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Friday, February 15, 2008
The Barack Obama music video....
Barack Obama is my guy. I voted for him in the primary and his vibe and energy remind me of JFK. And I think that it's about time that we got some new young blood with fresh ideas again in the White House! But when I see the chick from the Pussy Cat Dolls and the dudes from the Black Eyed Peas and that douche from Live singing an Obama speech...I get a bit turned off to that candidate! It's like in '04 when Paris Hilton went on MTV wearing a John Kerry shirt and Ashton Kutcher campaigning for Kerry in the mid west...I got a bit turned off to John Kerry even though I voted for him. From what I read Obama's campaign didn't have anything to do with this video. But still I think Hollywood doesn't realize they do more damage then they help!
See for yourselves.
See for yourselves.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
My Valentine's Day gift to you......
Beach House is an ethereal and beautiful band straight outta Baltimore and the video is for the song called "You Came to Me". The song is off the band's forth coming second full length album on Carpark Records called "Devotion". And the video is directed by Baltimore underground film legend Skizz Cyzyk. The song and video will make the most harden Valentines Day sinic feel warm and tingly all over....ENJOY!
http://www.myspace.com/beachhousemusic
http://www.myspace.com/beachhousemusic
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
More pictures from the Dan Deacon show
More pictures of the dance off between Balloon man, Little Orphan Annie and Crazy Wig guy. Along with pictures of crowd surfing at the Whitney and human snakes.
Pictures from this past friday's Dan Deacon Show....
As I mentioned in blog posts from last week I attended the Dan Deacon show at the Whitney Museum of Art this past friday night. For all of you who don't read Pitchfork, Paste, Spin, Stereogum and Brooklyn Vegan..... Dan Deacon is an performance artist/electronica/accoustic composer who is getting a lot of attention from those publications and this very blog too!
His shows are certainly an event! The only way to discribe Dan's sound and his shows is too say if you took, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", Terry Reily, Bobby Hill from "King of the Hill", Sonic Youth and Dr. Anton Phibes from all the Dr. Phibes films and threw them all in a blender and when it was done blending...you'd get Dan Deacon and the vibe of one of his shows.
As I mentioned in yesterday's post he gets the crowd very involved. There are sing alongs, dance offs, Ethan Hawke countdowns, human snakes and glowing skulls. It's a lot of fun and a nice change from watching some snooty ivy league jackoffs play shitty music and say nothing between each songs and have no real connection with the crowd!
Dan's music is very unique and very cool. I would say it's electronica but yet you hear the hardcore, new wave, Zappa, classical and jazz influences in there. The crowd friday night was a diverse one, you had the hipsters, the freaky kids, the punks and bikers. If Dan Deacon comes to a town near you he's so worth seeing live.... cause it's an experience!
Also as I mentioned Dan Deacon should be sending back his anwsers to my questions real soon!
http://www.dandeacon.com/
Balloon Man and friend
Dan Deacon in the Center with glowing skulls.
More of Dan doing his thing!
One of the many in the crowd.
Dan Deacon in action!
His shows are certainly an event! The only way to discribe Dan's sound and his shows is too say if you took, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", Terry Reily, Bobby Hill from "King of the Hill", Sonic Youth and Dr. Anton Phibes from all the Dr. Phibes films and threw them all in a blender and when it was done blending...you'd get Dan Deacon and the vibe of one of his shows.
As I mentioned in yesterday's post he gets the crowd very involved. There are sing alongs, dance offs, Ethan Hawke countdowns, human snakes and glowing skulls. It's a lot of fun and a nice change from watching some snooty ivy league jackoffs play shitty music and say nothing between each songs and have no real connection with the crowd!
Dan's music is very unique and very cool. I would say it's electronica but yet you hear the hardcore, new wave, Zappa, classical and jazz influences in there. The crowd friday night was a diverse one, you had the hipsters, the freaky kids, the punks and bikers. If Dan Deacon comes to a town near you he's so worth seeing live.... cause it's an experience!
Also as I mentioned Dan Deacon should be sending back his anwsers to my questions real soon!
http://www.dandeacon.com/
Balloon Man and friend
Dan Deacon in the Center with glowing skulls.
More of Dan doing his thing!
One of the many in the crowd.
Dan Deacon in action!
Monday, February 11, 2008
The Grammys.
The Grammys were held last night and I didn't watch!! The reasons being; 1.) Cause they were on against the only TV shows that I watch faithfully i.e "The Simpsons" and "King of the Hill". 2.) I've gotten rid of my cable and now have the premium channels and sometimes CBS comes in and other times it doesn't and last night it didn't.
I read the complete list of winners in the paper today and I was glad to see Amy Winehouse win for a really good song and I'm glad she got best new artist! Also glad to see Mark Ronson getting his due and the Grammys giving the best heavy metal award to a real heavy metal band Slayer. How awesome is that!? And how awesome would it have been if Slayer played during the broadcast!? Anyone remember when they gave the heavy metal trophy to Jethro Tull??!! I think that was the same year that they gave the best new artist award to Milli Vanilli!
