Well, kiddies, it's Black Friday.

Don't go to shopping. You'll die. Thanks!

But this means that Thanksgiving is, and it's okay to be prepared for Christmas!

So, I made a fun Christmas mix. It's got pop and ska and Blues Traveler! What more could you ask for? Seriously.


So, This Is Christmas?
01. Damien Rice: Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
02. Brand New: Oh Holy Night
03. Coldplay: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
04. Copeland: Do You Hear What I Hear
05. Death Cab for Cutie: Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)
06. The Long Winters: Christmas With You is the Best
07. Eels: Christmas is Going to the Dogs
08. Barenaked Ladies (feat. Sarah McLachlan): God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
09. Bing Crosby & David Bowie: Little Drummer Boy
10. Jack Johnson: Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
11. Blues Traveler: Christmas
12. Thurl Ravenscroft: You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
13. Jimmy Eat World: Last Christmas
14. Thrice: Carol of the Bells
15. Bright Eyes: Blue Christmas
16. They Might Be Giants: Santa's Beard
17. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: Mr. Heat Miser
18. Reel Big Fish: Mele Kalikimaka
19. Save Ferris: Christmas Wrapping
20. No Doubt: Oi! to the World
21. The Vandals: My First Christmas as a Woman
22. MXPX: Christmas Night of Zombies
23. Taking Back Sunday: The 12 Days of Christmas
http://www.mediafire.com/?41emzitzmwh

So, I'm planning on burning this and giving it to a few friends. But, if you download it from here, you'll get these lovely bonus tracks:

Nick Hexum of 311: Mele Kalikimaka
Spice Girls: Christmas Wrapping
Rilo Kiley: Xmas Cake
Blink 182: I Won't Be Home for Christmas
Rev Run (feat. Mase, Puff Daddy, Salt & Pepa, Onyx, and Keith Mur): Santa Baby
Tenacious D (feat. Sum 41): Things I Want
Aaron Gillespie & Kenny Vasoli: Yule Be Sorry
http://www.mediafire.com/?2b35ip6domz

-Orange.

And ooh, Kevin Devine songs too! Neat!

Acoustic on the Interface
1. Brooklyn Boy
2. You'll Only End Up Joining Them
3. Go Haunt Someone Else
4. Heaven Bound and Glory Be
5. Just Stay
http://www.mediafire.com/?fkketnzzbvw

Live at Austin City Limits
1. Cotton Crush
2. Brooklyn Boy
3. Just Stay
http://www.mediafire.com/?ehdtwkmxxmz

Kevin and Andy Hull on WRGW 10/22/07
1. Interview with Kevin #1
2. It's Only Your Life
3. Interview with Kevin #2
4. Tomorrow's Just Too Late
5. Interview with Kevin and Andy
6. Being Alone
7. Interview with Andy
8. Untitled [Unknown title]
http://www.mediafire.com/?byyd9ggsikv

Random Live songs [mostly covers]
1. Jesus Christ [Brand New cover]
2. All Apologies [Nirvana cover]
3. Blacksheep Boy [Okkervil River cover]
4. Cotton Crust [feat. Jesse Lacey]
5. Every Famous Last Word [Miracle of 86 cover]
6. Fewer Broken Pieces [David Bazan Cover]
7. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air/Brooklyn Boy
8. Harvest Moon [Neil Young cover]
9. Holland, 1945 [Neutral Milk Hotel cover]
10. It's Only Your Life
11. Jesus Christ [Brand New cover]
12. Jesus, Etc. [Wilco cover]
13. King of Carrot Flowers pt. 1 [Neutral Milk Hotel cover]
14. King's Crossing [Elliott Smith cover]
15. Loser Crew [Pablo cover]
16. Miss Misery [Elliott Smith cover]
17. Misunderstood [Wilco cover]
18. The Biggest Lie [Elliott Smith cover]
19. Untitled 01 [Brand New cover]
20. Waltz #2 [Elliott Smith cover]
21. Whatever (Some Folk Song in C) [Elliott Smith cover]
http://www.mediafire.com/?9ygmjext9vz

