Two Tramps in Mud Time

Thinking Outloud is a collection of songs curated by Kate intended to be played in the background as both unobtrusive soundscapes and inspirational moments. These songs were originally selected in 2015. Nuvole bianche - Ludovico Einaudi Youth - Daughter Silver - Bonobo Bombtrack feat. DJ Manhunt - Jazz Against The Machine Hihache - Lafayette Afro Rock Band Life - Ludovico Einaudi Hunger of the Pine - alt-J Retrograde - James Blake Breezeblocks - alt-J

  We have all the time in the world ... Just not right now. Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side Fresno - Uma Musica Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down Caeteno Veloso, Gilberto Gil - Back in Bahia Above & Beyond & Justine Suissa ‘Naked’ [Above & Beyond Club Mix] Magnetic Fields - Three-Way Los Hermanos - Último Romance Magnetic Fields - Nun's Litany Ernest Ranglin - Undecided

It was there - and back again.Things haven't really let up yet. River - Ibeyi Goda tungl - Samaris Jelita (Feat. Liyana Fizi) - Kyoto Protocol Flipside - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Summer - Raf Riley, Etta Bond, Avelino Rivers in Your Mouth - Ben Howard Singapore - Tom Waits Pace Myself - Wen To the East - Electrelane Gooey (Gilligan Moss Remix) - Glass Animals Ghetto Organ - Jackie Mittoo Camilla - Swaai Boys Bird Calls #2 - Rudresh Mahanthappa Fanfare - Magic City Hippies Funky So-and-So - Sugarman Three & Co. Source - Fever the Ghost Ghostwriter - RJd2 Two Brothers - Hanni El Khatib Superstylin' - Groove Armada Montreal - Roosevelt Ominous Cloud - Broadcast Ice Cream and Bonus Miles - DJ Phono, Solomun Zombie - Fela Kuti Corporate Butcher (Solomun Remix) - Tiefschwarz, Mama Sonsick - San Fermin Spicy Ice Cream - Way Yes Bullet - Kill J Purple Noise - Boris Brejcha Hourglass - Rodrigo Amarante Vhf - Uncle Skeleton The Bird - Kathryn Joseph Long Way Down - Hidden Charms Moonwalk Away - Goldfish Trouble is Real - Huckleberry Really Love - Body Language Just Can't Win - Lee Fields & The Expressions You - Gidge Image: From Tod

aways we go! At the Bottom of Everything - Bright Eyes Bad Boy Good Man - Tape Five Light Bright Love Letters - Dfalt Gray Eyed Bird - Slow Machete Ring My Bell - Anita Ward Smile Big, Child - The Silver State Breadwinner - Bea Have Some Fun - Speak + Spell, Tosca Madison - Ricky Eat Acid Grown Up Blues - Charilift Avila - The Dylan Group Timothy - Tennis Paradise Girls - Deerhoof Disco Compilation - Serafine Steer Not the Only One - 16 Bit Lolitas Lean On (feat. M0 & DJ Snake) - Major Lazer Stay In - tomemitsu Violet - The Coup Bad Situations - Tanlines Orange Afternoon - Chappo Forgiveness - MADE IN HEIGHTS E2mtro - Gift of Gab

packing and unpacking and packing and unpacking, supreme court decisions, conferences in St. Louis and tornado warning alarms, indescribable dinners at Tibetan cafes that still exist, moving Kate to PGH from BKLYN, packing and unpacking and packing and unpacking... The Day the Listeners Came - DJ Frane Top of the World - Legs Cat Food  - Aesop Rock Dance Hall Music - The Murder City Devils Double Flute - Monster Rally & RUMTUM Tangerine Girl - Asther Roth Tongues - Joywave, KOPPS Up on the Sun - Meat Puppets Next Levels - King Geedorah Oasis (The Legend of Nathaniel Thorne) - Golden Dawn Arkestra Un Dia - Juana Molina Gypsy Song - Kera & The Lesbians Police Brutality (Scene) - Mr. Lif Gun Fight - Mr. Lif, Metro Open Eye Signal - Jon Hopkins Paper Knife - Yppah Quantum Leap - John Maus Broke and Hungry - Hop Wilson Die a Happy Man - Tuka Nervous Tension - Lemon Jelly See My Boat (Clas Tuuth Remix)  - Rozi Plain Like and Animal - Cymbals La Noche Que Murio Chicago - Banda Macho Hegira Emigre - Of Montreal Coat of Shellac - Ava Luna Mystery - Boxed In Motion Sickness - Hot Chip Ginger - Mr. Twin Sister The Rosetta Barrage - Shark Quest Gangsta - tUnE-yArDs Meadow Neck - Helvetia Black Hills - Gardens & Villa Flight - Hidden Orchestra    

This comes from k8face - who, lovingly, listened to me complain for nigh on umpteen weeks about my job and still felt it was a good thing I was doing. Also, that I am an idealist. Which is, I agree, about the end goal, and not the process. (Even more notably, this is the month of the move...) What's He Building In There - Tom Waits Revenge of a Nerd - Metaform Can't Kill Us - The Glitch Mob Jupiter Shift - The Crystal Method Dark Doo Wop - MS MR Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites - Skirllex Major Tom (Vollig Lesgelost) - Peter Schilling Staring at the Sun - The Offspring Supermassive Black Hole - Muse Got it - Marian Hill Outta Here - Lettuce, Neal Evans, Fred Wesley Life On Mars - Seu Jorge Film Burn - Yppah, Anomie Belle Medusa - GEMS Hunger of the Pine - alt-J Gretchen Ross - Michael Andrews The Stranger - Lord Huron Shut Up and Dance - Walk the Moon Let Me In - Grouplove Your Hand in Mine - Explosions in the Sky Space Oddity (2009 Remastered Version) - David Bowie image from: Nature in my blood    

Into every life... I was once trying describe the reasons that a person, in an abject state, may use to hold on to life. By which I mean those little things that become important in the dark of night, that compel in the moment of pain, that consume and focus the mind away from despair. There are some that are obvious, to surmount pain you make an itemized list, the next entry, the one after that. You focus on the immediate struggle not the impossible goal. When I started to describe tasking one's self to survive the winter by focusing on seeing one last spring I started to cry. Hard Believer - Fink The Depths - Frankie Rose Before the Words - My Brightest Diamond Daughters - Wild Beasts Way with Silence - Vogue Dots The Windfall (Maddlisnky Remix) - Hidden Orchestra Prayer in C - Lilly Wood and the Prick Beatcity - Still Corners Love is to Die - Warpaint Love on Division - Alagoas All of Us - Painted Palms Simple Creatures - Botany Ain't Me - Armand Margjeka Perpetually - Daedelus Magic Step - Sam Prekop Cut the Reins - Tommy Guerrero High Road - Cults Wait for the Summer - Yessayer Where is all the Money Going - Cody Chesnutt Sleep in the Park - Solange Coming Home - Leon Bridges Bye Bye - Destroyer Friends - Solomun Dance of the Diaper Fairy - Per Störby Jutbring ---image: Not Ditmas Park, But Real Close

