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Maps & Routes, Mini-Vacations, and TSURURADIO Presents… Eileen I’ll Hum This Tune Forever Mixtape!!!

March 11, 2010
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Alright my friends, it’s about time for this bird to take a day off and go see Mama & Sister Tsuru down in Flo-Ri-Da!  But before I do…. RIDE UPDATE!

Did you see that the TSURURADIO SUPER AWESOME NO-FRILLS BIKE RIDE for BREAST CANCER on APRIL 3RD has been updated with Maps & Routes???  That’s right!  The routes are solidified!  Here’s what we’ve got….  We’ve got a lovely riverside bike path 10 miler, a slightly more challenging 20 miler, then the epic 50 miler for the experienced and seasoned riders!  Going to be EPIC!!!!  Are you riding with us? I hope so!!!  If not, then wherever you are, get some friends together, bring $10, $20, whatever a pop, put it in a pot, go for a bike ride and send it to your favourite charity!  That’s the whole point!  Anyone can do this.  You don’t need to wait for a Lance Armstrong to show up, or the American Diabetes Association to put on a ride or a run or a whatever, you can do this anywhere and at any time!  BUT, if you are in Columbus on April 3rd and you got a bike, I sure hope to see you at mine!

Now unfortunately for these gams o’ mine — NOTE: need to sing a parody of Guns & Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” but cycling version that goes “Sweet Gams O’ Miiiiiiine” at my next group ride — there won’t be any riding this weekend for me as I’m not about to try to pack my bike for a tiny 3 day trip to Tampa, but seeing the family (including my snowbird Canadian in-laws (two birds, or make that about 5 birds, with one stone!)) more than makes up for it, eh?  I think so too.  Time off tomorrow means a busy day today, so what do you say we get right on to los musica, my little going away present to you, and man it’s a doozy!  2.1 hours, 26 songs of new, less than new, and pretty darn old songs that have gotten stuck in my mind, my ears, and in my heart, all laid out in proper listening order, packaged up, labeled up, zipped up, & uploaded just for you.

*smooch*

So let’s do this! Get ‘er loaded up on her player of choice and have a wonderful weekend!  I’ll see you all on the Twitters, the Facebooks, &/or our Society this weekend but if all that’s not your cup o’ tea, well, then, I guess I’ll see you back here on Monday.  Until then, enjoy as…

TSURURADIO Presents…

Eileen I’ll Hum This Tune Forever Mixtape!!! (Full Zip)

01 The Morning Benders – Excuses
02 Lightspeed Champion – Midnight Surprise
03 The New Pornographers – Your Hands (Together)
04 Portugal. The Man – All My People
05 The Bird And The Bee – Kiss On My List
06 A Weather – Winded
07 Jason Collett – Lake Superior
08 Born Ruffians – Sole Brother
09 Flight Of The Conchords – Ladies Of The World
10 Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazelwood – Summerwine
11 Josiah Wolf – That Kind Of Man
12 Super Desserts – Yr Heart
13 Dexys Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen
14 Carolina Chocolate Drops – Hit ‘Em Up Style
15 The Decemberists – The Perfect Crime #1 / The Day I Knew You’d Not Come Back
16 Daniel Lindlöf via I’m from Barcelona – Lower My Head
17 Noah And The Whale – 5 Years Time
18 Madness – Our House
19 Kaki King – Communist Friends
20 Broken Social Scene – World Sick
21 Titus Andronicus – A More Perfect Union
22 Apples In Stereo – Told You Once
23 Toro Y Moi – Blessa
24 The Pass – Colors
25 Tunng – Hustle
26 Joanna Newsom – Does Not Suffice

Like what you hear?  Well get yer ass down to the record shop this weekend and buy it!!!

Cheers,

Tsuru

Epic Weekends, epic rides, and Junior by Kaki King… EPIC!

March 8, 2010
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Photography by me! WHEEE!

Hey O! How was your weekend? Epic, I hope? I’m not sure of the full level of “epicness” of this past weekend but it was definitely an adventure! Photoshoots, arts & craft time, movies (ZOMBIELAND!!!), and, of course, a bike ride…. Or more specifically, an AMAZING bike ride!

Saturday, I pulled my long time cycling partner out of winter hibernation (I mean, it WAS going to be in the 40s!) and we tested out the 50 mile route of TSURURADIO’s SUPER AWESOME NO-FRILLS BIKE RIDE for BREAST CANCER on APRIL 3rd at PARK OF ROSES in COLUMBUS, OH!!!!

*phew* that’s a mouthful, eh?

It was amazing. The route is pretty, well, epic in it’s own way. It covers the gamut, it’s got a bike path start to get you all warmed up, a disgusting yet short climb into a subdivision, which we ride through for a bit then we head out to a main road up through Powell into Delaware (OH, not the state). It’s a long up and down straight stretch that will break down the minds of weaker men & women (the headwind heading north kept my legs working, hard).

After the first break at a Speedway (glamorous, eh), we soon start heading west. It’s a bit of traffic, but stick to the right and you’ll be fine. It pays off, as soon we start heading south and it was just beautiful. Country-style roads wide open until you get to Butts (which, though we didn’t HAVE to take it, we totally HAD to take it) and that takes you to Riverside which is exactly that, a beautiful stretch along Olentangy River, soon it’s back to work east and finally back South until, eventually, you get back to the subdivision, down the steep hill and back onto the bike path.

The only issue I see is if you are not used to riding near cars, you may be a little nervous, and we may need to cut the 25 mile down to 20 because a 25 mile route is become convoluted to get those extra 5 in…

Epic…

I like it. Alot. I know Tuck liked it. You can tell when at, say, mile 40 or so, you look over and he’s huffin’ & puffin’, kickin’ his own ass (which, in turn, results in me kickin’ MY ass to keep up), but there’s a ridiculous grin on his face! I had one on too. I’m sure we looked rather dorktastic! ha!

All-in-all, with the ride up to Tuck’s, and the ride to Park of Roses, then the actual ride-ride, then the ride back? 62 beautiful miles aka a Canadian Century (100 kilometers). Spring has sprung, my friends, even if it snows again, doesn’t matter, Spring has mother-fuckin’ SPRUNG! So happy, I could do a wheelie!

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We’ll be putting the official routes on the main ride page & on the Facebook Event page soon, so keep an eye!!!

Okay… Speaking of epic, my new favourite word, I was genuinely surprised and amazed at the pure epicness of Junior by Kaki King!

Holy crap!

Apparently this is Kaki’s 5th studio album?? Meaning I’ve been living in the dark! Ugh, what the fuck? Oh well, I guess it means there are 4 other albums I need to go check out, stat! but first, Junior. I don’t know if this her usual sound or now, I don’t know if this is some kind of evolution or return to roots or blah blah blah, but what I got is an amazing album that seems to blend that over-arching post-rock thing thing with female-led smart-pop/rock/folk.

It’s like Laura Veirs teamed up with Do Make Say Think or something?? Seriously. Her voice is reminiscent of Veirs as well, only compounding on to the analogy or metaphor or comparison or whatever the hell I wrote up there.

Whatever you call it, only one word can describe it… C’mon, say it with me now. On the count of 3. One… Twoooo….. Three!

EPIC!

1. The Betrayer
2. Spit It Back in My Mouth
3. Everything Has an End, Even Sadness
4. Falling Day
5. The Hoopers of Hudspeth
6. My Nerves that Committed Suicide
7. Communist Friends
8. Hallucinations from My Poisonous German Streets
9. Death Head
10. Sloan Shore
11. Sunnyside

Some Kaki King lovins: Official | Myspace | Label

Cheers,

Tsuru