We Were Once A Fairytale..

Kanye West's short film by Spike Jonze.
I thought it was pretty well-done for whatever reason this film was made in the first place. Suppose its worth approximately 11 minutes of your day.

Taken By Trees cover of Animal Collective-"My Girls"

The other day when I was furiously "running" clothes around my job, listening to the same songs they play time and time again on our station, I heard a cover of Animal Collective's-"My Girls." It's from Merriweather Post Pavilion, which is one of my favorite albums of the year so far.

Did a bit of research, it's by Taken By Trees-"My Boys"



PS. I guess this band has an affinity for cover songs because I also found this one of "Sweet Child O Mine." I approve.

Living With Michael Jackson

I just now watched this documentary. I feel as though everyone has seen it, and I just never did. Not really sure. I have yet to watch it in its entirety but bits and pieces with a friend. She gave me a burned copy, and I plan to watch the whole thing and fully analyze it later.

It puts a lot into perspective about how Michael Jackson was.
I could sit here and ramble about all the of the things that he said for while probably..but I'm simultaneously watching the Phillies.


"Other people like to play football, basketball..I like to climb trees."-MJ (R.I.P)

The Roots-How I Got Over

Diane Birch

When I fall, I fall hard. This is rare in and of itself but naturally-- it can pose several problems in matters of the heart.
But in my musical soul; it doesn't.

What I mean is, I listened to Diane Birch for the first time today. It took me some 5 minutes to decide that I was already obsessed.

Her voice is fantastic, and she's gorgeous. Like a lovechild of Joni Mitchell, Cat Power, and Feist. Please do yourself a favor and get her album Bible Belt. So many beautiful harmonies, piano, and string sections. Love, love, love.

VMAS 2009

MTV is known for "random" things happening at the VMAS. This year was definitely a shitshow though. I couldn't stop laughing the entire time--from the horrible correspondents on the red carpet up until the end of the show.

Ye, you're a jerk. You probably should have waited an hour longer for Beyonce to win so that you didn't have to embarrass yourself on national television...again. When keepin' it real goes WRONG.



Lady Gaga is either completely genius or bat shit crazy. Can't really decide. Perhaps a little of both.


As expected Beyonce was on fire and surprisingly..so was Pink. Jay-Z and Alicia Keyes were a highlight at the end. Preforming practically the only song off of Blueprint 3 that I really love, "Empire State of Mind," that was until Lil' Mama jumped on stage with them. She's so corny.

Also, honorable mention to Wale--they put that guy in the corner but he was killin it throughout the whole show.

I have a hard time believing in the spontaneity of a lot of those moments because I've come to be quite critical of the media after studying it for the past 3 years. Are the VMAs just becoming a series of publicity stunts set up by both MTV and celebrity PR reps? What do you think?

I'm being trapped on a desert island, and I'm bringing..

In the 2nd week of my senior year, the class that is easily shaping up to be my favorite is CD Project Management. I'm sure you can imagine why, but it's basically the ins and outs of the recording industry and the job of a record producer.

Our first pseudo-assignment was to pick two top ten lists. The first being that if you were to be trapped on a desert island and could only bring 10 albums what would they be and 2nd being 10 albums that you admire the production on.

Thought I would post mine. I'm probably one of the most indecisive people I know, so naturally, I edited and re-edited multiple times. And I like lists, but I hate ordered ones so..I'm not numbering these. I mean, do you rate your shit?
Haha, funny how literally I take assignments like these ones that aren't even graded.

10 albums I can't live without:

The Beatles- White Album
The Beatles- Abbey Road
Rilo Kiley- Take Offs and Landings
The Decemberists- Picaresque
Death Cab For Cutie- Transatlanticism
The Roots- Things Fall Apart
Sufjan Stevens- Come on! Feel the Illinoise!
Nuetral Milk Hotel- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
American Football- Self-Titled
M.I.A.- Kala

10 greatly produced albums:

The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Public Enenmy- It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Radiohead- Ok Computer
Michael Jackson- Thriller
Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
Bob Marley and The Wailers- Legend
Kanye West- College Dropout
Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion
Jay-Z- Black Album or Reasonable Doubt (Couldn't decide)
Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisited

Honorable mention: The Knife- Silent Shout

I have my reasonings for all of them but what do you think?