Random B-sides
1. Buried By the Buzz [remix]
2. You'll Only End Up Joining Them
3. The Longer I Lay Here
4. Write Your Story Now [acoustic]
http://www.mediafire.com/?9sc1u11yn9v

2007 Tour EP
1. The Biggest Lie [Elliott Smith cover]
2. Wolf's Mouth
3. Whatever (Some Folk Song in C) [Elliott Smith cover]
4. Joey [Concrete Blonde cover]
5. Harvest Moon [Neil Young cover]
6. The Longer I Lay Here
7. Holland, 1945 [Neutral Milk Hotel cover]
8. You'll Only End Up Joining Them (acoustic)
http://www.mediafire.com/?7yqxgt9yzvy

Demo
1. It's Only Your Life
http://www.mediafire.com/?9gyez2ygjtc

I've uploaded every Manchester Orchestra b-side I own.

This is what I've got:

Amy, This Record is for You
1. Don't Let Them See You Cry
http://www.mediafire.com/?aegmmbngbfv

Andy and J on 102.1 The Edge
1. Interview
http://www.mediafire.com/?2fwmd5oqck9

Andy Live on 107.7 The End (11/09/07)
1. Wolves at Night
2. Interview
3. Where Have You Been
http://www.mediafire.com/?0t01jugszum

Annuals/Manchester Orchestra tour split
1. Brother
2. Where Have You Been http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/46240-annuals-manchester-orchestra-where-have-you-been-brother-covering-each-other-mp3sstreams
This is obviously not my link, but it's a for real free download, so I figured that would be easier than uploading it myself. :D)

Demo
1. When My Dad Dies
http://www.mediafire.com/?amt0odn1l2x

The Garage
1. Are You Really Naked Under There?
http://www.mediafire.com/?9vyvsvi3jn1

Live
1. The Party's Over (Willie Nelson cover)
http://www.mediafire.com/?4uedf3mnkx2

Live at The Cave
1. I Can Barely Breathe
2. The Neighborhood is Bleeding
3. Sacred Heart
http://www.mediafire.com/?dsynmocyjyn

Live on the Interface
1. Wolves at Night
2. Now That You're Home
3. I Can Barely Breathe
4. Where Have You Been
5. Interview
http://www.mediafire.com/?fytem1j0low

Nobody Sings Anymore
1. Golden Ticket
2. Window
3. The Procession
4. I'd Rather Have
5. She Found a Love
6. Anything Left
7. The Other Side
8. Please Don't Go
9. Girl With Broken Wings
10. Slow to Learn
11. La-Di-Da
http://www.mediafire.com/?1fvgcgf43x1

Tree Sound Sessions
1. Made a Quite Impressive Noise
2. Sacred Heart
3. Sleeper 1972
4. When We Were Trees
http://www.mediafire.com/?7kd1my2mvj1

Twelve Months is a Waste of Time
1. Brain Bits on My Tie
2. It's a Lie
3. Little Teeth That Fall Out
4. Now Is As Good As Ever
http://www.mediafire.com/?cmuzu14r0zz

Virgins and Babies
1. I Can Feel Your Pain
2. I Think I Saw You
http://www.mediafire.com/?8g3mtf3mntt

You Brainstorm, I Brainstorm, But Brilliance Needs a Good Editor
1. The Procession
2. Alice and Interiors
3. Slow to Learn
4. I'd Rather Have
5. Play It Again, Sam! You Don't Have Any Feathers
http://www.mediafire.com/?ehctz9e4md9


Anyways, these are live, unreleased, and out of print songs. I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child is however, in print. Buy it if you didn't already.

Also, mediafire deleted the Iron and Wine show and The Shins b-sides I had posted in this. I still have them all, so if you want them, leave a comment. Yep.


-Orange.

No show November?

unless we actually go to The Color Fred and the Pink Spiders.

