Coffee

I need some.

A Happy Memory

Watching a scary movie with friends :)

Sparklers

Love this idea

No More Music

Not posting music on here anymore. It's not my thing. Leave it to Jacob: deserthymns.blogspot.com. Maybe I'll post music sometimes. Probably not.

In other news, I really like the artist Alphonse Mucha.

He does art like this:



I want a Mucha tattoo. This is the best one I've seen so far:



But I would get this one. Maybe.

Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope

Tracklisting:
1. Fidelity
2. Better
3. Samson
4. On the Radio
5. Field Below
6. Hotel Song
7. Apres Moi
8. 20 Years of Snow
9. That Time
10. Edit
11. Lady
12. Summer in the City

Highlight Tracks: Better, That Time, Edit, Summer in the City


It's really good. Get it here.

Favorite Albums of 2009...so far

This is a re-post from my facebook...

I know it's kind of early to do this, but...whatever! :)

4.

really pretty, even though there are only 4 songs on this ep. Get it here

3.

Good good. Get it here

2.

I love Ben Kweller anyway, and the new one does not disappoint. I hate steel guitar...except on this album. Get it here

1.

I seriously have listened to this almost daily during the entire month of January. It's amazing!! Get it here

I'll update this periodically.

Over the Rhine - Drunkard's Prayer

This is one of my favorite albums ever. Listen to it with someone you love.

Tracklisting:
1. I Want You To Be My Love
2. Born
3. Drunkard's Prayer
4. Bluer
5. Spark
6. Hush Now (Stella's Tarantella)
7. Lookin' Forward
8. Little Did I Know
9. Who Will Guard the Door
10. Firefly
11. My Funny Valentine

Over the Rhine - Drunkard's Prayer

Highlight Tracks: I Want You To Be My Love, Drunkard's Prayer, Bluer

The Chariot - Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing, Nothing Is Dead and Nothing Is Bleeding

I not usually incredibly impressed with this kind of music, but this band stands out a whole lot.

Tracklisting:
1. Before There Was Atlanta, There Was Douglasville
2. Someday, In the Event That Mankind Actually Figures Out What It Is That This World Revolves Around, Thousands of People Are Going to be Shocked and Perplexed to Find Out That It Was Not Them. Sometimes, This Includes Me.
3. Dialogue with a Question Mark
4. Die Interviewer (I Am Only Speaking In German)
5. And Then, Came Then
6. Company, The Comfort, The Grave
7. The Bullet Never Lies, And Will Prove All Things (An Allegory of Unfaithful)
8. Yellow Dress: Locked Knees
9. If Wishes Were Horses More Beggars Would Ride Them
10. Good Night My Lady, And A Forever Farewell

The Chariot - Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Bleeding, Nothing Is Dead and Nothing Is Bleeding

Highlight Tracks: All of them

mewithoutYou - Catch for Us the Foxes

For this Saturday.

Tracklisting
1. Torches Together
2. January 1979
3. Tie Me Up! Untie Me!
4. Leaf
5. Disaster Tourism
6. Seven Sisters
7. The Soviet
8. Paper Hanger
9. My Exit, Unfair
10. Four Word Letter, Pt. 2
11. Carousels
12. Son of a Widow

mewithoutYou - Catch for Us the Foxes

Highlight Tracks: Torches Together, January 1979, Four Word Letter Pt. 2

Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - The Dust of Retreat

When Jacob and I first started hanging out, he said to me, "Get ready to hear your new favorite band," and he started playing Margot & the Nuclear So and So's. And he was right. I saw them play a show in the Cincinnati area recently, and it was a great show overall. There were some disappointments here and there with the performance, but this album is fantastic.

Tracklisting
1. A Sea Chanty of Sorts
2. Skeleton Key
3. Vampires In Blue Dresses
4. Quiet As A Mouse
5. Jen Is Bringing the Drugs (I don't actually have this song on here, but it sucks anyway. You'd probably skip it even if you did have it.)
6. Dress Me Like A Clown
7. On A Freezing Chicago Street
8. Paper Kitten Nightmare
9. Barfight Revolution, Power Violence
10. A Light On A Hill
11. Talking In Code
12. Bookworm

Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - The Dust of Retreat

Highlight Tracks: A Sea Chanty of Sorts, A Light On A Hill, Talking In Code

As Cities Burn - Come Now Sleep

Since I didn't post yesterday, have another one. Just download this. It's really good.

