Goodbye Hooray by Red Hot Chili Peppers
It’s tough for me to pick just one song from their pretty damn groovy new album, but this is the one that was playing in my head all day today, so..
Also particularly worth checking out: this video / Rain Dance Maggie live, and Dance, Dance, Dance (unrelated to Fallout Boy, one hopes).
I’ve Got It All (Most) by Modest Mouse
This is the final track off their 2009 No One’s First and You’re Next EP—which I originally couldn’t handle, but, like all MM, has since grown on me in a big way.
Instrumentally, I actually prefer Satellite Skin and (the last half of) Guilty Cocker Spaniels, but I can relate to this track quite a bit right now. Especially the line: “how can someone inconsistent mess up so consistently.”
Figure 1: The tentative plan for tomorrow’s 50 km bike marathon.
Gonna do a clockwise loop of the reservoir with my sis, then head over to her place to catch up with my long lost cat, then way back to CSIF for a Damming Fluxus programming meeting, then joining up with MoJams to bike home/ towards the Chinook theatres for our free advance screening at 7pm.
After paintball last weekend and this, I’m convinced my legs will soon look like this or this (and nothing else).
If you ever want to know me, play this album, outside, summer, night, clear skies and stars, listening to the world between beats.
I’m fairly sure that’s my favourite kind of ‘place’ to be.
The Old Man’s Back Again by Scott Walker
It was extremely hard to pick one and only one song from Air’s Late Night Tales album: it is simply the best compilation of its kind I’ve yet heard (and there are lots of great ones). I mean, implanted nostalgia aside, the instrumental diversity and ‘nightly’ atmospherics these tunes manage to produce is not just groove-able, it’s “Summer,” for me.
Please listen to it— then, one day, come watch the stars with me, or some equally cool adventure :)
Man, just thinking ahead to summer makes me so excited.
I can’t wait to do this jump again!
