KBBBLOG MIX SIX!
It's Leo Season, Rip it Up, Turtle's Have Short Legs, Waters of March, That Thing You Do and Internet Trends from 2014.
OMG it’s August, friends. It’s Leo Season, as the kids say, and I am very much a Leo (August 12th) and so is Hank (August 11th). Leland just taught me how to find my rising sign (Gemini) and my moon sign (Cancer), so I can understand astrology memes now (WHEW).
This past week was pretty consumed with me prepping and stressing for a 15 minute Creative Mornings talk that Leland and I delivered on Friday. All thankfully went OKAY and the fine folks at CM made a gif out of my face and really, that’s all you need to know in case you missed it. Maya Stoner aka Floating Room opened up the event with a few of her super lush and lovely songs and I included her single “Held Open the Door” to open this week’s mix from her 2020 EP “Tried and True”.
Some other notable songs from this week’s mix: “Rip it Up” by Orange Juice deserves a link to their 1983 music video. Am I out of my mind to think that this both could have been filmed and recorded today? And then we have “When the Night Comes” by Thee Headcoats, which is a band that is from the early 90s but sounds like they are from a garage in the mid-60s.
I also included “Turtles Have Short Legs” by Can. One of the fun things for me as I put together these mixes is sort of losing myself a bit as I dig deeper into songs that get stuck in my head during the week. Check out the super gear focused video that Can put together for this song. So many dudes in big headphones. So many close-ups of knobs.
My last mix mention goes to Art Garfunkel’s cover of Tom Jobin’s “Waters of March”. I think I really like it? It’s so serious and sort of awkward and probably the opposite of the lightness and smoothness of the above linked version, but there is something about Art’s version that I can’t get out of my head. Also, here is a pretty long Atlantic article that stares into the navel of “Waters of March”.
And just to bring things full circle from last week’s KBBBLOG, Marc Fischer who runs Half Letter Press out of Chicago, linked up on his facebook page the 2021 full Lollapalooza set from our Woodstock 99 faves Limp Bizkit. You don’t have to click on that link, but I swear that I haven’t thought about Limp Bizkit this much EVER in my life as I have over this last week thanks to that documentary.
A few notable things that I watched this week included a plot twisty 2019 documentary on the 1980’s late night staple The Amazing Johnathan. And I just spent way too long looking at clips from That Thing You Do on YouTube (SUCH A GOOD MOVIE) because I just finished my Sunday night watching of White Lotus (which happens to also star Steve Zahn). I have more things to say about White Lotus, but it’s three minutes until midnight and that is when I make myself stop writing this weekly dispatch, so I will save those thoughts for later. I LOVE YOU JENNIFER COOLIDGE.
And I will leave you all with a confession. I had never watched a musicless music video until a few days ago. Please enjoy this rendition of “Hello” by Lionel Richie, but without, you know, the music.
See you next Sunday with more hot internet trends from 7 years ago!
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