New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

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New York you're perfect now please don't change a thing.

My mom loves me.

Mark Morrison - "Return of the Mack"

Crown Heights Affair - "Dancin'"

The Wind - "Never Love Another"

MIX: The Lumberjack Special (Zig's Mix)

(photo by Lauren Troyer)

There are hardly words to describe Ziggy Gurnick - the man, the myth, the legend. He was the funkiest, grooviest cat who ever lived. His moves will live on in all of us, and these songs are intended to act as a conduit through which we can each channel him... on the dance floor.

"The Lumberjack Special" is for all of us who danced with him and felt his funk touch our hearts... or any other body part, and for those of who frequented the diner with him on mornings after partying all night long. Sometimes it was necessary to call ahead and give the kitchen some warning. Zig could devour an entire Lumberjack Special before you could say "pass the fake syrup and pre-packaged jam and butter, please," and then move on to your short stack.

The Lumberjack Special (Ziggy's Mix)

1. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
2. Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town
3. Edwin Starr - War
4. Stevie Wonder - Superstition
5. Queen - Under Pressure
6. The Beatles - Two of Us
7. Doobie Brothers - Listen to the Music
8. The Bee Gees - Night Fever
9. The Four Tops - Bernadette
10. Al Green - I'm Still in Love with You
11. Led Zeppelin - Tangerine
12. The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
13. Pink Floyd - The Show Must Go On

[Download here.]

Bundles and bundles of love for all y'all budz who sent me suggestions.
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no smoking count

6 days!

"...it looks like a fist, wrapped in blood!"

Larry: "Have you ever seen a human heart?? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood!"

I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.

This past Sunday I visited my friend Ziggy who is suffering from cancer and just underwent his most recent round of chemo/radiation. Right now Zig is partially paralyzed, at least temporarily if not permanently, due to a tumor on his spine. I sat next to him a while massaging his hand and talking to him a while and hoping he knows how much he's loved. When I got there with Justin there was a woman (who I later learned was a hired practitioner of reiki) leading Ziggy's twenty-something visitors in a group prayer. We were all instructed to put our hands on his body and focus on sending good energy and chant "I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you." This shit was too much.

I'm quitting smoking. It's cliche I know, and it's only been three days so far but my last one was Sat (08/29/09) morning, and I don't ever want to smoke again. I love you Zig, so so much.

Video: Positive K - "I Got A Man"

Positive K - I Got A Man

so when your man don't treatcha like he used to, i kick in like a turbo booster
you want lovin - you don't have to ask when, your man's a headache and i'll be the aspirin

(project in the works inspired solely by the super tite visual effects in this vid)

moving to PIXELHORSE.

i'm officially moving this thing over to PIXELHORSE for good, which is an even awesomer music blog with another awesome gal. follow us there!

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i recently became a surgeon.

a surgeon of love. <3

i'm in heaven.

beachheaddddjammms (mix)

This is what happens when I get sick and have to take a day off of work...

beachheaddddjammms.zip

1. What Would I Want Sky - Animal Collective
2. Mickey Mouse - Wavves
3. Vacation - Beach Fossils
4. Summer > Epilogue - Alex Bleeker and the Freaks*
5. Walkabout - Atlas Sound & Panda Bear
6. Horse Steppin' - Sun Araw
7. Dominos - The Big Pink
8. We Own The Sky - M83

*Special super psyched city for Bleekditty's track and the upcoming record with the fffreaksss.

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do the jane fonda (mix)

Aerobics mix for Fabrice "a la" Van Michel who will soon be leaving us to return to la Belgique.

WORKOUT.zip

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mickey mouse - wavves

While I'm at it, I can't stop listening to this Wavves demo jam. I can't understand why he left this out. N-e-wayz...

Mickey Mouse - Wavves.mp3 (via gVb)

walkabout - atlas sound + panda bear

Finally a recorded version of this song (previously "Dovers Jam") has come out! It's been one of my favorite jams for a few months now.

