Back when we'd returned from vacation, we'd voiced our lament that "Autumn in New York" was the title of a Richard Gere/Winnona Ryder movie. This still is our bane today.
Always up for a somber jam as a chill sets in the air, our kid brother just reminded us of how terrifically heartbreaking Final Fantasy's cover of Joanna Newsom's "Peach, Plum, Pear" is. While FF's Owen Pallett has been performing the song in concert since 2004, his formal recording was not released until the 2006 EP Young Canadian Mothers. Check out the original & cover below, as well as Gorgeous Downer Song of the Year 2006, Pallett's ode to failed yuppie marriage "This Lamb Sells Condos". We'll be playing with woodland creatures for the remainder of the evening.
Joanna Newsom "Peach, Plum, Pear"
Final Fantasy "Peach, Plum, Pear"
Final Fantasy "This Lamb Sells Condos"
Galloping Manic to the Mouth of the Source
Really, Arthur theme song? EVERYBODY has an original point of view?
(Photo via Picsyard)
Now, wait a minute: we're not jumping on the band wagon of folks that like to say "Wah, Director X totally raped my childhood". That's a flaccid, lazy complaint, and really: you were that fervent a fan of Alvin and the Chipmunks? You think all the 14 year old girls that were 8 when the Bratz dolls were released blew their collective freshman assault whistles when Hollywood half heartedly pissed that movie into theatres this summer? No- they did what every fanboy should be so sensible to do: recognize the trappings of their youth as exactly that, and NOT CARE. If Micheal Bay was somehow able to shit all over your great memories of playing with toys as a kid by making a $175 Million toy commercial, how great could your memories of play really have been in the first place? Fuck it, I hope they cast Lindsay Lohan in the Strawberry Shortcake movie.
No, we're speaking to a more dangerous trend- one happening over at PBS Kids, of all places: the practice of adapting esteemed children's books (after book, after book, after book, after book, after book, after book, after book) into animated television series.
Our admittedly biased vitriol on the topic came to a fever boil early Sunday evening, while trying to track down an image from Rosemary Wells' illustrated book Timothy Goes to School. Timothy is a phenomenally sweet story, that of a familiar Wells raccoon and his struggles finding his place socially during his first few days of school. Much to our surprise, we found that Timothy too has been adapted into an animated series by the same production house behind the mid 90's Magic School Bus show. The show apparently follows the exploits of the titular Tim, attending school in a world populated by other flagship Wells characters like Noisy Nora. Eww.
It would be one thing to say the net is co-opting the childhood experience of reading and visiting the library in exchange for meager ad revenue. PBS is publicly funded. It needs money. Nothing new there. The pubcaster's recent VOD offering Sprout- a 24hr network offering 15 minute PBS Kids shows has, by all accounts, been moderately successful. (We'll overlook the genius of squeezing in double the bumper commercials by halving your shows' running times.) Additionally, it makes perfect sense for the net to bank on characters and franchises familiar to parents, teachers, and library buyers across the country. Lord only knows how bloated a cash cow the Arthur franchise has become: party supplies, stuffed animals, sleeping bags, live action stage shows- and apparently, Marc Brown still somehow finds time between flipping SoHo apartments to actually write BOOKS.
We're suggesting something a touch more upsetting: the abdication of quality original content on the network. That's a key word for us: quality. Say folks, curious about the Emmy tally of an original PBS series like Square One TV versus the Emmy count for a cartoon adapted from a picture book like Clifford The Big Red Dog? Six to zero. How about PBS original Bill Nye the Science Guy versus, say, The Berenstein Bears? Eleven to zero. 3-2-1 Contact versus Curious George? Twelve to zero. And Contact garnered a Peabody Award. Noticing a trend here? It is in the best interest of a government organization like the National Endowment for the Arts to bankroll programming with strong international revenue returns (you can re-dub a cartoon a thousand times over, and the actors never age) in lieu of QUALITY original programming with a strong educational core.
Therein lies the great dichotomy of children's entertainment: at least at PBS Kids, educational values have been displaced by emotional values. Of course children recognize human emotional relationships in these cartoons. That's the very definition of anthropomorphism, and the reason we laugh at Bugs Bunny. But what is actually being learned here? In five years' time, how are we supposed to differentiate between PBS and Nick Jr.? Has publicly funded educational programming for children fallen so off course that it's about to be undone by a Viacom property? Bring in all the child psychologist consultants for Arthur as you'd like, if the goal is nothing more than a syndie package so network affiliates can fulfill their E/I "Core Programming" obligations, what the fuck is the point?
