31 January 2020 Friday

0850 via digital format
Nirvana – Blew [U.K.] (1989, Tupelo)

0903 on YouTube
Ladytron – Ghosts
Moby – New Dawn Fades (live)

0918 via digital format
VA – Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons (1999, Almo Sounds)
Yellow Magic Orchestra – ×∞Multiplies (US version) (1980, Alfa) (remastered)
Sonic Youth – Sister (1987, SST)

1138 via compact disc
Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (2006, Merge)

0204 via digital format
The Smiths – The Complete Peel Sessions: 1983-1986 (1986, bootleg)

Notes

Frico mature Dutch Edam cheese

30 January 2020 Thursday

0802 on YouTube
Ladytron – Ghosts
Moby – New Dawn Fades (live)

0818 via compact disc
Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (2006, Merge)

0909 via digital format
CAN – Flow Motion (1976, Harvest/Virgin)
Blank Banshee – MEGA (2016, self-released, blankbanshee.bandcamp.com/album/mega)
A Shoreline Dream – Saturday Morning – Avoiding the Consequences (2006, Late Night Weekend)
Richard Rabbitt Brown – Sinking of the Titanic (1927) – Doom & Gloom (Early Songs of Angst and Disaster 1927-1945) (2007, Trikont)
Soft Machine – Third (1970, CBS/Columbia)

Notes

“My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes” by Eve Sutton & Lynley Dodd

29 January 2020 Wednesday

0934 via compact disc
Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (2006, Merge)

1035 via digital format
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – For Her to Eternity (1984, Mute) (2009 remastered reissue)
John Patton – Understanding (1995, Blue Note)

1217 via digital format
Tears for Fears – Break It Down Again – Elementals (1993, Mercury/Phonogram)
A Shoreline Dream – New York – Coastal (2007, Late Night Weekend)
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II (1969, Atlantic)

0121 via digital format
Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks (deluxe edition) (2013, Columbia/The Null Corporation) (first of two discs)

Notes

Penotti speculoos cookinotti or cookie butter

28 January 2020 Tuesday

To Chinese Lunar New Year's Day 2020, 25 January, this post goes out.

0803 via digital format
The Waterboys – This Is the Sea (1985, Island/Chrysalis)
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II (1969, Atlantic)

0958 via digital format
The Magnetic Fields – Distortion (2008, Nonesuch)
A Shoreline Dream & Ulrich Schnauss – neverChanger (2008, Late Night Weekend)
Active Child – I'm in Your Church at Night (School of Seven Bells remix) (2010, via RCRD LBL.com)
VA – Rent: Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996, DreamWorks) (second of two discs)

1238 via digital format
Sun Kil Moon – April (first of two discs) (2008, Caldo Verde)

Notes

from “Exorcist: The Beginning” by Renny Harlin

Screenshot 206 is an Apple Macintosh desktop wallpaper.

27 January 2020 Monday

0949 via digital format
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II (1969, Atlantic)
Pochakaite Malko – Doppelgänger (2006, Arcangelo)
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Join Hands (1979, Polydor) (2016 remaster)
The Church – Of Skins and Heart (1981, EMI Parlophone/Capitol) (Arista reissue)

0115 via digital format
Slowdive – Slowdive (EP) (1990)
Local Natives – Sunlit Youth (2016, Loma Vista/Infectious Music/Hostess)
Elbow – Little Fictions (2017, Polydor/Concord)

Notes
The family had pad Thai, ube tikoy lumpia (ube, not original, for a change) and Sol de España dry red wine on the day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, 25 January 2020.

“I Am a Cat” by Sôseki Natsume

25 January 2020 Saturday

1213 via digital format
Björk – Volta (2007, One Little Indian/Polydor/Elektra/Atlantic)

0139 via digital format
Slowdive – Slowdive (EP) (1990)

0341 via digital format
Broadcast & The Focus Group – Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (2009, Warp)

0628 on computer
The Dead Don't Die – Jim Jarmusch (2019)

0905 via digital format
Wild Beasts – Limbo, Panto (2008, Domino)
Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser – All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun (1995, unfinished & unreleased track by Jeff Buckley and Elizabeth Fraser recorded around 1995 or 1996)
KiD CuDi – Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin' (2016, Wicked Awesome/Republic)

1130 via digital format
Lou Rhodes – theyesandeye (2016, Nude)

