mixtape

The TSURURADIO Community Presents… Whodat Peckerhead’s I Wanna Be Ignored Mixtape!!!

October 30, 2009
By

Photography by Herky

It’s Friday but it’s a gloomy, cloudy, and busy one, meaning the sooner we get this day done and start our weekend, the better! Personally, I can’t think of a better way to finish off this week than with the shot of throat burnin’ bourbon in an old motel that is Whodat Peckerhead’s, from our Facebook community, new mixtape!

YAY!

It’s a wonderful mixtape, invoking the feeling of warm autumn nights, neon motels, whiskey & boots, but not in the dumb Gawd-Bless-De-USA country way.



Oh my. That’s especially special.

No, no, my friends, this mixtape is dripping with a lonely bar drinkin’, hard workin’, pickin’ up cheap hookers (good ol’ Sally), taking ‘er back to the 40 for some loveless servicin’, before drinkin’ a few more beers while flipping through the shitty motel TV, letting ol’ Sally get back out to work with a few extra bucks in the back pocket of her 80′s Jordache jeans she got at the Goodwill cheap, while you slowly fall into a drunken liquor & beer stupor, passing out, and starting it all over the next day.

Yeah, it’s THAT kind of mixtape. Enjoy!

The TSURURADIO Community Presents…
Whodat Peckerhead’s I Wanna Be Ignored Mixtape!!!
(Full Zip)

01 Ezra Furman And The Harpoons – I Wanna Be Ignored
02 The Rural Alberta Advantage – Rush Apart
03 Hank Williams III – Pills I Took
04 The Replacements – If Only You Were Lonely
05 John Lennon – Look at Me
06 Department Of Eagles – Love Me (Elvis Presley)
07 Tom Waits – Old Shoes And Picture Postcard
08 Bob Dylan And The Band – Odds And Ends
09 Silver Jews – San Francisco BC
10 Pablo – Morning
11 Meat Puppets – Lost
12 Ugly Cassanova – Smoke Like Ribbons
13 Beachwood Sparks – By Your Side
14 Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer – Black River Killer
15 Hoots And Hellmouth – It’s Close, I’m Undone
16 Decemberists – Shiny
17 Deer Tick – Easy

Like what you hear? Well, hell man, go to your local record store and by the damn thing!

Cheers,
Tsuru
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The TSURURADIO Community Presents… Whodat Peckerhead’s I Wanna Be Ignored Mixtape!!!

October 30, 2009
By

Photography by Herky

It’s Friday but it’s a gloomy, cloudy, and busy one, meaning the sooner we get this day done and start our weekend, the better! Personally, I can’t think of a better way to finish off this week than with the shot of throat burnin’ bourbon in an old motel that is Whodat Peckerhead’s, from our Facebook community, new mixtape!

YAY!

It’s a wonderful mixtape, invoking the feeling of warm autumn nights, neon motels, whiskey & boots, but not in the dumb Gawd-Bless-De-USA country way.



Oh my. That’s especially special.

No, no, my friends, this mixtape is dripping with a lonely bar drinkin’, hard workin’, pickin’ up cheap hookers (good ol’ Sally), taking ‘er back to the 40 for some loveless servicin’, before drinkin’ a few more beers while flipping through the shitty motel TV, letting ol’ Sally get back out to work with a few extra bucks in the back pocket of her 80′s Jordache jeans she got at the Goodwill cheap, while you slowly fall into a drunken liquor & beer stupor, passing out, and starting it all over the next day.

Yeah, it’s THAT kind of mixtape. Enjoy!

The TSURURADIO Community Presents…
Whodat Peckerhead’s I Wanna Be Ignored Mixtape!!!
(Full Zip)

01 Ezra Furman And The Harpoons – I Wanna Be Ignored
02 The Rural Alberta Advantage – Rush Apart
03 Hank Williams III – Pills I Took
04 The Replacements – If Only You Were Lonely
05 John Lennon – Look at Me
06 Department Of Eagles – Love Me (Elvis Presley)
07 Tom Waits – Old Shoes And Picture Postcard
08 Bob Dylan And The Band – Odds And Ends
09 Silver Jews – San Francisco BC
10 Pablo – Morning
11 Meat Puppets – Lost
12 Ugly Cassanova – Smoke Like Ribbons
13 Beachwood Sparks – By Your Side
14 Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer – Black River Killer
15 Hoots And Hellmouth – It’s Close, I’m Undone
16 Decemberists – Shiny
17 Deer Tick – Easy

Like what you hear? Well, hell man, go to your local record store and by the damn thing!

Cheers,
Tsuru
Tsuru And The Bride | Etsy | Society | Facebook | Twitter

The TSURURADIO Community Presents… MixItUp’s Halloween Mixed Tape!!!

October 25, 2009
By

Photography “Baby Red Riding Hood Lost In The Woods” by Me!
TSURUFOTO is no on Etsy!

Ah yes…. Halloween is almost upon us! And you know what that means, right? Yep! Women everywhere are gonna slut it up in the name of “dressing up in a costume”!!!



HOORAY!

No complaints, but you know, we can be honest about it, right? Right. Now, just because the costume is inherently slutty doesn’t mean you are stuck showing off your hoohas and rootie-tooties, sometimes you can take a slutty little costume and make it adorable! Don’t believe me? Check out my bee-otch a couple Halloweens ago…



Awww…… Bzzz Bzzz! Get it? Bee-otch? HA!

See, it’s not always about showing off skin, right? Sometimes you can even get all post-ironic & clever and shit. Here’s us last year as “French Stereotypes”!



Haha!

Or is that “Haw Haw”! Hehehe…..

But there’s one thing that’s consistent, regardless of age or level of drunken debauchery, and that’s spookin’ out. Whether it be dropping in to see Saw IX or V or XX or CVI or whatever gawd forsaken number they are up to, or visiting a “haunted house” — I got to tell you, those things do nothing for me. People chasing you around, trying to scare you, when you know they are there and you know they can’t really even touch you, kinda takes the “scare” out of it, no? — or maybe just hanging out in a pumpkin patch all night long..



Now, I’ll be honest. I never really got into Halloween. I think it all comes back to being a rather poor child. We really couldn’t afford costumes, so I was always a homemade pirate, cut off some jeans & a shirt, throw on a Walgreens eye patch, put on a hankerchief and out the door to trick-or-treat I went.

Oh…. I loved the candy. And, like most kids, we knew which house to hit, mom would usually take us to Riverhills in Tampa where alot of the rich houses were and we hit ‘em all, and the ones that gave out full candy bars, we hit again. Mom would be parked somewhere as a “home base” — come to think of it, wonder what she did in the car while we were galavanting around a rich neighborhood? Can’t remember.

Huh.

The next year? Same thing. Maybe I’d be able to save up for some fake blood and put some of that on my face, so I could be a bloody homemade pirate. Oooo… Awesome.

Now, Baby, she loves the Halloween and has us dress up every year and go out to some party. I try to get into it, I really do. But I have a hard time “feeling” the costume. It tends to end up being a mash up of things like two years ago when I was “emo Jesus”.



Who’s your personal jesus??

haha!

10 minutes into the costume, I was suddenly just emo me. Yeah. Awesome.

Now…. this is TSURURADIO, and what would ANY holiday be — at least one that I can remember existing — without a mixtape? A shitty one, that’s what. But, even though Halloweeny ain’t really my thingy, fortunately for you, for our head Society Mistress MixItUp it is and she built a “mixed tape” for us!!!



And it’s got ALL the old classics, Jason, Michael, and even the Crypt Keeper, as well as a few random “scar-r-r-r-ry eFx” to keep the kiddies awake a little longer next Saturday, all in cheesy good fun and all cheesy good times! So, let’s kick off the week of Halloween with a nighttime release of her fun collection! Click play….

IF YOU DARE!!

MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

*ahem*

Man, that really hurts the throat.

The TSURURADIO Community Presents…
MixItUp’s Halloween Mixed Tape!!!
(Full zip)

01 Zacherle
02 This Is Halloween
03 Deadbolt
04 Nightmare (Remix)
05 Goblin Laugh
06 Thunderclap
07 Ghost Town
08 Halloween Madness Mix
09 Jaws Theme
10 Twilight Zone
11 Monster Mash
12 Friday The 13th (Jason’s Theme)
13 Spooky Laughter
14 Tales From The Crypt Theme
15 Evil Laughter
16 Halloween
17 Twilight Zone Theme Song
18 Wolves
19 Southern Culture on the Skids
20 The Morgue
21 ‘The Munsters’ Theme
22 Resurrection OST
23 Zacherle
24 Goblin Laugh 2
25 Thunderclap 2

Cheers & Happy Halloween Week!!!
Tsuru
Tsuru And The Bride | Etsy | Society | Facebook | Twitter

The TSURURADIO Community Presents… MixItUp’s Halloween Mixed Tape!!!

October 24, 2009
By

Photography “Baby Red Riding Hood Lost In The Woods” by Me!
TSURUFOTO is no on Etsy!

Ah yes…. Halloween is almost upon us! And you know what that means, right? Yep! Women everywhere are gonna slut it up in the name of “dressing up in a costume”!!!



HOORAY!

No complaints, but you know, we can be honest about it, right? Right. Now, just because the costume is inherently slutty doesn’t mean you are stuck showing off your hoohas and rootie-tooties, sometimes you can take a slutty little costume and make it adorable! Don’t believe me? Check out my bee-otch a couple Halloweens ago…



Awww…… Bzzz Bzzz! Get it? Bee-otch? HA!

See, it’s not always about showing off skin, right? Sometimes you can even get all post-ironic & clever and shit. Here’s us last year as “French Stereotypes”!



Haha!

Or is that “Haw Haw”! Hehehe…..

But there’s one thing that’s consistent, regardless of age or level of drunken debauchery, and that’s spookin’ out. Whether it be dropping in to see Saw IX or V or XX or CVI or whatever gawd forsaken number they are up to, or visiting a “haunted house” — I got to tell you, those things do nothing for me. People chasing you around, trying to scare you, when you know they are there and you know they can’t really even touch you, kinda takes the “scare” out of it, no? — or maybe just hanging out in a pumpkin patch all night long..



Now, I’ll be honest. I never really got into Halloween. I think it all comes back to being a rather poor child. We really couldn’t afford costumes, so I was always a homemade pirate, cut off some jeans & a shirt, throw on a Walgreens eye patch, put on a hankerchief and out the door to trick-or-treat I went.

Oh…. I loved the candy. And, like most kids, we knew which house to hit, mom would usually take us to Riverhills in Tampa where alot of the rich houses were and we hit ‘em all, and the ones that gave out full candy bars, we hit again. Mom would be parked somewhere as a “home base” — come to think of it, wonder what she did in the car while we were galavanting around a rich neighborhood? Can’t remember.

