My friend Rachel and I have been working on this mixtape for almost a year now. We had many discussions about what would fit and what wouldn’t. Our apologies to the Cowboy Junkies. We haven’t completely forgotten about you. I promise.

Click HERE to download the mix (zip file)

1/ Feed The Tree / Belly

2/ Seether / Veruca Salt

3/ Here and Now / Letters to Cleo

4/ Connection / Elastica

5/ Spin The Bottle / The Juliana Hatfield Three

6/ What’s Up / 4 Non Blondes

7/ Cannonball / The Breeders

8/ Fade Into You / Mazzy Star

9/ Mother Mother  /  Tracy Bonham

10/ Supernova / Liz Phair

11/ Labour Of Love / Frente!

12/ Stay / Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories

13/ Doll Parts / Hole

14/ Criminal / Fiona Apple

15/ You Suck / The Murmurs

16/ My Sister / The Juliana Hatfield Three

17/ I Kissed A Girl / Jill Sobule

Holy cow! I just remembered that I have a blog. Here are some songs I’ve been listening to lately.

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1/ I’m So Glad / Apache Dropout

2/ Tell Me (What’s On Your Mind) / Allah-Las

3/ So Funky / The Physics

4/ Benchwarmers / Finn Riggins

5/ This Head I Hold / Electric Guest

6/ Sugar Town / Nancy Sinatra

7/ Friends of Friends / Hospitality

8/ Platonic Lovers / Night Manager

9/ Storm / Django Django

10/ Dead Oaks / Now, Now

11/ Toyohashi / Summerays

12/ The House That Heaven Built / Japandroids

Let me know if you have any trouble downloading this thingy.

The Tens of listeners over at TBTL have been submitting their nominations for this year’s Song of the Summer contest. Official voting will begin soon. Before you cast your vote, though, you might want to check out some of the nominees.

I zipped-up the top 40 SOTS submissions and posted them here.

This will likely take you a while to download, because 40 MP3s apparently take up a lot of space. But if you have any issues downloading other than speed, let me know.

Also, I hope I don’t have to even say this, but if you love any of these songs and want them to be permanent fixtures on your iPod, please support the bands by purchasing their music directly from them. Also buy a t-shirt. Or a watch. Or a totebag. And go see a show.

Click HERE to download the mix (zip file)

1/ We Are Young  / Fun. (ft. Janelle Monáe)
2/ Call Me Maybe   / Carly Rae Jepsen
3/ Somebody That I Used To Know / Gotye
4/ Ho Hey / The Lumineers
5/ Hallways / Islands
6/ Hold On / Alabama Shakes
7/ Dokąd / Muzyka Końca Lata
8/ Little Talks / Of Monsters and Men
9/ Young, Wild and Free / Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa
10/ Boyfriend / Justin Bieber
11/ Capricornia / Allo, Darlin’
12/ The Only Place / Best Coast
13/ Oblivion / Grimes
14/ Everybody Talks / Neon Trees
15/ Let’s Go To The Beach / The White Wires
16/ Tongue Tied / Grouplove
17/ No Interruption / Hoodie Allen
18/ Part of Me / Katy Perry
19/ Do My Thing / Estelle
20/ This Head I Hold / Electric Guest
21/ I’m Shakin’  / Jack White
22/ Caught Me Thinking / Bahamas
23/ Chevy Thunder / Spector
24/ Disparate Youth / Santigold
25/ Anna Sun / Walk the Moon
26/ The Rifle’s Spiral / The Shins
27/ Only Wanna Give It to You / Elle Varner (ft. J. Cole)
28/ Starships / Nicki Minaj
29/ Sex On the Regular / Miniature Tigers
30/ Bright Whites / Kishi Bashi
31/ Toyohashi / Summerays
32/ Settle Down / Kimbra
33/ Everyone Knows / Vacationer
34/ Summerlong / Xylos
35/ The Night Out (Madeon Remix) / Martin Solveig
36/ Velvet Elvis / Alex Winston
37/ You Go Running / 1606 Deep Sea Diver
38/ Youth Without Youth / Metric
39/ Go Right Ahead / The Hives
40/ Hey Jane / Spiritualized

I forgot about the tapes until about five years ago, when I heard Chad & Jeremy’s “A Summer Song” on the radio.  That song was on the McDonald’s collection! I was suddenly overcome with the need to track down all four original tapes. I didn’t need the actual cassettes, but I wanted to find the playlists so I could recreate them.

