New Favorite Song - Mushaboom

Feist - Mushaboom, from the album Let it Die. (download)

So many of you probably know how lots of the music I enjoy comes from movie soundtracks. In particular, I'm kinda in love with the Garden State soundtrack. I was even reading a forum the other day where there was a whole thread about other artists to look at if you liked that soundtrack. There were a bunch of recommendations, including Feist, who I had never heard of at the time. I became and instant fan.

Days later, literally days, the new ipod nano came out and the commercial was basically her music video for her song "1, 2, 3, 4", which is a good song, sure, but I was like... "fuck, now everyone likes her. I'm not hip anymore" So this song, which by the way is way better than "1, 2, 3, 4" is my swan song to the 2 days I was hip. Enjoy.

BTW, if her song had been "1, 1, 2, 3" him... well then... different story.

New Favorite Song - Paper Planes

M.I.A. Paper Planes (download)

So I'm sitting in Delta of Venus eating my Mexican scramble... no wait, I'm waiting in line about to order my Mexican scramble and soy decaf mocha and this song comes on. Delta usually plays some pretty eclectic stuff, so it's a nice place to hang out if you want to hear stuff you wouldn't normally hear. Actually, I'm not about to put my hip cred on the line here, for all I know, I'm the last person to have heard this song.

It's one of those songs that you hear and can't help but nodding your head to the beat. Remember that scene from "High Fidelity" where John Cusack's character throws on "Dry the Rain" by the Beta Band, and everyone in the store starts to bob along. You know, right before the shoplifter scene. Yeah... It's like that. Who doesn't love lyrics like:

No one on the corner has swag like us
Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless
We pack and deliver like UPS trucks
Already going hell just pumping that gas

The only problem is that I was just doing some video editing and had to download a David Hasselhoff song as a joke for the soundtrack which comes on right after Paper Planes if I don't catch it in time. Lame. So consider this my first installment of my New Favorite Song. Come back for more.