
Hope you have a fun, safe, and better 2010! Get these jams.
TRACK LISTING
- Gene Kelly & Betty Noyes – Would You?/End Title
- Jens Lekman – Run Away With Me
- Crooked Fingers – What Never Comes
- Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum, & Durr – You Can’t Blame Me
- Devo – Gut Feeling (Slap Your Mammy)
- Prince – U Got The Look
- Dâm Funk – Mirrors
- BK-One featuring Aceyalone, Myka 9, and Abstract Rude – Mega
- UGK – 7th Street/Texas Ave (Uncleared Sample)
- Talking Heads – The Big Country (Alternate Version)
- Solange featuring Bilal – Cosmic Journey
- R. Kelly – Be My #2
- Aural Exciters – Paradise
- Sparks – I Married Myself
- Roxy Music – Avalon
- Sleater-Kinney – Modern Girl
- Camille Saint-Saëns – Aquarium
- Van Morrison – And It Stoned Me
- Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Way Over There
- Prince Buster – Ghost Dance

The second part of an incomplete survey concerning sexuality in urban music. Parental advisory, explicit lyrics. Download here. The first volume may be found here.
TRACK LISTING
- Maxwell – Bad Habits – 2009
- Jay-Z – Girls, Girls, Girls – 2001
- Little Brother featuring Lil’ Wayne – Breakin My Heart – 2007
- Prince Paul featuring Breezly Brewin and Heroine - The Other Line – 1999
- Destiny’s Child – Say My Name – 1999
- R. Kelly – Real Talk – 2007
- Aaliyah – Are You That Somebody? – 1998
- UGK featuring Outkast – Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You) – 2007
- Tray Loc – Once Upon A Freak – 1995
- A Tribe Called Quest – Find A Way – 1998
- Murs – The Pain – 2004
- Lauryn Hill – Ex Factor – 1998
- Grand Puba featuring Sadat X – I Like It (Blend Mix) – 2000
- Nas – Poppa Was A Playa – 2002
- Ghostface Killah featuring Carl Thomas and Raekwon – Never Be the Same Again – 2001
- Janet Jackson – Any Time, Any Place – 1993

An incomplete survey of sexuality in urban music. Parental advisory, explicit lyrics. Download here.
TRACK LISTING:
- Sisqo – Thong Song (Acapella) – 2000
- Splack Pack – Shake That Ass Bitch – 1993
- Kelis - Milkshake (Remix) – 2003
- J-Kwon – Tipsy – 2004
- Outkast – We Luv Deez Hoez – 2000
- Lil’ Wayne (Featuring Static Major) – Lollipop – 2008
- David Banner – Play – 2005
- Ludacris (Featuring Shawna) – What’s Your Fantasy – 2000
- Khia – My Neck, My Back (Lick It) – 2002
- LL Cool J (Featuring LeShaun) – Doin It – 1995
- Dr. Dre (Featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg) – Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang – 1992
- Missy Elliott - Work It – 2002
- Lil’ Jon & the Eastside Boyz – Get Low – 2002
- The Notorious B.I.G. – Big Poppa – 1994
- Young Money – Every Girl – 2009
- T.I. – Why You Wanna – 2006
After posting Requiem for Resuscitation, I learned of a Austin Historic Preservation Office report on the building that has a more complete and accurate history (PDF). Sorry about not getting all the details correct.
On Monday, April 27, 2009 the Historic Landmark Commission voted to initiate historic zoning on the property.

- 405 W. 18th Street, Guadalupe entrance.
Let me begin by saying that rehabilitating 405 W. 18th Street will not turn hay into gold, much less save the city in one fail swoop. However, I have grown some fondness—in part due to the seemingly unnecessary neglect—for the building located at the address and feel like I should make some defense of it.
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The crook of his right elbow cradled his head while the other hand cupped his ear from the din of bullshit. Orange planes of light leaked across the room from windows up high, obscuring the old movie on his TV hanging from the far wall of the bar. He let out a sigh to remind himself that he was breathing.
The Eagles scored on an opposite screen and the din became louder-fuck yeahs, claps, mugs hitting the shellacked oak.
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Following is a slideshow of selected country and general store images. All of the following photos were found on the site of the Library of Congress.

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Hi again! I’ve made a mix for this holiday season because A) I’m still cheap and B) like the idea of mixes. If you want even more me approved non-holiday holiday music, you should feel free to complete the collection with A Curated Christmas 2007 and/or A Curated Christmas 2005 (alternate link).
I hope your (economically affordable) holiday season is going most excellent and that the new year is way more bodacious than the last. [Read more →]