Notes

from “The Exorcist” by William Friedkin; director's cut

cinnamon rolls from Fortune Bakeshop

24 January 2020 Friday

1029 via digital format
Slowdive – Slowdive (EP) (1990)
Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser – All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun (1995, unfinished & unreleased track by Jeff Buckley and Elizabeth Fraser recorded around 1995 or 1996)
Blank Banshee – Blank Banshee 1 (2013, Paradise Disc/blankbanshee.bandcamp.com/album/blank-banshee-1)
VA – Rent: Original Broadway Cast Recording (1996, DreamWorks) (first of two discs)

0106 via compact disc
Ibrahim Ferrer – Mi Sueño (2007, World Circuit)

0158 via digital format
Sugar Hiccup – Moden De – Oracle (1995, Musiko/BMG Records Pilipinas) Andreya Triana – Lost Where I Belong (Flying Lotus remix) – Lost Where I Belong (single) (2010, via RCRD LBL.com)
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Spellbound: The Collection (2015, Universal)

Notes
I received my first pay at my new job on the week of 13 January 2020.

Sheila G Brittle Brownie chocolate chip brownies, All About Baking walnuts,
peanuts, dark chocolates, white chocolates

Royal spaghetti, Contadina basil pesto sauce, Hacienda Macaluan kesong puti

23 January 2020 Thursday

0941 via digital format
Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser – All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun (1995, unfinished & unreleased track by Jeff Buckley and Elizabeth Fraser recorded around 1995 or 1996)

0948 via compact disc
Ibrahim Ferrer – Mi Sueño (2007, World Circuit)

1113 via digital format
The Magnetic Fields – Distortion (2008, Nonesuch)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Beat the Devil's Tattoo (2010, Abstract Dragon/Vagrant/Co-Op)

0112 via digital format
Tears for Fears – Break It Down Again – Elemental (1993, Mercury/Phonogram)
Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um (1959, Columbia) (1999 reissue)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991, Warner Bros.)

Notes

22 January 2020 Wednesday

0922 via compact disc
Ibrahim Ferrer – Mi Sueño (2007, World Circuit)

1046 via digital format
Pochakaite Malko – LAYA (2001, Disk Union)

1228 via digital format
Franz Ferdinand – Tonight (2009, live)

0126 via digital format
Sunday Girl – Self Control (Young Empires remix) (2010)
Flight – The Lead Riders (2010, Zoo)
The Clash – The Clash (1977, CBS)
the Cure – Wish (1992, Fiction/Elektra)

Notes
I treated the whole family, 6 people, to breakfast at McDonald’s Carmona on Sunday, 12 January 2020. 4 of us proceeded to do some grocery shopping at Waltermart supermarket in nearby Waltermart mall afterwards.

La Pacita graham crackers, Magnolia all-purpose cream,
Angel chocolate condensed milk

06 February 2019 lunch table

21 January 2020 Tuesday

So, once more, I am not able to read a nighttime book (haven't for some
three weeks now) owing to work taking up space and time. Blasted!

1156 via digital format
Nouvelle Vague – Bande à Part (2006, Peacefrog)

1251 via digital format
The Clash – The Clash (1977, CBS)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Beat the Devil's Tattoo (2010, Abstract Dragon/Vagrant/Co-Op)

0334 on computer
Secret in Their Eyes – Billy Ray (2015)

0536 via digital format
Tears for Fears – Pale Shelter – The Hurting (1983, Mercury/Phonogram)
Sugar Hiccup – Five Years – Oracle (1995, Musiko/BMG Records Pilipinas)
the Cure – Seventeen Seconds (1980, Fiction)

0629 on computer
World War Z – Marc Forster (2013)

Notes

wooden religious icon

20 January 2020 Monday

0422 via digital format
The Clash – The Clash (1977, CBS)

0510 via digital format
The Magnetic Fields – Realism (2010, Nonesuch)

0633 via digital format
BT – Ima (1996 2-CD re-release) (1996, Perfecto/Kinetic/Reprise/Warner Bros.) (second of two discs)
Ethnic Faces – Golden Boy – 10 of Another Kind! (1989, Universal)
Tears for Fears – Change – The Hurting (1983, Mercury/Phonogram)
Phoenix – It's Never Been Like That (2006, EMI/Source/Astralwerks/Arts & Crafts)
VA – Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons (1999, Almo Sounds)

Notes
The Clash is the self-titled debut and 1977 studio album by The Clash, produced by Mickey Foote and released under the CBS label. The record would go on to reach No. 12 on the UK charts, and has been included on many retrospective rankings as one of the greatest punk albums of all time.

