MANGE BLIGHT 07.06.11 PART 3

I've been playing 40 minutes or so of music every Wednesday nite from 10PM-Midnite on WMUA with my buds Mange Blight a.k.a. DJ Double Dads a.k.a. Alex "Zimbabwe" Hornbeck and Gnarfield. Download/stream my set from a few weeks ago then make sure to tune in tomorrow nite at 10PM for the show, streaming from wmua.org/listen -- I'm on around 11:20.

Mange Blight 07.06.11 Part 3

TRACKLIST

Lamburg Tony - Vaertshussport
Death Grips - Guillotine
Eric Copeland - Krankendudel
Diamond Catalog - Valveneration
Forma - 237
Cupp Cave - Thoughtograph
Holy Other - Touch (Matthewdavid Remix)
Hype Williams - Warlord II (Odyssey)
Aguirre - Layphi
Edibles - Mind Fry

TANGENTS REQUEST #040

FINAL FBUS_RADIO ON NEWTOWN_RADIO 6-8PM EST WEDNESDAY MAY 11

This song is dedicated to Ian Nelson & FBUS Radio, which will hopefully live on in new spaces & time zones but will live on in our hearts forever. FBUS Radio has been my friend for over a year now, a friend I could count on every week to be like, "Hey girl, cheer up, it's radio time!!!" And I'd be like, "YEEEAHHH DAWG!!!" I hope for the sake of the internet, the world, and the well-being of mankind, we all meet here again very soon.

Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles-based writer, music connoisseur, blogger & an all out enthusiast for leisurely activities. She is kind of funny, but no one really gives a shit because she has awesome hair. Marissa enjoys cheap wine, sunbathing & jerking off to vintage motel postcards on Flickr.

TANGENTS REQUEST #039

FBUS_RADIO_NEWTOWN_RADIO_6_TO_8_PM_EST_WEDNESDAYS

Today I am requesting Beach Fossils' "Golden Age" because I saw them live last night for the first time. Maybe I'm just mad out of touch, but I had no idea they had such a large following. It's completely warranted though if you've got your hands on their releases, and especially if you've seen one of their shows. Their performance is very clean, which is mad respectable for hazy pop considering how many acts have a tendency to implode and fizzle across the stage when trying to accomplish this summery lo-fi sort of thing. Last night's show solidified their likeness to Real Estate, which is one of the best compliments I could give a band. Tight and true to their recordings, it was a truly pleasurable experience.

Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles-based writer, music connoisseur, blogger & an all out enthusiast for leisurely activities. She is kind of funny, but no one really gives a shit because she has awesome hair. Marissa enjoys cheap wine, sunbathing & jerking off to vintage motel postcards on Flickr.

TANGENTS REQUEST #038

NO RADIO THIS WEEK GUYS OOPS BUT HERE'S YER TANGENTS ANYWAY

I wrote a Haiku for today's request because Haikus are about seasons, and MY SEASON IS UPON US.

It may usually be sunny
But that doesn't make it summer
And I love that shit

A brand new Webber
With christmas lights in the courtyard
When are you coming to chill?

Not everyone can be Julian Lynch
I still dig this song anyway
Jams are as jams do

Honeysuckle all around
Sea salt breezes from afar
Get me my bikini

We gotta a hammock to hang
So let's get to it
I want to sit on that bitch.

I realize I ended up straying from the correct Haiku format but whatever. I've got mad poetic licenses. I hear the weather's lovely in New York, and I know it is here, so I hope everything in between has a beautiful day too.

Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles-based writer, music connoisseur, blogger & an all out enthusiast for leisurely activities. She is kind of funny, but no one really gives a shit because she has awesome hair. Marissa enjoys cheap wine, sunbathing & jerking off to vintage motel postcards on Flickr.

