Peter TOSH Island Resort...right?

What is one album that changed your life?

Who are you?
What defines you?
Oh yeah, and whyyyyy?
I guarantee that if you were to even try and answer these questions (which undoubtedly would take hours upon hours), by the time you were finished explaining yourself to a T, the answer would have already become inaccurate. The You now is not the same You from 5 minutes ago. Because we are allllways changing. Every experience you have molds you and sets you up to react differently for the next Tom, Dick, or Sally that comes along. I don’t think it ever rests on these life-altering, earth-shattering moments, but rather a bounty of small sporadic instances that poke and prod us in the direction of our ultimate destiny. That being saiiiiidddd…. I can’t choose one album that changed my life. They all have. However I can roll through my ipod, choose one at random, and elaborate.

Hah! Yes. “The Peter Island Resort” album of Caribbean Paradise. A winner for sure.

The whole thing is reggae and recorded for the sole purpose of relaxing patrons of the Peter Island Resort (or should I say soul purpose?). Basically used for the same effect by me in my freshman year of high school. I was in the process of going through a rigorous boot-camp style training to first learn the sport of field hockey, somehow master it, and then cross my fingers and, with every hope in my tiny tween body, make the team. My mother didn’t want to buy me cleats until I actually made the team, so I was forced to wear shoes from my soccer days. I quit soccer when I was 8, if that’s any indication as to how painful they were. I would come home from practice, strip off the Chinese foot binds, and soak my dogs in a plastic economy sized ice cream tub now filled with hot soapy water. Each day of that summer, without fail, I would immerse my feet for the entire duration of this Caribbean Paradise C.D. I could probably remember every knock of that damn steel drum. It didn’t do much by the way of changing my feelings on music, however it did help my spirit. I stuck with field hockey, made the team, got new cleats, and went on to become two-time MVP, Captain of my team, Defensive player of the year, and All-Ohio. I can accredit all this to the smooth jams of the Peter Island Resort. Oh and my cheap mother.

LollapaSnooza

Q: What do Depeche Mode, Jane’s Addiction, and the Beastie Boys all have in common?
A: I would never pay $200 to see them in concert.

These three are headlining Lollapalooza 2009. Now, don’t get me wrong. I can appreciate white boys rapping, old friends rocking, and getting into a mode that is so dépêche. And I understand they aren’t the ONLY bands playing Lolla. But I’m on a budget, and so are my ears. I will save my scrill and see what they come up with next year.

Before this River, becomes an Ocean. Before you Throw My Heart Back on the Floor

Lolla=boo. Depche Mode-> Cone Heads movie . janes addiction-> Doesnt really do anything for me. Beastie Boys-> really love them, but I don't know about headlining so much with these other two... and I just don't really know... I think it would be best to have seen them about 10 years ago. I wish i could upload the video I have from them performing at virgin fest in 07. But I was writing a paper for one of my finals.. and looked up mtv unplugged music on Youtube, and Limp Bizkit came up. I got to thinking, "didn't he hook up with christina agulera,"(i can't sp her name) and i replied, "or was it carson daily?" then I looked up his pic and he was kinda smokin in his day... in his own way... right? maybe.. Regardless, I think if they're going to headline beastie, and try to follow it up with a couple of other 90's bands. I think Limp Bizkit could maybe replace one of the other two headliners, and then do a couple of songs together would be cool. Id like to listen to beastie do their own version of faith. hmm maybe not?

INCUBUS! brandon boyd was a sexy mug-- Morning view stole my heart... and changed the way i thought about music forever. Of Coarse when I was in 4th, 5th and 6th grade I listened to NSyNc and backstreet boys and thought about how much i lOVEd lance bass or Nick Lachey during the love songs..and I choreographed just as many dances to britney spears or the band 5, anyone listen to 5? LOved 5. but somehow... a boy that i liked turned me on to something entirely new to me. Incubus"morning view" was the first album that i listened to the lyrics and tried to find the meaning behind the lyrics. I believe that this boy had an incubus lyric on his away message and I of coarse had to know all about this mysterious boy and his mysterious music-- he was in a band at the time.. we were like in 8th grade.. he was brazilian and wore converse, which would explain my attraction to brandon boyd. So morning view, yes.. over the years I've still discovered and understood more and more-obviously since the 8th grade I've learned a few more life lessons than i had undergone at that point. So not only did incubus open my musical mind into different styles, and i found then that music makes me feel gooooood. I really can't explain much more about it. Regaurdless it will be profound soooo...here's some Amazing art work by brandon boyd.. their albums continue to be some of my favorite music.. i have their dvd "Look Alive" and i've been to one of their sets at Virgin Fest in '07 and it was amazing. They are really fun live and although my crush for brandon has dwindled so-- i will always love their music.

the real vid won't upload that i wanted. :(

sorry for the malfunction

sashaaaa FIERCE.

