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I have officially driven across the entire united states four times in my life. Most recently while driving from los angeles to southeast florida I visited the north rim of the grand canyon, drove through Zion natl park, and drank bourbon on Bourbon Street.

My OLDER brother tells me he cannot help but think about rim jobs whenever I tell him I visited the North Rim of the GC. worth mentioning.

Although driving 3000 miles can be grueling, it provides a lot of time to listen to music.

Soundtrack for the trip and following days:

1. By Album

skream - outside the box (pitchfork review) )myspace(

of montreal - false priest

royksopp - senior

arcade fire - the suburbs

bar 9 - in da mix

2. By song

kingsley and perdomo - stayin alive

freedom or death - lost in dances

skream - in for the kill remix

tom petty and the heartbreakers - into the great wide open

the future is wide open

what can i get for 10 dolla

/\/\ /\ Y /\ /\/\ /\ Y /\ /\/\ /\ Y /\ /\/\ /\ Y /\ /\/\ /\ Y /\

holy hell. new M.I.A. fuck yes. I love you. it takes a muscle.

the past couple months of my life have been pretty intense emotionally. lots of highs and LOWS. explaining....

HIGH:

walking on broken glass - annie lennox (note john malkovich in the video)*

on your way - the album leaf*

the equalizer - junior boys

hounds of love - kate bush

misread - kings of convenience

home - lcd soundsystem

heartbreaker - led zeppelin

heartbreaker - metronomy

kim and jessie - m83*

the party's crashing us - of montreal

gobbledigook - sigur ros*

low:

NO MORE I LOVE YOU'S - ANNIE LENNOX

OVER THE POND - THE ALBUM LEAF

SO THIS IS GOODBYE - JUNIOR BOYS

RUNNING UP THAT HILL - CHROMATICS

WINNING A BATTLE, LOSING THE WAR - KINGS OF CONVENIENCE

SOMEONE GREAT - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM

SINCE I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU - LED ZEPPELIN

ON DANCEFLOORS - METRONOMY

SAFE - M83

THE PAST IS A GROTESQUE ANIMAL - OF MONTREAL

GLOSOLI - SIGUR ROS*

* - videos i especially recommend

MIA SAVES ALL

...will make you JUMP JUMP

While attempting to prevent our brains from imploding at work, my coworkers and I sometimes discuss inane topics. I'm sure you can relate. Yesterday, one topic came up that was not so inane. Another Bad Creation's "Iesha" is fucking amazing. I think I was about four years old when this song first came out, but if I remember correctly, I believe these guys had beef with Kriss Kross about who started wearing their clothes backwards first. I wish I had this beef.

One reason why we must prevent our brains from imploding on a daily basis is that my job involves a great deal of waiting on hold for a certain government organization. Recently, they just up and changed their hold music. At first I was freaking out. I had become accustomed to grooving out to this particular music and, to be honest, I felt a little cheated that they hadn't been announcing this change rather than "please continue to hold" for the past three months in order to properly prepare us ignorant folk. However, after my utter shock had subsided, I began to appreciate this change. It really sounds like the Cars' "Drive" at times, which is a beautifully sad song.

I want to be the person that changes the hold music. What if one person's entire job was to go around changing hold music on various companies' telephone systems? And they could choose whatever they wanted. So much better than radio because you wouldn't ever have to talk in a stupid ass voice about complete bullshit or do advertisements, all you would do is pick out music. Here is a list of companies/organizations and what I would immediately change their hold music to:

Fortune 500 topping Wal-Mart: Spirits in the Material World by The Police

NASA: Indo Silver Club by Daft Punk, because NASA hold music should only consist of Daft Punk songs

Exxon: Cat People by David Bowie

Verizon/AT&T: Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, not sure they really deserve this, but....maps, cmon

Yaz: either Pull Out by Death from Above 1979 or Situation by Yaz, for obvious reasons

All Drug dealers' ring back tone: Half on a Sack by 3 6 Mafia. Actually, drug dealers need to get hold systems

Christianity (I think this counts as a corporation): Baptism by Crystal Castles. This is live but my first post has the link to the album.

That devolved quickly.

Lastly, if you need to get over someone, listen to this over and over again: O.N.E. by Yeasayer. There will most likely be more of this topic to come, but right now, "I like it when you lose control."

This is rad

found: lost bird...

First post. I'm basically going to use this space to talk about shit I think is cool or funny or interesting or artistic or whatever the fuck I feel like. Sorry for saying fuck. Sometimes I get heated. If you get heated, love, hate, have mixed feelings, have any feelings, or lack there of, about whatever I might write here, feel free to let me know. You may think this is very, very lame. I kinda do. But express yourself, it may motivate me in someway.

Most often, I have the strongest feelings about music. Therefore, most often, I will post about music. Not solely new or old or any particular genre or for any reason other than that I get really into songs and want to share them with people.

I like music + So do you = We like music. Let's make an equals sign.

Like an erupting volcano in Iceland, an intense explosion of music has entered our lives recently. Of note, new Crystal Castles is covering the skies of my mind in a thick layer of ash and smoke, in the best way possible, as I write this (explaining the picture...sort of).

If you're looking for recommendations, here are some songs that I have been playing on repeat lately:

-Dance Yrself Clean by LCD Soundsystem

-Odessa by Caribou

-Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan

-M.E. by Gary Numan

-Disorder by Joy Division

-Running From The Cops by Phantogram

-Bigmouth Strikes Again by The Smiths

-This Must Be The Place by Talking Heads

-It's Boring/ You Can Live Anywhere You Want by YACHT

-Mysterons by Portishead

Also, I've been stuck on this video and song for awhile now....

And this song as well for some reason. The hair tossing is........(I'm sorry i'm just thinking of the right word).....masterful.

Oh, and HAPPY HOLIDAY