I heard this last night and it reminded me of the fact that Jim Carroll died a couple weeks ago, sadly joining the ranks of the people in this song. This amazingly energetic, kick-ass song is a uplifting tribute to people who died, but not before they left an impression on Carroll himself.
Funny how art reflects life sometimes… RIP JC
stay alive this weekend 
I actually like this song by Portland band Hockey better, but they’ve joined the ranks of music industry trouble makers and disabled that video for embedding. But this one’s pretty good, too:
this weekend’s just a song away – make it a good one.
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This one is the fault of one of my mins. She planted it in my head yesteraday and I’ve (sadly) not been able to shake it. Posting it as song of the week will hopefully get it out of my skull.
This video is great because it was shot back in the days when a leaf blower and a bunch of leaves was all you needed to make a “bitchin” video. Plus, everybody either looked like Tears for Fears or Rick Astley or some bastard child of theirs.
whisper yourself into a scream this weekend…
“Everybody needs a little time away,” I heard her say, “from each other. Even lovers need a holiday. Far away from each other.” She said a bunch of other stuff, too, but I didn’t really hear it because I was trying to not let the door hit my ass on the way out.
have a great labor day weekend. burn it up. don’t apologize. it’s hard.
These “twins” are pretty funky. If this doesn’t throw you back to the 80s, I don’t know what will.
need more info about ming and ping, just go to mingping.ning.com. no, really.
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I know it’s saturday. Tell me something I don’t know.
I sorta like Flogging Molly. They seem like they know how to party. Enjoy:
leave this weekend alive.
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Jumping into your speakers with a punchy, melodic, carefree and pop-laden bunch of business, this one is by a hot funky Norwegian chick named Ida Maria. Really fun stuff, makes you want to jump around and sort of bump into people on a crowded dance floor in a smoky club in NYC. Or not. I don’t know.
It’s another one of those stoopid “embed disabled by request” things, so click on thru to YouTube to watch it. I’d surf around and find an embeddable version, but I’m on to other things by now. If you happen to be in Maine this weekend, Ida Maria will be playing at the first annual KahBang Indie Music and Art Festival in Bangor, Maine on August 15, 2009. When you see her, you can ask her why she doesn’t want me to embed her video. You can ask her in Swedish, which is pretty close to Norwegian… “Varför, Ida Maria… VARFföR?…”
get naked this weekend.
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life is short – sometimes you just gotta do whatcha gotta do. oh, and it’s cool to know nothing… that way you’ll never miss a beat.
sadly, these guys are good but they’re missing a beat themselves by not allowing this video to be embedded… idiots. so click on the vid below to be taken to you tube where you can trip out on their trippiness.
don’t miss a beat this weekend!
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Colin Hay is playing at the Independent on Saturday. I got my tix… Do you?
Have a land down under kind of weekend…
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