Certain Songs

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True story. Three years ago, out of boredom and a job that had the perfect storm of unfettered web access and an unhealthy amount of down time, I started this blog. And it's been a lot of fun and I have met some incredible music loving people along the way.

But now it seems that all of the fun of music blogging as sort of been sucked out of the process. My only goal with this thing was to share some songs I love with friends, both old and not yet made. About one out of every three songs I post now gets flagged and removed by one watchdog group or another. I think the game is really changing. Music blogging as a hobby is getting harder and harder to do. I have never put a single dime into my blog, nor have I made a single cent on it ...it's always just been a splendid distraction. But when the distractions start to lose their fun, then maybe it's time to try something new? I think so.

So I am not officially closing the blog down...just not going to be posting here anymore for awhile. Taking a very long,open ended leave of absence from this little corner of cyberspace. I plan on setting up a Tumblr account for my Craigslist missed connections dedications. Those will NEVER NOT be fun! And the ease of use and simple layout of Tumblr would be perfect for that sort of insanity. Ill post the link to the new endeavor here whenever I get around to setting it up.

Signing off with a couple of new tunes from some albums that aren't quite released yet...just to stick it to the MAN one last time!


* LCD Soundsystem - 'I Can Change' MP3


* Wolf Parade - 'Little Golden Age' MP3

It's 2PM on May 14th and I am going to go on record and say that this Broken Social Scene song will be my most played track in 2010. So infectious.


* 'Art House Director' MP3

I locked up your salami

- w4m - 30 (Dayton)

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Date: 2010-05-05, 12:07AM EDT

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It begins like all [modern] interesting stories begin: we met here on Craigslist. You wanted to be spanked, verbally abused, humiliated, and otherwise dominated. I wanted to pay some bills. Sounded like a win/win situation. After a week of frequent communication we met at a motel, I spanked and verbally abused you, and at the end of it, per your desires, I locked you in a chastity device (I'd never have guessed that something so small could have been so hard to fit into its cage - very entertaining). Everything indicated a mutually beneficial semi-long-term arrangement. We parted company and said we'd chat more later.

It's been over a week and I haven't heard from you since our meeting. Hey, it's no skin off *my* nose, but you're still, um, incapacitated. I hope you were lying about this being the only key...or that you have a very understanding friend who's a locksmith. Otherwise, you've found a rather creative way to make yourself a eunuch, as I don't plan on hanging onto this key forever.

In any case, I'm kind of hoping you DON'T contact me again. This was an interesting story to start out with and now it's downright priceless. Unfortunately, I can't share this caliber of hilarity with most of my friends.


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* Freelance Whales - 'We Could Be Friends' MP3

Even if the music wasn't so lovely I think I would have a soft spot in my heart for McCabe And Mrs. Miller. Any band named after a Robert Altman film is OK in my book. And yes, the music is excellent. He is Victor Krummenacher (Camper Van Beethoven, Monks of Doom) she is Alison Faith Levy (The Sippy Cups, The Loud Family) - together they make beautiful music as McCabe And Mrs Miller.

Here is the title track for their debut album...it's bittersweet and beautiful.


* 'Time For Leaving' MP3

30 years since you were laid

- m4w - 46

(Afternoon Conversation)

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Date: 2010-05-03, 8:03PM EDT

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We talked this afternoon when I got back in town. Spoke about the fact you have never been married and it's been 30 years since you've been railed. I complimented you on your cute ass and your physic in general. You know who I am and where I am staying tonight. Call me, I want you and have wanted you for years. I think you feel the same. Let's not kid each other any longer.

******

I just love that he lovingly uses the term "railed" in his attempts to woo his long time love. Just beautiful.


* Broken Family Band - 'Old Wounds'

AMY APPLEGATE ....ST. ANNS

- m4w - 35 (COLUMBUS)

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Date: 2010-05-03, 2:52PM EDT

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I came in to get a venous doppler of my leg and your smile and attitude blew my mind....i would love to take u 2 dinner if your not attached...i was a marine sniper..hope to hear back.

