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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Thanks to all!
Oo-de-lally! Oo-de-lally! The Chapstick Weekly Launch Party was superfab, and I thought I’d say a few things about it!
First off, on the monitors during the evening were two videos:
First, the Disney animated Robin Hood, probably the greatest Disney movie ever (I can see a top five really of greatest evers, also including Winnie the Pooh, Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan…but we should all go ahead and agree that Robin Hood takes the Gold - I mean, check out legendary singer/songwriter Roger Miller as the Rooster).
Second Powaqqatsi, presented by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. It’s basically a collection of great clips that are supposed to show “Life in Transition” aka the effects of modernization on 3rd world developing cultures.
Second off:
The model and makeup design was done by Katie Jones at Savvy Salon. If you didn’t see it, you missed out. You can see some more of her work at the upcoming Oranje. Definitely worth your while, even if your interest in fashion and style is circumstantial.
Third off:
I’d love to get some input about future parties. What do you think?
And! Then! There comes a time when it’s time to say thanks. So here it is, short and sassy (or concise and clear if we want to do professional, resume-sounding terms).
Thanks to you, Katie Jones, for being the most amazing, remarkable person I have ever known! It was a pleasure to have your involvement in this event, and I can’t tell you thanks enough for all your support and help! Gracias! Gracias! De nada!
Thanks to you, Clay Reinken, for getting the design aspect of the site looking like it’s a real site and not something that I did.
Thanks to you, Alex Jimenez, for running for Mayor in 2011.
Thanks to you, Patrick McNellie, for helping me out in the many small areas you did.
Thanks to you, beer people, for donating beer!
Thanks to all of you, for helping to make my event a success. Hope to see you at the next one!
Saturday, July 19, 2008
v9
Chapstick Weekly-ish
For the prudent gentleman or gentlelady
The Definitive Paul Reinken Mix
The Word – The Beatles
Ghettochip Malfuntion (Hell Yes) [8bit Remix] – Beck
Happy Valentine’s Day – Outkast
The Last Time – Gnarls Barkley
Phantom – Justice
Inspector Blanchflower – The Fiery Furnaces
Phantom Pt. II – Justice
Brakes On – Air
Huddle Formation – The Go! Team
Move Your Feet – Junior Senior
Idioteque – Radiohead
Boy From School (Erol Alkan’s Extended Re-Work) – Hot Chip
Crimewave – Crystal Castles vs. Health
The Girls – Calvin Harris
Electric Feel – MGMT
Black Ice (Hymn 4 Disco) – k-os
Trying to Put Your Heart Back Together – Slow Runner
Got To Get You Into My Life – The Beatles
Albums in my Car
Beck, Modern Guilt
The Black Ghosts, The Black Ghosts
The Hold Steady, Stay Positive
Flying Lotus, Los Angeles
MGMT, Oracular Spectacular
Midnight Juggernauts, Dystopia
Chapstick Weekly Release Party Tonight!
MF! The party is upon us, as suddenly as a 30 degree weather shift in Indiana! An electric feeling, from the depth of my tarsals to the tingling ends of my carpals, is reverberating through my body. I hear a maniac, purple-hatted Gene Wilder shouting/singing something over the storm! It’s kind of like this:
There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction we are going!
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing!
Is it raining?
Is it snowing?
Is a hurricane a-blowing?
Not a speck of light is showing,
So the danger must be growing.
Are the fires of hell a-glowing?
Is the grisly reaper mowing?
Yes, the danger must be growing
'Cause the rowers keep on rowing
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing!
STOP THE BOAT! Savvy Salon on the BRAVE (BroadRipple Avenue) will be momentarily become an outrageous oasis to the desert of style and good music typically found in Broad Ripple on Saturday nights (in fact, probably found in most major cities....).
Editors Note: Savvy Salon could always be considered this Oasis.
