I want to marry Liz Lemon : an ohwnt MegaPost

And Jack Donaghy.

This is the funniest thing on TV right now. And Liz and Jack are why.

I really don't know how she keeps a straight face through her "funny business" monologue.

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100% Pure Awesomeness award-winning 30 Rock themed randomness [check below for all songs in one easily pocketable zip]:

Shuggie Otis - XL-30

Smashing Pumpkins - Thirty-three

Okkervil River - He Passes Number Thirty-three

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Rockers to Swallow

Spank Rock - Coke & Wet

Rocky Votolato - The Old Holland

Def Leppard - Rocket

Gary Glitter - Rock and Roll part 2

The Pack - Rock 'n' Roll

B-52s - Rock Lobster [live]

Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body

Mystery Jets - Half in Love with Elizabeth

The Books - The Lemon of Pink

Fools Garden - Lemon Tree

Muscles - Chocolate, Raspberry, Lemon & Lime

Beck - Jack-ass

Colin Meloy - Jack the Ripper

Jack Johnson - Mama You've Been on My Mind

John Cougar - Jack & Diane

Justice - New Jack

Manitoba - Jacknuggeted

All 20 OHWNT MegaPost tuneages in one easy to download zip! [z alt d/l] Conveniently clocking in at 73min for this whole lot, you can fit them all onto any blank CD! It was a coincidence, I swear.

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This week's been a good and busy one for OHWNT [not for me, but for the pages]-- for some unexplicable reason so far we're clocking an average of just under 50 hits/day. That may sound pathetic, but hey! That's something to be proud of, so go tell all your friends about today's wonderfully random songs and let's set a record!

I think I already set a record for exclamation points and now I kinda wanna shove one down my throat and barf. Too much happiness.

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Enjoy your weekend.

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Passion Pit + OHWNT MegaPost

Cambridge, Mass's Passion Pit is mostly this guy, Michael Angelakos. He likes to sing like a girl and, apparently, flail his arms in the air while he does so. 

I don't really care what he does with his arms, or voice, just so long as he keeps pumping out the sweet poppy jams like he does the Passion Pit debut EP Chunk of Change [which was, allegedly, first recorded as a valentine for his valentine].

At times the Pit sounds like Prince, and on "Smile Upon Me" I hear Ben Gibbard, which makes it sound a bit like a Postal Service track, and just as emo. But that's not a bad thing.

Standout track "Sleepyhead" has been blogged to death lately, but don't be afraid of the hype. I've had this song on repeat for two straight days, and been passing it along to everyone I know.

Passion Pit - Sleepyhead

Passion Pit - Better Things

Passion Pit - Smile Upon Me

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Here is a random bag of other goodies that I've been listening to over the past week. Some are old and questionable, but they take you on a rollercoaster ride over the course of an hour or so. As always, download all, and the Passion Pit tunes above, in one handy ZIP, linked at the bottom.

Beach Boys - God Only Knows

constantly listening to Department of Eagles the past couple months really made me want to listen to their sunblissed harmonizing inspirators

Beach Boys - Kokomo

DJ/Rupture - Mirage

I've been listening to this album/mix of Rupture since I got it a few days ago. Solid dubstep beats and collages

Eagles of Death Metal - Wannabe in LA

I'm not sure about this whole EoDMetal thing, the QotSAge side project, but I like this track

Girls Aloud - Fix Me Up

Yes, srsly

Hugo Montenegro - In the Hall of the Mountain King

Ever since I heard "In the Hall" on Mad Men a few weeks back, I sought out the great tune [which was employed au parfait in the MM scene], and this version is one of my favorites

John Legend - Everybody Knows

Junior Senior - Move Your Feet

Love is All - Give it Back

R Kelly - Ignition [remix]

Squarepusher - A Real Woman

I'm not yet convinced the new album Just a Souvenir is a masterpiece, but this is good

Steely Dan - Hey Nineteen

The Onion made fun of SD this week, and I had to pay some homage

Steve Perry - Oh, Sherrie

Journey frontman rocks solo, too

Sufjan Stevens - Sister Winter

One of the best holiday songs penned since 1845

The Great Mundane - Collecting Rain

Awesomely chilled beats from my man in Chicago, sequenced to perfection

Go download the OHWNT 1114 MegaPost zip

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If you happen to be reading this Friday the 14th and are in or around Madison, come round to 152 E Gorham to celebrate, among other things, two birfdays.