The task was harder than I thought it would be; I couldn’t remember the actual name of the collection, and I couldn’t remember the name of the individual tapes. I just recalled keywords like “golden” and “classics” and “summer” and “McDonald’s”, and if you type those words into Google, you get all kinds of stuff that you can’t dance to.

Eventually I stumbled upon two of the tapes on this site, but I still couldn’t find the other two in the series. I asked for help from the listeners of the TBTL podcast, and they helped me track down the playlist for a third cassette.

One awesome Canadian had the great idea of searching the U.S. Copyright Office, which confirmed that there is a fourth tape: “Rockin’ Classics.” I haven’t found the playlist for that one yet, but at least I know it’s out there.

So, we’ve now accounted for three tapes in the “Rockin’ Gold” collection, and I spent this weekend downloading the songs and putting them in the order that God intended them to be played in (or at least the order that Ronald McDonald intended them to be played in.) And now I’m that much closer to reliving my childhood.

These tapes, I’m sure, will have little resonance with you — just a collection of Golden Oldies you’ve heard a million times. But if you want to pretend you’re a chubby, 10-year-old Andrew Walsh, download the tapes below, put them on your iPod in the right order, and go outside and play.

I think this is going to be an awesome summer.

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Summer Classics

1/ Surfin’ Safari / The Beach Boys

2/ One Fine Day / The Chiffons

3/ A Summer Song / Chad and Jeremy

4/ The Wanderer / Dion

5/ Summer In The City / The Lovin’ Spoonful

6/ Remember (Walking In The Sand) / Shangri-Las

7/ Rhythm Of The Rain / The Cascades

8/ Summertime, Summertime / The Jamies

Lovin’ Classics

1/ (You’re My) Soul and Inspiration / The Righteous Brothers

2/ Baby I’m Yours / Barbara Lewis

3/ Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow / The Shirelles

4/ Sea Of Love / Phil Phillips

5/ Cherish / The Association

6/ Blue Velvet / Bobby Vinton

7/ To Know Him Is To Love Him / The Teddy Bears

8/ There’s A Moon Out Tonight / The Capris

Dancin’ Classics

1/ Let’s Twist Again / Chubby Checker

2/ Shout / Joey Dee & The Star Liters

3/ Ally Oop / Hollywood Argyles

4/ Sea Cruise / Frankie Ford

5/ Soul Man / Sam & Dave

6/ Twist & Shout / Isley Brothers

7/ Kansas City / Wilbert Harrison

8/ Come Go With Me / The Del-Vikings

If you have issues downloading this, let me know.

There are a bunch of other videos on my tumblr page. And most of them aren’t by The Carpenters or Sonic Youth.

But some of them are.

If You’ve Got Nothing to Say, Sing It

Yes, I think you might hate some of these songs. But I also think you will really, really like some of them (track #2, that’s a shoutout to you!) If I were you, I’d just download the mixtape. It’s free, and it’s not going to break your iPod or anything.

Click HERE to download the mix (zip file)

1/ Call On Me / The Bangs

2/ Shotgun / Eugene McGuinness

3/ All My Love / TiRon & Ayomari (ft. Yummy Bingham)

4/ Somebody That I Used To Know / Gotye

5/ A.D.H.D. / Kendrick Lamar

6/ Different Drum / Linda Ronstat and the Stone Poneys

7/ Andrew In Drag / The Magnetic Fields

8/ Getting Out Of Hand / The Bangs

9/ Romance / Wild Flag

10/ Inspectors of Inspectors / Driftless Pony Club

11/ Camille / Le Kid, Les & Marinellis

12/ Touch Cups / Juga Hill

13/ So Damn Down / Tanya Morgan

14/ Break Loose / Rasheed Chappell (ft. DJ Scratch & EPMD)

If you have issues downloading this, you’ll let me know, right?

This is a strange collection of songs that have nothing to do with Christmas. I hope you enjoy them. If you don’t, let me know, and I’ll see if I can find some other way to make all your holiday wishes come true. (Except the gross ones.)

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1/ Pass Me By / J Cole (Ft. B.O.B.)