There will be drinks and dancing, wanderings and wonderment, and great music all night! Pull up your socks, jump of your boat docks, and be ready to rock! I’m going to karate chop a panther, I’ve done it before!
See you there, we couldn’t do it without your imagination and shaking booties! After all, We are the Music Makers, we are the Dreamers of Dreams.
What’s New to Me and Maybe New to You
Black Ghosts
Beautiful, sublime, and masterful in its production, this album is brilliant on every track. The Black Ghosts combine energetic electronic grooves with touches of funk and jazz, with a sublime craftmanship that merits an extra large portion of toe-tapping. I’d love to call this album playful, but the serious effort given by the obviously talented musicians in this group can be seen from the first moment the music fills the air and enters your cerebrum.
The Hold Steady
Recently I referred to this band as a group finally fulfilling the potential of what midwest rock could do (from Minneapolis-Saint Paul originally, their roots grew in Brooklyn). They have also been referred to as “America’s Bar Band” – however the driving feature of this band is undoubtedly their ability to combine meaningful, sometimes heart-wrenching lyrics to a full, rock band back without ever coming across as just trying to do so. The lyrical influences, from Bruce Springsteen and Jim Carroll to Atmosphere and Jay-Z, show in this vibrant, far-spanning effort!
Chromeo
If the fun-loving, superfunk attitude that all but drips out of the air when this album is on makes is purely evident that the two members of this band never made it out of the disco mindset. But given all the modern advantages of The Electronic/Communications/Nintendo Age, what comes out of the speakers is the exact thing that would come out of Hal’s exercise room in Space Odyssey 2001! “When you wanna go Wow! When you wanna scream and shout tonight!”
In Case You’re a Dummy
Buy the Ratatat, LP3 album. Just as you’d expect, there are swelling strings and guitars! Crescendos of drums and sound! Quirky arrangements that draw you in for a closer look then spring on you in jack-in-the-box fashion with the absurd ridiculousness of all things beautiful! Their album, Classics, was amazing and by all means, their most recent effort on LP3 is obscenely precise and wonderful!
BEER! (from Tony the Yodeling Shetland Pony)
It is safe to say that the best beers in the world come from Belgium. Before the goose-steppers ran amuck, Belgium boasted more than 3000 breweries, today that figure is around 100. Even American breweries have taken notice and started to reproduce and play around with traditional Belgian beer recipes.
Allagash brewery from Portland, Maine has emerged as one of the leading American breweries producing authentic Belgian style beers. They serve up a plethora of different and creative beers, ranging from under $10 to nearly $20 a bottle. For this article, I recommend sampling their Triple Reserve. Allagash’s Triple Reserve is a bench mark upon which most other triples can and should be measured against. Their Triple has a high carbonation (I imagine it is what fizzy lifting drink feels like on one’s tongue), and a cloudy, golden, almost honey coloration. As in the nature of Belgian-style beers, you will immediately notice a quickly-fading, not overly-sweet taste to it.
With a price tag of $7.92 at the ghetto shop down the street, it is reasonably priced (for one 750mL bottle, so the size of two large pints), and it packs a punch at 9% alcohol. If you’re not in the know, please pour your Belgian style beers into a rounded bottom glass (think brandy glass, goblet, large wine glass, etc), and if you don’t have one of those, just use any glass you got.
For Tony the Yodeling Shetland Pony’s sanity, please do not be a philistine and drink it out of the bottle, you will be like a child clown without shoes! Have you ever seen one? It’s disgusting!
The Alamo: Sean Lennon, Friendly Fire
Remember Sean Lennon, Friendly Fire? At first listen, it is difficult to overlook the fact he is his father’s son. It is equally difficult to avoid immediately drawing an intense emotional connection to his music.
The morose, uncomplicated lyrics fed with inspiration from his self-said greatest influences (mom and dad), give this musical savant a razor sharp edge to do some surgery on your foolish and broken heart. He can burn a hole into the center of your deepest memory, ball it up in titanium twine, and pull it out of your core to see the fresh light of day, all in a single breath!
