Tried to do handstands for you…

Last night was my first show on WRHU’s Airwave since last spring.  If you missed it, listen on 9/ 22 at 9pm eastern on wrhu.org.  Call in with requests 1 877 887 WRHU or tweet in requests @WRHU_Airwave.

The following are my favorite songs that I played last night.  I tried to include enough links for your listening pleasure.

Most of these will link to a video of a live performance, official music video, or an individual’s interpretation.  Sometimes a visual helps with the overall experience of hearing a GLORIOUS song for the first time.

lykke li dance dance dance (you can find great remixes for this as well. obv)
women group transport hall
impossible arms gonna move
diamond rings all yr songs
Coco Coco
Dr. Dog The Girl
Chairlift Bruises
Ponytail Beg Waves
The Big Pink Dominoes
Bjork Innocence
TV on the radio dancing choose
Coconut Records Back to You
Cake I Will Survive
The Mae Shi Run to Your Grave
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip Thou Shalt Always Kill
passion pit sleepyhead
sleater kinney all hands on the bad one
animal collective my girls
The Strange boys woe is you and me
peter bjorn and john nothing to worry about
the smiths this charming man
fol chen no wedding cake
mumford and sons white blank page
my morning jacket one big holiday

Yeah yeah yeah yeah…

Here’s the playlist for tonight’s Airwave on WRHU 88.7FM Artist	Song
Gospel Claws	Don’t Let It Die
Arctic Monkeys	Leave Before the Lights Come On
Cosmic Starfish	Don’t Give Up
Nada Surf	Where Is My Mind?
The Juliana Theory	Musicbox Superhero
Fol Chen	No Wedding Cake
Various Artists	Lovesong
M.I.A.	Paper Planes (DFA Remix)
Shout Out Louds	Hurry Up Let’s Go
Charles Spearin	Anna
Myka 9	To The Sky
Dragon Fli Empire	Fast Break
Shy Child	Kick Drum (feat. Spank Rock)
el Goodo	Feel So Fine
The Honorary Title	Stuck at Sea
A.C. Newman	Like A Hitman, Like A Dancer
Interpol	P.D.A.
Talking Heads	Life During Wartime
Vampire Weekend	A-Punk
Pavement	Roll With the Wind
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head	Slow Motion Tag Team
Dan Auerbach	The Prowl
Reel Big Fish	Gigantic
Golden Boots	Knife
Portugal the Man	Shade
Bright Eyes	We Are Nowhere and It’s Now
Titus Andronicus	Fear and Loathing in Mahwah, NJ
Spiral Beach	Kind of Beast
Pixies	Hey
Hot Panda	Cold Hands/Chapped Lips

back from travels abroad

it’s been my second day back in the states. jet lag has been kind to me; i just want to sleep around 10 and 11 each night – as the average person should – but the average college student definitely should not. i uploaded my pictures today from Italy – there are over 700. it may take a bit to find the patience to upload them to facebook and this blog.

i started yesterday at Rubenstein and somehow was only mildly awkward.

tonight was my first Airwave show of the semester. sara (old producer) stuck around a bit for moral support.

CONCERT CALENDAR:

Wed 1/28 9:30 PM

Cold War Kids = Mercury Lounge 21+ $22

Thu 1/29 7:00 PM

Kings of Leon = Madison Square Garden All Ages $44.50

Fri 1/30 8:00 PM

Dan Deacon, Thank You, Future Islands, Secret Guests, These Are Powers, USAISAMONSTER = Danbro Brewery Warehouse (Bklyn vs. B-more Battle Marathon) All Ages $3

(hopefully going to this show with steph and sara)

The Pretenders = Roseland Ballroom All Ages $49.50

Apes & Androids, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Bonnie Baxter = Music Hall of Williamsburg 18+ $15