2/ Fallin’ / Teenage Fanclub & De La Soul

3/ Fireball / Willow Smith

4/ Violent Nudity / Says She’s Ms. Blat

5/ If You Wanna / The Vaccines

6/ Young Mother / Juviley

7/ Like Smoke / Amy Winehouse (Ft. Nas)

8/ Mr. Brown / YC the Cynic (Ft. Sene)

9/ Slight Work / Wale (Ft. Big Sean)

10/ A.V.E.R.A.G.E. / Kazi

11/ Rose Garden / Shad

12/ FYC-x-Gruzen / Earl Sweatshirt (Sly Tendencies)

13/ Smart / Girl in a Coma

14/ Darling Divine / Royal Baths

Oh, and hey, for reals: If you have any trouble downloading, let me know.

I got an email from my girlfriend, Vieves, recently. The subject line was “Actual plot points in the Law & Order SVU I’m watching.” It’s worth sharing.

Oh wait, the baby was found wrapped in a t-shirt from some frat party from the local college.

But wait! The father lies on the stand and claims it WAS rape, so they have to acquit her on grounds of insanity.

BUT the detective who investigated the crime tells the girl that she, the detective, was the product of a rape.

Aha! Double jeopardy protects her on the second baby, but she can still be charged with murder for the first one.

Oh no! Meanwhile, Councilman Incest is about to take his son/grandson home to raise.

The detectives:”You’re never getting this baby!”

FIN

Sorry, boys. She’s taken.

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1/Theme From A Summer / Skeeter Davis

2/ Come and Get It / Badfinger

3/ All Summer / Kid Cudi, Best Coast & Rostam

4/ Shiraz / Action Bronson

5/ Good Friday / Kanye West (Ft. Common, Pusha T, Kid Cudi, Big Sean & Charlie Wilson)

6/ Titanic / Nikkiya

7/ FYC-x-Gruzen / Earl Sweatshirt (Sly Tendencies)

8/ Farewell / Soda Shop

9/ You Can’t Hurry Love / The Concretes

10/ Pumped Up Kicks / Foster the People

11/ Gotta Have It / Jay-Z & Kanye

If you have any trouble downloading, let me know.

My friend Nikki sent me a threatening text message the other day, demanding that I send her some good songs that she can jog to. She said she wanted the songs quickly. I believe the exact word she used was “STAT!!” (She’s a medical professional)

Of course, I’m more than happy to oblige.

Here’s a bunch of weirdy shit for you, Nikki. Please don’t play this around Liam and Campbell.

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1/Sleazy (Remix) / Ke$ha (Feat. Andre 3000)

2/ Jane Fonda / Mickey Avalon

3/ Hello / Martin Solveig (Feat. Dragonette)

4/ How I Roll /Britney Spears

5/ Forest Green /Mike G

6/ Never Enough /Tanya Morgan

7/ Dat Ass / Earl Sweatshirt

8/ Price Tag / Jessie J (ft. B.O.B.)

9/ Slippin’ / Quadron

10/ We Got Y’all / Pistol Mcfly (Feat. Chip Gnarly)

11/ Say Superman / Cobra Krames

If you have any trouble downloading, let me know.

I’m not a big fan of this song. It’s too big and obnoxious for my tastes. But every time Rick Ross tells me he has a chopper in the car, I think it’s the most awesome thing I’ve ever heard.

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1/ Sunshine /Rye Rye (Feat M.I.A.)

2/ Bundle Up / The Cool Kids

3/ Rolling in the Deep (REMIX ft. Childish Gambino) / Adele

4/ New York Is Killing Me (Smu Mix) / Gil Scott-Heron (feat. Mos Def & Nas)

5/ The Day / The Roots (feat. Blu, Phonte & Patty Crash)

6/ Armada Latina / Cypress Hill (feat. Pitbull & Marc Anthony)

7/ Tightrope / Janelle Monáe (feat. Big Boi)

8/ Pass Me By / J Cole (ft. B.O.B.)

9/ Hip Hop Changed / Crookers (ft. Rye Rye)

10/ Go Outside / Cults

11/ Say Superman / YC The Cynic

12/ The Joy / Kanye West (ft. Pete Rock, Jay-Z, Charlie Wilson, Curtis Mayfield & KiD CuDi)

13/ A.V.E.R.A.G.E. / Kazi

If you have any trouble downloading, let me know.

