The Glitch Mob - "We Can Make The World Stop" (single)

Daft Punk-ish, nice beats, funky. Hints of '80's synths, but heavily overdubbed.
Came by on the Ratatat channel by the way, not Daft Punk...

Tom Waits - "Face To The Highway" (Bad As Me)

Wonderful. About leaving.

Matt King - "Waiting At The Bottom" (Rube)

Very slow, evening'esque.

With funny soft "shoop" chorus!

Tishamingo - "Devil's Love Song" (Point)

Not as raw or swampy as Jace Everett can be, or velvety blues like Chris Isaac, but still pretty good.

Surf / swamp music, misc

• The Catalina's - "Banzai Washout" (Lost Legend of Surf Guitar - Volume 2 - Point Panic)
• Lively Ones - "Forty Miles of Bad Surf" (Surf City/Surfin' South Of the Border)
• Los Lonely Boys - "Onda" (Los Lonely Boys, Dual Disc Edition)

The Cheepskates - "Last Minute Rush" (Run Better Run)

Surf, not as raw as Dick Dale, nor as crazily fast as "Man, Or Astroman?", but pretty nice.

Instrumental, but curiously enough with some samples near the end.

Tito & Tarantula - "Back to the House" (Tarantalism)

Amazing song; the ultimate mariachi-rock, slowly building up...

All songs they did in Desperado are amazing.

Rod Picott - "Gettin' to me" (Tiger Torn Dixon Blues)

Tito & Tarantula channel. Not extremely gritty, bit swampy.

Old 97's - misc

• "Just Like California" - still the best song
• "Four Leaf Clover" - powerful, fast, punky
  

Old 97's - "Just Like California" (Too Far To Care)

Swinging, alt country-folk ish, cool!


Just like California was not even there
Since it's gone I'm so withdrawn, I ain't got no one nowhere
Right beside the ocean, my darlin' Clementine
Well the water got high and she never got dry and she was a water sign

Time is on my bad side
Halfway there just wouldn't be fair
So I'm goin' all the way tonight
Halfway there just wouldn't be fair
So I'm goin' all the way tonight

Just like California to make a fool of me
Steal the sideshow, burn the disco, slide into the sea
I'm a thinking person and I think that it's wrong
To keep on saying true love's waiting, when true love is long gone

Time is on my bad side
Halfway there just wouldn't be fair
So I'm goin' all the way tonight
Halfway there just wouldn't be fair
So I'm goin' all the way tonight
Halfway there just wouldn't be fair
So I'm goin' all the way tonight

Idiots and Angels

animated film. Fun enough, but it suffers from the common problem: the animator seemed, particularly in the beginning, too eager to show off what he could do.

The film would have benefit by cutting a few pieces and shortening some scenes.

Made me think of Mr Pye a bit, though in this animated feature the protagonist does not 'earn' the wings because of his good behaviour. Au contraire, they are a burden to him because they force him to do good.

Interesting that the protagonist is killed off around 2/3rd of the film