This could be the bitter end. I know it won't.

I feel like I should go over to my brother's house. Funny enough, now that we live in the same town, I don't often see him. I started out as his connection to music, now he's mine. I've been happily revolving my favorite CDs for the last 6 months or so, but I fear getting too used to them.
Brother Jordan! What should I buy? What is the new thing? Give me a CD to devastate me........

Last 6 mo. Fav. CDs:

Silversun Pickups stay refreshingly not-boring AND put me in a killer yearning/self destructive sort of teenager mood.

Handsome Furs perfectly complement my empty countryside and nothingness-town ennui. And the Joy Division part of myself.

Andrew Bird produced a masterpiece, Armchair Apokrypha, which I am super wary of over-listening to, because it's on the ipod at work and we listen to music for 9 hours straight there.

The National's new album is rock for grownups, and very beautiful. The lead singer does not sound like a little boy, and that makes all the women instantly like it.

Patrick Wolf is my perennial art-boy crush and his new album is fucking awesome (and has Marianne Faithful on it).


I want new music I want all music.
I live in a house with two professional musicians and they almost NEVER listen to music at home. I listen to probably 97% of the music played in the house, but do to the aforementioned musicians annoying habit of making fun of all music that is played in the house, I listen to less and less, unless I sequester myself in the bedroom or studio.

I want to buy (on CD in my hot little hand):

The new Magnetic Fields
The new Bob Mould (I read a good review of it)
Vampire Weekend (possibly? The sound like afro-pop)
Lightning Seed (I read a good review of this too, They're from the Black Mountain family)
Cat Power's Jukebox
Something by Sage Francis (whenever he starts rapping on the ipod at work I'm like "woah this is awesome," and then I check and it's Mr. Francis being incredibly verbose AGAIN.)
23 by Blonde Redhead (why don't I have this already??)

more? Can YOU reccomend something? I have incredibly varied musical tastes. I even like goth and celtic (is that the same thing? Hmmmmm.) So try me.



I love this video because of the way she moved down to hip hop video level- crouching, walking towards the camera with her makeshift "posse" of bar denzins behind her, throwing up "signs". Also because it is so happy-golden-summer.

Cat Power- Lived in Bars
Starts off slow and sultry, ends joyfully.