Huh.

The next year? Same thing. Maybe I’d be able to save up for some fake blood and put some of that on my face, so I could be a bloody homemade pirate. Oooo… Awesome.

Now, Baby, she loves the Halloween and has us dress up every year and go out to some party. I try to get into it, I really do. But I have a hard time “feeling” the costume. It tends to end up being a mash up of things like two years ago when I was “emo Jesus”.



Who’s your personal jesus??

haha!

10 minutes into the costume, I was suddenly just emo me. Yeah. Awesome.

Now…. this is TSURURADIO, and what would ANY holiday be — at least one that I can remember existing — without a mixtape? A shitty one, that’s what. But, even though Halloweeny ain’t really my thingy, fortunately for you, for our head Society Mistress MixItUp it is and she built a “mixed tape” for us!!!



And it’s got ALL the old classics, Jason, Michael, and even the Crypt Keeper, as well as a few random “scar-r-r-r-ry eFx” to keep the kiddies awake a little longer next Saturday, all in cheesy good fun and all cheesy good times! So, let’s kick off the week of Halloween with a nighttime release of her fun collection! Click play….

IF YOU DARE!!

MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

*ahem*

Man, that really hurts the throat.

The TSURURADIO Community Presents…
MixItUp’s Halloween Mixed Tape!!!
(Full zip)

01 Zacherle
02 This Is Halloween
03 Deadbolt
04 Nightmare (Remix)
05 Goblin Laugh
06 Thunderclap
07 Ghost Town
08 Halloween Madness Mix
09 Jaws Theme
10 Twilight Zone
11 Monster Mash
12 Friday The 13th (Jason’s Theme)
13 Spooky Laughter
14 Tales From The Crypt Theme
15 Evil Laughter
16 Halloween
17 Twilight Zone Theme Song
18 Wolves
19 Southern Culture on the Skids
20 The Morgue
21 ‘The Munsters’ Theme
22 Resurrection OST
23 Zacherle
24 Goblin Laugh 2
25 Thunderclap 2

Cheers & Happy Halloween Week!!!
Tsuru
Tsuru And The Bride | Etsy | Society | Facebook | Twitter

The TSURURADIO Community Presents… Walzac’s For Once I Wish To Sail Mixtape!!!

October 21, 2009
By

Photography by gabriele chiapparini

Man, I love our community… I really do. Monday, we shared member and photo contest winner Isa’s Autumn inspired mixtape, right? Well today, I’ve got another gem for you. This time it’s our man Walzac and his beauty of a mixtape For Once I Wish To Sail.



As he wrote, “With the pleasant sailing months behind, I bring you a mix of love, loss, and friendship; all packaged in a nautical arrangement. Hope you enjoy.” Well, if that wasn’t enough to get my download trigger finger itching, take a look at the playlist. Go ahead, I’ll wait… Just scroll down, take a gander and come back.

All done?

Good.

I hope you have your sea legs though, because each song is soaking wet and (are you ready for this?) sure to have you (you sure you’re ready?) gasping for air! HA! Yeah, I went there! Fuck it!

But seriously, just a wonderful mixtape of water-themed songs about everything you’d hope water-themed songs would be about. My only complaint? Needs more sea-monsters…



…but really, everything in life could use more sea-monsters, donchathink?

My favourite part is the transition from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s “Underwater (You & Me)” to “Sea Ghost” by The Unicorns. It fades out, noisy, all over the place with percussions and harmonies and a chiming guitar, fading, fading, almost dream-like then we are suddenly awakened by the sailor’s whistle pipe. A sailor’s work is never done, is it?

Great mixtape Walzac! Thank you so much! And, my friends, we aren’t dones yet! I got at least ONE MORE mixtape to share with you… BUT, that one’s going to have to wait til the end of the week. I’ll keep it a surprise as the the who’s and the what’s of it all, but let’s just say, it’s sure to be a SCREEEEEAM!!!!!!!

Haha!

Okay, let’s get to the good stuff, shall we, as…

The TSURURADIO Community Proudly Presents…
Walzac’s For Once I Wish To Sail Mixtape!!!
(Full Zip)

1. March Into the Sea – Modest Mouse
2. Ship – Throw Me the Statue
3. Led To the Sea – Jenny Owen Youngs
4. Underwater – ¡All-Time Quarterback!
5. Oceans – The Format
6. Lost at Sea – The Decemberists
7. Sailor Song – Regina Spektor
8. Sea of Japan – Bogart
9. Underwater (You & Me) – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
10. Sea Ghost – The Unicorns
11. Oh Sailor, Sail – The Age of Rockets
12. Sea’s Song for a Sailor – The Music Tapes
13. Built a Boat – Gregory Pepper and His Problems
14. Frail Sail – Justin Vernon
15. Song and Sea – Listening Party
16. Seven Seas – Echo & the Bunnymen
17. Salty Water – Lightspeed Champion
18. Sea’s Turttle – Snuffaluffagus
19. Deep Blue Sea – Grizzly Bear
20. Cold Wind – Arcade Fire
21. The Fish Inside Me – 1971
22. The Sea is Never Full – Slow Runner
23. Sailing Home – Karen O and the Kids

Here something you like? Well go buy it! It’s good karma, and good karma gets you laid or money or something! YAY!

Cheers,
Tsuru
Tsuru And The Bride | Etsy | Society | Facebook | Twitter

The TSURURADIO Community Presents… Walzac’s For Once I Wish To Sail Mixtape!!!

October 21, 2009
By

Photography by gabriele chiapparini

Man, I love our community… I really do. Monday, we shared member and photo contest winner Isa’s Autumn inspired mixtape, right? Well today, I’ve got another gem for you. This time it’s our man Walzac and his beauty of a mixtape For Once I Wish To Sail.



As he wrote, “With the pleasant sailing months behind, I bring you a mix of love, loss, and friendship; all packaged in a nautical arrangement. Hope you enjoy.” Well, if that wasn’t enough to get my download trigger finger itching, take a look at the playlist. Go ahead, I’ll wait… Just scroll down, take a gander and come back.

All done?

Good.

I hope you have your sea legs though, because each song is soaking wet and (are you ready for this?) sure to have you (you sure you’re ready?) gasping for air! HA! Yeah, I went there! Fuck it!

But seriously, just a wonderful mixtape of water-themed songs about everything you’d hope water-themed songs would be about. My only complaint? Needs more sea-monsters…



…but really, everything in life could use more sea-monsters, donchathink?

My favourite part is the transition from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s “Underwater (You & Me)” to “Sea Ghost” by The Unicorns. It fades out, noisy, all over the place with percussions and harmonies and a chiming guitar, fading, fading, almost dream-like then we are suddenly awakened by the sailor’s whistle pipe. A sailor’s work is never done, is it?

Great mixtape Walzac! Thank you so much! And, my friends, we aren’t dones yet! I got at least ONE MORE mixtape to share with you… BUT, that one’s going to have to wait til the end of the week. I’ll keep it a surprise as the the who’s and the what’s of it all, but let’s just say, it’s sure to be a SCREEEEEAM!!!!!!!

Haha!

Okay, let’s get to the good stuff, shall we, as…

The TSURURADIO Community Proudly Presents…
Walzac’s For Once I Wish To Sail Mixtape!!!
(Full Zip)

1. March Into the Sea – Modest Mouse
2. Ship – Throw Me the Statue
3. Led To the Sea – Jenny Owen Youngs
4. Underwater – ¡All-Time Quarterback!
5. Oceans – The Format
6. Lost at Sea – The Decemberists
7. Sailor Song – Regina Spektor
8. Sea of Japan – Bogart
9. Underwater (You & Me) – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
10. Sea Ghost – The Unicorns
11. Oh Sailor, Sail – The Age of Rockets
12. Sea’s Song for a Sailor – The Music Tapes
13. Built a Boat – Gregory Pepper and His Problems
14. Frail Sail – Justin Vernon
15. Song and Sea – Listening Party
16. Seven Seas – Echo & the Bunnymen
17. Salty Water – Lightspeed Champion
18. Sea’s Turttle – Snuffaluffagus
19. Deep Blue Sea – Grizzly Bear
20. Cold Wind – Arcade Fire
21. The Fish Inside Me – 1971
22. The Sea is Never Full – Slow Runner
23. Sailing Home – Karen O and the Kids

Here something you like? Well go buy it! It’s good karma, and good karma gets you laid or money or something! YAY!

Cheers,
Tsuru
Tsuru And The Bride | Etsy | Society | Facebook | Twitter

The TSURURADIO Community Presents… Isa’s Automne & Mélancolie Mixtape!!!

October 19, 2009
By

Photography by Me, with a shitty mobile phone, then processed through Poladroid!

Well, it’s Monday, Craftin’ Outlaws is done (and was fucking awesome), my sis (pictured above) has come, had fun, kicked ass, took names, rode bikes, and, unfortunately, flew out… And all that means is that it’s time to start a new week, start some new adventures and start celebrating what is now and what is about to come!

So…. what is now?

Good question…. It’s this!



Yep! If you had hopped over to Tsuru & The Bride this morning, you’d see all the entries into our latest patented TsuruNation Celebration Domination Activation Photo Contest and saw that Isa and her rather touching photo entry…



…was the winner!!! Check out all entries, the write up, and all the great prizes over at Tsuru & The Bride now!

But here at TSURURADIO, we aren’t done celebrating yet, oh no no no my friends, you see Isa is part our wonderful little community of oddballs & music geeks, a community that I’m so unbelievably proud of, who have written guest posts here, who have made amazing mixtapes, who have ridden bikes, who have shared art & their love of music, and generally been all-around awesome in every shape & way, and Isa, that’s right, the very same Isa who JUST won the contest earlier this morning, just posted a brand spanking new mixtape based on the feelings conjured up by this wonderfully beautiful, yet unpredictable season, autumn.



It’s a beautiful capture of the the turning leaves, the sense of change, the impending cold & bareness of winter, and all the sense of wonder and sadness that can go along with it, and it’s wonderful.

It’s been a cold Autumn so far, something I’ve lamented a bit on after yet another cold ride. On the bright spot, looks like we are getting at least one nice week this week, if the weather can hold — we’ll see, looks good, but I’m a little jaded already.

But for now, we’ve got this mixtape, Isa’s mixtape. Thank you again so much, Isa, not just for the mixtape, but for the great photo entry! We love you!