I love this. My friends 21st. It was a frigid February Sunday evening. We were at Redbrick all by our lonesome.. just when fate arrived, knocked on our door, and shook and shaked and jiggled his way into our hearts.

Cause I'm Just THAT Worldly.

So i checked out the south by southwest website-- and I came across Pierre Aderne... Genre: "world". I really enjoyed Pierre Aderne, so I began to search more world.. and ended up finding that I enjoyed Fruet and Os Cosinherios. Continuing to peruse the genre.. I found Nikhil Korula Band, and then I stopped... Because they were from LA and their style wasn't like the others..it was not so much as a stretch to my new found first impressions of "worldly" music--> from relaxing brazilian beaches time to ready to turn it off real quick. anyways, I am now exotic and more earthly from listening to Pierre --And i feel like from going to yoga classes ( ive been two consecutive weeks in a row now, signs of improvement ) I have become slightly more attracted to music like this and it may be what has drawn me near...and as abby can contest to.. when I'm in my 50's i am going to be in my prime, and I will probably wake up, and practice yoga every morning before I start my day... and end every night with a glass of scotch, but thats besides the point.. for now, i will go to yoga in the "garden level" ( otherwise known as the basement ) of inhale yoga studio located on 8 court street-- and i don't know if i Really will listen to this music ever- but I do feel some slight appreciation for it. maybe for now, at this stage in my life, i would prefer to stick to rodrigo y gabriel as my worldly music.

Hooray for Peaceful Protest

It has been quite the day so I am going to make this brief. Ra Ra Riot is playing South by Southwest. I like them. I mean, look at this adorable family photo taken from their website. What the heck is not to love?

Check these darlings out at >

rarariot.com

Enjoy!

COMiTRON > jive.

Come one, come all to the most epic musical experience in all the sad and economically depressed land. Gather around my rhythmic zion and prove yourself as a true believer in the funk. This, my friends, is a formal proclamation of the festivity existing only in my vivid imagination as COMiTRON. 4 days of music-induced mayhem to free your soul and swing your hips like we all know you wanna. The set list goes as follows...


DAY ONE: ROCK (your face off)

To begin the ragefest, we start with some "sex on fire" by the erogenous Kings of Leon. They bleed over into some "read my mind" action from The Killers and later on Coldplay dazzles us with new, harder versions of songs off "Viva La Vida" featuring Paramore lead singer, Hayley Williams. Jack's Mannequin makes an appearance with Tommy Lee on the drums and massive amounts of crowd surfing ensues. Everyone thinks the show's over when Cake, Blessid Union, Guster, and Slightly Stoopid circle up and perform a ridiculously awesome rendition of Annie Lennox's "walkin on broken glass", when an enormous spacecraft descends into the crowd. The members of Cobra Starship catapult into the masses and take over the venue, transforming it into the most electric dance party of all time.


DAY TWO: JAZZ (it up nicely)

The show gets off to a rough start, as Amy Winehouse stumbles her way onstage (all part of her charm) and belts out "Back to Black". John Mayer and Herbie Hancock team up for a perfectly plucky and plunky "Stitched up". Norah Jones and John Legend throw in their two cents, but the real star is Madeleine Peyroux, who glides across the stage in an interperetive ballet. Michael Buble then brings the house down with "At Last".




DAY THREE: HIP-HOP (she-walla-walla)
I'm not going to act like I know a lot about hip-hop
-Shwayze
-Lil Wayne
-Asher Roth
-with dance performances by Quest Crew and Beat Freaks of America's Best Dance Crew


DAY FOUR: TIME TRAVEL (me back to where I belong)
This category was the free for all, so it's only fitting that I fell into the fluid flow of freedom (alliteration anyone?). I'm talking Age of Aquarius, woodstock, new age hippie love here. This is my time. As far as the music is concerned, we must dip into the past and do some heavy resurrecting from beyond the grave. The beatles will headline of course, playing not one chunk set, but intermittently throughout the day. Also, John Lennon will MC the event with his witty repartee while Yoko Ono makes shadow puppets with the stage lights. The Last Waltz of The Band will be re-created, including all the original players (Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, etc.) Janis Joplin and Jimi hendrix will duet on some triumphant covers of contemporary songs, making them 5,000 times better. Because really it's not what you play, but certainly how you play it. and then there's The Who.

And as Paul McCarteny lays his hands down on the piano for the final song, the skies open up and drop down a live rain, cleansing the crowd as they slowly begin to levitate to an epic "Let it Be".


THE END.

p.s.- if it were a 5 day affair, the last would be dedicated solely to MGMT.