Last month, the New York Times published a fantastic story about the way JC Penney figured out how to get great placement in Google search results. Around the holidays, if you typed a generic product into Google — like “dresses” or “bedding” or “area rugs” — the first result would inevitably be JC Penney. Which — theoretically — increased chances that you would buy these products from JC Penney instead of one of its competitors.

This was also true for some specific brand names, too. If you typed “Samsonite Luggage” into Google, your first result would have also been JC Penney, which sells that product.

The store accomplished this by basically gaming the system. It didn’t do anything illegal, just something that Google and other self-appointed web police look down on. It either created or hired a bunch of meaningless, empty web sites and posted links on them that pointed back to JC Penney’s site. This made JC Penney seem very popular on the web, and thus it achieved higher page rankings.

I looked into this topic for a radio show I was working on, and while I interviewed potential guests, I couldn’t help getting frustrated that no one would give credence to my devil’s advocacy. “But what did JC Penney do wrong?” I kept asking search experts. “How is it different than naming your pluming company ‘AAA Plumbing’ just to get listed first in the phone book?” None of the experts answered that adequately, but they all insisted Google was right to punish JC Penney for its “black hat” actions.

This all happened last month. Today, I was listening to an old episode of public radio’s On The Media, and the hosts were reading listeners’ letters. One listener wrote in to comment on the JC Penney story. I wanted to kiss my iPod when host Bob Garfield read it. I’m posting the audio and a transcript below.

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On our interview last week about how JCPenney gamed Google to achieve better search results, Ted Bunn of Richmond, Virginia writes, quote: “I’m baffled by your use of the words ‘sinister’ and especially ‘illicit,’ to characterize JCPenney’s search optimization strategy. Nothing in your report suggests that anything the company did was illegal. You can bet that all of JCPenney’s competitors do their best at search engine optimization. They’d be negligent in their obligation to their shareholders if they didn’t.

As far as I can tell from your report, JCPenney’s only crime was to be better at it. If Google wants to remain preeminent in the search business, its obligation is to plug holes in its algorithm. No one else is obligated to refrain from walking through any holes they find.”

I couldn’t have said it better myself. Trust me, I tried.

And, assuming that the above has only left you needing to hear more Rye Rye, let me leave you with this:

The reason I bring it up now, though, is because our time has come. We have an honest to God crime to solve. Someone has stolen the Mayor’s wife’s bike, and if that’s not a job for the Hardy Boys, then I’m not a 34 year old white guy suffering from arrested development.

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn tweeted this moments ago:

Concerned citizens immediately tweeted their condolences, and one ambitious cybervigilante offered to step in.  “Do you have a description/photo?  We’ll get it out to the blogs : )”.

The mayor responds with a photo:

We’ve got a mystery on our hands, folks. You call Chet Morton. I’ll pull The Sleuth out of the boathouse and get her warmed up. We’re going to make dad so proud.

PS — The mayor seems truly upset. Save the bike, save the marriage?

Photographer Teddy Smith made this short documentary about it.

The band The Generationals remixed Teddy Smith’s work for their new video “Victim of Trap.” It’s a really good song. You should watch this video, too:

Revolt of the Worms - Photo by Ben McLeod

A long time ago, my girlfriend bought me a CD filled with hundreds of old radio shows from the 1940s. One of the best stories was about a selfish, mean-spirited, overly-ambitious scientist who tried to create the biggest rose the world had ever seen. But instead of creating huge flowers, his experiments yielded giant worms. Giant, man-eating worms.

Radio producer Arch Oboler wrote the story, and it aired on his popular “Lights Out” program on October 13, 1942.

Back in 2003, I sucked the story into my computer, chopped it up, and added other people’s music. Then I played the remix for all my friends until they started making excuses not to hang out with me anymore. Now it’s your turn. Enjoy.

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My mom found this and scanned it and sent it to me. I’ve asked her to send more.

The name of this troll is J.H.L. (standing for Jerry, Harry and Larry.) He is the kind of troll that wouldn’t like to hurt anybody. He crawls to get around and moo-o-oos like a sick cow. The only food it eats is rabbits tails and feet.

One day J.H.L. got sick of the planet L.O.I. (meaning Land of Idiots), so he slithered to his capsule and took off. He crashed on the planet Earth. He liked Earth ways, but people were mean to him. They took him to court and pressed charges. He did not want a war so he made an announcement. He said if they fixed his ship, he would leave. So NASA did and the next night he took off. When the people watched it made a flash and blew up. Some say NASA did it on purpose, and cleaning people for NASA said they heard ghostly moo-os, but who knows.

