Monday, July 27, 2009

Its Time For A List...or something like that


The Best of The Summer of '09
I am already accepting the end. I am in the midst of my swan song. My final bow. My gentle gallop into the sunset. The summer is over. For most of America, at least the America for human beings 23-39, Summer doesn't really exist. But for me it exists and I dread things that have ends...and everything has an end. Pause and look up and to the left...
Here is my list of the greatest things this summer

Alcohol of the Summer-

This is always Bud Light Lime, but for the sake of discussion I am going with a Tequila Gimlet. Petron or Cabo Wabo with a little bit of Roses Lime Juice. I had always thought Tequila was the Devils sweat, but once you have a drink from a $60 bottle of Tequila you will continue to sneak into your parents liquor cabinet.
1) It was my birthday and I ordered two double Patron Gimlets. On the second one the waitress, noticing that I looked poor, asked if I knew this was a $20 dollar drink. I said yes of course, and fell into a cold, cold sweat.
2) I was excited about the Christmas holiday season and I bought a lot of expensive bottles of alcohol. I tried to carry it all in from my car and dropped the bottle of Cabo Wabo and watched it stream down the gutter and into the drain on the corner of my street.

Album of the Summer

I would like to say Sunset Rubdown-Dragonslayer, but would also like to say Wilco has a fine fine album.
Honorable Mention-The Rural Alberta Advantage-Hometowns. The only reason this makes Honorable Mention instead of the top of the podium is because they are from Canada and Canada never feels like Summer

Movie of the Summer-

I have been disappointed with movies since Shawshank Redemption. That was an exaggeration, but I remember the days where there were such things as Summer Blockbusters. I did enjoy The Hangover as most did...some say it was stupid but I say that they are...
The movie of the Summer, for better or worse is (500) Days of Summer. I actually hate this movie so it is sort of curious to see it as the movie of the summer, but sometimes the things I love the most are because I hate them so much. The soundtrack is pretty good. I feared it to be too cutsie and it kind of is. But it is also brutal (in an early 20's heartbreaking kind of way) and I don't want to talk to Zooey Deschanel ANYMORE!!

DVD Release of the Summer- Coraline. I loved this movie. I didn't watch it with 3D glasses on, but thought it was a fine and entertaining movie.

Festival of the Summer- Sunsets Festival Live From The Clap
Because it was bitching.

Grilled Meat of the Summer- I am in search of the perfect burger. It is the best hobby to have because you can never truly be satisfied. It is chasing the carrot that is fastened to an apparatus on your head. The closet I came is a sausage burger (undisclosed proportion of ground beef-sausage) with pepper cheese and caramelized onions, dill pickle and dijon mustard.
I am learning to do fantastic things to steaks.

New Website of The Summer- www.butterscotchsundaeiguess.blogspot.com. This will be something great. It just has to.

Epiphany of the Summer- I am done listening to new music. Finished. For now at least. Went to the record store today and bought Paul Simon, Tom Waits, Tom Petty. Have decided to only listen to...said artists and Bob Dylan and the Pixies and Wilco and everyone else that falls into the category of what I have in my mind as "non-new music"

Best Field Trip of the Summer- Sanibel Island, FLA is uncommercialized. This makes it great. In July it is hotter than satans heel, but still great. If you can get there in March you will experience the best vacation of all times. That is, if your idea of a good vacation revolves around drinking Busch Light on the Beach all day and then eating fantastic food in the evening and hitting the sack by 10. And it is for me.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Freezing Each Of The Lymph Nodes...

Here is another version of an already posted song. This version is with the Family Band. I think it is funny. If not great this video is funny and we will leave it at that. There is dancing and screaming and notebooks being tossed. Three important elements to a great video.

Four Night Rider-Mt. Pleasant and The Family Band

Four Night Rider-Family Band Version from The Clap on Vimeo.

Butterscotch Sundae I Guess...


I am excited to introduce Sunsets sister site (one in which we have no creative influence, but are excited to see what a couple of crazy Midwesterners come up with in their creative boredom). The site is Butterscotch Sundae I Guess and I advertise it today (to the now 7 people viewing regularly) to get them on the ball. There are no current posts at this time but The Sun Sets On Indiana gives her full endorsement here.
Check it out and put it on your favorites because you just should.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

I Can You Betty, Betty When You Call Me, You Can Call Me Al...

Be prepared to wake at 3am gently humming this little tune until the sun comes up.

You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon)-Mt. Pleasant from The Clap on Vimeo.

Welcome to the Clap

This is a cover of a song by Rural Alberta Advantage performed by the Claps house band.

Four Night Rider (Rural Alberta Advantage) from The Clap on Vimeo.

Monday, July 20, 2009

More From Sunsets Festival at The Clap

Here is another performance from the weekend. This is Ce N'est Rien and I don't know the name of this song at the moment. I like this song a lot and usually request that it be played more than one time in a row. That is the advantage to being the CEO of The Clap.
We apologize for the fuzz sound that you hear. It was 97 degrees up there and multiple fans were necessary.

Untitled for now-Ce N'est Rien

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Sunsets Festival Live From The Clap

There was action in the Clap recently. In the days before the Pitchfork Festival there was the little known Sunsets Festival. It wasn't as well attended as Pitchfork, but the Clap was packed with music company. There was good, there was bad, and there was great. We, here at The Sun Sets On Indiana, are going to give you a little of everything this week. Sit back and enjoy it all.
The first clip is from the band Mt. Pleasant and its lead singer Mitch Miggenburg. The song, if you can't guess, is Better Days.


Next-
Ce N'est Rien

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Nintendo Games...All of Them


I ran across this site today as I was looking up old Nintendo games. This is all amazing. Arch Rivals, Double Dribble, Ice Hockey, Baseball Stars, RBI Baseball. The list goes on endlessly. I need to find some sort of controller that plugs into my computer and then it will be perfect.
Play all nintendo games here Nintendo Games

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

K'Naan-Wavin' Flag

I can't stop listening to this song. Singers name-K'Naan
Think he is from Somalia originally. First video is a performance on QTV the other is not a video, but a picture of him with the studio version of the song in the background. This is an unbelievable song. It is called Wavin Flag.



Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson


I downloaded an All Songs Considered Podcast to listen to as I was driving earlier in the week. All Songs Considered is pretty great and on this particular podcast they were discussing their recent trip to SXSW in Austin. One of the bands/singers they brought up was Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. This is the song they played and I liked it a lot. It is called Burriedfed and its really great. Click the play button and give it a listen.


and for our visual listeners