Chasing A Monkey..
(Think how much more likely you’d be to watch the actual olympic games if, after the competition, the second place dude was able to do this to the winner.)
Takes Trussell 20 min 2 demo every dizzying beautiful wry ridiculous dick detailing bit o’ dementia radio cannot do; bit.ly/LkfkxH— Tynan Grierson (@monkeyinnecktie) May 1, 2013
* Not to guild the lilly but, if you’re listening to The Chicken & Dave show instead of listening to this right now you should strongly consider jamming a whirring Christmas Beetle into your ears and just calling it a day.
Stephen Soderbergh Has “Present Shock” At State Of Cinema And Storytelling*
(*Sub In Artistic Pursuit Of Your Choosing)
Ira Glass Tells You What Nobody Tells You About Creative Work
New Politics - Harlem (“Oh shit! That’s my jam kid!”… Soon these words will be spoken. Soon thereafter the bloom’ll be off this shit.)
Phosphorescent - Song for Zula
Flume - “Left Alone” Ft. Chet Faker
C2C - Happy Ft. D.Martin (Worth the watch)
The Men - Half Angel Half Light
Pale - Doing My Time (Processed through an old-timey instragram filter and shot while the band was pretending to be unaware - very possibly by taping a super-8 film camera to a neighborhood cat - Pale wins the MTV 2013 video vanguard award for their perfect crystalization of everything that’s happening right now.)
Dawes - From A Window Seat (Me and my GF debated the merits of this new ‘America’ single but, the end result is that she’s cutting out the ‘back-talk’ ;)
It’s odd how this always makes me feel a bit better.
My girl sent me this letter that Anton Chekov (y’know, the Russian playwright with those long ass plays about a symbolic seagull or oddly named uncle) wrote to his older brother. His brother it seems was starting to hang with a higher class of people; exhausting intellectual types and assorted a-holes whom he feared would look down their bespectacled noses at him.
What follows is the list he wrote his brother of the truly important qualities a substantive person - a so-called ‘cultured’ individual - should prize and possess.
Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions:
1. They respect human personality, and therefore they are always kind, gentle, polite, and ready to give in to others. They do not make a row because of a hammer or a lost piece of india-rubber; if they live with anyone they do not regard it as a favour and, going away, they do not say “nobody can live with you.” They forgive noise and cold and dried-up meat and witticisms and the presence of strangers in their homes.
2. They have sympathy not for beggars and cats alone. Their heart aches for what the eye does not see…. They sit up at night in order to help P…., to pay for brothers at the University, and to buy clothes for their mother.
3. They respect the property of others, and therefor pay their debts.
4. They are sincere, and dread lying like fire. They don’t lie even in small things. A lie is insulting to the listener and puts him in a lower position in the eyes of the speaker. They do not pose, they behave in the street as they do at home, they do not show off before their humbler comrades. They are not given to babbling and forcing their uninvited confidences on others. Out of respect for other people’s ears they more often keep silent than talk.
5. They do not disparage themselves to rouse compassion. They do not play on the strings of other people’s hearts so that they may sigh and make much of them. They do not say “I am misunderstood,” or “I have become second-rate,” because all this is striving after cheap effect, is vulgar, stale, false….
6. They have no shallow vanity. They do not care for such false diamonds as knowing celebrities, shaking hands with the drunken P., [Translator’s Note: Probably Palmin, a minor poet.] listening to the raptures of a stray spectator in a picture show, being renowned in the taverns…. If they do a pennyworth they do not strut about as though they had done a hundred roubles’ worth, and do not brag of having the entry where others are not admitted…. The truly talented always keep in obscurity among the crowd, as far as possible from advertisement…. Even Krylov has said that an empty barrel echoes more loudly than a full one.
7. If they have a talent they respect it. They sacrifice to it rest, women, wine, vanity…. They are proud of their talent…. Besides, they are fastidious.
8. They develop the aesthetic feeling in themselves. They cannot go to sleep in their clothes, see cracks full of bugs on the walls, breathe bad air, walk on a floor that has been spat upon, cook their meals over an oil stove. They seek as far as possible to restrain and ennoble the sexual instinct…. What they want in a woman is not a bed-fellow … They do not ask for the cleverness which shows itself in continual lying. They want especially, if they are artists, freshness, elegance, humanity, the capacity for motherhood…. They do not swill vodka at all hours of the day and night, do not sniff at cupboards, for they are not pigs and know they are not. They drink only when they are free, on occasion…. For they want mens sana in corpore sano [a healthy mind in a healthy body].
He follows: “In order to be cultured and not to stand below the level of your surroundings it is not enough to have read “The Pickwick Papers” and learnt a monologue from “Faust.” …”
In response to my girlfriend, I might sometimes have trouble falling under the spell of those ‘false diamonds’ he spoke of but otherwise… I think I’ve got like 7 of 8 of those nailed.
Oh, shit. I guess that self-congratulatory little victory lap just knocked down that number.
Ah well, at minimum I have utmost ‘sympathy for more than beggars and cats’. Ironically though, I cannot stand cats who beg.
Get a job you furry layabout!
I honestly don’t understand how you can make your “Best Tunes Of 2012 List” before the end of 2012.
And, you know what else I don’t understand… abortion laws. It’s right there in the name, “lady business”; that is obviously your business, lady.
Here’s the Best Tunes Of 2012:
Every Little Gambino She Does Is Childish - Childish Gambino Mash-Up
Working Titles - Damien Jurado
Big Dreams And The Headlines - Simone White
Blood on Your Hands - Buffalo Killers
Sweater Weather - The Neighbourhood
Can’t Hold Us - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Speaking in Tongues Feat. Chali 2na - Hilltop Hoods
Lights Out – Menahan Street Band
Marathon Runner - Yellow Ostrich
KISHI BASHI \ MANCHESTER LIVE \ OFFICIAL VIDEO from GHOST+COW FILMS on Vimeo.
But seriously, I agree.. 2013; Just refuse to let it suck.
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— Joe Mande (@JoeMande) December 29, 2012
