Volume 1 of the annual Harvest of Hope Mixtape for HOH 2010.  You can download the mixtape here.

Track Listing

1. Billy Bragg – “A New England”
2. Delta Spirit – “People C’mon”
3. Bear In Heaven – “You Do You”
4. The Mountain Goats – “Genesis 3:23″
5. The Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band – “My Old Man Boogie”
6. Freelance Whales – “Generator ^ Second Floor”
7. Portugal. The Man – “The Home”
8. Strike Anywhere – “Instinct”
9. Small Brown Bike – “Deconstruct/Rebuild”
10. Fruit Bats – “The Rumiant Band”
11. Pains of Being Pure at Heart – “Higher Than Stars”
12. Sea Wolf – “You’re A Wolf”
13. Rogue Wave – “Sightlines”
14. Stars of Track and Field – “Movies of Antarctica”
15. Dr. Dog – “My Old Ways”
16. Dead Confederate – “Heavy Petting”
17. Cymbals Eat Guitars – “Cold Spring”

Link to 2009 mixtape.

Here’s a mixtape for the road trip to the upcoming harvest of hope.  Download here.

Tracks:

1.  Against Me! – Sink, Florida, Sink

2.  The National – Fake Empire

3.  Girl Talk – Play Your Part pt. 2

4.  Lucero – My Best Girl

5.  Murs – Lookin’ Fly

6.  Bouncing Souls – Kate is Great

7. Tokyo Police Club – A Lesson In Crime

8. Ra Ra Riot – Dying Is Fine

9. The Black Kids – Teach You How To Dance

10. Bad Brains – Stay Close To Me

11. The Mountain Goats – Woke Up New

12. Diplo – Rhythm

13. Dr. Octagon – Blue Flowers

14. Bad Brains – Jah Love

Cubecraft has crafted a Barack Obama paper doll that you can assemble.

Pretty damn cool.

http://www.cubeecraft.com/cubee/barack-obama

For Lost fans, there’s a John Locke.

I’ve crafted the Halo Master Chief, Stormtrooper and Dr. Venture.  Works best if use a slightly thick paper stock.

If I win because of you, I’ll take you.

Weekend at Bernie’s III: operation greenpeace

BBC NEWS | In Pictures | Week in pictures 24-30 January.

John Updike was full of wisdom and helped me understand so much of the subtle logic of life that makes it so confusing for those of us who can see clearly.

Below is a collection of his greatest quotes.   I will paraphrase one thing he said that I can’t remember word for word and can’t find anywhere, but have thought about all my life.   It goes something like this:

The old world around us is always dying and going away.  A new world that we don’t know is always being born forming all around us.  And because we only know the old world and not the new, we feel like we are losing something, not realizing that we are gaining just as much.

Here are other quotes from John Updike:

1. We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
2. America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
3. We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
4. Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
5. Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
6. I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
7. Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

The Black Lips flee India, scared they’d be put in jail by angry tour sponsors.

we have had to flee the country of India due to

having our whole tour canceled and having to escape being held by

police for indecent exposure during our most rawkus set in Chennai at

the Campus Rock Idol showcase.

via MySpace.com Blogs – The Black Lips vs. India: 1-0 – Black Lips MySpace Blog.

Start getting hyped for Langerado in march.   Listen to a stream of the artists here on imeem:

Langerado 2009 Artists.