Watching

Football superman stepover dive funny

Missed on TV

Notice I missed a documentary on Chet Baker and found this on you tube
I get along without you very well
my funny valentine

Freedom of speach...MOTHERF*CKER

Immortal Technique

"Nigga Fuck
Fox News"

Watching...pavement

"here"

Listening to... Bat For Lashes

Two Suns

..."The Big Sleep" consists of a swoonsome duet between Khan and a suitably broody Scott Walker. Accompanied by nothing more than a stormy piano coda, the pair dip and dive around each other, stringing out syllables, dancing around each others' voices and generally soaking in the drama. Not only does Khan hold her own, there are moments when she holds his, too. That she's capable of doing so is evidence enough that we should be paying attention

Listen now on Spotify

Listening to...Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It's Blitz

-- the way she breathlessly pants "crying, crying, crying" on "Zero", or giddily draws out the last syllable of the line "a hundred years old" on "Dull Life", or how "Heads Will Roll" and "Dragon Queen" periodically dissipate into an inchoate softness

Listen now on Spotify

Listening to...killers

Day & Age
by The Killers

The Killers have essentially crafted an enjoyable but fairly throwaway pop record

Hero's Arms

Listening to ...Fever Ray

This is such a grower. The first few listens &ndash so so &ndash but somewhere between the third and fourth &ndash nirvana!

Fever Ray

...rarely make public appearances and only recently revoked their steadfast refusal to play live, performing behind a screen, in the dark, wearing masks

...a penchant for synthetically manipulating her vocals in a way that might be the flipside of R&B and pop's current obsession with chroming the human voice via Auto-Tune: instead of achieving a perfect metallic sheen, she uses technology to make herself sound older, huskier, wearier.