Jalpuna http://jalpuna.com/ These words are mine, but only when they're in this particular order. en Copyright 2012 Mon, 14 May 2012 01:35:36 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Oh, Minxy available to download here.
This torrent includes all the tracks that could be previewed on the SXSW website for SXSW 2012 as of March 6, 2012. This year's collection includes 1,219 files totaling 7.52GB
I've been posting playlists of music from this year's SXSW for the last six weeks, ranging from pop and rock to mellow, etc. This week's playlist is of the batch. It's a bit more folky. More or less. Kind of, sort of.]]> http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/05/oh_minxy.shtml http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/05/oh_minxy.shtml playlists Mon, 14 May 2012 01:35:36 -0800 Mean To Me Here's yet another playlist of music from this year's South By Southwest festival. I wish our Musicfest Northwest would share music the way SXSW does. Then again, it might be a lot of the same music. Or not? I guess we'll never know. I still have one more of these SXSW playlists to post next week. http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/05/mean_to_me.shtml http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/05/mean_to_me.shtml playlists Mon, 07 May 2012 00:35:16 -0800 Cold Feet More music from this year's SXSW Festival. They provided a ton - and I do mean a TON - of free music for downloading, and I weeded through it all, dividing the good stuff into the series of playlists I've been posting lately. Here's another. http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/04/cold_feet.shtml http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/04/cold_feet.shtml playlists Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:59:36 -0800 I Believe Science Is The Art Of The Next Age It's funny. And it's predictable. On the first weekend of short-sleeve shirt sunshine, the entire city of Portland becomes unanimously chipper. I'm certainly not complaining. I just think it's funny. I'm still working my way through the tonnage of music from this year's South By Southwest festival as I break it down into smaller playlists. Here's music to be chipper to. Sort of. Some of it is, anyway, and the rest more or less fits in with the mood of the playlist. Sort of. http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/04/i_believe_scien.shtml http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/04/i_believe_scien.shtml playlists Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:55:59 -0800 Shoeboxes The good people at the South By Southwest festival in Austin provide a ton of free music for downloading, from which I've compiled this soft playlist. http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/04/shoeboxes.shtml http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/04/shoeboxes.shtml playlists Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:25:03 -0800 A Blue Raft On The Blue Sea She sees these visions. She feels emotion. She says that I cannot go, she sees my plane in the ocean. "And what about your friends, don't you love 'em enough to stay?" And I say "If I don't leave now then I will never get away." Let me be a blue raft on the blue sea, I'll blend right in. That's from Maps by The Front Buttons, and it's the opening track on this playlist of tracks from this year's South By Southwest festival.]]> http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/04/dont_you_love_e.shtml http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/04/dont_you_love_e.shtml playlists Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:13:31 -0800 Go Away My Lover I've finally had time to chew through all of the music in the South By Southwest torrents. Each year, the SXSW festival posts well over a thousand songs on their website in massive download files. This year, the number of songs came close to 1,200. Yikes. That's a lot of music to go through, most of which was crap. But I managed to find over a hundred songs that are really worth checking out. And here's a playlist consisting of a batch of those, beginning with Elizabeth And The Catapult. It took less than five seconds of their song 'Go Away My Lover' before I was hooked - and that was before the whistling! Ooh, the whistling... http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/04/go_away_my_love.shtml http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/04/go_away_my_love.shtml playlists Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:16:50 -0800 You're A Fraud And You Know It Dear Monday; You're a fraud and you know it. We've got a gray rainy week ahead here in Portland, apparently, despite the beautiful sunshine today. With that in mind, here's a somewhat dark sounding playlist. Dark? Does music have color? I don't know... but these sound dark to me. http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/03/milk_famous.shtml http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/03/milk_famous.shtml playlists Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:14:33 -0800 Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes Every time I hear old Modest Mouse, I can't help wondering what they're up to these days. It's been five years