POPCAST #544 TREATS THE FOLLOWING:
Your pressing desire to wear a straw hat and do a line dance.

RECOMMENDED USE: This week's popcast is best enjoyed in gingham print and pairs nicely with a Roy Rogers.

ADDITIONAL NOTES: D'ya like really long songs? Then you'll really like song #11, darling.

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS:
1. Country: Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
2. My Grandfather's Clock: John Fahey
3. Seems Fine Shuffle: The Concretes
4. Nothing: Mason Jennings
5. Theme from Midnight Cowboy: John Barry
6. Stand By Your Man: Tammy Wynette
7. It Ain't Me Babe: Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
8. A Man Needs A Woman Or A Man To Be A Man: Bill Callahan
9. Behind That Locked Door: George Harrison
10. Wichita Lineman: Friends of Dean Martinez
11. One Hundred Million Years: M. Ward
12. Gonna Get Along Without You Now: She & Him
13. Darling: Entrance

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THIS JUST IN FROM THE L.A. OFFICE! 
Thanks to fellow Falsie Gina who just alerted me to this amazing new advancement in hip-hop country dance choreography. Its the wave of the future (as imagined back in 1993, of course). Thanks Gina!

POPCAST #539 TREATS THE FOLLOWING: Bad luck, bad weather, fender-benders, missing paychecks, taxes and sprained ankles. 

RECOMMENDED USE: 2010 was supposed to be better than 2009. Sure, in many ways it is. Though every now and then a doozy of a week creeps its way in, disrupting all of our 'fresh new starts'. Maybe its the post-recession, maybe its a bad moon, maybe Scorpio's rising a little too much, maybe the dark cloud just isn't going anywhere for a little bit more. Whatever it is, while our luck is down let's listen to songs that make us feel good about feeling bad. (Note: songs 13 and 14 are specially formulated to get you out of any possible popcast-related funk and back into fighting shape.)

ADDITIONAL NOTES: You're probably thinking: "Whoa, a P&C video! What marvelousness!" Isn't it though? Super thanks to the star of the show, Lil Bruder Alex Z! He helped pick a buncha songs this week too! There's a pretty good chance there'll be more cinema shennanigans to come, so stay tuned P&C Popsters! 

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS:
1. Hard Times: Run DMC
2. The Message: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5
3. Life is Shit: The Dead Milkmen
4. Novocaine for the Soul: Eels
5. It Ain't Easy: David Bowie
6. My Neighbor the Firefighter: uh..(?)
7. Why Took Your Advice: Grandaddy
8. All You Need Is Hate: The Delgados
9. Help: Deep Purple
10. It's All Over Now Baby Blue: Them
11. What's Happening Brother: Marvin Gaye
12. Think About It: Flight of the Conchords
13. A Town Called Malice: The Jam
14. I'm Not Down: The Clash

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POPCAST #538 TREATS THE FOLLOWING: Memory loss, itchy/watery eyes, olfactory hallucinations and hangnails.

RECOMMENDED USE: Listen while a steady Spring rain falls outside your window. Close your eyes and ignore the chaos around you. 

ADDITIONAL NOTES: You will feel a tug at your heart and a tinge of nostalgia. Right before you get too big a lump in your throat, song #10 kicks in, handing you a pair of assless chaps and a hoeroic emotional rescue that only an 80s Cher ballad can. Good luck.

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS:
 1. Excuses: The Morning Benders
2. You: Gold Panda
3. Sweet Disposition: Temper Trap (RAC Mix)
4. The Blues: Primary 1 (feat. Nina Persson)
5. How to Disappear Completely: Radiohead
6. Wot's… Uh the Deal: Pink Floyd
7. Barcelona: Noonday Underground
8. The Leanover: Life Without Buildings
9. Skeletons: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10. Just Like Jesse James: Cher

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POPCAST #533 TREATS THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS: Hypothermia, cavities, depression due to low income earnings, allergies and boring-winter-wardrobe-syndrome.

RECOMMENDED USE: Close your eyes and imagine the first song being sung by a tiny black and white cat sitting on a sandy beach. You will then find yourself transported out of your cubicle and into a world where everything is half its original size and the accepted form of currency is bubble gum. Your journey will end with a flaming hot ball of awesome in the form of So Electric that will give you the power to accomplish any task in front of you; from mailing a letter to building a birdhouse, the power is yours.

WARNINGS: Listening to song #3 while consuming alcohol and wearing clogs may result in a broken ankle and a permanent smile across your face. 

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS:

1. Sabali: Amadou & Mariam
2. Carol Brown: Flight of the Conchords
3. Klass 6b: Rena Rama
4. Miss Teardrop: Felix Laband
5. You Make Me Weak At The Knees: Electrelane
6. Fool's Gold: Lhasa
7. These Things: Looper
8. Coldest Night of the Year: Vashti Bunyan
9. IZ-US: Aphex Twin
10. Knocked Up: Lykke Li
11. Inni Mer Syngur Vitleysingur: Sigur Ros
12. So Electric: Lifelike

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POPCAST #532 TREATS THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS: Lack of inspiration, frownability, Restless Leg Syndrome, sleeplessness, laziness and the inability to daydream and crack a smile during the 9-5 daily grind.