******

Not sure if the "i was a marine sniper" part was to help her remember, or if it was designed as a thinly veiled threat. Either way...pretty creepy.


* Simple Minds - 'Don't You Forget About Me' MP3

The person that carved in

the concrete in front

of my house

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Date: 2010-04-21, 3:51PM EDT

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It has been about two years now that I have lived in this house and wonder why someone wrote Walker Texas Ranger in the concrete of my driveway. There you were, face to face with the possibility of being immortalized (or at least remembered for a few decades) by the occupants of the home that was being constructed before you, and this is what you choose? Perhaps you were put on the spot. The concrete was quickly drying and you had just finished reading two pages of Chuck Norris jokes. You know, the ones like,

"A Handicapped parking sign does not signify that this spot is for handicapped people. It is actually in fact a warning, that the spot belongs to Chuck Norris and that you will be handicapped if you park there."

Maybe you were actually a Walker Texas Ranger fan (although it is unlikely that a divorced woman between the ages 45 and 60 would write in wet concrete). Whatever the reason, I have to say I am disappointed. It would have been much better if you would have wrote something like “The guy that lives here kicks ass”, or “The guy that lives here doesn’t want to buy steaks out of the back of your truck.” Thats right meat truck guy that comes down my street, Im talking to you.

******

* Pearl Jam - 'Immortality' MP3

And no mini posting spree this week would be complete from me without including a track from one of my favorites, Jesse Malin. I am such a sucker for his straight ahead, Bruce Springsteen-worshiping rock n roll.

His brand new record is called 'Love It To Life' and is vintage Malin, meaning pretty much a perfect summer rock record.


* 'St Mark's Sunset' MP3

Too Portland bands in a row. Totally unintentional. Not that it can be helped. I think with my taste in music it is impossible to go a week without posting about a band from either Portland,Austin, or Brooklyn.

This time around, the band is indie pop/lo-fi electronica act Cars And Trains. To me, they sound like a slightly more fleshed out Casiotone For The Painfully Alone. Pretty minimalistic, featuring sharp, clever lyrics. Their new record is called 'The Roots, The Leaves.'

Here is a sample of what's in store for you should you check it out...


* 'The Sun Always Sets' MP3

The Mynabirds (basically singer/songwriter Laura Burhenn) are out of Portland and have released their debut on April 27 entitled 'What We Lose It The Fire We Gain In The Flood.' I think I would have to love this band EVEN if the music weren't so good just because of their name. It's a tip of the cap to the near mythical R & B super group of the 60's featuring Neil Young and Rick James among others.

The record is fantastic, and is maybe my favorite debut disc so far this year. Just a beautiful sound that is hard to pin down...it's eclectic and incredible...well worth your time.

Here is one of my favorite tunes, enjoy...


* 'Numbers Don't Lie' MP3

my name is scott once

i was at dairy queen i saw

u ba - m4w - 32 (ohio)

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Date: 2010-04-23, 1:54AM EDT

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my name is scott once i was at dairy queen and you who i miss so dearly whipped up a killer sundae please come back baby today friday not sunday please crying sad - scott

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* Clem Snide 'The Dairy Queen' MP3

At the Queer Sex Ed

Conference - w4w - 23

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Date: 2010-04-20, 5:20PM MDT

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You were sitting behind me at the Queer Sex Ed conference and chatted with me and my friend. She had the palm tattoo and I was wearing a black skirt and top. You are super cute and I want to take you on a date! I believe you asked my friend for my number later...not sure if it was delivered. Respond with your name so I know it is you :)

******

If this missed connection pans out we will finally have a winner in the category of "Best Story About How I Met My Significant Other"


* Jill Sobule - 'I Kissed A Girl' MP3

Sunless in Columbus

- m4w - 30

(At the corner of bar

and dance floor)

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Date: 2010-04-25, 2:55AM EDT

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You: Delightful lass at Outland on Saturday with the low cut dress and lower cut bosom. Me: That guy dressed in black. You know, the tall one. We traded smiles. Let's see if we have any common interests other than red lights, throbbing bass music and Addam's Family Fashion. Your man looked like he came from Ikea, time to trade him in.

