Blog: VAGUE SPACE

In a Better World

Sep 26, 2011, 8:26am VAGUE SPACE
In a Better World | Official Movie Trailer | 2010 HD
This year's very deserving Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film is a Danish movie by director Susanne Bier who has crafted a complicated and unrelenting film that raises uneasy questions about the nature of violence in our society and the ways humans can and cannot cope with tragedy. It is easily one of the best movies I've seen this year and it's available on DVD and Blu-Ray now. Simply put, it's a better film than pretty much anything getting made in the United States these days and I highly recommend. The story revolves around two families [...]
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Random Music Friday

Sep 23, 2011, 9:15am VAGUE SPACE
Song: "The Indie Queens are Waiting" Artist: Dan Mangan Year: 2009 Album: The Roboteering EP Download Dan Mangan - "The Indie Queens are Waiting".mp3 Down the road and on the right-hand side There's a place I sometimes like to dine Coffee refills far as I can see I'll be waking Are you watching me? Are you [...]
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127 Hours

Sep 21, 2011, 9:06am VAGUE SPACE
It's cold. I don't know when it got cold, last night or the night before, I've been sick all week with a cold, ironically, that finally seems to be breaking now that it's cold, now that I'm going away for the week and possibly for the next few weeks for work, now that I'm healthy again. As anyone who follows this blog at all knows, it's been a rough summer for me for a lot of reasons, but most of them have to do with a never-ending toe injury that emerged before Memorial Day weekend and is still with me, [...]
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Artist:Sigur Rós
Title:Festival
Link Text:Download Sigur Ros - "Festival".mp3
File Name:5099923432055_01_005_mp3_320k_ full.mp3
Genre:Alternative
Year:2008

Foolish

Sep 20, 2011, 8:48am VAGUE SPACE
Back in 1994, Superchunk released its fourth full-length Foolish on its own label Merge Records, the first album of theirs to appear on their own label after a 3-album deal with Matador Records had ended. A year or so earlier, the band had been recruited to join Atlantic Records in the wake of the stunning success of Nirvana's Nevermind , a time when every alternative-sounding band big and small was getting signed to big record deals, regardless of talent, a move that actually signalled the beginning of the end of the music industry as we [...]
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Artist:Superchunk
Title:The First Part
Link Text:Download Superchunk - "The First Part".mp3
File Name:02-the-first-part.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Genre:Alternative & Punk
Year:1994

Syracuse to ACC

Sep 18, 2011, 9:15am VAGUE SPACE
It's official. To paraphrase Anchorman , that escalated fast. ACC Extends Formal Invitations for Membership to Pittsburgh and Syracuse The Atlantic Coast Conference will become a 14-member conference. Sept. 18, 2011 GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast [...]
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Random Music Friday

Sep 16, 2011, 8:56am VAGUE SPACE
In a wide ranging interview on Pitchfork yesterday , Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene announced what appears to be the end of his band, finishing with an October 1st concert in San Francisco as their last North American date. He talks about completing a film he's been working on and other non-music related stuff (like his family) but says you can expect more from him and Brendan and the other members of the venerable band musically, just probably not together. So it does sound like the end. I was never as huge a fan of BSS [...]
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Artist:Broken Social Scene
Title:It's All Gonna Break
Link Text:Download Broken Social Scene - "It's All Gonna Break".mp3
File Name:14-its-all-gonna-break-1.mp3
Bitrate:193 kbps
Genre:Rock
Year:2005

Some Real Shock and Awe

Sep 14, 2011, 8:52am VAGUE SPACE
This is an amazing post from a fellow blogger, I implore all of my readers to read this , but particularly those in the American audience. It's the tale of a young mother born in America but with dark skin (her father Saudi Arabian, her mother Jewish) who was detained on 9/11/11 (this Sunday) after flying between Denver and Detroit because, apparently, she was seated in a row with two Indian men she'd never met before, and the presence of three dark-skinned people in a single row on an airplane on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 was enough to [...]
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New Music Tuesday