"... like a little paper boat in the wind..." Mahk Jchi (Heartbeat Drum Song) - Robbie Robertson & Red Road Ensemble Mermaid's Wedding Dance - Mo Coulson, Chris Conway Just Like Heaven - The Watson Twins Me caí - Pacifika Ain't No Sunshine - The Watson Twins Give It Up - Lee Dorsey Helix - Justice Deeper into You - Johnny Hazzard Karagyraa (v) - Hunn-huur-Tu The Forgotten People - Thievery Corporation Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Indigo Girls Bones - Little Big Town Ain't No Grave - Crooked Still Lullaby - Dixie Chicks The Golden State - John Doe Two - Ryan Adams Hold On - Tom Waits The Bookhouse Boys (Instrumental) - Twin Peaks Soundtrack Peyote Healing - Robbie Robertson, Verdell Primeaux, Johnny Mike Shake and Fingerpop - Junior Walker

I lost a few months there. So it goes. --- Little Man - Little Dragon Q.U.E.E.N (feat. Erykah Badu) - Janelle Monáe Bizarre - Perera Elsewhere Cuidad Del Swing - Flowering Inferno Pressure - My Brightest Diamond Swagger - Beats Antique Never Catch Me - (feat. Kendrick Lamar) - Flying Lotus The Code - Devin Townsend, Ché Aimee Dorval Notes - Christian Löffler Red Eyes - The War on Drugs I Like the Things About Me - Mavis Staples No One is Lost - Stars Shepards Pie - The Underbelly Got Love - Thundamentals, Solo Make a Sentence - Rachel Dadd Perfect Stranger - Grace Weber Midnight on the Run - BoomBox Fight the Power - Public Enemy No Restricted Signs - The Golden Gate Quartet Pompeii - Bastille Make it Up - The Blow Bury Our Friends - Sleater-Kinney Without a Clue - The 1978ers (yU & Slimkat Saint of Impossible Causes - Joseph Arthur Walk Us UPTOWN - Elvis Costello and the The Old Gold Shoe - Lambchop Working Too Hard - The Nerves Waiting - Alice Boman My God Called Me This Morning - The Fairfield Four Tell it to the Volcano - Miniature Tigers Make Me Lovely - Laura Mvula The Sea Is Rising - Bliss n Eso I Do Believe My Time Is Coming - Bo Molasses Linctus - Aim Talking Union - Pete Seeger Own Appeal - Oddisee BTSTU (Edit) - Jai Paul Drown - Marika Hackman --- Image from: P111Press

"But data we shall have of round worlds and spindle-shaped world, and world shaped like a wheel; worldes like titanic pruning hooks; worlds linked together by streaming filaments; solitary worlds, and worlds in hordes: tremendous worlds and tiny worlds: some of them made of material like the material of this earth; and worlds that are geometric super-constructions made of iron and steel - "- Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned. Incubus - Recoil Prey - Recoil The Tennessee Toad - Leo Kottke Ya Shoulda Killed Me Last Year - Ice T Hard Time Killin' Floor - Stefan Grossman Getting Older Every Day - Big Bill Broonzy 1970's Dictator Chic - Jacknife Lee Spuzzle Bucket - Opiuo You Haven't Done Nothin' - Stevie Wonder Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees N.Y. State of Mind (Commentary) - Nas N.Y. State of Mind - Nas Wake Up - Missy Elliot Glory - Various Artists (OST - Selma) The Drift - Blackmill An Ending (Ascent) - Brian Eno Haunted - Lowkey, Mai Khalil Hell Hound on my Trail - Robert Johnson Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson --- Image From: Edited Cover Image from The Complete Works of Charles Fort

This month has been two weeks of massive overtime with Rumi putting together the pieces of a paper, followed by a visit home. The next two weeks have seen heartbreak in the hospital and in the family home. Things are looking up though - wheels keep turning. At least we are aware of all the predatory credit cards now!   Our socks forever more - This Is The Kit Jibal Alnuba - Debruit, Alsarah Make You Feel That Way - Blackalicious Cowboys and Gangsters - Scott M Mutant Disco Edit - Gichy Dan's Beachwood #9 Ocean Death - Baths Kuar - Henrik Schwarz Remix - Emmanuel Jal, Henrik Scharz Big Parade - The Lumineers Calm It Down - Sisyphus Jesus Rhapsody, Pt 1 - Preacher & The Saints Goat Shepherd - Mirah Outta My System - My Morning Jacket Can't Stop Playing - Oliver Heldens & Gregor Salto Remix Edit Lolo (feat. Fatoumata Diawara & M.anifest) - Rocket Juice & The Moon, M.anifest Rainbow Tree - The Lemon Pipers Thor's Stone - Forest Swords Silver Timothy - Damien Jurado State Of The Art (A.E.I.O.U.) - Robot Toast Remix - Jim James Sad Days Lonely Nights - Junior Kimbrough Too Insistent - Trentmøller Remix - The Dø Rill Rill - Sleigh Bells Fire - Lizzy Mercier Descloux Don't Stop Me Now - 2011 Remaster - Queen Bike Rider - Mungo's Hi Fi, Pupajim Heavy Seas Of Love - Damon Albarn You - Gold Panda New York Story - Lee Douglas Daylight - Aesop Rock It's Only Time - The Magnetic Fields Cirrus - Bonobo --- image from: Bobbins

"I'll see you in the morning" is a lot more sinister if you don't know who is saying it or never wanted to hear from them again. In this mix k8face explores themes about control, power, and sexuality with more than a coincedental scattering of religious themes. I'm Afraid of Americans (NIN V1 Mix) - David Bowie Paranoiattack - The Feint Just Like You Imagined - Nine Inch Nails John the Revelator - Depeche Mode Jezebel - Recoil POWER - Kanye West Control Freak - Recoil Heartbeats - The Knife They Want Us To Make A Symphony Out Of The Sound Of Women Swallowing Their Own Tongues - Le Tigre Borderline - Tove Styrke Get Off the Internet - Le Tigre They Don't Care About Us (Remastered Version) - Michael Jackson TKO - Le Tigre Guerrilla Radio - Rage Against the Machine Summertime - Angelique Kidjo M'Baamba (Kenyan Song) - Angelique Kidjo Maid on the Shore - The Once Bottom - Zap Mama Genesis - Justice  

A mess of a month - things have not only been tough to stay on top off work wise but additional catastrophes have struck close to home with medical conditions and relatives with bad relations. The entirety feels ominously close to falling into despair. Luckily, I got some help - and I got to help. Here's to the next year. Mr. Nichols - Cold Cut, Saul Williams NEW DORP. NEW YORK - Sbtrkt, Ezra Koenig Wolf - First Aid Kit Snatch It Back and Hold It - Junior Well's Chicago Blues Band Stolen Dance - Milky Chance Strasbourg / St. Denis - Roy Hargrove Our Generation (Hope of the World) - John Legend, The Roots, C.L. Smooth Cloud Dancer - Solomon, Ole Soul September - Earth, Wind, and Fire High School Lover - Cayucas Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten Jazz - Mick Jenkins American Daydream - Electric Guest Take it Easy my Brother Charles - Jorge Ben Jor Hard to Say - Jaymay This Place the Place - Jason Treuting, Grey McMurray Work Work - clipping, Cocc Pistol Cree All About that Bass - Meghan Trainor Crowded City - The Messengers Cups - Lulu & The Lampshades Hunga Bulgar - The Destroyers Witness (1 Hope) - Roots Manuva Too Insistent (Trentemoller remix) - The Do Suspended Animation - The Millenium Attaboy - Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan, Chris Thile Some Kinda Love - The Velvet Underground My Favorite Mutiny - The Coup Everything In Between - Human Element Make the Road By Walking - Menahan Street Band Eyes - Rogue Wave Bella Ciao - Chumbawamba  