THE END

I don’t have tons of great things to say about Steven Spielberg, but I love the fact that he directed this 1971 episode of Columbo. Apparently he was just 25 years old at the time. And guess who wrote it? YUP! Steven Bochco!

My lady and I watched this episode a few nights ago. It’s pretty good. It’s far from perfect, but it’s a shit ton better than Hook.

RECOMMENDED READING:

The Single-Minded Movie Blog has a relatively in-depth analysis of Spielberg’s work on this film: “When turning our attention to Spielberg’s contribution, it’s important not to romanticize his influence…Still, the episode does feature some quite impressive elements that can only be contributed to the director.”

The Ultimate Columbo Site has an exciting (albeit unrelated) story about a real life mystery involving Columbo’s ride: : “When Columbo finished its run in 1981, nobody suspected it would return one day. So Universal Studios, which makes the show, sold off the lieutenant’s beat-up 1960 Peugeot 403. Ten years later, the series was resurrected and the producers came looking for the car…”

Adorable

Pittsburgh’s city council has declared December 7  “Gregg Gillis Day.” The man of honor marked the occasion by building a time machine, going back to 1987 and stealing the clothes I wore for my 4th grade class picture. He then rushed back to the modern-day council chambers to accept his proclamation. Well done, sir.

If you haven’t downloaded Gregg’s latest Girl Talk record, All Day, you can do it by clicking here. Or you can celebrate by going back and listening to his (in?)famous Seattle show here .

And if you’re wondering why the city council decided to dedicate a day to everyone’s favorite masher-upper, you can ask this guy.

Seriously

Okay, that’s not entirely true. But we are more famous than we were Friday morning, before our pal Luke Burbank aired “Margaret’s Golden Birthday” on his imaginary radio show, Too Beautiful To Live.

Click here to listen to the show.

And if you aren’t already listening to TBTL on a regular basis, who are you? You can catch up here.

At least half of the songs on this tape were sent to me by Steele & V and their friend, Phil. Thanks, guys.

1/ Marathon / Tennis

2/ I’m Your Puppet / James & Bobby Purify

3/ I Wanna Go Home / Shannon and the Clams

4/ You Don’t Know (How Young You Are) / 13th Floor Elevators

5/ Up Up Up / Givers

6/ Balulalow / Revolver

7/ Danger Overboard / Tender Trap

8/ Candy / Frankie Rose and the Outs

9/ Heart Full of Soul / The Yardbirds

10/ A Summer Song / Chad and Jeremy

If you have any trouble downloading, let me know.

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I have a couple of friends, Danae and Margaret, and they love telling stories. They’re both good at it, especially when they do it together.

And they often do tell stories together.

Especially the one about Margaret’s golden birthday.





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1/ Fembot / Robyn

2/ Spaceman / Harry Nilsson

3/ Adeline (You Always Look So Bored) / Fol Chen

4/ Coquet Coquette / Of Montreal

5/ Sunny South Kensington / Donovan

6/ Gods And Gentlemen / Drink Up Buttercup

7/ Dog It / Digable Planets

8/ Signs / Snoop Dogg

9/ Blood Dries Darker / Woods

10/ Daydream / Beach Fossils

11/ Shitkicker / Malachai

12/ Doggy Head / Drink Up Buttercup

13/ Vanishing Cream / Fresh & Onlys

14/ Trouble Trouble / The Ponys

15/ Vendela Vida / Dinosaur Feathers

16/ Crazy For You / Best Coast

17/ Welcome (Gotta Go) /Black Milk

If you have any trouble downloading, let me know.

Hey kids, I’ve been thinking about you, and I made you this mixtape. Click on the big picture above to download the zip file.

Happy Summertime!

1/ Too Much, Too Fast / Solex Vs. Cristina Martinez + Jon Spencer

2/Moonsurfin’ / Malachai

3/ Par Avion / FM Belfast

4/ Ten Years Younger / Bubblegum Lemonade

5/ Repetitive Stress Injury / Peter Project (Ft. More or Les)

6/ I Only Know /Ron Contour & Factor

7/ 15 To 20 /   The Phenomenal Handclap Band

8/ Eu / Garotas Suecas

9/ Cynthia Loves / The Robbs

10/ You’re the One for Me Bobby / The Marvelettes

11/ Blue Genes / The Champagne Socialists

12/ Hityawitdat / Lootpack

13/ I Be On That / Childish Gambino

14/ Drink N My Ska Step / NINJASONIK

If you have any trouble downloading, let me know.

