Favorite10 & The Gray Area

Boards Of Canada, Geogaddi

Some friends of mine have started a new community bath house for music called Favorite 10. As with most people, I like making lists, reading other people's lists, comparing lists, crossing things off of lists, basically anything to do with lists. On this site, you can make your favorite lists to compare and contrast with some other die-hard music fan that thinks they know what they are talking about. Discuss the merits of Steve Perry's solo career away from Journey, or make fun of people's lists because each item happens to be a current Pitchfork darling (cough,cough). Anywho, check it out. It's a site that can be helpful to find new music, as long as music lovers, like you, add your lists. My lists are under the foeweel name, if you couldn't guess already. Click HERE to a list of my favorite10 at this moment.

Also, I reconnected with an old co-worker of mine from when I worked at Discovery Discs in Philly and she happens to also live in what she so amazingly coined as the Gray Area. That needs to be made into a t-shirt. I've heard the Yay Area, Specific Whites (Pacific Heights), sNob Hill, and others, but the Gray Area has to be the best. It just describes on so many levels, specifically the weather of what it is like to live in the city by the Bay. Bodymore Murderland is another good one, but that's back east near where I grew up.

Now onto the magical jelly bean flavors of the day :

Susanna & The Magical Orchestra - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Singer Songwriter) - a cover of the Joy Division classic. a great interpretation that brings out more of the desperation from the slow and minimal reconstruction.

Petracovich - Paper Cup (Singer Songwriter) - local musician, Jessica Peters. it's real. it's not memorex.

Nina Simone - Just In Time (Live) - this version is from the out of print Tomato Collection which is the version used at the end of Richard Linklater's Before Sunset. she has such a unique way of phrasing especially in the later part of her career. one of a kind.

Moderat (Apparat + Modeselektor) - Mode2 (Abstract Beats) - from the EP of BPitchControl labelmates, take the skattered beats of MDSLKTR and the warm tones of Apparat and you get more wholesome fun for the extended family than playing Candyland in your PJ's.

Boards Of Canada - The Devil Is In The Details (IDM) - from the classic Geogaddi. this song may give you nightmares, or it may just wakeup your inner child. for those people who cannot understand bubble talk, here are some of the lyrics:

"Just relax, and enjoy this pleasant adventure. Here you are, secure and protected, in this, your special place, letting my voice flow into your mind. There's no need to concentrate. Just gently as you go. Suggestions are going into your unconscious mind. Open yourself up to the greater wisdom and understanding. So, now, letting the sound of my voice reach the inner, healthy, receptive centre of yourself. See yourself now in your imagination; and you are being tranformed in a positive healthy way, so you are programming your unconscious mind, gaining new insight into your directions, in the future. Allow yourself to be more aware of your pathway through this life. [Enjoy all that you can.(?)] As the days go by, you are programming your mind, and you are allowing this to happen. These things are happening day by day, just as I tell you they are happening, wherever you are. See this happening. Allow it to become part of you; more and more happily, more and more surely, more and more powerfully, each day. When it is necessary, you can program yourself, be able to dream the information you require. This awareness will come back to you at your own rate. It will never be more than you can cope with. This guidance will help show you the way. This will only happen if you choose it will be so. Ready, now ..."