A short submission from K8face - this month has marked all kinds of hectic things; a small poster presentation at the RRM conference, progress on several papers, my birthday (which featured some hilarious accidents involving duck pins) and a very lovely half-anniversary. It has also featured some serious overtime hours with a four letter friend and some very bad times for some folks I love. So it goes - let's hope it gets better. Soul Walk - Emily Braden Mirrors - Justin Timberlake Origin of Love - from Hedwig and the Angry Inch To Be Alone With You - Sufjan Stevens Everlasting Light - The Black Keys We Only Come Out at Night - The Smashing Pumpkins Come on up to the House - Tom Waits Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler ---Image from Brandon Graham's Royal Boiler  

Schools in, again. The downside of perpetual education is the repeatition of that sentiment. It seems like each year the semester starts a bit harder, a bit more madness, a bit more severity. A dance that features the elbows up style of a mosh-pit to juxtapose the circuitous spaciousness given to fire poi at a massive.And since that is my only complaint then I am a lucky man.--- Vibezz - Heloise & The Savior Faire Easin'In - Edwin Starr Consumers - Terry Lynn Atomic Bomb - William Onyeabor I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass Pay the Price - Deltron 3030 The Heat - Jungle Broken Bones - Greta Svabo Bach Son of a Bitch - Highasakite O Mexico - Dosh, Andrew Bird, Erik Applewick Tailor - Julie Doiron Suku Suku Bam Bam - King Sunny Ade Forerunner Foray - Shabazz Palaces Eccentric Ditch - Ruins Are Animals - Au I Saw the Light From Heaven - Delaney Davidson Inquiring Minds - Hamell on Trial License to Drive - Work Drugs Left Hand Free - alt-J Madan (Remixed by Gekko) - Salif Keita The Pill - Loretta Lynn Baby Wants to Ride - Frankie Knuckles, Jamie Principle My Neck, My Back (Live) - Elle King Sweet Seek (Original Mix) - Riktam Bansi Ooh Child - The Five Stairsteps I Wanna Get Married - Nellie McKay Sincere - Roger Sellers Whole New Dude - William Tyler --- image from Octopus Pie

Before September arrived the world was awash in the the patter of rain from the late afternoon thunderstorms and the gloaming delight of long summer nights. In those moments before the fracas was re-engaged questions were raised as to what kind of foolhardiness this endeavor was built on and what kinds of fools were we to try for it.The question still stands. --- Pray for Rain - JJ Grey & Mofro Cold War - Janelle Monae Heart of Steel (feat. Irma Thomas) - Galactic Ain't No Easy Way - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Evolution - 311 My Eyes - Neil Patrick Harris & Felicia Day Cracks (Flux Pavilion Remix) - Freestylers feat. Belle Humble Blue Orchid - The White Stripes Cineramascope - Galactic Many moons - Janelle Monae Remains - Maurissa Tanchareoen & Jed Whedon Even Matter - Rags & Ribbons Islands - The xx Sauvez le monde - Mc Solar --- Image from: kukuburi.com

I'm still playing catch up with the things that fell by the way side this summer - including friends and family and duties and work ... I'm even catching up on making a list for those things that were here for a moment and gone before I could act on them. Which is a much longer list than I'd hoped. Anyways around it - I got to two conferences this summer and did functionally well enough to make me feel like an actual scientist - GODDAMN! I also got to get back to see my folks and friends in Missoula, which was a very good treat indeed. I'd missed my friends Guy and Mike in my visit, which is why previous paragraph has something of a sad timbre. A higher note was also struck - above and beyond all the rest. I got to have an adventerous tour through Glacier Park with Kate - which was a novelty for us both as, somehow, neither of us had managed to get to that corner of the world just yet.There's other things too - I should write on the meditations of revisiting Seattle and pnodering the trajectory of one's life ... but those are words for other days - my time tonight is short because I'm due for a visitor soon. Look out there - to the highways .... she moves.--- She Moves - Alle Farben, Graham Candy Baby - Devendra Banhart Make Me Yours - Bettye Swann Music Takes Me Up - Mr. Scruff, Alice Russell Angelos Kyriou - Larry Gus Palaces of Montezuma - Grinderman Memories - Waldeck Laid - James Come When You Call - TV Girl Even If I'm Loud It Doesn't Mean I'm Talking To You - Tove Stryke Traum - CRO My Friend Has a Swimming Pool - Mausi Weak Become Heroes - The Streets You Make Me - Avicii C-Thru - Lemonade, Glasser Watch the Water Hit the Rocks (feat. Sydney Jay) - Jams Another Love (Zwette Edit) - Tom Odell Dusty Flourescent/Wooden.. - Talkdemonic Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix) - Lilly Wood & The Prick and Robin Schulz Factories - Winter Gloves Low Man - Alberta Cross The Chauffeur - The Hidden Cameras, Snowblink Phantom - Chester Watson Baby Blue - Martina Topley Bird Lost - Leo Stannard Five Hours - Deorro Fobidden Fruit (Original Mix) - Klangwald En Memoria (feat. Tune-Yards) - Tune-Yards  --- Image from: original content - Jay and I

Part Two of the Ditmas in Sitka radio special. This time Kate is the featured guest on The Roost with host Tracie. Matters of import are discussed, such as the Ditmas House, the chances that Tracie will meet members of the House when she visits, a public announcement occurs. Stolen Dance - Milky Chance Breezeblocks - Alt J Unlucky Skin - Shakey Graves Shuggie - Foxygen Interlude I - The House Generation Fun - Tik Tok Laboratories Unknown - Noah Harley & Maggie Carson Nightlights - Shark Shark I Want to be Relieved - Spirit Family Reunion Interlude II - Shout out Noah's Ark - Coco Rosie Fight For Everyone - Leisure Society Little Cup - Tao & Mirah Hook and Ladder - Vetiver Interlude III - Kate Reads the Weather Brrrlak!- Zap Mama -----Image from: Raven Radio (Facebook page)

A Ditmas house reunion in the wilds of Sitka as captured on Paper Wings, a community radio show hosted by Rachel on KCAW, Raven Radio. Hey Mami - Sylvan Esso Interlude I - Intro to Paper Wings With Rachel Featuring Kate and Rosamund Brooklyn - Mos Def Settle Down - Kimbra July Flame - Laura Viers Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed Interlude II - Why did you choose these songs for this set? Wine and Choclates (Original Mix) - Theophilus London Check the Rhime - Tribe Called Quest Shattered - Rolling Stones Interlude III - Sitka is Like ... a Laundromat You Said Something (Accidental Abridged Remix) - PJ Harvey Tom's Diner - Suzanne Vega, DNA You Said Something - PJ Harvey Interlude IV - Intro to Rarities Shadow Waltz - Unless I Leap Shark, Shark - New Jersey Spirti Family Reunion - Green Rocky Road Iko Iko - Dixie Cups Ya Ya - Lee Dorsey Interlude V - Intro to New Orleans It's Raining - Irma Thomas Walking with the Spirit - Eddie Watkins Jr. Right Place, Wrong Time - Dr. John Saint James Infrimary - Snooks Eaglin Interlude VI - DJ Bubbles Côte Gelée Two Step - Lost Bayou Ramblers Swahili Baby - Los Po-Boy-Citos Look Out Mama - Hooray for the Riff Raff Interlude VII - Intro to Bounce Rolling in the Deep (Bounce version) - Adele My Boy - Magnolia Shorty and Kourtney Heart Interlude IX - Second Line Music Memorial Song - Mardi Gras Indian Second Line Rebirth Brass Band - Do Whatcha Wanna Interlude X - Closing Credits Howday Brass Band (???) cover of Recognize (???) - cut tragically short by station website programming.---image from Raven Radio

