5/07/2009

american apparel's 'viva radio' will play this playlist by me in their stores 'worldwide'

american apparel, viva radio

i was solicited by reynard seifert to contribute a playlist for 'viva radio'

wikipedia says 'viva radio' is 'the official in-store music and audio network for american apparel stores,' reynard says 'really though, viva radio is american apparel's online radio station[,] people do listen to it besides just in the stores[,] but it plays live in all of the [american apparel] stores world wide[,] and playlists are stored in the archive to be played by the employees or "normal people" when they don't want to listen to the live broadcast'

reynard says 'i am 99.9% confident that it will go up' and 'i think [dov charney] would think [track 7] is funny' (track 7 is me talking about 'how to make money by selling things on ebay' with 'softcore-emo classic' 'valentine' by 'the get up kids' softly playing on repeat in 'the background')

i think reynard added the 4th definition to taoism here

hopefully i can 'overtake' the religion, seems like the religion's oeuvre is 1-3 books (tao te ching, the zhuangzi, and [something by lao tzu]?), 'whereas by 2011 my oeuvre will be 6-8 books'

links: defiance, ohio, johnny hobo and the freight trains, the broadways, best friends forever, the stupid stupid henchmen, no-cash, leftover crack, the mystery books, neva dinova, line and a dot

17 Comments:

Blogger david fishkind said...

nice. i think i'll increase my american apparel shopping frequency in anticipation of hearing this. also, "first comment."

4:37 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

can i download the mix somewhere?

4:58 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

i don't think you can download

if you buy anything from muumuu house i'll email you the mp3 of shoplifting instructions

5:06 PM  
Blogger Ben Brooks said...

Defiance ohio are very very good.

5:28 PM  
Blogger Dan said...

johnny hobo / defiance ohio = rad.

7:09 PM  
OpenID nathantyree said...

I'm really looking forward to Yates. What's the release date on that?

8:02 PM  
Blogger Reynard said...

more like 99.99% certain now.

3:44 AM  
Blogger Zachary German said...

you've changed

9:19 AM  
Blogger Adam R. said...

I like BFF a LOT. You're in good company.

9:23 AM  
Blogger oh no oh no oh said...

johnny hobo is really awful but the idea of them being played in american apparel is hilarious, i guess that balances out how terrible their music is slightly

10:10 AM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

david, nice

ben, damn

dan, nice

nathan, april/may 2010

reynard, nice

zachary, damn

adam r., damn

oh no oh no oh, damn

12:01 PM  
Blogger Mel Wilmarth said...

thank you!

2:19 PM  
Anonymous hwelfkjdfg said...

Well, I just hope American Apparel doesn't blame me when I shop lift from the store now.

12:40 PM  
Blogger Will Ragsdale said...

This just made me slightly happier

12:23 AM  
Blogger andy.riverbed said...

when does the mystery books play? we wanna videotape ourselves hanging out in the american apparrel in gainesville waitying all day to listen to rily sing and then leave.

1:51 PM  
Blogger Kostya said...

haha i dind't know about this book and it explains why AP has security now.

7:47 PM  
Blogger Rhianon E. said...

I wrote a poem in homage to your book:
“American Punishment”

American Apparel scares the wicked: Fluorescent baptism by fire, post-grievous sin spends time there.
Plastic silver doused against (your) skin,
cozily wrapped in argyle penance.
Ubiquitous(ly) glaring mod shops,
Face slapping neo-disco beats,
A vapid swing come full way ’round.
Onto neo-grandma , names like Gertrude--irony in hip
Irony for hip,
and look,
I have no hips.
American Apparel will punish,
though softly, they use a lot of cotton.
In our early youth or childhood, we must not have done something good.
I hope you like it.

2:44 AM  

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