06 February 2019 refrigerator cake

cream dory & chicken breast basil pesto pasta

18 January 2020 Saturday

1229 via digital format
the Cure – The Top (1984, Fiction)

0151 via digital format
Phoenix – It's Never Been Like That (2006, EMI/Source/Astralwerks/Arts & Crafts)

0232 via digital format
BT – Ima (1996 2-CD re-release) (1996, Perfecto/Kinetic/Reprise/Warner Bros.) (first of two discs) (originally, 1995)

0838 via digital format
Stray Dogs – Demo_EP (2008, Dump)
A Shoreline Dream – Recollections of Memory (2009, Late Night Weekend)
Arcade Fire – Funeral (2005, Merge/Rough Trade) (second of two discs) (bonus disc, Japan only)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Mother's Milk (1989, EMI America)

Notes

from “Akira” by Katsuhiro Otomo, 25th anniversary edition

Khong Guan sultana biscuits

17 January 2020 Friday

1242 via digital format
Phoenix – It's Never Been Like That (2006, EMI/Source/Astralwerks/Arts & Crafts)

0253 via digital format
The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs (1999, Merge)
The Mighty Lemon Drops – World Without End (1988, Sire)

1131 via compact disc
the Cure – Pornography (deluxe edition) (2005, Fiction) (second of two discs)

1251 via digital format
Cancel the Astronauts – I Am the President of Your Fanclub (and Last Night I Followed You Home) (2008, independent)
Sun Kil Moon – Benji (bonus disc) (2014, Caldo Verde)
Jon Hopkins – Monsters (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2010, Domino/Double Six)
Stereolab – Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3 (1998, Drag City/Warp) (second of two discs)

Notes
The two boys, I & mom went to the Waltermart mall on Tuesday, 17 December 2019, to obtain our last big grocery shopping for our Christmas & New Year jollifications at home, along with a few everyday staples. Afterwards was a snack at the Tropical Hut.

Ilonggo bukayo with Muscovado sugar, sesame seeds, latik

16 January 2020 Thursday

0835 via compact disc
the Cure – Pornography (deluxe edition) (2005, Fiction) (second of two discs)

0953 via YouTube
Massive Attack – Bela Lugosi's Dead
Slowdive – Sugar for the Pill (official video)

1011 via digital format
Mad Professor & Jah Shaka – New Decade of Dub (1996, Ariwa)
HEALTH – Get Color (2009, Lovepump United)

0215 via digital format
Arcade Fire – Funeral (2005, Merge/Rough Trade) (first of two discs) (originally, 2004)

1034 via digital format
Placebo – Meds (2006, Virgin) (U.S. re-release)
Radiohead – The Bends (special collectors edition) (2009, Capitol) (first of two discs) (originally, 1995, Parlophone/Capitol)

Notes

wedding reception fortune plants

15 January 2020 Wednesday

0929 via YouTube
Massive Attack – Bela Lugosi's Dead
Slowdive – Sugar for the Pill (official video)

0942 via digital format
Fiona Apple – Tidal (1996, Clean Slate/Work/Columbia)

1054 via digital format
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Kyoretsu Na Rhythm (1992, Restless)

1149 via compact disc
the Cure – Pornography (deluxe edition) (2005, Fiction) (second of two discs)

0304 on computer
It: Chapter Two (2019) – Andy Muschietti

0606 via Dropbox
The Jerks – Tambol – The Jerks (1997, Star Recording, Inc.)

0616 via digital format
The Beautiful South – You Play Glockenspiel, I'll Play Drums – 0898 (0898 Beautiful South) (1992, Go!)
Siouxsie and the Banshees – The Scream (1978, Polydor) (2016 remaster)

1158 via digital format
Joy Division – Radio Sessions (1979-1980) (bootleg)

Notes
On 15 December 2019, Sunday, at 0830 a.m. was the baptism of my fourth godchild ever at the St. Joseph Parish Church. A celebration followed at Cedar 3, which I attended with mom & the three kids.

Casa Lo Matta vino rosso from Chile

14 January 2020 Tuesday

I walked unknowingly through ash fall on the streets at 4:45 pm of
12 January 2020, which turned out to have been from the alert level 4
eruption of nearby Taal volcano.

