Amanda,
The reason I have not been posting is because I have been wallowing away in my own idle time like 18th century Austrian nobleman. My bourgoisie lackadaisical manner of posting aside, there was no need to get significant others involved
Jennifer (9:25am): amanda's upset you no longer blog. please blog. for her. for me. for
the sake of the blog.
Well that's just fine. And I can't really hate because it got my lazy ass to post. But there were alternatives to that kind of escalation. Checkit.
Now. I love your posts as usual. Spring is knocking on the door here in DC and that means I start to allow myself to ever slowly listen to songs associated closely with summer (see my Barbecue playlist). Highest among that list are the Olympian Allman Brothers. I chose One Way Out. And so did Cameron Crowe in Almost Famous. Amazing. Second track I put on here is Amadou and Miriam. They are a blind husband and wife duo from Mali. I was first turned on to them by their album produced by Manu Chao. This song I am posting now is off a more recent album and is produced by Damon Albarn of Blur/Gorillaz fame. Enjoy.
I know you probably have a ton of stuff to post because of my tardiness. Pace yourself. Also I have some vids I want to post. Stay tuned...
sincerely and with tons and tons of promises to regularly post,
Bayan
ps a big shout out to my awesome girlfriend from whose computer this music has come.
pps can you have a ton of promises? my English is appalling.
Allman Brothers - One Way Out
Amadou and Miriam - Sabali
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
you popped by heart, seams/on my bubble dreams/bubble dreams
Bayan!
ATTENTION. ATTENTION. This is a big deal. You know when you find a new song that you listen to on repeat and rock out to in your room/in the car/on the subway? A song like that comes along every few months for me. And this is the first time it's happened while we've been working on this blog. Exciting!
I needed to write about it immediately. My friend Sam is visiting from Berlin and I'm excited for her to leave so I can freak out in my room to it, I will be belting loudly.
Speechless--by the Lady herself. Gaga, my friend. The new frontier takes it old school with a ballad. Don't judge until you've listened.
I have to take a shower but I don't want to because it means I can't listen to the song. Yea, I'm in that place.
That is all.
Amanda
Speechless-Lady Gaga
ATTENTION. ATTENTION. This is a big deal. You know when you find a new song that you listen to on repeat and rock out to in your room/in the car/on the subway? A song like that comes along every few months for me. And this is the first time it's happened while we've been working on this blog. Exciting!
I needed to write about it immediately. My friend Sam is visiting from Berlin and I'm excited for her to leave so I can freak out in my room to it, I will be belting loudly.
Speechless--by the Lady herself. Gaga, my friend. The new frontier takes it old school with a ballad. Don't judge until you've listened.
I have to take a shower but I don't want to because it means I can't listen to the song. Yea, I'm in that place.
That is all.
Amanda
Speechless-Lady Gaga
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Long Live Lil Wayne Or: The Ruffio Reference
Hey Bayan,
I've been avoiding writing a blog entry as I want that phenomenal picture of Paul Wall to be at the top of the the site for as long as possible. Maybe we should replace the boom box image with that photo. The image just makes me believe.
I hope you've been following the arrest of the Greatest Musician of Our Time-Lil Wayne. I'm in the middle of watching his farewell address right now. It's an hour long, a bit of a commitment (things are a bit hazy on his end), but well worth it. He really focuses on the important stuff--though of course in true Lil Wayne fashion his sentencing was postposed due to a chipped tooth. For further information I'd recommend Lil Wayne's Mysterious Tooth Ailment: A Dentist Weighs In--informative, to say the least.
To celebrate the career of the man who inspired so much in the name of coedine, I'm including 'Money to Blow' the new song by Birdman featuring Drake and Weezy himself. Best part of the song? The line about Captain Hook and Ruffio (Ruffio, Ruffio, RU-FI-OHHHHH!) If you don't know exactly what part of the movie I'm quoting, I'm quitting the blog.
