so not original

#35... moving

2009-05-04T19:54:00.001-07:00

I'm packing up my things (aka nothing) and moving over to a new site

Check me out here from now on:

so-not-original.tumblr.com

You may be asking yourself... why?
or not, whatever.

these dudes have a tumblr account, so now I wanted one too. and you can easily post stuff on tumblr. so now I have a tumblr. there

#33.... 2 more vids

2009-04-22T19:11:00.000-07:00

Here's Bill Callahan. He used to be in a band called (Smog), sometimes they were called Smog.
So-indie

And here's a fun jam from Passion Pit:

Passion Pit - The Reeling from Smoke My Tabaco on Vimeo.

#32... DF

2009-04-21T18:05:00.000-07:00

DUNGEON FAMILY!!!!

#31.... on repeat

2009-04-20T17:07:00.000-07:00

The Rolling Stones - Luxury
This is from "It's Only Rock 'n Roll", considered a 'not-great' album from Mick, Keef, Charlie, Ronnie & Bill... whatever.

and here's a solid laid-back style Premo beat. perfect for the faux-summertime weather:

dirty 30...... typography

2009-04-18T09:16:00.000-07:00

language is NSFW, so if you're "W'ing" be carefull

"... except Mrs. Wallace"

"Dios mio man"

#29.... The Rev & B.T.

2009-04-13T16:17:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday buddy!

I've been jamming this one on repeat:

#28..... 2-fer

2009-04-07T20:02:00.000-07:00

The Thermals - Now We Can See

Pitbull feat. Pharrell - Blanco

#27.... T-Shirt Album Track 6-8

2009-03-18T18:02:00.000-07:00

I have fallen out of the T-Shirt Album Track posting so here's the rest.
ENJOY

Track 6:
Bought from the venerable folks @ Turntable Lab

Detail Shot:

My favorite part is the symbol for the 45RPM record insert... I have one on my keychain too

Here's a 45RPM record being played:

Track 7

The wife bought this for me and gave it to me on a random trip north to MN:

These dudes made some good music a while back.

Here's Steveland Morris covering them (one of the few -only?- times a cover surpassed the original):

You can find all sorts of 'name & name... tshirts' here - http://www.thenamesbrand.com/
(I returned the favor and got my girl this one for valentines day)

Here's Track 8:
Bought this @ Gordman's when I worked there for like 4 months.

Nuff Said.

#26.... stop what you're doing

2009-03-09T18:02:00.000-07:00

right NOW

go here and download the remix of Amerie's stellar song 'One Thing' by siik.

next go to the man's website (siik.org) and enjoy.
the dude is all over pictures and youtube and has some super dope mixes posted.

I am currently on my 5th time in a row listening to this JAM.

Here's the video for the original song:

Amerie - New Music - More Music Videos

the original is a straight up monster. it's working on 4 years old and I'm still not tired of it.

the remix takes the go-go (DRUMS PLEASE!) out and throws in some strings and picked electric guitar and moves it into the smoothed out tip... aaaah. perfect for drinking a cold beer and eating some fresh guacamole on a patio outside, which I will be doing every possible moment this summer... if it ever gets here.

and I'm done geeking out over another R&B song

ps - just finished the 7th time through... on to #8

#25... here comes another one

2009-03-08T19:18:00.001-07:00

here's another fun one

Young Jeezy + Terry Richardson = dope video
this is a great song (HORNS!)

the director, Terry Richardson, did the album art work for N*E*R*D's 1st album, 'in search of...' along with lots of other crazy stuff. google him baby

#24... fun vid

2009-03-04T16:30:00.000-08:00

thanks 'Ye:
pfunk sample + crazy video = likeit.

Happy Up Here from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

In case you didn't already know I'm very unoriginal ("so").
Most of the stuff I post I've stolen from other sites. Kanye is all over the place with his posts, I might not like everything he posts, but I dig his enthusiasm I guess.

#23.... cross blog pollination (Beati Paoli Winter Tour 2009: Day 3/4 - Dallas, TX & Muskogee, Ok) *UPDATE

2009-02-21T11:07:00.000-08:00

UPDATE - Click here to read my post on TNM

We've got a special treat today. Have you ever wanted to know what it's like to go on tour with a real life rock and/or roll band? Check this.