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Election + Change = an OHWNT MegaPost occasion

image courtesy of Dr Seuss and a largely unknown illustrator named me

So I'm confident.

It's happening.

I think there's gonna be change.

Most of my friends, who are grown up and have jobs would have been unable to vote today, and consequently waited in line last week or over the weekend. That's too bad, because I've always felt there's something special about voting on election day.

We may all be lucky to be voting in the first place, but I feel lucky just to vote today.

And I'm pretty sure I'm finally gonna, after a defeat in 2000 and a second in 2004, help elect the next PotUSA.

So in the spirit, whether they be loosely, latently or saliently in the spirit, here's an otherwise totally random some tunes for y'all [all in one zip at bottom]:

James Brown - "Say it Loud [I'm Black and I'm Proud]"

Presidents of the United States of America - "Lump"

Michael Jackson - "Black or White"

Daft Punk vs Adam Freeland "Aer-O-b-a-m-a"

2 Pac - "Changes"

Roots Manuva - "Revolution"

AxAxSx - "Get the Fuck Out"

Te!am Playa [2 Pac vs The Cure] - "Close 2 Pac" ["Changes" vs "Close to Me"]

Van She - "Changes"

Gogol Bordello - "Go Revolutions"

The Blacks - "Back to Black" [awesome cover of Amy Winehouse]

Get all the patriotic songs right here, in one happy little patriotic 65mb zip file.

As my friend Julia said to me earlier in a txt msg, ¡OBÁMANOS!

Perhaps it's only funny if you know el español.

Happy voting.

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Halloween MEGApost; an OHWNT with few words

I have a costume to make, a paper to write, and I'm working all weekend. Also, I'm simply not feeling like spending a lot of time here spewing forth a bunch of stuff about these bands below. 

So suffice it to say that since I'm posting it, it's all worth listening to.

Once again, all tunes on this megapost are available as a ~100mb zip file, linked at the bottom of the page. Without further....

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New Psapp album, The Camel's Back, out now or soon. From that album:

"I Want That"

"Part Like Waves"

"Fickle Ghost"

"Hi", from The Only Thing I Ever Wanted

"Electricity in Pine Boxes", from Tiger, My Friend

I just stumbled upon Shearwater, Okkervil River's brother band. Their album Rook is pretty stellar:

"Rooks"

"The Snow Leopard"

"Leviathan Bound"

"Trouble in Mind", from the Okkervil River // Shearwater split EP Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral

Horse Feathers is coming to Madison next Wednesday, @ the Frequency. His/their show at Montmartre last year was my favorite show of the year. From the latest album House With No Name:

"Curs of Weeds"

"Father"

From their first album Words Are Dead:

"In Our Blood"

"Falling Through the Roof"

Daniel Martin Moore has learned to channel Nick Drake. It's amazing. It's like a repeat of the Iron & Wine story, four years later. Listen to SubPop's new discovery, from his new Stray Age:

"Stray Age"

"Where We Belong"

Wilderness is a change of pace from this other stuff. Think.... I don't know what to tell you. Part Black Mountain, part Animal Collective, part Mogwai? From their upcoming (K)no(w)here:

"Chinese Whisperers"

"Strand the Test of Time"

One more. If you can't wait three months for the next Animal Collective album, and I don't blame you, check out a cover of what has been a crowd favorite at live shows for many many months. Florida's Blind Man's Colour covered "Brother Sport" [forthcoming on Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion] and you need to get it here.

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And as promised, here's a zShare link to download all eighteen songs in one handy zip file.

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Enjoy your Halloween, amigos. Don't be like this moron:

Aww, I love you Salz.

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OHWNT megapost: new Mt Eerie, Julie Doiron, Ingrid Michaelson, Lucinda Williams, much more

Moments before the candidates took the stage Wednesday night, Bob Schieffer placed an upskirt photo of Cynthia McCain on the table at the old war hero's place.

SO.... it's been a while since I posted last. And amazingly, I'm still listening to the last few things I wrote about. Okkervil River, Delta Spirit-- still rocking them both. But there are new things to talk about. 