TANGENTS REQUEST #037

LISTEN TO FBUS_RADIO ON NEWTOWN RADIO
TODAY AND EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM 6-8PM EST

Happy 4-20 y'all! Today I am requesting Dr. Dre's "Next Episode" because the first time I celebrated this blessed day, this song was like my favorite. I had a slumber party at my house while my parents were at a "business dinner" but, looking back, they might have been observing the holiday too. At any rate, we didn't have any apples - the standard equipment freshman year - so we used a potato. I spent the entire time mostly out of my mind, laughing and being like, "COMPTON LONG BEACH INGLEWOOODDD" and "HEY HEY HEYYY... SMOKE WEED EVERYDAYYY," which are absolutely ridiculous things for some fifteen year old white bitch to roll around saying, especially in Paul Frank pajamas.

Luckily, soon after the aforementioned fated day, I was no longer going around quoting rap songs because I didn't make the cheer squad and subsequently dyed my hair and started quoting Bright Eyes.

I am still unsure which made me look more idiotic.

At any rate, I still love this song and I still love smoking weed. Please enjoy today to the fullest, as I cannot truly enjoy it until tonight since I have to go do my fucking taxes this afternoon, probably cause I was too busy procrastinating and smoking weed when I should have originally been doing them.

Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg, Kurupt & Nate Dogg - The Next Episode

EDITOR'S NOTE:

R.I.P. Nate Dogg




Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles-based writer, music connoisseur, blogger & an all out enthusiast for leisurely activities. She is kind of funny, but no one really gives a shit because she has awesome hair. Marissa enjoys cheap wine, sunbathing & jerking off to vintage motel postcards on Flickr.

TANGENTS REQUEST #36

LISTEN TO FBUS_RADIO ON NEWTOWN RADIO
TODAY AND EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM 6-8PM EST

It recently dawned on me -- although I've been working out and getting in shape, there is no end. Like, once you get in shape you don't get to just stop. You don't work out for a year straight and are then fit for the rest of your life. You have to keep doing it. And that, to me, really sucks. To deal the with prospect of my mornings always being owned by low-weight strength training DVDs, I keep myself motivated by making up laughably unrealistic scenarios in my head that I would want to be in shape for. My latest motivational delusion: pretending that Dirty Beaches will one day do some Chris Isaak-inspired music video in which they will need someone that's not a model to run around on a beach and that I can be that someone running around cause I will be so fit.

I know. Ridiculous, right?
This is seriously how I live my life,
through a series of elaborate & impractical fantasies,
with a really great soundtrack.

My craziness aside, I really love this song. It's my favorite right now. It makes me want to get molested in the back of a station wagon after prom, like, sixty years ago.

Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles-based writer, music connoisseur, blogger & an all out enthusiast for leisurely activities. She is kind of funny, but no one really gives a shit because she has awesome hair. Marissa enjoys cheap wine, sunbathing & jerking off to vintage motel postcards on Flickr.

TANGENTS REQUEST #035

LISTEN TO FBUS_RADIO ON NEWTOWN RADIO
TODAY AND EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM 6-8PM EST

Today I am requesting Unknown Mortal Orchestra's "fFunny fFrends." I've been really taken by this fuzzy little pop jam. The lo-fi melody is familiar yet new, nostalgic & catchy. It reminds me of being really stoned in the afternoon at this old friend's pad, which was right by the beach in San Clemente. We'd come home from being at the beach all day & just lay around the living room, all salty, laughing about dumb shit you laugh about when you're high & watching the sun change positions across the stark white walls. I love music that takes me somewhere, and not to reinforce any Chris Weingarten-ish remarks about how we're all about "nostalgia," but I especially love music that takes me somewhere I've already been & can make that moment alive again. My friend, the one who lived by the beach, was always on my case about "internalizing music" & how everything didn't have to remind me of something. It doesn't have to remind me of something, but I think it's a lovely & welcomed coincidence when it does.

Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles-based writer, music connoisseur, blogger & an all out enthusiast for leisurely activities. She is kind of funny, but no one really gives a shit because she has awesome hair. Marissa enjoys cheap wine, sunbathing & jerking off to vintage motel postcards on Flickr.

TANGENTS REQUEST #034

Today I am requesting Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention's "Who Needs The Peace Corps" because I am bored with all the music I have & feel like mocking every fiber of my frustration, especially my desire to drop out of my life & just get back to the things that really matter, like downloading torrents & eating tabs of acid. I suppose this is all a part of growing up, but who said I ever wanted to do that shit anyway? Being an adult is mad stressful! But I'm hoping, if I work hard enough, I can retire one day & spend all my time downloading music from blogs.

Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles-based writer, music connoisseur, blogger & an all out enthusiast for leisurely activities. She is kind of funny, but no one really gives a shit because she has awesome hair. Marissa enjoys cheap wine, sunbathing & jerking off to vintage motel postcards on Flickr.

TANGENTS REQUEST #033

[EDITOR'S NOTE: This was requested last Wednesday a.k.a. when it was waaay more relevant BUT for real, there was no radio last week and this is a very important request to be made whenever so LET ME RIDE.]

RIP NATE DOGG. I'LL ALWAYS HAVE SIXTEEN IN THE CLIP & ONE IN THE HOLE OF MY METAPHORICAL LIFE GUN. I SMOKE LIKE YOU SMOKE, LIKE EVERYDAY. BUT TODAY, TODAY, THE 213 IS GOING TO REGULATE (on my bong, not on like, hos on the curb or people with real life guns because I mean, I'm tough for a bloggin' ass bitch but that shit does not pull in Compton [I hear]).

Warren G - Regulate Ft. Nate Dogg



Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles based blogger who enjoys music, potato salad and jerking off all day because she works from home. Check out her personal blog, Tangents & The Times, and follow her on Twitter @MarissaARoss.

TANGENTS REQUEST #032

I woke up this morning, totally hung over, and realized a couple things. First, that I was definitely not working out. Secondly, that I managed to break my full length mirror last night. And lastly, that it is Wednesday & that I hadn't written in my request, mostly because I came home from work early yesterday and proceeded to get started on the endeavor that started this whole mess -- me, wine, and a bottle of Jim Beam without a cap.

Today I am requesting Felt's "Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow."
The lyrics are just really important to me & always seem super relevant.

You're trying to fool somebody, but you end up fooling yourself
You're reading from the Book of the Dead but you don't know what is about
I listened to you now maybe you'll listen to me
You're trying much to hard to make your world seem like a dream
You're stepping out of something
Yeah, you're stepping out of line
Stop making a movie of it
Oh it's just my style
Stop sitting around and thinking
You're gonna do no good
I thought your poetry was sometimes good

How amazing, right?
I know! I could live off this song forever!

Unfortunately, for some reason, I couldn't find the album version I have on YouTube [although it is on my latest mix if you want to hear it (nice, organic plug right?)] so this will have to do. I mean, this is OKAY, but the album version is so much better. It's a deeper tone, much better quality I think personally. The ones on the internet have different lyrics (Reading from a season in hell? Does that even make sense? NO, BUT LIKE OKAY) & have backup singers & strings & shit. The video to this one is pretty dope though, so you know, I guess everything in life is a give & take.

Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles based blogger who enjoys music, potato salad and jerking off all day because she works from home. Check out her personal blog, Tangents & The Times, and follow her on Twitter @MarissaARoss.

TANGENTS REQUEST #031

Today I am requesting a little jammer called "Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)" by Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz, solely because for the last week my household has been going on YouTube tours of 90's hiphop. 1997 was a great year. Every time I think about hiphop from '97, I'm always like, "YO GOD, WHEN WILL I HAVE MY '97??? WHERE'S MY CRISTAL??? WHERE'S MY LEATHER JACKET??? WHERE'S MY BABES IN CROP TOPS???"

Then I remember I don't believe in God
but I do own crop tops.

