Feist - 1 2 3 4

Awesomely amazing. Cannot wait to get the whole album.

Cat and Girl Anniversary

So tomorrow is the 8th anniversary of the webcomic Cat and Girl. I could tell you why Cat and Girl is so very awesome, but the post would go on forever and you would quickly lose interest. And Cat and Girl is ALWAYS interesting, and hilarious. Anyway, in honor of this important date, Cat and Girl creator Dorothy is giving out free stickers, and also encouraging sending in things to share, like other comics and mixtapes. Immediately I saw myself creating the most ferocious mix possible, sending it in and having it sent to five other people who would listen and later testify about how this mix Changes Your Life. Flush with the glow that only a truly ambitious and anonymous mixtape project brings, I began. Here is the playlist for the end result.

Off the Hook - Y Pants (Rolling Stones cover)
Fun Fun Fun - Tidal Waves (Beach Boys cover)
Send Me A Postcard- The Shocking Blue
I Gotta Get Outta This Town - Nancy Sinatra
Face For the Radio - The View
Science Books - Arrah and the Ferns
Saltbreakers - Laura Veirs
Satisfaccion-Modern Art Studio (Rolling Stones cover)
Poison-Bell Biv DeVoe
Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby-Islands
Yea Yeah (Flosstradamus mix)-Matt and Kim
Earth Invaders (Spank Rock Remix)
Half Invisible-The Shivers
Turn Into (acoustic)-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Marianne, You've Done It Now-Vandaveer
I Can't Go For That-Hall and Oates
Past in the Present-Feist
I Found Love-Styrofoam and Sarah Shannon

All come highly recommended. There might be mp3 links for various songs later, there might not.

Movies

Since I've had a pretty bad case of insomnia for the past couple of weeks, why not put it to use and update my woefully neglected blog? Gosh, there is just SO MUCH going on in my life right now, it's like I don't even have time to write about it on the internet!

Saw Knocked Up last weekend and it totally lived up to expectations. Jude Apatow and his whole crew (they should really have some sort of collective name and matching T-shirts) are just so funny and real, and the women always get to be funny and real as well, and not just sex with a fringe of conversation. Plus it's basically a big PSA for USE A CONDOM OR YOU WILL GET PREGNANT and boy, that is not fun at all. For me it was a lot like "Undeclared has a one night stand and gets pregnant" since most of the guys were there although the girls weren't. And if you haven't seen the wonder, the hilarity, the awe-inspiring goodness that is Undeclared, I will totally lend you my copy. This is a show that is guarateed to get you laughing within the first five minutes of viewing, no matter where or when.

And since it appears we are in the middle of the Summer of Apatow, there's another movie he produced, Superbad, out in August. It stars Michael Cera, and those two facts should be enough to get my ass to the local over-priced multiplex.

If you like musicals, Ireland, and pretty music (or if you are Kyle Schuster) go see Once. It was touching and awesome and I've already bought the soundtrack, despite the little old ladies (!) who sat behind me complaining that there wasn't enough song variation. THERE TOTALLY WAS, OLD LADIES.