Feeling down?

Do bloggers dream of electric blogging?

(best camera phone shot)

It's really sad actually. I'm sitting here in my underwear reliving my night of excellence and recounting how I needed to blog in the midst of what I wanted to blog about. The evening's purveyor was Diplo. Oh wow. He played a ridiculous amount of baile funk, Mad Descent stuff, M.I.A., and then this pair one after another with some loops/effects on them to make them a bit more Smartbar worthy.

Dick Dale and the Deltones - Miserlou

The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird

Damn. So tight. Listening to that right now makes me want to just have at it on my rug here. MM mmmhm. After gyrating through the crowd just to try an get an underexposed shot of Diplo, and repeated comings and goings of alcoholic beverages (cherry vodka, water, cherry) I couldn't take it anymore and had to leave. Too many couples. That and I lost my buddy Christopher whom I then spoke with 5min later as he was leaving Smartbar as I was in a cab. Oh well. Alles gute. Bottom line, if you have the chance to see Diplo in your town, wear something that you know you don't care getting sweaty in and run for it. After pushing through the line outside Smartbar "Hey where do you think you're going??" "Hard tickets, bitches." it was fantastic.

The one I've been meaning to do for a while

While living in Denver, or in Chicago or going anywhere, I have a natural draw to spend a couple of hours in a local record store. It is not news to anyone of the interesting things that you'll find. Seeing as I have a poor memory and even poorer associative memory of text to sound, it is difficult for me to find things I'm actually looking for that I've heard. Most of my purchases are based on how interesting I find the cover art, or band name, or whether I've heard them before and can recall their name at that specific time. One band that I gave a chance to were The Buggles.


(reverse cover)

Yes, they have the obvious song, but the whole album is really good.

Buggles - Astroboy

Buggles - Elstree

Buggles - Kid Dynamo (streaming track on youtube)

I highly recommend picking this one up.