And now it’s everyone else’s turn to enjoy as…

The TSURURADIO Community Presents…
Isa’s Automne & Mélancolie Mixtape!!!
(Full Zip)

01- Broken Social Scene – Major Label Debut
02- Inara George – Everybody Knows
03- Mumford & Sons – I gave you all
04- Arcade Fire – My heart is an apple
05- Beirut – Cherbourg
06- Bell Orchestre – Rajasthan
07- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – The Line
08- Noah and the whale – Slow Glass
09- Bon Iver – Blood Bank
10- Miracle Fortress – Five Roses
11- The Smiths – Still Ill
12- Department of eagles – In ear park
13- Bat for lashes – Travelling woman
14- Moby – Isolate
15- The Devlins – There is a light
16- Blondie – Heart of glass

Hear something you like? Well, go buy that shit, you know, like now!?!

Cheers,
Tsuru
Tsuru And The Bride | Etsy | Society | Facebook | Twitter

The TSURURADIO Community Presents… Isa’s Automne & Mélancolie Mixtape!!!

October 19, 2009
By

Photography by Me, with a shitty mobile phone, then processed through Poladroid!

Well, it’s Monday, Craftin’ Outlaws is done (and was fucking awesome), my sis (pictured above) has come, had fun, kicked ass, took names, rode bikes, and, unfortunately, flew out… And all that means is that it’s time to start a new week, start some new adventures and start celebrating what is now and what is about to come!

So…. what is now?

Good question…. It’s this!



Yep! If you had hopped over to Tsuru & The Bride this morning, you’d see all the entries into our latest patented TsuruNation Celebration Domination Activation Photo Contest and saw that Isa and her rather touching photo entry…



…was the winner!!! Check out all entries, the write up, and all the great prizes over at Tsuru & The Bride now!

But here at TSURURADIO, we aren’t done celebrating yet, oh no no no my friends, you see Isa is part our wonderful little community of oddballs & music geeks, a community that I’m so unbelievably proud of, who have written guest posts here, who have made amazing mixtapes, who have ridden bikes, who have shared art & their love of music, and generally been all-around awesome in every shape & way, and Isa, that’s right, the very same Isa who JUST won the contest earlier this morning, just posted a brand spanking new mixtape based on the feelings conjured up by this wonderfully beautiful, yet unpredictable season, autumn.



It’s a beautiful capture of the the turning leaves, the sense of change, the impending cold & bareness of winter, and all the sense of wonder and sadness that can go along with it, and it’s wonderful.

It’s been a cold Autumn so far, something I’ve lamented a bit on after yet another cold ride. On the bright spot, looks like we are getting at least one nice week this week, if the weather can hold — we’ll see, looks good, but I’m a little jaded already.

But for now, we’ve got this mixtape, Isa’s mixtape. Thank you again so much, Isa, not just for the mixtape, but for the great photo entry! We love you!

And now it’s everyone else’s turn to enjoy as…

The TSURURADIO Community Presents…
Isa’s Automne & Mélancolie Mixtape!!!
(Full Zip)

01- Broken Social Scene – Major Label Debut
02- Inara George – Everybody Knows
03- Mumford & Sons – I gave you all
04- Arcade Fire – My heart is an apple
05- Beirut – Cherbourg
06- Bell Orchestre – Rajasthan
07- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – The Line
08- Noah and the whale – Slow Glass
09- Bon Iver – Blood Bank
10- Miracle Fortress – Five Roses
11- The Smiths – Still Ill
12- Department of eagles – In ear park
13- Bat for lashes – Travelling woman
14- Moby – Isolate
15- The Devlins – There is a light
16- Blondie – Heart of glass

Hear something you like? Well, go buy that shit, you know, like now!?!

Cheers,
Tsuru
Tsuru And The Bride | Etsy | Society | Facebook | Twitter

TSURURADIO Presents… Craftin’ Outlaws: A Shopping Soundtrack, of sorts…

October 16, 2009
By

Cover Art from Craftin’ Outlaws, of course..

Well, unless you are the kinda “reader” who doesn’t read the site, who just comes to get the songs and leave then you may not have notice the banner under our title banner for Craftin’ Outlaws for the past month or so — but then again, you aren’t reading this part here either, so I could literally say anything right now and you wouldn’t even know it, would you! *snicker* Poopyhead! *snicker* Stinkypants! *snicker* ha! — Well, we here at the TSURURADIOs are one of the sponsors of the event, as well as a vendor, as well as the “DJ”, or more appropo-ly, “music provider” — I’m no wiki-wiki-MC Scratchy — for and at and for the show. So, so, so excited — and nervous, I mean, adorable leather clutches and less than safe for work photography in one booth? Oy.

We got our wall built, I twitpic’d it last weekend, want to see it? check it…



A little ghetto? Sure, but so are we. Though, we did clean up the dripping paint so it looks less like blood.

We got our product ready, time to start putting it all together into one mind-boggling adorable & sexy presence to make lots of the moneys! To do so, I recruited my sister, Marianne, seen here looking very “LA”..



Actually, she just came up for a little vaca/visit, but I’m toooootally going to put her to work on our display (shhh… don’t tell her).

Now… it’s not just a Tsuru & The Bride show, by any means, we are just one of many extraordinarily talented folks who will be selling their wares! Want a little sampling? Sure you do you sick bastards..


Alissa Sorenson!


Clinton Reno!


AmyD!


Long Mountain Designs!


Pieces Of 8!


Yumi Yumi!


Umbrella Girl!


Anne Holman!


Stinkybomb!!


And did I mention Tsuru & The Bride yet??? haha! Check out the rest of the list of vendors and their links here.

So yeah, today will be final preppage, maybe a little bike riding with the sis & my baby — three bikes, six legs, should be good to go! She’s tall (5’10″) so she should fit on Kapu just fine — and a little test run of the 139 song playlist I’ve created for tomorrow’s big event!

139 songs???

Yep! As of now, I’ve got 9 hours built for the 7 hour show (a little buffer’s always good, eh?), a lot of which has been pulled from our own tsuruloosies and mixtapes, and it just needs some final good sound system listening to make sure nothing’s “too much” of anything and that it’s all “spend your money inducing” so everyone there makes lots of da moneys!!! We gots mouths to feed, bills to pay!

So, that’s where you come in! Today I’m picked a random smattering of the songs, I think about 37 of them, and put them here for your enjoyment. YOUR job — yeah, you, the one who’s STILL reading — is to listen, love, and let me know whether or not you suddenly have a craving for alternative arts & crafts or instead, feel the urge to go shopping at the mall or Wal-mart or something.



Seriously, if you listen to these songs and find yourself on People Of Walmart and not at Craftin’ Outlaws, you HAVE to let me know!

Oh, and before we go, don’t forget, you have until the end of the day TOMORROW to get your entry in to the Tsuru & The Bride Duet Photo Contest!



Details here, a TsuruBride original creation and a print are up for grabs!!!

Okay, that’s it, time for you to get to work. Remember, this is just a random & blind selection from a total 139 songs. So, start listening keeping very careful notes and maybe even a dream journal of what becomes of the relationship between you and your moneys while the good times are a-playin’ as…

TSURURADIO Presents…
Craftin’ Outlaws: A Shopping Soundtrack, of sorts…

Andrew Bird – Fiery Crash
Spoon – I Turn My Camera On
AA Bondy – When The Devil’s Loose
Casiotone For the Painfully Alone – Traveling Salesman’s Young Wife Home Alone On Christmas In Montpelier, VT
Coconut Records – Any Fun
Conor Oberst – Nikorette
Dent May – Girls On The Square
Harlem Shakes – Natural Man
Sunset Rubdown – Nightingale/December Song
Animal Collective – My Girls
Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken
The Chordettes – Lollipop (Squeak E Clean & Desert Eagles Remix)
Beirut – Nantes
The Decemberists – Crane Wife III
Islands – Vapours
Josh Ritter – To The Dogs Or Whoever
Karen O and the Kids – All is Love
M. Ward – Never Had Nobody Like You
Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazelwood – Summerwine
Nina Simone – Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
Of Montreal – Wrath Pinned To The Mist And Other Games
Okkervil River – Unless It’s Kicks
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas – Bring It On Home To Me
Reefer – May Baleen
Sharon Jones And Dap-Kings – Stranded In Your Love
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen
Handsome Furs – What We Had
Stars – My Favourite Book
Monsters of Folk – Say Please
Nada Surf – See These Bones
The Little Ones – Cha Cha Cha
Yeasayer – 2080
Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
The Shins – Phantom Limb
Al Green – Lets Stay Together

Hear something you like? Go buy it. Want to hear more? Then…

GET YER ASS DOWN TO CRAFTIN’ OUTLAWS TOMORROW, MOTHER BITCHES!!!

;)

Oh and I’m sure I’ll be twitpicin’/twitterin’/facebook-updatin’ tomorrow, so see the links under my name below? Click ‘em and follow along!

Cheers,
Tsuru
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TSURURADIO Presents… Craftin’ Outlaws: A Shopping Soundtrack, of sorts…

October 16, 2009
By

Cover Art from Craftin’ Outlaws, of course..

Well, unless you are the kinda “reader” who doesn’t read the site, who just comes to get the songs and leave then you may not have notice the banner under our title banner for Craftin’ Outlaws for the past month or so — but then again, you aren’t reading this part here either, so I could literally say anything right now and you wouldn’t even know it, would you! *snicker* Poopyhead! *snicker* Stinkypants! *snicker* ha! — Well, we here at the TSURURADIOs are one of the sponsors of the event, as well as a vendor, as well as the “DJ”, or more appropo-ly, “music provider” — I’m no wiki-wiki-MC Scratchy — for and at and for the show. So, so, so excited — and nervous, I mean, adorable leather clutches and less than safe for work photography in one booth? Oy.

We got our wall built, I twitpic’d it last weekend, want to see it? check it…



A little ghetto? Sure, but so are we. Though, we did clean up the dripping paint so it looks less like blood.

We got our product ready, time to start putting it all together into one mind-boggling adorable & sexy presence to make lots of the moneys! To do so, I recruited my sister, Marianne, seen here looking very “LA”..



Actually, she just came up for a little vaca/visit, but I’m toooootally going to put her to work on our display (shhh… don’t tell her).

Now… it’s not just a Tsuru & The Bride show, by any means, we are just one of many extraordinarily talented folks who will be selling their wares! Want a little sampling? Sure you do you sick bastards..


Alissa Sorenson!


Clinton Reno!


AmyD!


Long Mountain Designs!


Pieces Of 8!


Yumi Yumi!


Umbrella Girl!


Anne Holman!


Stinkybomb!!


And did I mention Tsuru & The Bride yet??? haha! Check out the rest of the list of vendors and their links here.

