"La la la Kimi to ireba..."

"...Nanimo mienai, Kimi to nara, Dokodemo iku, Nanimo nai kara, Yoake demo, Itsudemo yobu, Yume no yohni shizunde iku" -Asobi Seksu "Strings"

Merciful christ I'll have to ask McVicker about what in the hell that means. (or Aly for that matter) but it sounds magnificent coming the KTUH studio speakers and top volume. Some abstract and perfect proclamation of summer demanding we pay tribute with revelry with dreams and sweat and pleasure. A hymn to sunbleached afternoons

Summer in Honolulu is marked by many things, none of them being weather. Which, like my attitudes toward soft skin pressed against my body in the morning, remain absolute and unchanging. What changes, what marks the season here in Honolulu's summer is the coming and going friends. Even removed from the living constraints of university you cannot escape the cycle of movement that is so deeply ingrained in Honolulu.

I type this now in the moments before I go to a goodbye dinner for a longtime friend of mine and DJing partner who goes to enter civil service in Cambodia. Dave Wilke who spins music at KTUH and around town as "Davey Shindig" is taking off and we'll all be wishing him the best tonight.

I'll return here and post more about it. maybe the text of what i'll say tonight at dinner if the world affords a moment for toasts and speaches. For now.. the playlist of the show..

NewPornographers
Asobi Seksu- Strings
Brendan Canning- Churches under the Stairs
Beachwood Sparks- You take the gold
Helio Sequence- You can come to me
The Bee's- Ocularist
The Minders - Red Admiral
Morning Benders- Waiting for a war
Little Ones- Forgive Yourself
Vampire Weekend- Oxford Comma
Rogue Wave- Christians in black
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy- Easy does it
Fleet Foxes- Ragged Wood
Rolling Stones- It's not easy
Tapes N' Tapes- Conquest
The Virgins- Hey hey girl
Strokes-Soma
Breeders- Saints
T.Rex- Solid gold easy action
Caesars- Not the fall that hurts
Go Team!- Fake ID
Born Ruffians- I need a life
Brendan Canning- Love is new
Health- Crimewave (crystal castles remix)
The Virgins- Teen lovers
Beck- Sexx laws
Midnight Juggernauts- Ending of an era
Black Keys- Psychotic girl
Stereolab- Three women
Supergrass- The return of..
United States of America- Coming down
Dirty On Purpose- Send me an angel
Broken Social Scene- Stars and sons
Whitest Boy Alive- Done with you
Little Ones- Boracay
Ladybug Transistor- Wooden Bars
Flaming Lips- Bad days
Andrew Bird- Naming of things
Sigur Ros- Gobbledigook
Olivia Tremor Control- California Demise
Morning Benders- Damnit Anna
Minders- Hooray for tuesday
Deerhoof- The perfect me
Buzzcocks- Pulse beat
Guns of Detroit- Caligula's Sister
She & Him- Sweet Darlin'
New Pornographers- Mutiny, I promised you
Destroyer- Watercolors into the ocean