Sat 1/31 11:00 PM

The Thermals, Pretty & Nice = The Bell House 21+ $14

Mon 2/02 7:00 PM

Lykke Li = Webster Hall 18+ $22a/$25d

PLAYLIST

Artist	Song Title	Album	C/A
The Decemberists	I’m Sticking With You (Velvet Underground Cover	Always the Bridesmaid: A Single Series	C
Matt & Kim	Don’t Slow Down	Grand	C
Land of Talk	Some Are Lakes	Some Are Lakes	A
MGMT	Kids	American Teen Soundtrack	A
Arctic Monkeys	Brainstorm	Favourite Worst Nightmare	A
Charles Spearin	Anna	The Happiness Project	C
My Dear Disco	For Your Love	Dancethink LP	C
Gangi	Subject Position	A	C
Joy Zipper	Just Like Heaven	Just Like Heaven	C
The Mae Shi	Party Politics	Hillyh	A
Howlies	Angeline	Trippin’ With Howlies	C
Pavement	Shady Lane/ J vs. S	Brighten the Corner: Nicene Creedence Edition	C
A.C. Newman	Submarines of Stockholm	Get Guilty	C
Ladyhawke	Magic	Ladyhawke	C
Her Space Holiday	The New Kid Revival	XOXO Panda and the New Kid Revival	A
Golden Boots	Easy Lie	Winter of Our Discotheque	C
Titus Andronicus	Fear and Loathing in Mahwah, NJ	The Airing of Grievances	C
Thao	Beat (Health, Life, and Fire)	We Brave Bee Stings and All	A
Dan Auerbach	I Want Some More	Keep It Hid	C
Kinetic Stereokids	Have A Nice Day	Have A Nice Day EP	C
Crystal Castles	Crimewave (Crystal Castle vs. Health)	S/T	A
The Cure	The End of the World	The Cure	A
Lonely, Dear	Distant	Dear John	C
Cotton Jones	Up A Tree (When This Heart I Have)	Paranoid Cocoon	C
Los Campesinos!	All Your Keyfabe Friends	We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed	C
Dragon Fli Empire	Fast Break	Redefine	C
Francoise Virot	Island	Yes or No	C
Lights On	John and Anne	Waiting for the Heart to Beat	C
Black Lips	It Feels Alright	Good Bad Not Evil	A
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head	Slow Motion Tag Team	Glistening Pleasure	A

last Airwave playlist for the year.

Pshhh — new WRHU Airwave Producer for 2009!

Hear is the final playlist as a mere DJ!

artist	song	album	A/C
Ladytron	Ghosts	Ghosts	A
Her Space Holiday	Sleepy Tigers	Sleepy Tigers EP	C
Hello Operator	Chasing Satellites	The Breaks	C
The Decemberists	I’m Sticking With You (Velvet Underground Cover)	Always the Bridesmaid: A Single Series	C
Black Lips	Off the Block	Good Bad Not Evil	A
Amanda Palmer	Runs In The Family	Who Killed Amanda Palmer?	A
Portugal. The Man	Lay Me Back Down	Censored Colors	A
Land of Talk	Some Are Lakes	Some Are Lakes	C
Hot Lava	Blue Dragon	Lavology	C
Yelle	JeVeux Te Voir	Pop Up	A
Thao	Beat (Health, Life and Fire)	We Brave Bee Stings and All	A
Be Your Own Pet	Wildcat!	Be Your Own Pet	A
Sally Shapiro	Anorak Christmas (Piano Mix)	I’ll Stay Till After Christmas Compilation (Force Field)	C
Jay Reatard	An Ugly Death	Final Boss	C
Belle & Sebastian	Sleep Around the Clock	The BBC Recordings	C
State Shirt	Time to Go	This Is Old	C
The Pipettes	It Hurts to See You Dance So Well	We Are the Pipettes	A
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head	Slow Motion Tag Team	Glistening Pleasure	A
Miniature Tigers	The Wolf	Tell It To The Wolf	A
Deerhoof	Offend Maggie	Offend Maggie	C
Boy Eats Drum Machine	Plants + Stars	Booomboxxx	C
Gangi	Subject Position	A	C
Les Savy Fav	The Equestrian	Let’s Stay Friends	A
Peachcake	Did I Just Do That, Or Was It Jim Carey?	What Year Will You Have the World?	C
Times New Viking	Call And Respond	Stay Awake EP	C
Japanese Motors	Coors Lite	Japanese Motors	C
Women	Black Rice	Women	C
Megapuss	Theme From Hollywood	Surfing	C
The Blood Brothers	USA Nails	Burn Piano Island Burn	A
Religious Knives	Basement Watch	The Doors	C
Los Campesinos!	The End of the Asterick	We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed	C
Larytta	Money For Pizza	Difficult Fun	C
Islands	Creeper	Arm’s Way	A
Shy Child	Kick Drum (feat. Spank Rock)	Noise Won’t Stop	A

success success

this week has been ridiculous. leaves little time for blogging. here are some bullet points.