Anyway, last night was The Never, Annuals, Manchester Orchestra show. It was fucking killer. I love going to shows where each band is as good as the last. I seriously suggest checking all those bands out, if you haven't yet. I think that Apple has pictures and maybe video. When she gets them up, you'll see them.


So, today, whilst browsing myspace, I saw a bulletin from Kevin Devine. And I usually look at those. This time it was about checking out an interview that he just did.

And here is a very lovely and hilarious sample.

Obvious: You're good friends with Jesse Lacey of Brand New, he even sang on a few songs on Split The Country/Split The Street. How did that friendship come about?

Devine: We were both in an amateur archery program, Silver Tips, in rural Connecticut summers growing up. I think his parents sent him there as discipline; I was voluntary as there's not much occasion for archery in the asphalt jungles of Bay Ridge. You'd get jumped carrying a bustling quiver around!

I wouldn't say we were rivals; more that we kind of ran in different circles. Jesse was more of a maverick stylistically (we called him 'Coltrane' because his improvisational, feel-oriented approach evoked the fluid unpredictability of jazz) and I definitely played it close, was more a proponent of the Octobad school - the famous 'aim, don't shoot!' philosophy (my nickname was 'Wonder' as in reliable whitebread).

It was a magnetized marriage of opposites; I think we learned a lot from each other; I learned to hang looser, and he learned the merits of team play. Obviously just one of many solid relationships formed at Silver Tips. There's an annual reunion we always go to together. It's well-catered.



ch-ch-check it out, yo.
http://www.thankscaptainobvious.net/2007/10/interview-kevin-devine.html

Spinning: silverchair: Young Modern. Annuals/Manchester Orchestra tour split.
Reading: On the Road still. It's tough reading three big books in a couple days.


-Orange.

PS. Happy Halloween! Rot your teef out kiddies.

God, I really needed to hear that song.

That song is "Confessions of a Futon Revolutionist [live]" by the Weakerthans. If you've only heard the original, you might be shocked by the live version. It's totally country. It happens to be the song that got me into the Weakerthans back in ol' 2001. <333333


Also, I found a random cd sampler that I got back in 01 or 02 that has some fucking OLD Hidden in Plain View songs on it. They were pretty damn terrible back then, I must say. I remember the day I saw them back then, [it had to be 01] they were pretty good live for how terrible they actually were. Then Matt got arrested. Woo.


Anyway, I'm done.

Listen to the Get Up Kids, and be just like me. :D

Spinning: The Get Up Kids: Red Letter Day EP and the rest of my random usual crap.
Reading: Dr. Seuss Goes to War, Mysteries in History and On the Road.

-Orange. [I swear, half the time, I forget to sign this. Usually, I remember to correct it though.]

speaking of professional careers...

...i want to be a professional concert-goer.

the hold steady were phenominal last night. everything i could have hoped for and a little bit more. if you have the oppertunity to check them out, please do yourself this favor and do it.

and art brut were something to see, indeed. they totally lost me with their first song, but then they won me back with every single song they played after that. at one point the lead singer (who we decided looks like a cross between jim adkins and charlie manson) was dancing around in the crowd. he didnt just jump in and then get back out, he was almost to the back of the tla. it was fun to see. then he said that the crowd was full of professional wrestlers.


tonight we are going to see stars. i have no idea what to expect.

have you purchased (fork and knife) yet? definitely my single favorite song of the year. its available on itunes, amazon, and a few other online music retailers...im sure orange can also assist you in finding it...


peace out, cubscouts.
~apple.

Professional streaming audio ripper sounds like a sweet job.

Yesterday, Kevin Devine and Andy Hull (of Manchester Orchestra, for those who aren't sure, or have no idea.) went and did a little radio gig. I ripped it. and here is it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cytmdw7ndzf

there are some interviews and Kevin played It's Only Your Life and Tomorrow's Just Too Late, and Andy played some new songs. One of them is being called Being Alone and the other, I couldn't find a title for, so I just left it as "Untitled".

It's all split up, in case that description made it seem like it wasn't.



-Orange