Jan 5, 2010
A Hundred Hearts
Then he turned around and filled up a plastic cup with ice, filled it 3/4 of the way with water and carefully added four shots of espresso. He stirred it gravely and handed it to me, saying “enjoy.” And you know what? I really did. You’ve got to admire someone’s dedication to craft, and rigid adherence to a strict quality control policy. I was really, really impressed. So impressed that I swallowed my rage like so much cold coffee, opened up my wallet, and left a tip in the tip jar.
This whole thing’s blown up pretty big over the few hours — linked on Metafilter and BoingBoing — and it’s a little embarrassing. I mean, I can freely admit that I acted like a total dick here. But it’s not like I didn’t have probable cause. This is a tiny little thing that happened and made for a funny story, but I mean, c’mon, there are wars and genocides happening. I’m making a big deal out of it on this blog, but overall, not such a bad thing. – I am not lying.
” Along with a cup of coffee ”
01. Exene Cervenka – Surface Of The Sun
Somewhere Gone (Bloodshot Records, 2009)
02. The Dodos – Fables
Time To Die (Frenchkiss, 2009)
03. Deleted Scenes – Ithaca
Birdseed Shirt (What Delicate; 2009)
04. Swimmers - A Hundred Hearts
People Are Soft (Mad Dragon, 2009)
05. Rose Melberg – Things That We Do
Homemade Ship (K Records, 2009)
06. Curtis Harvey – Oldertoo
Box Of Stones (Fat Cat, 2009)
07. The Tallest Man On Earth – Pistol Dreams
Shallow Graves (Gravitation, 2008)
Note: Whew, the entire country is turning into a frozen hell hole. Warm coffee then? Maybe lit a cigarette too. MdM program is a little messy. It’ll take sometimes to get the groove back. or maybe Moka will fix it pronto. In the meantime, my post will be all over the place. (Haven’t post proper rock and indie for long time.) Anyway, enjoy the twangy small room americana rock songs above. They are lovely in straight forward way.
image: margolove
your lists work better when theyre not grasping for the more abstract/insupportable. the big notes often don’t add much to the existing tracks, and they could use some cleaning up/expansion. (probably sound like one of my english TAs right now)
i appreciate the dialogue you’re trying to promote though, esp re: the adorno post, which i thought was a bit all over the place but hey, whatever. i very-tangentially studied adorno in a sociology course so i’m not one to really talk.
that isn’t to belittle the obvious work you put into the posts, though it frequently leaves me with thinking: “okay i have absolutely no clue what the fuck he was trying to get at.”
(ie. risks pretension)
just a thing i’ve been meaning to comment on for awhile. the work you guys do still inspire me to treat list-making as a serious craft, so keep it up.
i’m rambling.
this lists works better for me, for example. then again i am also very scatterbrained right now and need something like this. cheers to you and the rest of MdM; hoping for continued great (though sometimes, simplified) posts in 2010+.
There are several regular categories of posts at MdM. In general the most common are impressionistic/mood piece. The list would be madebfirst, usually in some simple and obvious element inside songs (rhythm, keys, melody, etc), then images and the texts are inserted to point, which mood, what the thinking behind the list construction. Usual blurb.
Above post, to regular MdM readers, would be “play it while sipping coffe”, easy does it, recent pop releases. Not much to it.
Most other are mechanical. best of, recent releases, various reports, interview, context, or more mundanes functionalities (small rooms rock, bedroom, dance, etc)
The bigger posts such as the adorno, are usually explorations. Taking inventory of available releases against particular ideas, be it interesting statements, insight, or opinion. In adorno post, I was trying to give counter example against his basic claim that pop music is not serious and inferior in term of structural subtleties and innovation vs. classical/serious music.
Yay, Rose Melberg!
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YES! A little love for The SWIMMERS! Me too! So nice to come here for an always satisfying mix of selections. Thanks.