Sep 13, 2011, 9:00am VAGUE SPACE
I know I haven't had a New Music Tuesday in forever, but (a) the blog has been on hiatus due to vacations and a lack of power at my house from a hurricane (in inland New Jersey!), (b) I've had an ongoing foot problem that has otherwised occupied my time and (c) I haven't actually listened to much new music in a while because I haven't had time to due to (a) & (b). I'd say the only new album I've listened to the last month is Beirut 's brilliant The Rip Tide , for which I share [...]
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Artist:Beirut
Title:Vagabond
Link Text:Download Beirut - "Vagabond".mp3
File Name:07-vagabond.mp3
Genre:Alternative
Year:2011
Artist:Blackout Beach
Title:Beautiful Burning Desire
Link Text:Download Blackout Beach - "Beautiful Burning Desire".mp3
File Name:01-beautiful-burning-desire.mp 3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Artist:Dan Mangan
Title:Rows Of Houses
Link Text:Download Dan Mangan - "Rows Of Houses".mp3
File Name:09-rows-of-houses.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Genre:Indie Rock
Year:2011
Artist:Efrim Manuel Menuck
Title:I Am No Longer A Motherless Child
Link Text:Download Efrim Menuck - "I Am No Longer A Motherless Child".mp3
File Name:08-i-am-no-longer-a-motherless -child.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Genre:Other
Year:2011
Artist:Japandroids
Title:I Quit Girls
Link Text:Download Japandroids - "I Quit Girls".mp3
File Name:japandroids_08_i-quit-girls.mp 3
Bitrate:286 kbps
Genre:Rock
Artist:M83
Title:Midnight City
Link Text:Download M83 - "Midnight City".mp3
File Name:midnightcity.mp3
Year:2011
Artist:Yuck
Title:Automatic
Link Text:Download Yuck - "Automatic".mp3
File Name:yuck---automatic.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:2009

Memories of 9/11

Sep 12, 2011, 8:35am VAGUE SPACE
I worked in a basement at the time, in a building occupied by lawyers adjacent to our main offices, where we needed to expand because we'd expanded too far and a small group of five of us got the privilege of sneaking across unsupervised to the brand new offices in the basement next door. It wouldn't be long that we'd be there. After 9/11 the economy tanked for a time and our business dried up and in reality never really started again, we never hit the heights we were at before 2001 but after a few shocking layoffs from a [...]
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Moonface Fall Tour

Sep 8, 2011, 8:12am VAGUE SPACE
Just when you thought it was safe to take a break from the incredible music of Spencer Krug after a lengthy summer tour, he returns this fall on a west coast swing that swings back to NYC in time for Halloween. And to the right, a picture from Finland of Spencer recording with Finnish band Siinai for the next Moonface record. As one might expect from a Finnish band with that name, the sound of Siinai is quite definitely Sigur Ros-ish / Mum-ish / Album Leaf-ish ethereal music (and none of those bands are Finnish so [...]
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Dogfish Head

Sep 7, 2011, 7:54am VAGUE SPACE
Sunday morning in Delaware. Preparing for another day of Labor Day weekend festivities and a five-year-old starts crying, not whining, just full-out uncontrollable crying. His mother asks what's wrong, why is he crying so hard all of a sudden... "I don't want to go to Dogfish Head again!" Yes. We spent so much of Labor Day weekend in and around a brewery that we made a five-year-old cry. And then we went back again on Sunday. Yes, that's how we roll. We were actually only at the Brewery [...]
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Random Music Friday

Sep 2, 2011, 12:01am VAGUE SPACE
So far this summer I've had gout (or thought I did), I've worn a boot for 4 weeks, I've been in the ER for the first time since I was a kid, I've celebrated a birthday that no one young has ever celebrated, I've been seasick on a cruise, I'm still oddly seasick from the cruise, my house lost its power from a hurricane for 4 days, I haven't run once, I haven't exercised since June, our softball team lost in the first round of the playoffs without me, I've been to 5 different doctors for my foot injury and [...]
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Artist:Pedro The Lion
Title:Transcontinental
Link Text:Download Pedro the Lion - "Transcontinental".m p3
File Name:07-transcontinental.mp3
Genre:Alternative & Punk
Year:2004

Random Music Friday

Sep 2, 2011, 12:01am VAGUE SPACE
So far this summer I've had gout (or thought I did), I've worn a boot for 4 weeks, I've been in the ER for the first time since I was a kid, I've celebrated a birthday that no one young has ever celebrated, I've been seasick on a cruise, I'm still oddly seasick from the cruise, my house lost its power from a hurricane for 4 days, I haven't run once, I haven't exercised since June, our softball team lost in the first round of the playoffs without me, I've been to 5 different doctors for my foot injury and [...]
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Artist:Pedro The Lion
Title:Transcontinental
Link Text:Download Pedro the Lion - "Transcontinental".m p3
File Name:07-transcontinental.mp3
Genre:Alternative & Punk
Year:2004