The beautiful arrangements of music that accompany his words, have a style of their own: unpretentious harmonies, masterful two-handed piano, and classical guitar all ease themselves into and out of the intricacies of every track.
As an added bonus, this album comes with a brilliant DVD that depicts the album through short sketches. A single scene sticks out in my mind: Sean Lennon, bent under the weight of a sleeve-carrying heart is slumped on a couch, strumming the complicated chords of the album’s title track “Friendly Fire” with an ease and effortless giving of emotion. Wonderful, sublime, emotional, timid, and unique.
Tastin' Summer! (Submitted by Katie2 of Savvy Salon in Indianapolis)
Music and umbrellas set the scene on the front deck of Taste Cafe in SoBro (South Broad Ripple)! Cool off with a cool lunch with the many gourmet salads to choose from. (Esp. our savvy favorite: beet salad, tortellini salad, and curry chicken topped off with a quenching tea/lemonade beverage. Numbingly deliciosa!
Speaking of taste, check out the Ronson genes! Charlotte Ronson, sister of music maestro Mark Ronson, has a remarkable clothing line that found now at Urban Outfitters! From high-waisted sailor shorts to stacked sandals, this line is a savvy favorite!
ps. Duh! “Electric Feel" by MGMT is totally beaching!
pps. Savvy is proud to launch "what's next" in hair care, by Sebastian. www.sebastianprofessional.com
Some Things Are Funny
Like Music Genres. So much depends, it seems, on the name of a genre of music.
Realistically, the genre is often the first point of description. Is this album rock? Is this alternative country? Electric Blues? Or even Adult Alternative Pop-Idol. But, in the endless repeat of “what kind of music do you listen to?” I am still puzzled as to the correct response. Obviously this Chapsticked effort of mine here has a severe electronic lean (or lien.). But does that pinch me into a situation of a solo electronic listener?
I’d prefer to think that my canned answer of “just good music” can hit a mark that naming off a few genres cannot. I also prefer to think that, just perhaps, the area of electronified music is the area where the most new, innovative material can be found.
The much appreciated singer/songwriter genre contains many of today’s poets and prophets, and certainly emerging in hiphop commonly are performers who are coming to be defined as the new age of Bob Dylans, speaking directly about the common state.
All the same, the largest consistency of compelling releases and innovation in music appears to be coming directly out of the wall outlet, into a myriad of electronic equipment. This makes sense, seeing that our recent history is marked by great strides and advances in electronics.
The merging of popular genres back into a single “pop” umbrella seems to be approaching, for simplicity. I mean, let the specialty genres carry the specialty names. In the mean time, I am going to stick with the idea of “just gimme somethin’ good!”
Next Week:
Gnarls Barkley, Dirty Pretty Things, The Music, and more gloss for those puckering kissers.
For the prudent gentleman or gentlelady
The Definitive Paul Reinken Mix
The Word – The Beatles
Ghettochip Malfuntion (Hell Yes) [8bit Remix] – Beck
Happy Valentine’s Day – Outkast
The Last Time – Gnarls Barkley
Phantom – Justice
Inspector Blanchflower – The Fiery Furnaces
Phantom Pt. II – Justice
Brakes On – Air
Huddle Formation – The Go! Team
Move Your Feet – Junior Senior
Idioteque – Radiohead
Boy From School (Erol Alkan’s Extended Re-Work) – Hot Chip
Crimewave – Crystal Castles vs. Health
The Girls – Calvin Harris
Electric Feel – MGMT
Black Ice (Hymn 4 Disco) – k-os
Trying to Put Your Heart Back Together – Slow Runner
Got To Get You Into My Life – The Beatles
Albums in my Car
Beck, Modern Guilt
The Black Ghosts, The Black Ghosts
The Hold Steady, Stay Positive
Flying Lotus, Los Angeles
MGMT, Oracular Spectacular
Midnight Juggernauts, Dystopia
Chapstick Weekly Release Party Tonight!
