Hulahulagirl's Journals

Tune In Thursday

new blog post has a link to my new Muxtape

Playlist is as follows:
â™¥ Lightspeed Champion-Dry Lips (I would have NEVER guessed this guy looked like this.)
â™¥ Bikini-1234 (Okay this is a Feist cover by a Hungarian rock band? Hmmm...maybe? Related: Feist singing this as a counting song on Sesame Street on YouTube--it's AWESOME. "Chickens just back from the shore" are the best part!!)
â™¥ Wakey! Wakey!- Apology Song (This song cracks me up because it mentions a ton of Missoula landmarks. It was written by Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, he's from MT.)
â™¥ The Dresden Dolls-Mandy Goes to Med School (Another absolutely impressive song, lyrics-wise. Pay careful attention! "the lights are staying out but no sweat I've got aim like a mack truck/guess how many fingers ok guess how many more i can fit there")
â™¥ Nick Cave-Cannibal's Hymn (Who doesn't love this guy?? With lyrics like this, you MUST. And that voice...ah.)
â™¥ The Pretty Things-The Good Mr. Square (an older UK band, this one really reminds me of Portland for various secret reasons)
â™¥ Manu Chao-Bongo Bongo (I dare you to listen to this song and not want to dance. We were introduced to Manu Chao by Ted Lowe [brother of the late Alex Lowe, world's best climber] back in Missoula and his music remains in our regular rotation.)
â™¥ Louis Armstrong/Radiohead mashup-What a Wonderful Surprise (It's so natural when you hear it...trust me.)
â™¥ Bon Iver-Skinny Love (As much as I try not to like this song, I just love it--a lot.)
â™¥ Ben Sollee-A Change Is Gonna Come (classic Sam Cooke cover, very well done)
â™¥ Black Rebel Motorcycle Club-Shuffle Your Feet (Not the sound I was AT ALL expecting from a band with this name, but I think I'm onto something with these guys.)
â™¥ Warren Zevon-Carmelita (Ah, Warren. RIP. Very few people can make heroin addiction sound this romantic. We worship at the Altar of Warren, here at Casa Blankenship. The love was handed down to Keith by his dad and I adopted Warren soon after I met Keith. This is a Dutch bootleg recording and Jackson Browne is playing the piano and singing backup vocals.)

liveblogging DRUNK

http://agreatleapinthedark.blogspot.com/2008/07/live-blogging-druuuuunk.html

Oy h=boy

Independence Day Muxtape

Keeping it apolitical, I went with geography instead...
Independence Day 2008 Muxtape
Enjoy! And be safe with firecrackers!

Bob Dylan â�“ Mississippi
Steve Earle â�“ Ft. Worth Blues
Loretta Lynn â�“ Portland Oregon (Duet With Jack White)
Four year bender â�“ New Orleans Lament
Bobby Charles â�“ New Mexico
Neko Case â�“ Train From Kansas City
Rocky Votolato â�“ Montana
Neil Young â�“ Albuquerque
Jay Farrar â�“ California
Whiskeytown â�“ New York Angel
Ray's Vast Basement â�“ California's Gone
Sufjan Stevens â�“ Chicago

Part I of my Buzznet mixtape

Here's a link to my mixtape that I made for whatever exchange Boz et al are doing. It's only Part I---I was going through songs alphabetically and stopped early, so stay tuned for a Part II. I've been thinking about doing something like this for when I move to Idaho. Like a really lame on-demand radio station. Anyway, these are all songs that I am psyched to hear if they come up on my shuffle on my Creative Zen. I turn these up to 11.

1. AC Newman-Miracle Drug. Frontman for The New Pornographers.
2. AA Bondy-Mightiest of Guns. I could listen to him sing anything. Acoustic with great lyrics.
3. Antony & The Johnsons- The Cripple and the Starfish. I love his voice, you might not. It may be an acquired taste.
4. Atlanta Rhythm Section- So Into You. How can you not want to get busy with this on??
5. Augie March- One Crowded Hour. Okay, seriously. You must listen to this one.
6. Black 47- Funky Ceili (Bridie's Song). Celtic rock band from New York. Apparently this one was on high rotation on MTV for a while, but I don't watch TV so cut me a break.
7. Bob Dylan- Mississippi. My favorite Dylan song to sing along to.
8. Bobby Bare- Don't Think Twice. Whatever era he fits into, I pretend I live there sometimes.
9. Britt Daniel- Bring it On Home (Sam Cooke cover). A great cover of a great song. Britt Daniel of Spoon (had to get some Portland flavor in).
10. Clem Snide- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievances. A sweet cover of a Daniel Johnston song.
11. Easy Star All-Stars- Karma Police (Radiohead cover). This reggae band covers Pink Floyd, Radiohead etc. I like.
12. Elvis Perkins- While You Were Sleeping. Son of Anthony Perkins from Psycho! He can really sing.
13. Fleetwood Mac- What Makes You Think You're the One. My feelings on Fleetwood Mac are mixed but this one gets to me.
14. Four Year Bender- New Orleans Lament. I like everything I've heard from these guys.
15. Gipsy Kings- Aven, Aven. Opening track from their album Roots. Who doesn't love the Gipsy Kings?!
16. Horse Feathers- Hardwood Pews. Another local Portland band. I heart these guys big time. 3-piece band.
17. Hot Chip- Sexual Healing (Remix). Another Get Busy song. Turn it up!
18. Iron & Wine- The Devil Never Sleeps. Everybody bitching, â�œThereâ�™s nothing on the radio"
19. Jim James & Calexico- Goin to Acapulco. Wish I was going...
20. Josh Ritter- Bandits. I like this one and it makes me laugh--double bonus.
21. Kanye West- School Spirit. I am pretty ambivalent about Kanye, except for this one.
22. Soulsavers-Revival. I was listening this on the way to take the GRE. I think studying would have helped more.
23. The Eels- It's a Motherfucker. For when you have to say goodbye.

