January 31, 2008

Just A Fire - Hot Export
Touch Committee - Hey, Stay Hungry
Blew - What's Going On?
Jawbreaker - The Boat Dreams From The Hill
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The Minutemen - Viet Nam
Fugazi - Margin Walker
Frank Black - Thalassocracy
Vacant Churches - Vacant Church
Chotto Ghetto - You Don't Care
Nuts & Milk - Can't Do Anything
Ging Nang Boyz - Nippon Hakkyou
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Polysics - Peach Pie on the Beach
Cleveland Bound Death Sentence - Rumble Seats and Running Boards
The Aquabats - Sequence Erase / Giant Robot Birdhead
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Robert Pollard - Hero Blows the Revolution
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Cycles
Mega City Four - Start
Lawrence Arms - 100 Resolutions
The Cherry Tempo - Japanimation
Babyshambles - You Talk
Built To Spill - Big Dipper
Gogol Bordello - My Strange Uncles From Abroad
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The Exploding Hearts - Thorns in Roses
Television - Marquee Moon
Sparta Locals - Ougon Wave
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Belle & Sebastian - Mayfly
Cass McCombs - Pregnant Pause
Ice Palace - Hubris
Pavement - Gold Soundz
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The Weakerthans - The Reasons
Sambomaster - Utsukushiki Ningen no Hibi
Mu330 - Xmas Card
Green Day - 2000 Light Years Away
Pixies - Here Comes Your Man

Tonights Background Music
Blockhead - Grape Nuts & Chalk Sauce
Blockhead - Duke of Hazzard
Blockhead - Squirmy Worm

RAMBO

I had the pleasure of seeing Rambo last night, and also of seeing a cute girl curl into the fetal position from watching the copious and brutal violence. I recommend this movie to anyone who likes this sort of stuff. You know what you're gonna get, and Stallone delivers it to you.

Here's an awesome story about Rambo himself:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080126/ap_on_en_mo/people_stallone_hgh_5

Animedar

My animedar is telling me that this movie, Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo, will be cool, even if this trailer looks kinda lame:

http://media.dvd.ign.com/articles/847/847424/vids_1.html



In other news, Further Confusion 2008 has hit San Jose!
http://www.furtherconfusion.org/fc2008/

I hope to see none of you there, BUT, I do hope to swing by to admire the spectacle. Wish me luck.

Harder Better Faster Stronger (is that how it goes?)

The new politically aware THISSONGISGOOD would like to present the best political ads I have ever seen:









On a slightly related note, what's the deal with political apathy? LAME!!!

Perdoname!

Queridos amigos,
I won't be on the air as usual this week because my band has got a show. Soooo, listen to that Lemuria webcast I pointed out below. WORD. I'll be back the next week though to start off the new Winter quarter with a bang.

More Lemuria News

This was posted in a myspace bulletin by Lemuria:

Thursday January 24th
@ WBNY Studio in the Union of Buff State.
Music starts at 9:30 but get there by 9 because they lock the door at some point. Or you can listen to it on the radio. 91.3FM.
Or for those of you not in Buffalo, you can listen to the show here:
http://www.buffalostate.edu/wbny/webradio/

For all the loyal This Song Is Good listeners out there, I'll forgive you if you listen to this instead. I'm even scheming as to how I can record this and still do my own show at the same time...

January 17, 2008

Track Star - These Horses Carry Blood
Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers part 1
Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers part 2
Why? - Early Whitney
Pavement - Shady Lane (krossfader)
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Toys That Kill - Mr. Hubbard's Dead
Jawbreaker - Ache
Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Biomusicology
Weezer - El Scorcho
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Robert Pollard - Shadow Port
Ice Palace - The Same Seat
Screeching Weasel - The Science of Myth
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Sebadoh - Ocean
Push To Talk - Problems
Death Cab for Cutie - Styrofoam Plates
Saturday Looks Good To Me - Make A Plan
June of 44 - Does Your Heart Beat Slower
Les Savy Fav - One Way Widow
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Joanna Newson - En Gallop
Coco Rosie - Japan
Nigo - Kung Fu Fightin'
Cat Power - Lived in Bars
Joanna Newsom - Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
Pizzicato Five - Such a Beautiful Girl Like You
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Lemuria - The Origamists
The Constantines - Young Lions
HOLiDAYS - Your World
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Stephen Malkmus - Discretion Grove
Polysics - XCT

I'm A Homer pt. 2

Lemuria's new album Get Better is out! SO GOOD!!!! This will likely be in my tops of 2008 list to be made in a long time from now, when this post will be irrelevant!!!






Does anybody even read this?

The Eye of the Beholder

The girl who sits next to me in class is from Kenya, and I asked her about the tumult I'd been hearing about out there. To break it down fairly quickly, a guy named Mwai Kibaki was elected president, in an election that foreign election observers believe may have been rigged. Opposition leader Raila Odinga refuses to admit defeat, and there've been demonstrations and all sorts of violence as a result. Much of this violence could be attributed to the crackdown that Kibaki instituted to ensure that his election wasn't questioned. Did I mention that Kibaki and Odinga belong to different tribes, who up until recently were able to coexist peacefully, but are now pitted against each other?

The girl in my class belongs to Kibaki's tribe, and even though we're learning in this political science class about questioning information and filtering through the spin, she was unwavering in her support for Kibaki. She told me that she was shocked to see the news reports here about Kenya, because her family back home was telling her things totally differently. I asked her about the television and media blackout instituted by Kibaki, thought by some to be a way of squelching any opposition or questioning of the election's validity (it sure seems shady to me!), and she said that he only did that to stop Odinga from rabblerousing and inciting violence via the airwaves. She said that it's working, so it's a good thing. Who to believe?

If the articles I've been reading are to be believed, both sides have partaken in their fair share of senseless violence, but you wouldn't have heard that from this girl. Maybe I shouldn't believe everything I read, but maybe she shouldn't believe everything she hears. It's hard to say. Politics is so depressing!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080117/ap_on_re_af/kenya_election
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7194744.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080117/ts_afp/kenyavoteunrest_080117085602

January 3, 2008

Man or Astroman? - Theme from Eeviac
Go!Go!7188 - Ukifune
Just A Fire - Source of the Sound
Fugazi - Public Witness Program
Mission of Burma - Outlaw
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Dinosaur Jr. - The Wagon
Weezer - No Other One
June of 44 - Steamer
Track Star - This is Number Forty Two
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Billy Bragg - A New England
Toys That Kill - I Hate Karma
Jawbreaker - Ache
Guided by Voices - Why Did You Land?
The Junior Panthers - No Turning Back
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Pavement - Rattled by the Rush
Chisel - What About Blighty?
The Odd Numbers - Something New
Feist - Gatekeeper
Cake - Frank Sinatra
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Drive Like Jehu - Here Come the Rome Plows
The Fucking Ocean - Multiply!
Tempo No Tempo - Repetition
The Unicorns - Innoculate Innocuous
Texas is the Reason - The Magic Bullet Theory
Mary Timony - Summer's Fawn
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Unwound - Unauthorized Autobiography
Dillinger Four - Hand Made Hard Times Handed Back
Crimpshrine - Safely Wasting Away
Bomb The Music Industry! - I'm Terrorfied
Operation Ivy - The Crowd
Supergrass - Caught by the Fuzz
Superchunk - Invitation
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Hi-Standard - Growing Up
Bangs - Into You
Going Steady - Kakenukete Seishun