tiistai 30. marraskuuta 2010

Local Natives :: Gorilla Manor (2010)

artist: Local Natives (from California)
album: Gorilla Manor
label: Frenchkiss Records
release date: 16.02.2010
genre: indie
rating: alright. as rated by me, remember? and I'm getting quite tired of indie shit. but don't let my opinions override yours.

62.72mb preview / purchase

(01). Wide Eyes [4:28]
(02). Airplanes [4:00]
(03). Sun Hands [4:53]
(04). World News [4:32]
(05). Shape Shifter [5:31]
(06). Camera Talk [3:45]
(07). Cards & Quarters [4:01]
(08). Warning Sign [4:12]
(09). Who Knows Who Cares [3:55]
(10). Cubism Dream [4:02]
(11). Stranger Things [5:48]
(12). Sticky Thread [3:48]

I caught two or three of their songs at Coachella last year (2010).
I liked them better live than I thought I would based on their album.
But their songs still just aren't my type.

perjantai 19. marraskuuta 2010

meowingtons vs deadmau5

we love you, joel. 19.11.10.

torstai 18. marraskuuta 2010

Matt & Kim :: Sidewalks (2010)

artist: Matt & Kim
album: Sidewalks
label: Fader
release date: 02.11.2010
genre: indie pop/rock
rating: okay. think I've had enough of their sound after two albums..

74.63mb preview / purchase


01 Block After Block
02 AM/FM Sound
03 Cameras
04 Red Paint
05 Where You’re Coming From
06 Good for Great
07 Northeast
08 Wires
09 Silver Tiles
10 Ice Melts

The tent in which they played at Coachella last year (2010) was packed, but I managed to squeeze in enough at one side opening to catch a couple songs. Kim was totally not what I imagined—she totally displayed the punk-rock-girl attitude.

sunnuntai 7. marraskuuta 2010

response to mehserle's sentence

A man jumps on a car in downtown Oakland after people marched through downtown in response to a two-year prison sentence that was handed down to former BART officer Johannes Mehserle on Friday Nov. 05, 2010 in Oakland, Calif.


100 protesters arrested in Oakland. sfgate, 06.nov.2010.

the police blocked the crowd from continuing the march? ??
had they not, maybe there would have been less rioting.

lauantai 6. marraskuuta 2010

oh, the batch of young voters..

Hey, at least this guy voted. Obama won in '08 with 66% of the 18-29 vote. Most of that demo stayed home this time and played Cut the Rope and drank vodka/Red Bulls and tweeted about not caring anymore. Ah, silly youth.

Letter to a whiny young democrat. mark morford, sfgate, 03.11.10.

perjantai 5. marraskuuta 2010

torstai 4. marraskuuta 2010

keskiviikko 3. marraskuuta 2010

don't worry— let's call it even

"sick dialogue from an english textbook in korea"
– j. lee

tiistai 2. marraskuuta 2010

fantasy fest 2010

those purple swirls are actually very pretty.
andrew w. key west, florida.