;)

******


* Pavement - 'Date With IKEA' MP3

This song is the exact reason I started my little blog. It's 9:41PM on a Sunday night and I just heard an amazing song and felt the need to throw it out into the world. Just sitting here, relaxing on a fine Ohio evening, listening to the brilliant new Phosphorescent record 'Here's To Taking It Easy' and this song popped up...and I had to share it.

I do believe Matthew Houck has outdone himself.


* 'Tell Me Baby (have you had enough?)' MP3

Coachella - Spoon - m4w - 26

(Coachella)

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Date: 2010-04-20, 5:21PM PDT

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I think I fell in love with you at Spoon. Granted, I barely said a word to you and I was in love with everybody at the festival and I couldn't even feel my hands at the time because I had just taken the best E of my life... That show was amazing! Right? And Thom Yorke afterwards? I should have pulled it together and at least attempted to flirt with you. But this is what happens when Im rolling. I think pure thoughts and dance with myself. Haha. Awesome weekend!

******

"I was in love with everybody at the festival" - I love drugs. See how much better the world is when people are on drugs?


* Spoon - 'The Way We Get By' MP3

Another Coachella has come and gone, and as always, it was THE best weekend of the year! I will get around to attempting to summarize it in blog form eventually, but now there is just too much new music stacked up for me to listen to...it the best sort of overwhelming.

And of course, I am having trouble even getting to anything else because I am so in love with this new Hold Steady record. In fact when I first got my hands on it, I repeated this track - the first one on the record - over and over. It blew me away. Of course, I am totally biased, but I think this album is easily one of their best efforts. Same great songs, with an evolving sound.

I can't wait to hear the end of this track live...I can already imagine an entire barful of my new closest friends singing along with "...we like to play for you, we like to play for you, we like to play for you."


* 'The Sweet Part Of The City' MP3

Your arm caught on fire!

- m4m - 36

(Easy St. Cafe, German Village)

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Date: 2010-04-11, 11:28PM EDT

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Busy saturday night at Easy St. Cafe... your arm briefly caught on fire when you lit our saganaki! It was very exciting, and your grace under pressure was admirable. I hope you're ok. You were a greater waiter, and I'd love to take you out sometime, and check on that arm. :)

******

* Band Of Skulls - 'Fires' MP3

Happy Coachella week!!! I won't be around much this week...but while I am here, I plan on sharing some awesome new music.

In fact, as I type this I am listening to the brand new Broken Social Scene record...and it's pretty incredible. Check this tune out...one of 14 brand new ones on the forthcoming 'Forgiveness Rock Record.'


* 'Sentimental X's' MP3

Let's Build Something Together

- m4w - 27 (E. Broad Lowes)

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Date: 2010-04-07, 2:53PM EDT

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I came into the Lowe's on East Broad looking for a job and ended up seeing the most beautiful lil' blonde woman....a sculptor couldn't have formed a better shape, an architect couldn't have designed a more perfect face, a painter couldn't have colored a more beautiful persona, and a writer could not have crafted a more curiously intriguing soul. I think you are a manager there.... I happened to be there during your team meeting....haha, why did you want to leave the room? You seem sweet, sensitive, innocent, a little shy, and just too perfect. I can't get your big, sweet, compassionate, soul-piercing eyes out of my mind! I have never done this before, but your glance has left me no choice. Unfortunately, I didn't get the job, but what dissappoints me most is that I won't have the opportunity to flirt with you at work. I would like to get to know you better if you are interested. I am a clean-cut, educated, down-to earth, hard-working, sensitive artist with muscle. I moved out here a month ago and it has been hard meeting cool people to hang out with, let alone someone to enjoy my life with. I am a knight always on the look out for my princess, if you and I were meant to be then I believe that you will somehow see this post. I think that you know who I am, and I hope our paths may cross again sometime perfect stranger.


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* Beastie Boys - 'It Takes Time To Build' MP3