motel de moka

A goodbye kiss triggered New Jersey airport scare. The security scare that shut the Newark, New Jersey airport for hours and delayed thousands of passengers was caused by a man who slipped into a secure area to give a woman a goodbye kiss, video released on Thursday showed. The man then slipped underneath a security cordon, met a departing female passenger who had already passed through a security checkpoint, and gave her what appeared to be a goodbye kiss, the video showed. The man and woman, who remain unidentified, walked off screen hand-in-hand. - 01/07/2010

” Sing along. Everybody can do it. ”

01. Will Stratton - Who Will
No Wonder (Stunning Models On Display, 2009)
02. Little Annie - Derma
Songs From The Coal Mine Canary (Durtro / Jnana, 2006)
03. Karate - Airport
Some Boots (Southern Records, 2002)
04. Laura Veirs - Wide-Eyed, Legless
July Flame (+1 Records, 2010)
05. Los Campesinos! - The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future
Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts, 2010)
06. Devlins - Waiting (Tom Lord-Alge Remix)
Waiting (1997)
07. Múm - Illuminated
Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know (Euphono, 2009)
08. Maria Taylor - One for the share holder
11:11 (Saddle Creek UK, 2005)
09. Orenda Fink - High Ground
Ask the Night (Saddle Creek, 2009)

note: There has been complain about my post is a bit too pretentious and abstract. So here is a realism post. This one is a slow, sing along list. You listen to the opening phrase, then you sing the next one, lick and melody. They all are in mid register and about walking speed tempo. All short and standard. Enjoy.

image: Martino’s doodles

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

” It’s Moka’s Birthday ”

01. Paavoharju - Musta Katu
Yhä Hämärää (Fonal Records, 2005)
02. King Tubby & Soul Syndicate - salty dub
Freedom Sounds in Dub (Blood & Fire Records, 1996)
03. Jimi Hendrix - Long Hot Summer Night
Electric Ladyland (Experience Hendrix, 1968)
04. Gonjasufi - Ancestors
2010 From Warp Records (Warp, 2009)
05. Tim Hardin - Hang On To A Dream
Hang on to a Dream: The Verve Recordings (Ume Imports, 1994)
06. Pantha Du Prince - The Splendour
The Splendour (Rough Trade, 2009)
07. Luscious Jackson - Take a Ride
Fever In Fever Out (1996)
08. Portishead - Scorn
Trip-Hop Reconstruction (Unofficial Release, 1995)
09. Kutiman - Bango Fields
Kutiman (MPM, 2007)

note: Everybody says happy b’day to Moka. About this list, I am not sure if a lot of people will enjoy it. Basically It’s a look back at early approach done by MdM plus what I still try to reconcile when trying to make coherent list. Folks, electronic, rock, lo-fi. It is somewhat a puzzle of unfinished sketch and barely coordinated list. It’s at the edge of what MdM has been doing. The limit of usual rules to produce nice posts. How does a nice list suppose to sound while capturing various exciting styles out there? Well, this is a snapshot of current state of MdM process. Where things has been and are that hasn’t been explored yet. (Last year list was so much easier on the ear) Otherwise, it’s a little dark-ish trip-hop folktronica ambient list. Happy B’day Moka.

See also: Earliest MdM posts, Motel de Moka’s Top 5 albums of 2005.

image: Unnatural Snare (Detail shot) by Colin Johnson

Since you asked for it, Matt, a bit of history: The year 1621 brought us not only the first Thanksgiving, but the first Thanksgiving Day football game.

Naturally, it was the Pilgrims vs. the Indians. The Indians, not wanting to be politically incorrect, wore a picture of a Native American on their helmets. By helmet, I mean a decorative maple leaf, which covers the loins.

Records show that they used a thirty-five-pound turkey as a football. It is hard to throw a spiral with a thirty-five-pound turkey, and darn near impossible to kick one through the uprights, so the ground game was key. And the Indians, running silently in their moccasins so as not to be detected by the defense, racked up touchdown after touchdown, although their dancing in the end zone was seen as bad sportsmanship. The Pilgrims were encouraged by lone cheerleader Hester Prynne, who shouted from the sidelines, “Gimme an ‘A’!” … - Turkeyball.

