I can’t help it that I keep looking for mysterious ladders to show up at my window, and every little mysterious gift found outside my door leaves me wondering.
Download: Ruby Johnson - Come to Me My Darling, I’ll Run Your Hurt Away, Why Not Give Me a Chance
Buy the Album: Ruby Johnson - I’ll Run Your Hurt Away
The Things That Make My Heart Beat Faster, Twisted Up Edition, Part Three
Oh Jesus, last night.
(Thank you.)
Download: Pharrell - Take it Off, Can I Have it Like That, Stay with Me
Buy the Album: Pharrell - In My Mind
Rarities, Vol. 3
Absolute classic reimaginings of Chapterhouse’s Blood Music LP by the sorely missed Global Communication duo.
I wasn’t expecting a deluxe two-disc reissue of Seefeel’s “Quique”, but it’s not too surprising that it’s happened — it’s a beloved, Really Important album, and making fans buy their favorite CDs over and over again is a common tactic for record labels. Nor is it surprising that Too Pure would add a bunch of remixes and out-takes, since that’s how you coerce the fans into buying.
No, the really surprising bit is that the out-takes are just as good as the album proper. I kid you not. I can’t remember the last time that happened! So what that means in this case is that
OMG QUIQUE JUST GOT THREE SONGS LONGER, DUDES!!!
Listen: Seefeel — “Clique”, “My Super 20″
Buy CD: Seefeel — “Quique (Redux Edition)”
Buy MP3s: Seefeel — “Quique (Redux Edition)”
Holy shit, people.
Tonight I realized that I have had The Selector open for well over two years now and I have never EVER posted The Clash.
What the crap?!
That’s just straight up bananas, especially given how incredibly important they have been in my life, and how formative, and how deep they are housed in my heart.
So here’s a shitton of The Clash.
Because it’s Spring, and I fucking love you.
Download: Police On My Back, Lost in the Supermarket, Clampdown, The Guns of Brixton, I’m Not Down, Train in Vain, Police & Thieves, Clash City Rockers, Armagideon Time, Straight to Hell, Know Your Rights, Janie Jones, This is Radio Clash
Buy the Album: I am too busy getting my face rocked right off by the boys to bother listing out all the albums, but look, I am going to give you a link to their allmusic song listing page and a link to pretty much anything you can get your hands on by them, which you know is totally going to rule no matter what you get. TRUTH.
Songs for Hope Given by a Stranger, Part One
Oh people.
Today was a thorough donkey-punch of a day. When I woke up my brain felt straight up rotted, like I had spent the night drinking and huffing paint, when in fact all I did was fall asleep folded origami style in my computer chair for a few hrs instead of my bed.
I guess that’s not particularly restful. And the 3.5 hrs I spent in bed didn’t do the trick at all, so I was rotted at work today.
The last 18 minutes dragged on for maybe three lifetimes, and then when I got in the car to get home, the freeway was a parking lot.
I was fucked in the eye-socket by traffic on exactly the day when my eye-socket has been drier than it has been in years. I know! PAINFUL!
But now I am home, safe in the womb of my darling little apt, and I am prepared to turn this frown upside down and give you hot, sexy songs with a list of hot, sexy positives, because if I am anything, I am wicked posi (hot, sexy posi?? MAYBE), yo:
+ Apt booty shakes in sock feet
+ Eating Frozen JJ for dinner
+ My new brown slacks, which are a little too big, & so hang in exactly the way I like, if not maybe a lil’ too long (so’s I just pin them up a lil’, I’m a problem solver!), and how they break just so on my new Gazelles, and how the cuffs swish around my ankles when I go up and down stairs, swish-swish-swishsswish-swish! (I did a little two-step there at the end)
+ Hearing yourself singing on the other end of the phone while someone else listens on the other side of the country, and they don’t laugh. They even go as far as to like the fact that you sort of, kind of, unconsciously sing when you’re happy. That’s the goodies.
+ Opening the windows wide with a secret wish to see a secret friend looking up from the street below for the right window at exactly the same moment.
+ Twin St. Christopher’s medals
+ New lilies
+ My blue, softy, scoop-neck cardigan+my favorite strand of pearls
+ “Like, ‘Dah-vi-day’” (No kidding, I laughed for maybe ten minutes; there were tears…the alt-tag, people! Holy hell.)
+++ The fact that someone, anyone, put that little sticker on my lock. People, you just don’t understand. Today was a day when I desperately needed just a lil’ something extra to make things feel ok again. Let me, if I may, put it down sharply:
After waiting in donkey-punched agony for the last minutes of my shift to end, I was folded over in my chair with my head between my knees, trying to just keep it together long enough to get out the door.
And then, I ran to my car, as much as my sleep-deprived little legs could swish-swish-swish through the parking lot, threw my car in reverse while I was still closing the driver’s side door and then peeled my ass out of there only to be stopped virtually 10 feet onto the on-ramp.
I literally died on the way home. I was so desperate I text messaged my engineer friend to build me a flying car, because I just couldn’t take it anymore.
