I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass

hello friends. long time no write.

I want to give a shout out to two really great songs today.

Yesterday, Matador Records posted a track off the forthcoming Yo La Tengo record "I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass." It's really good. In fact, I can't say enough about it.

See for yourself:

Yo La Tengo - Beanbag Chair

Now, when your friends are in bands it's sort of hard to be honest all the time about their music... am I right? You go and see them with high hopes - but it always sounds like Creed karaoke night. Getting to the point - my friend Emily Arkin from Somerville, MA has a new project called Shepardess. She's working with Hilken Mancini (count me outs, fuzzy, punk rock aerobics) and Mike Savage (count me outs, cherry 2000).

They are really good. Emily is a big Breeder's fan and it shows. I hope you like it.

Shepardess - Upside Down

www.myspace.com/shepardess

www.emilyarkin.com

A blog I already posted on Myspace, because I'm lazy and uncreative...

kisses are nice... i think we'd all agree to that... but kisses are paradoxical too... kisses can be the most innocent things in the world, but they can also be destructive... who hasn't heard "but it was just a kiss..." before?

it's never just a kiss, and to celebrate that i've assembled some of my favorite songs about kissing for your listening pleasure.

they range from the fairly straightforward (1,000,000 Kisses) to a tone-poem that sounds like a kiss should feel (A Girl's Mouth in Winter)... some are happy, and some are mean, but most are bittersweet...
those are my favorite...

and one more time, it's right-click, save target as... mac users are smarter than the rest of us anyway, so figure it out for yourselves...

1. Laura Viers - Galaxies
2. Jens Lekman - And I Remember Every Kiss (Like My First Kiss)
3. Half Japanese - 1,000,000 Kisses
4. Beat Happening Let's Kiss
5. Love is All - Make Out Fall Out Make Up
6. The Avett Brothers - Gimmieakiss
7. Belle& Sebastian - Seeing Other People
8. Judee Sill - The Kiss
9. Jeff Mangum - I Love How You Love Me
10. Badgerlore - A Girl's Mouth in Winter
11. Gary Wilson - 6.4 = Make Out
12. Arthur Russell - A Little Lost
13. Hey Hey My My - Close Your Eyes When We Kiss
14. The Field Mice - Let's Kiss and Make Up
15. Airiel - Kiss Me Slowly
16. Sonic Youth - Kissability

o.k., so there it is...

and i'd like some congratulations for writing my first blog ENTIRELY in html, with no help and no cheating....

...or i at least deserve a kiss...