So yeah, today will be final preppage, maybe a little bike riding with the sis & my baby — three bikes, six legs, should be good to go! She’s tall (5’10″) so she should fit on Kapu just fine — and a little test run of the 139 song playlist I’ve created for tomorrow’s big event!

139 songs???

Yep! As of now, I’ve got 9 hours built for the 7 hour show (a little buffer’s always good, eh?), a lot of which has been pulled from our own tsuruloosies and mixtapes, and it just needs some final good sound system listening to make sure nothing’s “too much” of anything and that it’s all “spend your money inducing” so everyone there makes lots of da moneys!!! We gots mouths to feed, bills to pay!

So, that’s where you come in! Today I’m picked a random smattering of the songs, I think about 37 of them, and put them here for your enjoyment. YOUR job — yeah, you, the one who’s STILL reading — is to listen, love, and let me know whether or not you suddenly have a craving for alternative arts & crafts or instead, feel the urge to go shopping at the mall or Wal-mart or something.



Seriously, if you listen to these songs and find yourself on People Of Walmart and not at Craftin’ Outlaws, you HAVE to let me know!

Oh, and before we go, don’t forget, you have until the end of the day TOMORROW to get your entry in to the Tsuru & The Bride Duet Photo Contest!



Details here, a TsuruBride original creation and a print are up for grabs!!!

Okay, that’s it, time for you to get to work. Remember, this is just a random & blind selection from a total 139 songs. So, start listening keeping very careful notes and maybe even a dream journal of what becomes of the relationship between you and your moneys while the good times are a-playin’ as…

TSURURADIO Presents…
Craftin’ Outlaws: A Shopping Soundtrack, of sorts…

Andrew Bird – Fiery Crash
Spoon – I Turn My Camera On
AA Bondy – When The Devil’s Loose
Casiotone For the Painfully Alone – Traveling Salesman’s Young Wife Home Alone On Christmas In Montpelier, VT
Coconut Records – Any Fun
Conor Oberst – Nikorette
Dent May – Girls On The Square
Harlem Shakes – Natural Man
Sunset Rubdown – Nightingale/December Song
Animal Collective – My Girls
Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken
The Chordettes – Lollipop (Squeak E Clean & Desert Eagles Remix)
Beirut – Nantes
The Decemberists – Crane Wife III
Islands – Vapours
Josh Ritter – To The Dogs Or Whoever
Karen O and the Kids – All is Love
M. Ward – Never Had Nobody Like You
Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazelwood – Summerwine
Nina Simone – Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
Of Montreal – Wrath Pinned To The Mist And Other Games
Okkervil River – Unless It’s Kicks
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas – Bring It On Home To Me
Reefer – May Baleen
Sharon Jones And Dap-Kings – Stranded In Your Love
Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen
Handsome Furs – What We Had
Stars – My Favourite Book
Monsters of Folk – Say Please
Nada Surf – See These Bones
The Little Ones – Cha Cha Cha
Yeasayer – 2080
Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
The Shins – Phantom Limb
Al Green – Lets Stay Together

Hear something you like? Go buy it. Want to hear more? Then…

GET YER ASS DOWN TO CRAFTIN’ OUTLAWS TOMORROW, MOTHER BITCHES!!!

;)

Oh and I’m sure I’ll be twitpicin’/twitterin’/facebook-updatin’ tomorrow, so see the links under my name below? Click ‘em and follow along!

Cheers,
Tsuru
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The TSURURADIO Community Presents… Angie’s Mew Mixtape!!!

October 12, 2009
By

Photography by your boy Tsuru
Prints available over on Etsy!
Model: Tabs Doll!

WOW! What a weekend!

Yeah, yeah, yeah…. there were photoshoots, prepping for Craftin’ Outlaws, and even getting our house listed (you wanna buy a house in beautiful Harrison West in Columbus, OH? Contact me), BUT on top of that, in case you didn’t catch it by, you know, scrolling down and shit, we had not one but TWO guest writers, first good friend and very talent musician fuck, and then another great friend and talented artisan, Hollie! Can I get a WOOT WOOT!

WOOT! WOOT!

But we isn’t dones, my free-ond! We isn’t done EVER! You see Angie over in our Facebooks put together a little mixtape for us and it’s pretty fucking sweet, not just because it’s a random collection of 29 gems, but also because it was just her birthday on the 8th and really, I can’t think of anything better than the gift of music, even if it’s a gift for you and me.

So, let’s keep this short & sweet with a big juicy THANK YOU to our wonderful community down in the Society, over on the Facebooks, and even in the Twitters, fuck, Hollie, and Angie, I love you guys! Have a great Monday and a great week!

And don’t forget, we are in our LAST WEEK for…



CLICK HERE FOR FULL DETAILS!

But hurry! Contest ends Saturday!!! Okay, that’s it… Let’s get the music on, the week on, and most importantly, our grooooove on as..

The TSURURADIO Community Presents…
Angie’s Mew Mixtape!!!

Nick Drake – Pink Moon
Alice Cooper – I’m Eighteen
My Morning Jacket – I Will Be There When You Die
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
Johnny Cash – I See a Darkness
Freakwater – Drunk Friend
Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
Bad Viens – Gold and Warm
Band of horses – ode to lrc
Kings Of Leon – Knocked Up
Marc Bolan And T-Rex – One Inch Rock
Brightblack Morning Light – Oppressions Each
Dinosaur Jr – I Want You To Know
The Dandy Warhols – Get Off
Syd Barrett – Gigolo Aunt
The Black Keys – Oceans & Streams
Starsailor – Good Souls
The Standells – Dirty Water
Zero7 – In The Waiting Line
Nico – These Days
of Montreal – Kissing In The Grass
Ryan Adams – This House Is Not For Sale
Spiritualized – I Want You
Foreign Born – Early Warnings
The Stooges – Search And Destroy
Uncle Tupelo – Anodyne
Spoon – I Summon You
Monsters of Folk – Say Please
The Hollies – Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress

Like something you hear? Head on out to your local record shop and buy their damn album! Why the hell not?! Think of if as a belated birthday present for Angie, but for yourself…

Cheers,
Tsuru
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The TSURURADIO Community Presents… Angie’s Mew Mixtape!!!

October 12, 2009
By

Photography by your boy Tsuru
Prints available over on Etsy!
Model: Tabs Doll!

WOW! What a weekend!

Yeah, yeah, yeah…. there were photoshoots, prepping for Craftin’ Outlaws, and even getting our house listed (you wanna buy a house in beautiful Harrison West in Columbus, OH? Contact me), BUT on top of that, in case you didn’t catch it by, you know, scrolling down and shit, we had not one but TWO guest writers, first good friend and very talent musician fuck, and then another great friend and talented artisan, Hollie! Can I get a WOOT WOOT!

WOOT! WOOT!

But we isn’t dones, my free-ond! We isn’t done EVER! You see Angie over in our Facebooks put together a little mixtape for us and it’s pretty fucking sweet, not just because it’s a random collection of 29 gems, but also because it was just her birthday on the 8th and really, I can’t think of anything better than the gift of music, even if it’s a gift for you and me.

So, let’s keep this short & sweet with a big juicy THANK YOU to our wonderful community down in the Society, over on the Facebooks, and even in the Twitters, fuck, Hollie, and Angie, I love you guys! Have a great Monday and a great week!

And don’t forget, we are in our LAST WEEK for…



CLICK HERE FOR FULL DETAILS!

But hurry! Contest ends Saturday!!! Okay, that’s it… Let’s get the music on, the week on, and most importantly, our grooooove on as..

The TSURURADIO Community Presents…
Angie’s Mew Mixtape!!!

Nick Drake – Pink Moon
Alice Cooper – I’m Eighteen
My Morning Jacket – I Will Be There When You Die
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
Johnny Cash – I See a Darkness
Freakwater – Drunk Friend
Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
Bad Viens – Gold and Warm
Band of horses – ode to lrc
Kings Of Leon – Knocked Up
Marc Bolan And T-Rex – One Inch Rock
Brightblack Morning Light – Oppressions Each
Dinosaur Jr – I Want You To Know
The Dandy Warhols – Get Off
Syd Barrett – Gigolo Aunt
The Black Keys – Oceans & Streams
Starsailor – Good Souls
The Standells – Dirty Water
Zero7 – In The Waiting Line
Nico – These Days
of Montreal – Kissing In The Grass
Ryan Adams – This House Is Not For Sale
Spiritualized – I Want You
Foreign Born – Early Warnings
The Stooges – Search And Destroy
Uncle Tupelo – Anodyne
Spoon – I Summon You
Monsters of Folk – Say Please
The Hollies – Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress

Like something you hear? Head on out to your local record shop and buy their damn album! Why the hell not?! Think of if as a belated birthday present for Angie, but for yourself…

Cheers,
Tsuru
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TSURURADIO Presents… Do The Shuffle: Walzac Style!!!

October 3, 2009
By

Cover by Walzac

Well, it’s Saturday… but just because it’s the weekend, doesn’t mean we can get our groove on, eh? Real quick, before we get started, wanted to announce we’ve got another photo contest started, this time over at Tsuru & The Bride!!!



Pretty self-explanatory, in my opinion, but just in case… A photo contest where they theme is “Twos”. Anything & everything, with some pretty awesome prizes for the winner!!! Head over to Tsuru & The Bride for all the details, you have until Craftin’ Outlaws on October 17!!!!

Whatcha waitin fer… GET PHOTOIN’!!!!!

Okay, got a pretty special Saturday treat for you! Down in our little community, we started a little thread called Do The Shuffle after we posted our 50 song shuffle mix last week, everyone’s been posting their list, being brutally honest (no matter how many indie-points they may lose). Walzac even zipped his up and sent it my way, so I’m quite happy to post it here for you!

WOOT! WOOT!

It’s Saturday, the weather is gorgeous, so let’s keep this short, sweet, and let Walzac’s iPod do the speaking for us, eh? So turn it on and turn it up as…

TSURURADIO Presents…
Do The Shuffle: Walzac Style!!!

1. Soldier’s Gun – Wolf Parade
2. Space Raider – Wavves
3. Now My Feet Won’t Touch the Ground – Coldplay
4. Solid Jackson – Bright Eyes
5. More Than Words – Owen
6. Christmas Card – Jimmy Eat World
7. Half A Person – The Welcome Wagon
8. What Beats Within – Jenny Owen Youngs
9. Intermission – Portugal. The Man
10. Be The One – Jack Peñate
11. You’re The Good Things – Modest Mouse
12. Rebellion (Lies) (BBC Maida Vale Studios) – Arcade Fire
13. Better Weather – Kimya Dawson
14. Day of the Baphomets – The Mars Volta
15. Interlude – Jay Z
16. Can’t Buy Me Love – The Beatles
17. London Fields – Stars
18. Drown Me – Sexy Kids
19. Perhaps I Thought You’d Never Change – Swanton Bombs
20. Eyedropper – Universal Studios Florida

Thank you soooo much Walzac! A wonderfully fun, wonderfully random, wonderfully sweet mix! And you, my dear readers, like something you heard? Well, head on down to your local record shop and buy that shit! Have a great weekend everyone!

