Thanks Baby for the heads up!!! Adooooooorable!
She & Him – Don’t Look Back from Merge Records on Vimeo.
Thanks Baby for the heads up!!! Adooooooorable!
She & Him – Don’t Look Back from Merge Records on Vimeo.
Illustration by Mike
Oh my, what a week we’ve had so far, eh? Honestly, I didn’t know if I’d be able to keep MIXTAPES WEEK going all week! So many hyperlinks… so little time! But alas, here we are, Friday, and we’ve got yet another amazing mixtape to share with you. Also, waiting in the wings for my Crane Buddy to receive her Crane’s Day gift is the mixtape I made for her! It’s a doozy that I plan on sharing with you ASAP, but she gets dibs on listening first, sorry — wouldn’t be all that special if I let you go before her, right?
Right.
Okay, as much as I hate to keep this short, it’s looking to be a nutty day today, it’s chilly outside, Baby’s sick, and dammit, I’m going to get a little lunchtime ride in to spin some ache out of my legs before a big (maybe 100 miler) ride tomorrow! So, let’s get to the good stuff, eh? And by good stuff, of course I’m talking about [...Living, Breathing, Dying...] by nelso!
“Ahh life is all about balance, this mix has balance, in tempo, up and down, its living, its breathing, and eventually dying…” says nelso, so true, about life, about this mixtape, about damn near everything. I will also add that life is about lines, it’s just one line after another sometimes, isn’t? Line up at the stop light, line up in the lane on the interstate, line up at the exit, line up to park, line up for some coffee, line up to pay, line up to even leave! Ugh.
Sorry, I digressed there, I really hate lines.
Fortunately, this mixtape is NOT about lines. It’s at times whimsical, then fun, then slow & introspective, sometimes a interesting mix of all of the above, like “Whale In The Night” by Firs. As nelso said, it ebbs, it flows, it’s up & down, as is all things, and it’s quite brilliant. A wonderful conclusion to a rather ebb & flow kinda week if you ask me! Thank you so much nelso! So what say you? Shall we get ‘er on? Yeah, I think so too.
TSURURADIO Presents… MIXTAPES WEEK!
[ ...Living, Breathing, Dying... ] by nelso!!!
1. Annuals – Springtime
2. Mesita – Living/breathing
3. Shout Out Louds – Very Loud
4. Nurses – Technicolor
5. French Kicks – She Said So
6. Rosie and Me – Bonfires
7. Bedroom Eyes – Dancing Under Influence
8. Firs – Whale In The Night
9. Beach House – Lover of Mine
10. Ramona Falls – Russia
11. Mimicking Birds – Burning Stars
12. Peasant – The End
13. The Spinto Band – Jackhammer (slim version)
14. All Get Out – Wasting All My Breath
15. Local Natives – Cards and Quarters
16. Wye Oak – My Creator
17. She & Him – Riding In My Car (NRBQ)
18. Fanfarlo – Comets
19. The Farewell Circuit – The Inexorable March of Time
20. Bon Iver – Come Talk to Me
Thanks again, so so so much, nelso!!! Wonderful, wonderful mixtape, as always!!! No promises (like I said, I may be riding 100 miles tomorrow for the 38th annual Woodstock COP ride), but I’ll try to get at least one more up before we start a-new on Monday!!!
Cheers & may all your tubes full of air!
Tsuru
via P4k
The new video for “In The Sun” from the the soon to be leaked released She & Him Volume 2!
Soon, my pretty…. soon….. you’ll be ours!!!!
image source (photographer not named)
The other day we discussed the wonder and the glory of the boob and how Apple has decided that boobs on your iPhone are bad. As of today, Apple is holding steady with their deletion of boob-enhanced apps (all the while a topless dude app meant for hooking up with other, assumingly topless, males still lives on).
Well, Baby alerted me today that the assault on boobs continues unabated as Australia, yes AUSTRALIA, is now banning small-breasted women in adult films & publications???? WHAT THE FUCK? Their pathetic reasoning is that small-breasted women are just a wee-bit to close to kiddie-porn and pedophilia. Unreal.
As a boob-lover & connoisseur, I’m extraordinarily offended! Not only is this very anti-women, anti-choice, anti-fucking-everything, it’s just asinine! Because some sick blokes get off on kids, you are going to block a grown ass woman from expressing her sexuality as she sees fit because she’s an A-cup? To continue working in the adult industry would mean a move from Australia or a boob-job?
Aussies…. c’mon. Seriously. C’m-the-fuck-on!
We, and I mean ALL of us, must celebrate the boobie! Big ones, little ones, droopy, perky, large nipples, small nipples, pink, and brown! Small breasts are wonderful, super-sexy, and a great break from all the ballooned tittied air-brushed Playboy/Baywatch Barbie dolls thrown at our faces constantly by the media.
To my wonderful Australian readers, wake up & rise up! Don’t let this banning/censoring occur!
Speaking of boobs, in just over a month is our SUPER AWESOME NO-FRILLS BIKE RIDE for BREAST CANCER!!!
Breast cancer knows no cup size, effect all women, from sub-A’s to quintuple-Zs. AND it looks like we have a start location! We’ll make it official in March, but it looks like we will be starting at the Columbus Park Of Roses! This will allow the 10 milers to stay on the Olentangy Bike Path, the 25er’s will venture off the path a little bit, and the 50 will take the path up and out, head into Delaware Country and loop their way back down! Just working on a final route for the 25ers and we’ll be all set!
