NO ONE CAN LIFT THE DAMN THING

The harder it gets the more he screams "CALL ME ELWAY!"
Brad Neely: American Moments of Maybe

i think people think i'm being funny when i'm being really serious. i don't like to act serious, because i think that's empty. i think most of rock is the opposite. people don't mean anything, but they act sincere and emotional and that's supposed to be enough. like, bands that feel it and they make faces when they sing and they sing this meaningless drivel that's emotive, and people think, "oh, they mean something." but they don't mean anything.
- james murphy


Cool yet desperate, ours yet yours.
Whigfield: Saturday Night

Just so you know, a woman who has as much teaching experience as my fiancee-- a mere three years, mind you-- who claims to have achieved astronomical test score gains no one can document, and who also claims to have been praised to high heaven in countless newspapers despite no evidence of such praise existing, is about to get paid loads of money as chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools. Previously, she paid herself loads of money as the head of a nonprofit. Naturally, this woman, one Michelle Rhee, has lots of rich friends who will vouch for her. That's as good as proof of her seemingly bogus qualifications, apparently, because the city council, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and even the Washington City Paper have all stopped asking questions-- whatever, it's only black kids, right? Bob Somerby hears The Music Man.

1. Jonathan Richman: Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love
2. The Lucksmiths: Great Lengths
3. Bob Dylan: New Morning
4. Van Morrison: Sweet Thing
5. The Zombies: This Will Be Our Year
6. Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald: Our Love Is Here to Stay
7. Gal Costa: Baby
8. Nick Drake: Northern Sky
9. Iron & Wine: Lion's Mane
10. The Softies: It's Love (PRELUDE)
11. Yo La Tengo: Our Way to Fall (PROCESSIONAL)
12. The Divine Comedy: Perfect Lovesong (RECESSIONAL)
13. The Magnetic Fields: The Book of Love (FIRST DANCE)


I think the most important message of all is that we can't let ourselves be like Mark Hogan and forfeit all aspects of our daily lives because we are certain about the day and hour of Christ's return.
Hello Saferide: Long Lost Penpal (feat. Firefox AK)

It's finally time for your offnotes RIFFMARKET Status Ain't Hood Quarterly Report, Mid-Year Traxx Edition. I'm not certain as to numerical placements just yet, but what the hell, we have a world of Boredoms drum thingies to win:

1. UGK: International Player's Anthem (feat. Outkast)
2. LCD Soundsystem: All My Friends
3. Josh Ritter: Right Moves
4. LCD Soundsystem: Someone Great
5. Los Campesinos!: You! Me! Dancing!
6. Simian Mobile Disco: I Believe (feat. Simon Lord)
7. R. Kelly: I'm a Flirt (Remix) (feat. T.I. and T-Pain)
8. The Tough Alliance: First Class Riot
9. The Field: Paw in Your Face
10. Gui Boratto: Beautiful Life

Let's also talk about:
Lullatone: Bedroom Bossa Nova
Lil Mama: Lip Gloss
Justice: D.A.N.C.E. (Radio Edit)
Good Books: Leni (Crystal Castles Remix)
Panda Bear: Comfy in Nautica
Chromatics: In the City
The Honeydrips: (Lack of) Love Will Tear Us Apart (feat. Hanna)
Deerhunter: Wash Off
Arctic Monkeys: Do Me a Favour
Frankie Valli: Beggin' (Pilooski Edit)
Cool Kids: Mikey Rocks
Curtis Vodka: Hey Girl
Amerie: Gotta Work
The Tough Alliance: Silly Crimes
Lil Wayne: Black Republicans (feat. Juelz Santana)
Lil Wayne: Upgrade (Freestyle)
Young Jeezy: 3AM (feat. Timbaland)
Taken By Trees: Lost and Found
Art Brut: Direct Hit
Avril Lavigne: Girlfriend (Remix) (Feat. Lil Mama)
Ne-Yo: Because of You (Radio Edit)
Natasha Bedingfield: I Wanna Have Your Babies
The Postmarks: Winter Spring Summer Fall
A Sunny Day in Glasgow: 5:15
The Teenagers: Homecoming
WinterKids: Tape It
DJ Khaled: We Takin' Over (feat. Akon, T.I., Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Birdman & Lil Wayne)
The Go! Team: Grip Like a Vice
Swizz Beatz: It's Me Bitches
The Good, the Bad, and the Queens: 80s Song
Young Jeezy feat. R. Kelly: Go Getta
Simian Mobile Disco: It's the Beat (The Teenagers remix)
Fat Joe: Make It Rain (feat. TI, R. Kelly, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne & Baby)
Sly Hats: Vampire Sips (Muscles Remix)
Robin Thicke: Lost Without U
Kate Nash: Foundations
Feist: I Feel It All
Lucky Soul: Lips Are Unhappy
Gruff Rhys: Skylon!
No Age: Neck Escaper
Roisin Murphy: Overpowered
Matthew Dear: Deserter

SUMMER RERUNS UNTIL AFTER THE HONEYMOON. THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME, I WILL BE MR. MARC HOGAN.


Hand in hand on the nursing home bus.
UGK: International Player's Anthem (feat. Outkast)