July 2008
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#178: air - kelly watch the stars (1998) ping pong and 70s-ish french electronica with just a wiff of pornography go together like chunky peanut butter and boysenberry jam.
Jul 31st
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Jul 29th
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Jul 29th
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Jul 15th
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#165: t.rex - mambo sun (1972) thank god for the lyric “girl you’re good/ and i’ve got wild knees, and also “i got a powder keg leg/ and my wig’s all pooped for you.”
Jul 15th
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#163: david lynch - where ideas come from (2008) i just realized i bungled the schedule this week on account of my vacation, so to make up for things here’s a david lynch video that will make you want to wear a yellow tie and say the words van gogh and diarrhea in the same sentence. some lynchian highlights: “ideas are thoughts but we don’t know the thoughts, or the ideas,...
Jul 11th
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#160: the pogues - a pair of brown eyes (1985) if i had directed this video, i would have gotten nick tosches and steve buscemi to play barflies losing their coins to a broken jukebox in a dim-lit bar off a puddled alley. but instead there’s a little girl fighting orwellian fascists and the pogues’ producer elvis costello growling in front of blinded, knitting women. also, an eyeball...
Jul 10th
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“but why would i want to be in the counterculture? we had cars and drivers and...”
–  a. laurance kaiser iv, the real estate broker i just profiled in the observer, after i asked if he went to woodstock in ‘69.
Jul 9th
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