The Music Conundrum

I haven't posted for a while for many reasons, but the most significant obstacle has been music. Too much of it. My love for music is so great that I did not want to do it injustice by writing cliche or misleading things about it.
But that is a bullshit reason to not do it. So, here it is: my first music post.

I made a mix for my friend that I am calling Thirds because it is supposed to be, vaguely, one third danceable, one third rocking, and one third heartfelt or melancholy.

And it goes a little something like this:

1. A.C. Newman - Miracle Drug
2. Curtis Mayfield - Do Do Wap Is Strong In Here
3. GB feat Steve Spacek - Simply So (SA-RA Vocal Remix)
4. Hot Chip - Keep Fallin'
5. MC Paul Barman - Vulture Shark Skulpture Park
6. Les Savy Fav - Patty Lee
7. Les Savy Fav - What Would Wolves Do?
8. The Black Angels - Black Grease
9. Nouvelle Vague - Heart Of Glass
10. Grizzly Bear - Colorado
11. Fionn Regan - Hey Rabbit
12. Fionn Regan - Snowy Atlas Mountain - .mp3
13. Joan As Police Woman - The Ride
14. Lambchop - Is A Woman
15. Bjorn Torske - Dub Vendors
16. Stevie Wonder - Masterblaster
17. Beirut - Nantes
18. Of Montreal - We Were Born the Mutants Again With Leafling

I think it will prove one of my better mixes.

Tonight I went downtown (Oly, WA) and was treated to a cultural tour unlike any I have embarked on in quite a while. The highlight had to be the show on tagged up school bus from Tuscon, AZ, driven by Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout.
The guy in the face paint is Mr. Free.

I wasn't as excited about Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout as I was about Mad River Glen.

I recommend the songs "Cross Ventilation" and "Sticks Stones". Imagine them playing on a school bus with no seats, only amps, a crappy couch, and an ashtray, parked out in front of the local gay bar.

Anyway, I just read their, or should I say, his, myspace blurb, and it seems that there is a collaboration in the works with another great band from Arizona - French Quarter. I think we should all keep our ears tilted that way because I've been wearing out the French Quarter CD.

One more band to drop in your ears, because the aforementioned bands remind me of the first Olympia band I fell in love with: Kickball