Cruising

Aug 31, 2011, 8:23am VAGUE SPACE
So I went on my first cruise ever during Hurricane Season through the Bermuda Triangle... what could possibly go wrong? Let me count the ways... 1) Seasick from literally the first moment the ship left the dock in Baltimore. The first moment. It didn't go away until we docked in Bermuda. Well it kind of went away when I got drunk enough that the boat's spinning didn't bother me so much. But I guess that really doesn't count. On the bright side, I spent $50 on those seasick patches for nothing. And I've still got a headache [...]
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Cruising

Aug 31, 2011, 8:23am VAGUE SPACE
So I went on my first cruise ever during Hurricane Season through the Bermuda Triangle... what could possibly go wrong? Let me count the ways... 1) Seasick from literally the first moment the ship left the dock in Baltimore. The first moment. It didn't go away until we docked in Bermuda. Well it kind of went away when I got drunk enough that the boat's spinning didn't bother me so much. But I guess that really doesn't count. On the bright side, I spent $50 on those seasick patches for nothing. And I've still got a headache [...]
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A Pause to Recover

Aug 16, 2011, 8:45am VAGUE SPACE
The Moonface tour is over. Sunset Rubdown is on an indefinite and probably permanent hiatus. Wolf Parade is on a permanent hiatus. My toe still hurts, but it's stabilized-- it's not getting worse, but it's not getting better. And I'm going on vacation starting tomorrow to LBI, Bermuda (!), and Rehoboth Beach over the next 3 weeks. So it's pretty much the perfect time to put this blog on hiatus for the rest of this summer. Check back after Labor Day and I should hopefully have some new material. Until then, follow me [...]
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Artist:Sunset Rubdown
Title:Shut Up I Am Dreaming Of Places Where Lovers Have Wings
Link Text:Download Sunset Rubdown - "Shut Up I Am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings".mp3
File Name:10-shut-up-i-am-dreaming-of-pl aces-w-1.mp3
Bitrate:187 kbps
Genre:(20)
Year:2006
Artist:Sunset Rubdown
Title:Shut Up, I'm Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings
Link Text:Download Sunset Rubdown - "Shut Up I Am Dreaming of Places Where Lovers Have Wings (Daytrotter version)".mp3
File Name:03-shut-up-im-dreaming-of-plac es-w.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2006

Inni

Aug 15, 2011, 8:36am VAGUE SPACE
According to the English-Icelandic translator I found via Google, "Inni" means "Inside". So perhaps the new Sigur Ros concert DVD will focus on indoors concerts while the spectacular 2007 film Heima focused on outdoor shows from an Icelandic tour (Heima means "home"). I don't know and this trailer doesn't clear anything up but we haven't heard anything new from the band as a whole since Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust three years ago, and Heima was brilliant so yeah, I'm looking forward to it, whatever it is. [...]
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Colbert SuperPAC

Aug 12, 2011, 7:49am VAGUE SPACE
Episode IV: A New Hope
Comedy genius Stephen Colbert has spent much of this year working with lawyers, Viacom, and the FEC to create a "SuperPAC" -- one of those unregulated "independent" groups that can spend unlimited money on election races without divulging one thing about who actually is spending that money. This electoral "loophole" that is current law (along with the Citizens United ruling stating that corporations are citizens and can also throw unlimited, undisclosed funds into our politics) is probably the biggest reason why the GOP had such a dramatic reversal from getting wiped out in 2008 and winning in a landslide in [...]
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Birth Control. Seriously. They're Angry over Birth Control.

Aug 11, 2011, 8:43am VAGUE SPACE
Obama may have capitulated on the economy 100% to far-right tea party Republican ideas which have collapsed the stock market, our credit rating, our economy for the first 6 months of 2011, and soon to be our future, but at least he has the sense not to listen to their nonsense on social issues. Because as idiotic, immoral, and foolishly reckless the know-nothings in the GOP tea party base are on economics, science, and basic common sense, you throw a little god in there and they get far, far worse. Some hatred for women on top of it and wow, [...]
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Coma Summer

Aug 10, 2011, 8:36am VAGUE SPACE
Awake A Wake I awoke from a coma summer And I saw you I awoke from a coma summer Tell me you're true Three word memory Those golden days Solitude My August haze Red white and blue And I'll walk the aisle of white, anew Past and present Echoes of my only truth Awake I wait You woke up from a coma summer Fluorescent new I'll wrap you up in a coma [...]
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Artist:Weekend
Title:Coma Summer
Link Text:Download Weekend - "Coma Summer".mp3
File Name:weekend-coma-summer-1.mp3
Bitrate:265 kbps
Year:2010
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