Heard.

    "Here I am, selling coffee, thinking of some girl who speaks with her eyes not her mouth. She's a lock, the kind that can't open up. I'm sorry I'm not the key that you need me to be."
     "She's got a magnet in her eyes. In the twilight she is glowing. She's got hope on my shoulders. I'll take her down."
    "On Super Bowl Sunday everything will be fine, thirty-one million, that's a lotta good times! We'll swim together in the rough seas of our mind. You pack the rod, I'll bring the fishin line." 

Hey, cool.

Heard.

Here we all are. A change is coming. 

Heard.

     An overlooked and under-rated band, the now defunct Osker digs into the root of that positive feeling, slightly melancholy, 90's and late 80's punk feel. Songs about glory days and old friends going through changes. Just something to this style of music that always pulls on my heart strings. 

The world.

We are lost! But that is nature, or mine most often. I wish to rise to the high plateau before I can find my home, my heart. And in the descent I will survey my belief. Although I want love, I need her not in the mortar of my home. Although I would shoot true for her, I will not kill without her cry. And if we never find each other, the heart may remain cold.

Repost Humor.

Heard.

    Pretty fun. Eat your heart out Fleet Foxes lol. We all got to have influences. 

Heard.

Repost Humor.

QFQ.

"And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation" -Khalil Gibran

Aubrey Plaza is great.

     Here is Ms. Aubrey Plaza working on her aim in the film "Safety Not Guaranteed", which with sappiness aside is a funny and sweet love story. She is our understated protagonist along with a supporting role and romantic interest filled by Mark Duplass (Peter from "The League"). Aubrey has been described as having a deadpan and/or cynical style of humor, however I am quite fond of her style and find in intellectual and playful more than anything. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I've never really had a celebrity crush before, besides Charlize T., but Aubrey, in my estimation, is the "Total Package". Look for her in several projects coming in 2013!

More here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73jSnAs7mq8-Safety Not Guaranteed trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LyuU303Jkg-The To Do List trailer/intro w/ Aubrey.

Heard.

Fun times.

The fun times.
They are fleeting.
So fast that now it has just become fun moments.
Conscience or concern always catching up,
to ideals.
To legs that can still run, but might not run as far now as way back when.

Heard.

    Ohhhh yeah, this is a supergroup composed of ex-Thursday, Texas is the Reason, Garrison and Milhouse members. Really getting my post-rock, post-indie, post-everything on with these guys. Their style, once cutting-edge, now gives a look back to an earlier era in the best way possible, IMO. And an era of amazing tom work and big, epic, rocky guitar chuggs.

More here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ugKNS7znXU
http://milhouse.bandcamp.com/track/cereal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-cepZ6K7mY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSV3sTyq3VY

The Wonder Curve.

     Life will remain weird and wonderful. I love my friends and know we need ta hug each other while we can. 

Fun with Math.

     I love her. 

Heard.

     The Helio Sequence is an indie-rock duo from Oregon and they have released most of their stuff on Sub-Pop, so from that alone one could posit they are probably a likable band. My friend Ried Johnson turned me onto them years ago, perhaps in 2004 or five. Back then they sounded akin to Pinback, and I believe they have a tie to the early Modest Mouse albums. Their sound has evolved and with the recent release of their full length, "Negotiations", we have a little over a decade of development and five full-lengths to examine. T.H.S. seems to have opened their sound up a bit, with more ringing guitars and long, tonal wails, as opposed to their earlier, perhaps, lighter and syncopated songs. I get a hint of some Small Brown Bike and maybe a little Appleseed Cast in the background. I'm not sure. I really like Negotiations, however, I want to re-listen to their whole catalog and get a clearer picture of the bands progression.

More here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7vGFppDkfI
http://www.subpop.com/releases/the_helio_sequence/full_lengths/negotiations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=AsGLWLhKshY

Quotes for Quandary.

     "Francine, I don't want to be a pencil pusher, I'm a killing machine."     -Stanley Smith

Repost Humor:

Safe to assume.

     Although the shame of being a chronic masturbator has its drawbacks, the reassurance that my dick is not hurting from an STD is quite comforting.

Heard:

     Saw the new Myspace ad on Reddit and tracked down who wrote the song. Myspace still looks pointless. Just like a sideways Facebook with more bullshit. This song is pretty good though. 

See you on election day!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/20/gary-johnson-libertarian-election-2012

Stuck for years.