MF! The party is upon us, as suddenly as a 30 degree weather shift in Indiana! An electric feeling, from the depth of my tarsals to the tingling ends of my carpals, is reverberating through my body. I hear a maniac, purple-hatted Gene Wilder shouting/singing something over the storm! It’s kind of like this:
There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction we are going!
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing!
Is it raining?
Is it snowing?
Is a hurricane a-blowing?
Not a speck of light is showing,
So the danger must be growing.
Are the fires of hell a-glowing?
Is the grisly reaper mowing?
Yes, the danger must be growing
'Cause the rowers keep on rowing
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing!
STOP THE BOAT! Savvy Salon on the BRAVE (BroadRipple Avenue) will be momentarily become an outrageous oasis to the desert of style and good music typically found in Broad Ripple on Saturday nights (in fact, probably found in most major cities....).
Editors Note: Savvy Salon could always be considered this Oasis.
There will be drinks and dancing, wanderings and wonderment, and great music all night! Pull up your socks, jump of your boat docks, and be ready to rock! I’m going to karate chop a panther, I’ve done it before!
See you there, we couldn’t do it without your imagination and shaking booties! After all, We are the Music Makers, we are the Dreamers of Dreams.
What’s New to Me and Maybe New to You
Black Ghosts
Beautiful, sublime, and masterful in its production, this album is brilliant on every track. The Black Ghosts combine energetic electronic grooves with touches of funk and jazz, with a sublime craftmanship that merits an extra large portion of toe-tapping. I’d love to call this album playful, but the serious effort given by the obviously talented musicians in this group can be seen from the first moment the music fills the air and enters your cerebrum.
The Hold Steady
Recently I referred to this band as a group finally fulfilling the potential of what midwest rock could do (from Minneapolis-Saint Paul originally, their roots grew in Brooklyn). They have also been referred to as “America’s Bar Band” – however the driving feature of this band is undoubtedly their ability to combine meaningful, sometimes heart-wrenching lyrics to a full, rock band back without ever coming across as just trying to do so. The lyrical influences, from Bruce Springsteen and Jim Carroll to Atmosphere and Jay-Z, show in this vibrant, far-spanning effort!
Chromeo
If the fun-loving, superfunk attitude that all but drips out of the air when this album is on makes is purely evident that the two members of this band never made it out of the disco mindset. But given all the modern advantages of The Electronic/Communications/Nintendo Age, what comes out of the speakers is the exact thing that would come out of Hal’s exercise room in Space Odyssey 2001! “When you wanna go Wow! When you wanna scream and shout tonight!”
In Case You’re a Dummy
Buy the Ratatat, LP3 album. Just as you’d expect, there are swelling strings and guitars! Crescendos of drums and sound! Quirky arrangements that draw you in for a closer look then spring on you in jack-in-the-box fashion with the absurd ridiculousness of all things beautiful! Their album, Classics, was amazing and by all means, their most recent effort on LP3 is obscenely precise and wonderful!
BEER! (from Tony the Yodeling Shetland Pony)
It is safe to say that the best beers in the world come from Belgium. Before the goose-steppers ran amuck, Belgium boasted more than 3000 breweries, today that figure is around 100. Even American breweries have taken notice and started to reproduce and play around with traditional Belgian beer recipes.
Allagash brewery from Portland, Maine has emerged as one of the leading American breweries producing authentic Belgian style beers. They serve up a plethora of different and creative beers, ranging from under $10 to nearly $20 a bottle. For this article, I recommend sampling their Triple Reserve. Allagash’s Triple Reserve is a bench mark upon which most other triples can and should be measured against. Their Triple has a high carbonation (I imagine it is what fizzy lifting drink feels like on one’s tongue), and a cloudy, golden, almost honey coloration. As in the nature of Belgian-style beers, you will immediately notice a quickly-fading, not overly-sweet taste to it.
