Photo: Luca Mariani

Trying hard to make the feeling last before the autumn takes over and ruins it all.

• Wild Nothing – Golden Haze
  Golden Haze Ep (Captured Tracks, 2010)
• Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia – Soldiers
  Left (Buzzin’ Fly Records, 2010)
• The Helio Sequence – Blood Bleeds
  Love and Distance (Sub Pop, 2004)
• Boo Radleys - Wish I Was Skinny
  Giant Steps (Creation, 1993)
• Foxes In Fiction – Flashing Lights Have Ended Now
  Swung From The Branches (Orchid Tapes, 2010)

“I don’t get it. Why would anyone paint a picture of a door over and over again, like dozens of times?”

“It was the same subject, but it was different every time. The light was different, her mood was different. She saw something new every time she painted it.”

“And that’s not psycho to you?”

“Well then, why should we do anything more than once? Should I just smoke this one cigarette? Maybe we should only have sex once if it’s the same thing. Should we just watch one sunset? Or live just one day? Because it’s new every time. Each time is a different experience.”

“But… a door?”

“Why not a door? Sometimes you get fixated on something and you might not even get why. You open yourself up and go with the flow, wherever the universe takes you.”

“Ok so, the universe took her to a door and she got all obsessed with it and just had to paint it 20 times until it was perfect.”

“No I wouldn’t say that. Nothing’s perfect.”

“Come on that O’ Keeffe lady kept trying over and over until that stupid door was perfect.”

“No. That door was her home and she loved it. To me that’s about making that feeling last.”

-  Breaking Bad, episode 3.11

Photo:Brian Ferry

Then, the field of vision assumes a peculiar structure. In the center there is the favored object, fixed by our gaze; its form seems clear, perfectly defined in all its details. Around the object, as far as the limits of the field of vision, there is a zone we do not look at, but which, nevertheless, we see with an indirect, vague, inattentive vision. If it is not something to which we are accustomed, we cannot say what it is, exactly, that we see in this indirect vision.

- Ortega y Gasset. España Invertebrada.

• Sam Cooke – Lost and Lookin’
  Night beat (1963)
• Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
  I can hear the heart beating as one (Matador, 1997)
• Arto Lindsay – Titled
  Mundo Civilizado (Bar/none, 1997)
• Equatics – Ain’t No Sunshine
  Doin’ It (1972, reissue by Stones Throw, 2010)
• Ann Peebles – Come to Mama
  Tellin’ It (Hi, 1974)
• Extra Golden – It’s Not Easy
  Ok-oyot System (Thrill Jockey, 2006)

A soft lunch list. Sweet and mellow around the corners, warm and slightly sensuous in the middle. Maybe a short dinner for two.
How was your day, love?

As you might have noticed we’re changing the look of the motel. Bad timing on my part since we’ve all been a tad busy  lately. Please let us know if you find anything fishy or dusty so we can work it out as soon as possible. Thank you.

When Brad said he wanted to learn a musical instrument, Donna said nothing. When he bought the drum, she still said nothing. Now with that awful orange sweater and the maracas, Donna could no longer hold her tongue.

Image: VivStrauss.

• Little Barrie – Green Eyed Fool
  Stand Your Ground (Genuine, 2007)
• The Monkees - Goin’ Down
  Daydream Believer 7″ (Colgems, 1967)
• Royal Trux – Stevie (for Steven Seagal)
  Accelerator (Drag City, 1998)
• Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks
  Website download – 2010
  
• Penguin Prison - A Funny Thing
  Animal animal 7″ (Neon Gold, 2010)

In limbo. I remember it as a more comfortable place, it felt so young and simpler back then… this time it’s making me feel like a spoiled, bourgeois kid. This heaven gives me migraine.
I will come back to you soon. I promise.

Photo: Flypeterfly

“Spring, in full swing.”

1. Jens Lekman – Boisa-bis-o-boisa
   At the Department of Forgotten Songs (Secretly Canadian, 2005)
2. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Ongaku
   Naughty Boys (Alfa, 1983)
3. Mariah – Shinzo No Tobira
   Utakata No Hibi (Better Days, 1983)
4. Jj – My Way
   Let Go / My Way (Sincerely Yours, 2010)
5. Phil Cordell – Red Lady
   Red Lady 7″ (Janus, 1969)
6. Happy End – Kaze wo Atsumete
   Kazemachi Roman (URC, 1971)

Here’s my first try at a spring mix this year. I wanted to channel some sort of picopop japanese sound with some warm hues of psychedelic sound thrown in between to balance it out. Something I was trying… wanting  it to sound, innocent, green and sunny. It comes very close to what I had in mind but it’s still not perfect. Might need to make a few more attempts on the spring theme until I’m completely satisfied with it.

Play it on a lazy morning while having breakfast for maximum enjoyment.

” Beat and stuff ”

01. Slag Boom Van Loon – Sutjeda (Four Tet remix)
So soon (Phantom Sound & Vision, 2001)
02. Mo’Horizons – Cha Cha Cha
Remember Tomorrow (Stereo Deluxe, 2001)
03. Ursula 1000 – Boop (Skeewiff Remix)
Esl Remixed: The 100th Release of Esl Music (ESL, 2006)
04. Tosca – Honey
Suzuki (K7, 2000)
05. Chris Joss – Root Juice
sticks (ESL, 2009)

note: Standard downtempo ESL sound circa ’00. Old favorite, nothing mind blowing while I try to get back on the beat. Been a little busy. Btw, should check that Slag Boom Van Loon album, I think they are timeless. Say, what’s going on out there? Any crazy sound I should know? I’ve been living under the rock lately.

image: Seryo