Friday Random 10

Growlers - Old Cold River
El Michels Affair - Glaciers of Ice
Voxtrot - The Future Part 1
Nyles Lannon - Next Obsession
Tricky - Cross to Bear
Man or Astro-Man? - Television Fission
Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women - Que Sera, Sera
Sonantes - Mambobit
Colin Newman - Not Me
Young Marble Giants - Credit in the Straight World

Bonus track: Les Yper-Sound - Psyche Rock

Another all-eMusic list this week, because I forgot my iPod yet again. Kind of a meh list--1, 3, & 4 are all free downloads that I wouldn't necessarily have paid for.

What are y'all listening to today?

Wednesday Wildflowerblogging

Redwood Lily (Lilium rubescens) in lower Long Canyon, Trinity Alps Wilderness. More below the fold...

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Quote of the Day: Beyond Parody Edition

Republican flack (and full-time Palin apologist) Matthew Continetti:

Like a lot of people, as soon as I got my copy of Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue," I immediately thought of the German literary critic Hans Robert Jauss.

Sunday Sierrablogging

North Fork Kid Creek basin (and beyond) from Glacier Saddle, Monarch Divide, Kings Canyon National Park.

Wild Thing

Eat your heart out, Henri Rousseau

Friday Random 10

All eMusic this week, because--yeah, you guessed it--I forgot my iPod again. Maybe if I had better headphones I wouldn't keep forgetting it...

Link Wray - Please Please Me
Fall - L.A.
Essential Logic - Stereo
Tuxedomoon - Incubus (Blue suit)
Link Wray - Four Gray Walls
Kinks - Holiday
Enrique Herrera - Summertime
Dodos - Jodi
Lene Lovich - Wonderful One
Los Mirlos - La Danza de los Mirlos

What are y'all listening to this morning?

Wednesday Wildflowerblogging

Field Chickweed (Cerastium arvense) near Point Arena Lighthouse, Mendocino County.

Blue Crow

On a recent morning with an attractive dead thing in the road. This is relevant.