Bats for Lashes - Oh Yeah
alex on October 10 2012
I get so uncomfortable on public transportation when people start dozing off... When the nodder offer is only centimeters away from sleeping on the shoulder of the person next to them - I just want yell "DONT DO IT, MAN!" Watching that shit go down is like the epitome of awkward. In other news: My girl Natasha Khan has a new album and it's stellar. I'd rather wait years for an artist to release a new album than have an artist drop an album every year that's only marginal.
Chvrches - The Mother We Share
alex on October 09 2012
This was my thought process when I heard this song on Indie Shuffle - "oh, this song is pretty sweet lets check out the band." So I find their soundcloud, no mp3 download here. "I'll go to iTunes and PAY FOR THEIR MUSIC" - what's that iTunes? the mp3 is only available in the fucking UK? Because a digital format shouldn't be available to all countries. I then Google some shitty music blog that has an mp3 download link and they get money from me seeing their crappy site and their shitty advertising. That's where I fucking ended up, not paying the artist ... instead some random blog spammer got a couple cents - do we see the problem here? The whole time I was making that like disappointing clicking noise with my mouth - you know the one. Where you make that click with your tongue on the back of your molars "tsk." That noise our parents would make when they found our bongs or porn stashes.
Jonathan Boulet - Dread Is This Place
alex on October 03 2012
A very old bearded Asian man (possibly Mr. Miyagi) Just came up to Athena (my pitbull) and me - pointed to her and goes "very strong!!" To which I replied "Don't be fooled - she's a wuss." Then a silence ensued while we made eye contact, aboout 4 seconds had passed when suddenly Mr. Miyagi burst out in the some of the hardest laughter I'd ever seen. So -to get to the point, I have a new best friend.
Tim Fitz - The Line
alex on October 01 2012
For some reason I'm really stoked for it to be Monday. Most likely due to the fact I get to work on LAR all week again. I tweeted Tim Fitz' band camp - go get his album for free or donate like I did --- because some people need donations to maintain a relatively free service but when their user base doesn't donate they have to redesign their website to support a boat load of ads. I've closed donations and those who were kind enough to donate (40 people out of about 15,000 regular listeners) will be recieving perks on V5 of left as rain. To everyone who has donated - we really appreciate it, youre good people.