Well this is it my friends. This is the last post before I head down to Florida for some much needed {and hardly deserved} relaxation, music, and festival fun. I’ll be traveling with a friend who writes for Stereo Subversion on occasion and if you’re looking for us we’ll be the two white Indiana guys who are camping in a red tent by a rented 08 Chevy Malibu {it’s listed as sandstone in color but I’ll always think of it as old person beige}. Oh, and did I mention that we’re both ridiculously good looking?
While I’m at the festival, which you can check out here, I’ll have the great fortune of seeing The Beastie Boys, R.E.M., The National, Shout Out Louds, Ben Folds, Josh Ritter, Built to Spill, and The Walkmen. The rest of the festival is icing on the cake as there’s only one slight conflict in that incredible lineup {Josh Ritter overlaps with Shout Out Louds for about thirty minutes, but I’m betting no one starts on time}. The only downer is that Vampire Weekend canceled out of the festival so that they could play on SNL this Saturday night. I must say they traded up a bit; SNL will probably, maybe, kinda, have more viewers than the eighteen so odd thousand that’ll be down in the Everglades with me.
Due to the fact that I’ll be living in a tent and/or traveling for about the next seven days I won’t be able to post anything new for awhile. Don’t worry though, I will be back. In my absence, however, I think you should check out three fine blogs. They should help tide you over and they’ve just been added to my links under Friend and Lovers {on the side there}. I really dig these blogs for various and sundry reasons and I think you’ll like them too {and if not you can always just wait for me to come back and provide you with the wit and sarcasm you’ve come to love… even though in my heart I know you’re only here for the music}. So here they are. Pretty Much Amazing, Music for Kids Who Can’t Read Good, and Hard to Find a Friend.
And even though I’m leaving for awhile you didn’t think I’d leave you empty handed, did you? Here are two tracks that are continuously requested here at TWF. Honestly, I get at least one request a week for these to be reposted, so here they are in all of their remixed glory.
mp3 : Clint Mansell - Lux Aeterna (Full Orchestral Remix)
mp3 : Clint Mansell - Lux Aeterna (Lord of the Rings Remix)
If you’ve been to a theatre in the past five years you’ve probably heard either of these versions of this song attached to a movie preview. It seems ubiquitous and yet no one seems to know what the song is called or where you can find them. So there you go.
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Indiana?
I am from that great state! And the citizens are not nearly as pale as you make us out to be, why, we are from the state that borders both of Sufjan Steven’s album states (meaning he came through Indiana at some time!)
Why did you reference Sufjan Stevens? What does that have to do with how pale you are? Most of the videos and pictures of Sufjan I’ve seen are pretty pale as well. If you were trying to make Indiana look cool, why wouldn’t you name someone from Indiana instead of someone who has traveled through Indiana… I mean seriously. You could have said someone like Steve McQueen, James Dean, David Letterman or Jim Gaffigan (not helpful on the anti-pale sentiment)… Hell, even Carole Lombard would work. Or assuming you wanted to get musical you could have referenced Jon McLaughlin (he had a song nominated for an Oscar this year) or more old school Michael Jackson (someone we can all be proud of). I mean, come on, how pathetic is it when you start referencing the fact that Sufjan traveled through our state.
hate to agree with droll but Suf has little to nothing to do with the state of indiana. and actually, although i don’t mind living here, my heart will always be from michigan {i was born and lived my young life in kalamazoo}. indiana is a boring state with little to no geographic, cultural, or social attractions. {oh, and i loathe all the indy sports teams as well}.
I heard this song from of all things, a flash video, “The man who thought he was Bill Murray”