Blog: Brilliant Corners

weezer - my best friend off the new make believe album from the weeezah that most certainly does not suck as bad as that terrible beverly hills piece of garbage. this song is surprisingly tiiiight. matmos - lipostudio...and so on electronic wizard duo crafts up some soothing beats with a lot of surgery sounds thrown in. hott -ace von grumbles

sharon jones and the dap kings - how long do i have to wait for you really upbeat soul number from this year's album naturally. -ace von grumbles

talib kweli - never been in love so i saw talib and although his set was so short it packed too much energy to be dismissed as anything less than dope. chops (couple posts down) worked the tables and had some crazy spins as the duo went to work covering all the blackstar basics and getting into new shit like this. joe jackson - is she really going out with him [...]

m. ward - helicopter m. ward - big boat helicopter is a little old timesey song for peeps. from the dope album transfiguration of vincent. m ward also has a new album out which has the song big boat. both are rocking compared to the rest of their respective albums, which often have more a tuning out chilling on the porch in the summer while listening to the chirping of crickets in mississippi sound. but it's good. real good. [...]

of montreal - requiem for o.m.m.2. this song is catchy and super sunny and i would pretty much kill to write a chorus as loveable as this. i'm not sure what omm2 stands for but yea on this sunlandic twins album this song is one among many very good songs, although i still am enjoying satanic panic in the attic a wee bit more. can't wait to see 'em live. figurine - heartfelt [...]

leo kottke - watermelon holy snikeys this is some on fire acoustic string picking. total virtuoso. from the 1971 album 6 and 12 string guitar. love - alone again or going even further back in time for this 67 influential psych folk rock piece. great orchestra movements adding to the mood of the song, which already has slick spanish sounding guitar lines. simply bananas. [...]

Todd Rundgren - Hello, It's Me Sean Lennon - Into the Sun aight so I think I have this dealie known as the flu so here's some hot oldies or just a son of an oldie and some other guy. you'll prolly know at least half this update i'm hoping but anywayyysss... both pop songs that make you go mmm and put a smile on your laserface. LESSON ONE VOCABULARY [...]

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LESSON ONE VOCABULARY In this and all other vocabulary lists for this class, word elements which come from Greek are in upper case letters; elements from Latin are in lower case. You will need this information for the online exercises (but remember that the computer grading is not case-sensitive, so it doesn't matter which way you type them in). Base [...]