We know we're offering more questions than answers here. But make sure you have your rape whistle handy.
Muppets & The Kids "Sesame Street Theme Song"
They May Not Know Who's President
Mmmm, Sunshiney! After an accidental downtown sleepover last night, and an okay check in with the landlords this morning, who wouldn't be dancin' in the streets? Brooklyn tonight, and one last gorgeous Saturday now. I think the Fred Astaire song below just replaced Elton John's "Honky Cat" at the top of our "why the hell hasn't someone sampled this?" list.
Fred Astaire "Bojangles Of Harlem"
De La Soul "I Am, I Be"
Patrice Rushen "Forget Me Nots (12in Mix)"
Vanity 6 "If a Girl Answers (Don't Hang Up)"
DJ Topcat "Young Folks in Rehab" (Amy Winehouse vs. P,B, & J)
The Pharcyde "Soul Flower (Remix)"
Ike & Tina Turner "Come Together"
Ringo Starr "Photograph"
Heart "These Dreams"
CRS (Kanye, Lupe, & Pharrell) "Us Placers"
Brand Nubian "Slow Down (Pete Rock Mix)"
Fats Waller "It's A Sin To Tell A Lie"
Bunce, Boggis, and Bean.
Wes Anderson, indie-pastiche darling and director of new release The Darjeeling Limited has confirmed to MTV the voice cast for his upcoming stop motion project, The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Adapted from Roald Dahl's eponymous book, Anderson revealed: “George Clooney is going to be Mr. Fox. Bill Murray has a part. Jason [Schwartzman] is doing a voice. That’s our team.”
Script recording should get underway before years' end, but the former AmEx spokesman expects a good passage of time before animation is completed. “It’s stop-motion. It’s like ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ or those Christmas specials. These [characters] have fur, so it’s not like claymation. The settings will be very natural. We want to use real trees and real sand, but it’s all miniature.” Crazy awesome.
Between the above project and the upcoming Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers collaboration Where the Wild Things Are, we're pleased as hell to see some classic kid lit getting the prestige treatment. And now that Anderson has Mr. Fox in his custody, questioning can begin about that stolen Coppola movie. Interesting sidenote: "Fantastic Mr. Fox" is totally our new nickname for Rupert Murdoch.
Amplitudenmodulation + Frequenzmodulation + Phasenmodulation.
This Saturday, when Nickelodeon cuts broadcasting for 3 hours in an effort to get chunky kids to exercise, what are you going to be up to? Why, watching TV on the Internet, of course! Head on over to Tiny Dancer's Sesame Street Archive, a shockingly comprehensive gold mine of lyrics, mp3s, and YouTube links devoted to the most celebrated children's programme in the history of television.
Retrospectively, perhaps a post made purely as an act of pre-emptive damage control for an awful picture wasn't the worst idea. (And yet for some reason, there is still no pending legislation towards banning all images of Beth Ditto. What a country.) The "worst idea" award goes to having said pre-emptive damage control post be about children's entertainment of all things. (We're sure all the Germans searching for images of soundwave charts couldn't have been that offended.)
Okay okay, don't freak out. It was a picture of a baby playing with lipstick in a sink.
Yo, it's Friday like you wouldn't believe, son- and, if you're an office moneky like us, then hey! Money today! Totally floored by the fact that Monday is already October, we're pleased to present tonight's mixtape, a hastily assembled ode to the pratfalls of Fridays on the town.
? "Kill Beyonce" (Beyonce vs. Tomoyasu Hotei)
The Power Station "Some Like It Hot"
Loverboy "Turn Me Loose"
A Plus D "Goonies 'R Good Enough for Heatbeats" (The Knife vs. Cyndi Lapuer)
Ladyton "He Took Her To A Movie"
Ann Peebles "I Can't Stand the Rain"
Tears For Fears "Woman In Chains"
Lenlow "U Hide 2" (U2 vs. Imogen Heap)
Human League "Human"
Fidelski "Slippy Starship Peaches" (Underworld vs. Peaches vs. Jefferson Starship)
Supertramp "Dreamer"
Downright awful picture though, huh?
UCLA Grads Unite!
Shane Acker, an animator for WETA on Peter Jackson's final installment of the Lord of the Rings series, is phenomenally talented. His short, 9, an odd little adventure populated by small burlap men, premiered at Sundance in 2005 and was later nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Animated Short category. Beyond accolades though, the Sundance screening brought the animator fans- namely Nightmare Before Christmas producer Tim Burton.