Ride for your sisters, your moms, your neighbors, your friends, and for yourself! We’ve got some boobies to help save!!!!! Can’t wait, and hope to see you there with $20 bucks in your hand and a bicycle between your legs!!!
WOOOOT!
Okay, music….. It’s Twofer Friday today (why not, eh?) and before we get to the album stuck in my head, I think we need to get some tsuruloosies out of the way, take a look around the intertubal superhighway of love and see what’s hot!
Alright! This time around, I had the foresight to upload my wheelies to give these guys some proper ratings! WOOT! As per usual, the rating is out of 5 WHEELIES!
But enough with the jibber-jabber, let’s get on with it (I feel so out of the hype-loop lately)…
Oh my yes….
WOOP! Get my 80′s style boogie on!!!
Penguin Prison – Something I’m Not
Zzzzz…….
HAHA! WHEEE!
Feel like we’ve been here a million times before.
Reminds me of Okkervil.. in a good way!
Nada Surf – Electrocution (Bill Fox)
Nada Surf, like a cup of coffee, so good and comforting…
Pattern In Movement – Light Of The World
Uh. No. Well… maybe a little, just a little. This one could grow on me…
At first, I was like “meh”, then I was like “oh my”!
Again…. Zzzzzzz……
End on a “Zzzzz”??? You thought we were done?!?! HA! Wait… did you? I mean, it says right up in the post title Twofer Friday and the album we are going to review. Seriously, if you didn’t know this was coming, I’m going to start worrying about you.
Yep, Tunng’s And Then We Saw Land! Quite nice… basically classic folk-rock with bits and pieces of electronical goodness here and there. At times it reminds me of that Sufjan guy with it’s sweet orchestral pop, other times it sounds like it’s pulled from right out of the late 60s/early 70s, other times, it’s sounds like the future. Yeah, it’s kinda like that. But aesthetically, it all fits together into a lovely way to wrap up a rather interesting and long week and that’s really all I got to say about that!
Just enjoy…
01 Hustle
02 It Breaks
03 Don’t Look Down Or Back
04 The Roadside
05 October
06 Sashimi
07 With Whiskey
08 By Dusk They Were In The City
09 These Winds
10 Santiago
11 Weekend Away
Some Tunng love: Myspace | Official | Label
There you go! Have a great weekend everyone and for all you in & around Columbus, don’t forget this weekend is Couchfire’s Touchy Feely show Saturday night at the Ohio Art League Gallery .
Baby & I both have a piece in the show, her’s is a hand embroidered piece called “NSFW” & I’ve got my “Scratch-N-Sniff Sharpie Porn”! Hope to see you there! Until then….
Cheers,
Tsuru
Photography by Maria
It’s Friday and a snow storm is a-comin’! =o Guess I’m pulling back out the snow bike this weekend, WOOT! Speaking of cycling, how about our big announcement yesterday? What? You missed it? Oh man…. well, if you are in or remotely near Columbus, OH, have access to a bicycle, guess what? You have plans Saturday morning at 9am on April 3rd!
Awesome, right? Actually… SUPER AWESOME! Click on the flyer or HERE for details. I hope you can make it, let’s raise some money for Breast Cancer, ride our bikes together, and have a BLAST!!!
Okay, it’s been a while and I’m starting to feel a little out of touch with the hyped up hopped up world of bloggable musica and you know me, I GOTTA keep my finger on the pulse on the neck of the music monster or something (not exactly how that phrase goes), though maybe a heart-rate monitor would do the trick.
Anyways — Ooo… the snow just started — how about we get reacquainted with what’s hot & what’s not with a couple tsuruloosies?? As always, I’ll keep any snarky comments to myself and just give you a rating. This time, let’s mix it up a bit with a little Hope & Change, eh? Each song has an opportunity to receive a maximum of 5 Obama Wheelies!
WHEEEEEEEE! Here we go!
The Tallest Man On Earth – King Of Spain
Drive-by Truckers – This Fucking Job
Grizzly Bear – Boy From School (Hot Chip Cover)
Woo! Fun, eh? God, can’t WAIT for that She & Him album to leak!!! I got my Fanboyism & Zooey crush set to KILL! WOOT! But for now, we got ourselves a little something different, though definitely on the lighter side of things with a new one from Josh Rouse, El Turista!
This is pretty sweet. Though Roush purist may not love his new found adoption of Spain, listening to it in the vacuum of it’s own existence thanks to my musical amnesia to previous Roush albums, I gotta say… This is nice. It’s escapist Spanish loungey fun. Makes me want to order up a Mojito, actually pronounce the “J” as an “H” like you are supposed to (yes, I embarrass all my friends by giving Mojito a hard J. Needless to say, we don’t go out for fajitas very often anymore), and just sit back, enjoy a hot & humid Florida day (takes me back) by the bay.
Confusing visuals, maybe, but who cares, just put on your guayabera shirt…
Load the album up, lean back, maybe light up a cigar — wait… when did El Turista become a Cuban album in my head? — and enjoy!
01. Bienvenido
02. Duerme
03. Lemon Tree
04. Sweet Elaine
05. Mesie Julian
06. I Will Live On Islands
07. Valencia
08. Cotton Eye Joe
09. Las Voces
10. Don’t Act Tough
Some Rouse lovins….
Cheers,
Tsuru
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