Cheers,
Tsuru
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TSURURADIO Presents… Do The Shuffle: Walzac Style!!!

October 3, 2009
By

Cover by Walzac

Well, it’s Saturday… but just because it’s the weekend, doesn’t mean we can get our groove on, eh? Real quick, before we get started, wanted to announce we’ve got another photo contest started, this time over at Tsuru & The Bride!!!



Pretty self-explanatory, in my opinion, but just in case… A photo contest where they theme is “Twos”. Anything & everything, with some pretty awesome prizes for the winner!!! Head over to Tsuru & The Bride for all the details, you have until Craftin’ Outlaws on October 17!!!!

Whatcha waitin fer… GET PHOTOIN’!!!!!

Okay, got a pretty special Saturday treat for you! Down in our little community, we started a little thread called Do The Shuffle after we posted our 50 song shuffle mix last week, everyone’s been posting their list, being brutally honest (no matter how many indie-points they may lose). Walzac even zipped his up and sent it my way, so I’m quite happy to post it here for you!

WOOT! WOOT!

It’s Saturday, the weather is gorgeous, so let’s keep this short, sweet, and let Walzac’s iPod do the speaking for us, eh? So turn it on and turn it up as…

TSURURADIO Presents…
Do The Shuffle: Walzac Style!!!

1. Soldier’s Gun – Wolf Parade
2. Space Raider – Wavves
3. Now My Feet Won’t Touch the Ground – Coldplay
4. Solid Jackson – Bright Eyes
5. More Than Words – Owen
6. Christmas Card – Jimmy Eat World
7. Half A Person – The Welcome Wagon
8. What Beats Within – Jenny Owen Youngs
9. Intermission – Portugal. The Man
10. Be The One – Jack Peñate
11. You’re The Good Things – Modest Mouse
12. Rebellion (Lies) (BBC Maida Vale Studios) – Arcade Fire
13. Better Weather – Kimya Dawson
14. Day of the Baphomets – The Mars Volta
15. Interlude – Jay Z
16. Can’t Buy Me Love – The Beatles
17. London Fields – Stars
18. Drown Me – Sexy Kids
19. Perhaps I Thought You’d Never Change – Swanton Bombs
20. Eyedropper – Universal Studios Florida

Thank you soooo much Walzac! A wonderfully fun, wonderfully random, wonderfully sweet mix! And you, my dear readers, like something you heard? Well, head on down to your local record shop and buy that shit! Have a great weekend everyone!

Cheers,
Tsuru
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TSURURADIO Presents… Do The Shuffle (50 Seriously Random Songs)

September 25, 2009
By

Photography by Alejandra

Big weekend, my friends, big weekend… Tonight! CNote Art Show!



You gonna come by and see some art and buy some art and say, “Allooooo”?

Right behind, Midpoint Music Festival down in Cincinnati Saturday…



Ready to get my “fest” on! WOOT WOOT! Even got an invite to a party! Hell, people at work don’t even invite me to parties.

Then Sunday…… Two new photo shoots at my warehouse studio!


click for full view…

All the while prepping for Craftin’ Outlaws!



Baby & I doing the show, I’m also doing the music! Displays to build, playlists to build, prints to, uh, print.

Seriously big, seriously fun, seriously random weekend deserves a seriously big, seriously fun, seriously random mixtape, eh?

Yeah.

Old game, something I rarely ever “played”, push shuffle/random on your mp3 player of choice, and list out the songs that come up. Boop, boop, boop. Did that. 20 songs, 30, stop? Nah, 35, 40, can we make it to, yep, to 50, done!

Did I cheat for cool points? Nope, but I did skip over a band if it was already on the list — my iPod seems to really like Heartless Bastards for some reason, makes you wonder how “random” the randomness is? Can I drop a few bucks at Apples door step and my songs happen to show up most on shuffle?



I’ll keep it real, I’ll keep it honest for you, keep it random, no conspiracies here. That’s “random”, not randonneuring, which I want to do too. Not today, tired legs, sleepy head, feeling too random, not randon, gonna keep it that way today. But, I’ll ride home, 20 to 30 miles? 50? Don’t know, going to keep it random, keep it randon?

Seriously random.

Have a great weekend, have a big weekend, but no matter what, just have a weekend.

TSURURADIO Presents…
Do The Shuffle (50 Seriously Random Songs)

1. The XX – Phi
2. The Almighty Defenders – Jihad Blues
3. The Hidden Cameras – Underage
4. Dirty Projectors – No Intention
5. Olivia Ruiz – Les Crepes Aux Champignons
6. Heartless Bastards – Be So Happy
7. Most Serene Republic – Humble Peasants
8. Arms – Shitty Little Disco
9. As Tall As Lions – Sleepyhead (Acoustic Version)
10. San Tropez – I Can’t Let It Happen To You
11. Flight Of The Conchords – You Don’t Have To Be A Prostitute
12. My Latest Novel – The Greatest Shakedown
13. REM – Camera
14. Taken By Trees – Tidens Gang
15. Rock Plaza Central – (The World Is) Good Enough
16. Lovely Feathers – Long Walks
17. Melanie Pain – Bruises
18. Noah And The Whale – Give A Little Love
19. Sparklehorse + Fennesz – If My Heart
20. Mickey 3D – Je M’appelle Joseph
21. The Fiery Furnaces – Even In The Rain
22. Neko Case – Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth
23. Parlovr – Archy And Mehitabel
24. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks (vinyl)
25. Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
26. Juliette Lewis – Suicide Dive Bombers
27. Royal Bangs – Let’s Get Even
28. She & Him – I Was Made For You
29. The Apples In Stereo – Tidal Wave (Radio Remix)
30. The Clientele – Harvest Time
31. Clues – Let’s Get Strong
32. Mumford & Sons – I Gave You All
33. Emmy The Great – The Easter Parade 2
34. Ezra Furman And The Harpoons – I Wanna Be Ignored
35. Islands – Heartbeat
36. Owen – Ugly On The Inside
37. Josh Ritter – Best For The Best
38. Chris Garneau – Fireflies
39. Coconut Records – Is This Sound Okay?
40. Dan Deacon – Wet Wings
41. Rickie Lee Jones – The Last Chance Texaco
42. Arcade Fire – Ocean Of Noise
43. Ween – Cold Blows The Wind
44. The Cave Singers – Bramble
45. The Twilight Sad – Scissors
46. Imogen Heap – 2-1 (Formally “Polyfillia”)
47. St. Vincent – Actor Out Of Work
48. Telekinesis – Rust
49. Pearl Jam – Amongst The Waves
50. Lou Barlow – Faith In Your Heartbeat

Like what you hear? Well, my friends, head over to your local record shop and buy it!

Cheers,
Tsuru
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TSURURADIO Presents… Do The Shuffle (50 Seriously Random Songs)

September 25, 2009
By

Photography by Alejandra

Big weekend, my friends, big weekend… Tonight! CNote Art Show!



You gonna come by and see some art and buy some art and say, “Allooooo”?

Right behind, Midpoint Music Festival down in Cincinnati Saturday…



Ready to get my “fest” on! WOOT WOOT! Even got an invite to a party! Hell, people at work don’t even invite me to parties.

Then Sunday…… Two new photo shoots at my warehouse studio!


click for full view…

All the while prepping for Craftin’ Outlaws!



Baby & I doing the show, I’m also doing the music! Displays to build, playlists to build, prints to, uh, print.

Seriously big, seriously fun, seriously random weekend deserves a seriously big, seriously fun, seriously random mixtape, eh?

Yeah.

Old game, something I rarely ever “played”, push shuffle/random on your mp3 player of choice, and list out the songs that come up. Boop, boop, boop. Did that. 20 songs, 30, stop? Nah, 35, 40, can we make it to, yep, to 50, done!

Did I cheat for cool points? Nope, but I did skip over a band if it was already on the list — my iPod seems to really like Heartless Bastards for some reason, makes you wonder how “random” the randomness is? Can I drop a few bucks at Apples door step and my songs happen to show up most on shuffle?



I’ll keep it real, I’ll keep it honest for you, keep it random, no conspiracies here. That’s “random”, not randonneuring, which I want to do too. Not today, tired legs, sleepy head, feeling too random, not randon, gonna keep it that way today. But, I’ll ride home, 20 to 30 miles? 50? Don’t know, going to keep it random, keep it randon?

Seriously random.

Have a great weekend, have a big weekend, but no matter what, just have a weekend.

TSURURADIO Presents…
Do The Shuffle (50 Seriously Random Songs)

1. The XX – Phi
2. The Almighty Defenders – Jihad Blues
3. The Hidden Cameras – Underage
4. Dirty Projectors – No Intention
5. Olivia Ruiz – Les Crepes Aux Champignons
6. Heartless Bastards – Be So Happy
7. Most Serene Republic – Humble Peasants
8. Arms – Shitty Little Disco
9. As Tall As Lions – Sleepyhead (Acoustic Version)
10. San Tropez – I Can’t Let It Happen To You
11. Flight Of The Conchords – You Don’t Have To Be A Prostitute
12. My Latest Novel – The Greatest Shakedown
13. REM – Camera
14. Taken By Trees – Tidens Gang
15. Rock Plaza Central – (The World Is) Good Enough
16. Lovely Feathers – Long Walks
17. Melanie Pain – Bruises
18. Noah And The Whale – Give A Little Love
19. Sparklehorse + Fennesz – If My Heart
20. Mickey 3D – Je M’appelle Joseph
21. The Fiery Furnaces – Even In The Rain
22. Neko Case – Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth
23. Parlovr – Archy And Mehitabel
24. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks (vinyl)
25. Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
26. Juliette Lewis – Suicide Dive Bombers
27. Royal Bangs – Let’s Get Even
28. She & Him – I Was Made For You
29. The Apples In Stereo – Tidal Wave (Radio Remix)
30. The Clientele – Harvest Time
31. Clues – Let’s Get Strong
32. Mumford & Sons – I Gave You All
33. Emmy The Great – The Easter Parade 2
34. Ezra Furman And The Harpoons – I Wanna Be Ignored
35. Islands – Heartbeat
36. Owen – Ugly On The Inside
37. Josh Ritter – Best For The Best
38. Chris Garneau – Fireflies
39. Coconut Records – Is This Sound Okay?
40. Dan Deacon – Wet Wings
41. Rickie Lee Jones – The Last Chance Texaco
42. Arcade Fire – Ocean Of Noise
43. Ween – Cold Blows The Wind
44. The Cave Singers – Bramble
45. The Twilight Sad – Scissors
46. Imogen Heap – 2-1 (Formally “Polyfillia”)
47. St. Vincent – Actor Out Of Work
48. Telekinesis – Rust
49. Pearl Jam – Amongst The Waves
50. Lou Barlow – Faith In Your Heartbeat

Like what you hear? Well, my friends, head over to your local record shop and buy it!