I also really like two things about this video, in particular. I mean, I love it all because I love 90's music videos but I particularly love the crazy camera shots -- I don't even know what they're called, but it's like the shot where they're 360'in around the bros & you're like damn, where is the camera equipment! I also really enjoy the DJ's elbow moves around 1:53. He seems like a chill dude. The blimp was also a nice touch.

Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles based blogger who enjoys music, potato salad and jerking off all day because she works from home. Check out her personal blog, Tangents & The Times, and follow her on Twitter @MarissaARoss.

TANGENTS REQUEST #030

My parents listened to a lot of horrible shit while I was growing up. I mean, I appreciate it all, don't get me wrong. But our six disc player was usually filled with Yanni, Eric Clapton Unplugged, Alan Jackson and like, Whitney Houston. It was desolate, aside from each having their one silver lining. My father was really into the Beatles and Floyd, and my mother was suuuppperrr into the B-52's. Most of my early childhood memories are soundtracked by the early B-52's. My mom would blast them from the surround-sound on our patio while watering, my sister and myself choreographing dance moves on the deck. She'd come home from their concerts with big pins and earrings of their logos, which I am now cursing myself for losing amidst the moves and transitions that have led me into adulthood.

Saturday night, Nick Ray [Speculator] was over with whoever he performed with that night -- Ryan something or other, such a super nice and talented dude. Anyway, he was fiddling around on my iTunes and he put on the B-52's. This was the first time anyone besides my sister had put on the B-52's. It made me so fucking happy. Usually, I reserve my B-52 parties for myself, while I'm getting pumped up for the evening, doing my makeup in the bathroom before hitting the town, but today, today I share my love with the blogosphere.

The B-52's - Dance This Mess Around



Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles based blogger who enjoys music, potato salad and jerking off all day because she works from home. Check out her personal blog, Tangents & The Times, and follow her on Twitter @MarissaARoss.

TANGENTS REQUEST #029

Today I am requesting Gang Of Four's "Damaged Goods". This song is so awesome! There is no way you can not throw back a couple hard cocktails & throw your hips around to this shit, maybe even get in a really sloppy makeout sesh with some rando you met outside the bathroom. This was actually Gang of Four's first single, which I think is pretty dope. On Wiki it says it needs citation, but I believe it was an "indie #1 hit" 4 SURE. No citation needed, I'm working off blind faith, people. Blind faith and unbridled enthusiasm! If Times New Viking or some other fuzz-power band covered this & released it next week, I am willing to bet that at least eight people who didn't know it was a cover, would shit their pants thinking it was the best song of 2011.

TOO BAD IT'S FROM '78 BITCHES!
That's what my GChat status would say.

In fact, that's what my GChat status is going to say anyway.

TANGENTS REQUEST #028

Alright, look. I know some of you guys may not have been here since the beginning. I used to just request songs every week just because I loved Friendship Bracelet and Ian's radio programming. Then Ian gave me a column and when that happened, he introduced me here on FBUS and was like, "Oh, she puts so much time into her requests." Sometimes, that is totally true. Sometimes, I can't wait to request a song. I think about it constantly and can't wait to hear it over the radio because like, let's be real, hearing a song you want to on the radio is awesome. It was awesome when you were twelve in the back of your mom's pseudo-SUV thing, and it is awesome now.

But sometimes, I'm just like, stoned, and like, "LOL, THIS VIDEO IS GREAT. I LOVE SUMMER. CAN'T WAIT FOR SXSW. GUHHHHDAYYYUUUMMM, SOMEONE GET ME A COCKTAIL. WITH LIME. AND COCONUT. OR JUST WINE. WHATEVER, I'M GREAT AT PLAYING PRETEND WHEN I'M DRUNK."

That's just kinda where I am right now.
And it's still awesome to hear that shit on the radio.
So, enjoy world! I know it's cold most places but just think happy,
California thoughts.
Sunshine, palm trees, pool sides, monkey-ass fools playing guitar.

Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles based blogger who enjoys music, potato salad and jerking off all day because she works from home. Check out her personal blog, Tangents & The Times, and follow her on Twitter @MarissaARoss.

TANGENTS REQUEST #027

In honor of this Groundhog saying it's spring, I'm requesting Houses' "Endless Spring." I hope for all my friends on the East Coast Spring comes soon and the snow subsides, as for my fellow Californians, I hope our weather continues to be beautiful, although, I wish these cool breezes would relax. Like for real, I'm rolling around in my cardigan and come afternoon, I am not prepared for how chilly it gets! I nearly froze my ass off the other day in a shady spot on the coffee shop's patio! Ha. I know, I know, I'm spoiled. But really, that's not the issue. The real issue is I only own an arsenal of tank tops and I'm terrible at layering.

Happy Spring!

Houses - Endless Spring from Houses on Vimeo.

Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles based blogger who enjoys music, potato salad and jerking off all day because she works from home. Check out her personal blog, Tangents & The Times, and follow her on Twitter @MarissaARoss.

TANGENTS REQUEST #026

Today I'm requesting Billy Crystal's "You Look Marvelous," because half the shit I've been downloading lately is just a heavy precursor to this song. Also because I usually put this on after I've blow-dried my hair & moisturized & I'm staring at myself in my mirror in my underwear. I just sing "YOU LOOK MARVELOUS" to myself over & over again. I took a tip from Stephen Colbert & his Cheap Trick warm-up. Yeah, he sings Cheap Trick to himself in the mirror before his shows BECAUSE HE'S A PROFESSIONAL. Personally, Billy's voice in this just really revs my confidence. I don't know what it is. Billy Crystal is just so flattering & inspirational. It's like, "You know what, Billy? I DO HAVE THE LEGS OF A DANCER! I've been doing Tracy Anderson's Dance Cardio every morning as my New Year's Resolution! I AM going to go network the shit out of this mixer at the Marriott!"

Ha! I'm just kidding. All of that was a huge joke! Except the whole me dancing to this in my underwear in the mirror. Definitely every morning. And the Dance Cardio. Definitely not every morning.

Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles based blogger who enjoys music, potato salad and jerking off all day because she works from home. Check out her personal blog, Tangents & The Times, and follow her on Twitter @MarissaARoss.

TANGENTS REQUEST #025

SO I figured I'd drop a message before this week's request. Just wanted to remind y'all that I now host a radio program on Newtown Radio called Friendship Bracelet Radio. The show airs Wednesday evenings (LIKE THIS EVENING) from 6-8PM EST. Stream from newtownradio.com. Every week for the past who knows how many weeks, Marissa A. Ross (Tangents & The Times) has requested a song to be played on the radio show I have been a part of at the time. Here's what she wants to hear this week:

So, I totally slept on this, which apparently came out in September or something? Where was I? I should have been on top of Electric Sunset's every move considering how devastated I was about the dissolution of Desolation Wilderness. I mean, I had "Soda" but then I guess I just forgot? I don't know. I don't have any legitimate excuses for myself. Whatever. Okay, so I've been totally jamming on this album this week. It has all the synthy vibes that are prevalent right now but, it's a lot poppier I think. It's so chill yet so melodic & upbeat. It's like, chill-pop. That's what I'm deciding. I really have no qualifications to be making up genres, but whatever, lol. Like that's ever stopped me! This is the blogosphere, where people who have no business talking about things, come to talk about things! Especially things they don't have business talking about! LOL! Alright, so I may not have the jurisdiction to carve out new niches but chill-pop or not, today I'm requesting Electric Sunset's "Last Night On Earth". I can't tell you how perfect it is to listen to while driving to work, three bong rips deep, under a perfectly clear blue sky. On that note... hm, yeah, I should probably get to work now.