This month - sweet jesus...right, this was put together as a soundtrack for Kate's flight back from Alaska. I was trying to catch up on work, mostly teachers workshops and DAPI staining yeast. The Hobby Lobby case was in the news. Things were happening involving lab notebooks...1. Home: Part One - Jamie Stillway2. I'm Feeling Alright - Big Mama Thornton3. Battez-vous - Brigitte4. I Miss Your Bones - Hospitality5. You Wish - Nightmares on Wax6. If Life Was a Thing - DJ Vadim, Demolition Man7. Fur Hildegard von Bingen - Devendra Banhart8. Lost it to Trying - Son Lux9. Bruises - Chairlift10. Straight Street - Fiery Furnaces11. Stranger Things Have Happened - White Fence12. The Industrial Revolution (And How It Ruined My Life) - Voltaire13. Green Starred Sleeve - UUVVWWZ14. Qualifiers - Open Mike Eagle15. Life's a Beach - Django Django16. Moving Closer to the Sofa - The Limp Twins17. Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name) - Chumbawamba18. Offering - Black City Lights19. Senses Working Overtime - XTC20. Dumb Disco Ideas - Holy Ghost!21. Song for Old People - Sherlock's Daughter22. The Way We Move - Langhorne Slim, The Law23. Summer Cum - Avi Buffalo24. Cavity - Hundred Waters25. You and Me - Yes Sir Boss26. The Swimming Song - Vetiver27. Walla Walla - Glass Animals28. Waves - Electric Guest29. Home: Part Two - Jamie Stillway30. Tilt - Mountains*** Extra Bonus Track - Hi Uner! Thanks for tuning in! ***31. The World is Alive - Ezra Furman & the Harpoons---Image from Piled Higher and Deeper

Another playlist from K8. Here's to being queer! Gloria: In Excelsis Deo - Patti Smith Unsung - Helmet Never Wanted to Dance - Mindless Self Indulgence Strangers on a Train - Lovage, Mike Patton, Jennifer Charles Creamy Taco - Opiuo Flamboyant - Pet Shop Boys Vagina Mine - Puscifer Half Jack - The Dresden Dolls Daydreaming - Dark Dark Dark Piss Factory - Patti Smith Shamless - Ani Difranco Didn't it Rain - John Boutte Right Place Wrong Time - Dr. John Bottom - Zap Mama Walking on Broken Glass - Annie Lennox To Be Alone With You - Sufjan Stevens Our House - Crosby, Stills & Nash, Young Talkin' Bout a Revolution - Tracy Chapman ---

I can't even remember what has happened this month - between presentations and Monsterhearts and the visits of a lover - well it has been a hell of a blur. Opening Theme - Hybrid You Will Return - Quantic feat. Alice Russell Pools - Glass Animals Let I Go - Clap! Clap! Remix - Mop Mop, Clap! Clap! Before I Move Off - Mount Kimble On & On - Erykah Badu This Will Be Our Year - The Zombies In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry Infinity - Claude VonStroke Remix - Infinity Ink Deeper Shade of Soul - Urban Dance Squad Delicate Cycle - The Uncluded Na Skalkach - Bodek Janke Whole Wide World - Bahamas Younger Days - Hooded Fang Drive-in Movies - Ray LaMontagne Minnow Theme - Botany One Day - Sharon Van Etten Building Steam - Abney Park Berlin feat. Miss Platnum - Modeselektor, Miss Platnum Folk-Metaphysics - Milo Say Yeah - Tyvek Donut - Gui Boratto Remix - M.A.N.D.Y., Booka Shade Up! - The Black and White Years Me and Ms. Archer - Prints Perverted Undertone - Prefuse 73 Dennehy - Serengeti Penitentiary - Houndmouth Animals - Baths Mambo Baby - Ruth Brown Big Mama's Door - Alvin Youngblood Hart The Process of Leaving - E-Vax ---Image from: whoneedsfeminism.tumblr.com  

Side B"[redacted]" (anonymous) ------- Day 'N' Nite (nightmare) - Kid Cudi Crystalised - The xx Words I Never Said (feat. Skylar Grey) - Lupe Fiasco Walking with a Ghost - Tegan and Sara Bang! Bang! - Le Tigre Verbal - Amon Tobin, MC Decimal R Feeling Good - Nina Simone Hamdulillah (feat. Shadia Mansour) - The Narcicyst This Land Is Your Land - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings "El Kofeyye Arabeyye" (feat. M-1) - Shadia Mansour Skit 1 - Lowkey Voices of the Voiceless - Lowkey, Immortal Technique For My People (feat. Jody McIntyre) - Logic & Agent of Change Skit 6 - Lowkey One Day (New Album Version) - Matisyahu Who Am I - Peace Orchestra ------ Image from: Smut Peddler 2012Mix from my accomplice and agitator

"Good Morning, love!I made this for you while you were sleeping. (...) Thank you for pointing out how important sharing music is.  I think it really helps ground our love, least we be mistaken for star stuff, in the eyes of the amore."   (polabou?) ------- Greyish Tapering Ash - Balmoreah Baby Come Home - Scissor Sisters Touches You - MIKA I'm Gonna be Your Man - Keb' Mo' The Book of Love - Magnetic Fields A Walk - Tycho Two Weeks - Grizly Bear So Good Yeah - Reggie Watts Settle Down - Kimbra Mupepe - Zap Mama Baleen Morning - Balmorhea -------Image From: BouletMix courtesy of k8face - partner and powerhouse

We've stolen fire from the gods.Once, it was gardens we plotted / But now we're architects of a different kind.Accomplices with hot-white wormholes where hearts once were.01. Intro - ODESZA02. Time to Run - Lord Huron03. You Better Run to the City of Refuge - C.J. Johnson04. Wake Me Up (Acoustic) - Aloe Blacc05. Honey Buns Interlude - Dom Kennedy 06. Raspberry Beret - Prine & The Revolution07. No Caminho do Bem - Tim Maia08. Moi C'est - Camelia Jordana09. The Blue Note (Instrumental Interlude) - Underoath10. You're a Wolf - Sea Wolf 11. I'm a Rocker - Chuck Berry 12. Fade Away - Intergalactic Lovers13. Intro - Lo-Fang14. Wine & Chocolates (andhim Remix) - Theophilus London15. Love is All I Got - Feed Me, Crystal Fighters16. No Fucking Around - Rafter17. Intro - Wiz Khalifa18. Brother D - How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise19. Tessalate - alt-J20. #88 - Lo-Fang21. Dream Machine - Mark Farina, Sean Hayes22. / - Chet Faker---image from: wander

"Steer a course for a brave new world of common sense and wonder" Trouble In Mind - Erland & The Carnival The Moss - Cosmo Sheldrake Charlie - Chumbawamba Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols I'm Good, I'm Gone - Lykke Li Dance Floor - The Apples In Stereo Arctic Shark - Quilt Dead Future - Standard Fare Destroyer's the Temple - Destroyer Clever Girl - The Doubleclicks The Sky Was Pink - James Holden Remix - Monoblok, Ohlf Image from SuperBetter  

My grind marches on. Progress reports and meanlingless aims - fulfilling benchmarks is met with blank looks and disappointment over unmet unmentioned different benchmarks. A part of me wants to call bullshit. Another part of me knows that this is just how the game is played. I'd be more put out by the sturm and drang of spectacle were it not that Im beginning to recogonize that alternatives exist. Shuffle - Bombay Bicycle Club You Make Me - Avicii I Can't Get No Satisfaction (Thank God) - Talulah Gosh Not Fair - Lily Allen Soundtrack to the Struggle - Lowkey A Few Words in Defense of Our Country - Randy Newman You Think You're Tough - Hunx & His Punx Curse Me Good - The Heavy How Small We Are - Pollyn Born To Die - Lana Del Rey The World Exploded Into Love - Bob Schneider (Thanks Taylor) ---Image from lolmythesis.com Cities of World Dream Travel (?)