Although I change, I still think the same way.
Although I claim, I still own no stakes.
With every year: time can become more valuable or worthless, the body will ache a little more, and opportunities knock and we live with those we answer or let pass.
Circumstance and perception are reality, even though it might not and probably does not matter. I don't know why I feel the way I do, but most of the time, I agree with everyone, I don't know where the fuck I'm going.

Heard:

Heard:

It's hard to get your mind right.

In this world of people who are thinking incorrectly. 

Why be bored?

Heard:

     This guy has come a long way since Saosin, and before that High & Driving, and before that even several other bands that you've never heard of or cared about. Some of his solo stuff is a little out of my range in taste, but I like a lot of it too. It's also just cool to hear him do something a little more pop-oriented. I love Circa Survive and even the old Saosin stuff is amazing, especially considering how long ago that was back in 02-03. He's got a certain flamboyance in his song writing, like he just says what he wants and puts it all together. Not a lot of rhyming or super catchy hooks, just an honest feeling in a nice, crackly, high melody.

More from Anthony et al here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZbY8yxsLEA
http://anthonygreenschildren.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJALPNdJsHU

Ya, let's.

Let me come around and sneer.
I'll give you more than a handful and an ear.
In once a year.
Just for you my dear.
And everyone else that possesses fear.
Of a life so queer.
It could make you sneer. 

Heard:

     

Heard:

     Can't get enough of her lately. Ms. Weiss is super sweet and rockin' her style with an understated grace and severity. Eating up all the tabs I can find right now. Nomnomnom. 

These four walls.

I feel alive.

With the prospect of life just being a series of turns, I've agreed with myself to just be happy now. 

Photos: Arbitrary

Heard:

     Quite sweet and thoughtful. I like her. I'm not sure I care about the idea of celebrity really, but apparently this young lady is an internet sensation. I suppose most people are these days. Her catchy riffs and wit will surely popularize, and it seems her work thus far has been well received. Looking forward to hearing the rest of her catalog.

More here: http://allisonweiss.net/

The straw that broke the camel's heart.

    The hardest part, for me, is learning to let go. For some reason tonight I feel like I might be entering just another cycle of the routine of a miserably plain life. However, in the back of my mind where there would usually be angst or anxiety, there is a calmness. I don't know when I'll ever feel complete. I don't know that anyone can ever really find it when it is not fleeting. But I guess I don't really care anymore. Or at least not right now. For who does a man have to please, if in the end his peers are him and his god alone? The things that make me happy leave me with a fairly clean conscience, but my idea of god might paint a more liberally oriented creator or for that matter an altogether apathetic and uninvolved omnipotence. In a society analogous (pronounced an-a-log-us) with a pit of quicksand, you can not simply not fight and make it out. You just sit in the pit and sink slowly. You have to fight in the right way, for the right goal, in order to escape. However simple of a concept it is to just be written or said, it seems like it has taken an awful lot of trial, tribulation, and contemplation to arrive at. Really, all I can say is goodbye to my adolescence and my broken heart, because all I want to do is move on and get new ones; it's tough being anchored in the past. 

Heard:

     Newish jams from the capital city of our lovely Florida. I'm liking their new album "Networks" scheduled for release in a couple of weeks. They have a nice sound, reminiscent of Millencollin/Propagahndi/Samiam. I like it very much. Listen to it here: http://www.punknews.org/bands/lipona

New and Old!

     I love when bands and artists make it far enough to release acoustic albums! Joey Cape is one of my all time favorite lyricists and song writers. This song makes me feel so much from my youth, it's almost disturbing. However, it also provides a sense of comfort. It makes me think about my best friends in middle and high school and how we have all slowly drifted apart. Actually I guess that is still kind of sad, but just part of life. No one could have ever warned anyone about how important time is, it is just the sort of thing you have to learn once some of it has gone by. Still, Joey Cape and No Use for a Name's Tony Sly have always been excellent heralds of these types of real life dilemmas and really play on my heart strings. If you were into the punk and pop-punk of the late 80's and 90's, then you might very well already know about this  album, but if not you should check it out immediately.

