Day: November 30, 2009

November songs

My November mix went something like this:

  1. “Iowa (Traveling III)” by Dar Williams
  2. “Lost Highway” by Willie Nelson
  3. “There’s Hope for You” by William Elliot Whitmore
  4. “Pantry” by Lyle Lovett
  5. “Blue Skies” by Young Republic
  6. “This Year” by the Mountain Goats
  7. “Don’t Change” by INXS
  8. “B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)” by Outkast
  9. “Brother Sport” by Animal Collective
  10. “Two Weeks” by Grizzly Bear
  11. “Stupid in Love” by Rihanna
  12. “Ramalama (Bang Bang)” by Róisín Murphy
  13. “Sugarfoot” by Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
  14. “East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam” by Tom Russell
  15. “We’re Not Gonna Take It” by Hellsongs
  16. “Stuck Inside of Mobile (with the Memphis Blues Again)” by Pat Guadangno & Tired Horses
  17. “Hell” by Tegan and Sara
  18. “Toenail Moon” by Wee Hairy Beasties
  19. “Over at the Frankenstein Place” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  20. “My Body’s a Zombie for You” by Dead Man’s Bones

I’m always open to one-for-one mix trades.

Monday various

  • I watched George Romero’s The Crazies this weekend. While it was interesting, I think I like the movie that John Seavey describes more than the one I actually saw:

    It’s not a particularly cheerful movie; this is Romero at his most nihilistic, during the Vietnam era, suggesting that maybe insanity is endemic to the human condition and if we really were being driven mad, we might not notice the difference. But it’s also clever, tense, and filled with some haunting and evocative imagery, and it has some good acting from the principals. I recommend it.

    Still, I can’t in all honesty not recommend the film. It’s maybe not Romero at his very best or most polished, but it’s never uninteresting.

    I wish I could say the same about the trailer for the remake, which looks a lot more like just a generic zombie movie.

  • You stay classy, Gore Vidal. [via]
  • “Beaten stiff competition”? Oh, I see what you did there, you naughty thing. Who’s the best Bad Sex writer now?
  • “Come to New York: your chances of getting killed here have gone down significantly!” [via
  • And finally, speaking of New York… [via]