Seeing Other People 7-9-09

I am incredibly hungover and my hands are shaking almost too badly to type, but that's just part of the fun of radio! Right.

Today's show is almost completely new stuff - and it's all fucking great. I'm going to keep playing Veckatimest and Actor longer than possible, so keep on enjoying your weekly doses. I've been re-reading the 33 1/3 series book about 69 Love Songs, and feeling very nostalgic for Merritt and company, so I hope you're in the mood for some melancholic pop music. I've also been getting excited about the Dodos' new album, "Time to Die," to be released in September, so there are a few old Dodos tunes in here.

Delightful.

Seeing Other People 7-9-09

Tracklist:
Title - Artist - Album

1. When My Boy Walks Down The Street - The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
2. Eyes Like Ours - Tiny Vipers - Life On Earth
3. Marrow - St. Vincent - Actor
4. While You Wait For The Others - Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
5. Disappearing Ink - Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange
6. Lovers' Carvings - Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
7. Ashley - The Dodos - Visiter
8. It's Thunder and It's Lightning - We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
9. Ghostship - Menomena - Friend and Foe
10. Diamond Caverns - Unsparing Sea - In The Crystal Canyon [EP]
11. Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh! - Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
12. Beards - The Dodos - Beware the Maniacs

Seeing Other People 7-2-09

Today's show was slapdash, as I was affected by both the painfully hot, suffocating air of Walla Walla summertime as well as exhaustion. But I think it came out rather nice.

(Be on the watch for 10+ minute songs... a sign of ultimate radio laziness).

Seeing Other People 7-2-09

Tracklist:
Title - Artist - Album

1. Emily - Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) - The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
3. Indian Summer - Beat Happening - Jamboree
4. Kicker of Elves - Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
5. Angeles - Elliott Smith - Either/Or
6. The Birth and Death of the Day - Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
7. Taken Too Young - Taken By Trees - Open Field
8. Sweet Love For Planet Earth - Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
9. Rusholme Ruffians - The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
10. Good Friday - Why - Alopecia
11. Bad Weekend - Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll

Seeing Other People 6-30-09

Three months from today, I will somehow be 22 years old.
MINDFUCKKKKK


Ok. Tuesday's show was a dreamy, pensive one -- heightened by the fact that I'm almost positive listenership was not only nonexistent, but maybe negative (people knowing of the show, but refusing to listen). I think the songs were pretty perfect, though.
Check it.

I am OBSESSED with Moby's new album --- go go gadget Moby. I'm proud of you.
Bibio's also got some incredible shit going on. And the Tiny Vipers album is heartbreaking but gorgeous and definitely worth your time.

Seeing Other People 6-30-09

Tracklist:
Title - Artist - Album

1. Ambivalence Avenue - Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
2. Dreamer - Tiny Vipers - Life on Earth
3. Shot In The Back of The Head - Moby - Wait For Me
4. Just the Same but Brand New - St. Vincent - Actor
5. Study War - Moby - Wait For Me
6. Love is Like a Bottle of Gin - The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
7. Circulation - Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange
8. Stockholm Syndrome - Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
9. Hours - TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
10. You Are The Light (By Which I Travel Into This and That) - Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog

Stay Loose 11-18-08

Thanks to the wise suggestion of a musically-oriented friend, I'm putting my weekly radio show playlists up here. I put solid effort into these every week and my listenership is less than stellar, but now you can check some brand-new, great shit every week right here. It's my paying job to cull new music and find the best tracks, and each week you'll be able to find them right here. Download the group at the bottom of the page (they're totally out of order this week cause I am inept. Next time! Perfection... next time..)

THIS WEEK: Track - Artist - Album

1. Intro - French Miami - French Miami
2. John and Anne - Lights On - Waiting For The Heart To Beat
3. Shark and Tiger - Taigaa! - Off
4. Seymour Stein - Belle and Sebastian - The BBC Sessions
5. (I Wish I Knew) How To Build A House - Lorna - Writing Down Things To Say
6. The Nurses Don't Notice A Thing - Absentee - Victory Shorts
7. Let Me Show Ya - Jazzanova - Of All The Things
8. Bosuns O' The Yard - Whales and Cops - Great Bouncing Iceburgs
9. Gum Chimes - Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
10. Italo - Anathallo - Canopy Glow
11. Rue Hollow - Hush Arbors - Hush Arbors
12. I Am Waiting - The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
13. A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash - Wanted Man (The Very Best Of)

Stay Loose 11-18-08

The last two tracks are a little comforting break from all the head-spinning oddities and formerly-unencountered chord changes. Goodnight friends.

$$$$

I win at the final level of Hipster.