• spent late Tuesday night watching the uncut director’s version of Factory Girl on Youtube. (here is part 1) Much better than the original and was actually impressed with Sienna Miller. Originally tried to watch it on surfthechannel but twas much too slow.
• thinking about a second minor in art history. this means rethinking the associates degree for HUHC, probably having to take six classes for at least one semester, maybe taking a summer course, and basically driving myself crazy. this is also on top of WRHU, LICM, internships, PREstige and PRSSA, FORM, and trying to maintain a shred of humanity. However, if I don’t do it, there is the almost definite possibility of regretting it for the rest of my life. When I imagine myself in the future, it’s not the high powered executive. It’s a culturally aware, interesting, intelligent person who maintains a satisfied and pleasant life. I look forward to the time when I can reclaim Sundays again – not having to work or do mass amounts of studying, but just read the paper in bed and drink coffee. An art history minor would open doors, leading me along a path I want to take for my career and life. I know it’s not practical, I really don’t want to be. This is the worst thing to happen right now – causing more worrying for an already constant worrier.

• opened this week’s edition of The (Hofstra) Chronicle . In the features section is a full page article about Destination Runway by Liana Satenstein – including a quote from myself. Also, I know that the Media Alert I sent was used – all the information I provided about the charity was in it! It was a beautifully written article and seeing it actually boosted my spirits – to see that my work actually paid off was very reassuring. I go back and forth about whether I will help out again next year – but we shall see.
• had a glorious food shopping experience yesterday. spent $8 at the Uniondale Supermarket and got lots of yummy protein filled vegetables.
• took Jarvis Cocker album from WRHU – thoroughly enjoying it, I must say.
• this is the last weekend in the city for me this semester – two friends are having birthdays and I plan to enjoy myself and try to not think of troubles.
• Just realized in exactly one month I will be in Venice. GAHHHHHH

A girl’s needs just don’t agree

i literally woke up from a dream this morning about a buttered chocolate chip muffin. of course i satisfied my dream after French this morning. does this happen to other people?

my sad little LG of two years officially failed me yesterday. it only works when it’s charger is plugged in, therefore defeating the purpose of a cellular phone. though I have been planning on buying a blackberry, now is not the time – i need to save for Venice and money has been especially tight this semester. Also, I know nothing about cell phones and need any one’s recommendations. I have Verizon Wireless and have been happy with it, therefore the Iphone, Google phone, or Sidekick is not going to work out.

I usually get random friend requests on Facebook. As long as they go to my school and we have similar friends, I honestly see no harm. This morning I was “friended” by this grad student who has a little project called New York Twist Magazine – “dedicated to the lovers of multimedia art” (that’s me that’s me!) The Myspace itself didn’t say too much about the content of the magazine, but evidently issues are available around the area. When I pick up a new phone tomorrow at the Verizon Wireless store in Roosevelt, I’ll stop by FYE to pick up a copy.

There is a great article on the front page of the New York Times about how Obama is adapting to his new life as President-elect, from not being able to visit his bartender Zariff to having a date with Michelle at Chicago’s Spiaggia accompanied by 30 secret service agents. I can’t help but think of the comparisons to Kennedy when I read articles about Obama’s life. Idk if it will extend to the extreme voyeurism that most celebrities experience today.

I’m going in for another interview in the city with Joe Carozza of Rogers & Cowan, an alum of Hofstra. It’s odd – I looked at a picture of him and I recall seeing him around campus my freshmen year. Professor Frisina said to give him a hug for her – but he may be put off by that first impression, who knows. Hopefully today will go well (i.e. make the train on time and not have to pay for a taxi).