Next week Mr Kyle I'm Just Sayin is All Pfister is spoiling us with Mt Eerie and Julie Doiron. Florida's Mt Eerie, who most college kiddies probably know as Microphones, usually bore me. That's not to say they're not good or that I'm not excited to see them, because..

Perhaps surprisingly, Julie Doiron does not bore me. Julie is a paradox, a young woman built up of conflicting ideas: she's Canadian but doesn't wear snowshoes everywhere; she has a voice that is like both a thirteen year old girl and an old soul; she speaks French but seems modest; she is quiet but strangely strong. I was lucky enough to see her open up for Sufjan Stevens back when he played at the Pres House four or more years ago [the gig was so long ago and so small I can't even find any online mention of it]. 

Maybe it's the anticipation of seeing both these artists together at the little synagogue in the park across the street which doubles as a little place I like to call Where I Elect Barack Obama as The Next President of The United States America, aka my polling place. 

Or maybe it'll be fun hearing them fill up the little room with the line "who are you, who are you, who has come to fill my room?". And then, I imagine, we'll all clap or something, which would totally overpower the sparing softbutloudness of the band.

In any event, I'm stoked. And you should be, too. 

Give a listen to Mt Eerie and Julie Doiron:

Mt Eerie with Julie Doiron - "Lost Wisdom", from Lost Wisdom

Mt Eerie with Julie Doiron - "Voice in Headphones", from Lost Wisdom

Julie Doiron - "Snow Falls in November", from 2004's Goodnight Nobody

Julie Doiron - "Dance Me", from 1997's Loneliest in the Morning

*for reasons I won't get into, all of the songs of this entire post are also available in a zip file, linked at the bottom.

And howabout some other goodies for you good kiddies?

Lucinda Williams, who apparently is bad ass like skulls on a cross but sweet like flowers, comes to the Orpheum here in Madison on October 25. I'm going. Her latest album, Little Honey, was released Tuesday. Check it out, it's on par with the rest of her vast catalog.

Lucinda rocks: 

"Joy", from 2006's Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

"Honey Bee", from Little Honey

"It's a Long Way to the Top", from Little Honey

Lucinda rolls:

"Jackson", from 2006's Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

Ingrid Michaelson follows Lucinda a few weeks later, to the Barrymore. Her latest album, BE OK, was also released Tuesday. It's a bit of a mix, with a cover, some live performances, and stuff she's been playing on tour for quite some time. But that doesn't mean it's not worth picking up. And she's so rad that she's giving some proceeds to Stand Up To Cancer. What a gal.

Here're my favorites from when she played here this past spring, which both appear on BE OK:

"The Chain" [live]

"You and I"

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ALSO.... man I'm spoiling y'all with this megapost.... I saw Broken Social Scene last weekend here and, wow, was it quite the show. After seeing them live, these are my new fave BSS songs:

"Ibi Dreams of Pavement", from 2005's Broken Social Scene [ok, to be fair, this was already one of my favorites. Seeing it live just catapulted it to the status of absolute favorite]

"Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl", from 2002's You Forgot it in People

"KC Accidental", from 2002's You Forgot it in People

"Stars and Sons", from 2002's You Forgot it in People

BSS's Liz Powell has her own nice little band, Land of Talk. They opened. It was good. /end review.

"Corner Phone", from 2008's Some Are Lakes

Ok, two more. Random tunes. I was recently looking through a bunch of old DJ mixtapes I made as RTDJ, the most recent being at least a good five years old. Anyway, one chill mix I ended with Mazzy Star's perfect "Fade Into You". And so I've been listening to this song nonstop ever since.

Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You", from 1993's So Tonight That I May See

What ever happened to them? Go find out.

And on Monday I invited an old DJ buddy to come play some records with me at Natt Spil. He played the house remix of this awesome classic Smoke City tune. You may know it as the "ay ay ay ay ya-ya-ya" song. Here's the original, just listen:

Smoke City - "Mr Gorgeous [and Miss Curvaceous]"

Download the entire post's songs, right here.

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Enjoy your weekend, dammit. I'll be working at 630am Saturday and then going straight to watch a third place soccer game that [a] should be for first place and [b] I should be playing in if it wasn't for me getting my first ever red card for tripping a guy when I really really didn't mean to although I was not able to convince the referees that was the case.

Much Love,

the minihawk.