So I've finally upped the mix I made, I'm putting it in here. You should listen to it. I added a couple tracks to the mix: All Around the World by Paul Simon and Ottoman by Vampire Weekend. I just got the extended version of Graceland and I've listened to it like constantly (I don't care, haters) and I just really liked that particular version. Ottoman was off of the soundtrack for Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Personally I thought the movie fucking sucked and the book was a big let down after all the reviews I read. Michael Cera played the same part as he always does but he's probably, besides the five seconds of If There's a Will There's a Whalebone (which according to my friend was the biggest blue balls inducing moment of all time), one of the better parts of that movie. I was actually really angry about it for a while. I take my expenditures seriously and I was let down. Brandon loves the movie but he also got scratched by a cat when stuffing it into a box for it's Youth In Asia. SO really his opinion is kind of a wash.
Like the good little Unicorns fan I am, I've been listening to the Clues release a lot as well. I loved Islands' releases and Nick Thorburn's efforts post Unicorns (I feel evil creeping in, the cover of cyanide breath mint, come into my room, tender torture, flesh[I liked the version that was swimming around there with that rad version of Abominable snow. Again, haters, you struck again], whalebone, don't call me whitney bobby, and Swans), I really love all of the self referencing in the lyrics and progressions. pop music is always borrowing from other artists as it is comfortable and already proven to make a successful song, but there's something different about how they do it; it's almost like they've achieved some sort of mystery within their music and personal lives. They've probably worked pretty fucking hard on that also . Alden Penner and Nick Thorburn share that tendency and I think it's because of the large amount of time they spent recording together. Back to Clues, I think the shining tracks on this album have to be: Remembered Severed Head, Ledmonton,Crows, and Let's Get Strong. The entire thing is pretty amazing. Brendan Reed is a fucking awesome drummer. However I really wanted the full versions of the songs off of the Rad Boo Horror and the Glory Sampler, dammit! They were awesome... I almost felt let down. But that's what I get for being so creepy.
It's been a long year of obsession with these guys' music and I've spent a fair amount of my time lurking on secret unicorns forum (Dr Lawyerstein, I know where you live) and I have finally made one simple conclusion that a lot of people have been reluctant to admit to themselves: The Unicorns aren't coming back. There is no way that they could break up for this amount of time and be able to continue as they were and all the dreaming about what could have been is worthless. Take things for what they are and dream of that.
I have to admit, I used to be a pretty big Vampire Weekend fan. I know that in the indie community saying that is like saying you have the plague, but I used to like them a lot because of that graceland feel they had. They're way to jumpy to be afro-pop though. come on, if anything they're an 80s throwback band. Anyways, their debut album was overplayed and I got sick of it and every rich fucker that goes to my private school thought they were an indie rocker because they wore ralph lauren too and had a-punk as their ringtone. Thanks Pitchfork and Rollingstone for basically cumming your pants over them, you may have made them famous but you ruined them as well. However, Ottoman was off of that soundtrack so it's barely been looked at because of the profound shittiness of that movie, and I haven't listened to it much. So it's ok with me.
slap on your ray bans and bandanas folks, it's summer now and the living is easy and so is the comfort of the mob mentality in popular music.
I wasn't intending on having this negative at all. Honestly I'm just nervous about the whole flyingalonetochicago situation that I have on sunday. Plus the whole possibly not having internet for a month thing. I need my fix of illegally downloaded music and chatting with my friends. *sigh* I miss it already. however I did get flashy new headphones:
I also got the matching ear buds but I'm way to lazy to do anymore pictures. I apologise.
http://www.mediafire.com/?0gnmnwgkdtj