In attempt to promote some other blogs that I read on the regular, Ryan from The Noising Machine has a word from about Beati Paoli's recent tour.
For Day 1/2 go HERE

Beati Paoli Winter Tour 2009: Day 3/4 - Dallas, TX & Muskogee, OK

We arrive in Dallas around 6pm to the faint sounds of the Super Bowl drifting out of the bars and onto the streets. Yes, we are playing a show on Super Bowl evening. I guess that it won't really affect us since the Cowboys aren't playing...

We load in and pretty much hang out inside the venue, The Lounge on Elm St. The original plan is for us to play at 8. We are told of a slight change and we will not go on until after the bowl game, that way people whom are leaving neighboring bars and whatnot have a chance to finish up their drinking elsewhere and then can wander into The Lounge. We accept this proposal and go off to find food.
We return to find out that neither the local band nor any patrons have shown up yet. It is at this point I learn for the bartender that they normally are not even open on Sunday's. I begin to worry. With these troubling facts and that there are no BP tour flyers posted anywhere in the venue, I'm guessing It could be a sparse crowd.

Well, one individual shows up, old friend and fellow Lincoln High School alumnus, Chris Cass. We chat, listen to some terrible band being played over the PA singing about glory holes, dicks, bushes and whatnot, (Greg summed them up as a more retarded Bloodhound Gang, but with a smaller vocabulary), watch some random birthday girl take a cleavage shot from the busty bartender, play a private show for Tony and Chris, then quickly get the hell out of there.

On the way to Chris' apartment, he tells us of the neighboring apartment, whose former tenant he believes committed suicide recently. The neighboring apartment's door is unlocked and has been for the last few weeks. Naturally, we all dare Cecil to spend the night there and even pool 120 dollars amongst Scott, Greg, Chris, Tony and me (with Tony chipping in the most at 40 dollars) as a reward. He goes back and forth on doing it. Finally, Cecil and I go next door to at least check out the place. Immediately entering, we are met with the horrific stench of mold and mildew (Chris had mentioned that at one point water was seeping into his apartment from next door). We check the place out and it's empty aside for a couch in the living room and a lipstick case in the bedroom. We split and Cecil chickens out.

The next morning we awake and are out of Chris' apartment by 8 am. It's our day off, so we have to make a decision as to what we will do: visit the alien graveyard or the Dr Pepper museum. After some serious debating, we settle on Dr Pepper and are Waco bound. Upon arrival, we spend the next hour and a half perusing the annals of Dr Pepper and learn all sorts of interesting things that I have since forgotten. We try hot Dr Pepper with a lemon (which is surprising tasty) and load-up on Dr Pepper made with real sugar.

We then spend the next 6 or 7 hours driving to Springfield, Missouri. While passing through Muskogee, Oklahoma, our van starts making funny noises. We decided to not risk it and stop there for the night. We get a good nights rest at a Comfort Inn.

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thanks for reading. check The Noising Machine for all sorts of fun/interesting/thought-provoking things. And the next exciting entry from the T-shirt Album will be posted on The Noising Machine as well. SYNERGY!

Want to know what happens for the rest of the tour? Does Cecil take any outlandish bets, does the van make it, does Greg's long last twin come back from the dead to tell him they have to get back home for a paternity test????... ok enough. Just check TNM on the regular and you'll be better for it.

#22.... valentines day mix

2009-02-14T18:03:00.000-08:00

ok, we'll see how this works
here's a mix I made for today, per the request of Mr. J. R. Crenshaw.

go here to D/L it

Tracklist:
1. LedZep - That's the Way
2. Serge G. - Des Laids Des Laids
3. Stars - My Favourite Book
4. Os Mutantes - Baby
5. Syreeta - I Love Everything...
6. Steveland - For 1nce in My Life
7. P.R.N. - She's Always...
8. Sly & the Fam - Frisky
9. SigurRos - Illgresi (Them Jeans Dance Rmx)
10. Isley Bros. - What it Comes Down To
11. D - Send it On
12. W. Hutch - I Choose u
13. S. Burke - Can't Nobody...

if someone gets knocked up because of this, don't come to me.

