New Port O'Brien on Daytrotter

http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/port-obrien-concert/20031090-111109.html

Local Natives - Gorilla Manor

 Love them.  Love this album.  Can't wait for the next show.  

Saturday Soundtrack

Sunset / Sunrise - The Dutches...

Flooding my speakers on this gray saturday afternoon.

Electric Tickle Machine makes me happy

Metric new album Fantasies

This video player is much cooler on the Metric website
I Love Emily Haines. Her songs are always so honest.
Check out the slide show art and the last track a mini documentary on Haines going to Buenos Aires to write.

"I tremble
they're gunna eat me alive
if i stumble"

"watch out cupid stuck me with a sickness
pull your arrows out and let me live my life"

NPR All Songs Considered Best of 2008

Quizzes by Quibblo.com

Kiss with a Fist, but don't cry over dried Paint

I heard Florence and the Machine for the first time today (thanks KEXP.org). I was in the middle of silk screening monkey skeletons with paint when a rockin Regina Spektor meets the Noisettes styled voice belted out my speakers and made me halt mid pull. I stopped everything and just listened and then realized my paint was drying in the screen. SHIT.



Loving it and saved the silkscreen.

Creative Binge

Last week I was on a creative high pretty much all week. The music filled weekend inspired me. The high lasted a week 'till Sunday I came crashing down. I'm not an musician, but music always inspires me to write and make art and so I did. Here's some work in progress and finished pieces.







It was all because of the LA Weekly Detour Festival, one of the coolest festivals I've ever been to. Usually festivals are in these outdoor amphitheatre, parking lots, or desert like settings, but this one was downtown LA. And it wasn't just like a street or two blocked off it was a huge area surrounding city hall. All the bus stops, sculptures, fountains, etc were fair game. There was even a DJ stage in the outdoor foyer of city hall. At night a rave like dance party was happening in there. Something you don't normally see at city hall, not to mention everyone getting stoned on the city hall steps.

DJ Stage


I took the metro downtown and when I got off just followed the music. Downtown should be like that all the time. It was a perfect day only in the 70's and overcast with a little bit of rain - rare for LA.

Grand Ole Party - so good, she rocks, my new favorite band



Datarock - love them

Black Lips - always a party, one of the guys threw up during the last song, classic but tame for them
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They also toilet papered us.


Mars Volta - they went on and on and on ever song was an epic I didn't stick around long too 5 years ago

Cut Copy - such fun
Last but not least Gogol Bordello
Pre-show back stage

They were so amazing. One of the best shows ever. So much energy.



And for the finale one of the girls rode her drum into the crowd.

Tuesday night at the Mayan (9-23)

Ssion, Tilly and the Wall, and CSS!!!! So good. I'm in love.

Ssion - BULLSHIT

Ssion - STREET JIZ

Tilly - TAP INTRO

Tilly - POT KETTLE BLACK

Tilly - THE FREEST MAN

Tilly - BEAT CONTROLL

CSS -MEETING PARIS HILTON

CSS - ALCOHOL

CSS - MOVE

CSS - MUSIC IS MY HOT HOT SEX

CSS - LETS MAKE LOVE AND LISTEN TO DEATH FROM ABOVE

CSS - ALALA


I left sweaty, inspired, and covered in glitter and confetti.