Sunday, February 14, 2010

THIS Gallery...



"This"- Geoff McFetridge


"Solar Gambling"- Sonny Kay

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

We Are Cool


I am a Nerd. Intelligence should be your best friend not your worst enemy. I have found being a nerd invaluable. There's nothing wrong with being weird or different. The definition of weird in the dictionary is uncanny, bizarre, fantastic, and unexplainable. A true individual knows this. So this is a thumbs up to all the nerds out there!!! Now time for me to read my WIRED Magazine....and yes I am subscribed to it because I am amazing.


Purely Atmospheric...

M83 is truly a unique act created by Anthony Gonzalez. Named from the spiral galaxy, Messier 83, how can your music not be atmospheric? Anthony Gonzalez ties Shoe graze, Dream pop, and Electronic music all into a tightly knitted and perfect ball, creating his own genre of music. His galaxy quest started long before The Black Eyed Peas found The E.N.D. Long before Kanye broke his 808s and Heartbreak and American pop artists decided to change their form of making music, Gonzalez was way ahead of them in a completely different galaxy, literally.

He hails from France, so you can assume that's where his Electronic roots broke seed. He stepped into prominence in 2001 with his self-titled debut. Each album he has put out since then, sound more and more ethereal. His style of writing is like poetic and he makes music that will flow right along with those words and free your scalp. Whether it is an instrumental song, or if it only has two lines in it, you are bound to feel the mass of it. He write from mostly everything, love, the destruction caused by us, saving the world, and teen angst.

He dedicated a whole album to the time in his life when he felt the happiest, his adolescence. It's ironic he'll say that, since everyone tell me, it was the worst period of their life. To be honest I believe it is the time when you are the most honest with yourself and the things and people around you. It's the time where most of us fell in love with music. I feel in love a bit earlier, but I've learned to appreciate all genres now. You discover things everyday in your youth. Saturday is the most important day of the week. It is the day that us, the youth, completely own. It serves as a friendly reminder to adults of their own youth. Saturday = Youth was the best album I feel M83 came out with. It is a celebration of adolescence all in one, ranging from angst, love, to lost. Whether his philosophy of the idea of youth = wasted and gilded, he still discovered his first love, a love that will never divorce him.

Here's my favorite song off the album.

Lost In Translation III

This guy knows how to pick out a really cool hat. The 1 train, usually don't have much interesting people to look at, but this guy caught my attention with his awesome hat. 'm still trying to figure out if it's a monkey or whatever. I know it might be a little stalkerish (made the word up myself), when taking pictures of random people, but it's New York City! There are no rules here. I really want his hat!! I would have asked him where he got it from, but as you can see...he's enjoying a little shut-eye.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

You're Out Of Touch, I'm Out Of Time...

This band is classic. They were only of the few "Blue Eyed Soul" artists who were actually really amazing. Michael Jackson admitted he took the baseline for Billie Jean from their song "I Can't Go For That". The biggest artist of all time credits these guys as some of his influences. They weren't dead, old, or past their prime. They were topping the charts right along with him. Daryl Hall really has one of the most amazing voices I've ever heard. Although he moves like a white boy, he's still pretty awesome. This man is talented! Also, videos from the 80s were so cool. Now everything is replicated. What happened to innovation?


Check them out recently, Daryl's voice is still as powerful as ever, love it.