hello. It’s been quite a while since i posted a mix (or blogged, for that matter). This mix contains a great number of songs that make me immensely happy. These are songs that put a smile on my face and make living through the miserable summer months bearable. Drink some cool sangria, maybe a coca cola, a cold beer, or even some room temperature chowder.

Some of these songs have explicit lyrics, so consider yourself warned.

download the mix here.

1. Happy Up Here – Röyksopp
2. 1901 – Phoenix
3. Cop Car (Demo) – Heypenny
4. The Bears Are Coming – Late of the Pier
5. Pop Song – Starf**ker
6. Meteor – The Bird and the Bee
7. Electric Feel – MGMT
8. I Don’t Want You Back – Uncle Skeleton
9. The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room) – Flight of the Conchords
10. Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell – The Flaming Lips
11. Around the Block – Company of Thieves
12. Long Division – Death Cab for Cutie
13. Buttons and Zips – Elbow
14. Fly Around the Room – lowercase collective
15. Song for the Dumped – Ben Folds Five
16. Bounce – Mstrkrft Feat. N.O.R.E.
17. I’m On A Boat (Feat. T-Pain) – The Lonely Island
18. Make Forever Last Forever – Apes & Androids

a. lowercase collective made it onto another We Own This Town podcast. Sorry i didn’t catch this when it actually came out, but i just found it: http://weownthistown.net/?p=2271

b. i was looking through my blog the other day and noticed that i used to post a ton of stuff.  some of it was funny.  maybe one day i’ll return to form.

c. in other lowercase collective news, we may be releasing an album someday.  we also may play more shows.

d. i don’t blog as much because of micro-blogging, also called Twitter.

e. good music: Klaxtons – Myths of the Late Future, Late of the Pier – Fantasy Black Channel, Starf**ker, Daft Punk, Uncle Skeleton – Pancho Chumley, Company of Thieves – Ordinary Riches,  The Bird and the Bee – Rayguns are not the Future,  Sarah Bareilles – Little Voice.

f. Left 4 Dead – xbox360 – GREAT game.  Can’t wait to play it multiplayer.

g. Leslie is working a lot these days.  Accounting.

h. Orbit Sweet Mint gum is probably the best gum i’ve ever eaten.  Tastes like mint chocolate chip without the chocolate.

i. am done.

After listening to some Daft Punk, i remembered this great video. And now you can watch it from my blog. Just like that. Magic. The internets. FTW.

Above is a great typography video rendering of Vince Vaughn from Wedding Crashers.  GREAT.

Here is a really nice collection of typography posters I saw today.

Here’s the task.  Create an Fantasy Rock Band, composed of people from other bands.  Remember, you want the band to have a “sound,” if you will.  It’s not really a “best of” thing.  You want to find people that will play together to make a kind of music that you would really like.

This time, you can only use minorities and women.  Go.

sh4wn’s band:

vocals/rhythm guitar – Kele Okereke (Bloc Party)
drums – Carla Azar (Autolux)
lead guitar – Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine)
bass – Paz Lenchantin (A Perfect Circle)
multi-instrumentalist/producer – DJ Dangermouse

Jones’s band:

drums/percussion – Carter Beauford
bass – Victor Wooten
guitar – Carlos Santana
piano/keyboards/vocals – Stevie Wonder
bgv – The Pointer Sisters

Paul’s band:

Lead Vocals/Guitar – Neko Case (Solo/New Pornographers)
Guitar/Vocals – Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio)
Bass – Corinne Lee (Snowden)
Drums – Georgia Hubley (Yo La Tengo)

Anyone can play.

Long time since i posted a lowercase collective anything.

We have 6 new songs that may or may not be here in your/our lifetime.  I’ll let you know when those songs are here.  I may call you or something.

We are also on last.fm, and you can see other people who are listening to us, and it’s pretty cool, really.  Get hooked up with last.fm.  I’ve discovered a lot of cool bands through here.

That’s all for now.

I think “Fly Around the Room”, which is one of the new songs, is on our myspace page.

This is a great rendition of a great song modified for Seseme Street just for me (and childrens everywhere).

A few things:

10 Very Good Reasons Why You Should Grow a Giant Beard. (via Paul.)

Went to a great show the other night.  Junior Revolution, Heypenny, and Autovaughn.  Junior Revolution had cool designs on their merch, so i hoped they wouldn’t suck, and they didn’t.  I ended up getting a t-shirt and a couple of cds.  Pretty good stuff.  Heypenny is probably my favorite Nashville band right now.  I love every song, they have fun, and they’re good guys.  Go to their myspace and listen to Cop Car and watch their new video for Parade.  Do it.  Apparently Autovaughn is in Europe for the next 5 weeks.  They’re good too.

1000 Awesome Somethings. (once again, via Paul.) Be sure to check some of the links on the side of this one.  Great stuff. Especially Stuff White People Like.

Tomorrow is Halloween.  Everyone be safe.  Be scary.  BE fun. Be something other than yourself.  Unless you’re scary or fun.

Here’s a scary photo for you to ponder over this eventful weekend:

ZombIEss!!!11!

Do you ever just feel incredibly busy but aren’t quite sure what it is that makes you so busy?  i don’t read any blogs (for the most part) anymore.  Unless someone says “hey, i just posted.”  Obviously i don’t blog much anymore.

a. Watching Heroes and Fringe.  Both are ok.  The question is: are they worth 2 evenings of my time, or could i be doing something better with that time?

b. Going to see The Sword and Clutch tonight with Scott.  I’ll have my chainsaw covered with fire ready.

c. Burn After Reading was meh.  i think it’s probably worth seeing, but i wouldn’t see it in the theaters.

d. I’m close to bein all Mac now.  Having some issues with the admin on the new computer (iMac), which is sad, but i’m sure i’ll push through it.

e. I’ve been with my current place of employment for 9 years now.

f. Leslie swept me away to Knoxville to have dinner with friends and then onto Asheville, NC this past weekend for my birthday.  Asheville is a great city.  The downtown is filled with great locally owned shops and restaurants and is striving to do everything in a Green way.  Many organic clothing/linen/household items stores there.  The food was amazing.  Probably ate the best Indian food i’ve ever had there.  Mela.  I really liked Asheville.

g. Facebook is 1000 times better than MySpace (unless you’re a band).  Of course, i’m not telling you anything you don’t know already.

h. i now ride a bike on occasion.  i rode a bike to the mall last week to see a movie in the movie theater.  It’s kind of fun.

i. like to ski.

j. i’m thinking about doing some top 10 lists again sometime.  We’ll see.  i’m open to suggestions if anyone has any.

I don’t have much to say today.

Apes and Androids – Blood Moon.  This is the album that i listen to a lot these days.  Free songs here.

Batman: The Dark Knight – YES PLEASE.  There’s nothing that hasn’t been said that i can say any better than anyone else.

Olympics are fun.  I’m against China’s human rights policies and all that, but the games themselves, along with the opening ceremonies, are amazing this year.  I guess when you can oppress your people, you can make them do whatever you want…but i digress.

I’ve recently started a new workout regiment that i call BoJobeatMonbaBa.  That’s right.

I want a scooter.

I still design websites and play fantasy football.

Wow.  This post sucks.