Jan. 31 12:00 am Hmmmm, well, youmight not be able toavoid the heat deathof the universe, but in a shearnightgown, you might be able to make it a lovelier experiencefor the rest of us. ----1. Patrick Park - Here We Are2. Couer de Pirate - Comme des Enfants3. Caitling Rose - Menagerie4. Parquet Courts - Borrowed Time5. Black Kids - Partie Traumatic6. The Cannanes - Bumper7. Jonathan Wilson - Fazon8. Loretta Lynn - High on a Mountain Top9. The Chap - We Are Nobody10. Out Hud - The L Train is a Swell Train and I Don't Want to Hear You Indies Complain.---Happy New Year!image from: I was originally inspired by the framed picture of this which hangs in Jarvick's office. But it is discussed in context here.

In the new year I want to be bolder about my feelings - both positive and negative. I've got nothing to lose but my chains. Also game nights. ---- 01. Neon Bible - Arcade Fire 02. Shack 54 - Two Lone Swordsmen 03. No Parties - Fergus & Geronimo 04. Salvation - The Limiñanas 05. The Arp - Jackson and His Computer Band 06. What's the Altitude - feat. Hymnal - Cut Chemist 07. Bang Bang Bang - Mark Ronson, The Business Intl. 08. Zero Ghosts Out the Door - Herr Styler 09. Pack Up - Eliza Doolittle 10. Walking Home Through the Park - Aim 11. Terrible Things - Beauty Pill ---- image from: Cat and Girl

A simple thing but richly done the finest entwinement is knowing your dues. --- Tussle - Transparent C Escort - Cocaine Blues Dengue Fever - Oceans of Venus Ecstatic Sunshine - Ramontana Electric Guest - This Head I Hold The Scantheries - Berlin The Wombats - Let's Dance to Joy Division Cannonbal Jane - Such is the Score Elf Power - The Winter is Coming Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Optimist vs. the Silent Alarm Orbital - Halcyon [Tom Middleton Re-model] --- Extra thanks to: the fleeting moments of life I catch in the daze which is my ego-driven nightmare. Also; Genome Research.

This is my life - I am loosing it one minute at a time. - 01. Coming Through - Willis Earl Beal 02. Blackout! - The Cloud Room 03. Ethopia - Old Money & Lamin Fofana 04. Hard to be Close - Here We Go Magic 05. Hot Mess - Black Pistol Fire 06. Poltergeist - The Coasts 07. Catalus - Belbury Poly 08. Fight for Everyone - The Leisure Society 09. WHALE - Yellow Ostrich 10. Muesli - Minotaur Shock 11. Cumbia del Rio - Abdias Ernesto Garcia 12. Rocket - Working for a Nuclear City --- Image From: ShittyBasketsDotCom Thanks to everyone who has been in my life.

What happens if it goes well? How much better could it get? 5 o'clock didn't even seem that early. 1. Withered Hand - Cornflake "It's like I'm living with a legacy of teenage LSD / So tell me that you love me or I'll forget" 2. Pretty Lights - I Can See it in Your Face 3. Laura Veirs - July Flame 4. Free the Robots - Diary 5. Amason - Went to War 6. Willie Mitchell - The Champion (pt. 1) 7. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes - Better Days 8. Miyavi & Hifana - Ganryu 9. Shameboy - Rechoque 10. Plump DJs - Shifting Gears 11. Dustin Wong - Ice Sheets on Feet Prints --- Image From: Gingerbread Girl by Colleen Coover and Paul Tobin

It isn't that there are too many people there just aren't enough spaceships.1) Let the Funk Ride - Aim 2) I Want To Be Evil - Eartha Kitt 3) Wanna Feel It - The Olms 4) Cirrus - Bonobo 5) Space Walk - Lemon Jelly 6) Capture the Flag - Dosh 7) 2 Bit Blues - Kid Koala 8) The Hope That House Built - The Future of the Left. 9) Empty Cup - Thinking Fellers Unions Local 282

Wow (wow) got everything into order and made a poster, showed it at SMBE. Even got some nice compliments from some top tier grads and post-docs. Got a little traction in the form of collaborators - but it looks like I've got a lot more work to do and fast. Also - hat tip to an old friend, Chicago isn't so bad. And a hat tip to a future friend, "genes come in all sizes and ages" Asaf Avidan - One Day / Reckoning Song (Wankelmut Remix) Johnny Cash and the Avett Brothers - One Too Many Mornings Lorde - Royals Final Fantasy - Song Song Song Cat Power - Ruin Broadcast - Come On Let's Go Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work (The Twelves Remix) The Whitest Boy Alive - Burning Country Teasers - Golden Apples Santigold - Lights Out  Image from Gary Larson's Far Side - a fantastic example of me doing anything, at anytime, always.

The end of so many things. I'm a Ph.d. candidate now. A few years ago when I started this as a diary of music that I loved and listened to I was a high school dropout who'd been kicked out of college 5 times. Now it is something different. I lost some people along the way, and they were not replaced - indeed, they were irreplacible. So it goes. 1. Delgados - American Trilogy 2. Jonathan Richman - Can't Talk to the Dude 3. Cornershop - Brimful of Asha 4. White Walls - Elk City 5. Tame Impala-Be Above It 6. Kendrick Lamar-Now or Never 7. Dreadzone - Captain Dread 8. On The Streets - [Kollektiv Turmstrasse's Let Freedom Ring Remix] 9. Robert Glasper-Always Shine 10.  Artifacts - Balthrop, Alabama --- Image from: Nusantara Tarot: Ten of Staves --- Sunflower Sutra - Allen Ginsburg (1955) [...] You were never no locomotive, Sunflower, you were asunflower!And you Locomotive, you are a locomotive, forget menot!So I grabbed up the skeleton thick sunflower and stuckit at my side like a scepter,and deliver my sermon to my soul, and Jack's soultoo, and anyone who'll listen,--We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dreadbleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're allbeautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessedby our own seed & golden hairy nakedaccomplishment-bodies growing into mad blackformal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by oureyes under the shadow of the mad locomotiveriverbank sunset Frisco hilly tincan eveningsitdown vision.