Word on the street is, in playing super hip improvised iPod games with Animal Collective while on tour, Bradford Cox came across "What Am I Going to Do" by the Dovers and fell in love with the hook. Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) taught him how to sample and match up the beat, and now we have the lovely "Walkabout" jam.

Walkabout - Atlas Sound feat. Panda Bear.mp3 (via gvb)

love in july (mix)

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07/09 micromix: love in july

1. Rainbow - Thee Oh Sees
2. Fables - The Dodos
3. When I Grow Up (Version by Lissivik) - Fever Ray
4. No Hope Kids - Wavves
5. Shattered Shine (Daytrotter) - Crystal Stilts
6. In Your Wildest Dreams - Moody Blues
7. Being Bored - Pill Wonder
8. Chemicals - The Notwist
9. Banana Jam Pt. 1 - Julian Lynch
10. Cat Grave - Arch M
11. There Is No Sun - Jay Reatard
12. Beach on the Moon - Kurt Vile
13. What Did I Do - The Beets
14. She Don't Use Jelly - The Flaming Lips
15. Idiot Heart - Sunset Rubdown

*photo by k. trolio

(summers are for birthdaze.)

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yesterday was canada day! happy canada day?

Jay Reatard played at the Oval in the quad of Stuy Town. That place gives me the fucking creeps. It's a housing community that has been transformed from low-income projects to yuppie family dwellings and city college kid housing. There were kids everywhere, pot smoke bellowing out of windows, and hipsters pouring out of the L at 1st Ave to take advantage of a recession-friendly free show. Funnily enough, this series is also advertised as family-friendly.

Also giving me the creeps was the old (homeless?) dude standing next to me wearing roller blades and wrestling with a stray cat under his tee-shirt. Next to him was a 10-year-old girl in a wheelchair with cerebral palsy, and on the other side of me was a half-assed attempt at a pit being made by aforementioned Brooklynites who were just aware of themselves enough to elbow and push each other around for five minutes.

The show was free, like I said, and the band was great. They played a tight, 40-minute set, banging out all your Reatard faves. But still, I couldn't help but feel like I was bearing witness to something wholly inappropriate and just sort of, wrong. The icing on the cake was the Verizon sponsorship of the summer concert series. Blech.

I left quickly and braved the Sephora in Times Sq to load up on free eyeliner before meeting this guy for a date to see Todd Barry at a fucking comedy club. I know, I know. Jesus christ, I must be a masochist. Lately more and more I have been looking in the mirror and not recognizing the person staring back. It takes only one trip to midtown Manhattan on a summer evening to make you completely hate yourself, in case you were wondering.

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northside festival happened, like, weeks ago...

...but I never wrote about it. I spent about $400 that weekend partying, even though the 15 shows Nick and I saw were covered by my cheap-as-shit $45 all-access handy dandy badge pass. The highlights included Bishop Allen at Studio B, Bill Callahan at Music Hall of Williamsburg, and The Dodos show at Studio B (horribly scheduled for Sunday at 5pm). Though apparently the L Mag people had problems with the Dodos show, their set has since rejuvenated my love for Visiter - it is playing full blast in my living room at the moment - and has heightened my anticipation for the next release.

Here a few pics of pretty terrible quality, cos well why the fuck not??

Brightblack Morning Light @ Studio B - This lady on the keys rocked it so hard. She was super possessed and in the moment. Her flailing, jerky head movements were mesmerizing.


Bishop Allen @ Studio B - Again the female band member (on bells this time), Heather, stole the show for me. She sang lead for a few songs and broke every heart in the room. Justin Rice was fun and energetic, despite looking a bit haggard and as though he hadn't shaved or slept in a few.




Sisters @ Public Assembly - Although Nick and I caught this on a fluke, leaving the Tallest Man on Earth at MHOW and grabbing a drink before These Are Powers @ Death By Audio (who played there with Real Estate<###),