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Thee More Shallows - The Perfect Map

I'm back in Georgia again, sprawled languidly in the basement, my lazy limbs brushing the collars of my variously assembled dog family... This song for me is a sort of security blanket, an old friend in which to confide mangled truths. I have hidden the poor thing away from the carnivorous ears of my friends and knowables, so I think it fitting that I reveal this splendorous light maker from the quiet cavernous sanctuary of my Basement. The band is thee more shallows, a san franciscan three piece... The song is from their first album, a History of Sport Fishing, a 2002 project that was contrived, set loose, and recorded, awesomely, in a basement.

It's a song that has bored it's way into the frontmost of my lobey bits... Hope you enjoy it, all three (or four) of you that actually read this.



Thee More Shallows The Perfect Map

Mississippi John Hurt - Walk That Lonesome Valley

A Youtube Diamond.

If I was where I would be then I'd be where I am not, here I am where I must be, where I would be I cannot.

(Bob Dylan, Karen Dalton, and Fred Neil -- 1961)

Just a quickie as I'm sweating dreadfully in this smoke choked net cafe, and kinda want to go home pretty soon. There's a brilliant post over here at Bat and Bird what's all about the brilliant and enigmatic Karen Dalton. featuring two versions of one of my favorite songs, Katie Cruel, by Dalton and Fleet foxes (!). Go look, it's very nice.

Look here, it's a beautiful video I got from Youtube.

"Blues Jumped the Rabbit" --- Karen Dalton




In an aside, The four piece dryadic moss and branch band Grizzly Bear have just performed a new song on Letterman, and it's a cracker. it's called 2 weeks. Can't wait for the final version.

The Scene = Awesome.

this is absolutely mindblowing.





check : guy in Canary yellow at 2:56

my awareness folds like soggy cheesecake

This tiny painting is by a very talented person named Tom Long. Read a very nice interview and more images here. (Cheers Adam K for the wisdom)


In a short time I shall turn my back on the sweet crystal hiss of London, that ageless jolting cacophony-shut away the strand and Bridge, the hysterics of the Underground and the bliss of Crystal Palace park... I walk away from all that on July 15th, the day that I submerge myself in the rush of rolling rail as I trek across the channel and up to Belgium- from there, Koblenz, Frankfurt and Düsseldorf, a Germanic headcrush of compressed excitement and doubtless cultural indigestion...before clinging desperately to my seat as I'm hurled mercilessly across that roiling melting plastic expanse of Ocean. I miss the horses and I miss my Puppy, now grown. I miss my family and my mother's cooking. I miss my creaking house and I miss the lake, trees, and sunlight. hummingbirds whistling through the clean air above my snoozing head like tiny electric cars. Driving through atmosphere, doubtless the marriage of the two dischordant realities shall consume my thought.

I've been listening to alot of this at the moment.
I'm trying a new tac here, because savefile brings me grief.

Click here to download these songs...



The Giant Panda baby mix:

1. A Picture of our Torn up Praise -------------- Phosphorescent
2. Graveyard ----------------------------------- Chad VanGaalen
3. For Emma ------------------------------------Bon Iver
4. Re:Stacks ------------------------------------ Bon Iver
5. Dark Horse ---------------------------------- Bowerbirds
6. Hooves--------------------------------------- Bowerbirds
7. Lazy Suicide ---------------------------------- Megafaun
8. Messages from the Stars --------------------- RAH Band
9. My Oldest Memory -------------------------- Bowerbirds
10.Wolves -------------------------------------- Phosphorescent
11.Rock my Boat ------------------------------- Dntel with Mai Doi Todd
12.My Only Boy-------------------------------- Shearwater
13.Slow down ---------------------------------- White Williams
14.So Gentle Your Arms ----------------------- Shannon Stevens
15.The Trees Were Mistaken ------------------ Andrew Bird
16.Route to Palm ------------------------------- White Williams

Whew. sweatwipe.

p.s. I also really miss my friends...

4.......9.......5.......3.......1

Right, now that we've tidied that bit of class out of the way it's time to do a bit of music. Just picked up the new one from Adem, the South London based breeze harvester on Domino records. It's called 'Takes' and its full of sweet covers. Here we have two songs, one of which is a favorite, and the other, a cover of a favorite. Listen to this while you figure out what your kids should plant on mars.



Pinback -
Loro (savefile)

Adem -
Loro (savefile)