Recent bands I have been listening to...new & old.

__Woods__

__Tune-Yards__

__Braids__

__GroupLove__

My Favorite Guitar Players

1) Jimi Hendrix
2) John Butler
3) John Frusciante
4) Dan Aurbach
5) Tim Mahoney

Great MGMT cover!!

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read this if you live in nyc

50 Reasons to Be Pretty Damn Euphoric You Live in New York City

Bed Stuy :)

I wanna tell you about a place that I currently call home, Bed Stuy. Located in Brooklyn, its the birth place of such  celebrities as the Notorious BIG, Chris Rock, Mike Tyson, Lil Kim, Spike Lee, Jay-Z, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, O.D.B, and Norah Jones.  Although I'm sure none of them currently live here, they still shine through out the streets. You can't walk a block with out hearing Biggie blasting from a barber shop,  Talib still plays local shows, and ODB murals are everywhere. People here like to "represent" and I love that.

On every corner, Bed Stuy has what they call "bodegas". I guess the way you would describe them is a convenient store, liquor store, and a deli all in one; what more could you ask for? A few doors down from every bodega seems to be a 24 hour fried chicken and pizza place. If a place serves fried chicken, then they also serve pizza, once again, no complaints here.  If I need to do laundry, I have my options, about 6 laundry mats in a 3 block radius. All offering the same thing, but of course its nice to have variety. If you go out after dark, just keep to yourself.....and don't forget to buy a 3$ 40oz of St. Ides at your local bodega, that just says "Don't fuck with me, I'm Local!"

listen to this.....

Delorean - Monsoon <---(click)

song of the day

Jai Paul - BTSTU  * Listen Here*

W O R D S

---x---
I felt it first but not the second time
It crawled right up into my spine
You might think that its just a tease, but its just what I need
Flowing through my mind, eliminating time
Get out on the floor
Like never before
You should be dancin, romancin
With the rest of us
With the best of us

---feelin biggie---
I got one on my page, one in the cage, and everybody is just sitting their fighting the rage
I'm hitting bitches, flippin switches, and everyone thinks that I'm fuckin around
Keep thinkin that and you might end up in the ground

--bad tunes--
Its like poison to my ears
Erasing all but my fears
Eyes rolling back in to my head
I'm thinkin soon I might be dead
And I'll be seeing you too soon
But I fall back in to reality
Keeping you far from me
Thats just the way its gotta be

falling out of love at this volume

tell me what you wanted to hear

let me do the right thing
let me do the wrong thing
and if it's ever this clear
i will only say it once
just let me turn the amps way up
so you can hear nothing
and if i die tonight then i guess i die tonight
let me go on
just say what you wanted to say
i cannot stand these talks dear
they only get us nowhere
it's never resolved
we only run around
you wanna tell me anyone could be just like me
if it's a different time and a different place to be
you would go on

words

Finding truth in your words, all I know is this curse. Take me, not far from home, cause its all I know. Follow me into the street, together we can make a beat. Don't touch it, don't break it, don't even embrace it. Take more you see, the more you know, the more you'll let go.

New York City might be a fun place to live, but I am starting to questions whether or not its worth it. Everyday to go to work I sit on a subway for atleast thirty-five minutes, then walk another ten. When I go out to the bars I often pay up to eight dollars for a beer. Of course there are the upsides, I live in one of the greatest cities in the world, but greatest from whose point of view? I can enjoy this city at this point in my life, but for how long? not much longer!!

Caribou @ Webster Hall 9/22/10

    For those of you unaware of Caribou, here is a little bit you should know. Caribou is a music project by Ontario native Daniel Snaith. He records everything solo in the studio, but while on tour has a five piece band including himself as percussionist. He formally went by the name of Monitoba, before being sued by a man who shared Monitoba as a last name.  Caribou doesn't tour the states much so when I saw the opportunity to see him, I knew I had to take it.
   It was a Wednesday night, and I was eager to get to Webster Hall to see the show whose tickets I have been holding on to for weeks now.  Since I have only been living in NYC for a short time, I still get lost. Which is exactly what I did on the way to the show, but I quickly found my way and arrived as Caribou was going on stage. Although, the concert hall was packed full of people, I managed to make my way up to the first row.  As close as I could get, I noticed a paper plate right next to the guitar pedals with the set-list written on it.  The first song was going to be "Odessa", my personal favorite, the encore was "Sun", by far Caribous most popular.  One of the best things about attending concerts, is the element of surprise. I figured now that I knew what songs they were going to play, that was no longer possible, but was I ever wrong.
   Immediately after the music started, so did the background projections. Patterns and colors, mixed with politcal videos and creepy cartoons filled my vision.  It was like nothing I had ever seen before, except maybe for a  few Bonnaroo shows that I vaguely remember, but I'm not getting in to that.  The combination of the two drummers and multiple synthesizers fit perfectly for a rainy night in Manhattan with a hundreds of drunk and drugged college students. I was also surprised by the variety of instruments  they used everything from a flute to a washboard.  As the show went on, the crowd got more into it, and by the time they hit the encore everyone knew that nine songs just wasn't enough.  Although they only played an hour it felt like four, nobody wanted to go home. I attend a lot of shows, already more than most will see in a life time. Some of them stick out more than others, this was definitely one of those, and I will not be satisfied until I see some more Caribou.

Listen to Caribou Here