I Was The One When You Needed Love

Moby - Destroyed


Moby, huh? Well, yeah, Moby. For the last 20 years, Moby has had a formula that some would call easy but I find it irresistible. Moby has claimed the music for his new album was inspired by late night drives in the city. Since I like Moby and I like late night drives, I could refuse.

-Megow

who's gonna get the blame and who's gonna get the power

-johnathon

there can't be no disguising, that the pretty bird is dying

Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star

i first found this album when i started buying vinyl in my teens.  when you don't know much and you see a cover that is as nuts as this you buy it.  i loved it then and i love it now.  it reminds me of harry nilsson in a way.  both guys seem like big music nerds who play with the history of rock/pop music.  also maybe the tender/sarcastic tone.  yeah.  todd is great.

-johnathon

the abyss

more tree of life crap today.  hopefully these posts will culminate in the form of a review, or response at least, to the film after i see it on wednesday.



news has come forth that 12 seconds of scott nyerges' experimental short "Autumnal" were licensed to be used in the creation sequence in malick's film.  it is unclear right now if other external works were incorporated in this way.  luckily nyerges freely shares his work on his site.  the few pieces i've watched so far are great and certainly are worth watching even without the malick context.

the weight

-johnathon

everyone loves apple schnapps

The Fun House 6.1.11

another episode of the radio show.

-johnathon

you're so shiny

gq has a wonderful oral history of malick's badlands that is worth checking out.

it has always been my least favorite of his movies, but reading this really makes me want to go back and revisit it.

seems like a good way to prepare for the impending treee of life.

-johnathon

trying to get out

Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread

when i was little i grew up listening to KRNA in cedar  rapids iowa.  their tag line was "krna rocks" and rock it did.

this album reminds me of that time in my life.  all of a sudden a music that maybe i turned my back on for the most part as i matured comes rushing back.  this is good shit.

i've liked ty segall for a while and started to sense the classic rock leanings a lot in his last lp, especially with songs like caesar, but here it is pushed even more to the front.

music seems obsessed with nostalgia right now, and even if the references aren't as posh this most certainly falls under that categorie.  but this isn't some longing for a time not lived.  it more seems like segall is dealing with ideas of growing up and utilizing the music of his (and my own) youth to do so.

so if your childhood memories are sound tracked to bum fuck nowhere classic rock stations playing greasy white boy rock too i'm sure this will hold more meaning.  we all grow up, but we don't escape and maybe that's for the best.

-johnathon

hope it don't turn away

VA - Headed For The Ditch

a nice little neil young tribute album.  standout track for me is "on the beach", one of my favorite n.young songs covered by the lovely emily reo.

-johnathon

sky is charcoal grey

Martin Newell - Songs For A Fallow Land

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very 80's & very british and yet very in tune with a lot of things that are being made now.

originally came out in 85 as limited (100) casette, now as a limited (500) lp.

-johnathon