For those that check this, bless you sweet reader, I'm hopefully going to be updating http://allthesepeople.tumblr.com/ in the future. It seems all the cool kids are on tumblr now and since it just took me a 100th of the time to log into tumblr compared to blogger, that is also part of it.

Labor Daze



http://filefactory.com/file/ah5fbg3/n/Labor_Daze_zip

Track-listing

I've Seen Enough - Cold War Kids
Hi-Fi Goon - Throw Me the Statue
Hey! Little Child - Alex Chilton
Watch Your Step- Jason Anderson
Changing- The Moondogies
Run Chicken Run- The Felice Brothers
Dream City - Free Energy
Early Warnings - Forgeign Born
Tell It (In My Ear) - Fergus & Geronimo
Bartender - Earthmen and Strangers
Garbage Day - Brendon Benson
Canadian Girl - The Walkmen
Dear Boy- Bodies of Water
Lost In The Flood - Bruce Springsteen
Sleep All Summer- Crooked Fingers
Bear- The Antlers
This Time Tomorrow - The Kinks
Here To Fall - Yo La Tengo

Some old standby songs, some new jams. As the unofficial end of summer approaches I suppose I got it stuck in my mind that this was gonna be a "I'm bummed the summer is ending" type of a mixtape. This summer was a lot of fun: beach houses, big buses, trip back home and a couple of weddings, among other things I'm surely forgetting. I started to miss beach volleyball on Sundays even before it was over. Then I realized the only thing I like doing more than playing beach volleyball on Sundays is watching football all day on Sundays. And plus, it's always fuckin summer out here.

Enjoy.

Part two in a two part series documenting text communication with my family

sis-Hey I was just reading a magazine and it said mr belding has a karaoke cd coming out
bro-haha, that's awesome. He's probably going to have to sell it out of his trunk but that's ok.
sis-ha ha yeah and he was talking about how he wasn't invited to the saved by the bell reunion on jimmy fallon's show
bro-that is kinda messed up. And you know he was available. He'd a been on the first jetblue flight outta burbank.
sis- yup and i think screech wasn't there either

JAMS FOR JULY

Just some tunes that I wanted to put together, some local flavor, some other stuff. Most were going to be on a mixtape I made in May which didn't pan out because of some computer issues. Maybe some familiar names, maybe not. Probably stuff you'll like if you like rock and roll / America.

Anyway, just wanted to try out posting on a fileshare site, see how it all works. I'm sure the files won't load or you won't be able to listen to it for some reason or other. I'm not that technically proficient.

http://rapidshare.com/files/251306421/Jams_for_July.zip

Homemade cover!


Tracklisting

Sun Was High (So Was I) - Best Coast
Stuck for the Summer - Two Hours Traffic
Christee Christee - Zach Vinson
Empty House - Paper Route
Wilco (The Song) - Wilco
Double Dutch -The Henry Clay People
Young Hearts Spark Fire - Japandroids
Wake Up Call from the Nexus of Me and You - Downtown/Union
Radio Kalininbrad - Handsome Furs
Tongue Tied - Le Switch
I Want You To Know - Dinosaur Jr
Abel - The National
Got to Get You Off of My Mind -The Rosewood Thieves
I Must Be Dreaming - The Monolators
What's In It For? - Avi Buffalo
Hold Your Head High - Heartless Bastards
Carmelita (1974 Demo) - Warren Zevon

Hope this works and you like some of the songs.

Check One Tuesday @ The Echoplex

The main point I want make is that even though Everest has toured or is going to tour with Neil Young, Wilco and Death Cab for Cutie and will probably be a critically acclaimed band and have a large amount of success, they don't have one song that is as good as 'Working Part Time' by The Henry Clay People.

Everest may end up having their own huge headlining tour down the road but I gotta believe that I'll remember The Henry Clay People a lot longer and have fonder memories of seeing them play then I will of seeing Everest.

Maybe it's because I have a tend to root for underdogs with moxie, maybe it's because I've seen them play in front of about 15 people, 12 of which I'm sure were in other bands playing that night or maybe because I saw the lead singer at The Hold Steady concert as a ticket buying fan.

Although Everest did bring out The Watson Twins for one song, so they are cool with me. Also, Everest also doesn't have a song that is as good as 'How Am I To Be' either.

A running list of movies I've seen for the first time in 2008, in chronological order

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
I am Legend
There Will Be Blood
City of Industry
Malice
Rambo
Metropolitan
Ace in the Hole
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Mr. Jealousy
Gone Baby Gone
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Once
Michael Clayton
Zodiac
Barcelona
Semi-Pro
The Darjeeling Unlimited
Foreign Correspondent
Into the Wild
The King Kong: A fistful of quarters
Neko Case - Live in Austin
The Parallax View
From Here to Eternity
The Lookout
Shine a Light
The Wanderers
The Searchers
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Iron Man
My Morning Jacket - Okonokos
Midnight Cowboy
I'm Not There
Windy City Heat
Things to do before you are 30
Blast of Silence
The Incredible Hulk
Strangers on a Train
Harper
Hancock
The Dark Knight
Being There
Pineapple Express
Be Kind Rewind
Rear Window
Vertigo
Talk to Me
The Guns of the Navarone
Burn after Reading
Thief
Shadow of a Doubt
Brief Encounter
Absence of Malice
A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
Road to Perdition
Body of Lies
In Bruges
The Bank Job
Rachel Getting Married
Dirty Harry
The Indian Runner

Not much is better than this right now



Bad days have turned good after reading and laughing at this

If you were wondering, "What is Zach's 'My car is fucked and I'm drinking' playlist?"

This is my "My car is fucked and I'm drinking" playlist

Something Is Not Right WIth Me - Cold War Kids
Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
Here's Your Future - The Thermals
I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - The White Stripes (Live In Las Vegas)
The '59 Sound - The Gaslight Anthem
This Is Goodbye - The Monolators
Language City - Wolf Parade
Working Part Time - The Henry Clay People

(The Nickcatchdubs & Mr. Ducker Radio Friendly Unit Shifter 90's alternative Mix mixtape portion of the playlist)
El Scorcho -Weezer
Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
Bulls on Parade - Rage Against the Machine

Don't You Evah - Spoon
One Big Holiday - My Morning Jacket (Live @ KVRX radio session 2000)
Shattered - Rolling Stones
In the New Year - The Walkmen
I'm Glad - The Black Keys (Captain Beefheart cover)

If you would like any of these songs or as a playlist, yell (holler) at your boy or hit up google / itunes you torrenting sumbitches.

ps, if you don't download the Catchdubs mixtape to get the sweet fade-in transition from Harvey Danger to Rage Against the Machine, then you are sad because if you hit me up on facebook or IM to say "Yo Zach, I didn't have the bandwith or memory on my Ibook to download that sweet mixtape you told me about" I will attempt to explain it to you but I won't do it justice so, you do you, and update your RAM playboy / playgirl. I could be projecting my insufficient laptop status on you loyal reader, maybe, maybe not, maybe fuck yourself - Dignam