Jammie of the Day

Broken Bells is the project of Dangermouse and James Mercer the lead singer of the Shins. I am not a Shins fan but I know people who are, its not my cup of tea. However; when Dangermouse is in the mix, consider it golden. This kid is batting a thousand in my book, he seemingly can do no wrong. The Grey album (for which he first became known), Gorillaz Demon Days, Dangerdoom (Dangermouse x MF Doom) and of course Gnarls effing Barkley. Anyways this is their single "The Ghost Inside". The video stars Christina Hendricks from Mad Men fame. I am a heterosexual female but the woman has an amazing rack! Oh and Broken Bells is nominated for Best New Artist at the VMA's, now we all know they're not going to win. But it's real cute of MTV to throw a wrench in there to make it look like they care about musical integrity, good for you!

Deftones!

So if you don't know Deftones is one of my favorite bands of all time. Last year I did a post on when I first heard the Deftones and I have been hooked ever since. They were never as 'popular' as the bands they were lumped together with during the late 90's early 00's "nu-metal" era (i.e. Korn, Limp Bizkit, Incubus etc). But I believe they are the most respected and consistent bands. Their latest album Diamond Eyes is phenomenal, definitely their best effort since White Pony. Last night I had the honor and pleasure to attend their show at the Norva (thanks to some comp tickets from my job, although I was put on a 'list' that my name wasn't on, which i assume was VIP so I had to be lumped with the peons and doshbags of the pit) And despite the sucky opening band by the name of Barroness and my feet and body aching, and this stupid b!tch who was in front of me, as my concert patna and BFF since the 9th grade Shelaine (whom gave me the white pony CD in 10th grade) told me "It'll be all worth it in the end" and man it was. They played a 2 hour set that included songs from all Deftones albums. Some of my faves of the night being "Ihabia" from Around the Fur and "Beauty School" from Diamond Eyes. Oh and Chino is adorable and amazing for he did not have in-ears and could not hear himself the whole show and still put on the performance of a lifetime...and he touched my hand! EEeeek. I really feel like I have lived out my teenage fantasies this summer. I saw Korn last month and now seeing Deftones, I kind of feel complete hmm. Oh and shout out to my cousin Rachahd whom is also a Deftones fan and told me an awesome story about when she got injured ribs from a Deftones show at the Roseland in NYC. And of course Shelainey for coming to the show with me. Alright I will now leave you with a video of "Change (In the House of Flies).

Things That I Love

If you have not watched The Big Gay Sketch Show on LOGO, you need too. It's freakin hilarious. In terms of comedy they are not wussies like the hetero folks and it's just plain funny and fresh and not stale like SNL. The best sketch on the show is their Maya Angelou "America's Treasure" where Maya reads posts from Craigslist, oh man it's great.

In the Jungle...

This kid that I work with Damien comes into work after me on sunday mornings and always goes "Dude have you seen?!..." and its always Effed up Ess on youtube. So last weekend he comes in and shows me the video I'm about to post. You know monkey's are our cousins and the only thing that differentiates them from us is an opposable thumb. I never really tried to comprehend how similar humans are to them, but after seeing this video I now know the gap between them and the human man are closing more and more everyday. Human men have fleshlights, monkeys have frogs. Tomato ToMATO.

AAAAANNNND here's a closeup

Gurl this my JAM

A few days ago I decided on a whim to download Wale's current mixtape More About Nothing the sequel to Mixtape About Nothing and I'm glad I did. I mean I was never a super Wale fan, I appreciate his talent as an MC (and I think he's a cutie) but musically he didn't really hook me, until now. My jammie right now is his take on Sam Sparro's (who is like my new favorite person) "Black and Gold". But the mixtape as a whole is a really well put together project with dope tracks and Wale's fantastic wordsmithyness (yes that's a word) so here is Wale's "Black and Gold"

Youtube Hero: Red

So one day I was making my usual blog rounds and while on Missinfo.tv this post caught my attention. It has nothing to do with the Cam'ron ft Snoop Dogg song, honestly I could care less. It was the backstory to the hook of the song. It was taken from a youtube video upload of this homeless guy by the name of Red behind a clothing store. I've seriously listened to this song at least 6 times in a row. I guess the people whom he was performing for was trying to help him get put on. From what I can tell this dude is super talented. I really hope they find him and he can put a project together.

Current fav songs

I, as I am sure many people go through phases or cycles where they have a few choice songs playing in their head, car stereo, cd players (yeah they still exist) and mp3 players on a constant basis. You play them till you get sick of them, then you go through a drab period where you hate everything on your iPod(or whatever), then another cycle of songs tickle your fancy. As of now these are my faves.
Up first is a track from M.I.A.'s new album Maya. Now there is a story as to how I obtained this CD its quite a long one. At the beginning of the summer my mother and I planned a trip to NYC. It turned out the same weekend she wanted to up HARD NYC was also happening that weekend. HARD consisted of a lot of artist including: Ninjasonik, Theophilus London and Rye Rye among others. And the festival was being headlined by none other than M.I.A. So the thing was I was not able to afford tickets for my brother and myself to go but my mother assured me that she was able to get them for us. However; I was looking for a miracle to get these tickets. One day I was over at Dr. Jays website and there was this contest to win tickets to HARD NYC. Low and behold I actually win them, I never win anything. But before actually finding out that I won the tickets our trip was canceled due to the common disease ourfundsarelow. So the good people over at Dr Jays was supposed to send me the tickets and I was going to give them to my cousin Rachahd whom lives in NY. Oddly enough I never got the tickets. Cut to 2 weeks ago I get a package in the mail from them with a copy of M.I.A.'s new album. Pretty cool. In the end it all kind of worked itself out. Now since the release of the album critics have not been very kind to it, but as a huge M.I.A. fan I chose not to pay attention to it. My initial response to the album was, much like the critics not very favorable. To me the music was very distorted and the songs didnt have any real structure to it. But over time it has grown on me. So bringing me to one of my favorite tracks on the album, and one of my favorite songs right now here is "Tell Me Why"

Up next is a track from Cee Lo Green's Stray Bullets mixtape that came out a few weeks ago. This song is called "ChamPain". Cee Lo is just awesome.

During the summer I work at the Virginia Beach Amphitheater as a "production runner" where you run around in the heat for countless hours running errands for the different tours that come through the venue. A few weeks ago I got to work the Rockstar Mayhem Festival which is a traveling metal tour. This year the headliner was Korn which I was VERY excited about. I got to see a majority of the show albeit from a crappy spot, but hey I can't complain. I've loved Korn for many years and the chance to see them was like a teenage dream come true and it also kicked up how much I loved them. So I've been listening to them a lot lately and one of my current faves is "Throw Me Away" from their See You on the Other Side album.

That's all for now, sure there are other songs that I listen to but these are like my top choices for the moment. So yeah end of blog post. Run along now.