With a price tag of $7.92 at the ghetto shop down the street, it is reasonably priced (for one 750mL bottle, so the size of two large pints), and it packs a punch at 9% alcohol. If you’re not in the know, please pour your Belgian style beers into a rounded bottom glass (think brandy glass, goblet, large wine glass, etc), and if you don’t have one of those, just use any glass you got.
For Tony the Yodeling Shetland Pony’s sanity, please do not be a philistine and drink it out of the bottle, you will be like a child clown without shoes! Have you ever seen one? It’s disgusting!
The Alamo: Sean Lennon, Friendly Fire
Remember Sean Lennon, Friendly Fire? At first listen, it is difficult to overlook the fact he is his father’s son. It is equally difficult to avoid immediately drawing an intense emotional connection to his music.
The morose, uncomplicated lyrics fed with inspiration from his self-said greatest influences (mom and dad), give this musical savant a razor sharp edge to do some surgery on your foolish and broken heart. He can burn a hole into the center of your deepest memory, ball it up in titanium twine, and pull it out of your core to see the fresh light of day, all in a single breath!
The beautiful arrangements of music that accompany his words, have a style of their own: unpretentious harmonies, masterful two-handed piano, and classical guitar all ease themselves into and out of the intricacies of every track.
As an added bonus, this album comes with a brilliant DVD that depicts the album through short sketches. A single scene sticks out in my mind: Sean Lennon, bent under the weight of a sleeve-carrying heart is slumped on a couch, strumming the complicated chords of the album’s title track “Friendly Fire” with an ease and effortless giving of emotion. Wonderful, sublime, emotional, timid, and unique.
Tastin' Summer! (Submitted by Katie2 of Savvy Salon in Indianapolis)
Music and umbrellas set the scene on the front deck of Taste Cafe in SoBro (South Broad Ripple)! Cool off with a cool lunch with the many gourmet salads to choose from. (Esp. our savvy favorite: beet salad, tortellini salad, and curry chicken topped off with a quenching tea/lemonade beverage. Numbingly deliciosa!
Speaking of taste, check out the Ronson genes! Charlotte Ronson, sister of music maestro Mark Ronson, has a remarkable clothing line that found now at Urban Outfitters! From high-waisted sailor shorts to stacked sandals, this line is a savvy favorite!
ps. Duh! “Electric Feel" by MGMT is totally beaching!
pps. Savvy is proud to launch "what's next" in hair care, by Sebastian. www.sebastianprofessional.com
Some Things Are Funny
Like Music Genres. So much depends, it seems, on the name of a genre of music.
Realistically, the genre is often the first point of description. Is this album rock? Is this alternative country? Electric Blues? Or even Adult Alternative Pop-Idol. But, in the endless repeat of “what kind of music do you listen to?” I am still puzzled as to the correct response. Obviously this Chapsticked effort of mine here has a severe electronic lean (or lien.). But does that pinch me into a situation of a solo electronic listener?
I’d prefer to think that my canned answer of “just good music” can hit a mark that naming off a few genres cannot. I also prefer to think that, just perhaps, the area of electronified music is the area where the most new, innovative material can be found.
The much appreciated singer/songwriter genre contains many of today’s poets and prophets, and certainly emerging in hiphop commonly are performers who are coming to be defined as the new age of Bob Dylans, speaking directly about the common state.
All the same, the largest consistency of compelling releases and innovation in music appears to be coming directly out of the wall outlet, into a myriad of electronic equipment. This makes sense, seeing that our recent history is marked by great strides and advances in electronics.
The merging of popular genres back into a single “pop” umbrella seems to be approaching, for simplicity. I mean, let the specialty genres carry the specialty names. In the mean time, I am going to stick with the idea of “just gimme somethin’ good!”
