I heard this song for the first time last night and I was like, man, there must be THOUSANDS of songs out there that I don’t know that could rock my world.
Can you recommend some songs that I might not know that would rock my world?
“Spiritualized @ The Vista Theater, Los Angeles, CA”
Work in progress by Terry Huynh.
This is a composite image of 9 different stills taken from the Spiritualized Acoustic Mainline shows a few years ago at the Vista Theater in Los Angeles. The shots were taken when Jason walked back to the stage before the encore and when he left the stage after the encore. They played 2 consecutive nights. I went to both shows.
I started working on this years ago and for whatever reason abandoned the project, there’s still some blending/matte kinks that need working out, which would require a few Photoshop tutorials and possibly the purchase of a Wacom tablet.
I’m hoping to finish this in the next few months when I have time and then make some large prints. I want to give them to a few friends who are into Spiritualized. Maybe I’ll give a few to some random people I don’t know who are into the band. If you have a birthday coming up real soon or something like that, let me know as that may be some incentive for me to wrap this up.
I want to start making art again and then give it out for free, because I guess that’s how you get people to like you and stuff and then your phone may actually ring every once in a while.
and it keeps saying “Chat Ghoul-ette: The Movie”
A few days ago I wrote this on a sticky -
“After witnessing a Russian Roulette incident gone awry on Chat Roulette, our hero Ryan is haunted by a ghost, trying to convince him that the incident was actually a murder. Ghost meets Just Like Heaven meets The Internet”
Ten years ago, on my first visit to LA, my friend Eli dragged me to see Smog at the Troubadour. This song was the highlight of my evening.
Ten years later, this song perfectly encapsulates my mood right now. I feel like I don’t belong here, that I don’t belong to any family, to any tribe, but hell, I met some nice, beautiful people.
Aside from the intensity (I was standing outside the tent and it still moved me) the other awesome part of this performance is when Beth quotes one of the greatest songs of the last decade, The Knife’s “Heartbeats,” during the quiet part.
So today I found out that an ex-crush got married and then I decided to look at an ex-GF’s blog about her kid. The idea was to get so depressed that I would partake in the festivities of this red-letter day, but then realized that I did not make the necessary preparations.
Staying out of the Facebooks and Twitters for a while. Contact me IRL if you wanna get at me.
Taken with a Diana Camera at the Thai Festival a few years ago in Hollywood, CA.
Two lists, like last year. Both go to 11. Some of these are technically not “singles.”
There is a tower with a winding set of stairs - songs about girls I know.
1. The National - So Far Around the Bend
2. Weezer - If Ur Wondering if I Want You To (I Want You To)
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric
4. Sunset Rubdown - Coming To At Dawn
5. Lykke Li - Possibility
6. The Big Pink - Velvet
7. Peter Yorn and ScarJo - Relator
8. Dead Man’s Bones (Ryan Gosling) - My Body’s a Zombie For You
9. Japandroids - Our Hearts Sweat
10. Hot Chip - One life Stand
11) Junior Boys - Parallel Lines
With mah Southern drawl I spray - Um, songs not about girls I know.
1) Big Boi ft. Gucci Mane - Shine Blockas
2) Fever Ray - When I Grow Up (Version by Lissvik)
3) The Almighty Defenders - Cone of Light
4) Patrick Watson - Big Bird in a Small Cage
interesting story about the song
The version posted here doesn’t really do the song justice.
5) Handsome Furs - All We Want, Baby Is Everything
6) M. Ward - For Beginners
7) Keri Hilson - Knock You Down
8. Islands - Switched On
9) And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Fields of Coal
10) Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
11) Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
I starred in the best music video of 2009?
That’s Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg, yo. My friend Mike was also in this scene. Our friend Keith directed it. Beck and I made some small talk; he had made a comment about how he and his band would wear horseheads when they first started playing. For a minute, Charlotte was sitting next to me, but was moved to the kitchen (ARGH!). I thought it would be too crazy to talk to Charlotte wearing that horsehead so I just tried to send her some mental vibes, which clearly backfired.
I’m also in the slumber party scene.
Here are some “behind the scenes” photos.
Unnecessary quotations in 2010!
Stryker’s post about American Movie made me remember the time I was lucky enough to hang out with Mark Borchardt while he was on a college publicity tour. This picture was taken with Mark and a good friend of mine in Ithaca in ‘99. After this admittedly bizarro photoshoot, which my memory of fine Emmentaler prevents me from explaining, we went with Mark to the Chanticleer. Then we called Mike at home in his basement and had a brief chat with him.
I remember this night very well. I remember that it took a little convincing on my part to get Matthew to go the screening at Cornell Cinema as he was debating driving to Alfred U. to see a friend’s art show. We found out about the afterparty at the Chanticleer b/c I asked Mark at the Q & A (quite out of character for me at the time), if and where he would be drinking afterward. We went to the Chanticleer and saw Mark leaving and decided to follow him. This photoshoot took place at my friend Jaime’s clothing store Evolution - they were having some kind of late night sale. I was friends with Jaime (and Matthew) because we were both into BritPop and Jaime was nice enough to burn me CDs on a monthly basis. Mark was really cool about having this picture taken and yes, he did buy that hat. When we called Mike later that night he was in the middle of burning Pink Floyd Cds.
God, I look horrible in glasses. All of this was before I learned to dress myself.
This song played last night at the NYE party I attended with some friends last night and I really regret not getting onto the dance floor for it. My single of 2007 and possibly my single of the decade, and all I could do was just tap my foot and nod while the few people were screaming the last verses. The irony of course was that my friends WERE there, but I was (mentally) somewhere else, probably reliving the night of Christmas Eve.
Heartbeats - The Knife
The Strokes - The Modern Age
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Beyonce - Crazy in Love
Daft Punk - One More Time
Golddigger - Kanye West
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Regina Spektor - Fidelity
Death Cab - I Will Follow You Into the Dark
Cat Power - The Greatest
Okkervil River - A Stone
TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
Beck - Lost Cause
Feist - Mushaboom
Bright Eyes - Let’s Not Shit Ourselves
Outkast - Bombs over Bagdad
Yeah Yeah Yeah’s - Y Control
Flaming Lips - Do You Realize
Wilco - i am trying to break your heart
Trail of Dead - Baudelaire
Jay-Z - 99 Problems -
Amsterdam 1 and Amsterdam 2, respectively. Shot on a Diana Camera (original, not the Lomo reissue), cross-processed Ektachrome, damaged film roll (camera’s fault, not mine), taken on a water taxi tour near the Anne Frank House.
Two versions/snippets of Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love” at the Hollywood Bowl performed almost a year to the day of each other (is that the way to write that?).
I was there for both performances.
The Killers - Can’t Help Falling in Love/Read My Mind - September 16th, 2009
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (Elvis version) - September 17th, 2008
* watch it all the way through.
FILE UNDER BRILLIANT IDEAS THAT MAY NEVER HAPPEN.
I’ve decided recently that when and if I get married, I will get married in a movie theater.
We will treat the guests to a short film about how we met. And we will definitely use better looking actors (at least for the role of myself).
If I had my ways it will be shot on black and white reversal film.