Someone once said- and it was later related to me - that the Books are the choir for Crystal Dragon Jesus. I got into the Unitarian Universalists this month and looking back I see that deep seated ignosticism stretching way, way back. I also started (and kickstarted) re-reading Eclipse Phase sourcebooks. And thinking about things from that other perspective. Its actually been a really good month (or month +, as the case may be). I got a reminder that I'm older and outside but that everyone is anyways. It's not like everything makes sense now - more like, maybe, it doesn't need to. Was I dying of thirst or was the very world pulling a stone cold coup d'état?1. The Books - A True Story of True Love 2. Bonobo - Walk in the Sky 3. Quantic feat. Alice Russell - Road To Islay 4. Rocco Katastrophe - Saturn's Back 5. DJ Nu-Mark - [Untitled Track] (Off of Broken Sunlight LP) 6.Booker T & the MG's - Soul Limbo 7. Motor City Drum Ensemble - All My Life 8. Kendrick Lamar - Dying of Thirst #! I'm finally ready for what's next

"There's a fool in your future." A long time ago was a long time ago. ad astra per aspera. The last week was so hard I went round depression and hit happiness again. I missed my friends wedding, my uncle's funeral, so many holidays, so many weekends, palindromic birthdays, my own unconditional passing - pissed away with stress and petty blame. Sacrifices stacked high on the alter of being the only one responsible. But then again I lack perspective... the world is large, what are the feelings of one man worth compared to the glory of feeling itself? We'd all have a better perspective if only we lived forever. Madeline - Sorry Jamie Stillway - Madeline's Sin Misophone - Nothing Down There But The Trees Curtis Stigers - Things Have Changed Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 Pepe Deluxe - Queenswave I Will Dare - The Replacements Wild Flag - Something Came Over Me Spoon - The Way We Get By Donald Fagen - Memorabilia Blue Sky Black Death - Legacy to Fuel Image from: SMBC

Words are hard. Strapping Young Lads are hard too. Madeline - This Train The Noisettes - That Girl Oh Land - Heavy Eyes Typhoon - The Honest Truth Barely Legal - The Strokes Harlem Shakes - Strictly Game Rebecca Loebe - High + Lonesome Le Tigre - Viz Phantogram - When I'm Small Sonic Youth - Tunic (Song for Karin) The Slits - Typical Girls Chemical Borthers (Feat The Flaming Lips) - The Golden Path Neil Halstead - Two Stones In My Pocket Ani DiFranco - School Night The Durutti Column - Sketch for Summer They call it way too rowdy, I call it finally free

So it is spring break and that means I have enough of a moment to put together a couple tracks. Somehow I am able to put together fewer songs each time and still come up against the barrier of space constraints - but so be it. This last leg of time has seen much puttering around in a confused and exhausted daze, and the track by Okkervil River has been in heavy rotation as a result of said puttering. The unfortunate side effect of that burnt out husk level of life is that two momentous things have occurred directly to me (and two terrifying things have occurred to those close to me, namely heart events and cancer) - that is 1) I realized this year marks the fifth year of this audio time capsule/journal.  This certainly gives me pause as I think back over what has transpired in those five years and, holy shit, a lot of my life seems to have been terribley recent in vintage. Do you ever have those fears that your longterm self is a fabrication of some nefarious conspiracy constructing a world that never was in order to convince you that the world is other than it REALLY is? I don't actually think that because that is insane (and if I hint that I know the truth then I'll have only forced their hand to take swift action against me) - but sometimes I know the feel. The second big thing is I got engaged to my longtime life partner Ana. Do you want to hear about ornate conspiracies of minds vastly more intelligent than your own arrayed against you? Nah - it is actually good (and terrifying).  Last thing, me - my future self - you, you reader - five years ago almost nothing which happens to you now on a daily basis was part of what you expected. It isn't just that the future is hard to predict - it is also that you have really crappy expectations. Quantic - Look Around The Corner (Feat. Alice Russell) Ruby and the Ribcage - Horror Twin sister - All Around and Away We Go Avida Dollars - Joseph & The Argonauts Francis Bebey - New Track (1982) SUNBEARS! - They Think They're So Philosophical Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines Michael Musika – The Spellbound Traveler Loses all Possession Luke Roberts - His Song Image From: Hyperbole and a Half Currently Embroiled In: Ingenious Genes by Sansom, which is - maybe changing my mind abou gene regulatory networks.

Let us ring in the year of the wagon with word salsa and duende! I've been back in school for only two weeks and am fantastically exhuasted - rotating now through a lab (which I think is THE lab) working on ribosome profiling which is some real hot shit. Figured out with my girl that engagement should have a date on the calendar we're going for Valentines day because it needs some authenticity. Having a hard time sleeping at night. We Are So Terribly Excited. Sweatshop Union - Itchy Rock Saul Williams - Twice the First Time Kraak & Smaak - Keep On SearchingMr Scruff - Ultramagnetic Mc's Ego TrippingMaterial - UnauthorizedThe Mercury Program - Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi DeltaWild Flag - Something Came Over MeQuantic - Quantic - TransatlanticNeon Indian - Should Have Taken Acid With YouPaper Bird - Lost BoysMarco Benevento - It Came From YouBearsuit - Stay AliveAM - Self PreservationShawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Old Sweat Image From: Don't Know - Sorry, Forgot. Currently Reading: Manara's Guiseppe Bergman, well there is a weird piece of literature. Disappearing Spoon, a fantastic piece of non-fiction science history which uses the Periodic Table as it's setting. And Eclipse Phase - an RPG setting book about a transhuman post-scarcity space setting after the singularity goes bad, I haven't actually played it (yet?) but I am falling in love with the world they've built.

Happy 101111 033 to me and my new fangled life. I'd be remiss if I didn't add that grad school is exhuasting and frustrating, note the bookending tracks - but that inbetween bouts of wildly oscillating terrors there are hints of hope and joy. Like a sandwich or something. Blood Sausage - Fuck You and Your Underground AM & Shawn Lee - The Signal Sweatshop Union - Time Machine (Feat. Mat The Alien) Gang of Four - At Home He's a Tourist Carolina Chocolate Drops - Cornbread and Butterbeans World's Greatest Dad - Then Up the Ladder They Might Be Giants - Old Pine Box Young Marble Giants - Brand - New - Life  Withered Hand - Religious Songs SBTRKT - Hide or Seek Gloria Ann Taylor - Love Is A Hurting Thing Grizzly J - TOTORO Nick Lowe - I Read A Lot (welcomce to grad school) Currently Reading: King City - or more realisticly Brandon Grahams RoyalBoilers. Image from: same as the above.

If this summer has taught me anything it is that good friends are like physical objects that can be picked up at a later time in life, a time after you put them down to begin with of course, and also that they undergo changes in time, such as may be expected for an object coextensive with one's self. That is they exist in both space and time, and in a manner where, even if you do not observe them directly, they continue to persist. Sweatshop Union - Oh My Holy Fuck - SHT MTN Wire - Outdoor Miner (Long Version) Dick Justice - Cocaine Ty Segall - Caesar Admiral Fallow - Squealing Pigs April Smith - Colors Mekons - Trouble Down South Patrick Sky - Under All Flags Agent Ribbons - I'm Alright Liquid Liquid - Bellhead Wavves - Convertible Ballon Slim Harpo - The Hippy Song Beat Connection - Silver Screen Dom - Bochicha Keoki - Majick (Uberzone Remix) Image From: Azumanga Daioh Currently Reading: The Scar by China Meiville Lastly: Thanks and well wishes to all my friends and family who so warmly reinvited me back into their lives this summer.

