Week of Yeah Yeah Yeahs!

They're on Letterman too!

He is Risen!

I stole this from Michial's post.  It was so incredible I had to post it here:



Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules
reknit, the amino acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.

It was not as the flowers,
each soft Spring recurrent;
it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled
eyes of the eleven apostles;
it was as His flesh: ours.

The same hinged thumbs and toes,
the same valved heart
that--pierced--died, withered, paused, and then
regathered out of enduring Might
new strength to enclose.

Let us not mock God with metaphor,
analogy, sidestepping, transcendence;
making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the
faded credulity of earlier ages:
let us walk through the door.

The stone is rolled back, not papier-mâché,
not a stone in a story,
but the vast rock of materiality that in the slow
grinding of time will eclipse for each of us
the wide light of day.

And if we will have an angel at the tomb,
make it a real angel,
weighty with Max Planck’s quanta, vivid with hair,
opaque in the dawn light, robed in real linen
spun on a definite loom.

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous,
for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty,
lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are
embarrassed by the miracle,
and crushed by remonstrance.
- John Updike, "Seven Stanzas at Easter"

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs on SNL

I was definitely excited about this show.  Not so much for Zac Efron (or at all for that matter, but I was somewhat surprised), but for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Here's the song "Zero" from their new album It's Blitz!:




And an older song (but probably their most popular) from their album Fever To Tell, "Maps":





Not to sound corny, but I love Karen O's smile.

Stream Conor Oberst's "Slowly (Oh So Slowly)"

Click here to listen to "Slowly (Oh So Slowly)" off of Conor Oberst's new album Outer South.

"Where The Wild Things Are" Trailer

I posted the poster for Where The Wild Things Are. As I said then I didn't really pay the movie much attention. But that, and this trailer, has gotten me really interested and excited for it:

New Modest Mouse - "Satellite Skin"

Modest Mouse is up there on my favorite band list.  It's good to know they're coming out with an EP titled No One's First And You're Next. Here's the tracklist:

"Autumn Beds"
"Guilty Cocker Spaniels"
"History"
"I've Got It All (Most)"
"King Rat"
"Satellite Skin"
"Tie the Lake Down"
"The Whale Song"


Recently they performed "Satellite Skin" on Letterman:

"Where The Wild Things Are" Poster

I haven't really been paying a lot of attention to this movie.  That is, until I saw this:

There's just something about it. 

New Conor Oberst in May!

I know this is somewhat old news, but Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band have a new album coming out May 5th called Outer South.  Needless to say I'm pretty excited.  Here's a song off the album they played back in January on Conan O'Brian:

One Word: KITTENS

This has been around a while, so you may have already seen it. But it is glorious.

Top 25 Songs of 2008

It's been so long.

I had bigger plans for this list. Maybe a little bit of an explanation. But things have been so busy.


Here are some of my favorite songs of last year. Every November I like to reflect back on some of my favorite music. Granted, this past year wasn't the best year as far as new music goes, but it wasn't awful either. Here's my list:


25. "Chemtrails" – Beck
24. "This Is What" - Horse Feathers
23. "Testify" – Carney
22. "Pork and Beans" – Weezer
21. "Hideaway" – Weepies
20. "Head Rolls Off" - Frightened Rabbit
19. "Potholes" - Randy Newman
18. "Bye Bye Bye" - Plants and Animals
17. "Living Well Is The Best Revenge" - R.E.M.
16. "Acid Tongue" - Jenny Lewis
15. "Skeleton Bones" - John Mark McMillan
14. "As Tall As Cliffs" - Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos
13. "Your Love Is Strong" - Jon Foreman
12. "L.E.S. Artistes" - Santogold
11. "Lover's Day" - TV On The Radio
10. "Dinosaur on the Ark" - The Very Best
9. "Gobbledigook" - Sigur Ros
8. “Cath…” – Death Cab For Cutie
7. “Hurricane and Fire Survival Guides” – Cloud Cult
6. “Cape Canaveral” – Conor Oberst
5. Streets On Fire" - Lupe Fiasco
4. "Carolina Drama" - The Raconteurs
3. "Beat (Health, Life, and Fire)" - Thao
2. "Hymn #101" - Joe Pug
1. "Skinny Love" - Bon Iver


Let me know what you think!

I'll try to be a little bit more "post-ful" soon.