May Daze

Here is a Muxtape for May. Created in the dying days of April and due to be posted earlier this month but the damn fine weather has kept me outdoors (raining today). Read 'Things the Grandchildren Should Know' in the early days of this month and can highly recommend even without being a fan of the music. But if you are your in for a treat. The pic above is from the visually stunning movie 'Sunshine' that's the best review I can give it...

Music, Music, Music at last....

With a advent of a new PC and the loss of the serial numbers for my mp3 making app, I've been at a loss to upload a set of songs. Then I came across muxtape thanks to Graham Linehan's blog. So were back on track. The link below leads to some of the songs that have been on heavy rotation... Martan's Muxtape

Been a while….

So much for a New Year's resolution! But two months since my last entry, I just gotta blog.
I'm hoping to have a new set up in the next week, just need to configure some bits and bobs on my new PC. So dear reader I just want to draw your attention to the following that has brightened my nights and days over the past 60 or so days.

Really like the sounds of Los Campesinos

One part Zooey Deschanel and one part M. Ward makes She and Him

What is the joy of cinema? 7:35 in the morning

If you like radio this site is worth a visit.

Dark days can be found here

If you like the music check out the book

Enough already!

It's that time again!

Here's this year's selection of Christmas songs. Some firm favourites and some new gems. So sit back, light the log fire, open your favourite bottle and enjoy.

Sleigh Ride - Zigo feat. Joan Rochette

Joy To The World - Lalo Schifrin
Frosty the Snowman - Esquivel

Jingle Bells - Sufjan Stevens
It's Clichéd To Be Cynical At Christmas - Half Man Half Biscuit

Merry Christmas Elvis - Michele Cody

Child's Christmas In Wales - John Cale

Christmas on the Moon - Troy Hess

Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis - Tom Waits

Christmas Day - Jim White

Christmas Letter Home (Peel Session) - Laura Cantrell

Just Like Christmas - Dudley Corporation

Another Lonely Christmas - Prince

O' Holy Night - Sufjan Stevens

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer - Daniel Johnston

Xmas Rhapsody - Pledge Drive
A Junkie's Christmas - William S. Burroughs

Hark the Herald Angel Sings - The Fall

All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit - Half Man Half Biscuit

Candy Cane Girl - The White Stripes

Santa Claus - The Sonics

Rock 'n' Roll Santa - Yo La Tengo

Angels We Have Heard On High - Sufjan Stevens

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer - The Beatbox Sabatures

Silent Night - Dirk Keysser
The Chipmunk Song - Alvin & the Chipmumks

The Chipmunk Song - Patton Oswalt
Karen's Tangerine - John Shuttleworth

T'was the Night Before Christmas - Henry Rollins

Ding! Dong! - Sufjan Stevens

Christmas Time Is Here - Vince Guaraldi Trio

Little Drummer Boy - Low

Have a Merry Little Christmas - Tori Amos

Snake River Canyon Was Nothing

As a kid Evel Knievel was my hero a daredevil that gave his name to one of the best toys ever created The Stunt Cycle. The greatest stunt Evel ever did was the jump off a folded Monopoly board raised by Beano Annuals down a flight of stairs to land safely in our hall way back in the mid 70's. It was his greatest unrecorded stunt. I was saddened to hear of his passing and it sent me on a hunt to track down this The Original Stuntmaster. I guess we won't see his like again.

No Talking Just Listening

I've neglected you blog yet again so to say sorry... Martan 5.0

Trax
Pump Up The Volume - Art Brut - It's A Bit Complicated
Fuck Nicole - The Teenagers
I've Had It With Blondes – Cud - When in Rome, Kill Me
Rise Above - Black Flag - Damaged
Rise Above - The Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
Fri/end - Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
A Beautiful War - Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Soup – Tunng - Good Arrows
Guitar Minaiture - North Sea Radio Orchestra - Folk Off-New Folk And Psychedelia From The British Isles And North America Compiled By Rob Da Bank
Vampire State Building - Julian Cope - You Gotta Problem With Me
I Do Have Weapons – Mogwai - Zidane-A 21st Century Portrait
After Hours – Caribou - Andorra
C + F - Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor
A Heavy Sigh - Edwyn Collins - Home Again
Glorious Chorus - Go-Kart Mozart - Tearing Up The Album Charts
I Had A Little Boat - Ivor Cutler - Ludo
Métro, Boulot, Hippo - Tim Gane & Sean O'Hagan - La Vie d'Artiste
Oho My Eyes - Ivor Cutler - Velvet Donkey
The Dance Of The Hours - The Clientele - God Save The Clientele
Girl's Song in Winter - Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind
Rain - Martin Stephenson and The Daintees - Boat To Bolivia
Waitin' around to die - Townes Van Zandt - Texas Troubadour
Crash Into The Sun - Jim White - Transnormal Skiperoo
Bottom Line Man - Giant Sand - Chore Of Enchantment
Seeds of Night - The Cave Singers - Invitation Songs
Hard Days - Loney, Dear - Loney, Noir
Your Arms Around Me - Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Asthmatic – Windmill - Puddle City Racing Lights
Good Morning Cockerel - Underworld - Oblivion With Bells
Seoul – Amiina - Kurr
Dream (1948) - John Cage - In A Landscape
From Here We Go Sublime - The Field - From Here We Go To Sublime

Feeling Neglected....

Time flies, where did the last two months or so go since my last blog entry?

Put it down to my laziness, lots of interesting bits and bobs going on since last I wrote. Really!

Can't recommend highly enough Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One) best film I have seen in a long time.

Lisa Hannigan's set at the Electric Picnic was a revelation and her solo album cannot be released soon enough.

The return of Edwyn Collins brightens anyday.

I knew, Jim Carroll has a great ear for music and Windmill must be checked out, cracking album.

More updates soon!