Music

Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody (though I will never be able to separate it in my mind from the old woody woodpecker cartoon featuring woody playing it on a saloon piano that ends up on a train that ends up at the bottom of a cliff...)

too many Bob Dylan songs to name all of them... ditto the Beatles

Lucio Battisti - La Canzone del Sole

Erasmo Carlos - Manchas e Intrigas

Miguel Bosé - Amante Bandido

Caetano Veloso - Panis et Circensis (and the rest of the Tropicália movement, its bands, songs, politics, philosophy... eu quiseira ser brasileiro mesmo!!)

check it out: http://www2.uol.com.br/tropicalia/index_ing.htm

Carly Simon - Coming around again

this is fun! My tastes are everywhere, these just came to mind...

Motorhead - The Ace of Spades

-Nathan Michel : The Beast (Probably the most underrated record of all times)
-Everything David Pajo did during the last 20 years
-The Sea and Cake
-Tortoise (specially the self-titled debut and 'Millions now living will never die')
-Pavement: Slanted and Enchanted ->the ultimate classic us-indie-rock record!!!
-Sebadoh: everything before 'Harmacy'
-Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
-Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
-High Llamas
-Radian
-Fennesz : Endless Summer
-Nobukazu Takemura

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Johnny Clegg and Juluka: Impi
PJ Harvey: Shame
Kate Bush: Sunset
Peter Gabriel: Downside Up
Zero 7: In the Waiting Line
Tori Amos: Carbon
Cocteau Twins: Fifty-Fifty Clown
David Bowie: Moonage Daydream

phosphorescent - listen to live shit at daytrotter.com his van is pimped-out!

the ponys - nothing too political, not too dangerous, just good rock from chicago

andrew morgan - a recent harvard master's recipient, now running at night because it's too hot during his unemployed days.

elvis perkins - his mother died in one of the wtc plane crashes. i asked him about 9/11 and he said it was too far gone and there are more important things to worry about. i did come back to him later and looked him in the eyes and told him that "the truth will prevail." yeah, kind of corny, but whatever...he looked at the stage lights and reluctantly nodded in agreement. turn away and get the guitar case.

I find a convenient way to check out the recommendations to be SkreemR.com -- it's not perfect, and the more you stray from mainstream, the lesser your chances of scoring hits, but do give it a try.

RT: Check out "Ze Ramalho - Frevo Mulher"
Cass: "Loreena McKennitt" might be for you -- Personally, I dig "Bonny Portmore", especially

Give me a heads up if you found something worthwhile, please. I'm curious.
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wolf parade
band of horses
robert johnson
son house
the walkmen
the legendary pink dots

i've hundreds more for you if you're interested.

check them out at hypem.com

Thievery Corporation - Heaven's Gonna Burn Your Eyes [This is an amateur video, but -- being the minimalist I am -- I'm lovin' it!]
Darn pre-xmas sentimentality.

and the movie they were playing had this song in the soundtrack, which reminded me of my long-ago-burgled Johnny Clegg collection, so I went poking around on YouTube. There's nothing like an apartheid-era group of half white, half Zulu musicians to get me all choked up. I'm making it my Xmas greeting to the denizens of WTCD -- be sure to look for some freaky 9/11 foreshadowing at around the 2:35 mark.

Unfortunately, the only video with decent audio I could find on youtube was put together by a drooling groupie. Just ignore the visuals and listen.

brian jonestown massacre 'golden frost'

elliott smith 'everything means nothing to me'

the monks 'monk chat'

the clean 'anything could happen'

animal collective 'peacebone'

ok, time to get some fresh air.

Manu Chao "Me Gustas Tu"

Tim Buckley "Song to the Siren"

Gris Gris "Mary #38"

Lead Belly "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?"

Liars "The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack"

Rachid Taha - Rock the Casbah (in Algerian Arabic)

Rachid Taha - Barra Barra (“Outsider Outsider”)

Taha, Khaled, Faudel Live in Paris

I like horses. I take pictures of them because they make me laugh.

I like the song From Which I Came A Magic World by Eels.

I just got new video editing software which I havent got the hang of yet.

Nirvana - In Bloom (alternate)

Phosphorescent - A Picture of Our Torn Up Praise

for lemonhoko
Evangelicals - Midnight Vignette

Pulp - Common People

The Walkmen - Louisiana

I'll put a bit more variety into next week's showcase. Hey, at least i squeezed in a request for lemonhoko.

new feature in this installment. music video + a photo of the artist(s) taken by me.

The Besnard Lakes "For Agent 13"

The Walkmen "The Rat"

Liars "Plaster Casts of Everything"

and just for fun...
some guy at a restaurant who kinda looks like rumsfeld

beck 'deadweight'

mercury rev 'the dark is rising'

B.B. King

good night

I just heard this Kate Bush song for the first time in a long time today and went looking for it on YouTube. This is an amateur video for it, version 3 (by someone very persistent). I have mixed feelings about the video -- the underwater scenes are great, the woman dancing... not so much. And the daylight scenes don't correspond to my mental images, but whateva. I know not everyone likes Kate Bush...

There should be -- or more accurately -- probably is a word that I don't know for this business of adding a photo montage to audio and putting it on the tube.