I got a double dose of DJ’d music this week.  I don’t know  what it is with the head-bobbing dudes and their giant headphones, but I want to make them all my future ex-husband.

Thursday night, M and I went downtown to see Flosstradamus spin.  We were a bit annoyed with the fact that the show was on a Thursday and that it was at Red 7.  On top of that, there were two openers and Flossy wasn’t going to hit the stage until 12:30.  We decided to camp out at the home bar and drink for cheap until the show started.

The set got off to a good start but then it got lame.  I though things would improve when the dudes mixed in the song from the Lion King and someone on stage lifted up the fan like Simba.  No such luck.

Friday night I went to Sock Hop vs. Soul Happening.  I put on a party dress (pink gingham halter dress), fluffed up the afro and hit the Mohawk.There is something to be said about live dj-ing on actual records.  These guys went the extra mile by spinning 45’s.

SSSH  ended up winning the battle.  They had better transitions and they had the crowd dancing until they could dance no more.

THE HOOD vs ANATOMY MAGAZINE

It’s X-mas in July.  The Hood Internet has dropped not one, but two new mix tapes.  I have rocked out to both of them in my car but I have to say that the mixtape for Anatomy Magazine is the better of the two.

I suggest you download the album at Anatomy so you can skip a few tracks as needed.  Here are my favorites, with my top 3 in bold.

1. Jay-Z (feat. Pharrell) x LCD Soundsystem - Just Wanna Dance Yrself Clean
3. 50 Cent x Ratatat - Have A Billar By Me
4. Ludacris (feat. Pharrell) x Rilo Kiley - Moneymaking Money Maker That Makes Money
7. Lil’ Troy (feat. Fat Pat and Yungstar) x TV On The Radio - Wanna Be A Wolf Like Me
8. Clipse x Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clipse Your Hands Say Wamp Wamp
9. Asher Roth x The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - I Love Friction
10. Devin The Dude (feat. Andre 3000) x Les Savy Fav - What Would Devin Do?
13. DJ Assault x Deerhunter - Deer Assault

These guys rock!  The show was great, and they’re from my home town.  Woot! Woot! Go Chicago!  In addition I would like say that they are super nice, totally willing to pose with their drunk fans… (A.K.A me that night).  We had a great time, and definitely plan on trying to catch them while we’re in Chicago in August.

This was my attempt at being artistic.  I like the shot, but I won’t lie; it was just an off chance that I got it, we were busy having fun, not really taking pictures.

This is almost the same one that Jen took during SXSW this year.  We saw them at Karma Lounge on one of the last evenings.  That too was a great show.

Sometimes when you give Jen whiskey, she gets mean.

I spent the majority of the weekend camped out on the couch with unlimited streaming movies.  Why?  Because my place reeks of paint fumes and it is still on the f-ing market. Oh, and technically I was house/cat sitting.

Left to my own devices I managed to plow through 8 movies.   Most of which were total fluff.  One of them may have been considered a film, but I doubt it.  Day 1:American Pie 2, Penelope, Broken English, Carolina,  and 10 Things I Hate About You.   I OD’d on chick flicks.  I told M that I needed some scotch and an action flick or something to undo all of that.  Instead we got wine drunk and walked downtown with 2.0 to dance it off with the Hood Internet.

Day 2:  I left M’s around noon-ish and was craving cheese (Note to self, do not order a vegan burger after a night of drinking.  Order the f -ing grilled cheese.  Note to late night establishments, fries should be crisp, salty, greasy and still contain soft potato insides).  I stopped at the Target on the way “home” for milk, Amy’s Organic shells with white cheddar and  managed to consume it all during  the course of three movies… Julie and Julia, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and Harold and Maude.

I have to say that the concept of unlimited streaming movies sounds like a good idea.  I am not sure who is out there selecting the movies to be screened. If you know who they are, please inform them that there should be more films, and less crap.

DSC_0126, originally uploaded by Limorama.

We went last week to see Tokyo Police Club open for Passion Pit.   Jen wrote about it a bit here.  They were great! I haven’t seen TPC in years. They sounded great, I guess the sound guy likes them. However, Passion Pit had a great energy, but did not sound so good. The guys were together and all that, but, it was way bass heavy.

Let’s just say that Jen and I got to be a little fun that night. We ended up getting a ride home from a friend (we took the car-to-go to get there) and as we pulled into my driveway, Jen and I started to go through his CDs.

Suffice it to say that Jen now thinks he’s a shoe-gazer lesbian because he listens to Tegan and Sarah. Ha! (Sometimes I’m sure that my stories would be more funny if you were actually there.)

This was year 6 of volunteering my way to platinum. I have been on vacation for the past 2 weeks and living at M’s house.

(You should go back and read the daily recaps. I put this stuff out on the internet for you, little readers)

Total # of bands: ~24  ( City Riots, Best Coast, the DJs from the Hood Internet, Le Loup,  Typefighter, Sondre Lerche, Vivian Girls, Death Set,  :papercutz,  Oh Snap!, Rogue Wave, Miike Snow, Fucked Up, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings,  Hole,  Frightened Rabbit, Minor Mishap Marching Band , Mayer Hawthorn & the Country, Passion Pit (DJ set) , The Pains of Being Pure at Heart,  Broken Bells, Ezra Furman and the Harpoons ,Everybody was in the French Resistance…Now!, and  Diplo.)

