George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People

This Gold Digger (“George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” Remix) [8.7MiB MP3] is genius. via Mefi

Musical Baton!

Steph, Jonathan, Greg, and Matt passed me a musical baton (see: clagnut, hicks, looks like this started somewhere in LJ). (wonders if this is being tagged for aggregation somewhere? — also, notes that this forward-passing w/o notification is rather weird) Anyway, this is one meme that looks fun, so here goes:

Total volume of music files on my computer:

  • 102GB in my main music archive (syncs to other machines)
  • 31GB of my CDs ripped but not catalogued
  • about a dozen gigs floating around on misc machines

The last CD I bought was:

  • My last CD order was from Future Farmer:
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    1 x M. Ward - End of Amnesia () = $10.00
    1 x David Dondero - Shooting At The Sun With () = $10.00
    1 x For Stars - Windows For Stars () = $10.00
    1 x For Stars - We Are All Beautiful People () = $10.00
    1 x For Stars - s/t () = $10.00
    1 x For Stars - It Falls Apart () = $10.00
    1 x Cub Country - Stay Poor/Stay Happy () = $10.00
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  • As far as other media, I just got my Warp Vision DVD in the mail (the NTSC Limited Edition is still available for only £16.99 from Warpmart – w/ free shipping to boot!)

Song playing right now:

  • Dntel – Untitled (Dntel/Styrofoam, Split Picture Disc 7-inch Vinyl, 2002 — this split rocks!)

Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:

  • Diplo vs DJ Shadow – Megatroid Mix
    • uh, awesome?
  • Bloc Party – The Answer
    • a current fav
  • Bright Eyes – Bowl of Oranges
    • this has been my Chameleon Clock alarm for like 2 years
  • Spoon – Me and the Bean

    I Am Your Shadow In The Dark
    I Have Your Blood Inside My Heart

  • U2 – With or Without You

    We’ll shine like stars in the summer night
    We’ll shine like stars in the winter night

    One heart, one hope, one love
    With or without you

Five people to whom I’m passing the baton:

  • Ernie!
  • Gabe!
  • Passing, will post links to the first five that I see…

Bloc Party

Wow, Bloc Party‘s new album, Silent Alarm has caught me by surprise. I haven’t been this excited about an album in a while. I’m loving it. A lot. Here’s their opener:

Looks like they’re going to be in town right after SXSW. (Hmm, Troub is sold out already)

  • 21.03.2005 Pomona, CA Glasshouse
  • 22.03.2005 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour

New Year, New Music

Not feeling so hot today, but it’s been a while, so I thought I’d kick off the new year with some new music.

First, for some leftovers from 2004:

OK, now onto 2005.

Snow Patrol (AMG) was in town a few weeks ago and recorded a Morning Becomes Eclectic session that I caught the other day. Their new album, Final Straw is amazingly catchy, with addictively crunchy chords; an interesting cross of indie electronic/britpop with a strong (pleasantly nostalgic) indie/altrock sound.

Here’s a song that sounds sorta like a Notwist/Sebadoh cross: