January 4, 2007 on Random Thoughts
Fire!
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There was a fire in the bar I was at Saturday night.
Witness it.
Nouveau Riche.
November 15, 2006 on Videos
Fun Music Videos
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Some videos from someone who doesn’t watch too many music videos.
Yeah Is What We Had – Grandaddy
Eleanor Put Your Boots On – Franz Ferdinand
Over and Over Again – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Tribute – Tenacious D
This one is homemade and it is awesome! My Little Brother – Art Brut
November 8, 2006 on Random Thoughts
Writing New Songs
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1. I think the new Killers CD is good – Sam’s Town. The two tracks I like most are “Bones” and “When You Were Young” – interestingly… their singles.
2. Saw Babel. Heavy on emotion, light on depth and context.
And a beautiful quote from Hayden‘s song “Don’t Get Down” – please listen to it.
“Write a song
All your old ones don’t mean a thing if you don’t sing
Any new ones”
October 4, 2006 on Music
Vocals
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Does anyone else think that The Decemberists vocalist Colin Meloy’s voice sounds just like Jump, Little Children’s Jay Clifford?
Especially on The Decemberists’ “Red Right Ankle” and Jump’s “Cathedrals”.
September 7, 2006 on Random Thoughts
Ironically, I found this article by Time about the Facebook Protest on the Facebook, through the news feed. It was on a new note by Steve Russell. Good job Steve.
AND… I found last night (through the new homefront on Facebook) that you can join the group “Apple Students” and get a special playlist through iTunes, with 25 songs for FREE! And, you can get a new one each week for the next few weeks. And, the songs are good. Including Babyshambles, The Go! Team, Asobi Seksu, Boy Kill Boy, The Little Ones, etc. Join it. Do it.
I’m also compiling a list of the best blogs that I know of, so if you have any suggestions, let me know.
September 5, 2006 on Music
My iPod’s Favorite Music
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I have officially become addicted to my blog, much the same way I’m addicted to Google, Facebook, all my friends’ blogs, and the most recent addition, myspace. The Facebook is becoming creepy in all the things it can find out about you/tell your friends… first photos, then notes, now “news”. Scary, yet fascinating.
So here is the short list of my iPod’s “Top 25″.
1. Kings of Leon – Milk
2. The Strokes – You Only Live Once
3. The Figurines – Continuous Songs
4. The Raconteurs – Steady, As She Goes (Acoustic Version)
5. The Strokes – Razorblade
6. David Gray – Say Hello Wave Goodbye
7. David Gray – Babylon II
8. The Presets – Girl and the Sea
9. Of Montreal – The Party’s Crashing Us
10. Kings of Leon – King of the Rodeo
11. Autopassion – Whatever
12. Autopassion – I Like Your Purse
13. James Blunt – You’re Beautiful
14. Keane – Everybody’s Changing
15. Of Montreal – My British Tour Diary
16. The Libertines – The Good Old Days
17. Timbuktu – Alla Vill Till Himmelen Men Ingen Vill Do
18. The Strokes – Heart in a Cage
19. The Figurines – All Night
20. Coldplay – The Hardest Part
21. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth
22. Push to Talk – Problems
23. Boy Kill Boy – Suzie
24. Eric Prydz – Call on Me
25. Beck – Girl
AND COMING IN CLOSE:
26. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – Is This Love?
27. The Darkness – Love is Only a Feeling
28. The Flaming Lips – The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
29. Franz Ferdinand – Eleanor Put Your Boots On
30. The Low Millions – Eleanor
And going through this list begs the question: Does having a “Favorites” playlist simply create a self-perpetuating cycle of songs without allowing new songs into the mix? Hm… it’s a good thing I never listen to my “Favorites”.. I listen to “Snakes on a Plane”.
In six months, I am going to revisit this list and compare to see which songs are still in the list– and that is the point.
September 5, 2006 on Random Thoughts
Heart Smart
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USA TODAY linked to this picture today:
It’s from a digital archive of 9/11 images, stories and audio. It is basically community journalism at its best–getting the people who were there to tell their own stories in their own words, using the things they saw and heard. The archive is really deep and some of the artifacts are really moving and unusual–very personal, although the navigation system could use some work. It could bring up the question of whether or not the internet will/can take over journalism– and it’s even more interesting to read the little link at the bottom of the site — “How do you know these objects are true/real?”– where the site architects said that as with any research, you should check your sources, and that even newspapers need to be read with that in mind. Will a time come when people trust the internet (their peers) more than their local newspaper?
I saw Little Miss Sunshine this weekend, and it was wonderful. I was falling out of my seat laughing almost the entire movie, please go see it. The soundtrack is pretty good too, featuring DeVotchKa and a couple of tracks by Sufjan Stevens.
This weekend Vanessa, Lisa, and I checked out the Museum of Natural History and the National Gallery of Art, which were both wonderful. Unfortunately we had to leave the gallery b/c it was closing, so we only got to see part of Rousseau’s “Jungles in Paris” exhibit. The Museum of Natural History was really detailed and fascinating. We went through the dinosaur and insect exhibits. The dinosaur bones are really amazing. We saw hundreds of species of bugs and a bunch of tarantula’s with super-cute names like “pink-toe” and “orange-leg” (i think orange-leg, not sure.. maybe orange thigh? orange foot?). All the insects looked like sticks and leaves, we felt like we were in the jungle. Wild.
We also had a little fun, we went to the Liberation Dance Party at DC9, where Vanessa got all her drinks free (not so for the rest of us), and we danced some crazy dances.
I have also added a link on the right panel to the excellent website Pandora. It’s a site where you can listen to a radio-like jukebox that figures out what songs you like based on your suggestions of favorite music. It makes some pretty cool suggestions that can introduce you to new bands. The only annoying thing is that because of licensing issues it will only let you skip a certain number of songs and it won’t let you go back or request specific songs.
Less than one week until I start the new job! If you know of anyone in DC that is looking for a roommate, let me know!
August 28, 2006 on Random Thoughts
That was an undercover reference (a sort of title pun, if you will) both The Network (possibly Green Day en masque — a conspiracy!) and my favorite A$…
Money is here and today we are looking at apartments for a (possible) move to do our (possible) new jobs. Hopefully we both get offers this week and life just gets clear and easy.