I don’t know this map’s origins. I figured I could google “Shitty Music and Bears” and easily find it online somewhere, but no luck.

So, if you have any info on this map, spill. And if you don’t, enjoy.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD MIXTAPE

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1/ Ring Ring / Sleigh Bells

2/Pretty Girls Jerk Too / Asia Lynn / Brodinksi

3/ Girls FM / Happy Birthday

4/ Paper / Rafter

5/ Wondrous / Ron Contour & Factor

6/ Crash / The Primitives

7/  Thee Trip /    Helladope (ft. THEESatisfaction)

8/ Helplessly Young / Oh No Ono

9/ I Keep Waiting / Hacienda

10/ Did You Ever Go Steady / The Chiffons

11/ Nothing To Hide / Yo La Tengo

12/ XX Sex / Fuzzbox

13/ The Ghost Inside / Broken Bells

14/ Paul Valery / Blue Scholars

15/ Crown On The Ground / Sleigh Bells

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Larry Crane is quick to mention that he remastered the record. He did not remix it. And he says he used a light touch. Still, some fans are upset.You don’t mess with a classic, they say.

I listened to it, and I don’t have an opinion. It sounds nice to me. But I’m not the kind of guy to pick apart old Elliott Smith records. I’m just the kind of guy who likes this video.

It’s time to spring forward. Don’t forget to change your clocks this weekend. But be warned: daylight saving time can be hazardous to your health. I read it in a newspaper. Also, I’m posting a new mixtape here to help you kick-off your Spring right. Don’t forget to play it at your BBQs and cookouts, and please don’t forget to invite me to your BBQs and cookouts.

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1/ Twin Peaks Surfer Blood

2/ Home Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

3/ Same Ol Zion-I /Zumbi

4/ Forever LuvLee Dres

5/ Too Young to Burn Sonny And The Sunsets

6/ Marathon The Ettes

7/ Intuition LoneLady

8/ WHY CEE LA YC the Cynic

9/ TV in the Radio Wale (ft. K’naan)

10/ Groovin’ Willie Mitchell

11/ Doin’ All Right The Fugs

12/ How Low Are You? Dreamdate

13/ Airplanes Adron

14/ Kick Back YC the Cynic

15/ Fuck the Money B.o.B.

16/ Stillness is the Move Solange Knowles

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If you have any trouble downloading, let me know.

Someday I’m going to write a feminist manifesto about this film. In the meantime, I’ll just offer you this trailer. It’s nowhere near as good as the movie is. Trust me.

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1/ Le temps de la rentrée France Gall

2/ Uh Huh Wu Tang Vs The Beatles

3/ Who Makes Your Money Spoon

4/ Psychic City (Voodoo City) YACHT

5/ kill white t Shabazz Palaces

6/ Taking The Farm The War on Drugs

7/ Feel Good Track Of Rosemead Family of the Year

8/ The Tallest Man / I Like It (f. Grand Puba) Tor/Sufjan Stevens

9/ Girls and Boys in Love The Rumble Strips

10/ James Brown (2 Cute 4 Jail) Jack Splash

11/ Know What I Mean Freeway (Prod. by Jake One)

12/ Bodies Savoir Adore

13/ Swim Surfer Blood

14/ Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow Lykke Li

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Someone named Tom Caruana mashed together a bunch of Beatles songs and Wu-Tang tracks.

Sounds like a bad idea to me.

Except, it’s not. It’s kinda pretty awesome at times. Click here to listen & download

[thanks, boing boing]

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this isn’t an official Modern Lovers video. it was apparently made by a fan using footage from some propaganda film. details are sparse.

anyway, i like it.

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This is Astrud Gilberto, famous for her vocals in the song “The Girl from Ipanema”. This is my new favorite video.

Here’s my old favorite video. I’ve made everyone I’ve ever loved watch this a million times.

And here’s the best video you’ve ever seen, ever, courtesy of the kids in Best Coast via their cool blog.

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These songs have nothing to do with the holidays. But maybe they’ll help you survive the cold, wet winter. Also, if you like track 1 and you’ll be in Seattle on February 13th, head to the High Dive. Best Coast is opening for the Vivian Girls that night.

