Lights on!

This is Santogold's new video. Santi White has gone through  a myriad of music related positions and ended up being a great performer. The creativity she brings to her fresh sounds (though a little comparable to M.I.A they stand on different ends of the music spectrum) is enough to interest you in her music. Her debut album is out, it has been out for a while, and it's worth a good listen to. Here's the new video, it's pretty good by the way, and so is the song...

Lyric Time! (MGMT)

I love Music. And in it's honor, I think i'll post some of my favorite Lyrics from my favorite artists...

Let's start with...

MGMT

This Brooklyn based band brings an awesome influx of sounds to their mostly rock style, and it makes for some incredible music that sometimes fall into the experimental side. Having recently watched them perform live in their Mothership Brooklyn (McCarren Pool Party) all I have to say is that maybe one day i'll end up marrying Ben VanWyngarden, (did I spell that right?) Yeah, his performance was that great...

Here's one of my favorite songs from their cd Oracular Spectacular (it's not the mp3, go find some other blog to download that from!)

THE HANDSHAKE

I just shook the handshake
I just sealed the deal
I'll try not to let them
Take everything they can steal
People always told me
Don't forget your roots
I know I can feel them underneath my leather boots

You toss all the mornings lost to the clouds and you watch it go
Your fairweather friends on a parachute binge get lost when the wind blows
The handshake's stuck on the tip of my tongue
It tastes like death but it looks like fun

I was a loner
I was just waiting by myself
When you, warped temptress
Rose to bring me happiness and wealth
Black tears, black smile, black credit cards and shoes
You can call all the people you want
But it's you who's being used

Under your black eyes, honey
Right beneath your nose
A curse on all creation
Every single thing you know
White smoke, white light, white marble on the floor
It would only take a few seconds of darkness to figure out what's in store
Little girl

You convince yourself that you want it, but you don't know
You keep trying to wash the blood from your hands, but it won't go
We're gonna keep you on the run

We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake under our tongue
We got the handshake x15

The Cheap Laugh?

I'm sorry, but as the title says this is funny as hell.
It's kind of funny how we all find comedy in real human behavior. A laugh at some hilarious stereotype here and there is something we are all guilty of, but hey, when it's funny it's funny. But then again, when should the line be drawn? As someone who considers himself an aspiring screenwriter, I think it's way easier to get a date with *Leighton Meester while living in Antartica than to write a good comedy script, (then again Judd Apatow is making it seem that much more harder, yet approachable) The thing is , I think we need to break those dated taboos and be unafraid of just plain laughing at the most stupid and simple things, cause we all know sometimes our own life is a freaking joke!

*Please don't ask me how I know her name... :)

Vicky & Cristina's Woody Allen's New Film

I am excited about Woody Allen's new film.

Not because , ( or at least not exclusively) there are two beautiful woman exploring their sexual desires for one another in the film (penelope cruz and forever graceful Scarlett Johansson) but because I simply love Woody Allen's humanistic touch surrounding difficult human complexities. Plus, most of the time someone ends up shooting someone in a passionate crime of love! (did anyone see Match Point?) It may sound redundant, but that double feel Woody Allen gives to the topics in his movies makes for some interesting yet simplistic conflict. Ok, and aside from all that crap I just said (though I do admire Allen's work) Vicky Cristina Barcelona looks like the spaniard sexual romp-fest we've all been waiting for. Still, be sure to check it out, one cannot miss a Scarlett Johansson flick , no matter how god-awful it is...(you know who you are The Nanny Diaries)

What about?

Some shit coming soon. If  I muster up enough to think what I'm writing makes sense HALF way through writing it...