I moved....

on to something new.

happy honey and lark

bad. just awful.

I'm back from Asia! It was the most amazing trip. I will at some point put up some pictures.
In other news, this song by 3oh3 is retarded. The first time I heard it I thought it was a joke. Like the "I'm the Boss" or "I'm on a Boat" videos that I love so much. No. This song is NOT a joke. People think this is worth listening to apparently because its on all the top 100 stations.
Unfortunately I can't get the Helen Keller line out of my head! I wonder what she would finger-write on Annie Sullivan's arm in response to them saying that she talked with her hips?

philippines

I swear, I will let you in on all the new music I've been listening to at some point. I'm in Manila visiting family and we are going to Thailand today for a little trip.

comics

garfield minus garfield

Back to regularly scheduled blogging once I graduate. I've been busy with all that finishing college/graduation/partying stuff.

live vs recorded

There are some bands you see live, and you think, "This is the best music ever." Then you listen to their CD while driving your car or sitting in your room and you think, "What the hell was I thinking?" A perfect example: Against Me!
I have seen them live something like 5 times (usually about once a year), every time I go I have more fun than the time before. But when I listen to their albums I want to rip my ears off. It's abrasive, every song sounds similar, and its downright whiny.
If they come to town though, you can bet I'll shell out up to $30 to see them live because they are one of the most fun bands ever. That $30 doesn't even include train fare and beer...just the ticket.

From what I've heard of Ponytail (I'm trying to review them) and Matt & Kim I get the vibe that unless I see them in person they will always annoy me a little bit after one or two songs.

Alas, I need to clean out my ears with She & Him and Jenny Owen Youngs. Who I'd like to see live, and listen to in the computer lab while I procrastinate.

RIP iPod

After almost 5 years my pink iPod mini has gone off to the farm in upstate new york...
I'm sad. No more mobile music since my last portable CD player died years ago. How much does an iPod even go for these days? The last one I had I won in a raffle, and the pink one that just died came with my iBook for free. Whats even a good iPod to get? I want the one where I can play videos!!!! (Um...those are real, right? I didn't just make that up?)
UGH. iPod's.

Matt & Kim

Matt & Kim, have returned from a three year recording hiatus with their second album, Grand, in January of this year. They have fully embraced a pop-punk sound keeping it up-to-date with electronic influences.
The Brooklyn based duo gained a loyal local following when they began to play warehouse shows in 2004, and their self-titled album in 2006. Like Mates of State gone punk, their sound has evolved to create the fun, danceable tracks.
Unfortunately the voice of Matt actually does remind me of the days of Sugarcult and Blink-182. It’s less harsh on Grand than on their self-titled, but no less annoying after listening to three songs in a row. This might lend some appeal though; it doesn’t sound tweaked or perfected by computer but more like a live recording of an actual person singing (because not everyone can have the perfect-velvety-never-miss-a-note voice of Ben Gibbard).
1.Daylight
2.Cutdown
3.Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare
4.Spare Change
5.I Wanna
6.Lessons Learned
7.Don't Slow Down
8.Turn This Boat Around
9.Cinders
10.I'll Take Us Home
11.Daylight Outro

Official website

Myspace

spoof

http://www.privatehighmusical.com/


What? Its music related.
ps-i watched this 10 minutes ago and I'm still snickering.

pokemon red

I'm supposed to be memorizing buildings locations/architechts/dates, but I'm freaking stuck here in Pokemon Red and its driving me nuts.

Amiina

Similar to falling rain, twinkling and pitter-pattering with otherworldly synthesizers and classical elements mingling throughout, Amiina, brings a gentle simplicity to their music.
The four Icelandic women that make up Amiina, packed a tiny car with every instrument they could find, and then filled spaces with food. Hildur Ársælsdóttir, Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir, Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, and Sólrún Sumarliadóttir, consider this vital to their formation as a group. The car was too heavy to make it up a hill to the recording studio, and so an obliging farmer towed their car, teeming with food and musical-instruments, to the top.
The lesson of using what was available stuck with the group, and they will use virtually anything that makes sound to enhance their music. Originally, a string quartet of 3 violinists and a cellist, they are not bound by a specific instrument; each playing whatever strikes their fancy. Using, though not limited to, harps, violins, cellos, synthesizers, the glockenspiel, baroque guitars, harmonium, and mandolin they finished Kurr, their first full-length album in 2007.
Another project was a song for Nightmare Revisited, a compilation of covers from The Nightmare Before Christmas in September 2008. Their cover of “Dr. Finkelstein/In the Forest” convinced me that if I ever write a movie, these are the girls I will ask to write the soundtrack.

Sounds like: if Bond and Sigur Ros had babies.

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