January 2010
2 posts
Top 100 of 2000's: 20-1
#20 Artist: Azure Ray Song: “For No One” Album: Azure Ray Year: 2001
A unique aspect of Azure Ray’s music is the simplicity of the vocal performance. Both women who sing in the group have very beautiful, melancholy voices but for the most part they just sing a straightforward melody. There isn’t a need for showing off or pretentious belting. Their style is quiet, but...
I had a lot of fun in the final weeks of 2009. So much fun in fact that I totally ignored completing the last 20 songs of my favorite songs of the decade. It seems kind of outdated now really. I mean we ARE a full two weeks into 2010. But what the hell, I’m going to finish writing my commentaries and the list will be posted later today. Hope you enjoy!
December 2009
4 posts
Top 100 of 2000's: 40-21
#40 Artist: Justin Timberlake feat. T.I. Song: “My Love” Album: Futuresex/Lovesounds Year: 2006
Don’t even bother trying to resist the awesomeness of this entire album. There is nothing guilty about this pleasure. It’s just really great hip hop influenced pop music with slammin beats and great vocals by a sexy, impeccably dressed white man. This song makes me want to...
Top 100 of 2000's: 60-41
#60 Artist: TV on the Radio Song: “Staring at the Sun” Album: Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes Year: 2004
This band has such a unique sound and a truly electrifying stage presence. Both of the singers have very distinct, soulful vocals and the noisey rocking guitars are great. The recorded version of this song is slightly eerie. The video is pretty awesome too.
#59 Artist:...
Top 100 of 2000's: 80-61
#80 Artist: Ratatat Song: “Lex” Album: Classics Year: 2006
With their second original album, Ratatat clearly incorporated more and more of a hip hop style in respect to their beats. They put out an album of remixes before and after this album that featured the big names in hip hop and you can hear on Classics the influence the genre has had on their music. This song is super...
Top 100 of 2000's: 100-81
#100 Artist: The Big Pink Song: “Velvet” Album: A Brief History of Love Year: 2009
This band was recommended to me by my friend Joe Suitor only about a month ago. He consistently listens to Shoegazey Brit Pop and this band didn’t disappoint. I particularly like the beats and the Suede reminiscent vocals.
#99 Artist: The Raveonettes Song: “Bang!”...
November 2009
2 posts
I have returned...with MUSIC!
Again it has been months since I have updated in this blog. However, my return brings great substance, as I have accepted the music challenge of Andy Khouri to determine my 100 most favorite songs of the 2000’s.
Quite a lofty task that I have been working on for about a month now. Honestly, when Andy told me about this challenge, I was able to create a playlist within a matter of hours...
June 2009
1 post
So I haven’t posted in ages but I thought I would put up the abstract that I have constructed so far for the thesis project I am working on with the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign so that my friends can know what I’ve been up to and what’s to come in the fall.
A Participatory Action Research Project Examining Structural Poverty With The Poor People’s Economic...
April 2009
1 post
I’m on the radio!
March 2009
7 posts
I’m back home from my Spring Break trip to SoCal. I’ve spent the day recovering from the lack of sleep and enjoying the quiet of my apartment. Sunday we drove down to SF and had dinner at a Tapas restaurant where I actually ate some shrimp. Then we went to Meghan Lake’s and watched trash TV and drank some beers. I forgot the Aerobed so we had to sleep on the floor which made...
WatchOMG this one is even MORE awesome.
WatchI love this album and I love this video.
“American households with incomes of less than $10,000 give an average of 5.5 percent of their earning to charity or to a religious organization, while those making more than $100,000 a year give only 2.9 percent. After changes in the 1986 tax code reduced the benefits of charitable giving, taxpayers earning $500,000 or more slashed their average donation by nearly one-third. Futhermore,...
The wind has been howling so loudly in the last few days. Stacy Michelle came up this weekend and we had a very enjoyable time. We went to dinner at Hurricane Kate’s and then to the Shanty and met up with some of my friends for drinks on Friday. Yesterday we got a bagel and hiked Trinidad Head then went down to the Loleta Cheese Factory and tasted all sorts of yummy cheeses. We came back...
February 2009
11 posts
Things have been awful busy lately. It’s a bit of a struggle to negotiate the time I need to complete my schoolwork, organize events for Take Back the Night, participate in other community involvement and actvism, and not get completely distracted by my adorable boy toy. Truthfully, I should be putting way more time into school, especially on the weekends but its hard because Deric’s...
Dater post dedicated to my favorite boy.
Please gaze at the majesty in the right hand column of my blog and click it for your own enjoyment. Thank you to the photo editing powers of Deric Mendes and Lauren Clyne. Also thank you to the internetz for creating this wonderous javascript application.
January 2009
8 posts
I’m having a cozy morning under the blankets on my couch but I need to get motivated. The overcast weather of humboldt makes me want to do nothing but snuggle and I have a bunch of women coming over in a couple hours. I’m really excited to be learning about the Klamath river basin in one of my courses. The first book we are reading really delves into the imagery and landscape of the...
School has started up again and I’m so glad. My classes seem really awesome but the amount of reading is totally not awesome. I still have 6 more books to buy and I’ve already spent 450 bucks. Ay yai yai. I wanted to get a lot of reading done tonight but I still don’t have the books I need for my Political Ecology class and my Klamath River Issues class so I just read for the...
December 2008
19 posts
Been sick in bed for the last 3 days. Punctuated by little outings with my mom. Today we went to the mall to get me some warmer clothes for Humboldt. About 2 hours in I was wiped and we had to come home. I napped and I feel better now. Now I’m watching some TV show about serial killers. Annoying thing about liking shows about serial killers: you already know all the stuff they tell...
I’m back home at my parents’ house sitting in my old room. It’s kind of strange really because I haven’t been here for more than 6 months. I used to come home every weekend my first year of college and now I’m only here about once a year. I guess that means I’m a grown up now. This weekend was wild. I’ve already eaten at almost all of my favorite...
I am obsessed with this band right now. How can...
Today was seriously one of the best days I’ve ever had. Deric came over last night and I cooked dinner and we drank wine with his friend Matt. We woke up this morning and had breakfast at the Alibi and then headed to the Trees of Mystery in Klamath. It’s an old grove area that they’ve set up all these cute trails through with signs describing all the trees. They also have a...
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