In other music commentary, you're doing really well with the remixes/hip hop. I've been having trouble finding good stuff from that genre so the Hood Internet is currently making my day. And you're so right about Girl Talk, listening to his stuff is always a bit unsatisfying because he cuts between songs and beats so quickly, I like that White Panda sticks with a few themes.
Besides the Lil Wayne soundtrack I'm including 'Trashcan' a sweet song by Delta Spirit and 'Who Says' from Jon Mayer's new album. It's a good song, I think he deserves more credit for it, and I hear you have a girlfriend going to see him live next week.
Both 'Trashcan' and 'Who Says' are songs that beg you to jump in a car and drive and contemplate life, pretty much my favorite activity of all time (ask the aforementioned girlfriend about the time I forced her to drive to Boston with me at 1 AM?)
Have fun at the roller derby this Saturday!
With much-jealousy-because-it's-my-dream-in-life-to-be -snowed -in,
Amanda
Money to Blow-Birdman, Drake & Lil Wayne
Trashcan - Delta Spirit
Who Says -John Mayer
I've been avoiding writing a blog entry as I want that phenomenal picture of Paul Wall to be at the top of the the site for as long as possible. Maybe we should replace the boom box image with that photo. The image just makes me believe.
I hope you've been following the arrest of the Greatest Musician of Our Time-Lil Wayne. I'm in the middle of watching his farewell address right now. It's an hour long, a bit of a commitment (things are a bit hazy on his end), but well worth it. He really focuses on the important stuff--though of course in true Lil Wayne fashion his sentencing was postposed due to a chipped tooth. For further information I'd recommend Lil Wayne's Mysterious Tooth Ailment: A Dentist Weighs In--informative, to say the least.
To celebrate the career of the man who inspired so much in the name of coedine, I'm including 'Money to Blow' the new song by Birdman featuring Drake and Weezy himself. Best part of the song? The line about Captain Hook and Ruffio (Ruffio, Ruffio, RU-FI-OHHHHH!) If you don't know exactly what part of the movie I'm quoting, I'm quitting the blog.
In other music commentary, you're doing really well with the remixes/hip hop. I've been having trouble finding good stuff from that genre so the Hood Internet is currently making my day. And you're so right about Girl Talk, listening to his stuff is always a bit unsatisfying because he cuts between songs and beats so quickly, I like that White Panda sticks with a few themes.
Besides the Lil Wayne soundtrack I'm including 'Trashcan' a sweet song by Delta Spirit and 'Who Says' from Jon Mayer's new album. It's a good song, I think he deserves more credit for it, and I hear you have a girlfriend going to see him live next week.
Both 'Trashcan' and 'Who Says' are songs that beg you to jump in a car and drive and contemplate life, pretty much my favorite activity of all time (ask the aforementioned girlfriend about the time I forced her to drive to Boston with me at 1 AM?)
Have fun at the roller derby this Saturday!
With much-jealousy-because-it's-my-dream-in-life-to-be -snowed -in,
Amanda
Money to Blow-Birdman, Drake & Lil Wayne
Trashcan - Delta Spirit
Who Says -John Mayer
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Sitting crooked in my slab...or something like that
Amanda,
Just to give readers the kinds of email chains that led to the creation of this blog I am posting the following:
(Amanda) Subject: the people are hungry! Text: So I poste
(Bayan) Re: good bc I have a backlog of shit I want to post. I am prepping a post dedicated to Paul Wall. Also The Hood Internet is blowing up my spot as I type
(Amanda) Re: hahahahahahahahahahaha. I just laughed out loud in a really formal library.
I am not actually going to write about Paul Wall, other than to say I love him and I am also convinced that he was the smelly kid in elementary school. We all had a smelly kid in our class.
I really only like one Hood Internet song, and Lw Fi Fnk is pretty awesome. I am going to toss in some older shit soon but I have been writing on my work computer for the most part so I only have access to the music I pilfer from other blogs.
