Truth… In closing, I wanted to tell you about a dream I had a couple of months ago—I mean the kind of dream you have in your sleep. I dreamt that it was the year 2070 and that I was walking on the crowded streets of some city. People seemed oddly happy and there was [...]
I’ve been in SoCal for almost two weeks now and it’s amazing just how slow paced life out here can be. I can’t seem to get accustomed to the time difference so its bad enough that I wake up 3 hours ahead of everyone but the lifestyle here is leisurely, I love it. Don’t confuse [...]
There’s not much to say about these guys, they’re from Portland, Oregon and they make extremely feel good infectious indie-pop. They blew up after a local ad agency used their song Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second for a Target commercial and it’s been uphill since. The song was recently used by White Panda in a [...]
For those of us who were once comic book aficionados the name Jose Gonzalez doesn’t exactly ring Swedish indie-folk singer songwriter. Instead it means bad ass comic book artist with incredible vision and a gift for drawing the female form with such refinement and skill few have ever been able to replicate. Gonzalez became a [...]
As I stated in an earlier post, “Regulate” is my all time favorite record from the left coast.  In 1994 I was just getting started with my hip hop obsession, and the sound my ears were accustomed to at that point was Rza beats and Wu lyrics.  When I heard “Regulate” for the first time (Above [...]
I’m in the middle of reading George Orwell’s 1984 which is an incredible book but isn’t helping my obsession and paranoia about the lack of mental freedom and individuality in this world. I mean let’s face it, with companies like google learning every nuance of our personalities, analyzing every single email we get, guiding our taste and [...]
I’m supposed to be at my Skidmore 5 year reunion today but instead I’m in the California countryside gathering my thoughts, thinking music and getting ready for my next campaign. I’m addicted to the game, this shit keeps calling my name, I need to…” I remember back when The Blueprint came out this track got [...]