#21..... R&Bonanza

2009-02-10T18:28:00.000-08:00

these dudes are sooooo killing me right now

Ryan Leslie:

The-Dream:

Ryan Leslie produced Me & U for Cassie. Before that he taught himself how to play the piano, then everything else, graduated high school early then graduated from HARVARD and now he makes dope music. His album is out now.

The-Dream produced Umbrella and makes music that sounds to me like Prince and Timbaland had a baby. He has an album out soon.

I don't know where this obsession comes from.

I think it started here:

moved here:

then to this:

and this:

#20..... get some! (update - link down)

2009-02-04T19:32:00.000-08:00

well folks, it's the 20th anniversary of of s-n-o and do I have a treat for you.

courtesy of Ginger King comes a super dope mix.

link is temporarily down. check back for a new one soon.

and here's a tracklist for you:

Hey! - Laidback Luke & Diplo
Lick My Deck - Sebastian Ingrosso & John Dahlback
Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby (Bryan Cox Remix)
Colours (Fred Falke Remix) - Hot Chip
Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix) - Hercules and Love Affair
Be My Crush (Cicada's B-Live Rio Mix) - The Twelves
Pat Pong (Switch Remix) - Pest
Robot Oeuf - Uffie
Breakfast (Mercury Remix) - LeLe
Raven (Polymorphic Remix) - Proxy
Love In The Digital Age (Tepr Remix) - Heads We Dance
If I Could (feat. Jadis) - LA Riots
Blow Your Head (DJ Eli Remix) - Diplo
Electric Feel (Dskotek Remix) - MGMT
Let The Spirit (Hot Chip Remix) - Roots Manuva
A New Career in a New Town - Joakim & The Disco
La Serenissima - Eine Kleine Nacht Musik
Doctorin' The Tardis (Dada Life Guerilla Fart #8) - The Timelords/KLF
my neck my knobb - sqzmylmns
We Feelin' Each Other - Kotchy & Shunda K (Yo Majesty)
Muscles - Sweaty (SHAZAM Remix)
See The Light (Calvin Harris Remix) - The Hours
I Need Your Love (Ewan Pearson 'Stay In School' Vocal Mix) - The Rapture
Youth Blood (B-Ju Remix) - Little Jinder
Get Money Kids (Nacho Lovers Walk Remix) - Pase Rock
Music Sounds Better With You (Juxx Remix) - Stardust

BEAUTIFUL BABY

#19..... T-Shirt Album Track 4

2009-02-02T18:29:00.000-08:00

cottage + high lifes + beach + sun + friends = SEXY DANCE PARTY

Here's track # 4:

a collaboration design between myself and Miss Kari D. Durham.

and a detail shot from the back:

and the theme song:
(this video is soooo turribly awesome)

#18..... Fleet Foxes

2009-02-01T19:31:00.000-08:00

I think if these guys:

would have listened to a little more of this:

and a little less of this:

they would have sounded like this:

#17... kells?

2009-01-31T08:54:00.000-08:00

I just can't stop with these:

#16..... mariah?

2009-01-30T20:34:00.000-08:00

#15.... widget!

2009-01-29T17:27:00.000-08:00

good stuff
check the website
http://www.darkwasthenight.com/

the album is out 02/16

#14..... interview with Craig Finn of the Hold Steady

2009-01-25T20:13:00.000-08:00

here's an a link to an "exclusive" interview I had with Craig, lead singer of the Hold Steady.

http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/chatESPN?event_id=22017

If you scroll down to the bottom of the page you'll find;

john, des moines, ia: If you could play any position, what would it be? would you prefer to be the leadoff or cleanup hitter?

Craig Finn: I think 2B maybe. I would like to be in the middle of a double play. It's a very graceful position. Big wish for a very clumsy person.

Even though he didn't answer the rest of my question, he was still a good interview-ee. I also wanted to ask him what music he would play whilst walking up to the batter's box, but it didn't get through in time.

here's my choice:

#13..... T-Shirt Album Track 3

2009-01-25T16:38:00.000-08:00

who's ready for track 3?
if not... too bad

MJ!