So.. . I graduated. And then took a few weeks to relax and pack up and move (not in that order) - goodbye Brooklyn, goodbye Ditmas, goodbye undergrad, goodbye BC, goodbye lab mates and knowing what I'm doing. Hello Pittsburgh, hello Carnegie, hello folks I don't know, hello a slower life, a safer town, a slice of hope, a machine to kill fascists. Lastly, my adopted grandfather (and volunteer geneologist) has gone on to the other side. He is remembered fondly and in terms not suited to this genre of delivery. But his passing is noted and is, itself, passed over in silence. King Creosote - Bootprints | I've featrued them before here and this is another standout track of theirs, really good energy combined with a slick parsed down delivery, makes this into a toe tapping tune worthy of running from the cops over ala some trainspotting montage. Bell X1 - The Great Defector | This has been kicking around my que for a bit. I love the psuedo-Talking Heads open delivery and heart on the sleeve self confession over matters mundane. Too bad the album doesn't match the single. Black Pus - Juggernaut | Heavy man, real f'n heavy. Francisca Valenzuela - Quiero Verte Mas | Catchy tune with nice guggle bum pop hooks.  Frazey Ford - Blue Streak Mama | It takes a real solid piece to slow it down and still keep you going, inbetween the vocalist's low key delivery and the backburner walking rhythm this songs has got it going on. M. Ward - Flaming Heart | Oldie but goodie Blackbird Blackbird - Give You Everything | Nothing says summer like oversaturated keyboards with afro-pop jangle melodies and empty, ambitionless lyrics. Very early-esque MGMT. Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears - Humpin' | I'd actually meant to include Joe Lewis in another post but had to skip over it, this track got shunted in because of the low down funk it brings is just too much to pass up. 1,2,3 - Going Away Party | Song title releavance plus locale relocation - oh yes, I went there. Barclay James Harvest - Taking Some Time On | I really, really got into this track from BJH's 1970 debut. The psych'd out lyrics (For those who feel inclined / to talk about their mind) combined with the extended jam with roiling drum swells (unironic cowbell!) and swirling guitar (the jam happens mid song and as a closer, those damn hippies) add up to a reason to put on paisely. Jan & Dean - Heart And Soul | A solid pop gem from '61 with ascerbic undercurrents - dig the flat delivery on the chorus (much too thrilling). The song actually seems to pull out all the stops in the hook department featuring more change ups than an early era TMBG tune. Peter Wolf Crier - Crutch & Cane | What is this song about? Zanzibar? Freedom from hang-ups? Catchy as hell though. Charlie Mars - Listen to the Darkside | On a side note me and the babe and Nick (from pgh) caught Super8 at the theatre. Babe caught on to the Goonies/ET/Cloverfield mashup before any of us knew that was a thing. I think the zombie movie inside the movie is supposed to represent how Spielberg's early work has trapped him, turning himself into the movie which would not die. It is meta plus good, but you knew that already, right? Balmorhea - Clamor | You know what else happened? I got a drafting table off craigslist (of course) any way this fellow Steve Geist, nice kid, he's got it for sale for $40 so I go over and he's got a MoCCA poster with Craig Thompson's work on it - we chat about that a bit. Steve is gradu-macated from CMU and is off to Austin (stomping grounds of Balmorhea) to design UI. I am proud to have such a prestigious lineage for a draftign table. Take care out there man and have some fun. Images from: Unknown (saw it on Chive but cropped it for more awesome) Regards: Lewis Johnson Reading: The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media (A four and a half out of five stars here, people.)

I wonder what would have happened if space was a tangible frontier. In that small sliver of time when there was an American Frontier we had the myth at arms length and the proximity compelled anyone and everyone to consider its' potential. Was the immediacy of the frontier the compulsion, a niggling sense of the other side, ever constant in the periphery of one's vision?Would our history of space exploration have been different if we had an Oregon Trail to Mars, if it could have been about space colonization? If you imagine the frontier as a sponge which absorbs the excess and luckless then it is no surprise that high entry costs have prevented the expansion of mankind. It is the hardup, the deviant, the desperate, and the dreamers who live and die out there because they can't even manage just living here in polite company. Half these songs are about getting out there, the other half are about freaking out.  This has little bearing on things, except that I desire to escape - and space seems like the last best place. Let me take a step back and think for a second on this - right, so apparently since last I posted some things have transpired. I am enrolled for grad school for this fall in a biology program, it is "not easy" I have been told. I am finishing up one month left. A few weeks really and then finals. This can not happen soon enough - not only have I become exhausted at the labor of it I have also become tired of pretending to care. It would have been diffierent if I had a class (besides Advanced Biochemistry) which was relvant to me. So it goes.  Also zeerust.tumblr.com ---- 1. Empire of the Sun - We Are the People  2. Beautiful People - Get Your Mind Together  3. YACHT- Dystopia  4. The Savages - Gone To The Moon  5. Buchanan Brothers - When You See Those Flying Saucers 6. Dave Edmunds - Playing With the Queen of Hearts  7. The Black Keys - Howlin' For You 8. NewVillager - Rich Doors  9. Shuggie Otis - Happy House 10. No Monster Club - Wish Me Well  11. Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armeni 12. Marnie Stern - Patterns of a Diamond Ceiling 13. Explosions In the Sky - Trembling Hands --- image from: http://aqua-velvet.com/2010/12/kate-banazi-astronaut-silkscreen-prints/

A very busy few last months have culminated in a huge success at my first grad school interview. I still have a few more interviews to go on - but without any hesitation I can confidently say that (baring any horrible tragedy) I will be working towards a Ph.d in the not so distant future.F'n fantastic - now I just need to finish up my undergrad, which is much harder now that I can taste the freedom of the other side. Also I found out you can get some kickass microscopes from eBay for ridiculous prices.A lot of other stuff happened - but I'm trying to to keep a Positive Mental Attitude so I'll hold off on the narrative.Stand out tracks; deadmau5's "Hi Friend!" which is the titular feature of the show and served as a bolster for the research year, as after all it was what I came here for. (And look where that got me!). Esg - Dance is an tight low-fi rocker which easily slips into my top 100. A wild feat for an album cut in '83. I spent a lot of time listening to music without words as they often distract me if they are either 1) good lyrics, 2) novel lyrics, or 3) the reason for the songs existence. Not much of this lyricless music made the cut but Stillway and Bonham's "Insomniac Sunrise" certainly demanded a place on the playlist.*The Challenges of Bringing -omics to the Clinicsdeadmau5 - hi friend!esg - danceYoung Marble Giants - Eating NoddemixBroken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old GirlTame Impala - I Don't Really MindLa Sera ‒ Devils Hearts Grow GoldtUnE-yArDs – BiznessChilly Gonzales - You can dance (Fare Soldi Gonzobot rmx)Stillway and Bonham - Insomniac SunriseImage From: Five Fists of ScienceCurrently Reading: The Universal Traveler, a Soft-System Guide to Creativity, Problem-Solving And the Process of Reaching Goals by Don Koberg and Jimbagnall.If you ever wonder what Ram Dass would have put out if he'd gone into cybernetic theory instead of eastern mysticism this is your answer. And it is good (if you like this kind of thing). *Really short episode this time since the hosting company Libsyn has moved to a new platform and some of my dedicated space is presently occupied. Regular Size show next month (or thee months from now. Whatever.)