Total # of movies: 6 (The Runaways, Tiny Furniture, Canal Street Madam, Barry Munday, the Freebie, Kick Ass)

Total $ spent: ~$115 In comparison to last year, I spent more money and came home with less loot (Recessioned!).

Things that vastly improved this year’s SXSW experience:

• Being a Crewchief: (Thanks to the Real Jew) I worked a ton of pre-conference hours and was done by Sunday afternoon of SXSWi
• New sidekicks
• Nap time

M and I went to the Middle East/Mumford and Sons show last night.  We bought the tickets after missing the Middle East on several occasions during SXSW.  As the show approached, we were feeling old and debating if we wanted to go to two concerts in one week.  As we walked to the Miike Snow show M checked CL and found out that the tickets were going for about $120 for a pair (we bought them for $15).  Tempting…

Wednesday morning we decided that we should eat our Wheaties and go to the show.  Since the hipster math has done us wrong on many occasions we headed to LZR at 8:30.   The show started around 9ish.   The Middle East was definitely worth the $15 and then some.  They reminded me of Los Campesinos!

Unfortunately about 4 songs in I didn’t feel so great. (more…)

I saw Miike Snow with M and the Jew on Tuesday night.  Antone’s was packed full of frat dudes and sorostitots (When will they get the message that I paid to listen to the band and not them singing along?).    Anyways, I was reminded that I needed to post this year’s Summer Skate Jam.

Passion Pit’s the Reeling was the Summer Skate Jam of 2009.

This year’s Summer Skate Jam is Miike Snow’s Cult Logic

So M and I buy tickets for shows during pre-sale or within seconds of tickets going on sale.
This is Austin, venues are small, shows WILL sell out.  When we tell you to buy your tickets, you should listen.  90% of the time we are right.

M bought the tickets for the upcoming Passion Pit/Tokyo Police Club show the day they went on sale. As always, we debated the need for an extra pair of tickets just in case.  We had a feeling that it would sell out fast so we decided to get them and deal with them later.

We bought our tickets for Miike Snow and the Middle East during SXSW (after we stumbled home from the Spin party).  We didn’t know if we would be available on those dates but we knew we couldn’t wait.  We ended up buying two extra tickets for Miike Snow because we knew that inevitably, one of our friends would forget to buy their ticket.

We attempted to get tickets to the Phoenix show (I gave M my credit card # so she could buy them for me while I was at the office).  Tickets went on sale at 10am.  M had the computer queued up at 9:45.  At 9:58 she attempted to hit the button to see if she could buy tickets. No luck.  The sale started at 9:56.  The show sold out in 2 minutes.

Vampire Weekend was a show we were on the fence about seeing.  Sadly we spent too much time on the fence and missed out on tickets to that show.

I received the email from the Pixies mailing list about the presale for the Doolittle tour over the weekend. I am not that excited about the show being at the Music Hall but it’s the Pixies and they rarely tour.  M and I WILL be going in September.

Fast forward to now…
Miike Snow (sold out). Great show, sadly Antone’s is not the greatest place to see a band.  The Jew got one of the spare tickets and the other one was sold on CL.

Middle East/Mumford and Sons (sold out and moved to another venue to sell out again).  La Zona Rosa was a much better venue to see this band.

Passion Pit/Tokyo Police Club (sold out, they added another day and they sold out again).  M and I plan on getting their early enough to be close enough to eat their faces.  The Jew gets the spare ticket.  Sometime between now and the show one lucky person will get the last ticket.

John Cusak - Say Anything

What would John Cusak do?

Well, he would make a mixtape, put it in a boom box, and hold it over his head while standing in the rain wearing a trench coat.

This line from Hi Fidelity has been cycling through my head since I received a tape (from a boy). It wasn’t a mix tape (although I think there is one on the way).  It was a copy of two albums (vinyl).  Spanish versions of some old jump blues. It was unexpected.

The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don’t wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. Anyway… I’ve started to make a tape… in my head… for Laura. Full of stuff she likes. Full of stuff that make her happy. For the first time I can sort of see how that is done. – Rob Gordon, Played by John Cusack, from High Fidelity

I recently made a tape for the boy.  It’s been ages since I have taped something on a cassette.  In a fit of insomnia I plugged the ipod into the stereo and recycled a tape from my college conversational french class.   I chose  The Satanic Satanist by Portugal. The Man for my pre-mixtape project.  It has been in constant rotation on my ipod.  It is the one thing that can brighten my mood lately.  I chose well.  I received a Facebook message the next day thanking me for the tape.

I will be relying on itunes playlists when it comes time to make an actual mix tape.  I’ve already chosen a few songs based on records we listen to at his place.  I intend to make a compilation of new old songs (although I am debating whether or not She and Him deserves to be on a tape like that).

In the meantime, listen (and melt)