I feel it comin' together. People will see me and cry.
I'm gonna make it to heaven. Light up the sky like a flame.
I'm gonna live forever. Baby, Remember my name.
I've apparently taken another step down the road to fame, glory, disillusionment and an eventual decline into rampant drug use and nihilism. Today in the Union, my normal reading of the Times was inturrupted by a girl wanting to take my picture for her "fashion blog." While the exact purpose of such a blog evades me, I am indeed now on the internet, complete with the dorky flipped up scarf and fake smile totally at odds with the story about North Korean refugees I was reading.
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A few brief entertainment-related notes to anyone who's interested:
The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes: This album keeps growing on me. If you exclusively like complex technical music, powerful emotive lyrics, or anything like opera or free jazz, steer clear. However, if you can see the joy in doo-wop harmonies coming from three girls in polka-dotted dresses with songs about boys and breakups with a decidedly feminist spin, all backed by indy-pop, dancable music, give them a listen.
The Knife - Silent Shout: Brilliant, brilliant Swedish electronic music. I'm just beginning to delve into this album, but its dark and moody, and does a brilliant job of keeping things fairly minimalistic while still having lots of creativity and dissonance.
Renaissance: A great little art-theatre entertainment, this movie animates over live-action captured characters to get a graphic novel look that's a cross between Sin City and a Richard Linklater film. The plot is fairly intriguing, the near-future setting is brilliant, and the cinematography is both impressive and immersive. My one gripe is that the voicing/acting of some of the characters is sketchy, but its hardly noticeable.
Bunny: I rarely mention my love of webcomics, but I find this one to be a particular gem. Forget about characters, plots, and often even a basic ability to be understood; Bunny is essentially a single inked, surrealist fram with an amusing caption. Its hit or miss, but when it hits I have been known to be reduced to helpless laughter at my keyboard.
A few brief entertainment-related notes to anyone who's interested:
The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes: This album keeps growing on me. If you exclusively like complex technical music, powerful emotive lyrics, or anything like opera or free jazz, steer clear. However, if you can see the joy in doo-wop harmonies coming from three girls in polka-dotted dresses with songs about boys and breakups with a decidedly feminist spin, all backed by indy-pop, dancable music, give them a listen.
The Knife - Silent Shout: Brilliant, brilliant Swedish electronic music. I'm just beginning to delve into this album, but its dark and moody, and does a brilliant job of keeping things fairly minimalistic while still having lots of creativity and dissonance.
Renaissance: A great little art-theatre entertainment, this movie animates over live-action captured characters to get a graphic novel look that's a cross between Sin City and a Richard Linklater film. The plot is fairly intriguing, the near-future setting is brilliant, and the cinematography is both impressive and immersive. My one gripe is that the voicing/acting of some of the characters is sketchy, but its hardly noticeable.
Bunny: I rarely mention my love of webcomics, but I find this one to be a particular gem. Forget about characters, plots, and often even a basic ability to be understood; Bunny is essentially a single inked, surrealist fram with an amusing caption. Its hit or miss, but when it hits I have been known to be reduced to helpless laughter at my keyboard.
3 comments:
It is not a fashion blog, it is a style blog. The UNL Style Blog.
Don't belittle my blog!!!
I wasn't belittling, I promise!
Okay, good.
Fun fact: based on my extensive facebook research, I have found the we like all the same music. pretty much.
Another fun fact: Josh Ritter is from Moscow, Idaho, AKA my home town!
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