“I’m just going to say it, I f@#kin’ had a great time!”
“If the Carter Family were white dudes from San Francisco, they might sound a little like this.”
Vince Guaraldi: Christmas Time is Here
One of the few Christmas albums I can listen to every year that makes me feel like a kid again and I still love.
Merry Christmas!
So Tumblr wouldn’t let me post this clip from Fanfarlo from the awesome series, the Black Cab Sessions, mostly based in London and along the idea of La Blogoteque, so I posted a video of theirs instead.
Other favorites at the Black Cab Sessions are: Lykke Li, Bon Iver, Emmy the Great, Holly Miranda (covering Lauryn Hill) and St. Vincent (covering the Beatles).
Erik Enocksson: “The Joy of D.H. Lawrence”
Occasionally I hear my neighbors playing music through the floors (frequently Nirvana’s “MTV Unplugged in New York”), but this time some simple melody really grabbed me. I felt like I had to know what it was so I ran down and knocked on the door to find out.
Turns out it was this song by Erik Enocksson, a Swedish musician, and it was from the soundtrack to a film I haven’t seen yet, “Farval Falkenberg”. Turns out is has a couple waltzes on it as well. Regardless, I am transfixed now. I have always wanted to do soundtracks and have completed some for short films and this is why.
“A lot of sitcoms are, in fact, darker than you realize. At its core, “Two and a Half Men” is about loneliness. “The Big Bang Theory” is about alienation. “Mike & Molly” is about self-hatred. You would never know it from the shows themselves, but you do, sometimes, feel it while watching them. To laugh at these things with our mental families may allow us to cope with our own loneliness and alienation and self-hatred. It may be that the sitcom’s constant avoidance of any final, dramatic catharsis is its accidental strength. If so, that would make this least lifelike form of entertainment the most comfortingly similar to real life.”
Found a copy of it. M. Ward is one of my favorite guitarists. “End of Amnesia” one of my favorite albums. His solo show at Swedish American Music Hall one of my favorite concerts.
Wanted to put She & Him’s cover of “I Put a Spell on You” from Conan which was bold and powerful, but TBS wants a 30 second commercial before it so we have this with Zooey Deschanel & Joseph Gordon-Levitt (such a great actor. See “Brick” and his Saturday Night Live episode). It is a Cinemash of “Sid & Nancy”, the intense film about Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols.
I like it.
Two bits of news regarding competitions:
* Our group got nominated for the SF Deli Band of the Month for December and your vote would mean soooooo much
* A film a couple of our songs are in, “Crime After Crime”, just got into the Sundance Film Festival. Congratulations!
Local Natives “Gorilla Manor” is one of my favorite albums of the year and all of their videos have this amazing way of making their lives look so much fun. It almost becomes a commercial for moving to LA to become an artist the same way Girls videos make you want to bum around in San Francisco for a couple weeks.
I love Jonsi (from Sigur Ros). His voice always sounds so clean and angelic and lately it seems as if he has gotten into acoustic-y stuff with a ton of percussion which I love.
St. Vincent & Andrew Bird
I see so much music every day that I just watch and love and am changed by. Then that moment happens and I have to move on. I was just realizing that I don’t share those and that I should.
So here goes. Hope you love ‘em as much as I do.
Part 5 of il gato’s performance at Bottom of the Hill on June 22nd, 2010.
“Chocolate Lemonade”