Neptune

Hide and seek

2008-02-21T13:26:00.001-08:00

The last 2 weeks have been pretty fun, I went to mammoth last weekend and have been celebrating my friends birthday pretty much everyday this week, with is starting to take a toll on me. Oh well, you only live once. The job search for orange county is sorta shoddy, mainly because i am picky about what I want, and I don't want something that I've done before, i.e. food service, sales driven retail, anything with sales, etc.

Today's music post is something different a something with a pop punk and dance feel by the Ting Tings from merry ol' Nottingham (or so I'm told):

Ting tings - That's Not My Name

check it out.

2008-02-02T14:42:00.000-08:00

This week has been teh chaotics, but I got around to some mixes and stuff this weekend, which was good. I'm still on the job hunt which is preventing me from going crazy go nuts on the finances, but that aside, i have to present you with "downtempo" peter lo's rainy day mix:

Rainy day Lounge

It's a very noble effort by mister lo, i would say. Anyways I hope it takes you to where ever that pseudo hip lounge that plays downtempo is..

Moved In: The Final Frontier

2008-01-29T16:03:00.000-08:00

So, finally, after 2 days of unpacking and moving, and attending grueling hours of schooling and chaos, traffic, rain and pandemonium; I have finally moved into the tiny house. I still have beyond far too much to do right now, but I'm finally setup and ready to go. here are some pictures of stuff i got setup.

I've got a few creative things to share on hold, but I will be back to them soon.

Rock on..

2008-01-24T23:43:00.000-08:00

I've been starting to move stuff into the new appartment which i will get pictures and document the tiny house as it goes. I struggled for 3 hours today with a silly side table that i have to set up. i loved it when i got the instruction manual and staples in their infinite wisdom puts "easy instructions", as if: oh yea, of course there is difficult as fuck instructions, but we plan to give you super ambiguous, trilingual "easy" instructions. Whatever, it's something i'm dealing with on sunday. Next week will be chaos but i'm anticipating it so, maybe that will relieve the pressure. Last night saw the Teenagers at Spaceland. Got lost up in Silverlake again. I swear i always want to think that if you take one street across you will be able to take it long enough you will hit another major boulevard and then you can find your way, apparently not the case in Silverlake. The show was good, older crowd than i expected, i wasn't anticipating Spaceland to like a "regulars" bar, but i guess it makes it more acceptable when you show up solo. $3 dewars scotch was a major plus thought. I hope thats a regular thing, cause thats a steal. i'm working on some artwork/sketches for the my project young and in love that should be up soon.
Off to conquer tommorow...

Return to posting

2008-01-11T11:51:00.000-08:00

Sorry I've neglected posting for a moment, shit is getting kinda nuts with moving out and not having my car, and many things. Lately i've been in sort of a avalanches-inspired folk induced musical feeling lately, primarily listening to lot of America's Ventura Highway and beach boys-esque stuff.

anyways let these mp3s take you to that island in the sun.

America - Ventura Highway

oh and just to take everyone back to 2001 real quick,
janet jackson did this song with the guitar riff in the chorus

and some beach boys for good measure

The Beach Boys - Wouldn't it be nice

The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations

anyways enjoy the weekend

Hitchcock, straight up dude...

2008-01-06T23:07:00.000-08:00

So it's been said many times before that Hitchcock was the master of cinema, and having seen probably about 19 of his films, i really can't help but agree. I think what gave him the proverbial edge in his directing style was not that he told wonderful suspense stories, but the fact that he could psychologically trap his viewers into his movies. he shot scenes with such deliberacy that other directors have nothing but sheer praise for the man, and often include homages to him in their own movies. I have a new "before I die" goal: To plan and shoot a short film setting up plot elements and scenes with the same psychological reasoning as Hitchcock.

I mean sure you could watch this thing the whole way through, but the general point is that Hitchcock did something very few directors do in the same style he did and that was to create techniques which subconsciously affected his audience, whether they hated or loved the movie, he was able to capture them and take them through a unique sense of urgency and ultimately play into his darker sense of humor.

Nothing but love for you homie.

first idea post

2008-01-04T12:06:00.001-08:00

From time to time i come up with random ideas, most of it is a just a jumble of words and doesn't make a whole load of sense but certain key elements come to mind. The other day I had an idea for music video shoot.
Cobrasnake did something like this

that is sorta fun, but i would add on the concept with more artsy filters and make the whole video based on those water sprinklers. just like having people run through them in slow mo, spliced with other shots of kids breaking open fire hydrants like NYC in the summertime. Maybe a fight sequence would be awesome too.
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this is from the uber shisty-video-game-to-movie Dead or Alive video game, but later on there is an awesome fight between two girls on some island with sprinklers that starts at like 4:50 in, the rest is just silly cory yuen redonkulusness. I like the concept of people doing stuff under sprinkler-like rain.

Anyways I've got so much to do today, much love.

Sketchpad first post

2008-01-03T11:49:00.001-08:00

Little bit strange for a sketch post, but i was drumming this one up while thinking about something else. anyways enjoy this nonsense. or badass-ery.

The Teenagers...

2008-01-02T11:13:00.001-08:00

By now it may be well known that The Teenagers are about to go stratospheric with mega pop MTV crossover status, but somehow i still cant give them anything but love. Their remixes are off the chain, and their album sounds like the perfect bridge to cross over the worlds of indie and electronica in a pseudo mainstream way. It's tongue and cheek and yet so perfect for what the state of music is right now. These two remixes are boss, seriously they just rule hands down.
I think the key to what makes a good teenagers remix isn't just the choice of music but also their ability to tone down elements instead of going for a full on absurd thrash electro sound like many other myspace remix producers out there. Anyways I'm planning to see them on the 23th this month at spaceland, which should be full of scene kids. Anyways without further ado...

Operator Please - For My Two Seconds (The Teenagers)(zshare)
I've also gotta add a little bit about Operator Please, who are poised to be the next Go! Team of 2008. Srsly check them out via youtube or myspace.

The Enemy - Had Enough (The Teenagers)(zshare)

see you tomorrow.

The best way to start the new year....

2008-01-01T23:58:00.000-08:00

So this isn't like a first time blog posting, (fuck, I waste time reading blogs all day) but it's more like a resolution that I will promise to keep something strenuously updated. This is my first post and i think it's fitting to that the focus to it will be to contribute something from me, or something genuinely important that I have found to thus internets.

The way I would like to post in this blog is to keep a reflective tab on ideas that come into my head, share new music that i'm totally all about, (hopefully provided my new instruments create some of my own), and share art, images, and video that are worth wasting time over.

I'm making a sticky to update this daily as a must, because basically it's no fun to read posts from people who only update ever once in awhile.

My writing style is rather stream of consciousness, and I apologize in advance for any sentences which i type that don't make much sense due to missing words or misspellings.