I have been meaning to see The Wackness since you got me stuck on 'can we kick it'. Which may have been the beginning of all of this.
Speaking of Roller Derbies we are going to one on Saturday night!
Amanda, we have followers now, we seriously can't let them down.
SnOwMG,
Bayan
Monday, February 8, 2010
White Gnarls Barkley
Bayan,
My brother just sent me this. Pretty sick. He's like a hipster Gnarls Barkley but with a bit of doo wop. The video's decent as well.
Mayer Hawthorne - Just Ain't Gonna Work Out
Hope all is well in snowy DC and that you're as excited about the Saints victory as I am!
WHODAT,
asperb
My brother just sent me this. Pretty sick. He's like a hipster Gnarls Barkley but with a bit of doo wop. The video's decent as well.
Mayer Hawthorne - Just Ain't Gonna Work Out
Hope all is well in snowy DC and that you're as excited about the Saints victory as I am!
WHODAT,
asperb
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Unlike boots that go thigh high; I ain't here to keep a bitch dry
Bayan--or should I call you by your cool nickname, Glockenspiel,
My friend and I have been discussing how long it's going to take before rappers start referencing the disaster in Haiti in their lyrics. As in " I make the bed shake/like an earthquake" etc. Somewhere in that really intellectual conversation I started talking about my passion for rainboots and he whipped out that genius line that is the above title of this post. I think that lyric holds a lot of potential.
Excellent musical choices yesterday. I'm adding White Panda to my ever-growing run/dance playlist. The Pepto Bismol rule applies ten-fold to any pregame/work out playlist. I'm glad you're keeping busy posting instead of translating important intelligence from the Middle East.
Your compliments on the redecoration are too kind--I was actually 10 minutes late to discuss a paper on the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya with a very distinguished Professor from Cambridge because I kept resizing the boom box. Have you seen the movie The Wackness? If you haven't you should. I was trying to channel it as I worked on the blog decor. It definitely captures music and the summer and teenage infatuation perfectly.
Speaking of movies I just saw "Whip It!" Drew Barrymore's directorial debut. A decent flick, with an AWESOME soundtrack. One of my favorite songs on it was by Jens Lenkman. Along with that, I'm including music by Maxamilian, my new favorite white rapper.
I hope your clementine was delicious. I'm getting Polish food tonight, and I'm excited.
In the words of Snoop Dogg--"Lodi Dodi, we likes to party,"
Amanda
Your Arms Around Me-Jens Lenkman
Can I Have It-Maxamilian
My friend and I have been discussing how long it's going to take before rappers start referencing the disaster in Haiti in their lyrics. As in " I make the bed shake/like an earthquake" etc. Somewhere in that really intellectual conversation I started talking about my passion for rainboots and he whipped out that genius line that is the above title of this post. I think that lyric holds a lot of potential.
Excellent musical choices yesterday. I'm adding White Panda to my ever-growing run/dance playlist. The Pepto Bismol rule applies ten-fold to any pregame/work out playlist. I'm glad you're keeping busy posting instead of translating important intelligence from the Middle East.
Your compliments on the redecoration are too kind--I was actually 10 minutes late to discuss a paper on the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya with a very distinguished Professor from Cambridge because I kept resizing the boom box. Have you seen the movie The Wackness? If you haven't you should. I was trying to channel it as I worked on the blog decor. It definitely captures music and the summer and teenage infatuation perfectly.
Speaking of movies I just saw "Whip It!" Drew Barrymore's directorial debut. A decent flick, with an AWESOME soundtrack. One of my favorite songs on it was by Jens Lenkman. Along with that, I'm including music by Maxamilian, my new favorite white rapper.
I hope your clementine was delicious. I'm getting Polish food tonight, and I'm excited.
In the words of Snoop Dogg--"Lodi Dodi, we likes to party,"
Amanda
Your Arms Around Me-Jens Lenkman
Can I Have It-Maxamilian
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