thanks to wintour: zach condon, i love you.

so what happens when you put anna wintour with:

MGMT, Vampire Weekend, Beirut, Adam Green, Mika, and The Horrors????

this:

zach condon. i like you but you're no model. but i still love you.

kwassa kwassa??? i don't get it.

adam green, please don't wear gucci.

out of all the "musicians", you look like you belong here the most, mika.

dear chester french:  good lady gaga mix. if you haven't gotten it already, go to rcrdlbl.com

golden silvers? you would support your country with some burberry

the management, good choice on zanini

i hate you for wearing balenciaga.

i hate you more for trying to kill me, brian, and stephanie with a water bottle when i really just wanted to see the kills.

so fuck you.

i still hate you.

nice electro man, nice electro.

the killer, himself.

mgmt, still lookin' pretty hip.

nature. + nevada. = vegas.

hey everyone...i haven't written in a while because i've been with my family in l.a. and vegas. things are going pretty great...a lot of chinese food and shopping.

i'm sure you guys caught a glimpse of these on facebook but there are higher quality versions of what i tested out with my m8 when we were driving through the nevada desert.

slow club.

Slow Club are Charles Watson and Rebecca Taylor from Sheffield, United Kingdom. They sing using quirky lyrics, a variety of percussion instruments and great vocal interplay. They are currently releasing singles onMoshi Moshi Records and have been on nationwide tours with bands such as Fionn Regan, The Noisettes, Hot Club De Paris, Tilly And The Wall, Jamie T and Jeremy Warmsley. - courtesy of last.fm

DOWNLOAD HERE

the soft pack.

have a listen: 

you can download some of their stuff here.

The Soft Pack are an indie rock band which formed in [placeformed]San Diego, California, United States[/placeformed] in [yearformed]2008[/yearformed]. They consist of Matt Lamkin (vocals, guitar), Matty McLoughlin (guitar), David Lantzman (bass) and Brian Hill (drums). They were originally known as [artist]The Muslims[/artist] and released one single and a 12" EP on 1928 Recordings under their previous name. As the Soft Pack they have released two EPs.

courtesy of last.fm

jamz in paris.

alt bandz? what is authentic anymore? comme jack a dit...davethentic? 

well, here's what i've been playin' these past few weeks. 

yeasayer

back a little early??? its not 2080 yet.

Yeasayer "Ambling Alp" from Team G on Vimeo.

loook @ da videoooo. a bit nsfw. but fun nonetheless.

neon indians

hmm. after NATY NATE and karlsson fought, i gave them a listen.

R THEY A FAD OR DO THEY HAVE TALENT????

let's let pitchfork decide.

the xx

pretty solid band. for the first time, an authentic fad band like them actually worked

throughout the whole album.

but seriously, don't dress like you work at hot topic. 

i'll give you guys a year in williamsburg or a gentrified area in dc.

edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros

devendra wannabe? well cary fukui may find them a bit annoying but i like them.

i listen 2 them when i miss the united states of america.

lightspeed champion

austin gave him to me a while back. just gave him a listen.

funky beatz.

two door cinema club

GOLDENSILVERS???????? 

oh wait..just another brit band.

eh they're good. GOOD JOB KITSUNÉ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mr beasley

YOOOO JIN JIN JIN

Pretty damn good track: NEON

everyone should dl it.

koudlam

IS HE ACTUALLY COOL OR COLETTE JUST LIKES TO PUT HIM ON THEIR WEBSITE???

JE NE SAIS PAS MAIS....

the track "see you all" is pretty good.

l'histoire de melody nelson.

the greatest concept album of all time.

rock critcism? does ne1 care anymore?

today my rock & roll history prof asked us the question.

do you own a blog?

i answered yes. of course, bloggin is the most "culturally relevent" phenomenon yet...

do you critique music?

uh kinda.

well no one cares.

well, do ppl care? do ppl look at my blog and sneer at the music agendas or are they really listening to what i push upon in here?

do alts look at ma blog and criticize the UN-authentic stuff on here???

well, i think i will push ma taste to you guys no matter what happens.


today i went on hro and saw this hilarious pic.

it's about the new phenomenon. the xx. i agree with da blogger in that the xx is becoming a sort of one hit wonder in the indie world. perhaps even a one hit album.

here's my review of the xx.

they sound great.

the female in the group sounds like the alt-femme in the blow.

the guy sounds like "he doesnt care enough" since "he's too cool" but he sounds great.

they look a lil 1995 emo. (don't shop at hot topic).

otherwise, we'll have to wait for their concert to see if they are "authentic" enough to be "relevent" in the coming years.


alt stares:

fav quote from carles:

"?????????????????
Do yall know if deep indie gazes mean that alt celebs can shoot lasers out of their eyes? Worried to look at one of them in the eyes, since they have such emotive/distant/dreamy/emotionally-scarred faces. Feel like making eye contact with them might be the alt equivalent of looking into the popular Greek mythological broad ‘Medusa’, known for turning onlookers into stone at the expense of 1 glance."

r blogs 'lame' or still 'culturally relevant?'

for those of you that are 'legit' followers of hro...pls excuse me. bc i really think carles has 'influence' me to 'venture' into a new direction in terms of 'bloggin'.

so back to 'my topic.' are blogs still "culturally relevant" or are they "lame" now? since almost everyone has one (including paula deen), are they still "authentic" to the internet n the Y generation?


well to me...i hope i can add more stuff here about "my life" and what "i like". it may not be "HRO" but i think after the scandalous carles retirement, i'll blog more. i think ppl should leave "more comments" bc it really encourages the blogger like "ME" to write more and blog more.

here's a video for you:

should i start a band called the euphonium rebellion???

i wish i could dance like those alt-bros.

music agenda.

florence & the machines.

+

disco.

=

or there female counterpart.

wim wender

it happened: the leica m8

so for those of you that saw me going crazy, ecstatic, and well, happy.....you probably found out that my parents bought me a new camera. not any ol' camera, but a leica. not any leica, but the m8.

i don't even know what to say about this but i'm just in awe. first, those of you reading this...(dave is spoiled once again) you are totally right. no denial of that and i wholly agree that i don't deserve it.

but now that i have it....i should probably lock myself up and re-learn everything that i thought i knew. and well...impress my parents with what they just bought me.

as martin put it, it is the "patek phillipe" of cameras. hopefully my son won't use a crazy computer without a usb cable in the future.

well...first impressions.

well, it looks like a small camera, but there are many things packed into this little tank.

so the first problem i have to get used to is....well focusing.

sounds stupid but as it turns out, the whole m system, leica's flagship line depends on good ol' retro manual focusing. while the metering and shutter speed is automatic, the rest of the camera is truly a manual camera in a digital body.

here are some pictures i initially took under a low light setting.

my best focus yet.

currently, i'm using a leica summarit 35mm lens. when converting to the m8, it turns into a 50mm

you will notice that the light metering is superb under the low light setting with very little noise but my focusing is what's messing everything up..

you can see here on the bottom picture that although the focus is on john, i'm still not perfectly focused on his face.

higher resolution pictures after the jump.

more practicin' now