You guys, not even music was helping.
I get home, after thirteen deaths and a million trillion years, and as I am getting out of the car, I get snapped back in because, Hey! I forgot to take my seatbelt off! Awesome!
Then my awesome pink thermos flips out of my hands and rolls under the car next to mine, so I have to beg and plead it out.
Then I get in my apt building but I have to fight with my mail because somehow I got on every single catalogue mailing list ever, and Mondays are the day I get avalanched with a big bag of mail bullshit I don’t care about.
And the rest of my mail, my bag, my hat, and my thermos barely make it up the stairs with me, as I hear Amelia howling for attention as I reach the top.
I drop my keys trying to get them out of my mouth (because I’m a classy broad).
I look up at my door as I am picking up my keys, holding onto everything else in my arms for dear life, and what do I see??
That little sticker stuck just so.
I thought my heart might explode.
Best! Save! Ever!!
Thank you, whoever you are.
I love you.
Download: Grizzly Bear - Easier / The Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll (Alternate Take) / The Kissing Book - You Should’ve Seen Us Yesterday
Buy the Album: Grizzly Bear - Yellow House / The Velvet Underground - Loaded (Fully Loaded Edition) / Kissing Book - Lines & Color
Rarities, Vol. 2
Futuristic techno by the hiveminds behind B12. I wish somebody would reissue all of the B12 Records.
Songs for Secret Bee-Hiving, Part Two
Yours is the first letter I have bothered to put in the post in a long, long time.
Download: Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham - Indian Summer, Your Baby
Buy the Album: L’Avventura
The red marks are where my new bird bit me over and over again all day long;
i am palomino marked, on the heart side of my throat,
on my left bicep,
on the top of my left thigh.
Always where the skin is softest.
They’ve faded so much over the years, I’d have to take your fingers and guide them over the edges, help you trace them, for you to really see.
Download: Martina Topley-Bird - Lullaby (Live @ Montreux Jazz Festival, 2004)
Buy the Album: N/A
Rarities, Vol. 1
For those who missed it in ‘99.
(Painting: Tove Janssen, cover of Comet In Moominland)
The oceans have dried;
We wade the abyss.
Soon the comet will strike.
Will Sergeant, guitarist of Echo & The Bunnymen, self-released Themes For GRIND in 1982. I had never heard anything like it, and it was many years before other similar music started to surface. The name of the joke record label on the sleeve — “92 Happy Customers” — was a little too prophetic, and this album’s always languished in undeserved obscurity. But it hasn’t aged a bit, still a masterpiece of spooky industrial ambience.
Listen: Will Sergeant, “(scene 6)” and “(scene 9)”
Buy: Themes For GRIND
The Things That Make My Heart Beat Faster, Twisted Up Edition, Part Two
I can’t even write anything, I’m so tangled up.
I’ve been biting my lip so much today that it looks like I’ve been hit in the mouth.
Download: The Kills - Pull A U / Drive Like Jehu - Caress, New Math, Luau (Oh god, that’s the one. Yes.)
Buy the Album: The Kills - Keep On Your Mean Side / Drive Like Jehu - Self-Titled, Yank Crime
Songs for Secret Bee-Hiving, Part One
I am not so worried anymore about the honey I have inside welling up and seeping out through my velveteen rabbit seams. I am no longer trying to hide this sweetness as it comes right out through my pores.
The whole experience used to make me so incredibly nervous, I walked around constantly on wobbly new-foal-legs. It made my heart pound and thump and crash in my chest, and goodness. I just couldn’t think straight.
But now I’ve gotten used to the fact that it’s going to happen, over and over again, until someone with the right eyes realizes that really, I am standing in front of them with open hands, a soft, gentle heart, and the smarts to know what to do with both of them.
And if I can tell you a little secret, just between you and me? :
(Every time it happens, I am a little proud of the sticky, sweet mess I leave in my tracks.)
Download: Liz Phair - Shatter, Stratford-On-Guy
Buy the Album: Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
The Things That Make My Heart Beat Faster, Twisted Up Edition
Red, bee-stung lips,
twistable limbs,
nervous hands,
skin softer than God’s perfect peach, candy all over,
and my waiting bed.
Download: Sonic Youth - Death Valley ‘69 (Live) / Blonde Redhead - Kazuality, In an Expression of the Inexpressible / Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt
Buy the Album: , Sonic Youth - These Walls Have Ears, Blonde Redhead - Fake Can Be Just As Good, In an Expression of the Inexpressible, Sonic Youth - E.V.O.L.
Songs for Middle of the Night Drives, Part One
We have all the time we need;
dawn comes ever so slowly in this town.
Download: The Verve - Drive You Home
Buy the Album: The Verve - A Northern Soul
Songs of Escape, Part Four
Hey,
hey.
I know that neither you nor I are much for the heat, but what do you say you come with me to hide in the central Californian desert, just for a little while?
