lonelygirl15 and my brother's music!

So, I don't know if any of you have been following this "lonelygirl15" youtube thing. She's got a video blog, it may be a viral marketing thing, whatever. So i was trying to stay up on pop / internet culture and i was watching some of her videos, when - whoa! one of my brother's songs started playing! it was a "remixed" version but it is totally his. super exciting.
here is the link

it plays when they start chopping up fish or whatever. yay grant!
you can hear his original version here:
http://ccmixter.org/media/people/phlosoft

records and mp3s, all in one!

So the best new thing is happening - recently, andy and i have bought some new records. Of these new purchases, I had two lovely surprises. In both the new calexico and the new hidden cameras LPs, the record makers have been nice enough to include a little piece of paper. the paper gives you a website and a code, and you log on and plug in the code, and...voila! you have downloaded the full album in mp3 format! isnt that amazing? i sure think so. I wrote to merge records (label that put out hidden cameras) to tell them how great i thought it was, and they told me that a few of their new releases (including lambchop and m ward) will also include this feature. my reasoning is this: i hate buying cds these days because, in all honesty, i just rip them to my itunes, put them on my ipod, and put the cd away in a closet. However, records, of course, have a special place on the shelf, and they just sound better. (and, more often than not, they are cheaper!) so, of course it's annoying to buy the record, then pay to download the songs as well. and it takes so much time (and sounds kind of crappy) to rip from record to computer (can you really even call that ripping?). anyway, that is why i love this new "thing" that some labels are doing, and i hope it continues and proliferates. yay.

awesome craigslist posting

I just saw this on craigslist and i think it's my favorite ever. will one of my lovely single girlfriends write this guy an email so he will be our friend?

I am the best indie mix maker that has ever lived. (mission district)

Reply to: pers-193439355@craigslist.org
Date: 2006-08-12, 5:51PM PDT


That's right. Better than your friend in New York, better than your older brother, better than any character from a Nick Hornby novel and all your exboyfriends combined. I make the best mixes that have ever been or ever will be made. No contest. Hands down.

I also make the best vegan breakfast ever made. I've also elevated bicycle neglect to an art form so advanced even I would need an M.A. to explain it. No one has ever been annoyed by crowded bars with such moxie and panache. No episode of This American Life is complete until I've heard it. Whiskey intoxicates no one until I drink it, coffee with me is a creative act, my sleep is an interpretive dance, my high-five is tantamount to a pulitzer, and when I kiss you, your favorite song, your favorite dessert, the rapture, nirvana, orgasm, enlightenment and the apocalypse all at once unfold, implode, ensnare, dissolve and transform you into a being of pure light, eros, beauty and nothingness for as long as it lasts, and after it nothing will ever be the same again. I suck at pool, though. That much seems never to change.

Please be extremely cute and funny and arty and fit and intelligent. Please live in the mission, be in your late 20s, sexual, bike-dependent, conscientious, thoughtful. Please be laid back and not seeking a big deal. Please send a pic and the best response ever written.