Vinyl or Mp3 here: http://www.fatwreck.com/record/detail/790

Concerned Cinema: Prometheus

   
     This film flattened me! It had a little bit of everything that blows my skirt up. On top of being immaculately produced, the story digs deep into the human soul and our desire to know about our origin. This movie is generally about the creation of life, the pain of life while we are alive, and ultimately the power of free will and the questioning of existence. It really gives me the chills just thinking about it. It was so wonderful to see Ridley Scott approach the sci-fi genre in this brooding manner.
     A quote from one of the main characters, Peter Weyland (Guy Pierce), that is actually a quote from Lawrence of Arabia says a lot about the films intent, but also remains a little mysterious. A young Weyland is sitting at a table extinguishing matches with his thumb and forefinger without flinching. He says to the men spectating the exhibition, "The trick is to not mind that it hurts." I interpret this as pushing the viewer in the direction of understanding that, "Life is hard but it's all we have. You'll get more done if you waste less time crying about the things that only hurt superficially." A broad generalization, but also the impression that is left on me.
    Although the film had a few loose ends and a few character actions that just seemed a little tough to be believe, I think Ridley Scott did an excellent job with Prometheus and even left an opening for a sequal.  I don't think, however, that it will happen as there are not enough people willing to entertain a concept this science fiction as science possibility. 

Bleeding.

Just a little every now and then is good to remind us that we can. 

A life.

     We all exist from day to day, bound or shackled in some way. No one is exempt from the feeling of helplessness from time to time, or all of the time for that matter. I can feel my head get lighter as I learn more about myself and the world of people around me. I want to be alone in the woods. I want to speak no human's tongue to the tree bark and to the air. Just get it all out. Probably just wind up cussing and crying towards the stars. Not only for my mistakes and shortcomings, but for the mistakes and shortcomings of everyone before and after me. I guess I'm not really sad or anything. I appreciate more these days. Sometimes I feel tired and think about how rare inspiration is. Like a rocket that never took off, just realizing it's too late to satisfy that wanderlust. But I know that I've really just started, or at least I'm hoping so. 

Everyone is stupid.

Let's fight. 

Heavens.

     Just the other night we were wondering how accurate the depiction of Mercury passing by the Sun was in the film "Sunshine", and how weird is it that we could have probably gone outside and looked at Venus doing the exact same thing the next day?

More here:
http://www.transitofvenus.org/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/06/transit-venus-captures-public-imagination

Concerned Cinema: Snow White and The Huntsman

     An interesting take on the classic German fairy tale, I believe Snow White and the Huntsman was a successful production altogether. Clocking in at just over two hours, the film does not waste much time expediting the story; it breezes through the usurping of King Magnus to the introduction of the dwarves to the waking of Snow White to the climactic battle. Although some of the fighting was a little lackluster, a few battle selections are pretty exciting as well as visually appealing and the film only drags for maybe two or three minutes during some perhaps cheesy, but somewhat necessary, monologues by Prince William and the Hunstman. All in all I'll say that my anticipation of this film for the last several months was met and satisfied. How rare. 

Sunday is the best day to be metal.

     Torche's new album, "Harmonicraft", came out last month. They are pretty awesome as far as doomy/rock/metal bands go. Like The Sword, but with a romantic, whimsy. Do I use the word romance/romantic too often in music review or not enough? 

Important phrases:

"If I wait."

Love comes back around.

    I'm not usually much of a low-fi fan, but an undeniable lover is making things more apparent day by day, and I must say that I really don't mind it at all.

Get active.

     Besides his masterful playing on a harp, his vocal range is chilling to the bone with passion. Some of his higher notes remind a bit of Dallas Green, which is great. I really like that super high-pitched, airy voice. 

Dream Surgery:

   
  Drill on me. 

Trend Hate:

     I'll fucking punch the next person that thinks a mustache has such immense comedic value. 

Old but good.

     Minus the Bear has always and will always be one of my favorite indie bands. Frontman Jake Snider is clearly a drunk, horndog and in my opinion a lyrical master. This song, among many of their others, is so wonderfully filled with texture, sophistication and style. A lot of people I know sort of dump on Minus the Bear now because of their inevitable rise in popularity, but this is one band that I will never be too critical of. Highly Refined Pirates was an essential piece of my high school experience and through my early twenties. Their songs generally garner an inspiringly brave and romantic feeling. Someday all these great love songs will mean something more to me again, but even without being in some sappy relationship, I thoroughly appreciate MTB's entire catalog. 

Heard:

    John Gourely's vocals are definitely reminiscent of other eras while maintaining a contemporary clarity. All in all their stuff is very thoughtful and well written and I must say I'm quite fond of some of the prose thrown around in their albums. 

Reachangement

Not drinking is my new favorite pastime. With drinking being a close second. And then probably playing guitar or surfing. And then probably sex. Think about that when we hang out. 

Fresh Blood

Let's get some. 

94 Elements Project trailer.

     Pretty cool.

Brutal.

Sometimes you have to be. 

Heard:

     Am I waking up at all today? 

Thoughts:

     I am often struck with visions of nostalgia. No one can have anyone forever. Its just the way it is. In this life and the next I wonder. 

