I'm still under the weather today and now my computer's on the fritz. I think I need to take a baseball bat to it. Actually, maybe someone can help? Yesterday, I got a blue screen of death about a core dump (maybe that's what it said?) while trying to do too many things at once, and it runs kind of sluggishly now, and when I run Azureus, and then everything gets glitchy and it runs slower than molasses. Should I uninstall Azureus and reinstall it, see if that helps? Or did I blow out some piece of hardware, like my RAM? Any assistance appreciated...thank you.
So, it's kind of a testament to the wonderfulness of Sasha Frere-Jones that his review of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Show Your Bones in this week's issue of The New Yorker brought a modicum of happiness to my morning. This is one of those days where I wish I could write that well. I'm really hung up on the YYYs lately, and I swear, it's not just because the new album is coming out; my renewed interest and the trickle of leaked tracks just happened to coinicide, which is kind of weird.
Anyway, I hate to post something so weird and gloomy when I'm not having the best day -- but here's some artists I like quite a bit doing some really brilliant Jandek covers from Down in a Mirror: A Second Tribute to Jandek. (Other artists featured include Jeff Tweedy, Brother JT, and Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple.) I'm not sure how I missed hearing about this album -- which was released last year and blogged to death -- but these things do happen. It's quite a strong collection for covers album, but it's odd to find I agree with a P-fork reviewer -- it would have been nice to have a female artist or two in the mix. Christine Fellows? Mia Doi Todd? Joanna Newsom? Barbara Manning? Seriously.
The Mountain Goats -- White Box
Six Organs of Admittance -- I'll Sit Alone And Think Alot About You
Okkervil River -- Your Other Man
(Buy Down in a Mirror: A Second Tribute to Jandek from Insound.)
Oh, and while the subject is on my mind, is anyone also less than impressed with Kelley Stoltz and Rocky Votolato? What the world needs now is another pablum-dishing confessional singer songwriter, like I need a hole in the head.
So, it's kind of a testament to the wonderfulness of Sasha Frere-Jones that his review of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Show Your Bones in this week's issue of The New Yorker brought a modicum of happiness to my morning. This is one of those days where I wish I could write that well. I'm really hung up on the YYYs lately, and I swear, it's not just because the new album is coming out; my renewed interest and the trickle of leaked tracks just happened to coinicide, which is kind of weird.
Anyway, I hate to post something so weird and gloomy when I'm not having the best day -- but here's some artists I like quite a bit doing some really brilliant Jandek covers from Down in a Mirror: A Second Tribute to Jandek. (Other artists featured include Jeff Tweedy, Brother JT, and Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple.) I'm not sure how I missed hearing about this album -- which was released last year and blogged to death -- but these things do happen. It's quite a strong collection for covers album, but it's odd to find I agree with a P-fork reviewer -- it would have been nice to have a female artist or two in the mix. Christine Fellows? Mia Doi Todd? Joanna Newsom? Barbara Manning? Seriously.
The Mountain Goats -- White Box
Six Organs of Admittance -- I'll Sit Alone And Think Alot About You
Okkervil River -- Your Other Man
(Buy Down in a Mirror: A Second Tribute to Jandek from Insound.)
Oh, and while the subject is on my mind, is anyone also less than impressed with Kelley Stoltz and Rocky Votolato? What the world needs now is another pablum-dishing confessional singer songwriter, like I need a hole in the head.
posted by cindy hotpoint at 11:02:00 AM
1 Comments:
Yay thanks so much for the mountain goats and okkervil tracks! awesome.
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