In fact, Burton was so impressed by the UCLA grad's third animation project that he began paving the way for a full length version of the award winning project, currently in production. Acker's first time turn as a feature director showcases a stellar voice cast rounded out by the likes of Crispin Glover, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly, Elijah Wood, Martin Landau, and Jennifer Connelly. Check out Acker's original short below.
Fire It Up.
This afternoon, Variety is reporting that NBC is in the process of prepping a two hour backdoor pilot to releaunch the Knight Rider franchise. One can only assume that this means the long-rumoured theatrical KR movie has been sidelined to make room for this new project, headed up by Swingers and Bourne Identity director Doug Liman.
Fixin' test scores to get the best scores / Droppin' bananna peels all over the floor.
As both head of Hollertronix and hired gun over at Ninja Tune, Philly boy Diplo has always kept true to his mash roots. This time, the fomer Mr. Arulpragasam has outdone himself.
So: We've got the instrumental from Kia Shine's "Krispy"- an under the radar summer jam that already samples the hushed drums of Beastie Boy's "Paul Revere"- spun with the acapella from Simpsons novelty track "Do The Bartman". The track, titled "Bart So So Krispy" is bomb as hell, and is streaming at Diplo's MySpace. The track is also available for proper download over @ La New Shit.
Now, ready for this? On the DVD commentary for The Simpsons' Season 3, creator Matt Groening revealed that Do The Bartman, was in fact written and produced by none other than Michael Jackson. (Also, it turns out it WAS really Jackson as mental patient Leon Kompowsky in the '91 Ep. "Stark Raving Dad".) Visiting the video again, Groening's revelation makes eerie retroactive sense. Rewatch Bart's foray into Top 40 below. Sidebar: for some reason, this song reminds us of that Pepsi commercial at the beginning of the Home Alone VHS. Stream of consciousness. Our bad. (Bad like Micheal Jackson. He devilish.)
You see, the genius in a title like "Vanity Vair" is that you've beaten everybody else to the joke.
While a person would like to remind themselves to take a comedian's press quotes with a grain of salt, we can't help but get a little excited by Radar's exclusive bit on /am.fm.pm/ favorite Simon Pegg. Pegg, the star of the upcoming Micheal Ian Black scripted Run, Fatboy, Run was snagged by the Manhattan mag outside the Lincoln Center premiere of the flick, and revealed that he and the missus plan to move to the five boroughs next year. OMG! Maybe we'll get to stand dumbstruck behind him at a Rockefeller Center salad bar someday!
Fatboy is already banking respectable box office in the UK, but has had its stateside release bumped back again. (Don't fret, kids. Shitty-but-watchable bootlegs are already floating around out there.) Heavens knows the move would be fortuitous timing for our man from Gloucester- 2008 will also mark the release of How To Lose Friends and Alienate People, the long gestating adaptation of Toby Young's tale of his time in the trenches under Graydon Carter at Vanity Fair. Natch, the film has de-fanged the bitingly funny book to an extent, with Toby now named Sidney Young, a frustrated young Brit serving under Jeff Bridges' media oligarch "Clayton Harding"- editor of the fictional Sharps Magazine. Co-starring Kirsten Dunst's teeth, the pic is directed by long time Curb Your Enthusiasm producer Robert B. Weide.
Dunst & Pegg filmed their final scenes in Empire Park the evening of August 15th, so the film has certainly moved on to post production. No US release date has been set, though the film is scheduled to bow in the UK on October 3rd, 2008. While we really are looking forward to the picture, we've simply got to make the snarky Rex Reed pun before ever everybody else: "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People? Harumph! More like
Shit, son. You Conde Nasty.Are You Ready to Get Your Guts Kicked Out!?
So, congratulations to us on finally wrapping up our month long listening of the Sly and the Family Stone discography. With this is mind, time to come clean: we've been sorta hooked on funk/soul megamixes of late. From the folks that brought you Product Placement, today's show and tell: 1999's DJ Shadow/Cut Chemist collaboration Brainfreeze.
The mix itself is simply a practice session for a February '99 gig at Future Primitive Sound that Shadow & Chemist took upon themselves to record. 1000 copies of the mix were made and sold at the show, and a further 1000 copies were distributed to local records stores in California, selling out very quickly. A cease-and-desist letter from 7-11 Convenience stores -the whole artwork and styling was based on their logos and uniforms- resulted in the stoppage of formal pressings. (Unable to track down the artwork ourselves, we're the ones responsible for the post header graphic.) Bootleg editions of the mix are still available in most respectable record shops though, and of course, below.
Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow "Brainfreeze Part 1"
Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow "Brainfreeze Part 2"
Personal favorite sample drop? Well, besides the tops Kung Fu trailer intro to Part One, about 12 minutes into Part Two, our boys spin into Marlena Shaw's intense take on funk standard "California Soul"- a rendition that proves- once again- that 5th Dimension is damn sissy music.
Marlena Shaw "California Soul"
Oddly enough, the above track was also used as the intro music to one of our favorite episodes of Kevin Smith & Scott Mosier's Smodcast- an episode that we touted back in May- in which Smith breaks down the peculiar nature of producing and directing his first live network television series. The well reviewed show, Reaper, premieres this evening on the CW network.
Yes, Affirmative.
Never trust robots. Or, you know, people that listen to club music before noon. Nu-Hott bangers, 'yall. It's Tuesday as hell.
Rhianna "Umbrella (Divide+Kreate's Elecroclash Remix)"
Illuminoids "Phantom Aint' Easy" (Justice vs. David Bowie)
Journey "Separate Ways"
Nelly Furtado "Say It Right (Divide+Kreate's Electroclash Remix)"
Mylo "In My Arms"
Illuminoids "Boy Bomb" (MIA vs. Beck)
Audio Hacker "Never Win the Wall" (Pink Floyd vs. Fischerspooner)
DJ Zebra "Come Closer" (Beatles vs. Nine Inch Nails)
Deep Dish "Flash Dance"
Modest Mouse "Dashboard 2.0 (World Famous Audio Hacker Remix)"
Die, Blarney!
When I was a kid, one of the most popular places to throw your birthday party was Roll-On-America, a roller rink/arcade/laser tag arena about a half hour west of my hometown. While it was hardly a regular hangout, the venue served it's purpose for a respectable 2-3 friends' birthday parties every year, to say nothing of stoned games of laser tag once high school came around. In youth, the notion of actually roller skating there was, of course, retarded- this was a birthday party, not gym glass 'fer Christ's sake. (Exercise? Fuck that. Gimme my goodie bag.) No, when a friend announced that they were holding their birthday party at Roll-On-America, you anticipated three things: 1: As many remixes of the techno Mortal Kombat theme as you could stomach. 2: Konami's widescreen X-Men arcade game. 3: The Animatronic Bear Band.
Ohhh the Animatronic Bear Band. Now, I don't specifically recall the name of R.O.A's particular bear band, but then again, I'm something of an animatronic bear band racist: they all look alike to me. (Say it one more time. It's crazy fun. Animatronic Bear Band.) Retrospectively, I would like to establish some bear band rules. Rule 1: All A.B.B.s must project a rural, backwoods image. This means a bear playing the washboard, a bear playing banjo, and possibly a bear even playing the jug. Why the hillbilly angle is so prevalent in bear bands escapes me: I mean, they're robots. If anything, these ro-bears should serve as terrifying reminders of the future to come, a world where us of weak, yielding flesh are destroyed under foot by ursine cyborgs. Perhaps the hick guise is little more than clever deception. Rule 2: All A.B.B.s must be headed by, or at least named after an Ol' Uncle. Ol' Uncle Honeypot, Ol' Uncle Stickybritches, Ol' Uncle Borderlinecopyrightinfringement, you get the idea. Why an Uncle? This conceit is answered by Rule 3: All A.B.B.s much be fucking terrifying. Not all the tinny, warbled strains of all the public domain classics in the world can make the Animatronic Bear Band endearing. For some reason, the simply unnerving is made downright chilling by overcompensated excitement on the part of the parent. Nothing so perfectly drives home how wrong something feels than a Mom's false squeals of "Oh! Isn't this FUN!?" while the child, limp pizza slice in hand, is penetrated by the keen, dead glass eyes of Ol' Uncle Robot Bear as he poorly lip syncs "Blue Moon". Shudder.
Hell of a convoluted intro for this video, huh? I had only one birthday at a Chuck E. Cheese franchise, and to honest, remember little of it. What I DO recall however, is that during the performance by the branded animatronic animal band, costumed versions of those same characters we saw on stage milled the crowd, half-heartedly refilling our paper cups of Crush. We knew these waiter characters were fake. Obviously, the REAL Charles Cheese and company were on stage at that very moment, and these sub- summer stock impostors were making almost no effort to shroud their ruse. Even at eight years old, I thought "Wow. That has to be the worst job in the world." I wasn't so far off.
