Our Wedding Playlist

October 5, 2011 Posted in General, Music

When Nadine & I got married we decided to let iTunes be our DJ. This guaranteed no “Chicken Dance”, YMCA, or other lame wedding songs would be played at our reception. We just picked songs from our library and queued them up in a playlist. Here is that playlist.

Artist Track Name Album
Alicia Keys If I Ain’t Got You The Diary Of Alicia Keys
Aphex Twin Iz-Us Come To Daddy [EP]
Arcade Fire Cold Wind Cold Wind
Arcade Fire Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) Funeral
Arcade Fire Wake Up Funeral
Arcade Fire Rebellion (Lies) Funeral
Arcade Fire No Cars Go Neon Bible
Arcade Fire The Suburbs The Suburbs
Audioslave Like A Stone Audioslave
The Beatles A Day In The Life Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Björk Who Is It Medúlla
The Blow Eat Your Heart Up Paper Television
Brian Eno Always Returning Apollo Atmospheres & Soundtracks
Brian Eno and David Byrne Strange Overtones Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
The Church Under The Milky Way Under The Milky Way
Coldplay Don’t Panic Parachutes
Cotton Jones Some Strange Rain Paranoid Cocoon
Craig David Fill Me In Born To Do It
The Cure Love Song Disintegration
Cursive From The Hips Mama, I’m Swollen
David Byrne Like Humans Do Look Into The Eyeball
Death Cab For Cutie I Will Possess Your Heart (10″ Edit) I Will Possess Your Heart
Death Cab For Cutie Grapevine Fires Narrow Stairs
Death Cab For Cutie Soul Meets Body Plans
DeVotchKa Charlotte Mittnacht (The Fabulous Destiny Of…) How It Ends
Do Make Say Think In Mind You, You’re A History In Rust
Explosions In The Sky First Breath After Coma The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Explosions In The Sky The Only Moment We Were Alone The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Feist I Feel It All The Reminder
Feist 1234 The Reminder
The Flaming Lips Fight Test Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
George Clinton Atomic Dog Computer Games
Imogen Heap Tidal Ellipse
Jets To Brazil All Things Good And Nice Four Cornered Night
John Lennon Imagine Lennon
Joseph Nothing Clockwork Island Deadland after Dreamland
Kanye West Touch The Sky (Feat. Lupe Fiasco) Late Registration
Kromestar Aggravation Shokwave EP
Modest Mouse 3rd Planet The Moon And Antarctica
Mouse On Mars Dispothek Niun Niggung
Mrk 1 Steppers Delight Bones/Steppa Delights
Oasis Wonderwall (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
Patrick Wolf A Boy Like Me Lycanthropy
Pixies Monkey Gone To Heaven Doolittle
PlayRadioPlay! Confines Of Gravity The Frequency EP
Polygon Window If It Really Is Me Surfing on Sine Waves
The Postal Service Such Great Heights Give Up
The Postal Service Brand New Colony Give Up
The Postal Service We Will Become Silhouettes We Will Become Silhouettes
Prince Jammy Strictly Dub Strictly Dub LP
The Shins Know Your Onion! Oh, Inverted World
Sonic Youth Incinerate Rather Ripped
Squarepusher My Sound Music is Rotted One Note
St. Germain So Flute Tourist
Stereolab Miss Modular Dots And Loops
Sun Ra Reflections In Blue Sound Of Joy
The Swell Season Feeling The Pull Strict Joy
The Swell Season The Rain Strict Joy
Television Marquee Moon Marquee Moon
Tortoise On The Chin It’s All Around You
A Tribe Called Quest Phony Rappers Beats Rhymes & Life
Weezer Only In Dreams Weezer
The White Stripes The Hardest Button To Button Elephant
The XX Islands XX
The XX Basic Space XX
Zero 7 In The Waiting Line Simple Things

Phase 1, closet & pantry

September 20, 2011 Posted in General

My home was built in the 1920s and about 2 months ago I embarked upon some major home reconstruction to adjust the way the house is lived in and give us some extra storage space along the way. This construction involves building new walls, closing up current doorways, building a closet/pantry, dealing with a load bearing wall and building some shelving.

Phase 1, is to transform what was the formal dining room into our new bedroom by building a large closet and closing the doorway up into the kitchen and the other opening into the front room. This will make use of the hallway door to the bedroom.

My Dad & Mom have been a great help on this project. I am very grateful to have their help and guidance along the way!

