Aug 31 2009

Media Monday – 08/31/2009

Category: Media & More, Music In My Ears — dryvetyme @ 12:00

In hopes that my dear readers actually like these Media Monday posts, here’s another fine collection of music and videos for your listening, viewing, and downloading pleasure.

Comments and feedback are always appreciated!

  1. Music:
    a. “Freedom” – Daniel Johnston
    b. “Move To California” – Times New Viking
    c. “No Time, No Hope” – Times New Viking
    d. “On Up!” – Vowels
    e. “Dying In Africa” – Sally Shapiro
    f. Daytrotter Session – Jones Street Station
    g. “Indian Run” – Spindrift
    h. “Regular Nights” – Prize Country
    i. “Pull The House Down” – Stricken City
    j. “No One Sleeps When I’m Awake” (La Dolce Vita Remix) – The Sounds
    k. “A Cave” – Shelley Short
    l. “Everything Touches Everything” – These United States
    m. WOXY Session – These United States
    n. Luxury Wafers Session – These United States
    o. “Hide & Seek” – Joe Gideon and The Shark
    p. “End Of Us” – The Perfects
    q. “Coffee” – Motel Motel
    r. “Cowboy” – Motel Motel
  2. Video:
    a. “Love In July” – Sally Shapiro
    b. “Bulletproof” – La Roux
    c. “Just Me” – Music Go Music
    d. “Coffee” – Motel Motel
    e. Here’s a sneak peek at the Monday, August 24th episode of No Reservations. This week, Tony Bourdain spends the episode answering questions from the recent Travel Channel Burning Questions Poll and it looks to be filled with surprises and various insights into Tony’s psyche and experiences hosting what is one of my favorite shows on television.

Aug 31 2009

Cotton Jones – Rio Ranger EP

Category: Music In My Ears — dryvetyme @ 07:00

Cotton Jones
Rio Ranger EP
Quite Scientific; 2009

Guest Contributor: Jen Broadwell

Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw, assuming the stage name Cotton Jones, relocated to Michigan during the winter months of 2008 to record their full-length debut, Paranoid Cocoon, for Suicide Squeeze Records. An album recorded in an unheated studio in Michigan during winter months deserves to have its own retrospective song on a follow-up EP – Rio Ranger EP. “Where You Stop For A Minute” notes the locations that failed them, including Florida where they found themselves with nothing to show but a sunburn. Thus, after such precedents, Michigan became their dwelling for the duration of the recording. This song also recalls home for all its cleansing and rejuvenating qualities, comically encompassed by the following phrase: “Home is where you stop/ For a minute/ And clean your teeth.”
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Aug 28 2009

Ghormeh Sabzi – Cockroach Graveyard

Category: H-Town Rock, Music In My Ears — dryvetyme @ 07:00

Ghormeh Sabzi
Cockroach Graveyard
Paper Stamp; 2009

There’s a reason that, despite what the malcontents might say, the music of Animal Collective has reached a level of cultish fanaticism not seen in American pop music since The Grateful Dead at its peak. Now, I don’t lay any sort of claim to being a slavish devotee of the band (see the hilarious and cogent critique from Hipster Runoff earlier this year for more insight), but I would like to think that I’m able to recognize forward-thinking musicianship and artistry when I hear it. AnCo’s early work displayed an uncanny ability to break down key motifs in pop and rock music and then contort them into all manner of fuzz-drenched psychedelic tunes. And it’s that skill that Houston, TX outfit Ghormeh Sabzi seems to possess in spades on the group’s debut release, Cockroach Graveyard.
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Aug 27 2009

It Came From The Video Store – Cloak & Dagger

Category: Cinema In My Eyes — dryvetyme @ 12:00

Tired of trips to crowded theaters full of noisy kids and overpriced food? Had your fill of vapid reality shows on TV? Wondering what to stock your Netflix queue with? Every week, “It Came From the Video Store” will point you in the direction of a movie that is worth seeing and should be available in a video store near you.

Cloak & Dagger

In a lot of ways, loving a bad movie is a lot like having an imaginary friend.

Fans of Surf Ninjas Must Die! who attempt to describe the film’s plot to their friends will receive the same blank, uncomprehending stare as if they were talking about the latest tea party they shared with Harvey, the lovable 6-foot tall bunny-shaped pooka. Even when Hot Topic rolls out their latest batch of novelty T-shirts inspired by “cult films” – effectively whoring out that special relationship you once shared with your favorite under-the-radar movie – it’s the truly obscure film that will always be there to comfort you and you alone. And just as one can never truly get rid of an imaginary friend, despite the best efforts of psychologists and priests, a fondly remembered bad movie can never be completely forgotten.

Cloak and Dagger is one such film: a refugee from the ’80s that refuses to die. Despite the herculean efforts of a substandard script and questionable movie logic, Cloak and Dagger will stain the memory of all who watch, leaving behind a hazy impression of something truly special.
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Aug 27 2009

Jessie Torrisi – brûler brûler

Category: Music In My Ears — dryvetyme @ 07:00

Jessi Torrisi
brûler brûler
Self-Released; 2009

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Guest Contributor: Jen Broadwell

A debut solo effort entitled brûler brûler has made a frontwoman out of New York native folk singer, Jessie Torrisi. Formerly a rock drummer for multiple New York City bands, Torrisi recently relocated to Austin, TX to go it alone. She has a dazzling alto range and, with the vocals underway in her song “Hungry Like Me,” I was reminded of Cat Power’s “Silver Stallion.” Other songs, such as “Cannonball,” exhibit a sensitivity to jazz, as that is often an orientation for a deep or raspy vocal.
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