Week 20, 2009

This week I spent all my music time on Talking Heads & the Love Like A Sunset by Phoenix. In between these songs slipped by.

1) Hits from the Bong - Cypress Hill

2) I Got You Dancing - Lady Sovereign

3) Lushlife Project - Wurlitzer

4) Take Me To The River - Talking Heads

5) The Captive Mind - The Helio Sequence

Week 19, 2009

I am contemplating going to the Gym.

1) Jesus, Etc - Wilco I'm listening to Wilco Station on my Pandora. Its turning out to be just the right music for a lazy sunday afternoon.

2) Walking on a Dream - Empire of the Sun

3) New Bell - Manu Dibango Its gonna take me hours to dig into this music. Its fantastic.

4) This Must Be The Place - Talking Heads A classic. I also found a live MGMT version on youtube that I liked.

5) Tooth Decay - Black Moth Super Rainbow

WEEK 18, 2009

CONGRESS WINS. Jai Ho!
Its time for BJP to leave Hindutva. I worry about West Bengal being in the hands of Mamata Didi. But it will be a good & much needed change from Communists for a while.

1) Sound of Kuduro - Buraka Som Sistema These guys were all over LA airwaves last month.

2) Hood Pass Intact - Dam-Funk

3) KODO" 吉田兄弟「鼓動 - Yoshida Brothers This is the theme song of some wii Game. Its awesome. Also check out their Nikata.

4) An Echo In - The Sea and Cake

5) Love Me Like This - Floating Hands

6) Open Your Eyes - David Guetta

PFC Burns while I fly Hot Air Ballon.

A really hectic weekend. Had to drive to San Jose on Thursday for the Funeral of my sister-in-law Pone's Grand Father. They are from Laos & I really dig their funeral style. Relatives fly from all over America to spend 4 days drinking & gambling while prayers & other stuff is going on. I made a note for myself about my own funeral. I want to make a playlist for that party. Maybe the songs from this blog:)
Monday was our One Year Anniversay. Time Flies. Anyways I surprised Sarah by driving her for 2 hours at 3 in the morning to watch the sunrise from a Hot Air Balloon at California Dreaming. I have to admit Hot Air Ballon is not as cool as I imagined. Its a bit too slow. But we had a lot of fun. Then drove to Oceanside to have lunch with my friend Vikram.
During all this was happening PFC Club was on fire. I was trying to form a Author Approval Committe for PassionforCinema. Meanwhile Dabba had a meltdown on Friday & left PFC all guns Blazing. It got so crazy that Oz had to shut down the club indefinitely. Will miss Dabba. He left in style. Dabba style.

So I had no time for songs this week.

Week 16 2009

This week I have not listened to Radio at all. So all my music will be the songs I liked from Navneet's recommendations on Facebook.

1) Get Money - Junior M.A.F.I.A. feat. Notorious B.I.G. - This was my song of the week. I discovered it in the Pc Desktop that Robin gave us.

2) Mylo - Destroy Rock n Roll Very interesting project. Will check out more this week.

3) Told You So - Freestylers Another project i need to explore more.

4) Surface to Air - Chemical Brothers

5) That Old Pair of Jeans - Fatboy Slim The video features Vova Galchenko the best juggler in the world.

WENDY'S TOY?

I went to a audition this week. This time I was the one giving an audtition. Sarah was going for the Wendy's Commerical auditions this Tuesday & wanted me to come with her. Being the camera shy dog that i am, I didn't wanna go with her. We ended up at the building next to the Hollywood Library on Ivar. They were sending people in groups of 5.
the side had 5 characters. 4 are customers asking questions, one bored worker. I told Sara I will be playing the worker- the 7-11 stereotype. And we joked about it.
Once inside thats exactly what happened. The woman asked me to be the last one to say the line & tells me you will play the worker. Me & Sarah started cracking up. She got worried that we are offended & are laughing at her. Audition went fine. Very funny & interesting experience.

Week 16, 2009

Week of IFFLA. This was the first IFFLA I skipped. Well almost. I went to see Indian Ocean documentary, mainly to support Jaideep. I used to really respect Indian Ocean for being who they are. I never thought their music was very mindblowing to me or very original. I felt the same thing after watching the film. But Indian Ocean Live is a different beast altogether. I love their song Bandeh. Also I saw Deepeche Mode live in the streets of Hollywood this friday. They launched their new album with a free concert in the streets. It was beautiful.

1) Bandeh - Indian Ocean

2) Harder To Breathe - Maroon 5 ft. The Cool Kids(Remix) This was my discovery of the week. What a fantastic mix by the cool kids.

3) Crazy - Alice Russell This is an amazing cover of Crazy.

4) Personal Jesus - Deepeche Mode I was in that crowd in this video.

5) Bambi - Gus Gus Could not find this song on youtube. But discovered Gus Gus. I recommend them.

Week 15, 2009

This week I played Stevie Wonder a a lot. And my Verve Remixed CDs are still playing on loop. But the song i really discovered is the Method Man Mary J Blige one.

1) Love Having You Around - Stevie Wonder

2) You're All I Need - Method Man f/ Mary J. Blige

3) Keep On Running - Stevie Wonder

4)California Soul(Diplo/Mad Decent Remix) - Marlena Shaw

5) Take Care Of Business (Pilooski Edit) - Nina Simone

Week 14 2009

This week was mostly spent listening to Sebastien Tellier & Verve Remixed CDs.

1) Divine - Sebastien Tellier

2) Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles This song played a lot last week, mainly because I read Jaideep Verma's excellent book about Bombay - LOCAL. Read the book to find out. Its availabl on Amazon.

3) Something About Us - Daft Punk - I'm hooked to this track. Thanks to Michel Gondry. He was on kcrw promoting his new DVD & dedicated this song to some lady in his life.

4) Cry Me a River(Truth & Soul remix) - Dinah Washington This is in Verve Remixed 4.

5) Speak Low( Bent remix) - Billie Holiday This is in Verve Remixed 3. The audio of this song has been deleted from youtube due to copyright issues.

Week 13 2009

This week I discovered this a French Du0 ROUGE ROUGE & a LA based Electro Pop band FOL CHEN.

1) Cable TV - Fol Chen - Another LA based group.

2) C'est presque ça - Rouge Rouge French group from their Album Ce Soir, Apres Diner on Wagwam label.

3) Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake - Sufjan Stevens I love the video.

4) La Ritournelle - Sebastien Tellier So Sebastian is not a one hit wonder. I'm enjoying discovering one song every week. Another French. This video seems like it was shot in my neighborhood.

5) Left Field Boogie - Free Disco. Could not find it online. Heard it on Jason Eldrege's 28th March show. The only link I found was this
http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=15317
You can buy the single there. Its out on Rong Music label.