smooth operator

Hi! Greetings from Canada XD

thanks for checking out the playlist, man!

keep on scrobblin man! love this last streak. should i not ignore Future Islands? my mind made that executive decision a long time ago so who knows

the time it took me to respond to you doesn't support this, but i actually visit this site multiple times every day... if nothing else just to see my album cover image change, haha. perhaps there'll be more actual "activity" from me with the spotify integration, though. we'll see, i'm still learning how to integrate spotify into my usual listening, to be honest

i stayed up way too late watching Drive again last night. for like, the 5th time. remember when we used to watch the same movies over and over? do you do that with anything these days?

i can totally see that! afraid it's been my tumblr icon for the last year and a half though so not exactly. funny you mention it, i was thinking last night i should recommend this Perturbator stuff to you - if you dig the Kavinsky, i think you'll dig this too ( i only really know Terror 44, but i'm grabbing the others there post-haste): http://perturbator.bandcamp.com/

yeah, i like em... just never dug into their catalog to the extent i could have, i guess. ain't nothin wrong with a little hippie shit here and there

I'm definitely still processing the new Dylan. I like it so far, but I'm not sure yet how deep I'm going to go with it. For me, the key later0day album is 'Love & Theft' much more than Time Out of Mind. I'll take Dylan's cracked and muddy-caked production over Lanois's sepia tones any day. 'L&T' just zings with life. But yeah, Modern Times didn't hit me nearly as hard, and I pretty much ignored the last one, mainly because he farmed out so many of the lyrics to Robert Hunter. And I gotta say, I loved the Christmas record!

i think what you said about that type of music being somewhat insincere comes pretty close to it for me, man. not that i'm saying sincerity is the most important thing, either. now, that Kurt Vile record you just listened to, that's sincere. i've been really into that record, it'll wind up fairly high in my year-end reckoning, i expect. if i manage to even make a list this year, that is

haha i know - figured i'd give it a shot, they seemed like they'd be amusing and i've heard their shows are super fun, but... it just reinforced the fact that music trying to be funny is just not that enjoyable to me. even if the jokes are all about titties and beer

i'll be glad when visiting your page doesn't mean seeing a shirtless Lenny Kravitz anymore

it's a soundtrack-heavy week in the wellsphere yo

haha word... i don't even really need to work at it - it just kind of happens

i posted them in the sidebar myself, but i found them using the "Scrobbling Timeline" feature here: http://playground.last.fm/

Very cool. It would be great if you could make it up or a show sometime this summer.

That was a pretty glaring omission. I'm definitely planning on being at the White Hills show!

ha, thanks man - nice Shutter Island montage

you always were a sucker for the christmas music though

Garth Brooks making a strong showing this week

yeah, i'm intrigued by that one, haven't checked it out yet though. i'm assuming at this point that you're not actually making it to Chicago next Friday for their show?

i fucking love that first Mark Eitzel solo record... one of my all time morning-after salves...

ha, that does sound intriguing... i may have to check that out

fuckin-a yes it is. in fact i think i might listen to that now

dude what is the album in your quilt right now with the skinhead dude or someone shaving their head? it looks so familiar to me and can't place it

um. wow, dude

you are listening to one of the best albums of the nineties right now dude

haha well played. it'd been a long time since i'd listened to that comp, and i was struck by how horrifically bland most of it is, especially given how much air time it got back in the day... i'm glad my tastes have continued to grow. at least my copy skipped throughout the Indigo Girls track. *shudder*

not quite

get ready to have your face blown off by that Liturgy record, dude

a little tour through the early days of Neil Young recently, eh? nice.

Yeah, the Danava is great; put it back into rotation and let me know if you agree. 18 Sokokis burned down last Friday (or burned enough that it's considered a total loss). Weird-- lots of good memories created at that place.

Sounds like we might have approached Trev's and SD's best of '08 windfall in reverse order. Lots of great stuff there-- really been enjoying the stuff SD had to share. Super!

agreed, completely. i'm pretty happy about it, too. i am a nerd.

cool, glad you tracked it down. i kept meaning to get it to you, but never managed to. i like it a lot better than the other version - we'll see how well it does updating itself...

well i actually think it might be better than "Conqueror", which i loved. check your inbox.

i told you i'd get to it. someday. i dug what i heard, too.

NEON KNIGHTS

you want a nice "One of These Days" homage, check out the opening cut on Nachtmystium's "Assassins"...

would love to hear what you think of that Irepress record. i've been coming back to that one with regularity since early in the year. definitely going to wind up pretty high on my list. and the Arbouretum one as well, for that matter. such regal, stately guitar lines on that record.

Saw you stopped by the other day--my hard drive crashed late last week so I'm just waiting for Apple to replace it. In the meantime, there hasn't been much scrobbling....

yeah, kind of bad late-period stuff, too. it was that era that i first got into with them, sure, but damn most of that stuff post, i don't know, '81 maybe - although there are exceptions - is so forgettable. makes me want to play Rubycon at high volume or Electronic Meditation on headphones as the hour hand starts falling down the right side of the dial...

Check out "Space Ritual" by Hawkwind. I'm sure you can find it floating around the internet somewhere. It's a double live album from '73, and its absolutely mindblowing.

I noticed you listened to that recent Hawkwind reissue the other day. What did you think? I've checked it out a bunch too. Have you listened to much Hawkwind? This is definitely a long way from their "classic" sound, but I'm loving it.

Across Tundras! i love those motherfuckers. and I see you checked out that Mojo comp - what'd you think? of either of them?

Eagle Twin opened for Sunn O)) when we saw them a couple of weeks back. They totally blew me away.

Nebula have actually been around for quite a while--their stoner rock roots run pretty deep. Loved them early in the decade and saw them a handful of times--they always put on a blazing show. I stopped paying close attention to them for a while but have been rediscovering them over the past couple of months. I don't know the new album very well yet--if you don't already have it, find their BBC Sessions disc (Sludge Swamp posted it last fall or winter). It's awesome! I'm definitely looking forward to seeing them in a couple of weeks.

i'll look them out - but you caught me at the end of a long day of moving new stuff on to the iPod, so it may be a bit before i manage to listen to them, ha!

Yes you did, and out of everything you recommended, they were the band I liked the most. I don't mind long songs if there are lyrics or something going on, like with Wilco (when they aren't jamming). I have a short attention span and can't handle jam bands or most jazz. I appreciated the recommendations.