Ugghh why did the two jackoffs from "Flight of the Conchords" win best comedy album!? I'm telling all of you FOTC is nothing more then a Tencious D. rip off with New Zealand accents, alt folk music and New York City! And being wacky for the sake of being wacky! Nothing funny about those two assholes!! Would would have been great is if they televised the best comedy award acceptance speech from the two Outback Steakhouse spokesmen, and Kayne West came up on stage and interrupted them and had a temper tantrum about loosing much like he did at the Euro VMA's a few years back. Had that happened and Slayer played, I would have found a way to make CBS come in clearly on my TV!!
And Alicia Keys...she's talented but very overrated!! I saw she won for best R&B song. And my friend told me she did a virtual duet with Frank Sinatra that opened the show.
Haven't heard the Herbie Handcock/Joni Mitchell album, I do like the both of them a lot but I find there are certain artists (Herbie Handcock and Joni Mitchell included) that can release an album of nothing but them belching and farting and the Grammy people would nominate it for album of the year. Others on that "always get nominated for a grammy no matter what" list besides Herbie Handcock and Joni Mitchell are Alicia Keys, Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney, Sheryl Crow and Bruce Springsteen. I saw Bruce won for best rock song for "Radio No Where", I love Bruce but I don't think that song was one of his best.. I was kinda meh on the whole "Radio No Where" album!
Onto the next subject! Yesterday I had the pleasure to sit and chat with the wonderful Mr. Johnny Lloyd Rollins and I should have that chat up and posted by the end of this week. Also I attended the Dan Deacon show at the Whitney Museum this past friday night and I will have a write up and pictures on that show posted real soon. I also submitted questions for Mr. Deacon to answer and hopefully I should be getting his answers real soon!
One last note on the Dan Deacon show, I know in other music blogs Dan Deacon has been critized for what he does with his shows. Quite frankly I'd rather go to a Dan Deacon show complete with sing-alongs, dance-offs, glowing skulls and Ethan Hawke countdowns, over some snooty hipster band or artist that just stands there and plays, says nothing in between songs and yells at the crowd to shut-up the fuck up! Live shows should be about; being connected to the artist or band and having the artist or band be connected to the crowd, having the music transend but most of all having lots of fun!
I read the complete list of winners in the paper today and I was glad to see Amy Winehouse win for a really good song and I'm glad she got best new artist! Also glad to see Mark Ronson getting his due and the Grammys giving the best heavy metal award to a real heavy metal band Slayer. How awesome is that!? And how awesome would it have been if Slayer played during the broadcast!? Anyone remember when they gave the heavy metal trophy to Jethro Tull??!! I think that was the same year that they gave the best new artist award to Milli Vanilli!
Ugghh why did the two jackoffs from "Flight of the Conchords" win best comedy album!? I'm telling all of you FOTC is nothing more then a Tencious D. rip off with New Zealand accents, alt folk music and New York City! And being wacky for the sake of being wacky! Nothing funny about those two assholes!! Would would have been great is if they televised the best comedy award acceptance speech from the two Outback Steakhouse spokesmen, and Kayne West came up on stage and interrupted them and had a temper tantrum about loosing much like he did at the Euro VMA's a few years back. Had that happened and Slayer played, I would have found a way to make CBS come in clearly on my TV!!
And Alicia Keys...she's talented but very overrated!! I saw she won for best R&B song. And my friend told me she did a virtual duet with Frank Sinatra that opened the show.
Haven't heard the Herbie Handcock/Joni Mitchell album, I do like the both of them a lot but I find there are certain artists (Herbie Handcock and Joni Mitchell included) that can release an album of nothing but them belching and farting and the Grammy people would nominate it for album of the year. Others on that "always get nominated for a grammy no matter what" list besides Herbie Handcock and Joni Mitchell are Alicia Keys, Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney, Sheryl Crow and Bruce Springsteen. I saw Bruce won for best rock song for "Radio No Where", I love Bruce but I don't think that song was one of his best.. I was kinda meh on the whole "Radio No Where" album!
Onto the next subject! Yesterday I had the pleasure to sit and chat with the wonderful Mr. Johnny Lloyd Rollins and I should have that chat up and posted by the end of this week. Also I attended the Dan Deacon show at the Whitney Museum this past friday night and I will have a write up and pictures on that show posted real soon. I also submitted questions for Mr. Deacon to answer and hopefully I should be getting his answers real soon!
One last note on the Dan Deacon show, I know in other music blogs Dan Deacon has been critized for what he does with his shows. Quite frankly I'd rather go to a Dan Deacon show complete with sing-alongs, dance-offs, glowing skulls and Ethan Hawke countdowns, over some snooty hipster band or artist that just stands there and plays, says nothing in between songs and yells at the crowd to shut-up the fuck up! Live shows should be about; being connected to the artist or band and having the artist or band be connected to the crowd, having the music transend but most of all having lots of fun!
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