0926 via digital format
The Van Dykes – Tellin' It Like It Is (1966, Bell)

1056 via Dropbox
The Jerks – Tambol – The Jerks (1997, Star Recording, Inc.)

1103 via digital format
Mad Professor & Jah Shaka – New Decade of Dub (1996, Ariwa)
Stiff Little Fingers – Inflammable Material (1979, Rough Trade)

0235 on computer
Cargo – Ivan Engler (2009)

0441 via digital format
Dust – Past Future 12" (2013, Low Life Inc.)
M83 – Reunion (2012, Naïve/Mute)
Pixies – Doolittle (1989, 4AD/Elektra)

Notes

huge stuffed bear on a tree

13 January 2020 Monday

1050 via Dropbox
The Jerks – Tambol – The Jerks (1997, Star Recording, Inc.)


1055 via digital format
Fugazi – The Argument (1998, Dischord)

1240 via digital format
Mogwai – Come on Die Young (2014 deluxe edition, Chemikal Underground/Matador) (second of two discs) (originally, 1999)

0232 via digital format
Tron – Steven Lisberger (1982)

0432 via digital format
Gorillaz – The Singles Collection 2001-2011 (2011, Parlophone)
Elbow – Teardrop – Not a Job (single) (2004, V2)
The Octopus Project – Music Is Happiness – One Ten Hundred Thousand Million (2004, Peek-A-Boo)

Notes
The Jerks is a 1997 studio album by The Jerks released under Star Recording, Inc.

orchids on a duo of tree trunks

11 January 2020 Saturday

0924 via digital format
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Naughty Boys (1983, Alfa) (remastered)
Gorillaz – The Singles Collection 2001-2011 (2011, Parlophone)
Orange Juice – You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (1982, Polydor U.K.)

0602 via Dropbox
APO Hiking Society – Blue Jeans – Twelve Years Together (1982, Universal)

0606 via digital format
How to Destroy Angels – Ice Age (The Soft Moon remix) (2012)
Tom Tom Club – Tom Tom Club (1981, Sire/Warner Bros./Island/PolyGram)

Notes

my deluxe edition of Pornography by the Cure

Ilog Maria Honey Bee Farms virgin honey & gingerbread man cookie

10 January 2020 Friday

1006 via digital format
Gorillaz – The Singles Collection 2001-2011 (2011, Parlophone)

1111 via Dropbox
APO Hiking Society – Blue Jeans – Twelve Years Together (1982, Universal)

1117 via digital format
Mogwai – Come on Die Young (2014 deluxe edition, Chemikal Underground/Matador) (first of two discs) (originally, 1999)

0233 via digital format
Morrissey – World of Morrissey (1995, Parlophone)
Hunters – Deadbeat – Hunters EP (2011, via RCRD LBL.com)

0337 via compact disc
the Cure – Pornography (deluxe edition) (2005, Fiction) (first of two discs) (originally, 1982)

0422 via digital format
Orange Can – Home Burns (2001, Regal)

Notes
08 December 2019 0326 p.m. on computer The Red Sea Diving Resort – Gideon Raff (2019)

Red Ribbon chocolate rainbow birthday cake for mom

Noche Buena 2019 dining table

09 January 2020 Thursday

To the very first Monday of the year, 06 January 2020, this post goes out.

1023 via Dropbox
APO Hiking Society – Blue Jeans – Twelve Years Together (1982, Universal)


1029 via compact disc
the Cure – Pornography (deluxe edition) (2005, Fiction) (first of two discs) (originally, 1982)

1135 via digital format
CAN – Soon Over Babaluma (1974, United Artists/Spoon/Mute)
Labradford – E Luxo So (1999, Blast First/Kranky)

0214 via digital format
Cloud Nothings – Morgan – Morgan/Another Man 7" (2010, Group Tightener)
Wovenhand – Refractory Obdurate (2014, Glitterhouse/Deathwish)

0311 via digital format
Placebo – A Place for Us to Dream (2016, Rise) (second of two discs)

Notes

08 January 2020 Wednesday

1201 via compact disc
the Cure – Pornography (deluxe edition) (2005, Fiction) (first of two discs) (originally, 1982)

0134 via Dropbox
Slowdive – When the Sun Hits (demo) – Souvlaki Demos & Outtakes

0144 via digital format
Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling (2008, Wall of Sound/Play It Again Sam/Matador)

