I Like To Listen to My Morning Jacket In The Morning

My Morning Jacket [mp3]Rocket Man

If You Look Up The Word "Cool" In The Dictionary It Just Says Usain Bolt

As we grow up we wish to be many things.. Kids wish to be many things, grown ups wish to be many things. Many different kids want to be many different things. Some want to be doctors and some want to be ballarinas and some want to be Major League baseball players. Some want to build bridges and some want to run our country. There is, however, one thing that every kid wishes to be. Up through elementary school and into middle school, into high school and even as a post graduate student challenging his buddy in the parking lot of a baseball game. We all, at one time or another, have wanted to be the fastest. The fastest on the playground or the fastest in your PE class or the fastest in your school or the fastest in the world. It doesn't matter who you are, at one time in your life you wanted to be the fastest. The fastest kid in your class was the coolest. This was not a coincidence. The fastest kids are the coolest.
Your mother, the one person you can not picture running anywhere at any time, one day toed a line in her PE class and peered over at her classmates internally praying that her feet would move faster than theirs and she would be known as "The fastest person in school".
This is why we love Usain Bolt. His enthusiasm and excitement, which is unfortunately mistaken as arrogance by some, is accepted by most because what he has done is exactly what we all have dreamt about at one time in our lives. He is the fastest, and by definition, the coolest person on planet earth.
He is so fast that he doesn't even have to run the full 100m in an Olympic Final. He is so confident that he has a casual conversation, possibly about breakfast cereals, while he is standing in front of his starter blocks. He is so cool because he is the fastest kid in the class and the fastest kid in the class is always the coolest.

Here You Go, Listen To Tyler Ramsey. There Is No Way You Won't Like It.

All of these are from Daytrotter Sessions
Tyler Ramsey Please Stop Time

Tyler Ramsey Long Dream

Tyler Ramsey Ships

Tyler Ramsey No One Goes Out

Will Sheff and Carl Newman Singing a New Song From The Stand Ins

I pretty much just relay information from Pitchfork over here.

I Just Hope I Am Cool Enough To Listen To Electronica

Never would have thought to listen to this group. I like this song and its all because of my music correspondent Gary.
Here is a little electronic music to get you going on this Monday morning. A real Monday morning that involves waking up at 6am and earning a paycheck until 6pm.

MGMT [mp3] Time To Pretend

Santagold--Lights Out

I like this video a lot. I guess I like the song a lot more than I like the video. Before I heard this song I just thought she sounded like MIA. This song does not sound like MIA. More like Cyndi Lauper.

Okkervil River Is So Good They Are Great

I am excited for fall, and Monday Night Football playing in the background, and fall concerts and not complaining about my air conditioner not working, and winning money on College Football (when you win a bet it almost feels like you've won the game), and I am looking forward to the next Okkervil River album called The Stand-Ins. It comes out in September.

Okkervil River - The Stand Ins from David Lowery on Vimeo.

There are a lot of good times to be had here in the next few month. Find some shade and take a nap until we get there.