1/ When I’m with You Best Coast

2/ I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman K-OS

3/ Relator Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson

4/ My Boy Lollipop (German Version) Millie Small

5/ I’m Good, I’m Gone (Black Kids remix) Lykke Li

6/ Stranded in Your Love Sharon Jones & Dap-Kings ft. Cool Calm Pete

7/ No Diggity Klaxons

8/ Not Wrong Pants Yell!

9/ Cudderisback Kid Cudi

10/ Light Years Via Tania

11/ Laadeedaa Starfucker

12/ Two Medicines The Dodos

13/ Lalita Love Language

14/ It Ain’t Me Babe White Antelope

15/ Blasten Snoop Dogg (ft. Ice Cube & MC Eiht)

16/ Fellows Elk

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A few weeks ago, Harry Connick Jr. visited Australia. While he was there, he sat-in as a judge on a TV variety show called “Hey, Hey It’s Saturday.” When a group of white performers took the stage wearing blackface, Harry Connick Jr gave the act a “zero” and voiced his displeasure. Later in the show, the host apologized, and Connick said he would never have agreed to appear if he’d known that type of act would be involved. (Video here.)

A lot of Australians were pissed. How dare an American accuse them of racism on national television?  But according to my friend Beverley, the country definitely does have its issues with race. She told me a story about an uncomfortable encounter she recently had at a German-themed Australian restaurant.

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If you’ve opened a newspaper, walked by a television, or visited the Google home page anytime in the last week, you probably already know that Sesame Street celebrates its 40th anniversary today. I hit the streets of Seattle with my friend Leigh this weekend, and we asked people to share their Sesame Street memories with us.

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Probably the most important Sesame Street moment in my life was when the grocer Mr. Hooper died. Big Bird didn’t understand what death was, and the gang had to explain it to him. It still breaks my heart.

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Welcome to autumn. Here’s a mixtape to help you ease into winter slowly. Most of the songs still sound like summer, and some of them have hand-claps.

1/ Ghost Of Fillmore Andre Nickatina

2/ Lust For Life Girls

3/ Native Tongue Medley Pt 1 & 2 Rhymefest

4/ When They Fight, They Fight Generationals

5/ Gitty Up Baby! Cool Calm Pete

6/ Break Up Lil Wayne [Ft. Lil Twist & Gudda Gudda]

7/ The Deathbridge in Lethbridge The Rural Alberta Advantage

8/ Bang! The Raveonettes

9/ Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi Jacques Dutronc

10/ Laura Girls

11/ 103 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

12/ Walkabout Atlas Sound [w/ Noah Lennox]

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As would any rational person, I’ve always blamed my hyper anxiety on my parents. They raised me and my sister with iron wills and they taught us to follow all rules, always. So it only makes sense to blame them when I can barely bring myself to cut a pad of butter from the wrong end of the stick twenty years later. Right?

Well. Maybe not exactly.

Turns out, I probably would have ended up high-strung no matter who raised me. I was probably born with a brain hard-wired for high anxiety. That’s what Jerome Kagan’s work seems to indicate. Dr. Kagan is an 80-year old developmental psychologist at Harvard, and he’s spent a good chunk of his life testing babies for early signs of “high-reactive behavior.” And – as you might expect – anxious babies become anxious adults. We’re born with it. It’s in our circuitry.

Here’s how science writer Robin Marantz Henig explains it in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine:

In the brain, [anxious]  thoughts can often be traced to overreactivity in the amygdala, a small site in the middle of the brain that, among its many other functions, responds to novelty and threat. When the amygdala works as it should, it orchestrates a physiological response to changes in the environment. That response includes heightened memory for emotional experiences and the familiar chest pounding of fight or flight. But in people born with a particular brain circuitry…the amygdala is hyperreactive, prickly as a haywire motion-detector light that turns on when nothing’s moving but the rain.

That’s pretty sciency. But it doesn’t totally get my parents off the hook. They still could be to blame. My condition could be genetic. And even if isn’t, many people with brains pre-programmed for high anxiety learn to deal with it so effectively that no one knows they’re anxious – not even themselves.

Robin Marantz Henig’s article goes into great detail about the work of Dr. Kagan and his colleagues. You should read it here.

And you should most definitely listen to Robin’s interview on Word of Mouth. Click here for that.