Weddin'

I'm less stressed now, sucka.

All the preparations paid in full. All of the procrastination in doing so didn't cost me. I had what I needed, and when the time came, I delivered.

Last Saturday was the wedding of my friends Jessica and Chris. 'This guy' provided music entertainment. I'll admit, once I worked out the rookie jitters, assuming the role of DJ Mikey V was hella fun. I learned a lot from the whole experience; how to make old people dance, how to shoot down requests to hear Soulja Boy, how to hold my liquor on the job, etc.

Chris, the groom, paid for a one-hour extension on the bar... and we all thanked him for it. This party was not meant to end around ten o'clock.

Congrats to my friends who got themselves 'all married up'. All my best goes out to Chris and Jess.

One More Time - Daft Punk
Curs in the Weeds - Horse Feathers
January Wedding - The Avett Brothers
Sway (acoustic) - Bic Runga

The madness continues...

Out tonight for more drinks, cigarettes, lovely company...

Have a great weekend, ya'll.

Dance Yrself Clean - LCD Soundsystem

It's been a couple of weeks...

It's been a fan-fucking-tastic July thus far. I went ahead and got entirely distracted from everything and anything. But, I thoroughly enjoyed myself while doing so. It's time to pick up the pieces and merge back into life as I kind of once knew it. This will involve making good with certain people again and pumping out the motherfucking jams.

We'll start today. Everything will once start. Something new and very good has happened to me and I'm finally ready to share myself with the world outside my apartment again. This can most conveniently be done via The Internetz.

Throw some Glimr your way is what I'm gonna do. Have at it, hoss.

Sunburned at Midnight - Glimr

Happy 4th!! (Boomy ones!)

Things are most certainly changing... and I'm excited!

I'll be off to 4th of July celebrations and fireworks at the local park on this, what will hopefully become, clear and starry evening.

No sour notes here. Refrained from giving you Soundgarden or Elliott Smith... nothing is fucked here. Good times ahead! Happy. Fun. Time. With an emphasis on 'fun'.

Light a Roman Candle with Me - fun.

Revisiting a mix from last year; Matt Pryor gets me

Life is a convoluted mess, at times. Expectations are killers. Immense complications require swift resolution. I can understand these things.

I've found myself enjoying a mix I made for someone two Augusts ago. It's funny that the mixes that you make for other people can actually be the one mix that you needed to make for yourself. You know that nobody would have appreciated it as much as you do.

So, with that, the last few days I've been enjoying this almost year old collection of songs that I can really identify with currently. Many things in my life run in one-year cycles. The need for this specific case of music therapy keeps the trend. The late-night walks home, the mornings spent alone with acidic palate-cleansing of a cup of black coffee, trips to work on buses in absolute thought evaporation; these are times I've been listening to "You're A Wolf" by Sea Wolf and "Jump Start" by The Hang Ups and "Lover's Spit" by Broken Social Scene.

I would have shared the whole mix with you, but it's for me...

But, I'll offer you one song that will always resonate with me; applicable to all situations deemed fucked or sticky. So once given to a girl named Linda, a mix completed on August 12th of last year; here's track one...

A Totally New Year - Matt Pryor

P L A Y List: Summer Songs

Summer is eight days old already. My last post was over a week ago. And, the last P L A Y List was quite some time before that. All of this means it's about time to give you something fitting for the new season.

Summer to me means a whole lot of nothing good. I dwell on the bugs and the allergies and the terrible Pennsylvanian humidity. I'm not a 'people person', so I enjoy a season when there are a whole let less of them out and about. I don't vacation often, and when I do, it's to some Northern city with a good music festival or bars that stay open past 2am. I'm not a beach guy. I don't dream of sand while listening to Jack Johnson or Jimmy Buffett.

While I could have given you something more subdued or depressing, you may have not appreciated it. So, I'm trying to keep a light, positive attitude; being that this summer, so far, has been unnaturally kind to me.

It's Summertime - The Flaming Lips
Go Jetsetter - The Postmarks
A Summer Wasting - Belle & Sebastian
Northern Lights - Bowerbirds
Bummer in the Summer - Love
Here Comes Your Man - Meaghan Smith
Cocaine and Ashes - Son Volt
Pain Killer (Summer Rain) - Turin Brakes
Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway - Wilco

Interpol/Twin Tigers at Mr. Small's... 'This is why I hold you... '

Interpol made Pittsburgh one of its few June tour stops with a performance last night at Mr. Small's Theater. With bassist Carlos Dengler recently out of the picture, former Slint player David Pajo joined Banks, Fogarino, and Kessler on stage for a celebratory set featuring plenty of choice cuts from the band's first two albums. No reason to believe otherwise, but let's hope Pajo is more than just a stopgap. Nice review of the show at spinner.com can be seen here.

Athens, Georgia's very own Twin Tigers lead things off with an impressive set before Interpol graced the converted church's stage. I've now found myself sifting through tracks off of the Twin Tigers' 2010 release, Gray Waves. Last night proved to be a thankful introduction to this band.

Lights - Interpol
Passive Idol - Twin Tigers