Next Week:
Gnarls Barkley, Dirty Pretty Things, The Music, and more gloss for those puckering kissers.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Chapstick Weekly v8
Chapstick Weekly-ish
For the prudent gentleman or gentlelady
Check out the new, improved Blog-Zine!
Beetlejuice Black-striped Bubblicious Birthday Mix
Revolution (Love album version) – The Beatles
Back in the U.S.S.R. (Love album version) – The Beatles
Modern Guilt – Beck
Do What You Wanna (Mr. Scruff’s Soul Party Remix) – Ramsey Lewis & Mr. Scruff
Crisp Endorsement – Of Montreal
Shadows – Midnight Juggernauts
DARE (Junior Sanchez Remix) – Gorillaz
D.A.N.C.E. (Feat Spank Rock & Mos Def) [Benny Blanco Remix] – Justice
Funplex (Peaches Pleasure Seeker Remix) – The B-52’s
No Sex for Ben – The Rapture
The Suspense Is Killing Me – Boy 8-Bit
Around the World – Daft Punk
Lazy Eye (Jason Bentley Remix) – Silversun Pickups
Bellona – Junior Boys
Soul Sauce (Fila Brazilia Remix) – Cal Tjader & Fila Brazilia
Tubthumping (Flaming Lips & Dave Fridmann Remix) – Chumbawamba
Watermelon Man – Herbie Hancock
Albums in my Car
Beck, Modern Guilt
Shine, The Common Station
Midnight Juggernauts, Dystopia
Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin
Zero 7, Simple Things
The Chemical Brothers, B-Sides Vol. 1
Modern Guilt from Beck Hitting Stores Today, Tuesday, July 8.
Moments before a figure emerges from a thick fog, the cloud-wall moves, jerked in currents and streams by the sudden approach of something travelling at a great speed. Something massive. Something danceable, intangible!
(It’s going to be the best album ever…I can’t wait.)
The figure, the awoken (or sleepless) beast that is the new Beck album, has not only begun to stir, but is barreling forward at a breakneck pace. I had the intense pleasure of pre-viewing his new tracks over the weekend (you can too, if you foolishly don’t want to download it yet – beck.com), and if I hadn’t already pre-ordered this album, I would get it right now. As in, F you, I can’t wait for this album.
Driving, 60’s teeny-pop drumlines electrified by Danger Mouse (Yeah, that guy from Gnarls Barkley and Gorillaz) provides buoyancy for layers of bouncy, heavy keys and unfiltered, unabashed guitar licks. Where Danger Mouse ends and Beck begins is hard to say, and their natural fusion is apparent on this effort.
OMG! I can’t waaaaiiit.
Seriously let’s get so serious for a moment. Seriously. Metaphors aside, Beck has a stethoscope that hear music’s sublime beating heart and breathing lungs. I’ve seen it.
Let’s abstain from using words like “re-invent” and “experimental” from describing every new Beck album. He moves more subtly through the shifting tides of music’s capabilities, creating his only consistency through his continuing, adaptive ability to find synthesis in all things that are beautiful (something that Lao Tzu could only call succeeding).
What’s New to Me and Maybe New to You
Midnight Juggernauts
If there was ever an appropriate band to do a keyboard air guitar to, this would be them. The quirky vocal delivery of this group’s Talking Heads / Bee Gees hybrid is paired with simple synthesizers and a driving, dancey beat that will turn some heels over heads. Although elegantly done, this album’s music presents a solid landscape of sound, with little fragility to its structure or delivery. Very good. Danceable. Approved. Vunderbarr.
Chemical Brothers
Have you ever heard of this duo? They are neither new to me or to you, but their B-sides album is one that slipped between the cracks in late 2007, and much to my great happiness, overshadows their recent release, We Are the Night, in rainbow shades of glory. Punchy, precise, prudent, practical, and pleasant.
