GIRL TALK.

olivia finally burned it for me and oh maaahhh god. the album cover reminds me of the video for BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE. in music related news, i almost died when that synth riff from in between days came in and was followed immediately by crank that solja boy (sp?). also the heavy breathing from time of the season + since u been gone!??!??!?! oh my god. as rachel zoe would say "i die."

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PUMP IT UP + SHAWTY LO. (*#@$()@#*)$#@#$)&#%&#!%!_%($~!!!!!

IF THE WASTING OF YOUR TIME WASN'T QUITE SO UNFORGIVING

i couldn't edit this to read "omg vampire weekend." were that change made, i would BE this lolcat.

i am seeing vampire weekend for the third time three weeks from tonight. guh. i don't know how i am going to wait three weeks especially considering it will be twice in that week that i will see them and they will probably have some new songs to play and they will probably play ladies of cambridge which is SO GOOD LIVE, SO GOOD. my friends hear about this too much but: june 14 they played it just after m79, throughout which it was raining lightly. ezra played the first chord of ladies of cambridge with rostam and that keyboard just syncopated, perfectly, the bass and the drums, and it started to POUR. it was cathartic. every kind of tense i had ever felt went away. that's when i stopped caring about all my shit getting wet and i remember, kind of, yelling "take! it! take! it!," and me and my brother and simone just went crazy dancing soaking wet, and then with that big long quiet section, and everyone was so silent, and in those little pauses before chris brings it back with the drums all you could hear was the rain and this little feedback fuzz and when ezra took a breath to sing something you took a breath to say nothing, just because you had to breathe and you'd forgotten until he reminded you. and i remember after "but for you i could put it to rest," i didn't think they would finish the song. there was this total stillness, it was haunting and somewhat terrifying given the nature of the song, the almost suicidal drive of it. i wasn't sure what was going to happen. most of us were completely silent. and then "buuuuut IF YOU LEAVE I JUST DON'T THINK I COULD TAKE IT!!!!!" absolutely incredible. first this division, this distance. then this total collective insanity!

um, i've been surviving thanks to sam / this song which i managed to play on monday nonstop throughout the following:
attending three and a half classes at school, walking to the train station, taking the train to the city, taking the subway to columbia / 116 st, struggling to eat a giant linzer cookie, walking around the campus at barnard attempting to find the admissions office, leaving barnard after my interview, on the subway back to grand central, running for the train, getting on the wrong train, sitting next to a middle-aged dude reading twilight whilst listening to prince, taking the wrong train to the wrong station.
DUPPY CONQUEROR --- SAM BUCK ROSEN.
i love sam. i have a funny story to tell about sam, but i'll save this for when i finally get GET THE MOTION, which is an incredible song, and which i should get soon to give to you. my musican friend anthony (who may soon record an album of christmas carols with booty-droppin' beats featuring some other cool guys) remarked on the "groove" of this song. there is really a groove to it. the first little stanza of lyrics is quite good, too. i can't get over his voice. i've tried to describe it too many times and have failed miserably each time.


because i was just speaking about VW and don't want to make a whole other post about them which is too much even for me, here's them covering classic belgian punk gem, plastic bertrand's "ca plane pour moi," en paris a few days ago...
CA PLANE POUR MOI --- VAMPIRE WEEKEND
it's a bit difficult to understand because it was just recorded on someone's camera. that's okay. you can understand that it was pretty exciting.

FOR BARNARD COLLEGE

they asked me about a habit or tradition, something i do every day. i thought a bit and this is what came to me. i'm going to just give you a little excerpt:

Almost every day I listen to a song called A Manner to Act. I don't know of very many songs that are more beautiful than this one. There is a lot of depth to it; there are very many levels - drums, guitar, bass, voice, violin, cello. What is interesting is that it doesn't mean much to me as a person. The lyrics are lovely but I don't feel they have any real application to my life. I can't sing or play any instruments besides the oboe so I can't consider it inspiring to me as a musician. It wasn't playing at any momentous occasions in my life. I listen to it because I love how it sounds and I love every wandering and dizzying second of it.


A MANNER TO ACT --- RA RA RIOT. i always take a deep breath at that beginning, and then another when the violin theme comes in. there is definitely something almost creepily affecting about this song.

CONTINUATION

"...we are now in the midst of building a new record. It's called 'Vision Revision' and it will be yours as soon as we have worked out just what it is that we are trying to show you."
--- aih

YES.



ps. i got sent a NASTILY WORDED EMAIL about COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. i'll still try to put songs up for you, but maybe only one from each band and then some recommendations. it is really important to support music in whatever way you can! try not to steal if you can help it.

I LOVE ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI

today i came home from school early because it hurt when i moved. i am sick. i feel lingeringly like shit. i am extremely pale. this does not matter. today is the best day of my life. ]
1. barack obama is president.
2. i'm seeing the teenagers open for vampire weekend at terminal 5. after THIS breathtaking womanzier remix, i am super excited.
3. TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF MY FAVORITE BAND EVER:


(cameron was cruelly cut out of this picture)

it is still verifiable to call aih my favorite band, all you SKEPTICS AND HATERZ, because i haven't reacted to anything like i just reacted to this since i discovered born ruffians were opening for vampire weekend at summerstage. i seriously freaked out and put my hands over my face and could not move to download the song for at least one minute, wherein i was paralyzed with ecstasy. i am near tears right now.

THAT BEEP --- ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI
(not to be confused with my favorite pussycat dolls song)

there are no words for how happy this band continue to make me with every song they release and everything they do. this song is so wonderful.

SHY SHY SHY

i really love lykke li even though my dad and i had a discussion about her and he said she sounded like an 'immature jazz singer.' i think she has a lot of talent though. but today this interesting comparison came up...

does this:
DANCE DANCE DANCE --- LYKKE LI
remind anyone else of this:
THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NEW YORK --- SIMON AND GARFUNKEL


it's nothing bad obviously because i love both songs. i think it's that little afro-beat thing at the end.

PLEASE BE SMART TOMORROW

THE GHOST OF YOU LINGERS (DEMO) --- SPOON
& if you were here would you calm me down or settle the score? on the northeast corridor i first heard this song, on amtrack on the coast of rhode island, it was midsummer and the train moving very fast, this blur of sunset and ocean. at the time i had the ap bio text on my lap and i was supposed to be outlining things, defining things, understanding things but i didn't care because i had this, this song with all that power --- so devastating in that smooth echo, that thud of sound, exhausting --- and i had to my left the ocean spread out, the beach. once five or six kids sitting on top of a railroad bridge, skinny legs dangling. i didn't know if they would jump off or if they would just sit there and watch the sun go, but you never know what people will do when you see them only so quick, that division of a second before the train goes back into the forest.