Tokyo Police Club

Best new band of this week, at least.

Check out Tokyo Police Club - The Nature of the Experiment.

www.tokyopoliceclub.net

An upbeat indie rock band that I would like to hang out in a photobooth with.

One life

Today I was driving home from church and I heard the Mary J Blige/U2 version of U2's "One".

I think I hated this performance at the Grammy's - but in the quirky way music works, today it drove me to tears.

The lyrics are so powerful. They never look as powerful on the page as they sound in the song.

See:
"Did I ask too much?
More than a lot.
You gave me nothing,
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you've got is hurt"

Not as powerful as in the song. But powerful nonetheless.

I hate being so on top of things

Now the Amy Winehouse song is FREE on itunes this week.

And I bought it two weeks ago for .99 cents. Why isn't that my job to pick the cool track? Or can someone please alert me?

This happens almost weekly that I already own the itunes free single of the week.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

how can i blog when youtube is down?

So I had such inspiration after watching the Thermal's video for "A Pillar of Salt" that I wanted to post it to my blog. But freaking youtube is down right now..

And none of you will google it. So this is a reminder to post it later.

It is anniversary meets the rentals, meets outrageous fun.

I want to get into a paint fight. Immediately.

My first comic!

So, I decided to start doing a music based comic strip - hopefully once I get a mac I can create a better one, but here is the first installation of "Electronic Perfection" - Enjoy the travels of Zach and Coupland the robot....

fun lyric of the day

Oh girl, it's true
I can never be away from you
It's like you gloss your lips with glue
Oh we kiss and I am stuck to you

- hellogoodbye, "stuck to you"

Amy Winehouse

If you like that old bluesy, swanky, soulful sound of the 60's, with an upbeat electronic twist, then I HIGHLY reccomend Amy Winehouse. I first heard of it while using Google Music Trends as I frequently check out what is most played in the UK. Then I was listening to passport approved this morning on indie 103 and heard her again. I thought for SURE it was a dj sampling old music from the 60's - but alas! I was incorrect. Her voice is just that cool...

The single "I'm No Good" is the opposite of that....

Check it out: http://www.amywinehouse.co.uk/

and at myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/amywinehouse

Back to the Alaska Idea...

So I decided to use Google Earth to check this idea out further - I could so easily go to China as well - this idea stems from a nightmare I had shortly after 9/11. I was terrified to fly, but equally terrified to never see the world. In my dream - it was long - I saw everything out of a Ranger Rover. Ok, so maybe I had just watched The OC or something too - but it was an incredible dream. Please enjoy this image, thanks to Google!

say it ain't so

in honor of hearing Weezer on the radio just now, I thought I would be brave and share a poem I wrote after seeing Weezer in concert in 2001. I wrote this as a reflection of hearing "only in dreams".

RezeeW

The lights effected my perception.
Made things better, made life real.
My eyes can play horrible tricks, but the mind is worse.
The mind leads to false realities, false hopes, and mental instabilities.
But I am so rational, so responsible - so retarded.
Letting the moment, the lights continue to swirl, "Only in Dreams" playing, but my mind, my mind is swirling more than the lights and is telling me to think of something else, shifts my focus from fun to hell and I am not getting over this anytime soon.
The blues come - first in the form of lights - then next creep into my skin through my pores, and now in my blood, my veins, and it then affects my heart. "Only in Dreams" still playing, my heart still failing, my strong body, but small, meek, weak, drowning spirit, swaying to the beat, wishing Rivers would come to me in the form of "someone" else. Anyone. "Only in Dreams", my oxygen and carbon dioxide are all effected by my nightmare.

HA - I was soooooo immature. I went with a boy that at the time was crushing over. And by definition, a crush must hurt. And they do. And this poem was the result. I love the fact that I found this....

Good night

i want to road trip to europe, or at least russia

why is this such a ridicolous idea?



The distance is only 2.5 miles - build the bridge....

andy warhol on love

"People have so many problems wiht love, always looking for someone to be their Via Venento, their souffle that can't fall. There should be a course in the first grade on love. There should be courses on beauty and love and sex. With love as the biggest course."

new

So I decided to start a new blog. This is offically my 4th blog. In June I will celebrate my 5th anniversary of blogging. Why I know that - don't ask. However, I decided this blog will be more abstract. Myspace will be the usual random whatnots of my life - but this will be different.