Blasphemy is Teh Funneh

Midly amusing.
If blasphemy is amusing to you.
(And it is to me.)

LOLTheist

how do i leave this group??

halp!

Celebrity Crush List

1. You post your top 10 fantasy guys/girls
2. You tag 10 people.
3. You CANNOT tag someone who has already been tagged.
4. You have to let the people you tagged know that they've been tagged.
5. These are the rules they must be repeated every time.
6. THERE MUST BE PHOTOS! AT ALL TIMES!

I was tagged repeatedly before Labor Day weekend and now I'm so late on this. So I'm not tagging anyone.
I feel this is a particularly nerdy list, so no giggling.

Here goes. In no particular order...

Donald Sutherland (young and old versions)

Keifer Sutherland (not so much The Lost Boys version, but...)

David Duchovny (not just The X-Files, though that's a goodie)

Robert Duvall (again, young and old versions---Apocalypse Now and Lonesome Dove)

Jessica Lange (young and old, up until the plastic surgery got ahold of her...The Postman Always Rings Twice....grrrrr)

James Dean (just watched Rebel Without A Cause for the first time a few weeks ago...wow)

Peter Krause (a heartbreaker in Six Feet Under...when he buried Lisa---oh, man)

David Letterman (great dresser, smart, hilarious, I even like the scruffy version in a baseball cap)

Marlon Brando (the young, fit Brando---apparently I have a thing for bi guys [see J. Dean])

Neko Case (that voice)

Arrests in NC

Someone please tell me this isn't happening.

Local activists Mark and Deborah Kuhn say a Buncombe County sheriffâ�™s deputy invaded their home and used excessive force in responding to a complaint that the couple was desecrating an American flag. The flag, which theyâ�™d hung upside down on their porch as a protest, had several statements pinned to it, including a photo of President Bush with the words â�œOut Nowâ� on it and an explanation that the upside-down flag is a traditional distress signal. (link)

A picture of George W. Bush was also pinned to the flag with the text â�œOut Nowâ� printed underneath. The Kuhns apparently desecrated the flag by pinning signs to it, not by flying it upside down. (link)

Jonas Phillips is the third resident of Asheville, North Carolina to be arrested in recent weeks for displaying a pro-impeachment sign. (link)

YouTube of the local news

What's going on????

Bruce Elmore, an Asheville lawyer and state president of the ACLU, is representing the Kuhns on the criminal charges. Deborah Kuhn said they do not plan to take civil action against the Sheriffâ�™s Office.
Elmore said his clients were simply practicing expressive conduct protected by the U.S. Constitution and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. The First Amendment is meant to protect unpopular speech, not popular speech, he said.
â�œIâ�™m surprised that a National Guard officer and deputies with the Buncombe County Sheriffâ�™s Department are not aware that the Supreme Court has declared statutes which criminalize desecration of the flag unconstitutional when the act is involved in expressing a belief, which this clearly was,â� Elmore said. (link)

Crazy 8

Here are the rules:

1) Only list 8 facts.
2) You must then list 8 TAGS at the end of the post. This means you must name 8 people on Buzznet who now must do the same blog.***
3) Go comment on their profile and tell them to come read yours! Mark demands participation.

DVL sent this to me and I thought about it all day and I still couldn't come up with anything.

1. I lived in Alaska, twice, before 1st grade.
2. I can (and like to) pick things up with my toes.
3. Wellbutrin saved my life last year.
4. I want to spend more time with my parents.
5. Foods I can't live without: ketchup, chocolate, corn.
6. I am afraid of taxidermied animals. Very afraid. Especially large ones. Can't be in the same room as one.
7. I didn't really have to study in college. So grad school scares me a little.
8. I've lost over 50#s since 2001.

Everyone else has already done this, right? So I'm not tagging anyone. Maybe Lazlo.

Musics for ya

There's DJMark and DJTomdog, of course. They play great music we should hear but can't get on the radio. Radio sucks, we know this.

And I just discovered a new add-on for Firefox: the PagePlaylist.

(Basically, it looks at any page you are on and if it has mp3s or links to mp3s, it will stream them in a handy Flash-based overlay. It's awesome.)

Now I'm on the hunt for the sites that have great mp3 links.
So far:
Lost in the 80s
Aurgasm
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (currently featuring an excerpt from the first audiobook release of Slaughterhouse-Five)
Headphone Sex
Culture Deluxe
Of course, 3hive
The always-interesting Music for Maniacs

And TofuHut has a directory of sites with mp3 links---it's where I found most of the above.

If you know of any other great mp3 sites, let me know.