Treasure Island: The Butter

So I planned my move to Southern California around the Treasure Island Music Festival. I have never been to a major music festival and after seeing the line-up I knew this was the one for me. It was insanedible.

Knowing that I would be driving down to and through San Francisco it meant that I had to do a lot of soul searching and by soul searching, I mean downsizing. That was hard. I got rid of nearly half my stuff just moving from college, but now I had to make it all fit into the back of my 1995 Ford Escort Wagon. This was no easy task. Then again, there were a few items (such as a bottle of Log Cabin Syrup, or 2 dozen pairs of straightedge scissors, or a t-shirt with a cowboy and his horse drinking from the same trough, caption reading "Best Friends) that would suggest downsizing was still a viable option.

Thus I scrapped and scrapped and dumped and pawned and gifted and re-gifted and stuffed that car like a turkey for twelve. I even fit my 8' carved wooden statue from Borneo in there! So the girl and I sat off for the show the night before the concert and drove for 12 hours to get to the gloriousness that is San Francisco.

Along the way I had an epiphany... in the seven years of ownership that I had on my car I had yet to name the beaut. And around 3am, just after crossing Grant's Pass (a real mammoth of a mountain pass) her name came to me. LOLA PEPITA ESTEBAN RUIZ. She'll kick your ass any day. She's bad like that.

In honor of this moment I decided to make a playlist of the show that inspired the trip that would henceforth conjure up the name of names for my queen of cars. Here are some of my favorites from the show.

Tracklist:
1. The Management (MGMT) Kids (Afterschool Dance Megamix)
2. MSTRKRFT Breakaway (Feat. Jahmal from The Carps)
3. Girl Talk Hands In The Air
4. The Brazilian Girls Last Call (Disco Pusher Remix)
5. Passion Pit Sleepyhead (Joel's Inch From The Edge Of The Bed Version)
6. Federico Aubele Su Melodia
7. Dan Deacon Slow With Horns/Run For Your Life
8. Murs What Do You Know?
9. The Decemberists The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid
10. Beirut La Llorona
11. Grizzly Bear About Face
12. Yo La Tengo Gentle Hour
13. The Walkmen On The Water
14. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down Beat (Health, Life and Fire)
15. Vetiver You May Be Blue (Neighbors Remix)
16. Tommy Guerrero Falling Awake
17. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Home

Treasure Island: The Butter Pt. I
Treasure Island: The Butter Pt. II

Tut, Tut... Looks Like Rain

Influenza... it's a bitch, especially when it's 70 degrees outside and the sun is shining down and all you can think is... "my body is hotter than the earth right now. What's up with that?"

So as to distract myself from this thought, I've been whiling away the hours on a pharmaceutical cocktail codeine cough syrup and various pills coaxing the fever from my system and the phlegm from my chest. The past five days have been MAJOR to say the least.

Just prior to this infection I was in Seattle and it had just begun it's transition from pristine, crisp, autumnal afternoons to the rather dreary, slippery, wet ones. And that's how this playlist started. When I got to California however, it seemed a bit contrived and so I lost interest.

But then I got sick, and I craved soup and the weather that called upon such a state as I was in.

Here's the result of it all...

Tracklist:
1. Otis Redding Cigarettes & Coffee
2. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings Humble Me
3. Jaime Lidell Wait For Me
4. Amy Winehouse Me & Mr. Jones
5. Mayer Hawthorne One Track Mind
6. The Noisettes Never Forget You
7. Aretha Franklin Day Dreamining
8. Miles Davis & John Coltrane 'Round Midnight
9. Etta James Stormy Weather
10. Jamie Cullum Fascinating Rhythm
11. Mint Royale Singin' in the Rain
12. Feist Inside & Out
13. CéU Grains de Beauté
14. Cat Power Naked If I Wanted To
15. Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra I Cover The Waterfront
16. Nina Simone I Put A Spell On You
17. Ray Charles Just For A Thrill
18. Duffy Hanging On Too Long
19. Neko Case Runnin' Out of Fools [Aretha Franklin Cover]
20. James Brown Please, Please, Please
21. Miles Davis So What

Tut, Tut... Looks Like Rain, Pt. I
Tut, Tut... Looks Like Rain, Pt. II

Nostronomy, Fibonacci & Their Musical Playthings

So by Tuesday, I meant Friday... HA!

Um, so this week is a bit off the deep end. I started noticing a lot of numerical references in songs this year and drew up the idea to see how far I could get making a playlist directed by the fibonacci sequence. Surprisingly, 70% are from this year! The art that resulted from this looks like some conspiracy theorists' homage to Nostradamus... if only the numbers could glow and enlarge like they do in those cheesy reenactments on the History Channel, like guiding stars in the night sky only words on the page that miraculously highlight as you read them... like... Astronomy by Nostradamus... NOSTRONOMY... know what I mean? That would be something.

No tracklist this week... it's all in the (ch)art.

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377

Follow it and you shall see.

Links:
Nostronomy, Fibonacci & Their Muscial Playthings Pt. I
Nostronomy, Fibonacci & Their Muscial Playthings Pt. II