RECOMMENDED USE: Use Popcast #532's loosely-based 'electro-robotic-cosmonaut' theme to whisk you away to undiscovered planets where inhabitants wear mod futuristic silver outfits and offer you moon brew and invite you to cosmic dance parties. Decide whether The Carpenters completes this fantasy or totally ruins it.

WARNINGS: Possible volume inconsistencies may inhibit listening pleasure. P&C productions is working to remedy the situation.

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS:
1. Mouth Full Of Diamonds: Phantogram
2. Star Fruit Surf Rider: Cornelius
3. Tetsuwan Atomu: Stereo Total
4. Indian Fig: Bob Callaghan & Co.
5. Synthia: FM Belfast
6. Radio Kaliningrad: Handsome Furs
7. Dead Sound: The Raveonettes
8. Greatest Hit: Annie
9. A New: Little Dragon
10. Let Me Be The One: The Carpenters
11. Lovers Carvings: Bibio
12. To The End: Blur

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POPCAST #531 TREATS THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS: The winter blues, the mean reds, job search fatigue, anxiety, vertigo and joint pain. 

RECOMMENDED USE: Listen as frequently as needed, preferably in combination with a cup of tea and sketchbook.

WARNINGS: In rare cases listening to Kim Carnes has been known to encourage Raspy-Voice Syndrome and the urge to tie a bandana around your head. Listen cautiously.

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS:
1. Blonde On Blonde: Nada Surf
2. Tougher Than the Rest: Camera Obscura
3. Zebra: Beach House
4. You Can Have It All: George McCrae
5. La Poupée Qui Fait Non: St. Etienne
6. My Heart Must Do The Crying: The Renegades
7. Sugar On My Tongue: Talking Heads
8. Go It Alone: Noonday Underground
9. Service Bell: Feist & Grizzly Bear
10. Bette Davis Eyes: Kim Carnes
11. Prophets: A.C. Newman
12. Thats us/Wild Combination: Arthur Russell

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After 3.5 hours in a quiet cafe corner, I managed to get my virtual mixtapes back in working order! Sadly, Mixwit, the awesome mixtape maker shut down its site late last year. But the cool thing is that they sent everyone who ever made a mixtape the source files to their mixes so they could host them on their own. New concoctions are definitely on the way but in the meantime you can take a trip down memory lane with these previously posted gems for your listening pleasure. I even surprised myself with how good some of these are. Yeah thats right, I said it.

Spent all day trying to make this post work and now that its 1:00am and its successfully up, my official verdict is:
awwwwesssssome.

Download Popcast 9/23/07

I know its been ages since a fresh photo post but since I’ve changed my life routine about a month ago, I found that the daily photo post just doesn’t work with my crazy art-student schedule. Plus; its a new season and I figured its time for a change. So I’ve decided to revert to the podcast format I actually started the P&C blog off with about a year ago (around this time even, would ya look at that…). My plan is a new podcast a week. UPDATE 10/1/07: I love how every time I say "you know what, I’m done with this and I’m moving on to that" it just never fails to last for only a couple days or so. The truth is that the photo posts aren’t going anywhere. And they work only TOO WELL with my crazy art student schedule. Pssh, whats up with me.. anyways, there’ll just be more popcasts here and there for you to enjoy too. Ok. Thats all I had to say. I hope you kids enjoy my imaginary pods of music; they’re my gift to you. This week’s Popcast is recommended for overcast days and as background music to a lonely evening in your apartment. Its not depressing by any means, at least I don’t think it is. Its how shall we say, retrospective. Yeah, thats good. Without further ado, here’s this week’s half-hour of heaven. Cheers!

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Beck: Some Things Last a Long Time • Les Lutins: Ella n’a Rien Compris • Land of the Loops: Patience • Au Revoir Simone: Fallen Snow (remix) • Say Hi To Your Mom: These Fangs • Little Dragon: Test  • Kanye West: Heard Em’ Say • Al Green: Back Up Train • Scott Walker: Always Coming Back To You

Its high time for a musical podcast o’ fun for you all. Featured here are some tunes that sound like my summer so far. I haven’t been posting as often as I like these past few days; inspiration is a fickle creature. But I did get a pickle up my butt to put a mix together. This summer’s a busy one so far, finding me either on small excursions or preparing for my next big move come August. So if posts are fewer than usual, its for a good reason. And to my 3 trusty readers out there, don’t give up on me yet; I vow to continue bringing audio/visual goodness for these hot summer days to come. And not unlike George Zimmer of the Men’s Warehouse, I guarantee it. But For now you can all enjoy the June Popcast. (will be deleted after a week, so grab it now!) Sorry peeps; the popcast has vanished.

Behold the ultra-special ‘Best of April POPcast’ which features an assortment of the tunes that made the past month what it was (for me). These are the songs that I hummed in the shower and had momentary mental film credits set to; essentially, my April soundtrack. What did your April sound like? Feel free to share. Whatever it was, we must now wave goodbye to April 2007 cuz its never coming back. In all I’d say April was a bittersweet pill to swallow, but in a good way. Cuz that pill had lots of vitamins in it, which we all know are good for you. Anyways, May is upon us. Hurrah! “Hello May! What magnificent splendors await us?” Click on the funny button below to listen to the Popcast in real time, or click on the link to download.
(Oh, I should mention that I’ll only keep the April popcast up for one week only, as to save space for upcoming music/photo studies for the month of May. Grab it while its hot! Cheers.)