motel de moka

Photo: Coquinete.

Quilapayun - Elegía
Quilapayun 3 (1968)
Sergio Mendes & Brasil 77 - After Sunrise
Raizes (1972)
Pep Laguarda & Tapineria - Alceu-vos, xe, que ja és de dia
Brossa d’ahir (Discmedi Blau / 1977)
Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyan - I remember learning how to dive
Prospect Hummer Ep (FatCat / 2005)
Silvio Rodriguez - Sueño con Serpientes
Días y flores (1975)

There was a brief moment in my life were camping out in the woods was my obsession. Sleeping was terribly uncomfortable yet it was all worth it just to wake up breathing the dewy mountain afterglow. This was way before my obsession with music, some time 10 years ago, but if I ever go camping again this short playlist will surely be joining me.

I remember ‘Sueño con serpientes’ was one of my father’s favorite songs at the time, so this is pretty much the only song on the list that I actually knew back then. I don’t know if his voice might sound kitschy for non-spanish speakers - I’ve personally always the vocal delivery of most Cuban troubadours on the corny side of things, as if trying too hard to live up to the poetic nature of their lyrics - but the music on this one is fairly interesting, some very unusual hints of psychedelia for Silvio Rodriguez which sound really good on headphones. Hope you enjoy them.

Even then I will dance in my dire clothes,
a crematory flight,  blinding my hair and my fingers,
wounding God with his blue face,
his tyranny, his absolute kingdom,
with my aphrodisiac.

– Anne Sexton. The Death King.

1. Tricky - Ponderosa
   Maxinquaye (1997)
2. M.I.A. & Blaqstarr - Way Down in the Hole (Tom Waits)
   Save ur soul (N.e.e.t. / 2008)
3. Lamb - B-line (Herbaliser mix)
   B-line single (1999)
4. Aphex Twin - IZ-US
   Come To Daddy (1997)
5. Bent - Invisible Pedestrian
   Programmed to Love (2000)
6. Flunk - Two Icicles
   Personal Stereo (Beatservice/ 2007)
7. Kid Loco - Love me sweet
   A grand love story (Yellow / 1997)
8. Trippynova - Sun is Shining
   Bossa n’ Marley (PMB / 2005)

Note: It doesn’t matter where you are when you hear this playlist, it will instantly be 1997. Some hour between 1 and 3 a.m. and you will be very much in love and turned on.

Images: ply , restlessthings, etcetcetc, dusdin.

Democrat Barack Obama joined the nation’s earliest voters Tuesday as people around the nation began lining up to cast ballots in a historic election pitting Republican John McCain against the man seeking to become the first black president in U.S. history.

“I voted,” Obama said, holding up the validation slip he was handed after turning in a ballot at his Chicago neighborhood’s precinct. Accompanying the Illinois senator for the trip from their home to the polling station were his wife, Michelle, and their two young daughters. He planned a final campaign event in nearby Indiana before speaking to a massive evening rally in Chicago. - dkos. Tue Nov 04, 2008 at 09:40:42 AM PST

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” 2008 Election Day. Time for Change ”

01. Apollo Sunshine - Today Is The Day
Apollo Sunshine (Spin Art, 2005)
02. Holly Golightly - Nothing You Can Say
My First Holly Golightly Album (Damaged Goods, 2005)
03. The International Noise Conspiracy - The Sin Crusade
The First Conspiracy (G-7 Welcome Committe, 2001)
04. Dropkick Murphys - Good Rats
Punk O Rama #5 (Epitaph, 2005)
05. Division of Laura Lee - The truth is fucked
Black City (Epitaph, 2002)
06. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (Domino, 2006)
07. The Reverend Horton Heat - The Devil’s Chasing Me
The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds (Sub Pop, 1993)
08. Green Day - American Idiot
American Idiot (2004)

note: Voting day people. Few last minute information and tips :

If you spot anything while voting or helping out that seems out of place–anything–report it. The campaign and voter protection organizations can’t help remedy problems unless there’s a record of it, so do not hesitate to report an issue, no matter how minor you think it may be.

