Tambourines

Best instrument ever: the cello.
Second best instrument ever: the lute.
Instrument I like: the TAMBOURINE.

The tambourine may not be the coolest, most technical, or most unique instrument. Actually, as an instrument, it kind of sucks. But aesthetically, the tambourine is really fun.

It's rhythmic and fun and jangly and can be pretty and yes.


Tambourines are a lot like me. Kind of useless, mostly filler, but SUPER FUN.
Seriously any band is better with a tambourine.

Tetris

Imagine, if you will, an alternate world.

A world in which I have a better GPA and social skills, blog more regularly, and cultivate useful hobbies.

There is only one factor that needs to change between this world and that one:

Tetris would have to go.

I love Tetris.

Lately I've been playing Type B/Level 0/High 4 on my Game Boy Color. (Mine is raspberry.)

If you know what I'm talking about: I love you. Let's get married.

Even if we have to go to another state to do so.

We'll watch "West Wing"

and play Tetris

and eat Pringles and Red Vines

for the rest of our lives.

But I digress.

If there was no Game Boy Tetris, I would be reduced to such pasttimes as playing Tetris using cut-up freezer waffles. See below.

Thankfully, I still have Tetris, even though my Game Boy is running low on batteries.

I would write more, but I have, you know, stuff to do...

Music That Sounds Like Summer

As August marches relentlessly on, the end of summer's freedom draws closer and closer. The Fly Hunniez will officially walk the hallowed halls of our university once again on September 2nd (the effervescent H. Boldt on crutches).

But some songs will carry a hint of sun and sand and warm breezes with them through the fall...

Here are some of my "songs of the summer"...

Freeway - Kurt Vile

Beach Comber - Real Estate

French Navy - Camera Obscura

Contender - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Glad - Glasser

Warm Heart of Africa (feat. Ezra Koenig) - The Very Best

things will never be the same again -jj

Deadbeat Summer - Neon Indian

Seasun - Delorean

What are yours?

Benoît Pioulard

Curled in a chair in the Union during the time when Brigid and I thought it would be possible to bring a certain songstress to the Terrace, I was browsing my iTunes Library to find a fitting opener and I came across a Stereogum download by Praveen and Benoît that I had forgotten about.
Upon a relisten, I ventured into the depths of Benoît Pioulard's work and never looked back.
Don't be intimidated by the French name. He's really just a Tom from Michigan who makes music that perfectly suits a lazy spring afternoon.


Listen:
Ahn

Sudafed PE Non-Drying Sinus

Big ups to Sudafed PE Non-Drying Sinus.


Keeping me in the game as much as possible as long as I still have Kleenex within arms' reach.

(As recommended by Will Leemkuil-Schuerman. Thank you!)