Cheers,
Tsuru
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TSURURADIO Presents… Leaving New York, Never Easy Mixtape (Formerly TSURUCAST No. 9)!!!

September 18, 2009
By

Photography by Tsuru
TSURUFOTO now on ETSY!!!

Well, my friends, it’s Friday…. Finally. Why do the short weeks seem so long? Yesterday morning literally seems like it was days ago, weird, eh? But, regardless and whatever, we are here and it’s time for another wonderful weekend fill with Tsuru Nation Domination Actuation with 1) dropping off artwork for the cnote art show at Junctionview Studios on Sept 25-27 — didn’t you notice the new “Events” button over to your rigth? — 2) potentially having another “Motel Girls” shoot on Sunday, 3) another Tsuru Tsycling adventure, this time riding bikes for an animal shelter, and of course 4) Baby continuing & expanding her awesome product line and Etsy success!

Alot, I know! Exciting stuff! In between all of that, of course, is lots snugglin’ and smoochin’ time! HA!

You should know by now, I’m not one to dwell in the past too much. I love the past, I love what it has made of me, and what not, but I tend to live with one cleat snapped into the pedal of the present and the other looking a smidgen to what’s next. BUT, forgetting the past, ignoring it, instead of just embracing it, is a foolish man’s past time — see what I did there?

So, as it was, the other day I was looking around in our little external hard-drive and stumbled upon my old podcasts, affectionately called TSURUCASTS. You guys remember these?

For those that do and wonder, “yeah, T, what the fuck happened to those delicious nuggets of musical goodness?” Well, I had a problem with them. The first iterations came about when I got mixing software, so it was just songs flowing into the next, which I loved so much that it became the standard practice for our mixtapes, right? Then we started adding sounds and what not that I was recording, which I really love as well and then ALSO became a pretty standard feature for our mixtapes!

So, the next logical step would have been to go more traditional and jibber-jabber on in between songs and honestly, one of the reason I don’t listen to the radio anymore is because the last thing I want to hear is some disc jockey jabbering on about anything.



So… I moved on and the podcasts went away, leaving our mixtapes to carry the torch.

Now, I’ll admit, I’m pretty proud of some of these podcasts. They are odd little boogers, for sure, but they were certainly fun, coming up with a theme, our little theme song (a parody of “Mexican Radio”), taking my little portable cassette recorder around with me recording things, and generally just being as silly/fun/creative/etc as I could with them!

One in particular, the one we are sharing today, I thought came out really good. I went on a one day trip up to New York for a trade show and decided to record it. What I found when I converted the tape to mp3 was I got some pretty interesting sounds that, in my humble opine, really captured my experiences in that congested, crowded city. So, a little theme song addition and some really bad poetry later, TSURUCAST No. 9 Leaving New York, Never Easy was birthed! Check out the tracklist…



Well, I gave it a good listen yesterday, and outside the really cringe-worthy sound of my voice reading that really (and I mean, REALLY) bad poetry as Jeremy Enigk’s “Heaven” is wrapping up, I had a really good time! So… for today, for you, my dear beloved readers, I imported her up, cut, labeled, exported, tagged, zipped, and uploaded it all up last night and now I’m re-presenting it to you in handy mixtape form!

HOORAY!

Here’s the deal though, I screwed up. When I did the renaming and retagging, for some reason I though “Tonight You Belong To Me” was Josh Ritter. It ain’t. It’s Bird And The Bee. Though I fixed the mp3 in the individual links, I didn’t have time to fix the zip that was already uploaded. So, when you grab the full thing, just make a quick fix of the filename and ID tag and you’ll be good to go!

That’s it! Let’s get this Friday on and over and get our weekend kickin’ up into high gear! For all you in Columbus looking for a good reason to get on your bikes for a good reason to go ride 5, 10, 20, or even 40 miles tomorrow morning, come on out and Pedal For Pets!



I know we poked a little fun at that graphic (oof), but in all honesty, you can’t ask for a better way or reason to get on your bike. Charity rides, not only give some money to a good cause, but is almost always loaded with food and fluids and support and friendly people to help make sure that 1) you finish alive and well and 2) you have a good time doing it! If it’s not Pedal For Pets, find one in your area and do it. Trust me…

Okay, have a great weekend everyone! Have fun, go riding, and we’ll be talkin’ to you soon! If not here, definitely in Our Society, on the Facebooks, or even on the Twitters! But let’s get to the music now as…

TSURURADIO Presents…
Leaving New York, Never Easy Mixtape (Formerly TSURUCAST No. 9)!!!!
(Full Zip)

NOTE: PLAY GAPLESS!!!

01 Introduction & Theme Song – AC Newman – Take On Me – Boarding
02 Clem Snide – Born A Man – Take Off
03 Elvis Perkins In Dearland – 1, 2, 3, Goodbye
04 Beirut – The Concubine
05 Neutral Milk Hotel – Where You’ll Find Me Now – NY Traffic No 1
06 Heartless Bastards – Out At Sea
07 Gustaf Spetz – Burn It, Crush It, Smash It
08 Here We Go Magic – Everything’s Big – NY Traffic No 2
09 Jeremy Enigk – Heaven – Some Really Bad Poetry
10 Kittens Ablaze – This Machine Is Dying
11 Violent Femmes – World Without Mercy – Catching A Taxi To La Guardia Airport
12 REM – Leaving New York – This Is Your Captain Speaking
13 Patrick Watson – Daydreamer
14 BING – Rocky Horror Picture Show – I’m Going Home
15 Bird And The Bee – Tonight You Belong To Me – Theme Song (Reprise)

Cheers,
Tsuru
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TSURURADIO Presents… Leaving New York, Never Easy Mixtape (Formerly TSURUCAST No. 9)!!!

September 18, 2009
By

Photography by Tsuru
TSURUFOTO now on ETSY!!!

Well, my friends, it’s Friday…. Finally. Why do the short weeks seem so long? Yesterday morning literally seems like it was days ago, weird, eh? But, regardless and whatever, we are here and it’s time for another wonderful weekend fill with Tsuru Nation Domination Actuation with 1) dropping off artwork for the cnote art show at Junctionview Studios on Sept 25-27 — didn’t you notice the new “Events” button over to your rigth? — 2) potentially having another “Motel Girls” shoot on Sunday, 3) another Tsuru Tsycling adventure, this time riding bikes for an animal shelter, and of course 4) Baby continuing & expanding her awesome product line and Etsy success!

Alot, I know! Exciting stuff! In between all of that, of course, is lots snugglin’ and smoochin’ time! HA!

You should know by now, I’m not one to dwell in the past too much. I love the past, I love what it has made of me, and what not, but I tend to live with one cleat snapped into the pedal of the present and the other looking a smidgen to what’s next. BUT, forgetting the past, ignoring it, instead of just embracing it, is a foolish man’s past time — see what I did there?

So, as it was, the other day I was looking around in our little external hard-drive and stumbled upon my old podcasts, affectionately called TSURUCASTS. You guys remember these?

For those that do and wonder, “yeah, T, what the fuck happened to those delicious nuggets of musical goodness?” Well, I had a problem with them. The first iterations came about when I got mixing software, so it was just songs flowing into the next, which I loved so much that it became the standard practice for our mixtapes, right? Then we started adding sounds and what not that I was recording, which I really love as well and then ALSO became a pretty standard feature for our mixtapes!

So, the next logical step would have been to go more traditional and jibber-jabber on in between songs and honestly, one of the reason I don’t listen to the radio anymore is because the last thing I want to hear is some disc jockey jabbering on about anything.



So… I moved on and the podcasts went away, leaving our mixtapes to carry the torch.

Now, I’ll admit, I’m pretty proud of some of these podcasts. They are odd little boogers, for sure, but they were certainly fun, coming up with a theme, our little theme song (a parody of “Mexican Radio”), taking my little portable cassette recorder around with me recording things, and generally just being as silly/fun/creative/etc as I could with them!

One in particular, the one we are sharing today, I thought came out really good. I went on a one day trip up to New York for a trade show and decided to record it. What I found when I converted the tape to mp3 was I got some pretty interesting sounds that, in my humble opine, really captured my experiences in that congested, crowded city. So, a little theme song addition and some really bad poetry later, TSURUCAST No. 9 Leaving New York, Never Easy was birthed! Check out the tracklist…



Well, I gave it a good listen yesterday, and outside the really cringe-worthy sound of my voice reading that really (and I mean, REALLY) bad poetry as Jeremy Enigk’s “Heaven” is wrapping up, I had a really good time! So… for today, for you, my dear beloved readers, I imported her up, cut, labeled, exported, tagged, zipped, and uploaded it all up last night and now I’m re-presenting it to you in handy mixtape form!

HOORAY!

Here’s the deal though, I screwed up. When I did the renaming and retagging, for some reason I though “Tonight You Belong To Me” was Josh Ritter. It ain’t. It’s Bird And The Bee. Though I fixed the mp3 in the individual links, I didn’t have time to fix the zip that was already uploaded. So, when you grab the full thing, just make a quick fix of the filename and ID tag and you’ll be good to go!

That’s it! Let’s get this Friday on and over and get our weekend kickin’ up into high gear! For all you in Columbus looking for a good reason to get on your bikes for a good reason to go ride 5, 10, 20, or even 40 miles tomorrow morning, come on out and Pedal For Pets!



I know we poked a little fun at that graphic (oof), but in all honesty, you can’t ask for a better way or reason to get on your bike. Charity rides, not only give some money to a good cause, but is almost always loaded with food and fluids and support and friendly people to help make sure that 1) you finish alive and well and 2) you have a good time doing it! If it’s not Pedal For Pets, find one in your area and do it. Trust me…

Okay, have a great weekend everyone! Have fun, go riding, and we’ll be talkin’ to you soon! If not here, definitely in Our Society, on the Facebooks, or even on the Twitters! But let’s get to the music now as…

TSURURADIO Presents…
Leaving New York, Never Easy Mixtape (Formerly TSURUCAST No. 9)!!!!
(Full Zip)

NOTE: PLAY GAPLESS!!!

