Excuses, Excuses... and the Playlist

Thanks for the nudge, stranger.  I'm making excuses, but I woke up on Sunday feeling totally awful and have been trying to recover from that seasonal bug since then.  This morning I coughed up a golfball sized wad of phlegm.  Yum!

But seriously, last week's show was a blast, and thanks to Meemaw for not only toughing it out for all two hours, but also being one of the best groups I've had in.

The playlist is rather short due to all the live stuff that was going on, which I'm going to try to get up online soon.  For some reason mediafire wasn't working last week, which is why no songs got posted--I'm going to try it again right now and see what happens.

But seriously, sorry I'm being such a slacker.  It's that season for theatre and for schoolwork and for me being sick, which makes an awful combination.  Plus, I had a shitty weekend.   I think it's time to get some friends my own age.

But here's the thing that made the weekend for me: after the radioshow, we grabbed dinner with Meemaw and some friends from Infinity Cat, who told us that the whole gang from Critical Mass was huddled around a radio in Dragon Park listening to the show and singing along in the rain.  That's like eight of my radio listener fantasies all rolled into one.  Thanks, Critical Mass!  Then we ate fried pickles and grilled cheeseburgers (and Daniel ate chicken gizzards......) and made plans for their upcoming tour, including sending Jessica running into the venues with her hands tied and duct tape over her mouth, and posing as inhabitants of a post-second coming Earth.  Then we had to explain to Jessica what Costco was.

The Mae Shi, "Kingdom Come" from Hllyh

Meemaw, "Blue in the Blacklight"--prerelease

MGMT, "Weekend Wars" from Oracular Spectacular

Justice, "D.A.N.C.E." from [cross]

Espositio, "Ditch" from Esposito

Meemaw, "Fever Dreaming" --prerelease

Stephen Malkmus, "We Can't Help You" from Real Emotional Trash

The Apples in Stereo, "The Golden Flower" from Electronic Projects for Musicians

Born Ruffians, "Hummingbird" from Red Yellow & Blue

DeVotchka, "Along the Way" from Mad & Faithful Telling

Meemaw, "Gingerbreadman"--prerelease

The Billionaires, "Highschool High" from Really Real for Forever

The Apparitions, "Electricity & Drums" from As This is Futuristic

Chromeo, "Call Me Up" from Fancy Footwork

The Aislers, "Red Door" from How I Learned to Write Backwards

The next post is going to be a slew of live things from past guests I've had in if I can get the darn program at the radiostation to burn things for me again.  She's finicky. 

Then, since we're officially 1/4 of the way through the year, I'm going to post the ten albums most likely to make my top-20 list at the end of the year, mostly for my enjoyment.

Also, I saw Once and didn't like it AT ALL.  Go ahead indie music world, slaughter me.