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Things can really get rough, when you go it alone

Posted in music, tagged , on January 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »


The Shins are what?  Basically a James Mercer solo show by now right?  One of the guys left got kicked out to be a professional hot air ballooner (yes kids, if you can dream the job, it is out there). One of the dudes has a taco truck in Portland! (I interviewed the host on my radio show… weird. Also this show pre-dates Eat St. by a lot.. but I still LOVE you Eat St.)

New Shins song started bouncing around the intertron today.  Click play on the reel-to-reel machine.  How vintage.

The reel-to-reel machine is kinda fun for us radio nerds of a certain age.  I started my radio broadcasting career using reel-to-reel to create any radio production for my first radio show.  If you order the new album, The Port of Morrow, off the Shins website it comes with a limited edition reel-to-reel tape version.  Impractical but neat.  There is a reel-to-reel machine at the Zone, so technically I could fire it up.

The first single is “Simple Song.”

The internet is all in a lather about this song.  Personally… I prefer the new Nada Surf, if liking music were an either/or game.  Luckily its not!  So I can enjoy both.

The Shins will be bigger, Nada Surf is better.  Both make adorable indie pop.

Oh, “Phantom Limb” came on my iTunes now.  I like that song.  And how about Chutes Too Narrow?  I think I got that record collecting dust on a CD shelf or in a milk crate somewhere…. I should track that record down!

Go with yourself.

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When I was young, I didn’t know if I was better off asleep or up.

Posted in life or something like it, music, tagged , on January 3, 2012| 4 Comments »


I’ve been thinking I should write a “new years” post… you know, something to reflect on 2011, or maybe, what I plan and hope for in 2012.  I had some ideas rattling around in my brain the past couple days but in the end decided to try and focus on myself and stay off the internet as best I could.  (well I was on twitter and Instrgram… but for some reason I don’t count them).

Parts of 2011 I was not into….  But I feel a little wiser, and a little more excited on some projects.  Mostly it is about starting small… being a contact hitter, getting on base.  I’ll leave the long ball for the guys that….

Today I found a song in an amazing twist and a click.  Reading about the records to look forward to in the winter of 2012 and spied a new album from Nada Surf.

The end of January will feature a record called “The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy.”
Have a listen to “When I Was Young.”

Give an email, get a download: Nada Surf dot com

“Came home early, quatre to two. I don’t need more wine, I’m coming for you.”

Magical….

That has to be one of the more romantic lines I’ve heard in a song in quite some time.  Nada Surf always seems to paint landscapes that I want to live in.  I’d imagine if I knew these guys in real life, we’d be friends…probably bitch about the same things and pretend to be into rock climbing together.

Its Day 03 of 2012 and already a few things are coming up Milhouse.  I went snow shoeing on January 1st… and on the 3rd… a fantastic MP3. I wonder what’s up for tomorrow?

Go with yourself.

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