n-judah love song

burial | fostercare

via the ever-amazing annelogue.

take a little trip back to baltimore | case of the mondays

I put this on Vox a while back, but it's curing a case of foggy Mondays, and thus worth reblogging myself for. Every girl I know from Back In The Day dances like this. (And we all think we're as good as Rye Rye at these moves.)

want more, you say? Try Stanton Warriors taking her on.

alice

I'm so excited for the new Alice in Wonderland movie. I've watched this video a zillion times before, but I still like it: it's a mellow electronica tune composed only with sounds from the original animated movie.

<3 on Haight Street | movement in still life

I didn't think I'd do an MJ post. But as someone who has loved music & dance my whole life long, it's hard not to: Michael had cataclysmic impact on how everyone understood the essential fusion of music + dance, and how we'd newly see the whole made from the two halves.

We tend to revere artists more when they are gone too soon. "Elder statesman" fits with grace only a few of the genius musicians: Stevie, Quincy Jones, Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, Aretha. Dancers seem to have even less leeway as we tilt toward the grave - Baryshnikov, Madonna, and Kylie excepted, the viability of dance as a lifelong profession is fleeting, at best.

Raised as I was on northern soul (and folk music/classical/showtunes - I'll never outgrow music dorkitude) watching MJ truly PERFORM is still an amazing experience. As Ta-Nehisi Coates says...just watch til' the end.

Currently making me dance:

Passion Pit - The Reeling

I'm not sure when this became a video blog, but I kind of love it. Thanks to my colleague Geysa for the link that kept my morning mellow.

mixtapemixtape just put up this funky, soulful mix by RJD2. Put it in your earhole and rock out at your desk like I do. (Thanks, headphonic.)

When I say I'm listening to drum-n-bass again, this is the sort of thing I mean. Not your regular lawnmower man stuff. Twinkly, lovely, well-produced, melodic: the sort of thing that LTJ Bukem would make today if he'd been a house DJ fond of arpeggiated keyboards.

update! here's the tune that's gotten me through this week. B-Complex - Beautiful Lies.

(forgive the chatter over the last video, I'll post up a new one as soon as I can find one. The Hospital Podcast just played this one today on their democast and I'm in lurrrve.)

Am I the last person on the internet to see this? Because I kind've love it. 

"watch the end where he murders them b-boy style"

I didn't think I'd do an MJ post. But as someone who has loved music & dance my whole life long, it's hard not to: Michael had cataclysmic impact on how everyone understood the essential fusion of music + dance, and how we'd newly see the whole made from the two halves.

We tend to revere artists more when they are gone too soon. "Elder statesman" fits with grace only a few of the genius musicians: Stevie, Quincy Jones, Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, Aretha. Dancers seem to have even less leeway as we tilt toward the grave - Baryshnikov, Madonna, and Kylie excepted, the viability of dance as a lifelong profession is fleeting, at best.

Raised as I was on northern soul (and folk music/classical/showtunes - I'll never outgrow music dorkitude) watching MJ truly PERFORM is still an amazing experience. As Ta-Nehisi Coates says...just watch til' the end.

passion pit - the reeling

Currently making me dance:

Passion Pit - The Reeling

with love from brasil

I'm not sure when this became a video blog, but I kind of love it. Thanks to my colleague Geysa for the link that kept my morning mellow.

RJD2 mixtape goodness

mixtapemixtape just put up this funky, soulful mix by RJD2. Put it in your earhole and rock out at your desk like I do. (Thanks, headphonic.)

it's the new style

When I say I'm listening to drum-n-bass again, this is the sort of thing I mean. Not your regular lawnmower man stuff. Twinkly, lovely, well-produced, melodic: the sort of thing that LTJ Bukem would make today if he'd been a house DJ fond of arpeggiated keyboards.

update! here's the tune that's gotten me through this week. B-Complex - Beautiful Lies.

(forgive the chatter over the last video, I'll post up a new one as soon as I can find one. The Hospital Podcast just played this one today on their democast and I'm in lurrrve.)

united state of pop 2008

Am I the last person on the internet to see this? Because I kind've love it.