My Morning Jacket Goes To The Pancake Mountain

I'm like spitting out my Peanut Butter Puffins from laughing...

BUT WHY IS DENISE NAKED?!!

My Morning Jacket on HuffPo

Nice interview with Jim on Huffington Post.

Laughing at the pleasant silence coming from Tom, Bo and Carl.

Had a splendid splendid time on tour. Photos and recap coming soon. And by soon I mean sometime before October when I go back out again. Just kitten. It will be up next week. I think.

Song For A Day - Star Fruits Surf Rider

Let's go ahead and not talk about how I haven't blogged in ten days because a) I am lame and b) I have been on tour and it's busier than expected. I'll have a whole post with photos when I get home. Tonight is my last show for this run and I'm a bit sad but happy happy to get back to Kentucky and the creature comforts of the OC.

I have long loved this video because, well, stuffed animals! Thanks to fab artist Benjamin Birdie for reminding me of Cornelius today even if it was in a bummer way for us both.

And Giving Off Sparks

Good lord, today it's TheOtherJeff's birthday. He's Jefferson Stolarship over there on the ol' blogroll.

Jeff is by all accounts a very nice person. He, like so many of the people I actually like, is someone I've never met. Yay internet friends!

This video is not meant in a romantic overture sort of way as you all know I'm mawwied and he has a girlfriend who once nearly got arrested for singing this song. Turns out not everyone loves Bonnie Tyler which frankly I just don't understand.

Happy Birthday, Jeffalicious! I'll be sure to find a nice Google Reader share just for you today. It will probably involve naked clowns riding dinosaurs through Gotham.

Falling Into Pools On A Daily Basis

Happy (slightly belated) Birthday to the ridiculously youthful Jeff Sundin.

I hope it was full of thrills, chills and beauty pageant wins.

Song For A Day - The Closest We Will Ever Be

This song reminds me of autumn... of early darkness and rustling leaves. Chills that warm you. Driving through neighborhoods, wondering what the flickering lights in the houses are about.

These days I wish for fall an awful lot.

Song For A Day - Rise

This might be the greatest video I have ever seen.

If missing the 70s is wrong then I don't want to be right.

Songs For A Day - Marvelous Mashups

I'm laughing like stuffed animals over here at these lovely offerings...

Knock Out Eileen - LL Cool J vs Dexy's Midnight Runners (Lobsterdust mix)



Invisible Gurls - Genesis vs Katy Perry (Chambaland mix)



In other news, I'm back out on the tourio next week with the My Morning Jacket people for ten days. A reunion with my lovely California all the way through to the Chicago place. Say hi or something if you see me getting bonked on the head in the pit. Please God don't let it be 90 bazillion degrees out there, that's all I ask. Looking forward to more internet friend meetups with people cooler than me.

Someone I follow on Twitter posted this CS Lewis quote today... "All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be." So let's all pretend to be something kick-ass, yeah?

Song For A Day - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

This is my favorite scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

This Dream Academy rendition is my favorite version of this song. Yes, I like it more than The Smiths' version.

In fact, I lurv it so much it's the song Tom and I walked down the aisle to when did that nuptial thing.

The end.

Song For A Day - Watching Xanadu

I have loved this song for many, many years and I can't believe I never saw this video which features Mull Historical Society's Colin MacIntyre running around in a bunny suit. It's like it was made for me! How did I miss it? I'll always tie this record to the mixing of It Still Moves because I remember picking Jim up at Capitol one night and driving around while half singing the songs under my breath. He probably thought I was touched in the head.

Tonight I will not be watching Xanadu, however. I will be watching Jersey Shore much to Tom's chagrin. Pity his poor soul, you guys. Project Runway also starts this eve. This is quite the conundrum. You can follow along with me on the Twitter. It will be sordid for sure.

Song For A Day - Be Near Me

Using this song to go to my happy place to stave off stabby feelings over this news about BP. What a bunch of tossers. I really hope Martin Fry wouldn't approve of this.

If Gabriel Wants To Rollerblade...

My people, they are awesome.

Song For A Day - With Or Without You

I wonder if Belgian choir Scala and Kolacny Brothers imagined how often they would be Googled after being featured in the trailer for the upcoming film The Social Network (see below). Their haunting rendition of Radiohead's "Creep" is still stuck in my head.