I "made" this at a t-shirt shop down the street from Wrigley Stadium in Chicago.

and a detail shot:

here's a gem:

#12.... T-Shirt Album Track 2

2009-01-21T18:20:00.000-08:00

and now, track 2

Bought in LA for too many dollars.

here's a detail shot:

here's some music from the film's composer Lalo Schifrin:

#11.... what's blowing my mind right now?

2009-01-21T18:07:00.000-08:00

#10.... T-shirt Album Track 1

2009-01-17T12:34:00.000-08:00

Here's track #1
Purchased @ Target for $10.

At heart, I'm still a comic dork. I like the Jack Kirby style.

And a detail shot:

RAMONES!!!

#9....tshirt album

2009-01-17T12:13:00.000-08:00

I'm not going to lie guys, my t-shirt game is pretty on-point.
Here's my cover of "The T-Shirt Album":

Over the next few days I'll post each t-shirt as a track along with a song and a story about the shirt.
Something different I guess... let me know what you think

#8..... what's in my pocket?

2009-01-16T14:51:00.000-08:00

This is in my pocket!

I took a bunch of pictures of random stuff the other day.
More to come...
A series of T-shirt posts in the theme of an album... hmmmm?

#7..... where were you last night?

2009-01-11T13:57:00.001-08:00

This is where I was:

#6...... sunday

2009-01-11T13:43:00.000-08:00

Who loves youtube?
I love youtube!
I have over 'a hunnert' videos in my favorites list.
Here's a random one that I think is cool:

I remember watching this live and turning it up LOUD
The White Stripes@ the Grammy's circa '03

#5...... "dissapointing" things

2009-01-02T16:25:00.000-08:00

these are all albums that just didn't quite cut it for me (and for good measure, I'll throw in something from the halcyon days)...

My Morning Jacket's "Evil Urges"
1 song, Highly Suspicious threw me for a loop, sounds too much like a Korn song for me. Unfortunately it's early in the tracklist (#3) and it left a bad taste in my mouth for the rest of the album. I loved the last album, Z, maybe a little too much and wanted more...
Here's Off the Record from their last album "Z":

My Morning Jacket |MTV Music

The Hold Steady "Stay Positive"
Let's start with the art work...
Which do you like better THIS or THIS
It's no contest really.
I still really enjoyed the album but I had trouble getting past the drab cover.
Also, they put one of the best songs as a hidden/bonus track at the end of the last track! Franz pounds out the horn part nicely on the keys, though.
"Boys & Girls..." was the perfect album at the perfect time for me but I think with time "Stay Positive" will grow even better.
Here's You Can Make Him Like You from "Boys & Girls..."

those were 2 rock albums, now let's move on to a few hip-hop/rap albums...

Devin the Dude "Landing Gear"
Maybe he shouldn't have left Rap-a-lot records...
Here's Lacville '79 from "Just Tryin..."

...this albums was not-good enough that I need another, Georgy from his 1st self titled album:

Lil Wayne "Tha Carter III"
I don't know what I was expecting... but this wasn't quite it. Comfortable & Let the Beat Build got multiple spins, but nothing else really stuck with me... outside of Lollipop.
Here's Mr. Carter freestyling over Beyonce's Upgrade:

I guess I was expecting 08 to be huge because of those albums. They were all pretty damn good though (except Devin... seriously Dude who the F is Dee-Rail!??!?) and there were plenty of others that I was happy about with a few surprises too.

anybody out there? what do you think?

#4.... top singles 2008

2008-12-29T16:15:00.000-08:00

Here's a list of my favorite singles from the last year:

I've already posted about "Robocop" by Kanye & TI's "Whatever You Like", so here's a few more that I dug...

Erykah Badu - Honey *
This is like record/wax/vinyl porn... ohgod

Radiohead - House of Cards *

the video was made all with lasers. and lasers are COOL

* - tie for my favorite videos of the year.

Estelle - Pretty Please (feat. Cee-Lo)

"American Boy" was a bigger hit, and a great song too (Kanye on the verse is damn good) but there's something about the playfulness of this that gets me.

Young Jeezy - Put On

this is my "hard" song for the year.

The Hold Steady - Sequestered in Memphis

didn't love the new album as much as a I wanted to, but this has a great singalong feel.
the video for Stay Positive was pretty great too, directed by Jake Davis.