01 Introduction & Theme Song – AC Newman – Take On Me – Boarding
02 Clem Snide – Born A Man – Take Off
03 Elvis Perkins In Dearland – 1, 2, 3, Goodbye
04 Beirut – The Concubine
05 Neutral Milk Hotel – Where You’ll Find Me Now – NY Traffic No 1
06 Heartless Bastards – Out At Sea
07 Gustaf Spetz – Burn It, Crush It, Smash It
08 Here We Go Magic – Everything’s Big – NY Traffic No 2
09 Jeremy Enigk – Heaven – Some Really Bad Poetry
10 Kittens Ablaze – This Machine Is Dying
11 Violent Femmes – World Without Mercy – Catching A Taxi To La Guardia Airport
12 REM – Leaving New York – This Is Your Captain Speaking
13 Patrick Watson – Daydreamer
14 BING – Rocky Horror Picture Show – I’m Going Home
15 Bird And The Bee – Tonight You Belong To Me – Theme Song (Reprise)

Cheers,
Tsuru
Tsuru And The Bride | Etsy | Society | Facebook | Twitter

TSURURADIO Presents… Yes And I Will Be There Mixtape & Our Bike Porn Photo Contest Winner!!! HOORAY!

September 11, 2009
By

Photography by your boy, Tsuru!
TSURUFOTO is now on Etsy!

Howdy my friends and welcome to a very special presentation from TSURURADIO! The incomparable TsuruBride & me, her faithful bag boy, are about to head up and out to Chicago’s Renegade Craft Fair featuring TsuruBride! for the weekend!!!



If you are in or near the vaguely Chicago area this weekend, you’d better make sure you make your way through the crowds, come find us, and say “Alloooo Tsurus!!!”, okay? But… before we hit the road 1) I owe you a little announcement as to who won our latest photo contest “Bike Porn” and 2) I got a little going away present for you…. Our latest mixtape!

*applause*

First up… the photo contest!



Once again, you, my beloved readers, have shown the world that I DO IN FACT have the best damn readers in all of bloggyland as once again, you came through with some great photos! Let’s take a look at some of the photos to grace my inbox.

First up is our dear Lyon-ess, Isa…



Now… this may seem like a very literal interpretation of the contest, until you think about the fact those aren’t her bikes and there is a whole bunch of them, then you read the title “Gang Bang With Anonymous Bikes” and you realize that people love their bikes just a liiiiiittle bit different out in Lyon, France!

Then there was my boy, my cycling partner-in-crime, Tuck who is probably the biggest cycling addict I could imagine ever meeting. Seriously, what Belladonna is to porn, Tuck is to cycling. He’s brought out the competitive part of me, making me push myself faster and for more miles than I think I could’ve ever dreamed about. Love that guy (and Belladonna too). So, he sent a slew of photos, most of which were me fixing flats, but two in particular moved me. This one…



Because I took it and I think it looks like a bad ass advertisement for Competitive Cyclist, but especially this one…



That’s one of Tuck’s bikes, but it doesn’t even matter as what got me was that I can just see Tuck looking with a sad puppy expression at a lone bike sitting on a bike path bridge just waiting to be ridden, waiting for someone to clip in and bust out a sweet 95 rpm cadence at 25, 30, 35 mph…. When I see that lone bike, I actually see Tuck looking at the lone bike…

I love this next photo by one of our crafty (literally) friend Alissa..



Such a sweet and special moment, just you and your bike, walking in the grass, hand-in-hand(lebar). Ah… very tender moment. Makes me think of all the times me and Kapu would walk together, me in my cycling shoes, her with a flat tire.

*tender*

But, where there’s flats, there are people who work on bikes, and our next entry comes by one of our I-state residents (Iowa, Indiana, Indonesia, something with an I in the middle of the country), Herki as he sails off on a stripped down and rebuilt 20″ kid’s bike that he and his brother restored!



By the way, the only thing funnier than watching me ride a 20″ bike, which I’ve done, is watching me dismount a 20″ bike. Let’s just say, I’ve got very long legs. I’m what happens when a spider and a monkey procreate.

Now one of our original VIP’s Story “found” this the other day…



That’s not her bike, no her’s seats her kid on the top tube, see…

So I’m going to guess the photo is a metaphor for the attitude our nation’s cities have toward cyclists, cycling safety, bike lanes, really cycling in general. Basically, our cities think of us as a FORD, “Found On Roadside Dead”.

*zing!*

Our next entry came from detuned from the facebooks & down in our society…



A stunning photo, that not only captures beautifully subdued colours, impeccable fashion, a gloriously vintage-looking Dutch city bike, and a fantastically proud pose, but also the appropriate Minnesotan headwear! Now… if they could just insert some foam in there, I’d be allll set for my pending winter riding!

Okay… You know what time it is, right???

*uses empty space to build suspense*

Yep, time for the podium.



*lots of cheers and applause*

Coming in Green is actually quite pink. HA! This one is really special to me, Lanni snapped this rather colourful photo…



Now, I know what you are thinking, Green jersey for a pretty standard, albeit lovely & super colourful, photo of a beautiful woman and her sweet Raleigh, right? Well, what you don’t see in the photo is the 80lbs Lanni has lost since taking up cycling. She sites all the Tsuru Tsycling fanatics for getting her on the bike and that makes me very very proud (it really does, Lanni), but as a cyclist myself, I know that, sure, Tsuru Tsycling may have got her on the bike, but it was ALL Lanni that kept her going that next mile and next mile and next mile. To keep pedaling.. 80 mother fucking pounds. Yeah. Lanni, for you, I’d like to send you a bike print, any bike print over at TSURUFOTO, you name it, I’ll print it and send it… You kick ass.

Polka-dots, one of my favourite jerseys as I love, not only climbing, but I just think a polka-dot jersey is just fucking hilariously awesome…. So it’s our boy (and crane logo artist), captgeech who gets to don this red & white with this…



Honestly, words can’t describe the awesomeness of this photo. A shirtless captain (bringin’ da hawtness, rawr), an owl, an end table, and a girls bike that is fitted too short for even my 10 year old! Capt, I love you man. This photo made my day. For donning the dots, I have to send you a print too! Pick a bike print buddy, and it’s yours!!!

But alas…. though it takes balls of steel, and legs of, um, I don’t know, let’s say iron, no, let’s say aluminum, WAIT NO, let’s say “carbon” to climb Mt. Ventoux, the yellow goes to that special cyclist who can keep a steady pace regardless of the rise over run, who can take the flats and the descents AND the time trial (as well as probably a bit of “happy pills”)… the “all arounder”, and in this case it’s……

*drumroll*

*very suspenseful, I know*

Ingrid!!!



This photo has it all. Dark, saucy lighting, a bike in that dark, saucy lighting… naked, yeah, NUDE feet poking out the bottom, and what appears to be the shadow of the bike’s erection!!! Dang! Has it been taking Enzyte? It’s a bike, it’s porn, it’s BIKE PORN SQUARED and it’s totally the hawtness!

So, Ingrid, my dear, you win yellow, you win it ALL, BABY!!!! Yep, you win — ready for a little copy and past from the original context post, I mean I cooould re-write it, but that’s not “real” is it?) — one of the two remaining…

Stinkybomb Cassette Tape Soap!!!



You can choose between the green or the blue (the pink one now resides in a bathroom in Germany). Because, nothing’s better after a hundred mile bike ride than a shower with Cassette soap! But that’s not all! You will also receive….

AN ORIGINAL TSURUFOTO PRINT, “COCONUT MAN”!!!



Now THERE’S some bike porn! The hawtness. Aaaaaaaand, now this one may be dumb, weird, or cool, can’t tell, but you will also receive…

MY PELOTONIA LIVESTRONG BRACELET



Yep, the Livestrong yellow rubberband bracelet that traveled with me from Columbus to Athens, OH, it’s even still all dirty to make it nice and “authentic”. Like I said, it’s either a dumb, weird, or cool prize. I don’t know, I think it’s kinda cool when you think about some body in the world somewhere wearing a bracelet that spent a day in the middle of Ohio on some other persons arm helping to raise money for cancer research while riding on a bicycle.

*shrugs*

But I’m weird like that...

So…

CONGRATULATIONS INGRID!!! You did it! You win!



Email me, I’ll email you, get your “deets”, as the kids say, and get this out right after we get back from Chicago!

Thank you sooo much everyone, I thank you, Clementine thanks you, the cycling community, et al, thanks you, or should at least. I love you guys, all of you! I really do…

And, like I said, we aren’t dones yet! Baby & I might be heading out to Chicago in a few hours, but before we leave, got a little mixtape for ya — and for the ride! Now, we already did a Bicycle Mixtape and and we even did a Photography Mixtape, both are still up, by the way, so instead this is just a straight-up good ol’ fashioned new mixtape….. All mixed up, chopped up, and uploaded just for you. The theme? I don’t know… it’s a bit theatric at times, so let’s go with that. Mostly new tracks, some recent faves, a couple oldies, and BLAMO, it’s all gooooooood times.

So, let’s wrap this post up, this contest up, this week up, and get the music a-flowin! I hope you had some fun, I hope you go ride your bikes some more, and I hope to see some of you out in Chicago. No matter what, though, have a great weekend! Keep an eye out on the facebooks & twitters for some twitpicin’ from the Windy City, but for now let’s boogie as….

TSURURADIO Proudly Presents…
Yes And I Will Be There Mixtape!!!
(Full Zip)

NOTE: PLAY GAPLESS! TRUST ME!

01 fun. – Be Calm
02 Trains Across The Sea – I Will Meet You There
03 Young Buffalo – Catapilah
04 The Dutchess And The Duke – Hands
05 Lightning Dust – Wondering What Everyone Knows
06 David Bazan – Bless This Mess
07 Coconut Records – The Summer
08 Elvis Perkins In Dearland – Doomsday
09 Port O’Brien – Tree Bones
10 The Cave Singers – At The Cut
11 Weezer – The Greatest Man That Ever Lived
12 Flight Of The Conchords – Hurt Feelings
13 Hey Champ – Cold Dust Girl
14 The Smiths – How Soon Is Now
15 Islands – Vapours
16 Liam Frost – Your Hand In Mine (Featuring Martha Wainwright)
17 The Hidden Cameras – In The NA
18 The Antlers – Two
19 Daniel Johnston – Freedom
20 Amy Millan – Day To Day
21 Juliette Lewis – Romeo
22 Girls – Lauren Marie
23 As Tall As Lions – In Case Of Rapture
24 Olivia Ruiz – Elle Panique
25 Muse – I Belong To You / Mon Coeur S’ouvre A Toi
26 Sea Wolf – O Maria!
27 The Postmarks – My Lucky Charm.
28 Grand Archives – Dig That Cray Grave.
29 Make Say Think – Do
30 Flaming Lips – The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song And Reprise

Hear something you be diggin’? Well, head on down to your local record shop, to the band’s label/shop/myspace/something, or go buy it online somewhere!


