Overloaded with Party Energy

We've all been there.

The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist

A strange funk...

Found on The Daily Psychedelic Video

The Avalanches @ Last.fm

Wooden Shjips Continue to Dominate my Playlists

Say what, is yall stoopid? Maaan, you mean to tell me you went though 

all of 2010 and never heard Vol. 2 by Wooden Shjips?

…Well, buckle up, cowboy!

[Happy Friday and enjoy!]

RIP Captain Beefheart [1941-2010]

Sadly, Don van Vliet AKA Captain Beefheart died yesterday due to complications from MS. He was 69. Now he's zig-zag wanderin' through the cosmos with Zappa. You'll be missed, Don. Thanks for leaving so much for us to remember you by.

Check out Lester Bangs' famous profile of Beefheart.
And make sure you play Trout Mask Replica at least once today.

Dear Internets, Can We Talk?

A Gesture of Love to You.

Hi. It's nice to see you again. I know it's been awhile, but I wanted to see if... well, if there are still any of the old magics between us. I know I treated you wrong, went away for a whole season without saying why (grad school). But I want you back, my digital-darlin'. As you can see by Catonkeyboardinspace, I'm serious about this. 

La Planète Sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet (1973)

IMDb • Wiki • Rotten Tomatoes • Youtube

A movie whose English subtitles are worth hunting down (as opposed to trusting a dub). The animated La Planète Sauvage concerns an intensely psychedelic future world where humans, known as Oms (a pun on hommes, men), are kept as pets or hunted like pests. Their masters, the gigantic Traags (those blue guys), never forget what they learn, live for centuries (one Traag season is 5 years) and have the ability to influence their surroundings through meditation- wickedly trippy meditation.

Like this.

An Om narrator, named Terr, is orphaned as an infant when his mother is killed by Traag youths. Terr grows up alongside his doting Traag owner and eventually learns French from her. Benefitting from the knowledge of his mind-blowingly colorful and melty captors, Terr is able to escape to and ingratiate himself with a society of wild humans. A series of bizzare creatures dreamed up for Terr's journey reinforces the film's feral whimsy.

Tomboy/Slow-Motion 7" [Obligatory Panda Bear Hype Post]

The two tracks currently available from this September's anticipated (by me) release leave me wanting more. Based solely on the wandering haziness of the title track and the hip-hop backbone of the "Slow-Motion", I imagine I would like the full LP on vinyl for my birthday. Panda Bear stated that it would focus more on guitar and rhythm than most of his stuff with Animal Collective or Jane (though I like them too). So I'm pretty damn intrigued.