Summer Mix 2010

A friend asked me to make her a playlist featuring songs by artists she probably didn't know. Here's the outcome. Some of these artists are way bigger than others, but my hope is that anyone can find (and will like) at least ONE song on here they'd never heard before. Most of the stuff is new-ish (or new to me), but a few tracks I've had kicking around on my computer for a few years.

1. The Books - I Am Who I Am
2. Neon Trees - Sins of my Youth
3. Urban Barnyard - Cock Fight!
4. Yeasayer - Madder Red
5. A Fine Frenzy - Electric Twist
6. Gossip - Heavy Cross
7. CSS - Jager Yoga
8. Endeverafter - I Wanna Be Your Man
9. Wolfmother - California Queen
10. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Little Girl (feat. Julian Casablancas)
11. DangerDoom - Old School (feat. Talib Kweli)
12. MiniBoone - Devil in Your Eyes
13. Hideki Naganuma - Oldies But Goodies
14. Cee-Lo Green - Fuck You
15. The Hood Internet - Crazy Hold Out (Nicki Minaj vs. Washed Out)
16. (BONUS INSTRUMENTAL TRACK) Ronald Jenkees - Guitar Sound

Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws

This can't be real, can it? I think it is. It's just that good.



"You yell ghost, people go, 'Hmm? What?' You yell ghost shark, and we've got a Goddamned panic on our hands."

Phosporescent Foliage

I fell in love with a band.

Neon Trees.

Chalk up another victory to Rock Band for introducing me to yet another artist I love. (The number here is too high to count.) Three songs off their debut album came out last week, and I can't stop listening to them on my computer or in my car, and I can't stop playing them in the game.

So yeah, go listen. Here's a great song, "Sins of My Youth," as performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

The Walking Dead

It's Halloween recipe time!

1 part 28 Days Later
1 part Left 4 Dead
1 part AMC goodness

Simmer over medium-low heat for 6-8 months, stirring occasionally. When October 31st approaches, dish should be just about done. Uncover at 10 p.m. and enjoy the goodness.

Ten Things I Learned About Movies After Watching Ten Movies in Four Days

Here are the ten movies I watched:

Bonnie and Clyde
Fido
Hoosiers
How to Steal a Million
Jimmywork
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Bone Collector
The Island
The Producers
Young Frankenstein


The ten lessons I learned:

1. I'll never like sports movies as much as I should, because either way it could end -- the team wins or loses -- has become cliche.
2. I'll take Butch and Sundance over Bonnie and Clyde any day of the week.
3. Movies based on Alan Moore comics that he puts his name on aren't as good as ones he keeps his name off.
4. Mel Brooks is pretty good, but I prefer Woody Allen.
5. I've seen him in a lot of things, but I can never remember Luis Guzman's name. Maybe I will now.
6. For as many movies as I like him in, Denzel Washington has found his way into quite a few mediocre movies.
7. Zombies are awesome in the 1950s, whether the movie came out in the 1950s or 2000s.
8. Shooting in black and white does not automatically make you artsy; it can make you look cheap.
9. In terms of pretty, stereotypical female stereotypes in Michael Bay movies, ScarJo's acting blows Megan Fox's out of the water.
10. Michael Bay may not know plot, but he sure can film exciting sequences. (Okay, I knew this one already.)