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Crushes On Mates Of State

In preparation for their new album release this summer, Mates Of State has offered up a free download. Laura, originally by Girls, is the first track on the “Crushes (The Covers Mixtape)” LP . Crushes will be their fisrt full length album recorded and produced by themselves and the track listing looks awesome:
1. Laura (Girls)
2. Son et Lumiere (The Mars Volta)
3. Sleep the Clock Around (Belle & Sebastian)
4. Technicolor Girls (Death Cab for Cutie)
5. Long Way Home (Tom Waits
6. Love Letter (Nick Cave)
7. Second Hand News (Fleetwood Mac)
8. 17 Pink Sugar Elephants (Vashti Bunyan)
9. Roller Coaster Ride (Dear Nora)
10. True Love Will Find You in the End (Daniel Johnston)

Mates Of State

Saturday night, after nursing my hangover all afternoon, I went to my old roommate’s engagement party. It was pretty fun, but nothing too exciting. The usual crowd was there. I got to see the Rod family’s new house, it was really cute and I’m sure I’ll be spending plenty of time in their backyard this summer. Congratulations to the newly engaged couple, you’re very good together. I wish the both of you a lifetime of happiness together, you both deserve it. After a couple of hours of catching up with friends and giving my congrats, I went to go see Rainer Maria and Mates Of State at the Bluebird Theatre. I really like Rainer Maria and I own all their albums, but I went to the show to see Mates Of State. The show was great. I just love Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel’s songs, lyrics and harmonies (I own all their albums too, and a couple of 7″). It is best to see them live. It is just the two of them on stage. Knowing they are married and loving every minute of it. They constantly look at each other, sing to each other, and croon each other throughout the entire show. It is no secret that many of their songs are written about their relationship and it really comes across on stage. At one point I saw Kori mouth the words “I Love You” across the stage to Jason. Seeing them play was truly an inspiration and it absolutely made my day. Plus I have a true celebrity crush on Kori now.

You can watch a video filmed at Emos in Austin Texas here.

State Of Commercialization

I just got that excited/bummed out feeling you get when you see one of your bands on a major corporate TV commercial. I just saw an AT&T ad featuring Mates Of State. The ad features the beautiful song For The Actor. When my emotions boil down, I really am happy for their exposure though. Now Mates Of State have done ads before, but it didn’t faze me the same way because it seemed like it was for a good cause and because Jason and Kori were naked (sfw) in it. Anyway, listen to and download Mates Of State’s wonderful cover of Phantom Planet’s California while your here.

Update: Youtube has the commercial up at this link

2010: My Year In Music

According to last.fm these are the bands that I listened to most during 2010. Four bands in my top ten this year were also on last years list.

1. Descendents
2. Ween (2nd last year)
3. Beastie Boys
4. Modest Mouse (6th last year)
5. The Cure
6. Against Me! (4th last year)
7. Sleater-Kinney
8. Led Zeppelin
9. Mates Of State (9th last year)
10. Sodastream
Below is a wave graph of the top artists that I listened to over the last year (click for a larger image). It’s a great way to visualize the trends in my listening habits throughout the year. And it sure is purty.
Music Wave

Below is a list of my most listened to songs of 2009

1. America – Sister Golden Hair
2. Band of Horses – The Funeral
3. Beastie Boys – The Rat Cage
4. Saturday Looks Good to Me – The Girl’s Distracted
5. Descendents – Hope
6. The Magic Numbers – Forever Lost
7. Modest Mouse – Never Ending Math Equation
8. Sleater-Kinney – Good Things
9. Sodastream – Able Hands
10. Rainer Maria – Tinfoil

Some of the best live shows I’ve seen this year include:
Tons of School Of Rock shows
Slayer/Megadeth

True Love Will Find You In The End

Mates Of State has a new video out for their cover of Daniel Johnston’s “True Love Will Find You In The End”. The single can be found on their new album “Crushes – The Covers Mix Tape”. The video was made in one day by recoding a live performance of the song in their basement and the projecting the that recording onto various surfaces around New York City. Those projections were then filmed by a ABC news crew. That footage was then edited and dubbed to the music. The result is the great video seen below. It’s HD, so click it full screen style.

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You can currently stream the entire new album at their website, or just spend the measly five bucks and own the whole thing. After all of these years, the duo still maintain their high velocity for throat pounding energetic pop.

A video of the making of the video can be found after the jump.

2009: My Year In Music

According to last.fm these are the bands that I listened to most during 2009. There was only one band that was also on last years list: Ween.

    1. Bishop Allen
    2. Ween (1st last year)
    3. Bright Eyes
    4. Against Me!
    5. The Apples In Stereo
    6. Modest Mouse
    7. Air
    8. The Weakerthans
    9. Mates Of State
    10. Pinback

Below is a wave graph of the top artists that I listened to over the last year (click for a larger image). It’s a great way to visualize the trends in my listening habits throughout the year. And it sure is purty.

Below is a list of my most listened to songs of 2009

    1. Bishop Allen – Little Black Ache full track
    2. Bishop Allen – St. Ivan’s Day School full track
    3. Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
    3. Beastie Boys – Country Mike’s Theme
    4. Bishop Allen – The Rabbit full track
    5. Bishop Allen – Things Are What You Make of Them
    6. The Apples in Stereo – About Your Fame full track
    7. Bishop Allen – Busted Heart full track
    8. The Mountain Goats – No Children
    9. Sia – Breathe Me
    10. The Apples in Stereo – The Silvery Light of a Dream full track

Some of the best live shows I’ve seen this year include:
Tool / Widespread Panic
Jojo’s Mardi Gras Band
Bishop Allen

Last.fm is the service I use to track my listening habits. I’m always trying to discover new music so please go ahead and friend me over at last.fm.

