Archive for the ‘music’ Category

03.01.10 | anyone but him

a track from fairly new brit hip hop act, mr. hudson

you might’ve heard him on jay-z’s album — “young forever”

he also reminds me of a stylish “silas” from the da vinci code:

silas

mr. hudson

heard this song first on sarmad’s vegas mega mix earlier this year (tho this isn’t the album version…)

mr. hudson feat. kanye west -- anyone but him

02.21.10 | doing my best impersonation of sarmad

i know i’m not the “music” dood in our clique, but i ran across this and thought it was a pretty good song…

tho, i BET that sarmad or dave will chime in and say, “OLD! i knew about these guys 2 years ago”

it’s chiddy bang -- “opposite of adults”… uses that mgmt “kids” track (best new artists apparently)

anyway, here ya go… it’s a pretty sick video too

02.15.10 | tim reynolds is the man

i’ll never be as good as tim reynolds… listening to him play guitar kills me… i mean, he’s great, but there’s no way in hell i could even try to play his stuff… not even his covers…

here he is, off the dave matthews, tim reynolds – live in las vegas album

tim reynolds – kashmir

02.14.10 | yea, that pretty much covers it

i know it’s not hip right now to like him, but john mayer pretty much sums it up for me…

john mayer – perfectly lonely

10.08.09 | why do i wanna buy a lexus now…

so this is my crappy audition to be a writer for the thoracic fax machine site, captained by sarmad

it FINALLY feels like “winter” in san diego… the weather is awesome and the air is crisp

so i totally found* these guys: rodrigo y gabriela

their music is like world/acoustic/percussion… crazy strong and aggressive and then melodic

i was listening to their “live in japan” cd and heard a cover of one of my favorite songs… dave brubeck’s “take five

this song is such a great cold weather song…

enjoy:

rodrigo y gabriela – take five

dave brubeck – take five

*found is an inside joke that most of you wouldn’t get… sarmad seems to find EVERYTHING in our circle, such as shepard fairey and barack obama

**i understand if sarmad doesn’t wanna give me an author account to his site :(

08.02.09 | it’s never been like that…

i’ve been diggin’ phoenix for a while now (ever since i heard a track on entourage – “if i ever feel better”)

they were on snl last night (repeat – seth rogen hosts) and they rocked it out

“lisztomania”

“1901″ — the drummer just kills it!

*i noticed they mess up a note in each song… jitters? oh well, they’re french, what do you expect…

notable performances:

audio:

08.01.09 | i’m 1337 @last.fm

top listener for counterfit

top listener for counterfit

sweet… i listen to counterfit so much, i’m a top listener on last.fm… awesome

07.19.09 | oh, hotstepper!

this guy’s talented… almost makes me wanna learn how to play piano… almost

07.15.09 | promote synergy!

“wtf, joe?”

yea i know… the site’s been collecting a bit of dust, which normally means that i’ve been busy with projects or i’m lazy (or both)

so what’s been up?

  • i’m still drinking beer… i’ve broken the goal of 50… and of course i’m behind on writing about them… talk about fanfare, eh? i think i want to blame wordpress for that… first for releasing 2.8, which had tons of issues (or maybe my site design had the issues… nahhhh). but then i just recently upgraded to 2.8.1, which is a lot better, i don’t get as many errors (they’re still there, but i can write posts at least)
    i found out it’s mostly to do with old plugins that aren’t compatible with the new versions… which is lame-o!
  • on the topic of web development, things have been movin’ along well at work and gorirra… i think i’m running myself ragged tho — after these projects on the table, i think i’m gonna take a break somehow… doubt it tho — oh well…
  • hung out with the fpsa kids over the fourth, where our motto was “24 hours to live” — fun times…
  • padres stink, as they are wont to do… effin’ a… football’s right around the corner i guess
  • i twitter a bunch, so you can pretty much follow my going’s-ons there… (left column of my site — booyah)

is that it? i think so… everything’s been pretty much status quo…

ahh… so here’s something — chaunce, andy, and i were talking about clever ways to hide particular files on one’s computer… i’m sure you all have clever ideas, so post it out… you can be “anonymous” if you want (tho i’ll know who you are, you dirty bastard)

i know mark has a folder on his desktop that says, “mark’s 2008 tax stuff” — very clever, mark… very clever.

the lonely island – like a boss

06.09.09 | i want you not to go, but you should

added a new plugin to the sidebar of my site — last.fm for wordpress

now you can see the crappy music that i listen to!

i’ve been listening to a lot of arctic monkeys, jason mraz, brett dennen, and an oldie but goodie, counterfit

enjoy!