Sure, you spend an embarrassing amount of time staring at your computer. But little do you know, you’re getting stared at in return. The good folks over at Conditional Design have taken the liberty to show us what it’s like on the other side of the mirror. See the rest of the Laptop Reflections collection here.
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The kids of New York’s P.S.22 are SO much more musically cultured than I was at their age. Led by their maestro Mr. B (probably one of the hippest faculty members the public school system has), these choral kids do Pheonix, Alicia Keys/Jay-Z, and Owl City (don’t judge). And they’ve even got ties with my neck of the woods, having teamed up with IC’s Ithacapella a little while back. See the rest of their (rather extensive) repertoire here.
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False. I do not, as I would like to keep the option of marrying Ezra Koenig open without it being weird. Anyway, although I don’t watch SNL quite often, I did scrounge around Hulu when I heard they were the musical guest on Saturday’s show. This, of course, is yet another example of their musical greatness. Not to mention, check out how happy drummer Chris Tomson looks. Comme toujours, jouissez.
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Wonderful animation of Taylor Mali’s poem “Typography,” created by student Ronnie Bruce.
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The internet is a many-faced beast with a personality disorder: some sites are tame, others trouble, and a few, like chatroulette, are grab-bags of people who shouldn’t be allowed to leave their basements and the most incredible people you’ll find on the net. Luckily for me, I stumbled upon the latter. Dustin McSwane, a passionate fashion stylist and the topic of this post, along with Brain ‘Geno’ Nettle, a photographer now stationed in NYC, found their way onto my monitor, and now onto A&V. (More…)
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…as in, the one that isn’t absurdly dark and violent and must have been the Shakespearean equivalent to a baroque period. Titus Andronicus came out of nowhere in 2008 and delivered unto the underground world of music fuzzy guitars, a singer that couldn’t sing, and overall a band that sounded one martini away from keeling over. Yet, somehow, it all worked so well, everything meshed to create a fun sound that evoked a feeling that nobody could quite put their finger on yet. Enter “The Monitor,” just as fuzzy and drunk as their debut but with a more focused and lighthearted approach; with it, everyone realized it was a feeling reminiscent of the infantile punk rock scene of the 1980s, without being punk rock. Fun bleeds from every second of every song TA plays out, and losing oneself in the wave of it is all too easy. Listen to the sample track “Titus Andronicus Forever” at the top of the post, stream it on Myspace, or preorder the album here.
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Seriously. Or maybe I’m just high. (I kid, I kid… kind of).
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