Lizzyville

Conflict of Interest Alert

Pictured here with first child Milo, now age 10 months, Ann Colville, age 358 months, is the singer of the piano ballad "Closer," which is featured in none other than the climactic, watershed, denouement scene of Trust the Man, the 2006 romantic comedy starring Julianne Moore, David Duchovny, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Billy Crudup.  The best part: IT IS ON THE SOUNDTRACK.  But an Amazon browse of the soundtrack led me to be nostalgic about THE CONTROLS, the mid-'90s college-radio-dominating trip-hop duo of which Ann Colville was one half.  Dub-L, deckmaster and Jessica Simpson remixer, among other titles, was the other half, and Aesop Rock, rapper extraordinaire, was featured on the track "Shere Khan," which was vaguely "on" one of his own albums, self-released, for a time, which was weird, but cool, when I stumbled across it on people's iTunes libraries in college and said, "That singer is my flesh and blood sistah."  If you click that link above that says THE CONTROLS you can go to Amazon and buy the album.  Which I'm thinking of doing.  Or maybe I should just ask my very own sister for a copy.  Because I had one, but left it in my grandparents' Bose stereo at the beach in Nova Scotia in 1999 and don't know what happened to it.  For shame, because "100" may be one of my favorite songs of all time.  O.A.T.

Ann E. Colville's MySpace page.

Kinda A Big Deal

"Joining the ranks of renowned artists The Crystal Method and LCD Soundsystem, MC/Producer Aesop Rock has joined forces with Nike to release an original composition in the third installment of the “Nike + Original Run” series, available exclusively in the Nike Sport Music store on iTunes.    All Day: Nike + Original Run, a 45-minute continuous mix, was created specifically with runners in mind and reflects Aesop Rock’s distinct and unique style. “I wanted to create something that evolved enough that the sound was constantly fresh and attractive, as if the runner were moving through a set of differing cities or landscapes.”

Aesop Rock’s All Day: Nike + Original Run will be available on February 13th at the Apple iTunes Music Store for $9.99.

Thanks Synthesis.