Buy it at Insound!

Cheers!! Hope to see you in Chicago!
Tsuru
Tsuru And The Bride | Etsy | Society | Facebook | Twitter

TSURURADIO Presents… Yes And I Will Be There Mixtape & Our Bike Porn Photo Contest Winner!!! HOORAY!

September 11, 2009
By

Photography by your boy, Tsuru!
TSURUFOTO is now on Etsy!

Howdy my friends and welcome to a very special presentation from TSURURADIO! The incomparable TsuruBride & me, her faithful bag boy, are about to head up and out to Chicago’s Renegade Craft Fair featuring TsuruBride! for the weekend!!!



If you are in or near the vaguely Chicago area this weekend, you’d better make sure you make your way through the crowds, come find us, and say “Alloooo Tsurus!!!”, okay? But… before we hit the road 1) I owe you a little announcement as to who won our latest photo contest “Bike Porn” and 2) I got a little going away present for you…. Our latest mixtape!

*applause*

First up… the photo contest!



Once again, you, my beloved readers, have shown the world that I DO IN FACT have the best damn readers in all of bloggyland as once again, you came through with some great photos! Let’s take a look at some of the photos to grace my inbox.

First up is our dear Lyon-ess, Isa…



Now… this may seem like a very literal interpretation of the contest, until you think about the fact those aren’t her bikes and there is a whole bunch of them, then you read the title “Gang Bang With Anonymous Bikes” and you realize that people love their bikes just a liiiiiittle bit different out in Lyon, France!

Then there was my boy, my cycling partner-in-crime, Tuck who is probably the biggest cycling addict I could imagine ever meeting. Seriously, what Belladonna is to porn, Tuck is to cycling. He’s brought out the competitive part of me, making me push myself faster and for more miles than I think I could’ve ever dreamed about. Love that guy (and Belladonna too). So, he sent a slew of photos, most of which were me fixing flats, but two in particular moved me. This one…



Because I took it and I think it looks like a bad ass advertisement for Competitive Cyclist, but especially this one…



That’s one of Tuck’s bikes, but it doesn’t even matter as what got me was that I can just see Tuck looking with a sad puppy expression at a lone bike sitting on a bike path bridge just waiting to be ridden, waiting for someone to clip in and bust out a sweet 95 rpm cadence at 25, 30, 35 mph…. When I see that lone bike, I actually see Tuck looking at the lone bike…

I love this next photo by one of our crafty (literally) friend Alissa..



Such a sweet and special moment, just you and your bike, walking in the grass, hand-in-hand(lebar). Ah… very tender moment. Makes me think of all the times me and Kapu would walk together, me in my cycling shoes, her with a flat tire.

*tender*

But, where there’s flats, there are people who work on bikes, and our next entry comes by one of our I-state residents (Iowa, Indiana, Indonesia, something with an I in the middle of the country), Herki as he sails off on a stripped down and rebuilt 20″ kid’s bike that he and his brother restored!



By the way, the only thing funnier than watching me ride a 20″ bike, which I’ve done, is watching me dismount a 20″ bike. Let’s just say, I’ve got very long legs. I’m what happens when a spider and a monkey procreate.

Now one of our original VIP’s Story “found” this the other day…



That’s not her bike, no her’s seats her kid on the top tube, see…

So I’m going to guess the photo is a metaphor for the attitude our nation’s cities have toward cyclists, cycling safety, bike lanes, really cycling in general. Basically, our cities think of us as a FORD, “Found On Roadside Dead”.

*zing!*

Our next entry came from detuned from the facebooks & down in our society…



A stunning photo, that not only captures beautifully subdued colours, impeccable fashion, a gloriously vintage-looking Dutch city bike, and a fantastically proud pose, but also the appropriate Minnesotan headwear! Now… if they could just insert some foam in there, I’d be allll set for my pending winter riding!

Okay… You know what time it is, right???

*uses empty space to build suspense*

Yep, time for the podium.



*lots of cheers and applause*

Coming in Green is actually quite pink. HA! This one is really special to me, Lanni snapped this rather colourful photo…



Now, I know what you are thinking, Green jersey for a pretty standard, albeit lovely & super colourful, photo of a beautiful woman and her sweet Raleigh, right? Well, what you don’t see in the photo is the 80lbs Lanni has lost since taking up cycling. She sites all the Tsuru Tsycling fanatics for getting her on the bike and that makes me very very proud (it really does, Lanni), but as a cyclist myself, I know that, sure, Tsuru Tsycling may have got her on the bike, but it was ALL Lanni that kept her going that next mile and next mile and next mile. To keep pedaling.. 80 mother fucking pounds. Yeah. Lanni, for you, I’d like to send you a bike print, any bike print over at TSURUFOTO, you name it, I’ll print it and send it… You kick ass.

Polka-dots, one of my favourite jerseys as I love, not only climbing, but I just think a polka-dot jersey is just fucking hilariously awesome…. So it’s our boy (and crane logo artist), captgeech who gets to don this red & white with this…



Honestly, words can’t describe the awesomeness of this photo. A shirtless captain (bringin’ da hawtness, rawr), an owl, an end table, and a girls bike that is fitted too short for even my 10 year old! Capt, I love you man. This photo made my day. For donning the dots, I have to send you a print too! Pick a bike print buddy, and it’s yours!!!

But alas…. though it takes balls of steel, and legs of, um, I don’t know, let’s say iron, no, let’s say aluminum, WAIT NO, let’s say “carbon” to climb Mt. Ventoux, the yellow goes to that special cyclist who can keep a steady pace regardless of the rise over run, who can take the flats and the descents AND the time trial (as well as probably a bit of “happy pills”)… the “all arounder”, and in this case it’s……

*drumroll*

*very suspenseful, I know*

Ingrid!!!



This photo has it all. Dark, saucy lighting, a bike in that dark, saucy lighting… naked, yeah, NUDE feet poking out the bottom, and what appears to be the shadow of the bike’s erection!!! Dang! Has it been taking Enzyte? It’s a bike, it’s porn, it’s BIKE PORN SQUARED and it’s totally the hawtness!

So, Ingrid, my dear, you win yellow, you win it ALL, BABY!!!! Yep, you win — ready for a little copy and past from the original context post, I mean I cooould re-write it, but that’s not “real” is it?) — one of the two remaining…

Stinkybomb Cassette Tape Soap!!!



You can choose between the green or the blue (the pink one now resides in a bathroom in Germany). Because, nothing’s better after a hundred mile bike ride than a shower with Cassette soap! But that’s not all! You will also receive….

AN ORIGINAL TSURUFOTO PRINT, “COCONUT MAN”!!!



Now THERE’S some bike porn! The hawtness. Aaaaaaaand, now this one may be dumb, weird, or cool, can’t tell, but you will also receive…

MY PELOTONIA LIVESTRONG BRACELET



Yep, the Livestrong yellow rubberband bracelet that traveled with me from Columbus to Athens, OH, it’s even still all dirty to make it nice and “authentic”. Like I said, it’s either a dumb, weird, or cool prize. I don’t know, I think it’s kinda cool when you think about some body in the world somewhere wearing a bracelet that spent a day in the middle of Ohio on some other persons arm helping to raise money for cancer research while riding on a bicycle.

*shrugs*

But I’m weird like that...

So…

CONGRATULATIONS INGRID!!! You did it! You win!



Email me, I’ll email you, get your “deets”, as the kids say, and get this out right after we get back from Chicago!

Thank you sooo much everyone, I thank you, Clementine thanks you, the cycling community, et al, thanks you, or should at least. I love you guys, all of you! I really do…

And, like I said, we aren’t dones yet! Baby & I might be heading out to Chicago in a few hours, but before we leave, got a little mixtape for ya — and for the ride! Now, we already did a Bicycle Mixtape and and we even did a Photography Mixtape, both are still up, by the way, so instead this is just a straight-up good ol’ fashioned new mixtape….. All mixed up, chopped up, and uploaded just for you. The theme? I don’t know… it’s a bit theatric at times, so let’s go with that. Mostly new tracks, some recent faves, a couple oldies, and BLAMO, it’s all gooooooood times.

So, let’s wrap this post up, this contest up, this week up, and get the music a-flowin! I hope you had some fun, I hope you go ride your bikes some more, and I hope to see some of you out in Chicago. No matter what, though, have a great weekend! Keep an eye out on the facebooks & twitters for some twitpicin’ from the Windy City, but for now let’s boogie as….

TSURURADIO Proudly Presents…
Yes And I Will Be There Mixtape!!!
(Full Zip)

NOTE: PLAY GAPLESS! TRUST ME!

01 fun. – Be Calm
02 Trains Across The Sea – I Will Meet You There
03 Young Buffalo – Catapilah
04 The Dutchess And The Duke – Hands
05 Lightning Dust – Wondering What Everyone Knows
06 David Bazan – Bless This Mess
07 Coconut Records – The Summer
08 Elvis Perkins In Dearland – Doomsday
09 Port O’Brien – Tree Bones
10 The Cave Singers – At The Cut
11 Weezer – The Greatest Man That Ever Lived
12 Flight Of The Conchords – Hurt Feelings
13 Hey Champ – Cold Dust Girl
14 The Smiths – How Soon Is Now
15 Islands – Vapours
16 Liam Frost – Your Hand In Mine (Featuring Martha Wainwright)
17 The Hidden Cameras – In The NA
18 The Antlers – Two
19 Daniel Johnston – Freedom
20 Amy Millan – Day To Day
21 Juliette Lewis – Romeo
22 Girls – Lauren Marie
23 As Tall As Lions – In Case Of Rapture
24 Olivia Ruiz – Elle Panique
25 Muse – I Belong To You / Mon Coeur S’ouvre A Toi
26 Sea Wolf – O Maria!
27 The Postmarks – My Lucky Charm.
28 Grand Archives – Dig That Cray Grave.
29 Make Say Think – Do
30 Flaming Lips – The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song And Reprise

Hear something you be diggin’? Well, head on down to your local record shop, to the band’s label/shop/myspace/something, or go buy it online somewhere!


Buy it at Insound!

Cheers!! Hope to see you in Chicago!
Tsuru
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