” Love and Desire in a small Room ”

01. Bach - Concerto No. 2 in E major II. Adagio
Bach: The Concerto Album. Lara St. John (Ancalagon, 2002)
02. Medeski Martin & Wood - Buster Rides Again
Tonic (Blue Note Records, 2000)
03. The Kinks - Set Me Free
The Ultimate Collection (Red X, 2002)
04. Muddy Waters - I’ve Got My Mojo Working
At Newport (1960)
05. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Wait Until Tomorrow
Axis: Bold As Love (1967)
06. Antony and Johnson - you are my sister
I Am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian, 2005)
07. Jega - The Girl Who Fell To Earth
Variance (Planet Mu, 2009)
08. Jose James - Desire
The Dreamer (Brownswood, 2008)
09. Quantic - The 5th Exotic
5th Exotic (Tru Thoughts, 2001)
10. Steve Reid Ensemble - Welcome
Daxaar (Domino, 2008)

note: I hope everyone has a nice thanksgiving day. I don’t have my hardrive with me, so this is whatever I can wip up from my little SD card that is on my laptop. Sort of little thanksgiving feast, almost random combination of crazy holiday meal that you always suspect your gramm makes the whole thing up just so she can show off her cooking skill. So here is brightly color songs in minor keys, something about boy chasing girl, fall in love, breaks his heart, becoming a little wiser and falling in love again, and live happily ever after. All in a single thanksgiving afternoon. Enjoy.

image: amayu

The presence of extra structure relates these types of groups with other mathematical disciplines and means that more tools are available in their study. Topological groups form a natural domain for abstract harmonic analysis, whereas Lie groups (frequently realized as transformation groups) are the mainstays of differential geometry and unitary representation theory. Certain classification questions that cannot be solved in general can be approached and resolved for special subclasses of groups. Thus, compact connected Lie groups have been completely classified. - Group theory.

” The Road Of Golden Dust ”

01. ESPERS - The Road Of Golden Dust
III (Drag City, 2009)
02. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Sets The Blaze
Through The Devil Softly (Nettwerk Records, 2009)
03. Sufjan Stevens - Movement II: Sleeping Invader
The BQE (Asthmatic Kitty, 2009)
04. Grizzly Bear and Feist - Service Bell
Dark Was The Night (2009)
05. Air - Night Hunter
Love 2 (2009)
06. Walter Meego - Wanna Be A Star
Voyager (Almost Gold, 2008)

Note: a list for internal purpose. I am trying to find different psychological construct from what MdM is normally doing. Usually the process is finding obvious musical connection to give strong coherency then staple a theme onto it. It’s been very fruitful technique but in a way, it’s also gotten a bit mundane. The usual result certainly can strongly emote, but it is static. So I am trying to create a series dedicated to explore aspects beyond the usual method to put list together (relationship between rhythm, melody, mode, etc). I don’t know what yet, this could be a simple directionless exploration. The list above certainly has that feels, compared to other lists it feels different. There is that “something different, but not sure what.” feel. I cheated and put in slower tempo and comfy key progression, but I don’t think it’s a simple random collection of pretty songs. Basically, the softer tone is intentional to help me find out if there is something more to the usual method. Something to do I suppose. Hey, with the way things are going this could end in MdM only needing to do single post for entire next decade that one can play over and over. We are hopelessly lazy, but at least we are trying to do in style. (haa haa, cough cough.)

The music. Espers is from standard mdm psychdelia palette. The latest album by Hope Sandoval, An art album by Sufjan Steven, and a big collective song album containing favorite indie rock artists “Dark Was The Night”. All worth exploring. Walter Meego is a crazy little disco rock album. They are all highly recommended albums. So if this project fails, at the very least we end up knowing bunch of good albums.

image: Ed Yourdon

” OMG, a post ! ”

01. Why? - This Blackest Purse
Eskimo Snow (Anticon, 2009)
02. Grand Archives - Oslo Novelist
Keep In Mind Frankenstein (Sub Pop, 2009)
03. Sonic Youth - Empty Page
Morning Becomes Eclectic, August 26, 2002
04. Trans Am - North East Rising Sun
Sex Change (Thrill Jockey, 2007)
05. Silver Starling - Closer
Silver Starling (Last Gang Records, 2009)
06. Nosaj Thing - Ioio
Mary-Anne Hobbs Presents: Wild Angels (Planet Mu, 2009)

note: The entire MdM members have been kidnapped by the martians. My dog ate the hardrive, and there was no music in later have of 2009… :P OK. I am squeezing a post in between busy time and that never finished decade list. Here are fun recent tracks that I like. Think crisp winter morning edgy dream pop. If there is such thing. One part new wave, one part dream pop, 2 part gentrified IDM synth, and 5 parts cool mint and winter breeze. Large open air. This almost sound like something Canadian TV would play. On serious note, check out Sonic Youth performance from last month at Morning become eclectic (courtesy Aquarium Drunkard) It never cease to amaze me how Sonic Youth has become the sound that can fit everywhere. Maybe finally experimental rock has been tamed and ready for public consumption… They play at NPR radio for pete’s sake. Second album is Mary-Anne Hobbs from planet Mu. Watch how the sound is toned down compared to her other IDM mix. It almost sound like a rock album. The track above is the proof if you don’t believe me. Anyway, everybody’s albums in above list is enjoyable. I think they work out nicely.

see also: Modern Mood

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