It’s one of my first and best escapist fantasies to find a broken down little house with no one for miles and a bed on the dusty wrap-around porch, a claw-foot tub in the garden to soak in milk, honey and lilies at sunset, and jelly jars filled with bourbon to share.
I’ll make mobiles with pieces of colored glass and broken guitar strings and teach myself about engines (ok, ok…I’d ask for your help) on a rusted out old pick up truck while taking a break from letter-writing and throwing paint.
And you? You can do whatever you damn well please.
Say the word: I’ve got the boom box, art case, canvases, woodford reserve, favorite fuzzer sweater for those cold desert nights and two persimmons. You bring all the colored glass and broken guitar strings you can find–I’ll take care of the rest.
Download: Grant Lee Buffalo - Hyperion & Sunset, Jupiter & Teardrop / Grant Lee Phillips - Folding
Buy the Album: Grant Lee Buffalo - Copperopolis, Fuzzy / Grant Lee Phillips - Ladies’ Love Oracle
The Things That Make My Heart Beat Faster, vTwo, Part Ten
One from you to me.
One from me to you.
Download: Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles (Mama Black Widow Version) / The Kills - Wait
Buy the Album: Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles / The Kills - Keep On Your Mean Side
‘Sup, sluts?
Hey guess what??
TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!!!
That’s right! It’s my day, yo!
It all started this morning at 837am when I woke up and jumped out of bed and did a stunning rendition of the IT’S MY BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRTHDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY song, and then I did a fuckin’ hottttttt performance of the IT’S MY BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRTHDAAAAAAAAAAY booty shake.
Then I threw on some clothes and my new gazelles and ran to the Kwik-E-Mart to get some cream and some smokes and wouldn’t you know it, they were playing “I Want You to Want Me” by Cheap Trick, one of my favorite songs OAT and I just knew in my heart, this is going to be
The! Best! Day! Ever!!
So right now the Maid Brigade is cleaning my apt bottom to top and after they leave I am going to get my hair did, and then after that Jason1 is coming over and he is taking me out because
IT’S MY BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRTHDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!
And he is going to put together the new desk I bought myself and then hopefully I can convince him to take me out dancing where there is bouncing music, a hundred drag queens and a sea of sweaty, sexy people I can throw myself into…maybe we can even find some juices and berries to heighten the experience and make it so I can dance all night because jeeezus it’s been forever since I’ve been able to do that.
What I really want is to see some bitches doing Runway, but I think that’s a little much to hope for out here in podunk Seattle. But a girl can hope, right?? (Speaking of Runway, did anyone else gag when they saw Benny Ninja on ANTM a couple weeks ago? It was like I died and went to cunty, voguing heaven. God, if only Mecca Revlon had been on!! I would have died. When will television execs wake up and produce Vogue School, what would most certainly be the most exciting and glamorous reality TV show ever? VOGUE SCHOOL!!)
So in the hopes that this will, in fact, be a truly cunty birthday, I have started early and have basically been dancing my ass off since I woke up.
The Maid Brigade has laughed at me a little bit, but I don’t care, IT’S MY BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRTHDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!
Here are some songs so you can dance with me too!
BEST! DAY! EVAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!
Download: Dalipstyxx ft Jonny McGovern - Tease / Kevin Aviance - Cunty (Junior Vasquez Remix) / Mecca Revlon - How to Read / Peppermint Gummybear - Servin’ it Up / La’Mady ft Kevin Aviance - This is NYC, Bitch! / Relentlessly Cunty - Watch Me Serve / Deee-Lite - Party Happening People, Music Selector is the Soul Reflector // And as a super-special BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRTHDAAAAAAAAAAY gift from me to you, here is the hottest fucking video I have seen in fucking forever, Something for the Fellas (That Like the Fellas) by Team Pimp. Seriously, guys, it makes my tip wet.
Buy the Album: Alright, so, even though it’s counter to what I hope to provide here at The Selector, I really don’t have any advice on how to get most of these. But, I can point you in the direction of Jonny McGovern Presents: “This is NYC, Bitch!” The East Village Mixtape and Dewdrops in the Garden by Deee-Lite. OVA!
The Things That Make My Heart Beat Faster, vTwo, Part Nine
I have been walking around while reading again, bouncing off of people and things like a satellite.
I have been using music as protective atmosphere again, letting only the sun in.
Spring is here, Spring is here, thank God almighty, Spring is here again.
Tonight I learned the meaning of the word “epistolary”, and I put a little x right next to it, all special-like.
Download: Dirk Leyers - Come To Where I Go (Thank you forever, Mister Eden) / Andrew Thomas - Soft Bullets / Markus Guentner - Express Yourself
Buy the Album: Various Artists - Pop Ambient 2004 / Various Artists - Pop Ambient 2006 / Various Artists - Pop Ambient 2003
For the benefit of the few who don’t read Neil Gaiman’s journal, I’m posting this here, because it is so very Selectorian:
A promise/warning: Halfway through, it changes.
[Sorry, I don’t know an official site for the film, or where to download/buy the music.]
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