:( :( :( :(

Let me play you a sad, sad song on the world's tiniest violin:

One day I was moving 30 gallons of water. Because I can't complete any task without nabbing a few self-inflicted injuries, I caught my ankle under the cart. I went to the ER and the 7 people who helped me were just lovely. I did everything they said.

Three weeks later, my foot was giving me a bit of trouble. I had been completely ignoring it and traversing Chicago daily, going to shows, and running to catch trains, so I could understand why it was testy. I guilted the foot doctor receptionist into squeezing me into the Friday schedule.

The foot doctor was a horrible human being. I didn't trust him. So I am disinclined to believe that I am as perambulatorily fucked as he says. But now I find myself signed up for physical therapy, lying on the couch and watching my life wither away as "Little Women"'s melodrama infects my brain. As I close my eyes during the umpteenth moment of soaring soundtrack horn solos, Winona Ryder narrating with doelike tears filling her eyes, I remember the ER doctor chuckling and saying "Achilles tendonitis is the WORST that could happen... but it won't. It won't!"

There's nothing more eloquent than a sad-faced emoticon.
:(

I'll leave you with a little domestic abuse-tinged Grizzly Bear to round out the sufferin' mood.

Grizzly Bear - He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)


Um. Also, I just found the best blog post in the world about little women:

"LITTLE WOMEN
Why does Jo get angry very often?
I think Jo get angry is because Amy burnld her book. Jo very like her book. But Amy burndle her book so Jo get angry."



Indeed.

I Made A Muxtape Out Of Loneliness

why not.
click the post title to access some beauty.



I'm absolutely in love with Chris and Mollie. I feel I've finally found my replacement for the Unicorns - my token messy, lo-fi band howling lyrics filled with arguments and fine fury and banging away at whatever instruments they can get their hands on, somehow producing brilliance. Please love them appropriately, or at least give them a little preemptive pat on the back.

Best lyrics of the day:
"You're out of luck... God is a superficial fuck, and you're an ugly duck"

night.

Grace Gets Very Tired And Begins To Care Too Much About Everything, Part 1

It's 3:46 AM in the Walla Walla and all I can do is listen to the new Animal Collective EP, Water Curses, which leaked a few weeks ago:

http://www.mediafire.com/?6ho3w3dzgd0

(no real album artwork available yet, as far as I can tell, which upsets me as staring at the cover of my Strawberry Jam record is one of my most treasured pasttimes. It's oddly comforting, try it for yourself).

...as well as the recently released Dodos album, Visiter:


http://www.divshare.com/download/3956221-f7d

Tonight Grace is in love with:
1. gorgeous guitar work
2. xylophones of any level of mediocrity
3. sounds that are reminiscent of the jungle

ENJOY

Afternoon Delight

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This week:::


THE RAVEONETTES

Not only are they both beautiful and Danish, they produce a gorgeous, 60's-inspired noir-pop sound that clearly masturbates to pictures of the Jesus and Mary Chain. The Raveonettes are guiltily catchy, yes, but they are also hauntingly gorgeous and I won't hide my newfound adoration.

The Raveonettes - Hallucinations (recommended)
The Raveonettes - Aly Walk With Me



BRITISH SEA POWER

These guys' new album is more put-together and impressive than anything they've released before, with soaring, epic rock songs that renew your enthusiasm for all things. Ignore Pitchfork's ridiculous joke score for this album, it's definitely worthwhile and I really can't comprehend the U2 comparisons.

British Sea Power - All In It
British Sea Power - Waving Flags

...I have many more, but am so hungover that my head is spinning and James Joyce is calling to me and reminding me of my academic duties. I'll post more later.

(This blog is the most aesthetically unpleasant thing I've ever seen. WELL DONE TEAM!)

Reasons For Uncharacteristically Cheery Smile As I Sit Alone Writing A 2-Day-Late Paper On The Historical Memory of Sephardic Jews:

1. I was randomly chosen to win the Brit Box set because I showed my most pretentious colors by filling out the P4K Reader Survey. I like to think it was less "randomly chosen" and more "writer of sassy, eccentric answers," but that is called a pipe dream.
The Moldy Peaches - Lucky Number Nine

2. I found out that someone who's intrigued me for over a year is intrigued by me in turn. But now what? Can you quietly approach someone walking across campus one afternoon and whisper "be mine"? No. You cannot. That is called a stalker.
The White Stripes - We're Going To Be Friends

3. I learned how to play one of the most mind-numbingly gorgeous and heartbreaking songs to ever coat my ears on the guitar. I've played it over 30 times today and I think my housemates are plotting. That is called musical mutiny.
Nico - These Days

4. I finally made a shining blog that no one will read. But that is called Grace's Dream.
Shellito - Happy