The Cat Piano from PRA on Vimeo.

I watched this before bed last night.  Beautiful.  Nick Cave on the narration.

Being home sick from work today, I thought it would be nice to share some audio chicken soup. Flight Facilities, a pair from Sydney, have been rocking things for a minute.  I first got learned when I stumbled upon this awesome re-work of Bag Raiders’ “Turbo Love.”  It’s the same as the OG, with less synths and more jazz flute.  And better vocals.

Bag Raiders – Turbo Love (Flight Facilities ft. Louie Austen Business Class Lounge Version)

I was reminded of their awesomeness this afternoon when I came across Discobelle’s post about a fresh little minimix podcast they recently put together for their label, Bang Gang.

The Bang Gang Podcast 13: Flight Facilities

Head back to the Swedish bloggers’ joint to check the tracklist.

Here’s the setlist.  Wish I recorded.  Might happen again.  1984.  And I ended w/ Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s get it on.”  FTW big time.

Tracklisting coming soon.

See you @ Pixel tonight.

And the last 9 tracks off of Prefuse 73’s LP “Extinguished”

Last Saturday, that is (was?).  We threw a terrace party, ’cause we don’t need no stinkin Miami.  Here’s the 2.5 hr set.

Maybe I should bl0g more, Carles.

So the DMCA took me down a few months ago, too much paperwork to go through.  Finally back.  Not really tho.

Been doing these ‘Tenacious’ parties up here in Ithaca and just made a silly little edit of a song you might know with a silly little politician you might know.

Pryda – Miami to Atlanta (Electric Duck Parade Tenawesome Edit)

I’m back. Stay the fuck tuned.

I had quite a good time this Labor Day weekend, rounding off my week away from work. On Saturday night, RJD2 graced the decks @ Cornell. Dude had 4 turntables and an impressive-looking sampler, tearing through old 12″ records that have been played thousands of times before. I’m curious to know what he has in his crate – some of the old breaks he sampled were just so sexy. Sadly, no footage of his killer performance will be found here, as I forgot my camera. I was too busy trying not to throw up the dirty oysters I ate at Maxie’s.  If you want to get into his head (and his iPod), check out his recent interview with the A.V. Club.

I definitely need to give some culinary shout-outs to a couple places along the West shore of Cayuga Lake. We hit up a few wineries on Sunday afternoon, and I must say that Sheldrake Point is something special. I had previously discounted Cayuga wineries as inferior to those on Lake Seneca. Wrong. Sheldrake coaxes amazing things out of tons of different awesome varietals without having to fall back on the sweet Niagara-type hybrids that proliferate the Finger Lakes. I can’t recommend their Cabernet Franc (and its ice wine) enough. Wine-snobbery is fun.

On the ride back South on rt. 89, you’ll also need to stop at the Cayuga Lake Creamery. Cornell Dairy ain’t got shit on them. Blueberry cheesecake ice cream? Yeah, that’s what St. Peter asked me too.

Today, on the way back from dropping off the most precious of cargo at SYR, I hit up the A&W in Cortland. This is going to be a necessary ritual on any ride from Syracuse to Ithaca. I spent the last 30 minute leg of the trip in greasy burger & fries bliss.

I’ve been hearing tracks from Randy Newman’s new album, “Harps and Angels”, a lot this weekend, and it couldn’t be more fitting. I’ve been digging his humorous spin on the current fucked-up situation that is post-9/11 America. Check it out for yourselves:

Lazaro Casanova has decided to release his new single, Klover, free to the interwebs. Pop on over to his Shot Callin’ blog and snatch it up for some tech house goodness. If you ever have the chance to check out one of his live sets, do so. The guy is a master of his craft.

I caught this story on NPR the other day and just found this video online.  Daddy Yankee endorsing John McCain.  Just another great illustration of the laughable state that the Republican party is in.