I’m going to try to run into the MOMA for their free Target night in order to see some van Gogh afterwards. can’t stay long – I need to get back to LI tonight to work at an event at LICM.

I found The Cribs’ Men’s Needs (Remixes) at WRHU, which has three different versions of “Men’s Needs”, which is awful since I will listen to those three versions in succession, constantly over and over again.

(just filled out survey about improvements on the Computer Labs at Hofstra. pat on the back for taking time out to do a good deed)

Fear and Convenience

TONIGHT’S AIRWAVE PLAYLIST

artist	song	album	C/A/R
Hot Lava	Blue Dragon	Lavology	A
Miniature Tigers	The Wolf	Tell It to the Volcano	C
Peachcake	Did I Just Do That, Or Was It Jim Carey?	What Year Will You Have the World?	C
Yelle	JeVeux Te Voir	Pop Up	A
Thao	Beat (Health, Life, and Fire)	We Brave Bee Stings and All	A
TV On the Radio	DLZ	Dear Science	c
The Size Queens	Can A Woman	Magic Dollar Shoppe	C
VHS or BETA	She Says	Bring on the Comets	A
Starf*cker	Myke Ptyson	Starf*cker	C
Moving Units	Pink Thoughts	Hexes for Exes	A
Foals	Cassius	Antidotes	A
The Dirty Hearts	Record Store	Pigs	A
Her Space Holiday	The New Kid Revival	XOXO Panda and the New Kid Revival	C
Pale Young Gentleman	This Is A Place?	Black Forest (Tra La La)	C
Mad Gregs	White Out	Big Nun	C
Bat For Lashes	What’s A Girl To Do?	Fur and Gold	A
Land of Talk	Young Bridge	Some Are Lakes	C
A Block of Yellow	You Shook My Head	Do I Do	C
Boy Kill Boy	Back Again	Civilian	A
Chop Chop	I Met You At A Space Station Bar	Screens	C
Caw! Caw!	Escape the Read Giant	Wait Outside EP	C
Amanda Palmer	Runs In the Family	Who Killed Amanda Palmer?	C
Women	Shaking Hand	Women	C
Ladyhawke	Danny and Jenny	Paris Is Burning EP	C
Boy Eats Drum Machine	Planets + Stars	Booomboxxx	C
Japanese Motors	Coors Light	Japanese Motors	C
State Shirt	This Island	This Old Shirt	C
French Miami	Science Fiction	French Miami	C
Larytta	Ya-Ya-Ya	Difficult Fun	C
Black Kids	I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You	American Teen Soundtrack	A

Equally Cursed and Blessed

Today was one of just plain awfulness. Almost every aspect of the day that could have gone badly did so.
Woke up tired – hurried to finish PR Research Methods and Assessments paper before work – found out halfway through giving a tour that my school group was part of the ESL program and could barely understand English – printers were backed up in Hammer Lab – kept nodding off in PR RM’s and A’s – got charged too much for Chinese food – had my Physics teacher randomly talk about the importance of insects – got a migraine – called my grandmother since it was her birthday and she just sounded…old – tried on Halloween costume, doesn’t fit – dinner (more Chinese food) was an hour late – had two trackers sign up for my Airwave slot (thankfully both didn’t show up).

It sounds terrible for anyone to rant and rave and whine like that, but one must understand that these past two weeks of midterms have by far been the worse since starting college. What with all the Jewish holidays and the Debate, I’ve missed so many classes and put off work that I just ended up overwhelming myself. Not to mention I can’t say no to helping some one out and I’m an overachieving perfectionist (goddamn me). It is somewhat encouraging to think I can’t be the only one with constant migraines, lack of sleep, and a tendency to cry in front of the entire Marketing Department…..it’s all worth it in the end though, right? Character building? Maybe one day I’ll show off my bicep?

And to THINK they wanted to place trackers during my slot so I couldn’t have the ONE thing that is all mine. I am too young to have children, I have no significant other, and my family is two hours away, all I have— I spoke too soon…a tracker just walked in. GAHHHH

This was fun to find from PR week – student run agencies. The article made me think about how I want to take PRestige, call it my baby, and rework it to something better. Right now, we meet twice a week with just the main staff. I wish we could set it up more as a conference and include everyone involved with the committees. If only, if only.

