Ides of May and I haven't had any inspiration to seek out new music for a summer mix.

I could write something short about music here and make a separate post.
Or I could just write this here.

Tomorrow, 5/9/2015.
Castle Heights playground in Columbia Park.
As early as 9:30, lasting as late as Noon.
Sounds like rpz, Pepper, and I and our kids will be there. EAR, too. The earliest I'll be there is 10:30.
I'll bring a cribbage board and deck of cards so rpz and I can get round 2 done in person.

1. Mitski recorded a Daytrotter Session at SXSW and it was posted on Wednesday. My auto-renew subscription that I thought of cancelling paid off! (Also, noticed and grabbed older sessions from Courtney Barnett and Natalie Prass.)

2. In 2005, Aaron Dilloway left Wolf Eyes and travelled to Nepal for several months. Last week, a devastating earthquake hit the same country. On Wednesday, he wrote on Facebook: "Ten years ago I released this cassette boxset of my field recordings made in Nepal. I am now offering it for sale as a digital download and 100% of sales will be donated to the America Nepal Medical Foundation." Yesterday, he already donated $3000 from this. If you're only going to buy one collection of Nepalese field recordings this year, make it this one. (I might have donated anyways, but this spurred me to do so and also put a 3-hour album of field recordings atop the Bandcamp charts for a day. It was #3 Thursday.)

Since Nepal, Dilloway has been making some pretty great noise, too.

I don't worry about overplaying the As and Bs on my iPod because when I'm searching for something and I don't know what, I shuffle, and then "Browse Artist" (or "Browse Album" if a compilation).

Nothing's more disappointing than saying "Yes, that's who I want to listen to for the rest of the day!" only to realize that I'd just played the only song from that artist that I currently have on my iPod. That happened a few weeks ago with Stars of the Lid.

If I have a bit of an idea what I want to listen to, I shuffle just on my predefined broad genres. (I do wish there was a way to add artist/album/genre to a shuffle without going through the "on-the-go". Did you know that you can't put more than 999 tracks into on-the-go?)

You listen to any of those songs, Nibs?

...all yr money
and I'll make origami, honey.

Now that I've listened once or twice through, "Pedestrian at Best" still seems the standout from Courtney Barnett's album.
I was surprised that I had her name spelled right, straight from the start.

Continue reading FMD 4-10: Gimme →

I'm gonna try to leave town early. Probably not gonna linger here.
Enjoy some music.

Share some randomness with the nation.

I forgot to think about anything to say.
This isn't anywhere near my favorite Massive Attack song, but I've listened to it a lot this last week nonetheless.

My sister who lives in Alaska is visiting us for the next two days. Sorry if there's not much today. I may not even get in a Random ten of my own.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ3t0ZbFaGw