Reaffirming my hipster bona fides

[mr_bad_example]

I've been listening to The Current for a solid week. It's good. There are still a few kinks to be worked out with the format--I heard the same Tegan and Sara song twice in one day--but on the whole, it's sounding very good indeed. The format reminds me very much of the evening programming on KUNI (the night music that's on before "World Cafe." "World Cafe," by the way and near as I can tell, consists entirely of Peter Gabriel), which turned me on to an amazing amount of stuff. So, any station that plays anything besides the same three tracks from REM and U2 and that plays more local bands than just THE REPLACEMENTS UNTIL THERE'S NO FUCKING END is fine by me. I notice that nobody's yet been able to restrain Mark Wheat's self-important blathering, but I guess you can't have everything.

The whole Rev 105 thing was well over by the time I moved up here. It was the station I listened to on my trips up here and I liked it fine, but from what I gather, there were people in this town who were absolutely livin' it. I've heard The Current being favorably compared to Rev (and apparently their airstaff is basically The Old Rev Jocks' Class Reunion), so hey, it's a chance for me to catch up on the whole mid-90s hipster thing. Gimme an OK Cola and call Richard Linklater.

Comments

[archangelsk.livejournal.com]

Is that version of "Rebel Rebel" by Seu Jorge? If so, it's Portuguese and comes from the soundtrack to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. There are four such covers on the album ("Starman," "Rebel Rebel," "Life on Mars?" and "Rock and Roll Suicide"), and a couple more in the movie ("Space Oddity," "Queen Bitch"). David Bowie songs remade as Brazilian sambas are the most oddly perfect flourish in a movie full of similar touches.

[archangelsk.livejournal.com]

Whoops, make that five on the disc: I forgot "Five Years" toward the end.

[gismonda.livejournal.com]

Yes! That's exactly what it is! It's kind of haunting, actually. It's just weird to hear it SO MUCH.

I'll have to pick up that soundtrack, though. I think I've already missed the movie. :/