deYoung, 2008 I cough and it hurts. I sneeze and it hurts, a lot. The doctor says to refrain from my normal modus operandi for 8 weeks. I have bruised ribs. Oh well. Thumb wrestling is a tough sport. I've signed up to volunteer at 826 Valencia . I am going to volunteer in their after school tutoring program as well as their in-school programs. The organization is somewhat tilted towards the creative writing side, but I think the basis of the programs are to promote overall learning. David Eggers started [...]
I must be getting forgetful, but someone gave me a copy of Alexi Murdoch's album Time without consequence, I'd obviously been playing them Nick Drake and John Martyn and they had reciprocated. Anyway, months later it pops up again whilst on my way to work in the car and has become a permanent fixture of late. Knowing next to nothing about him I trawled the net to find the album is from 2006 and nothing since so hopefully there'll be some more soon. I hear Nick Drake & John Martyn with the soft cashmere touch [...]
Because I can't get enough nor am I getting much lately (in beta-alpha-cal order): Imogen Heap ~ Sleep Mark Eitzel ~ Sleep Conjure One ~ Sleep Frank Black And The Catholics ~ Sleep Mark Berube ~ Sleep Azure Ray ~ Sleep The Hot Club of Cowtown does a nice Sleep song but I couldn't seem to get my hands on it. [...]
Too tired to do much of any good on the writing side of things, I do however have another sleep mix for you all that is quite great for us insomniacs. There is something noticeably better about my sleep when I fall asleep to music, it's quite interesting really. I never wake up in the middle of the night, I feel better in the morning, and I'm calm when I wake up, rather than that awful panicky feeling. [mp3] Rosie Thomas - If This City Never Sleeps [mp3] [...]
Somewhere long ago, I read that Mark Eitzel couldn't handle extended touring due to voice limitations caused by working some sort of Bukowski-like job in a smoke-filled office. (Possibly in the oddly uncompelling Eitzel/AMC bio Wish the World Away). Fortunately Mark seems to have recovered enough to traipse across Europe for a truckload of dates this Spring: March 28th - Cadiz - University of
"Wealth-which is power! How blind I was!" said the man. "Now, at last, life will be worth the living. I will spend, squander, dazzle. These mockers and despisers will crawl in the dirt before me, and I will feed my hungry heart with their envy. I will have all luxuries, all joys, all enchantments of the spirit, all contentments of the body that man holds dear. I will buy, buy, buy! deference, respect, esteem, worship-every pinchbeck grace of life the market of a trivial world can furnish forth. I have lost much time, and chosen badly heretofore, but let that [...]
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Mark Eitzel - Candy Ass (2005 - Cooking Vinyl) Hardly a stranger to the scene of leftfield songwriters, Eitzel has somehow managed to maintain cult status whilst unassumingly infiltrating a hefty number of music collections. The buzz surrounding this 2005 album, however, was less of a hum and more of a 'hmmmm', as a thousand indie critics stroked their beards and furrowed their brows simultaneously; described on Indiefolkforever as containing "a lot of Pro Tools wankery" and on Pitchfork as a "crushing bore of a detour". I, being a sucker for awkward underdog releases and an [...]
Please complete your life and see Mark Eitzel live on his mini-tour. It's ostensibly to promote Candy Ass, which came out ages ago and contains lots of Pro Tools wankery and a few great tracks, including "My Pet Rat St. Michael". Along with every other musician, Mark was listed in Chunklet's Pay Not To Play issue. A LTE appeared the following issue from Mark, protesting that his career options
American Music Club "Firefly" Mark Eitzel "Firefly" (Live) On their now out-of-print 1988 album California , bad-luck alt-rock critic's darlings American Music Club put an ironically upbeat, mellow spin on "Firefly." It is, after all, a song of transience. It's an ode to the few moments we're allotted with the beautiful things in life, a theme that naturally carries an undertow of sadness. And then the Club's frontman, Mark Eitzel, was writing as a gay man in late 80s San Francisco- [...]
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lonesome music
The Late Greats
It's hard to Find a Friend
Indiefolkforever
Bricolage Fantasy
Paper Covers Rock
I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
BAND OF HORSES – The Funeral (Sound Remedy Remix)
K-Holes - "Frozen Stiff"
Taste And Try Before You Buy
Summer Camp – “Always”