Heard:

     What a fun band. Lyrics are clever too.

@ 1:33
I'm not sure if its love anymore
But I've been thinking of you fondly for sure.
Remember what your heart is for.

The older, the golder.

I can taste my youth when I hear the songs from it.

Mood Music.

     The American Dollar makes your whole life feel like it is taking place in the movie "Lost in Translation" or some other deep, brooding cinematic vision of complexity and distance. Pound for pound I have to rank their sound right up there with E.I.T.S. Vast, echoing guitars, a choppy, latent pulse and all the ambient sounds one could expect from avante-garde instrumental rockers. Their newest album "Awake In the City" was released last month, you can listen to it and purchase here: http://theamericandollar.bandcamp.com/album/awake-in-the-city

Waiting.

     Sometimes you just know how much you could love someone but it just doesn't matter. Sitting around. Thinking about the past, present and future. Wondering what it is all adding up to.

Thoughts:

Thoughts on getting off just seem like the same thoughts as getting out. Exit or entrance. Let's just go.

Heard:

Small Brown Bike is amazing and if you don't agree, then I am sorry.

Thoughts:

     Perhaps youth being wasted on the young is not quite as tragic as life be wasted on the living. It is tough to always remain objective and I can see how people just get tired of the things that make life what it is. As the body wearies, so does the mind to a respective degree. Although childlike wonder will always remain, I question if it has almost become something that I resent at times, but resent in a way that you want something that you cannot have.

Heard:

Fang Island = ambiguous + crescendo.

Heard:

The girl has got style.

Heard:

@ 1:23
Mother, you know I'm sorry,
But sorry's pregnant with remorse
And when remorse is born, remorse won't see
An ounce of child support.
@ 2:10
Now I hate my love,
And now the other man's floating in the dead man's sea
And he's floating face-down, 'cause he's a dead man, see?

Thespianism.

Heard:

http://www.punknews.org/bands/thehunters

These guys hit all my heart strings.

Utility:

This is one of my favorite websites.

http://www.animatedknots.com/

Another day.

     Well here we are. It is windy and sunny out right now. If this is a routine, I guess I don't mind it so much.

Ya know?

It's hard to get along with lovers. I need someone who is not like all the others.

Where is that gal that can act like a pal?

Jealous in moderation, but more into our chemical relation.

I think I saw her, or at least one like her. 

She left. But I knew before. 

So here I go. Trying to relate. 

Idiot Box

Heard:

Surfing on a rocket is doing what you love. 

Simple truth.

Heard:

It's been a long time.

I've had my copy of Diablo 3 pre-ordered at the Gamestop in Neptune Beach for literally two years. I can't even suggest how happy I am that it comes out after the end of this semester.

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Diablo-3-Release-Date-Announced-40470.html

Fuck happiness.

I know I'll be a sucker again some day. But for now, I see how frivolous it is to waste time loving someone besides yourself. With only one life, I have barely any more time to waste on false affection.

Just a beast.

Why can't we do just what we love? What kind of world is centered around a necessary, partial suffering?

Heard:

@ 0:58

Thoughts.

Never enough time.

Heard:

I can say whatever I want:

Fuck it man. Over-thinking is a bitch. Plagued since awareness. Coming to terms with reality is tough.

Heard:

Pretty cool.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2012/mar/09/classic-science-fiction-movies-pictures#/?picture=386606623&index=0

Four Phillip Dick stories in this list.

Heard:

A simply breathtaking song. Musically and lyrically superb.

Osprey! Swwwooooooooooop!

Correct style.

http://www.mydallasmusic.com/spotlight.php?page=oberhofer-2.19

Heard:

Heard:

How to:

A while ago a friend ask me how I find new music. I answered in a rudimentary dumbass fashion with something I'm partially glad I can't recall. After the fact though, her question still rang, "How do you find new music?". After reflection I came to a very clear answer, "I just listen."

Rock/Roll

Music. The intangible sanctum of all communicable feeling.

Heard:

Think of me first.

Remember to remember you remembered me. Then remember it all again. 

Remember the days that we watched the pine branches blow in the wind.

Laying on our backs in the neighborhood, not wanting to be anywhere else.

Sometimes it doesn't take a whole lot to feel like a whole person.

Sometimes it just takes one other heart to feel the same way. 

I look back maybe a little too often, but the handwriting was so perfect. 

The way that just barely getting by and having a best friend makes the world seem like an alright place. 

Think of me first. 

Because I'm trapped in that paradise and don't know how to live any other way.

The first one in and the last one to leave, that's how I'm going to be with your heart.

When I find you again.

Best friend.