Previously on /am.fm.pm/: The Saddest Thing Anywhere, Ever. I am sooo pitching P. Diddy's "Making the Animatronic Bear Band" to MTV.
Pretty Toney.
Just over a week since the release of the Iron Man trailer, New York's favourite billionaire boozehound Tony Stark will be dropping by the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre this evening to discuss all things Iron Man. The action starts just after Midnight @ 26th Street and 8th Avenue; the show, as always, is free of charge.
While /am.fm.pm/ is proud to present this ongoing series of public engagements, we know damn well that we can only get away with posting the same media so many times over to promote them. Hit up a past Stark plug for the '66 Iron Man Theme, and enjoy the music of Tony's best friend and closest confidant, Ghostface Killah.
Ghostface "Run (Hard Times Remix)"
Ghostface "Hell On Earth Freestyle"
Ghostface "Tush (Feat. Missy Elliott)"
And everybody! Don't forget! Adult Swim is sponsoing a free college tour featuring Ghostface & Witchdoctor! The first show rolls into the SUNY Albany campus on October 1st, followed by dates in New Hampshire, Jersey, Virginia, and more! Hotness!
Dancin' In September!
We've been threatening our friends for a month now that on the 21st of September, we would listen to Earth, Wind, and Fire's "September" (see last week's Yacht Mixtape) for a full 24 hours. Thanks to a little gem in our inbox this morning, that plan fell apart quicker than a drunk game of Jenga.
Is That Christina Applegate?
12.45pm. Midtown Manhattan. Phone rings at our desk. We answer.
'Stache!
Humpday mix tape! Yeah! I'm gonna go shave now!
Electric Light Orchestra "Twilight"
Steely Dan "Reelin' in the Years"
Rolling Stones "Under My Thumb"
Yardbirds "For Your Love"
Donavan "Hurdy Gurdy Man"
Percy Sledge "Me and Mrs. Jones"
Billy Ocean "Mystery Lady"
Eddie Money "Take Me Home Tonight"
Heart "Magic Man"
Jethro Tull "Bungle in the Jungle"
And it Breaks My Beat.
Like Kool and the Gang's "Celebration", or to a much less kool extent, Santana's "Smooth", you have most likey heard the song "Amen, Brother", by 60's soul group The Winstons every day of the last ten years. Seriously.
Well, maybe not the whole song, but certainly a 5.2 second clip of the song. Originally a B-Side to Winstons single "Color Him Father", "Amen, Brother" contains the infamous "Amen Break", possibly the most ubiquitous dance music hook ever sampled. Think of it: less than 6 seconds of music released almost 40 years ago somehow birthed an entire musical culture in and of itself. Check out this tidy little history of the beat.
The Winstons "Amen, Brother"
And it Breaks My Heart.
As stunning pop chanteuse Regina Spektor's US tour rolls on, we were quite pleased this evening to see our girl represented on the boards over at GYBO. Spektor appears @ the Orpheum in Boston MA on 10/14, just before her homecoming @ NY's Hammerstein Ballroom on 10/16. Below, a fresh, unreleased, and downright lovely remix of Begin to Hope's first single "Fidelity", tweaked by LA DJ Morgan Page.
Regina Spektor "Fidelity (Morgan Page Remix)"
Fatty Takes His Own Life.
Hooray Ricky Gervais! (Via Variety:)
Juice By Tappy.
Much respect to director Darren Aronofsky, the man behind some of those Meth awareness PSAs previously seen on /am.fm.pm/. This past week, the Pi helmer released what appears to be a emerging cinematic trend- the Internet exclusive film commentary track- for his 2006 critically shrugged film The Fountain. While the film was a only modest box office success, it's tripled it's BO take in the home video arena, and appears primed to become an art dorm staple. Perhaps to the film's greatest advantage: it's really quite good.
Warner released a bare-bones DVD edition in May, prompting Aronofsky to self release his thoughts on the film via his own brand new website. (The 18mb commentary mp3 is available here.)
While it may be a touch early to call it a trend per say, Aronofsky isn't the first auteur to self release a commentary track this year. John August, screenwriter of the upcoming Shazam! feature, has made available a feature length commentary for his film The Nines, which is still being run theatrically in the states- (The idea being to wear your iPod to the cinemas on your next outing. Anything to drown out the trailer for The Game Plan, I suppose.)
Check out the Fountain track though. I promise, this isn't just 90 minutes of "Okay, okay: In this scene, I was trying to illustrate how phenomenally attractive my wife is."