Almost the holidays (and do I have a gift for you this year) and I may just barely make it. But the chances look good - one last push, right. I remember something about the light brigade at moments like these. But the music! Got to love the music! It might be the worlds only saving grace 3 times out of 10. Right anyways, so I missed last month, so this month is a bit of what I've been listening to for both. The stand out tracks, too many to name, check out the opener by Anita Tijoux - it was going to be my birthday track but whatever. The Smiles make you feel good about the mugging and your lost wages. And the blessed return of Holy Fuck with the Tounces inspired sound track Red Lights. King Khan finally gets some air time - I don't know how I missed that scene. King Charles brings the fuzzed out love, Jeff Spec lays out some fantastic old skool against the Most Sampled Man in HipHop the epynoumous drummer for the funky James Brown in "Clyde Stubblefeild". And the Braids bring the orchestral twee pop - and the stand out modern compositions track from Hauschka, "Alexanderplatz" minimals its way to the blown out rusted tub thumping of Kidkanevil (with helps from the Bonobo) as our closer. 01. Anita Tijoux - 1977 02. The Smiles - Cala Cola 03. David Vertesi -  All Night, All Night, All Night 04. Holy Fuck - Red Lights 05. King Khan & The Shrines - Land of the Freak 06. MI + AMORE – Wise Blood 07. King Charles - Love Lust 08. Jeff Spec - Clyde Stubblefield 09. STRT SRNS – Wise Blood 10. Terry Ohms - Red Wine on White Pants 11. Broken Bells The - High-Road 12. Braids - Lemonade 13. Hauschka - Alexanderplatz 14. Kidkanevil - Ketto Revisited ft Bonobo Image: From Cat and Girl - I wanted to reimagine a whole strip moved from the humanities to the sciences but am still working out the ramifications of it all. But it is also as a small signifier of my own expanse into the science minded bloggosphere where I am abetting my love of music with my other love - pragmatic evaluations of experimental observations.  What I'm Reading Now: Getting What You Came For by Robert L. Peters (some fine advice there, highly recommended)  

So we're into the home stretch - last year of undergrad and I can taste the sweet release. Oh there have been and will be trials and tribulations but back, far back, behind it all is the idea that I could do it. And the fact that I have or that I am. And I am doing it now. Here my theme: Golden Age Feels good, man.   01. Swamp Cat - Timun Mas (my neighb's - good folks) 02. Golden Age - Everything Will be Alright 03. Lissie - Kid Cudi's Pursuit of Happiness 04. Mike Alaska - Jerzy Borowicz recording 05. Go Home Productions - Smells Like Rockin Robin 06. Kaki King - Kiss With a Fist 07. Cookin' with Kurt - Soup du Jour 08. Youthless - Golden Age 09. Les Cowboys Fringants - Les Etoiles Filantes 10. Beat Radio - Golden Age 11. Joost Buis & Astronotes - Brokology 12. Julie Doiron – Consolation Prize 13. California Guitar Trio - Music for a Found Harmonium 14. The Orb - God Less America 15. Justin Townes Earle, 'Harlem River Blues' Image from Ward Sutton over at the Boston.com

This summer Ana and I, in preparation for the "great long distance experiment" got to travel a bit around Maine and Canada and Vermont. On one occasion I had a prolonged discussion with a good man, here to be nameless to protect his reputation, about we humans and the big picture and what can be done about it all. It was a real and good pleasure and I hope I hadn't offended him as I usually do when I talk about these things. Anyways - one last thing. I had mistaken Andrew Bird for Bobby Bare Jr. This is because Mr. Bare has a song which is close to my dyslexic heart called "Strange Bird" hence if I have a few in me I start mixing things up in a poor way; like saying that Andrew Bird has a senior version in the country and western scene. That is clearly not the case. Be sure to check out "Strange Bird" it's really good. Anyways this is the short version which made the podcast: 01. Richard Hawley - As the Dawn Breaks 02. Six Organs of Admittance - The Desert is a Circle 03. Bill Callahan - A  Man Needs a Woman or a Man to be a Man 04. Agent Simple - Make a Right at Jordfallsmotet 05. Devandra Banhart - Shabop Shalom 06. The Felice Brothers - Run Chicken Run 07. Larkin Grimm - Dominican Rum 08. Port O'Brien - In Vino Veritas 09. The Precisions - New York City 10. Jens Lekman - A Postcard to Nina 11. Kid Koala - Its All Over 12. Townes van Zandt - Intro Joke from "Mr Gold and Mr Mud" 13. King Creosote - Camels Swapped for Wives 14. Adam Green - What Makes Him Act So Bad 15. Sleepy Jackson Lovers - Mourning Rain And these are the tracks which got onto the Long Play version. Most of which can be found on previous podcasts of mine. 16.Adam Green - Castles and Tassels 17. King Creosote and Player Piano - Cod Liver and Orange Juice 18. Jill Barber - Oh My My 19. Bill Calahan - Eid Ma Clack Shaw 20. The Felice Brothers - Frankie's Gun 21. Cluthcy Hopkins Meest Lord Kenjamin - Brother John 22. Larkin Grim - Ride That Cyclone image from: Magic Hat Currently Reading: Locust - The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier by Jeffery A. Lockwood

Young Liars is a series put out by David Latham - I'll leave the critiques and insights for those more versed in these matters, suffice to say that I liked what I read. Not that it mattered - like nearly every series I jump at, I am looking at you Top10, Young Liars died to soon it's story untold. Not just a loss of a title but a loss of a unigue story. A rare thing at any time. "Young Liars is a wholly different beast  It’s a VERY personal book.  No one could do this book but me because it’s about my brain and everything I like and feel.  Stray Bullets is like that.  No one else can possibly do it.  It’s why I could do things in Young Liars like put in song recommendations and it wasn’t gratuitous.  It was fun, yes, but it also fit the nature of the book.  It became a very unique place to work inside every months and is the toughest part of letting it go." - David Lapham, from Mindless Ones Interview  And if you like a thing and that thing has in it little musical references you'll do the only sensible thing which is to wrangle each track from the ether then string them together into a mixtape they were never intended to become. Mixtape Archaeology. Here we go, from the top: David Bowie - Let's Dance Battles - Atlas Suicide - Frankie Teardrop (Abbreviated Version) ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Another Morning Stoner Wire - Strange Tears for Fears - Mad World Rolling Stones - Rocks Off The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love Pixies - Bone Machine Sonic Youth - Shaking Hell The Fall - Oleano Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver Thanks to Mindless One's and David Lapham Image from: mindlessones.com/tag/david-lapham/ Currently Digging: My Goodness: A Cynic's Short-Lived Search for Sainthood by Joe Queenan

One of these days I'll be in a situation to learn something by following someone else's example. Not that I'm bitter - just frustrated. --- Chain and the Gang - Interview with the Chain Gang Brian Eno  – Third Uncle Fun Boy Three & Bananarama - 'Taint What You Do It's the Way That You Do It Islets - Jasmine Jill Barber - Oh My My Panther Hands – Young, Gifted, and Brown Mother Mother - O My Heart Luther Russel - A World Unknown The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms Blockhead - The Music Scene The Pixies - Alec Eiffel Brasstronaut - Requiem for a Scene --- Image from: The very excellent short "Don't cry for me I'm already Dead" Currently digging: Young Liars by David Lapham Currently Reading: Short Protocols for Molecular Biology by Wiley Publishing (five stars!)

  Wow .. . Orgo is over. Sweet jesus.  --- Richard Hawley - Tonight the Streets Are Ours Devin Therrialt - I Don't Think I Kulturini Project - Half Time Report DJ Voodoo and the Liquid Method - Everybody thinks i'm high the remix '96 (DJ Kelley) DJ Harvey - Track 01 (Black Cock Edit) Teki-Latex - Answers Cut From Set Siriusmo - Urlaub In Berlin MGMT - Flash Delirium MIA - Born Free Monks - Blockhead Moneybrother - Born Under a Bad Sign Jacuzzi Boys - Bricks or Coconuts Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime  Dirty Three - Three Wheels --- Image from the late great Teaching Baby Paranoia - you will be missed.