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Alice, in front of Mil’s house, awaiting your return.

Scanning my grandmother’s photos—a daunting, though deeply rewarding, task I’ve only just begun. Discovering this note to my grandfather on the eve of her wake was an unexpected gift.

Mix - Objects & Innards at the Shallow End.

extrawiggleroom:

Words. Cannot. Even. Brain. Oof. I am overwhelmed. I will sleep and try to be more coherent tomorrow. I will also try to gather up another batch of links and commentary so that everyone can have a good cross-section of what people are saying.

For now, thank you so much for your support, and your EXCELLENT debate. I’m so happy to see people discussing concepts of acceptance and beauty. People are making incredible and astute points about the dialogue that is opening up. 

Somebody even started a poll about the effectiveness of my project! You can vote yay or nay here.

Much, much, much love to all y’all.

For the ballsy and brilliant extrawiggleroom, the jackasses at American Apparel and everybody who’s got a body that came with a thinking part attached… Or at least ears. Enamored, outraged and amused, these are the places my brain goes

ObjectsInnards 177MB

• PJ Harvey - Dress
• Tall Dwarfs - The Beautiful Invader
• Secret Cities - Ice Cream Scene
• Shellac - Song Against Itself
• Baby Monster - She Comes Alive
• Volunteer Pioneer - Outfoxed Outfucked
• The Skeletones Four - Sexy Breakfast
• The Books - Beautiful People
• Scissor Sisters - T*ts On The Radio
• Radiator Girls - Eerie Body
• Clues - Perfect Fit
• Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s - My Baby (Shoots Her Mouth Off)
• Islands - Don’t Call Me Whitney, Bobby
• The Smiths - Some girls are bigger than others
• M. Pyres - Imagists Reply
• The Teeth - The Coolest Kid In Town
• Sonic Youth - Wish Fulfillment
• The Blow - Babay (Eat A Critter, Feel Its Wrath)
• Starfucker - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
• Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - I Wanna Be A Sheep
• Marches - Sometimes Sex Isn’t About the Money
• Built to Spill - Distopian Dream Girl
• Pretty Girls Make Graves - Something Bigger, Something Brighter
• Ricky Eat Acid - Beautiful gurrls
• Dorian Concept - Her Tears Taste Like Pears
• Olympians - You Don’t Have To Be A Prick To Work Here, But You Are
• Nature’s Kid - Sometimes A Photograph Can Change Your Life
• Tanlines - Real Life
• Beck - She Is All (Gimme Something To Eat)
• Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely

BRONZE - BRONZE EP. Free and rather excellent EP from ex-Detachment Kit dudes @ http://bronze.bandcamp.com/

Thematic Thanxmixing for Dickie Pellegrino. Time of his day and dogs in one… er, two pieces = Yr the genuine neuticals…

Dogs in Shapes & Sizes 112MB

• SILVER SHAMPOO - dogs
• Woods Family Creeps - Spike 
• {{{SUNSET}}} - Graveyard Dog 
• Narrator - Panic at Puppy Beach
• Okkervil River - Dead Dog Song
• Drink Up Buttercup - Doggy Head
• Quasi - Black Dogs & Bubbles
• Unreliable Narrator - Tails and Fins
• Casper & the Cookies - Barking in the Garden of Ill Repute
• Say Hi To Your Mom - Snowcones And Puppies
• Circulatory System - Waves of Bark and Light
• LEANN GRIMES - Cats & Dogs in Idaho
• Bird Dog - Saddest Lion (Rebirth)
• Chad Vangaalen - I Wish I Was A Dog (with Julie Doiron & Fred Squire)
• Lower Dens - A Dog’s Dick
• TAXI TAXI - Shoot The Dog Chop The Tree
• King Khan & BBQ Show - Treat Me Like A Dog
• Man Man - Ice Dogs
• Blitzen Trapper - Woof & Warp of the Quiet Giant’s Hem
• Daniel Johnston - Queenie the doggie
• Page France - Dogs  

Holy fekkin <3. Every detail oozes awesome…

thismusicwins:

New Album: DUDES - NARCISSISTS ANONYMOUS

Ryan from self-confessed “neo-funk-chill-psych-swag-goth-wave” three-piece DUDES, based in San Diego, sent over their first official EP “NARCISSISTS ANONYMOUS” on Monday night. This is set to be a huge cassette for any fans of Small Black, AnCo or even Toro Y Moi - blending the noisier elements of the three to make for a glitch-ridden and delay-heavy proximate of over-driven trip-hop.

Accompanying the release is a 90s style role playing game eponymously titled DUDES, which is worth a mention for the innovative marketing strategy alone.

 The musical side of things however, don’t falter - ‘TURF TALK (SWAG EDIT MIX)’ is a soulful 70s disco ballad with a squealing lead, and the Galapagos remix of ‘1/5 OF THE DRIVES ON TOUR’ is a 106 second ambient sample jam as much as a big name collaboration for DUDES to name-drop. I’ve attached 5 minute song and title track ‘NARCISSISTS ANONYMOUS’ below, an airy 70s ballad with horns, soft synthesisers and some very colourful hip-hop beats. The colour associations I get with this music is overwhelmingly grey-scale, nostalgic and dream-like in its array of trippy spoken word loops which are constantly making their way in and out of time with the rest of the music. 

Download ‘NARCISSISTS ANONYMOUS’ in EP form at Bandcamp, find out more about the video game here, or buy your own cassette, shipping on or around the 1st of August, via Grizzly Records.

DUDES - NARCISSISTS ANONYMOUS (MP3)

DUDES - TURF TALK (SWAG-EDIT MIX) (MP3)

The Strokes done by people I like a whole lot better than The Strokes! Stereogum Presents… STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It - Stereogum 

Summer Sunday Supplemental Mix. 

What better to do with a Sunday you feel like barely moving than lazily make a mix? Not a thing I can think of, so here you go…

From the latest mp3 hunt and an other mix or two. Most notable thankses to doubledrat, yvynyl & idontlikeyourtunes, fellows with unfailingly fine taste.

Summer Sunday 162MB

• Floating Action - Well Hidden
• Kids On A Crime Spree - I Don’t Want To Call You Baby, Baby
• Little Deadman - SHOOTING SEAGULLS
• Code Pie - Low Devotion
• Wild Yaks - MILLION YEARS OLD
• Dom - Damn
• Micachu And The Shapes - Everything
• car seat headrest  - happy news for sadness
• Welcome Back Sailors - I’ll be there
• First Rate People - Someone Else Can Make A Work Of Art
• Bleached - Think of You
• Gardens & Villa - Black Hills
• Orval Carlos Sibelius - i don’t want a baby
• Mrs. Magician - THERE IS NO GOD
• SLUTEVER - So Prone
• Colossal Gospel - Observer and Creature
• Nick Diamonds - In Dust We Trust
• ChristianAIDS - Fever (Demo)
• Peter Wolf Crier - Right Away
• Shoreline Is  - French Leave
• orangenoise  - I Know Everything
• Jacuzzi Boys - Cool Vapors
• Beirut  - Goshen

(photo via Jen Beckman’s 20x200)