Blank wall where construction waas to begin.
This was our starting canvas, the formal dining room. (Who uses one of those anymore?) This room had a doorway into the kitchen. 
Shelving up on the wall.
We got the shelving up and configured in a way that we liked before building as to make sure the closet would fit everything properly.
Framing up on the wall.
Next step, get the framing for the closet and pantry up.
My Dad helping out with the framing construction.
My Dad helping out with the framing construction and drywall is starting to go up!
Drywall up and painted.
Drywall up and painted just a bit more patching before it’s done. 
Pantry with one shelf up.
Here is a look at the pantry from the kitchen. This is going to give us so much more space.
Painting the room.
We got some fresh paint up on the walls with help from our friends/neighbors Jesse & Jamez. 
Closeup of crown moulding along the ceiling.
Getting to the finishing touches and putting crown moulding up around the room. 
Closet doors are up!
Closet doors installed and working! We will be reclaiming baseboard from other construction to use along the new wall.
Lathe and plaster wall being removed.
Starting on Phase 2, knocking out the wall between the two front rooms of the house to make one great room and some nice shelving in the wall.

 

COOP Wallpapers – Series 1

October 28, 2010 Posted in Design, General Tagged , , , , ,

I’m sure some of you know who COOP, AKA Chris Cooper is. He’s done roughly 100 posters, including rock posters for Nirvana, Soundgarden, The Sex Pistols and many others, and album cover art for everyone from the Monomen to the Ramones. He recently posted some of his prints and posters to his Flickr stream where I took some of them and made some COOP inspired desktop and mobile wallpapers.

Smoking Devil Girl

Pasties Girl

Fetish Girls

Shotgun Blonde

Afro Girl

Exploding Wall of Sound

September 1, 2010 Posted in General, Music Tagged , ,

The atmosphere was perfect; A nice cool late summer evening, a small aging venue, minimal lighting and a packed crowd rising and falling with the music.

I have listened to Explosions in the Sky a few times but do not own any of their records or never really got into their music. I knew they were an esoteric band that played long format songs full of ambience, noise and raw rock power but I had no idea of the pleasant surprise I was in for. I had the chance to see them live, took the opportunity and WOW, I was blown away! What a great band to see live! They are now up near the top of my ‘must see them live’ list along with Sonic Youth and The Arcade Fire as far an having a great stage presence and creating a performance that feels so organic and alive, it gives me chills.

I love the fact that their music is all instrumental leaving the feeling and interpretation completely up to the listener. In today’s pop song and short attention span world it’s wonderful to see that a band like this can sell out a show in Louisville, KY. If you have a chance to get out and see Explosions in the Sky, please do, you will not regret it! After their set there was no encore! I thought that was amazing. Everybody plays an encore these days, it’s expected, but at the end of the set they waved goodbye and then came back out 5 minutes later to inform us, yes they were really done and said something to the effect of they were drained from the performance and hope we enjoyed it, but that’s it. respect.


Explosions in the Sky performing Your Hand In Mine at Headliners in Louisville, KY on August, 31, 2010.

Mean Streak on 8/21/2010

August 25, 2010 Posted in General, Music Tagged , , ,

Flyer for Mean StreakSaturday night I played at the Mean Streak party at Lisa’s Oak Street Lounge. The air conditioning broke the week prior so it was very musty and stinking like cat piss throughout the bar. Despite the bummer venue, the gig was quite well and I performed along with Deathface, Sleepy-T, and the OK Deejays.

The soundsystem was nice! Thanks Lou and Ryan, you do a great job! I dropped some Terminal Dusk tracks, some exclusive Fault material and some other tasty gems… check out the set list…

  1. Kromestar – Shockwave EP – Agravashon
  2. Headhunter – Initiate EP – Drop the Waste
  3. Fault – Unreleased Dubplate – Rub a Dub Remix
  4. Matty G – West Coast Rocks – West Coast Rocks (Caspa Remix)
  5. Roommate – Pacific Tremors – Conquer (6Blocc Rekut)
  6. 6Blocc & Dstro – Talk too Loud / Culture – Talk Too Loud
  7. Rusko – License to Thrill: Part 2 – Original Cut
  8. Borgore – Viridian – One Step Ahead
  9. Babylon System & SPL – Unreleased Dubplate – On Fire
  10. Otto Von Schirach – Bass Low / Bass Galactica 8 – Bass Low
  11. Sarantis – Nitroglycerine / Half Dead – Nitroglycerine
  12. Fault – Unreleased Dubplate – Scape
  13. Flux Pavilion – How Rude – How Rude
  14. Babylon System – Regardless VIP / Raclette – Regardless VIP
  15. Rusko – O.M.G.! – Hold On
  16. Kromestar – License To Thrill: Part 3 – Focuz
  17. Emalkay – Solid State / Battle Suit – Solid State
  18. Truth – Terror Planet – Disappear
  19. Caspa – Ave It: Volume 2 – Well’ Ard (Featuring The Others)