It's Like I Can Touch You!
Don Hertzfeldt, animator of the Oscar-winning Rejected and co-creator of The Animation Show alongside satirist Mike Judge, is the pants. Sooo the the pants. The bumper shorts he created for the latest installments of the Animation Show screenings are some of the most innovative multimedia animation we've seen in some time- as illustrated below, with his Intermission in the Third Dimension. This year's show tour has wrapped it's East coast leg, but always keep submission ideas in mind, kids.
In Other News:
Remember that Simpsons episode where Homer has the crayon in his brain removed, markedly raising his I.Q.? After learning his requisite lesson about the burdens of intelligence-("I'm a Spalding Grey living in a Rick Dees world!")- he visits Moe, who happily reinserts the crayon to dumb his best customer down once more. During the slipshod procedure, as a gauge of just how badly he has brain damaged Homer, Moe encourages the man to speak. Just before reverting to his usual dimwittedness ("Extended warranty? How can I lose!"), our yellow hero grunts out "DE-Fense! Huh! Huh! DE-Fense!"
And thus sums up our thoughts on football.
Granted, we may just be bitter for losing 20 Washingtons on Thursday's Saints vs. Colts game. (New Orleans + white guilt = poor betting strategy.) On the topic of sports: /am.fm.pm/ favorite DJ ZTrip released his well reviewed All Pro mix back in July, and somehow, we didn't get around to listening it until this afternoon. The disk, comissioned by video game developer Take Two's 2KSports imprint, flew over our radars upon initial drop- perhaps because a cursory glance at the artist match ups appearing on the mixtape (Rakim & Chevelle? Dead Prez & Deftones?) smelled queasily similar to the rap/rock hybrid compilations of yesteryear.
While sports arena jams are always gonna be sports arena jams, Trip's spin on your run-of-the-mill block rocking beats swishes a home run into the endzone. Two of our favorite tracks below:
Rush "Tom Sawyer (ZTrip Remix)"
Lateef & Slug "On My Side"
and the full album, in all it's Indexed glory, is available here. Football is fucking dumb. Sports!
It's Fun Watching Rich People Be Naughty.
Via Jon Favreau's MySpace Iron Man Movie Group:
For those of you who have been Jonesing to see the Comic Con footage, we now an official teaser trailer that incorporates much of the same imagery. Paramount is debuting the piece in its entirety across the Viacom Network's highest rated programs. The first appearance will be immediately before the Hills on MTV on 9/10. I've listed the schedule of other slots that Paramount marketing has sent me below. A hi-res version will appear on Apple.com/trailers on 9/11 for those of you who, for whatever reason, choose not to TiVo The Hills.
ONLY POOR PEOPLE BUY CDs.
Ahoy mateys. We're live once again, back in the 11103, and still conceding to music- as our massive mp3 posts have been aggregating the most hits as of late. Solid vacation (haven't left the five boroughs since April) , good berfday (oh, best present so far?), and hey!: A raise coming in the next month. Little victories, kids, /am.fm.pm/ is all about little victories.
To honor the end of summer, and getting needlessly wistful of Autumns past, we're pleased to present yet another in our series of mixtapes. Fifteen tracks, custom lifted for baby makin' on a boat. Or, uh, you know, riding the N/W by your lonesome pretending you're the new hotness. OH SHIT SON, ain't that a mixtape.
Lasso The Moon "Stand and Believe" (Ludacris vs. Journey)
Earth Wind & Fire "September"
Lakeside "Fantastic Voyage"
Nenah Cherry "Buffalo Stance"
Tiffany "I Think We're Alone Now"
Cheryl Lynn "Got to Be Real"
Notorious B.I.G. Feat. Ma$e & Puff Daddy "Mo Money Mo Problems"
Nu Shooz "I Can't Wait"
djBC "Dutch Holiday" (Missy Elliot vs. Madonna)
Mr. Mister "Broken Wings"
Sinead O' Connor "Nothing Compares 2 U"
K's Choice "Not An Addict"
Bone, Thugs & Harmony "Tha' Crossroads"
Philip Baily & Phil Collins "Easy Lover"
The Commodores "Aint No Stoppin Us Now"
Honestly, you haven't the foggiest how much it pisses me off that the phrase "Autumn in New York" has already been co-opted by a shitty Richard Gere vehicle. Make sure to be on the lookout for the next appearance by Tony Stark @ the UCB Theatre, coming September 21st. Rock.