since they released a proper album. Grumble grumble. http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/03/tiny_cities_mad.shtml http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/03/tiny_cities_mad.shtml playlists Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:20:07 -0800 A Look Back At SXSW 2011 Free music is a blessing and a curse. The music is a blessing, obviously, but finding it can be a curse. This is true even when the music is given to you. Take, for example, music from the South By South West music festival which is going on now in Austin TX. The good people at SXSW freely give away tons of music. And I do mean tons. Each year, torrent files are created to make it easy for anyone to freely and legally download around a thousand songs by musicians performing there. A Thousand?!? Awesome! ...no, sadly. It isn't awesome. Though roughly 2,000 bands and artists perform during the annual SXSW festival, I'm going to assume that half of them won't allow their music to be shared online. And you know what that means. The half that DO allow their music to be shared do so because most of them suck. Most. But definitely not all. I whittled last years roughly 1,000 songs available online via SXSW down to 26. Of those 26, one was a song I'd already posted previously (I never post a song again if I've posted it in a previous playlist. It's an OCD thing). ...and here's the playlist. http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/03/sxsw_2011.shtml http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/03/sxsw_2011.shtml playlists flash xspf Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:05:25 -0800 The New Alphabetical, Part Two Last week, I decided to post an alphabetical playlist. I worked my way through the first half of my iTunes library, following the order iTunes lists artists in. In the old days (*cough*) an artist like Xavier Rudd would be listed by his last name, in the Rs. But with digital media, he's an X. So be it. Here's the second half of the alphabet, artist by artist, from N to Z. http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/03/the_new_alphabe_1.shtml http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/03/the_new_alphabe_1.shtml playlists Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:46:22 -0800 The New Alphabetical, Part One Surely, by now, you've noticed the New Alphabetical. It's kind of like the New Math, but with letters. Or not. Actually, it's the iIng of organization, where the first letter dictates an artist's place in a digital list. In the old days, Eddie Vedder was filed under V. Today, he's filed under E. Josh Rouse is now under J, and Portland's own Langhorn Slim is found among the Ls. You may be thinking "It ain't right" as you shout the kids off the iLawn... but, alas. It is what it is. Luckily, "the" is ignored, unless it's the The, in which case... well... it's still filed under the. I'm going with the new alphabetical, from A to M, in the playlist that follows. I'll get to the second half of the alphabet next weekish. Probably. Unless I'm feeling inspired to post something else. http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/02/the_new_alphabe.shtml http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/02/the_new_alphabe.shtml playlists Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:51:41 -0800 Oaaaa, nana na na... I'm working tonight. In an attempt to not be distracted by music, I've been listening to this. It's a playlist of instrumentals. More or less. ...? The words "Here we go" pop up during the beginning of 'Meet Me in the Basement' by Broken Social Scene, and there's a lot of "Oaaaa, nana na na" going on in 'Nine Acre Court' by The Charlatans... and who knows what's being said or not said in Eagle-Eye Cherry's 'Desireless.' I guess those don't count as instrumentals. Then again, the voice is an instrument, is it not? http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/02/oaaaa_nana_na_n.shtml http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/02/oaaaa_nana_na_n.shtml playlists Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:53:08 -0800 It's In Keeping With Your Not Sleeping Around A playlist of love, though not necessarily for Valentines Day. http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/02/its_in_keeping.shtml http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/02/its_in_keeping.shtml playlists Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:31:07 -0800 Our Move Is Shake Shake Shake I am so ready for a second album from Phantogram. Sadly, who knows when we'll get one. Well, I suppose the members of Phantogram know, but that doesn't help me, now does it? Late last year, they released the short Nightlife EP. That's where you'll find Don't Move, which begins the following poppy playlist. I say 'pop' in a good way. All of the sunshine we've been having here in Portland keeps tricking me into thinking it's almost spring. And then the cold wind whips by and I realize winter isn't done with us yet. ah well. http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/02/our_move_is_sha.shtml http://jalpuna.com/archives/2012/02/our_move_is_sha.shtml playlists Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:16:18 -0800