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blue & exile

blu & exile

below the heavens

i have really been digging this album, i can't stop listening. emcee blu leads with his lyrics and he is not afraid to rap about his personal experiences. exile rocks it with some pretty sick beats with a classic 90s sound. below the heavens flows so cohesively from start to finish, something that i feel is so lacking these days. we just bought a record player for the sake of listening to an album from start to finish. it has brought back to beauty of experiencing the soul of an artist. chelsea really brought this to my attention when she decorated our cabin in tahoe with her record player and records. we are so accustomed to using our ipods and flicking from song to song that we forget the value of an album.

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dj frane 

dj frane

i have getting down to the sound of dj frane a bit lately. he is a mix of psychedelia, hip hop, scratching. his myspace page is incredibly psychadelic and is really cool as far as the artwork goes. i also really love the covers of his albums. the album that i recently bought is 'journey to the planet of the birds'. i was incredibly taken by the title that is partially why i bought it. there are lots of birds chirping throughout this album. i know. sounds corny but not really. it is an earthy version of dj shadow. 

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Radiohead

i guess the next artist for in the limelight is my favorite band radiohead. i just can't put it off any longer. there is so much about radiohead that inspires me. i can relate a majority of their songs to different aspects of my life. i am sure that i will have so much more to add to this post as the blog progresses, but i wanted to at least give it a start. my boyfriend and i traveled from san francisco to tokyo to see radiohead, which was documented every step of the way. i was taken aback by the buzz that surrounded this band, even on the other side of the world. i never knew there were soooooooooo many japanese radiohead fans. i am convinced that it is a common thread that it brings people together. the night of the show in tokyo, the two guys sitting next to us lived in guam, but were originally from florida and cleveland. also, i bought our tokyo radiohead tickets from a guy in new york who i am still friends with. today he wrote me to say that he is going to mexico city in march to see them (oh, i want to go to this show so badly) and this is what he wrote me:

radiohead is a real horrorshow band that attracts both sexes - devotchkas and malchicks alike.

he was referring to my clockwork orange persona. 

.: from facebook to blogspot :.

well, i am starting this blog because i am finding that i want an internet presence besides my website and my facebook account. i like writing about some of my experiences and i feel that this blog will be a way that i can post my experiences (since i can't seem to do anything without documenting my life). i also want to post my favorite artists, whether it be music, visual, etc, (thus the name me and the artists i like).