0416 via digital format
Tori Amos – Night of Hunters (2011, Deutsche Grammophon)
How to Destroy Angels – Keep It Together (Dave Sitek remix) (2012)
Beth Orton – Central Reservation (1999, Heavenly)

Notes
H. treated the whole family to lunch at Classic Savory in the Waltermart mall on Sunday, 08 December 2019, as her mini birthday bash for Z. There were bihon Binondo with pork chops, a whole fried chicken, lumpiang Shanghai, white rice & the four seasons juice drink. She bought him a Fortune Bakeshop rocky road cake earlier in the day, too.

Christmas Eve 2019 pot roast

night cap drinks & Christmas 2019 dessert balls

07 January 2020 Tuesday

0908 via Dropbox
Slowdive – When the Sun Hits (demo) – Souvlaki Demos & Outtakes


0912 via digital format
Beth Orton – Central Reservation (1999, Heavenly)

1016 via digital format
Mono – Hymn to the Immortal Wind (2009, Temporary Residence Limited)
Weezer – Pinkerton (1996, DGC)
Cancel the Astronauts – Capo Song (2009, live, recorded at The Mill Edinburgh 01.10.09)

0157 via digital format
Stereolab – Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3 (1998, Drag City/Warp) (first of two discs)
Placebo – A Place for Us to Dream (2016, Rise) (first of two discs)

Notes

homemade concrete bench

06 January 2020 Monday

0655 via digital format
Beth Orton – Central Reservation (1999, Heavenly)
Novastar – Another Lonely Soul (2004, Warner/Virgin)
Fugazi – End Hits (1998, Dischord)

1004 via digital format
Florence + The Machine – You've Got the Love (The xx remix) – Lungs (2010, RCRD LBL.com)
Ethnic Faces – Golden Boy – 10 of Another Kind! (cassette tape rip) (1989, Universal)
Childish Gambino – Because the Internet (2013, Glassnote/Island)
Björk – The Music from Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9 (2005, One Little Indian)

1213 via digital format
Orange Juice – You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (1982, Polydor [U.K.])

Notes
Central Reservation is the second and 1999 studio album by Beth Orton, which was released under the Heavenly label. Produced by Victor Van Vugt, Ben Watt and Mark Stent, the record garnered Orton a second Mercury Music Prize nomination, and won her Best British Female at the 2000 BRIT Music Awards.

Christmas Eve 2019 Arroz a la Valenciana

Noche Buena 2019 potato salad & Selecta super-thick Super Chocolate

05 January 2020 Sunday

0942 via digital format
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Naughty Boys (1983, Alfa) (remastered)
Childish Gambino – Because the Internet (2013, Glassnote/Island)

0110 via compact disc
Low – I Could Live in Hope (1994, Vernon Yard)
Low – Lullaby – I Could Live in Hope (1994, Vernon Yard)

0223 via digital format
Cancel the Astronauts – Intervention (2009, live, recorded at The Mill Edinburgh 01.10.09)
Professor Longhair – Rock 'n' Roll Gumbo (1974, Blue Star)

0321 on computer
Escape Room – Adam Robitel (2019)

0822 via digital format
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Join Hands (1979, Polydor) (2016 remaster)

Notes

from episode 10 of season 04 of Game of Thrones

Clyde's coffee bread

04 January 2020 Saturday

0940 via digital format
Childish Gambino – Because the Internet (2013, Glassnote/Island)

1112 via YouTube
The Breeders – Walking with a Killer (official music video)
Jeff Buckley – Blue Sky Blue (official music video)

1129 via digital format
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Naughty Boys Instrumental (1983, Alfa) (remastered)

1224 via digital format
Wovenhand – The Laughing Stalk (2012, Glitterhouse/Sounds Falilyre/Deathwish Inc./Sargent House)
Lush – Ciao! Best of Lush (2001, 4AD)

0231 on computer
Hellbound: Hellraiser II – Tony Randel (1988)

Notes
Mom cooked onigiri with San Marino regular & chili tuna & Bonus button mushrooms plus vegetable tempura in the evening of Wednesday, 04 December 2019, while T. & girlfriend made carbonara with 3 Nestlé all-purpose cream, 2 Alaska evaporated milk, Cheezee & OK cheddar.

Noche Buena 2019 dining table

gingerbread man cookie