Obama Voter Protection:

Call 1-877-US-4-OBAMA (1-877-874-6226) and let them know what problems you’re seeing. If you can’t get through, use this online form and/or call your local campaign HQ.

You can also call Election Protection, a nonpartisan organization:

* For immediate assistance, call the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline.
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* Follow breaking voting news and issues at the 866OurVote Twitter account

more here

- Dean’s youtube clip (go vote)

(I’ll try to update this thread. have fun)

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” Random Lunch. Feeling Happy ”

01. The Innocence Mission - One For Sorrow, Two For Joy
Befriended (Badman Records, 2003)
02. Kettel - Palles’s Popsong
Myam James (Sending Orbs, 2008)
03. The Monkees - Goin’ Down
Greatest Hits (1995)
04. A Tribe Called Quest - Verses From the Abstract
The Low End Theory (Jive, 1991)
05. Grand Archives - Miniature Birds
The Grand Archives (Sub Pop, 2008)

note: A short happy mix for lunch. I think I am reversing the usual mix. Instead of no voice to make for comfy lunch conversation, this one has conversational tone and clean rhythm composition. Mix of styles but the sound density is very controlled. You can almost hear chatty preschooler kids making noise in the background. It’s bounchy happy. k. I am hungry. lunch time for me. (I’ll post the rest of list later today. I am cramming it before end of day.)

have a great lunch.

image: Wendy Copley

In Justice as fairness, then, the equal basic liberties are the same for each citizen and the question of how to compensate for a lesser liberty does not arise. But the worth, or usefulness, of liberty is not the same for everyone. As the difference principle permits, some citizens have, for example, greater income and wealth and therefore greater mean of achieving their ends. When this principle is satisfied, however, this lesser worth of liberty is compensated for in this sense: the all-purpose means available to the least advantaged members of society to achieve their ends would be even less were social and economic inequalities, as measured by the index of primary goods, different from what they are. The basic structure of society is arranged to that it maximized the primary goods available to the least advantaged to make use of the equal basic liberties enjoyed by everyone. This defines one of the central aims of political and social justice. - John Rawls. The Basic Liberties and Their priority. (pp.23)

” Five Days till Voting day Reminder ”

01. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Moonchild
The Legendary A&M Sessions (White Label Edsel Records, 1966)
02. Bratmobile - Panik
Pottymouth (1993)
03. Minutemen - Shit You Hear at Parties
The Politics of Time (Sst Records, 1984)
04. The Jesus Lizard - Whirl
Liar (Touch & Go Records, 1992)
05. Shellac - Movement 4
Futurist (self-released, 1997)
06. Husker Du - Pink Turns to Blue
Zen Arcade (Sst Records, 1983)
07. Dressy Bessy - Who’d Stop The Rain
Electrified (Transdreamer, 2005)

note: Reminder that voting day is next Tuesday.

image: january20th2009

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The first part of Bruner’s review is organized around the three dimensions of musical sound (time, pitch, texture). It establishes that the constituent properties of music can evoke predictable main and interactive effects. For example, music pitched in minor keys tends to be perceived as sad; music played at a fast tempo tends to be perceived as arousing. - Kellaris. Handbook of Consumer Psychology. Music and Consumer. (pp. 840)

” The Metric use of Lounge ”