Electric Sunset - Last Night on Earth (stream from Muxtape)



Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles based blogger who enjoys music, potato salad and jerking off all day because she works from home. Check out her personal blog, Tangents & The Times, and follow her on Twitter @MarissaARoss.

TANGENTS REQUEST #024

By the time you read this, Monster Rally's LP Coral will have been released yesterday. This is a huge deal for me because Monster Rally embodies everything I love, and everything I will love about my future life in an upscale 1970's suburban-ish home. It is perfect for my tiki-garden parties and is also perfect for afternoons I'll spend at my pristinely plain pool with an illegally installed diving board, drinking mojitos. It is perfect for my evenings spent lounging & laughing at my own jokes on chaises with fine wine AND(!) it is also perfect for snorting shit-tons of cocaine & rolling around on burnt sienna shag carpet (I imagine)! This is my future people, my future with Monster Rally. Monster Rally has no idea how critical they are not only to my current lifestyle, but also to my impending future. So critical. Like, most days I wake up wondering where I was before I discovered Monster Rally. I'm usually like, "Oh, still listening to Hal Aloma & his Hawaiian Orchestra." But that's not the point. The point is Monster Rally was my favorite band of 2010. I think it's just one dude, not even sure if it's a band but like, it's so important to me. I hope you all buy the full-length. If not for the music, for the fact it's SEA-FOAM GREEN!!! Which is one of the closest colors to mint-teal, the best color of all time (for me).

Order the vinyl from Gold Robot now. Live the life, dude. Just give over to the leisure.

Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles based blogger who enjoys music, potato salad and jerking off all day because she works from home. Check out her personal blog, Tangents & The Times, and follow her on Twitter @MarissaARoss.

TANGENTS REQUEST #023

Today I am requesting The Zombies' "This Will Be Our Year." This song is off Odessey and Oracle, the strongest Zombies album in my personal & sometimes humble opinion. I am requesting this song because this is my first request of the new year and I would like to start it on a positive note. See, in real life, 2011 has started quite rockily for it's whole five days in existence but I think keeping an optimistic attitude is the key to not losing anymore jobs, not working for anymore assholes and not getting the flu again this year.

Getting the flu is really terrible when you're older because you have to miss work instead of school, so instead of skipping out on boring ass math, you're skipping out on much needed cash. On that note, let me add "get a flu shot" to the list of resolutions I'm sure I won't complete this year and get back to taking in mad fluids. Wish you all a healthy 2011, for real.

Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles based blogger who enjoys music, potato salad and jerking off all day because she works from home. Check out her personal blog, Tangents & The Times, and follow her on Twitter @MarissaARoss.

TANGENTS REQUEST #021

Today, being all three or so days before that Jesus cat was born and I used to get showered with presents back before the housing industry crashed, I am requesting Sammy Davis Jr.'s "Christmas Time All Over The World." It is my favorite super cheesy holiday jam and I am a glutton for super cheesy holiday jams! I eat 'em up like cheese puffs, for real! Like, it just brings the biggest, lamest, dorkiest smile to my face. It's just a tradition for me to dance joyously, and horribly, all over my house listening to the Christmas With The Rat Pack album. "Christmas Time All Over The World" is actually considered kind of a gem because it was previously unreleased up until the Rat Pack compilation came out in 2002, but that might have been because this song is kinda terrible (in the best way possible). It is like the "It's A Small World" of seasonal tunes but I don't care. I probably don't care because I sing a damn good impression of Sammy - and Frank and Dean for that matter. It's kind of embarrassing I sing more like male lounge singers rather than like, I don't know, Mariah Carey, but whatever. At some point in your life you have to accept who you are. It just happens I've had to accept that I am an alto. #whatareyagonnado

Marissa A. Ross is a Los Angeles based blogger who enjoys music, potato salad and jerking off all day because she works from home. Check out her personal blog, Tangents & The Times, and follow her on Twitter @MarissaARoss.