Kanye West - Flashing Lights (kinda NSFW)

Kanye West |MTV Music

the video was a little disappointing (Kanye + Spike Jonze, was expecting craziness) but still a dope song
thought this was pretty great too

Indie/Hipster Jam:
Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna...
Debated on including MGMT, but decided they weren't worthy (I'm sure they're devastated) mostly because their live show was subpar.

Guilty Pleasures:
Ne-Yo - Miss Independent

There weren't any songs that really blew my mind this year... I was hoping for another Kelly Clarkson "Since You Been Gone" type to come along, but all I got was crappy Katy Perry.
There's always next year. Here's hoping that one of the Olsen Twins or Mikey Rourke hooks up with Just Blaze or the guy from Of Montreal for something truly weird/awesome...

#3.... top albums of 2008

2008-12-28T14:36:00.000-08:00

Here's my top 5 for the year:

5.) Drive by Truckers - Brighter than Creations Dark
If Jeff Tweedy, from Wilco, would have grown up in Alabama I think he would have ended up in a band like DBT.
I was more happy with this album for introducing me to a great countrified rock band. I had heard of them before, but this was the first album of theirs that I purchased.

4.) Kanye West - 808's & Heartbreak
This took a few listens before I realized how much I like it.
soul-sides talked about Kanye does the same thing every time he releases an album, he makes people talk about music. At first it was just hip-hop/rap, but now it's the whole pop world.
And here's Robocop (I'm still not sure what the whole "ack-in' like a Robocop" is all about, but I'm sure that I like it!)

3.) Q-Tip - The Renaissance
There's something about his voice... it just makes me smile.

2.) Vampire Weekend - s/t
Feels like this album is more than a year old. I had the EP downloaded summer of 07, I think. The best thing about this album is that I'm pretty sure that 20 years from now it will seem fresh.

1.) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
The first 2 weeks I had this album, I listened to it every morning at work... I'm still not tired of it.

I posted links to Amazon's mp3 store and as luck would have it #1-3 are all on sale for only 5 bucks and 808's is only $3.99. I usually use Amazon for mp3 downloads, rather than iTunes, because they have a higher bitrate (256 vs. 128). I'm not really sure what it means, but I assume that bigger is better.

and now a few honorable mentions:

Esau Mwamwaya - Mixtape
this is $free.99 and lots of fun

Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Guilty Pleasure, everybody's gotta have one or two... or three or four

Al Green - Let it Down
if ?uestlove is involved, count me in.

Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
R. said he recorded this entire album on old school equipment with all live instrumentation (most of which he played himself) with no computer help, it has the feel of an old Marvin Gaye Motown album.

Sigur Ros - new one (not going to type it out!)
The "Them Jeans" remix of Illgressi from thefader.com is great too.

Wale - Mixtape about Nothing
I f**ks with Seinfeld, Wale f**ks with Seinfeld, therefore, I f**ks with Wale

The-Dream - Love/Hate
See also, Coldplay

I also, would have included In Rainbows, but technically it was released in 2007.

2nd.... for kw

2008-12-16T13:17:00.000-08:00

on the side project tip the strokes have a few:
from the ok
to the still not sure
even the quiet guy has one. I heard a few tracks on Mark Ronson's show a while back and they seemed pretty alright.

this one looks the most promising though:

check out Devandra in the background with testicular maracas

they remind me a little of this
and according to Mr. H maybe a little of this... these would only be known if you live in Iowa or the surrounding states. if you've never heard of/seen them before, count your blessings

1st

2008-12-11T17:15:00.000-08:00

Ok, here we go...

TI's "Whatever You Like" might be favorite song of 2008.
While it's not his best song (this is) it just makes me happy.

Here he is performing it live on Kimmel:

My favorite part of this performance is that he has no hype man. Instead his backup singer sings along with him on parts of the verses... amazing.
It seems like usually rappers/hip-hoppers just rap over their own song and you can usually even hear the vocal track behind them.
so, way to go TIP.
he's just a fascinating dude... more on him later.

lastly... can some one please please please make a remix of this song with the girl from Coming to America that Prince Akeem is supposed to marry?
Prince Akeem: What kind of music do you like?
Imani: Whatever kind of music you liiiiiiike (spreads arms)

that is all