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Under The Lights: Finally Posting bout E. Badu

In Music, concert on 20 May 2008 with 1,126 comments

Under The Lights, originally uploaded by tstrong_06.

From the moment she slowly sauntered on stage (straight to the middle of the stage and then she turned and backed up slowly till she got to the microphone). Her black mini-dress was hot, billowy and perfect, with a tall black hat. She’s another one of my central [...]

Literary sampling

In Movies, Music, Writing on 13 May 2008 with 349 comments

Two days after I posted the passage from White Teeth, I was reading through the archives of the Paris Review and came across a W. H. Auden interview (which is brilliant by the way) where he quoted a line from his poem which appeared in the New Yorker: “Thousands have lived without love, not one without [...]

Suicide is Painless

In Music on 9 May 2008 tagged concert, jazz with 7 comments

Don’t get excited, its not that type of post.
I did accidentally leave one show that I really wanted to see off my list. In my zealousness to get the tickets to the show tonight at Radio City, I forgot Ahmad Jamal is playing at blue note all weekend. If you’re into jazz this guy is [...]

All I want for Summer

In Music on 8 May 2008 tagged concerts with 12 comments

Ah, summers around the corner.
I’ve already made a small list of the things that I either hope to attend or hope you go in my place and report back:

Brooklyn Design: May 9th-1th
Eryah Badu and the Roots: May 9th-  Radio City Music Hall
Les Nubians: May 9th- Blender Theater
NYPH (Megs in Tim Barber’s curated show): May [...]

Men Vs. Women

In Music on 30 April 2008 tagged Music with 401 comments

Listening to music on random yesterday my cousin and I came across the perfect occurrence, Soul Child’s Buddy vs. Estelle’s More than Friends. It was sort a call and response, if I could mash songs up with fancy audio machinery I would produce a perfect dance club hit. But since I can’t…you’ll just have to [...]

Maybe I was ego tripping?

In Music on 13 March 2008 with 6 comments

The Flaming Lips=Zen?
The lyrics to my favorite Flaming lips song:Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell.
I was waiting on a momentBut the moment never cameAll the billion other momentsWere just slipping all awayI must have been trippingWere just slipping all awayJust ego tripping
I was wanting you to love meBut your love it never cameAll the [...]

Cinematic Orchestra

In Music on 16 January 2008 with 7 comments

Into You.

A little simplicity for the cold days

In Music on 30 November 2007 with 32 comments

Download:
Dot-Gonzales

My New Love: Bonobo

In Music on 24 November 2007 with 6 comments

Oh, to discover new music. It gives way to a wave of emotions. You feel all at once greatful because it feels as though you’ve found the one sound thats been missing from you life, and incredulous because you can’t believe it existed in the world before without your knowledge. I’ve always been [...]

My Favorite Things (link heavy)

In Music on 31 October 2007 with 6 comments

A friend and I were discussing, or rather are in constant discussion about our favorite albums. He told me, when we first began talking about it, how he loved an album so much that he couldn’t listen to it with anyone for fear they wouldn’t have the same reaction. I feel that way about [...]