2007: The Year In Artifacting

Here are is a list of th best links I found during 2007

I love these close-up photographs of irises. They remind me of my “Self Portrait With Contact” photograph.

The awesome fellow Denverite, Jamie, over at DesignKlub, has created an incredible design guide for the Denver area. It’s divided into home shops, gifts and decor, unique finds, coffee & tea sections. Additionally, there are three great neighborhood guides for colfax, broadway and downtown. If you haven’t done your holiday shopping yet, this oughta help. Great Job Jamie!

Birth Of The Boombox: 1976-1981

Just finished boning or just returned from a jog? Can you tell the difference?
My score: 9 out of 12.

After having a full day of riding roller coasters the other week, this site with front seat video for 56 of the best roller coasters in the country is fascinating.

A really fun collection of hand transformed PEZ dispensers.

Bacon scented candles.
Bacon = Freedom; Lettuce = Love; Tomato = Passion

Without comment. Men who look like old lesbians.

Top eternal questions in popular music.
232. Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?
99. Hello – is it me you’re looking for?
486. Do you like pina coladas?
231. Why Can’t I Be You?
403. Annie are you ok?
156. Are you gonna go my way?
72. Who wrote the book of love?
239. Who can it be knocking at my door?
326. Is she really going out with him?
424. Why, why, why, does he do me that way?
546. Are you surprised when I touch the dwarf inside?

The vast number of ordering options and new words with accented characters can make ordering fancy coffee drinks a bit intimidating. Lokesh Dhakar gives us side-by-side diagrams of a few common espresso drinks to help understand some of the differences.

These short stories and poems called “Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski” (actually by Hanstock) could possibly the most brilliant thing I’ve seen on the internet all year, maybe ever.

A quick look at unusual McDonalds menu items from around the world.

I love this hotdog homeland security threat level system. We are currently at threat level Chicago dog with the works.

I just got that excited/bummed out feeling you get when you see one of your bands on a major corporate TV commercial. I just saw an AT&T ad featuring Mates Of State. The ad features the beautiful song For The Actor. When my emotions boil down, I really am happy for their exposure though. Now Mates Of State have done ads before, but it didn’t faze me the same way because it seemed like it was for a good cause and because Jason and Kori were naked (sfw) in it. Anyway, listen to and download Mates Of State’s wonderful cover of Phantom Planet’s California while your here.

Whooops!

This is the best lölcat I ‘ve seen yet.

15 basic stretches performed by Kermit The Frog.

They’re not quite as cute when eating in the wild. More shots by Peter Zwitser.

English mealtimes explained (?)

I love this wall map of Aboriginal Australia. Using the published resources available between 1988 and 1994, the map attempts to represent language, tribal or nation groups of Australia’s Indigenous peoples. Cool!

For Sale: One Useless Cat

They’re Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson

Dan’s bacon tattoo is one of the best tattoo ideas I’ve seen recently. He has plans for an entire “breakfast sleave” that I’m sure will be incredible. This is sooooo cool.

“Badges? We aint got no… stinking badges”

525+ Songs about food. No downloads unfortunately.

It’s a bit long but incredibly informative with a ton of downloads: The Complete Idiots Guide To Slayer

Download a zip file containing 72 different versions of “Stormy Weather” from WFMU (Warning: 263 megs).

Last October I told you about the unpublished chapter of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory. But I think this tops it. Uncovered at this link are the “under-published” works of Jerome David Salinger. This collection consists mostly of out-of-print short stories. Salinger has deliberately kept most of these works out-of-print or off the market, so it should be said, the above linked website not only infringes on Salinger’s copyrights, it also makes certain material obtainable against Salinger’s will. But I’m not going to feel shamed for sharing the link, because some of it is fucking beautiful.

All My Friends Are Dead

Fuck Yeah!

Who are Jill and Mark? And why aren’t they my best friends? (Warning: pinball porn link)

This short video of a Giant Squid is a reminder that the oceans depths can be a very scary place.

What a queer bird the frog are:
When he sit he stand (almost);
When he walk he fly (almost);
When he talk he cry (almost);
He ain’t got no sense (hardly);
He ain’t got no tail, either (hardly);
He sit on what he ain’t got (hardly).

I would have joined Howard’s religion but the evangelicals are having much better sex.

Loituma Girl (also known as Leekspin) is a flash cartoon set to a gibberish section of the traditional Finnish folk song “Ievan Polkka” sung by the Finnish quartet Loituma, taken from their 1995 debut album Things of Beauty. The cartoon consists of a 4-frame animation of the Bleach anime character Orihime Inoue twirling a leek (a type of green onion, called a negi in Japan) to a 27-second loop from the song. Enjoy!

Harley Davidson + Yuppies + Weekend Warriors = They just don’t party like they used to, ya know (nsfw).

Colorado New Wave/Punk Rock: Documenting the 70s and 80s punk era in the rocky mountain state.

Six inch girls with six foot boobs.

Weird, live-action, reenactments of the Mary Worth comics published between May 17 and June 13, 1998. The short films are created from the exact frames of the comic with a howling wind soundtrack that give them an exaggeratedly spooky feel.

To commemorate their 25th birthday, Thrasher magazine has posted the first 12 issues of their magazine.

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