Oh! and I just got Glue . What happens is that you download this application that sits in your toolbar. It is supposed to track sites you visit and take note of books, music, and movies you look at. “Friends” can follow you and track whether they have the same interests. It doesn’t work on all sites – for example, I listen to music on thesixtyone primarily. Glue doesn’t acknowledge the artists I look up on that site, but it does on Last.FM. Also, when listening to music and opening Glue, the song stops and you have to restart the browser all over again. I’m trying to be as fair as possible and not to purposely look at sites. I want to see how well Glue tracks what I look at. Hopefully in the future Glue will track what blogs and sites you visit.
what really matters is what you like, not what you are like. books, records, films — these things matter! Call me shallow, it’s the fucking truth.” -High Fidelity-

This week’s Airwave Playlist:

artist	song	album	C/A/R
Portugal the Man	Lay Me Back Down	Censored Colors	C
Amanda Palmer	Runs in the Family	Who Killed Amanda Palmer	C
Boy Eats Drum Machine	Planets + Stars	Booomboxxx	C
Arctic Monkeys	Brainstorm	Favorite Worst Nightmare	A
Miniature Tigers	The Wolf	Tell It to the Volcano	C
Thao	Fear and Convenience	We Brave Bee Stings and All	A
Shugo Tokumaru	Green Rain	Exit	C
El Guincho	Palmitos Park	Alegranza!	C
Black Lips	It Feels Alright	Good Bad Not Evil	A
Lykke Li	Dance Dance Dance	Youth Novels	A
Santogold	Creator	—————–	A
Karl Blau	Mockingbird Diet	Nature’s Got Away	C
Hot Lava	Blue Dragon	Lavology	C
School of Seven Bells	Half Asleep	Alpinisms	C
Beirut	Postcards from Italy	Gulag Orkestar	A
Deerhoof	Offend Maggie	Offend Maggie	C
TV On the Radio	DLZ	Dear Science	C
Pop Levi	You Don’t Gotta Run	Never Never Love	C
Ratatat	Falcon Jab	LP 3	R
Rafter	Sassy	Sweaty Magic	C
Hot Chip	Wrestlers	Made In the Dark	A
The Heavy	Set Me Free	Great Vengeance and Furious Fire	A
Her Space Holiday	Same Song Sing Along	Sleepy Tigers	C
Mad Gregs	White Out	Big Nun	C
Dan LeSac vs. Scroobius Pip	Thou Shalt Always Kill	Look for the Woman	A
M.I.A.	Paper Planes	Kala	A
Peter Bjorn and John	Objects of My Affection	Writer’s Block	A
The Receiving End of Sirens	Disappear	The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi	A
Self Against City	Record Store	Pigs	A
VHS or BETA	She Says	Equally Cursed and Blessed	A
Starf*cker	Myke Petyson	Starf*cker	C
The Mountian Goats	Lovecraft in Brooklyn	——————–	C
Karl Blau	Make Love that Lasts	Nature’s Got Away	C

take a trip and multiply

This is leading to be the most glorious weekend ever. I have planned for weeks to go see my friends MR. HURT at Club Europa tonight, but it is also my friend Tiel’s birthday. We planned originally to go into the city around 3 to the MOMA and then get Japanese around St. Marks.

THEN

I get an email first from University Relations and then from Assistant Dean Susan Murphy from School of Comm. asking to interview me for WRHU’s “Studio South” today to talk about my art show! I’m going in about an hour to record the interview and then we are off. GAH so exciting. Talk about affirmations!


I should have known this day would have been glorious. It was all because I listened to Jamie Lidell’s “Multiply” as I fell asleep. I also had a wonderful nutritious midday snack of dark chocolate “autumn color” M & M’s and cereal that was a combo of Kaski Go Lean! and Flax Plus Pumpkin Raisin Crunch with vanilla soy milk inside my Tomagotch bowl.

Two trackers in one slot….mehh

Antonio the Truck Driver called again to request Skamper’s Number 9. I love having fans.

Tonight may be an all-nighter save 3 hour nights. I have so much to catch up on school work due to volunteering for the Presidential Debate.

