Regina Spektor

Regina Spektor just announced the release date for her next album "Far." Mark your calendars for June 23rd. I'm revisiting her songs again now, and I just can not wait. She's the innocent little girl with a big secret on mischievous adventures. Her music is a pretty girl giggling in your ear.

She'll also be kicking off a tour, catch it. I had the pleasure of seeing her on her last tour and she is the cutest gosh darn thing I ever did see, and oh, she's a pretty damn good musician too.

The video for "Fidelity" = LOVE.

Coming for you ready or not.

Song- Girl in the Tower
Artist- Benji Hughes

I had a dream last night
About when you were mine
The streets ran red with blood
It mixed into the mud
You were a chamber maid in Spain

we meet at the dark end of the street...

What do all of these posts have in common?

This-
At the dark end of the street
That is where we always meet
Hiding in shadows where we don't belong...
You and me

Devendra Banhart

So I think I tried pretty hard not to like him, but I lose.

I like him.

Here's a really great song "I feel like a Child"




And here's an amazing song by him called "Freely"



Freely

It ain't about a heart you find
It's about the one inside
It's about the love you hide
It's waitin' to be let outside

And it ain't about losing your mind
But if you happen to, that's fine
But there’s only one way to shine
And it's called trying to live

Freely, freely meu coracao
Freely, freely meu coracao
I'd like to live that way
I'd like to live that way

And my mother may not understand
Why I’m the way that I am
But i love her and I wanna let her in (do you love her?)
Get to know a friend

And now we gotta take some time
Get to know each other our whole lives
And I call on you to remind
Nothing's really mine
Except for

Freedom, freedom en meu coracao
Freedom, freedom en meu coracao
I'd like to live that way
Oh I'd wanna stay stay that way

You ever seen anything as kind
As the wind blowing by
I've never seen anything as wise
As the sun rise that shines

Freely, freely en meu coracao
Freely, freely meu coracao
I'd like to live that way
Oh I'd wanna live that way

Actor/ Model Musician

Lukas Haas, better known as an actor, well I like his music. He was in a band called "Bunny" with fellow actor/director Vincent Gallo. I also enjoy Vincent Gallo's music. So much in fact his songs "Honey Bunny" "Lonely Boy" and "Somewhere Place" is in one of my cherished iPod playlist called "Pretentious Junkies" along with Pete Doherty. Pete Doherty's music I also love quite a bit. Especially his acoustic stuff. Every now and then though I can get down rocking to some Babyshambles.

Lukas is releasing a solo album in the Spring. It's true I'm just a sucker for singer songwriters. I'd like to think for good singer songwriters.

Here's Lukas singing his song "Shooting Star" looking all good with his buzzed head, scruffy face, leather jacket and big ears.



Lukas Haas MySpace

Hush now...

Black Nielson- Love Song To Chan Marshall

I absolutely loved this song and the video when I first heard/saw it. The band, Black Nielson, has been broken up since 2005 so the band itself I suppose is no longer very relevant. However, could a "Love Song To Chan Marshall" ever be irrelevant?

I am not sure what it is about my recent rekindled obsession with Chan Marshall. I could always cite one of my favorite quotes, "beauty inspires obsession." I guess it was the dream. She was a complete bitch in it to me, which well a girl likes. I guess it's seeing her soon (although had it not been the dream I would not have bought the tickets.) I guess it's, needing something like her. Something that tugs, that moves, that puzzles, that intrigues, that punches your half asleep Passion right in the face and says "hey, you see this?" "Yeah, wake up." It's that whole fine line between 'do you want this person or do you really just want to be this person?' My answer obviously is both.


Cat Power- Lost Someone (Live)

I think painting any sort of celebrity or a famous person (some could argue Chan is or is not, but she clearly is a known person) is very embarrassing (yes, painting political figures was painful hence.) Which is a shame. Really I just want to paint her and give it to her before the show so she would love me forever. (Dork!)

Chan, why you so mad?

(UPDATE- I just bought tickets for the show. I am a sucker for beautiful music and officially fucking excited.)

Speaking of Cat Power, two nights ago Chan Marshall was in my dream. She was a friend of a friends and I was trying to be really respectable. I didn't even think to ask for free tickets to her show (that was happening later on) but she offered me a secret password I could say at the show to get me and +1 in for free. But I kept forgetting what the word was so I had to ask her again and again. By the 5th time I apologetically told her I didn't quite get the word she said to my friend "what's wrong with your fuckin friend" and stopped talking to me.

She is playing in LA before I leave at the Wiltern, but I haven't checked to see if tickets are still available and secretly hoping it's sold out because I can't, well shouldn't afford it. Which is really sad. I should just buy tickets and not eat for a few days because I know it would be well worth it. Also her new CD Juke Box was release on the 22nd. I need to get my hands on that ASAP as well.

She is, of the "celebrity" type, probably the epitome of beauty to me in every single way... crazy (minus the substances now,) beautiful, talented. Best of all the worlds. A Chanel couture song bird, is a dream, the most beautiful dream.


FEBRUARY

6 New York, NY Terminal 5
7 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
8 Philadelphia, PA Starlight Ballroom
9 Toronto, ON Kool Haus
10 Chicago, IL Vic
11 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
29 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theater

MARCH

7 Cairns, AU Tanks Arts Centre
8 Brisbane, AU The Tivoli
9 Sydney, AU Enmore theatre
10 Adelaide, AU The Gov
12 Castlemaine, AU Theatre Royal
13 Melbourne, AU The Forum

We've got mad intuition...

I just went to Emily White's website and was pleasantly surprised to see it with a new look that is just fantastic and well designed. Her music over the years has definitely grown and it's good to see she is putting forth the effort in all realms including a much more sophisticated site.

Emily's a singer songwriter from Memphis, residing and working mostly in Chicago. She is, my bestfriend, but I met her for the first time after she performed a set and I was completely mezmerized by her voice, her songs. I may, or may not have stalked her soon after. I was first a fan, her being one of the greatest souls and becoming a bestfriend was just an added bonus (well a BIG bonus.)

Be sure to check out track number two while you're on her site called "Mad Intuition." How's this for a little shameless pride- it's about me, well about us, conversations we've had. My favorite line's got to be "she's always right." It's always good to see a taurus knowing their place with a virgo : ) (That's not really my favorite line. I swear!)

She tours every year and plays regularly in Chicago. I highly highly recommend checking to see if she is playing in your city. She puts on a great live show. I personally love all the jokes, stories she tells between songs.


Emily White offical website

Chicago Style pt 1

Hung out with some Chicago boys today. Good to be in company of people that actually walk the normal pace (move, get out the way!)

They were none other than Nigel a.k.a. Hollywood Holt, Mano a.k.a. Million $ Mano, Mike a.k.a. Mic Terror. They're in town for a week for a handful of shows, to show Cali how it's done. I've known Nigel for a while and I've been seeing all of them perform for a couple years and they're hot and they're about to pop. So, listen up if you don't know.

We hit Venice beach then got in a bit of the traffic on the way back. But, it was one of the best drives ever because they were freestyling all the way through, spitting out rhymes and making beats out of thin air. It was fucking incredible. Again, listen up world.

red is where it's at

Mano, Nigel, Mic



Nigel getting treated by Mano!

Del Taco come to Chicago please

Hollywood Holt MySpace

Million $ Mano MySpace

Mic Terror MySpace