mp3: the flaming lips – halloween on the barbary coast
Well, the retards laughed
When the evening came
The librium makes them
All the same
And boy, you still got
Shit for brains
It’s halloween on the coast again

so i’ve just finished the third revision of my top 100 albums list — which to avoid confusion/arguments is a personal selection, not an attempt at a best of all time list — and to build some interest/excitement in the list beyond myself and the 1-2 other people that have traditionally cared about this i’ve [...]

i’ve slowly begun working on the third revision of my personal top 100 albums list. as planned, this year i am making the transition to a one album per artist limit… which has automatically disqualified twenty excellent albums from last year’s list (see below). this has been a hard step for me to take, but [...]

the soft bulletin was re-released on vinyl last week…. it’s a 2x 180-gram lp package with a bonus cd containing 3 non-album songs for $30. wait, only 3 non-album songs…. and $30?? i’m happy just to have the opportunity to pick up the album on vinyl, but that price seems a little steep to me. [...]

mp3: the flaming lips – chosen one (live)
bill callahan is playing the black cat this friday. i am moving to a new apartment this saturday. so considering i am quite excited for the show, and quite busy packing, expect a series of smog related posts… because they are appropriate and super easy for me [...]

mp3: the flaming lips with stardeath and white dwarfs – borderline (madonna cover)mp3: the black keys – her eyes are a blue million miles (captain beefheart cover)
from record store day… on beautiful sea foam green vinyl. side a is the flaming lips with stardeath and white dwarfs covering madonna’s “borderline”. the lips played this [...]

it’s record store day! i’m about to head out shopping… records i am hoping to pick up include, in order of want:

the flaming lips / black keys split 7″ (mp3s here)
sonic youth / beck split 7″ (mp3s here)
lykke li / el perro del mar split 7″ (mp3s here)

will update later on what i got. here’s [...]

this came out of nowhere… but apparently, the flaming lips are headlining a free show on the national mall this sunday, april 19! the event, called the green apple festival, is in celebration of earth day and will be hosted by chevy chase and also feature performances from los lobos, dj spooky and moe. it [...]

mp3: the flaming lips – kim’s watermelon gunmp3: cocorosie – watermelon juice
although to a much lesser extent (i played the original animal crossing nearly daily for over a year… even brought the gamecube with me on vacation once or twice so i could check in on my town…), city folk has once again got me [...]

i’ve finalized volume two of my top 100 albums list at last! check out the opening tracks of my top ten albums below and then check out the full list… plain text here… and/or a graphic version here (pdf, 3.8mb).

1) the natural bridge (1996) — [buy it]
mp3: silver jews – how [...]