This weekend is my show and I’m super excited.
Here is tonight’s playlist and concert calendar. I’m sitting here typing this during Greg’s slot of Aggressive Edge. The producer, Vinny, is here too. Greg mocks me for blogging now, but eh, he enjoys the gloriously charming company.

Artist	Song	Album	A/C
Women	Shaking Hand	Women	C
Moving Units	Pink Thoughts	Hexes for Exes	A
Land of Talk	Young Bridge	Some Are Lakes	C
Hot Lava	Blue Dragon	Lavology	C
Thao	Fear and Convenience	We Brave Bee Stings and All	A
Flight of the Concords	Business Time	Flight of the Concords	A
Deerhoof	Offend Maggie	Offend Maggie	C
Miniature Tigers	The Wolf	Tell It to the Volcano	C
Portugal the Man	Lay Me Back Down	Censored Colors	C
XX Teens	Sun Comes Up	Welcome to Goon Island	C
TV On The Radio	Dancing Choose	Dear Science	C
St. Vincent	Jesus Saves, I Spend	For AB & Rough Trades Seen and Heard Comp.	C
Deerhoof	The Tears of Music and Love	Offend Maggie	C
Bloc Party	Flux	Flux Single	A
Dirty Projectors	Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie	Rise Above	A
Skamper	Number 9	Thunder Beasts	R
M.I.A.	Paper Planes (DFA Remix)	Paper Planes	A
Starf*cker	Myke Ptyson	Starf*cker	C
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head	Slow Motion Tag Team	Glistening Pleasure	A
Rafter	Sassy	Sweaty Magic	C
Youth Group	Forever Young	Casino Twilight	A
Tobacco	Hairy Candy	F***cked Up Friends	C
Japanese Motors	Coors Light	Japanese Motors	C
Concrete Blonde	Roxy	Group Therapy	A
The Ugly Suit	Chicago	The Ugly Suit	C
The Cribs	Men’s Needs		A
Caw! Caw!	Escape the Red Giant	Wait Outside EP	C
Madgregs	The White Out	Big Nun	C
Headlights	Cherry Tulips	Some Racing, Some Stopping	C
TV On The Radio	Love Dog	Dear Science	C

Concert Calendar

Fri 10/17
7:00 PMBeach House, Jana Hunter, Santa Dads, Lexie Mountain Boys, Lesser, Teeth Mountain, Nautical Almanac, Lizz King, Creepers, WZT Hearts, Ed Schrader, Sandcats(le) poisson rouge (Baltimore Round Robin)18+$8

7:00 PMFrom Monument to Masses, Kalpana, Golden City Knitting Factory $8a/$10d

8:00 PMRa Ra Riot, Walter Meego, And The Moneynotes

Music Hall of Williamsburg18+$15

Sat 10/18
11:45 PMDan Deacon, Adventure, Videohippos, Future Islands(le) poisson rouge $8

7:30 PMJohn Vanderslice, Michael Showalter92YTribecaAll Ages$12a/
$15d

CMJ

Tue 10/21
12:00 PMOxford Collapse, Women, Dan Friel, Bridges and Powerlines, The Antlers, Secret Life of Sofia, Hot Lava, Brownwater Cake Shop (Downstairs)21+tba

8:00 PMProject Jenny / Project Jan, Hottub, French Horn Rebellion, Menya, Henny C

Lit (CMJ)21+tba

10:00 PMDeerhoof, Fat Worm of Error, Nymph Spiegeltent18+$16

Wed 10/22
7:00 PMFujiya & Miyagi, Tobacco, Who Made Who Mercury Lounge (CMJ)21+$15

Thu 10/23
8:00 PMThe Magnetic Fields Landmark Loews TheatreAll Ages$35

7:00 PMCrystal Castles, Fujiya & Miyagi, Who Made Who, Lymbyc System

Webster Hall18+$20

Fri 10/24
7:30 PMBroken Social Scene, Land of Talk Brooklyn Masonic Temple (CMJ)18+$25

9:00 PMGang Gang Dance, Growing, Psychic Ills, Sian Alice Group

Santos Party House (CMJ)18+$15