Shine
Tapping into the same soulful, live band sound with an easy electronic groove that has placed Zero 7 in a class of its own, Shine’s freshman album does well to please the gentle listener. With the long-awaited release of The Common Station, a few unmistakeable gems emerge (tracks Ashbury and Hawaii) with an album filled out with songs worthy of a dimly lit background and plush, bloated-looking furniture. By the end of the album, you’ll probably find yourself stretching your feet out for a nice relaxation moment.
In Case You’re a Dummy
Buy the Daft Punk, Alive 2007. I’ll admit, I was slightly reluctant to get this one. But as live albums go, this is phenominal in quality, energy, sound, and substsance. From the moment the proverbial needle hits the proverbial vinyl, this disk transports you into the futuristic, cartoon, liver-performance world in which they must live. Try not to sing along, in your best robot vocoder voice, to these songs as they get stuck in your head.
The Alamo: Zero7, Simple Things
Remember Zero 7, Simple Things? That album that reached you in your dark place and drug you out, clear, free, and nearly unscathed?
Breath. Sigh. As one of the first places (if not the first place) to listen to Sia dominate the vocal landscape, its uniqueness, in hindsight, can be seen in this album’s minimalistic approach to her undisputed talent (and minimal use). In fact, avid listeners of this album can certainly overlook that she is even featured on it.
In fact, many of the album’s perfect 14 tracks are wholly instrumental. Flawless, intelligent arrangements keep the pace of this album lifted and airy, giving it that power that music only has to look into your face and say, “I know it, buddy. I’ve been there. But what do you really have to worry about? Life is actually beautiful.”
(Editor’s note: The above quote is not really a quote.)
Soothing Aloe strings and a drum and bass combination that provides Vitamin E smoothness traipse easily from track to track, mixing with electric piano and acoustic guitar to provide a sound that is, in every way, undefineable. Like the smell of just walking into the door at home, or the touch of sun on your skin.
Each track unpretentiously bides its time, patiently letting the complex harmonies take root over a backing beat tranquil and unruffled enough to ice skate on.
To be honest, I’ve been sitting here trying to determine the best way to do this remarkable album justice. After an emergency lifeline phone call to probe Taylor’s thoughts (who incidentally introduced me to this album), I’d like to end off with this single thought.
In the myriad of circumstances and events in my recent life that have been effected by this album, be they wholly benign, intolerably low, or outrageously ecstatic, there will never be an album that could fill each next void, each next moment like this one has and continues to do.
You Show Look Good (NEW! Submitted by Katie2 of Savvy Salon in Indianapolis)
Are you as hot as the music you're snapping to? Here are a few fashionable tips to cool you off at summer shows.
Bangs, buns, everywhere! Braids in your hair
Take the time to look like
You didn't even care!
Keep denim to a minimum! A pair of shorts or a dress
Jersey knits or cotton
Can absorb sweat the best!
Roman in your gladiators
Chillin in your chucks!
Flops and pastel polishes
Are definitely a must!
Ya dig?
When dressing for the summer swing, remember cool comfort!
...
"What the heel were you thiking? those won't help you dance!"
Some Things Are Funny
Like Irony! Not long ago, I posed a question to you readers: can good music supercede the bad choices that people generally make on JukeBoxes in an user-oriented, on-demand information age?
Well, the answer is leaning yes, it appears, thanks to new efforts from Beck. Text messages to 40411 with “Beck” have yielded responses that tell you where to go download his pre-released tracks onto local jukeboxes!
Could this possibly herald the dawning of a new age of jukebox promotions, dramatically increasing the viability of the user-oriented, open-access music selection process that actually yields decent tunage?
A thought has stirred in my imagination of hundreds of music zealots, filling jukeboxes with music pre-releases, creating new sound atmospheres at local venues and allowing for great music to stem out of the popularly selected.
Next Week:
Sean Lennon, LMNOP, Chapstick Weekly Launch Party!, and more gloss for those puckering kissers.
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