01. Thunderball - Solar
Modular Systems (Eighteenth Street, 2001)
02. The Lounge Lizards - The Birds Near Her House
Queen of All Ears (Strange & Beautiful, 1998)
03. Kevin Yost - Drums Delicious
Om Lounge 3 (Om Records, 2000)
04. Boozoo Bajou - Under My Sensi (Les Demon Flowers Mix)
Boozoo Bajou: Remixes (Stereo Deluxe, 2003)
05. Cut Chemist - Motivational Speaker
The Audience’s Listening (2006)
06. Cut Chemist - (My 1st) Big Break
The Audience’s Listening (2006)
07. Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft
The Very Best Of (2007)
08. Infected Mushroom - Elevation
Infected Selection by SMB (Reincarnate Music, 2008)
09. Adam Guth - Shalom
Shalom (1999)

note: This series hasn’t been updated in awhile. Here is, I think, the secret of good lounge list. It should be like soda pop. It’s sweet, bubble, readily accessible. But it should not leave after taste. It should be memorable yet forgetable. It should not have after taste since it is infinitely consumable. It is indeed very expensive, well made and not common, but at the same time cannot let the popular out of sight. So when it comes to lounge list and downtempo, it’s all about selecting the exotic and elegant that goes together with the standard. .. well, that’s for No.7. Six part standard, one part free jazz, one part pop soul and nine part MdM secret powder. I hope it works, at least as a nice late night lounge list.

see also: Imperial Lounge No.6

image: marimoon

1. Maurizio Ravalico / Ollie Bown - Duetto (Part 1)
   An Introduction To Not Applicable (Web Release)
2. Haruki - Gallop On Off
   Haphazardly, While Sitting (Corps-Morts / 2008)
3. Goldmund - To
   Two Point Discrimination (Western Vinyl / 2007)
4. Bird Show - Mbira, Harp & Voice
   Bird Show (Kranky / 2008)
5. Clogs - Pitasi
   Sticks music (Brassland /2004)
6. Emmanuelle Parrenin - L’Écharpe De Soie
   Maison Rose (Ballon Noir / 1977)
7. Six Organs of Admittance - Procession of Cherry Blossom Spirits
   School of the Flower (Drag City / 2005)
8. Baka Pygmies - Yeli
   Heart of the Forest (Crammed Discs /1993)

All I do is what my flesh can do, yet everything my flesh can do feels strange.
I am the swelling of a salt sea onto an armature of chalk, the calm of a tidal pool where brain cells live, the wind, the lightning storm where thought flares into thought.
I taste damp sparks inside my tongue. If sayings gather under the name of Faith, or Art, I let them when they let me let them, and my mind clears.

- Brooks Haxton, I Am.

see also: My blood is clean Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 4.
Photos: matteo perina, merel, iamjackie, agneskarin, 宝 宝

The secret of surrealism was that the most banal reality could become surreal, but only at privileged moments, which still derived from art and the imaginary. Now the whole everyday political, social, historial, economic reality is incorporated into the simulative dimension of the hyperrealism; we already live out the “aesthetic” hallucination of realty. - Baudrillard. Selected writings. Symbolic Exchange and Death. pp 146

” Sunday note. ”

01. The Pernice Brothers - Cronulla Breakdown
The World Won’t End (Ashmont Records, 2001)
02. Six Organs Of Admittance - Wind In My Palm
Compathia (Holy Mountain, 2003)
03. Elica - Ebenalp
Asymmetrica (Very Important Music, 2007)
04. Paavoharju - Ursulan uni
Laulu Laakson Kukista (Fonal, 2008)
05. The Skygreen Leopards - 6
I Dreamt She Rode on a Pink Gazelle & Other Dreams (Jewelled Antler, 2001)
06. Fontella Bass - Since I Fell For You
Rescued: The Best of Fontella Bass (1992)
07. Vetiver - Blue Driver
A Thing of the Past (Gnomesong, 2008)

note: A list that supposedly goes together for certain state of mind. Not exactly day dreaming nor blissful, but definitely suspended. California style. Think of it like grand movie, absolutely cinematic. It is about sensation and color, but no narrative. Because all the story has been told. What’s left after the story is what this list is about … or at least that’s what I was thinking. Anyway, have a nice weekend.

also visit these west coast blogs: Speed of Dark, Rawkblog

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