Handsome Furs-I'm Confused

Spring Break begins today...for those still living the dream.
I am going to buy music today. M. Ward, Neko Case, and Hansome Furs new one called Face Control. Here is a video from a song on the album called I'm Confused. I am going to go ahead and say its Thriller meets 28 Days Later. Great song as well.


Handsome Furs "I'm Confused" from Sarah Marcus on Vimeo.

Time Springing Forward Sucks In The Morning

I've got nothing to say about nothing...

Book Recommendation: Downtown Owl-Chuck Klosterman
I love the way he writes. He writes how I wish I could write. After writing a handful of nonfiction-fiction type stuff he has written a novel. And he writes it in the same interesting way as he has written other books like Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs and Killing Yourself to Live.

Music Recommendation: Mount Eerie-Swan
This is really all I have listened to in the last month or so. I threw a song on here a while back by this guy (Great Ghosts) and although the songs are less than complex there is something I love about them so I keep listening.

Music I am looking forward to: Handome Furs-Face Control (comes out today and in past years I would by purchasing it this afternoon. Unfortunately, I have lost my sense of urgency when it comes to album purchases.

Movie Recommendation (I recommend you NOT to see this movie)
Miracle at St. Anna-
Spike Lee's attempt at a war movie feels like it was written without ever knowing anything at all about U.S. History. He quite possibly slept through every American History class he ever had and then decided that he knew enough to write a 2 hour and 40 minute movie...I know nothing about World War II and I am pretty sure Spike Lee knows as much as me...

Profession of the Day:
I want to mow lawns today. I would like to sit on a riding mower and mow a huge field with headphones on listening to every song I have on my Ipod, in alphabetical order.

Sandwich of the Day:
I would like a giant Reuben Sandwich.

Television Show of the Day:
World Baseball Classic and 30 Rock.

Cats Are Funnier When Little Kids Narrate

I like beef jerky!!

More New Muisc (At Least It Is New To Me)

With Terminator X

I just received Bon Iver-For Emma, Forever Ago yesterday in the mail. There has been more hype from this guy on "blogs" (The Sun Sets On Indiana is not a blog but rather a MACHINE)and my thoughts used to be that the hype was the not so selfless efforts of many to help a guy "make it". Didn't give the music much of a chance...listened to it a couple time...thought it was ok. Its nice music...nothing earth shattering or original (hard to be original these days...original often = rediculous). Giving it a few listens today and its just alright.... One song sticks out to me as being pretty good and it is called Skinny Love.

additional note:
Don't pronounce his name like it sounds in "American", but more like if you were an overachieving Sophomore taking his second year of French I.

Bon Iver [mp3] Skinny Love

Uncomfortable Entertainment

I don't know where I have been to miss such a thing but this is the most uncomfortably entertained I think I have been in some time. This is amazing and I am sorry if you have seen this multiple times, but it must be seen again.

Needless to say I was confused at Ben Stiller's antics last night. Confused...until now.



Maniacal laughter...that is funny.

MLB Network vs. Baseball Tonight

Too early to make a call on this one. MLB Network is the greatest thing that has happened to baseball since Peter Gammons. The possibility of watching baseball at any point during any day has been a dream of mine since I was 8. Its amazing to think how far things have come. Back then, in order to watch an American League game you had to keep your fingers crossed on Saturday that the game of the week on NBC would show someone from the better league. We usually just got the goddamn Cardinals or the Reds (it was hard to watch the Reds back then...in that god awful stadium they had). When WPIX (I think this is what it was), the channel out of New York came to Evansville we got to see Yankee games. Although I would have rather watched Star Wars for the 36th time than the Yankees, I still watched the game for their opponents. I believe Sportscenter existed in those early days, although I know Baseball Tonight was years from conception. This Week In Baseball with Mel Allen was as good as it got for me back then...
Now, with the Extra Innings ticket and Baseball tonight and now the MLB Network there is nothing else that I really need.
The programming so far, on the MLB Network has been a plus. The analysts and the anchors have been a minus. Mitch Williams and Dan Pleasac are boring me to pieces and I find their input to be the same as someone who stopped playing after their sophomore year in high school. Harold Reynolds and Bob Costas are great additions. Harold Reynolds back form his sexual harrassment hiatus and Bob Costas back in a sport he needs to be in. For as good as those two are they cannot hold a candle to the great Peter Gammons and his 5'1" sidekick Tim Kirkjin for Baseball Tonight. Those two are amazing. If the two sides could somehow consolidate we would be alright. Right now Baseball Tonight has a slight edge, but they still have Orestes Destrade (unlistenable) and a couple other goofs that have no business, being in the business.
Time will tell. Right now if you like quality over quantity you will choose Baseball Tonight. If you like the non stop, all the time aspects you will choose MLB. I will take them both, because it is all great and awesome and I can't wait for the season or at least Spring Training to start.

Mount Eerie Followed By The Revival Of Good Muisc

As I have mentioned previously, good new music has been hard for me to find lately... I have a feeling this is all in the process of changing. There are a number of albums I am excited about. Great Lake Swimmers (3-31) Handsome Furs (3-10), Swan Lake (3-24) and Beirut (I think it is available now or within the next 3 days) are four that come to mind. I went to Vintage Vinyl to buy The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and they did not have it... unfortunately this was not a surprise... I have a problem with buying too many of these albums on Itunes or through Amazon, but sometimes you have too if you can't find them in stores and are too impatient to wait for them to travel through the mail.
Mount Eerie comes up with some crazy shit, but the album Dawn seems to be the easiest of the albums to listen to. Kind of reminds me of Bonnie "Prince" Billy or Sufjan Stevens without all of the musical accessories. I first heard this guy on NPR's All Songs Considered with Bob Boilen. If you haven't listened to this program it is a good idea for you to start. He played Wooly Mammoths Mighty Absence and I loved it. Here is a song I find equally great. Its called Great Ghosts...


Mount Eerie [mp3] Great Ghosts