The Animals video is something special.

Love – I Can’t Find It
Gil Scott-Heron – Me and the Devil
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Trick Pony
Darkstar – Aidy’s Girl is a Computer
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Colorful Nickels
Toro y Moi – Minors
DJ / Rupture – Blue Night
jj – my way
De Tropix - Adeyhey
Hot Chip – I Feel Better
Four Tet – Love Cry (Joy Orbison Remix)
Surfer Blood – Catholic Pagans
The Animals – House of the Rising Sun
Nic Cage – Love Me
Velvet Underground – Drive Into the Sun

Holy flaming moose!


We've been up on the Nic Cage tip for years but it seems only as his iguanashit-insane performance in Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans is about to be released in theaters that he is getting the kind of ink he deserves. There's NYTimes' piece in which Manohla Dargis grudgingly admits to Cage's genius (despite not having seen either National Treasures), NYMag's frame-worthy pdf on the life of Cage (including personal motto: Maximum Violence Immediately), and even a Village Voice article that basically reports on the other two articles.




Now it turns out that Cage is actually a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador on Drugs and Crime, and was sent on a mission to a Kenyan prison to hear the Somali priates' side of the story. Makes sense.

The accompanying pictures beg the question:

Has Nic Cage face/off'd Dennis Hopper circa the first season on 24?

Exhibit A:

It's good to be right.

The impetus for most mixes is usually just one song. That song this time is by Washed Out.
Put it first.
Also-- so much Bradford Cox.

[Note: the picture included has no relation to title or theme of the mix, but if you want to think of it as a direct response to this, feel free.]

-Washed Out – Feel It All Around
-Atlas Sound – Shelia
-Siriusmo – High Together
-Taken By Trees – My Boys
-Matias Aguayo – Rollerskate
-Atlas Sound – Walk a Thin Line
-Basement Jaxx – A Possibility
-Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo
-The Crêpes – What Else?
-Deerhunter – Vox Celeste 5
-Kings Of Convenience – Boat Behind
-Busta Rhymes – Gimme Some More
-Bibio – Kaini Industries
-Karen O and the Kids – Rumpus
-Phoenix – Love Like a Sunset (Animal Collective RMX)
-Michael Jackson – We’ve Got a Good Thing Going

Here are some tunes that have gotten me through these hostile and opposing environs. It's mostly the usual years-old bangers and decades-old post-punk ish, but now featuring some bangers in Russian. Young Jeezy narrowly beat Elephant Man for MVP on this one.

Young Jeezy ft/ Jay-Z, "My President is Black (remix)"
Maximum Joy, "In the Air"
Young Jeezy, "Gangsta Music"
Elephant Man, "All Out"
MED, "Push"
Grauzone, "Wütendes Glas"
The Monochrome Set, "The Ruling Class"
Judy Nylon, "Jailhouse Rock"
Love Committee, "Just As Long As I've Got You"
Wire, "1 2 X U"
Seryoga, "Дискомалярия (Disco Malaria)"
Timoti ft/ Bogdan Titomir, Tuman & Geegun, "Грязные Шлюшки (Dirty Bitches)"
Lil Vicious & Doug E. Fresh, "Freaks"
Shawnna, "Getting Some Head"
Jay-Z, "La La La (Excuse Me Miss Again)"
Swizz Beatz ft/ Young Jeezy, Eve, Elephant Man, "Money in the Bank (remix)"
Spragga Benz, "The Pusher"
Robin Thicke, "When I Get You Alone"
Tatu, "Ya Soshla S Uma"
Seryoga, "Аггробабруйск (Aggrobabruisk)"

Via Arthur Mag http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/05/26/bull-tongue-top-ten-4-by-byron-coley-thurston-moore/

yes, Cher.

Joker – Digidesign
The Young Lovers – Midnight To Morning
Deerhunter – Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Pulp – Pink Glove
Jorg Burger – Modernism Begins At Home
Atlas Sound – Solo Or The Square
Cher – A Woman’s Story
John Cale – Fear Is A Man’s Best Friend
Brian Eno – Here Come The Warm Jets
D. Lissvik – B5
Wavves – Weed Demon
The Field – Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime
Thin Lizzy – Little Girl In Bloom

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