Indie House Rock

On an actual telephone conversation (because, despite popular belief, my family does periodically talk to and see each other outside of the interwebs):

Kiana: So you move to Anchorage and stop blogging? Not that I ever update mine… but you were always blogging when you were in Fairbanks! What’s the dealio, yo?*

The differences I see are threefold. But I hate when people blog about why they aren’t blogging, so I will spare you the details.

Instead, I was going to give you filler with all of its fluffy meme-ness.

I checked on what the meme-y side of the internet has been up to since I last checked… um… months ago.

And turns out? Absolutely nothing.

I could post about a boring Heinlein quote; tell you that my favorite cereal is Raisin Bran Crunch and I prefer to eat it for dinner; admit to the small amount of money I made last year; or talk about the weather like my father does every time he calls.

I quickly remembered why I stopped doing memes.

But it has been postulated that I have some “strange shit” on my iPod. And since I’ve never done that “first ten random songs on your iPod” meme, let’s see if the world really asplodes from all of the strangeness.

1// Potassium by The Man So Cool
I just downloaded this song last week from Metafilter Music, which has some awesome stuff and some… crap. But mostly awesomeness. Josh Milliard, the guy from The Aural Times (with such gems as Woman Attack Dog Breeder With Body Of Dead Chihuahua) is involved with The Man So Cool, so I’m already enamored.

2// Peace by Third Day
I was a member of one of those CD clubs back in high school, but for Christian groups. Third Day was one of the albums I randomly selected and ordered, knowing nothing of the group or their sound. And it is the only album selected in that manner that I loved. Other than that, I don’t have anything special to say about the song.

3// Good Morning Beautiful by Steve Holy
A week or so before my sister died, she sent me a mix CD request, and this was one of the songs on it. I downloaded all of the songs and burned her a CD that I put in her casket.

4// Sylvia by John P. Strohm
Finally, some Indie-Pop makes it to the list. And I have nothing to say about it.

5// Psycho Killer (Talking Heads Cover) by The Faint
I don’t know if I’ve ever heard the original. Oh wait! I do have it in my collection (see, I have no idea what I even have)! The cover is crap! Why do I even keep this in my collection!?

6// Remarkably Dirty Animals by The Mae Shi
I have this terrible habit of trolling through Myspace and mp3 blogs downloading everything in sight and plopping it on my iPod no matter how good (or “good”) it is. And I never get around to deleting them because I’d have to wade through all of the ones I’ve downloaded and listen to them all again to determine if it’s good enough to keep when I could just leave it alone and always skip it? Like this one, for instance.

7// Click Click Click Click by Bishop Allen
They released a new EP every month of last year; this one is from July, and it makes me giggle. You should love Bishop Allen.

8// No Love In Your Heart by The Earlies
Psychedelic Pop always makes me wonder if I’m missing something awesome by staying sober. Maybe some nice illegal substances would make this stuff awesome? iTunes tells me I’ve listened to this one precisely five times. Which isn’t surprising.

9// Brand New You’re Retro by Tricky
I have the entire Maxinquaye album. Why? Why did I get the urge to procure trip-hop? I have no answers.

10// l’Amour by Carla Bruni
I love this entire album and want to snuggle with it all night long. It’s in French and, as such, sounds 300% more sophisticated than most everything else I own.

11// Knock ‘Em Out by Lily Allen
And an extra that isn’t actually next in the list, but it’s close. And it’s a fun one, and I love Lily Allen so much that you should watch the music video for Smile.

All right, now I want to see what’s in your music collection. Put it on random and post the first ten.

* May or may not have been exact phrasing, but since there is no chat log and this is my website we play by my rules, mmkay?

06 February 2007 · 23:41:44

3 love notes

Nice list, although I don’t know any of them. Did you ask why Kiana hasn’t blogged much?

love, mom at 07feb07, 11:12:13

It takes my trained house-midget a while to mix up the pile of CDs. I’ll get back to you.

love, JIM at 08feb07, 10:28:02

Hey, Valette! Thanks for the shoutout re: The Man So Cool, and the kind words about The Aural Times. It’s always a lift to see a little bit of Internet love now and then.

love, Josh Millard at 09feb07, 05:13:09

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