Here's the ladies doing U2's "With or Without You."



The Social Network trailer

The My Morning Jacket Press Conference - Can You See The Hard Helmet On My Head

Well, that happened.

That's Tom Blankenship (aka husband type person or, to you, MMJ bassist type person) showing off his supercute hardhat that they gave the boyos so they could tour the future KFC Yum! Center.

Tom says, "The new arena is gigantic and fancy, like pro-team fancy."

I did not go on this tour because I do not don bright red plastic headwear.

So, this whole brouhaha was for the upcoming My Morning Jacket show at Louisville's very own aforementioned brand new arena. The venue is hosting a series of opening concerts featuring The Eagles, MMJ and (haha) Justin Bieber.

Tickets for the October 29 MMJ show are $45 and go on sale August 14 at Ticketmaster. Local awesome saucies Wax Fang open. A special general admission cash-only sale will take place on August 12 at Ear X-tacy's new location at 2226 Bardstown Road. Ear X-tacy moves on July 30.

I don't actually remember much of the presser as I was too busy trying to live tweet it. Which I did... poorly. Oops.

Jim talked about the vitalosity of local business, artists and such and representatives of the Louisville Youth Orchestra, who will be performing with the band, were on hand to talk about how psyched they are that MMJ is donating $1 from each ticket to their scholarship fund. The fund raises money for at risk youth to be able to attend school. The head orchestra honcho said that they should double their fund with this influx of bucks. So that is most excellent.

Umm, here's the rest in pictures...


Jim talks about things and answers the question, "New record?" with "We're working on it."


Happy Patrick! Happy Tom! Happy John from Ear X-tacy! Dude with camera! I'm pretty sure that's Jeffrey Lee Puckett's arm.


I'm having this banner turned into bedsheets. Not really.


I finally met this guy. This photo is old - from the Evil Urges release in-store thingy back in 2008. His name is Benny and he is very nice. He used to play in a band called Elliott. I never saw them but heard they were quite good. Kevin from Wax Fang was in that group, as well.


And finally, here's a closeup of the hardhat because I just know you really wanted to see it from another angle. An angle that is not atop Tom's head.

Alrighty then... now back to regularly scheduled programming. Regularly scheduled programming looking something like this:

My Morning Jacket Presser

I'll be live-tweeting the My Morning Jacket press conference this afternoon. Follow along @mspark, if you like. I'm sure my feed will be full of essential observations like, "Tom is wearing a grey shirt and Levis."

Also, you know, whatever their announcement thingy is. But from what I've read around the internets it's not going to be a giant surprise. Yummeh!

See you peeps in a bit.

photo by Eric Mayers

My Morning Jacket Random Randomness

I'm taking us back to 2003 today... with this photo and the little listening bit. I remember the first time I went to the Gallrein's farm in Shelbyville to see the studio and hang out with the random dogs that patrolled the fields. What a fabulous serene place it is. Oh, it's corn season! I highly recommend that you make the drive out there and pick up some of the best ever. I dream about that stuff.

In other news, MMJ will have some tasty news to impart upon the fine citizens of the 502 tomorrow. I myself am trés excited.

In the meantime, you can take a little trip to New York with me vis a vis this live version of "The Bear" (one of my top five fave songs of all time, probably) recorded at The Mercury Lounge on February 1, 2003.

Have a gander: My Morning Jacket - The Bear - Live at Mercury Lounge.

Words... There Are None

(Thanks Shane. I think.)

Today's Mesmerosity - Movin' Right Along

Two great things that go great together...





It's entirely possible that I'm just amusing myself at this point.

I'll have some actual news next week. Really.

Maybe I'll have a Song For A Day later. You just never know.

Today's Mesmerosity - Asleep From Day

Today's gif music action...

Watch the kittycat.



Listen to the Chemical Brothers' "Asleep From Day"




That kitty changes directions, right? It's not just me? Is it me? Help me out here.

Clearly I Have Too Much Time On My Hands

Did you know that if you listen to this...



And watch this...




























Oh, I don't know how this happens... but I was mesmerized for a while. Let's not discuss the strange confluence of events that led to this discovery.

My internet friend Matthew told me to blog about my desire to be a shapeshifter but I decided this was probably more interesting.