Tracklisting
1. Contact
2. Empire
3. The Hoard
4. This Is It, This Is It
5. Clouds
6. New Sun
7. Tides
8. Wrong Body
9. Our World Is Grey
10. Timothy

As Cities Burn - Come Now Sleep

Highlight Tracks: Contact, Empire, New Sun

Girl Talk - Feed the Animals

I pretty much want to listen to this all the time.

Tracklisting
1. Play Your Part (pt. 1)
2. Shut the Club Down
3. Still Here
4. What It's All About
5. Set It Off
6. No Pause
7. Like This
8. Give Me A Beat
9. Hands in the Air
10. In Step
11. Let Me See You
12. Here's the Thing
13. Don't Stop
14. Play Your Part (pt. 2)

Girl Talk - Feed the Animals

Highlight Tracks: Play Your Part (pt. 1), What It's All About, Like This

Flight of the Conchords

Well you get two again today. This one is just really funny.

Tracklisting
1. Foux Du Fafa
2. Inner City Pressure
3. Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros
4. Think About It
5. Ladies of the World
6. Mutha'uckas
7. The Prince of Parties
8. Leggy Blonde
9. Robots
10. Boom
11. A Kiss is Not a Contract
12. The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)
13. Business Time
14. Bowie
15. Au Revoir

Flight of the Conchords

Highlight Tracks: Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros, Mutha'uckas, A Kiss is Not a Contract

Fionn Regan - The End of History

Well obviously I have to post this one. It took me a little while to get into it, but now it's one of my favorites. It's so pretty.

Tracklisting
1. Be Good or Be Gone
2. The Underwood Typewriter
3. Hunters Map
4. Hey Rabbit
5. Black Water Child
6. Put a Penny in the Slot
7. The Cowshed
8. Snowy Atlas Mountains
9. Noah (Ghost In A Sheet)
10. The End of History
11. Abacus
12. Bunker or Basement

Fionn Regan - The End of History

Highlight Tracks: (All of them really, but) Be Good or Be Gone, Hey Rabbit, Black Water Child

Emery - The Question

I'll post two today since I didn't post yesterday.

This is one of my favorite albums ever. The question the title speaks of is "Where were you when I was..." The track titles complete this question, for example "Where were you when I was the weakest?" or "Where were you when I was playing with fire?"

Tracklisting
1. So Cold I Could See My Breath
2. Playing With Fire
3. Returning the Smile You Have Had From the Start
4. Studying Politics
5. Left With Alibis and Lying Eyes
6. Listening to Freddie Mercury
7. The Weakest
8. Miss Behavin'
9. In Between 4th and 2nd Street
10. The Terrible Secret
11. In A Lose, Lose Situation
12. In A Win, Win Situation

Emery - The Question

Highlight Tracks: Studying Politics, Listening to Freddie Mercury, In A Lose, Lose Situation

Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine

All I can say about this one is that it's sexy. Love it.

Tracklisting
1. Turn It Out
2. Romantic Rights
3. Going Steady
4. Go Home, Get Down
5. Blood On Our Hands
6. Black History Month
7. Little Girl
8. Cold War
9. You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
10. Pull Out
11. Sexy Results

Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine

Highlight Tracks: Turn It Out, Pull Out, Sexy Results

Bright Eyes - Cassadaga

I like listening to this one in the car.

Tracklisting
1. Clairaudients (Kill or Be Killed)
2. Four Winds
3. If the Brakeman Turns My Way
4. Hot Knives
5. Make A Plan to Love Me
6. Soul Singer in a Session Band
7. Classic Cars
8. Middleman
9. Cleanse Song
10. No One Would Riot for Less
11. Coat Check Dream Song
12. I Must Belong Somewhere
13. Lime Tree

Bright Eyes - Cassadaga

Highlight Tracks: Four Winds, If the Brakeman Turns My Way, Soul Singer in a Session Band

Amiina - Kurr

I'm not really interested writing reviews, so I'll just be posting these. Although I will say about this one--I love to listen to it while I'm studying.

Tracklisting (please excuse the absence of accents on some of these titles!)
1. Sogg
2. Ruggla
3. Glamur
4. Seoul
5. Lupina
6. Hilli
7. Sexfaldur
8. Kolapot
9. Saga
10. Lori
11. Blafeldur
12. Boga


Amiina - Kurr

Highlight Tracks: all of them