If you like Christmas music you need to download this album by Caleb and the Caroling Caravan (featuring Kelsie McNair's beautiful voice)

Charlie bit me - rrrrrremixx

I'm so excited for this movie! I've watched the trailer 3 times now.

New York Senator Diane Savino delivers a great speech on marriage equality. If only more people would listen to what she has to say...

If you're a Lost nerd like me check out this interview with executive producer Damon Lindelof.

"Will we ever get more on the backstory on Libby ... or at least find out her last name? -- P-D Cougar

Libby is someone we get asked about a lot, and she's another one of those cases where it's more of an issue of our relationship with the actor than it is our desire to tell the story. It's our hope that Cynthia Watros will come back one more time and finish that story, but that's up to her. We asked her last year, she wasn't interested in doing it. Hopefully she'll change her mind."

I've always wanted to know more about Libby (more specifically how she ended up in a mental institute with Hurley) but looks like that's probably not going to happen.

My best friend is so damn gorgeous.

(photo by Corey Lorenz)

More stuff like this.

yourscenesucks.com

The "Apple Store Indie" describes way too many people at BU.

I finally got to see Where The Wild Things Are last night and it was just as amazing as I expected it to be, although definitely a lot heavier than I expected. The entire soundtrack was done by Karen O and the Kids (which consists of too many people to name but click here to read the whole list) and fit the movie perfectly.

Click here to download the whole soundtrack, although I recommend seeing the movie first so you can fully appreciate it.

Check out Pomplamoose's Myspace for free downloads of all their covers!

Jon Towle

Photos of old people playing Guitar Hero

I just now realized that I forgot to post this Friday's Left of the Dial playlist.

1. "About A Girl" - Nirvana (no, you're not reading that wrong, Nirvana's Bleach was re-released with some extra bonus live tracks)
2. "Hellhole Ratrace" - Girls
3. "The Fix Is In" - El Rio Humano
4. "Walking Alone At Night" - Vivian Girls
5. "Breaking Into Cars" - The Raveonettes
6. "Home" - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
7. "The Beginning" - Via Tania
8. "Hunchback" - Kurt Vile
9. "Things Fall Apart" - Built to Spill
10. "Blood Bank" - Bon Iver
11. "Avalon Or Someone Very Similar" - Yo La Tengo
12. "Man Named Truth" - Monsters of Folk
13. "Love Buzz" - Nirvana
14. "Boy Boy" - Lissy Trullie
15. "Arrow" - Tegan and Sara
16. "Luna" - Fanfarlo
17. "Deadbeat Summer" - Neon Indian

This week I was all by myself in the studio so after playing some rotation music I decided to play some of my favorite covers, which I basically just used as an excuse to play some of my friends' music.

18. "Search and Destroy" - Peaches (Iggy Pop cover)
19. "Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat" - Beck (Bob Dylan cover)
20. "Live and Let Die" - Duffy (Paul McCartney cover)
21. "Superstition" - Estelle (Stevie Wonder cover)
22. "Call Me" - Franz Ferdinand (Blondie cover)
23. "Papa Was a Rodeo" - Bright Eyes(Magnetic Fields cover)
24. "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs (The Ramones cover)
25. "My Humps" - Alanis Morissette (Black Eyed Peas cover)
26. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - Cat Power (The Rolling Stones cover)
27. "Anyone Else But You" - Allison Francis and Colin Griffin (Moldy Peaches cover)
28. "Your Ghost" - Greg Laswell
29. "The Way I Am" - Kelsie McNair (Ingrid Michaelson cover)
30. "Just a Friend" - The Grid Disbanded (Biz Markie cover)


Don't forget to stream Left of the Dial every Friday from 4 to 6 pm at wtburadio.org!

If this doesn't make you smile then I don't know what will.

If you know me in real life you probably know I love bacon, but I think this might me taking it just a little too far.


Although I do admit I wouldn't be opposed to trying one. You know you want to buy some.

Happiness

Urban Outfitters may not be the most ethical store but their music department does have good music taste. The free mix CD's they hand out in the store are usually really good, and now you can even download their mixes for free online. Check out Urban Outfitters' site LSTN for some sweet free mixes of recent songs.

I have a D.C. phone number so I get a lot of random calls from D.C. and Maryland that I usually don't answer. I just got a voicemail for a gentleman named Dmitri that said "Yo Dmitri, I got the stuff. You knoww. Bye." If I know you in person ask me to hear it.

(Yesterday's) Left of the Dial Playlist

My show Left of the Dial is a mostly rotation show (aka new music that the lovely Liz Pelly and Jen Brown pick out) on Fridays from 4-6 pm on Boston University's radio station WTBU. You can stream it live at wtburadio.org.

Here's what I played today (well, technically yesterday):
1. "Breaking Into Cars" - The Raveonettes
2. "Walking Alone At Night" - Vivian Girls
3. "Periodically Triple or Double" - Yo La Tengo
4. "Bearbones" - Total Babe
5. "Realize" - Movement
6. "Laura" - Girls
7. "Cruz" - Blue Scholars
8. "Worm Mountain" - The Flaming Lips
9. "Blackberry Song" - Kurt Vile
10. "The Fix Is In" - El Rio Humano (formerly Fastizio)
11. "Waves in the Wire" - Capybara
12. "Know Better Learn Faster" - Thao
13. "Stillness Is The Move" - Dirty Projectors
14. "Dog Days Are Over" - Florence and the Machine
15. "Baby Boomer" - Monsters of Folk
16. "Blood Bank" - Bon Iver
17. "O Maria!" - Sea Wolf

If you're not checking Toothpaste For Dinner on a daily basis you're missing out.
(and don't forget Married to the Sea and Super Poop.)

I have no intention of every taking ecstasy, but I find the different designs incredibly fascinating. The picture above is a mimic ecstasy tablet in the shape of Obama's face, how crazy is that?

Ecstasy Designs

(The Lost nerd in me was won over by the Evangeline Lily sculpture, even though I hate Kate.)

Incredibly Realistic Sculptures

I really recommend the band Total Babe. They're a bunch of 16 year olds from Minnesota and are fantastic!

Look below for their track "Bearbones".

This is the tracklist (the songs I picked out at least) from my radio show last week. Stream it live tomorrow from 4-6 pm at wtburadio.org!

1. "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" - Florence and the Machine (Yes, I play her every week even though she's not in rotation, you should really check her out though.)
2. "Periodically Triple or Double" - Yo La Tengo
3. "D.R.U.G.S." - The Raveonettes
4. "Percussion Gun" - White Rabbits
5. "Waves in the Wire" - Capybara
6. "The Calculation" - Regina Spektor
7. "The Fix Is In" - El Rio Humano (part of Dinosaurs in Vietnam)
8. "Luna" - Fanfarlo
9. "Repeaterbeater" - Mew
10."Bearbones" - Total Babe
11. "Realize" - Movement
12. "Convinced of the Hex" - The Flaming Lips
13. "The Beginning" - Via Tania
14. "The Persimmon Tree" - The David Wax Museum
15. "Party Snail" - Thomas Moran (also part of Dinosaurs in Vietnam)
16. "Baby Boomer" - Monsters of Folk
17. "O Maria" - Sea Wolf
18. "Heartbeat Radio" - Sondre Lerche
19. "Avalon Or Someone Very Similar" - Yo La Tengo
20. "Cruz" - Blue Scholars

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