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To be a Gangster

2012-02-08T18:09:00.000-08:00

Hudson Taylor

2012-02-08T17:54:00.000-08:00

I just recently discovered the band Hudson Taylor (formerly Harry & Alfie). They’re brothers from Dublin, Ireland. They have some great covers on their old youtube channel (like their cover of ‘The Scientist’) but it’s their original songs that really made me fall in love. I think they quite a unique and refreshing sound and their lyrics are just beautiful.

http://www.facebook.com/HarryHudsonTaylor

Cee-Roo aka Cyril Käppeli

2012-01-30T19:35:00.000-08:00

Cee-Roo aka Cyril Käppeli from Switzerland is a multimedia genius creating the most ridiculously rad mash ups. He mashes together rock, soul, and hip-hop etc. Everything from the Beatles and Bob Marley, to live mixes of James Brown, Jackson 5 and more, pretty mad genius. Listen here to Heatwave, is awesome!

BEST VIDEO EVER

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What I'm listening to right now...

2012-01-30T19:20:00.000-08:00

This song makes me happy. :D

I am enjoying this song called 'Open Season' from the High Highs lately. Chill music.

Animal is one of my favorite songs of all time haha and just yesterday my shuffle played it. Miike Snow is just epic and I wanted to share.

Romeo and Juliet is one of my favorite movies and the first time I watched I fell in love with this song (yes I downloaded this scene lol). I love this kid, his voice give me chills everytime.

Let me introduce you to @machinegunkelly

2012-01-15T10:29:00.000-08:00

I'm a big fan of hip-hop/rap and I wanted to share my love for MGK. I know Machine Gun Kelly for like a year now and he's one of my favorite rappers. I think he's really tallented and that he has a great future ahead of him. He's only 20 and has been through a lot of shit. Hehe and I kinda have this love for rappers that rap about their lives/experiences. His songs give me chills, every time, you can feel when he's being sincere and that's why his songs are so good. G-E-N-I-U-S. One of the things that really impressed me is that he was born in Texas but lived the first four years of his life in Egypt AND he spoke Arabic before English, I mean, WOW. This guy has a lot of story to tell and so far he's doing a prettyyy good job. His rhymes are so good and I love his freestyles. Last year he released a song called "Wild Boy" and people (by people I mean people that I know that like him (bianca)) thought he was going to change his style and rap ~~more~~ about bitches and how great he is. Well, I don't think he'd do that. Everyone needs to understand that this guy is 20 years old, he's still finding himself, do you need an example? Look at Eminem, he started just like MGK and then he became Slim Shady, Marshal Mathers.. It took Eminem literally 39 YEARS to figure out who he was, so give MGK a rest. He's a father, he's a great rapper, he loves his fans, he's a really nice person, his shows are so fucking awesome and his movement is for REAL #laceup. He's here to stay. "Lace Up", means something like "to step your game up and get ready to rage".

MGK has earned everything he ever worked for ;)

MY 5 FAVORITE MGK SONGS, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

The Return

Salute

Lead You On

First song I have heard from Machine Gun Kelly

On Fire

All Alone

Bonus: I Know ft. Ray Jr.

LACE THE FUCK UP!

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Warrior

2012-01-15T08:40:00.000-08:00

Yes, I cried.

Warrior is beautiful, and this…this is quite simply the most powerful image I have ever seen in a film in cinematic history.

The best movie of the year, without a doubt in my mind. I am just completely blown away by how moving, powerful, real, authentic, visceral and well acted, directed…well made this film was. I honestly and truthfully have no words to describe what I saw. I am in awe. This film is sure to be a classic, and is a rare flower amongst the thorns. What a tear jerker. This is a film with a beating heart, with a soul, and with a mind. It’s as realistic as you can get, as heartbreaking and devastating and powerful as anything I’ve ever seen on film. There’s not a wasted shot, each one is as beautiful yet tough to look at as the last. The story feels so real and authentic, it’s like…you can relate to the characters, or the situations because they’re everyday things, things we may have experienced or are experiencing in our lives.

The fights are brutal and difficult to watch, just like real MMA/UFC fights, and they’re so well crafted, so..visceral and hardcore…but realistic. The fights aren’t glorified, or over the top, or implausible. Each of the things seen on screen during the fights has happened in real MMA/UFC fights. And in all it’s brutality, the final showdown between the Conlon brothers is somehow beautifully poetic in its nature, graceful like a ballet yet violent and harsh like the inner demons they both fight.

I’ve seen a lot of films, a lot of boxing films and kickboxing films that were borderline MMA/UFC films…but never a true blue MMA film. And never a film quite like this. The dialogue doesn’t feel rehearsed, there’s no force in the way it spews from the mouths of the characters. It feels real and authentic, like it was all said before and someone wrote it down to be used in this film. Nick Nolte deserves the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as Paddy Conlon and Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton are both incredible.

Tom Hardy delivers his best performance to date, and should take home the Best Actor award. He’s just so flawless and real as Tommy Riordan-Conlon. Joel Edgerton is perfectly cast as Brendan Conlon, delivering easily his best performance as well, portraying the everyday family man so well and convincingly. The rest of the cast is just amazing, not a character out of place, not a performance in need of fine tuning. They’re all just perfect.

Like the films it’s inspired by (Rocky, The Wrestler, and the Fighter to name a few), Warrior deserves to be atop the pedestal of great sports films, and great dramatic films. It’s surely one of the best films in these genres, if not the best (in my opinion it is the best), directed so effectively, carefully, powerfully, realistically, and intensely by Gavin O’Connor. This film has caused a stir in Hollywood, receiving many accolades and nominations, and is sure to take home several awards come this award season. I loved this film, in every way imaginable, and it’s no surprise to me that this film has quickly become my new favourite film.

Plot: Haunted by a tragic past, ex-Marine Tommy Conlon (Hardy) returns home for the first time in fourteen years to enlist the help of his father (Nick Nolte) to train for SPARTA, the biggest winner-takes-all event in mixed martial arts history. A former wrestling prodigy, Tommy blazes a path toward the championship while his brother, Brendan (Edgerton), an ex-fighter-turned teacher, returns to the ringin a desperate bid to save his family from financial ruin. But when Brendan's unlikely, underdog rise sets him on a collision course with the unstoppable Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront each other and the forces that pulled them apart, facing off in the most soaring, soul stirring, and unforgettable climax that must be seen to be believed.

My favorite song: Watch this movie and you'll understand. This is just so Tommy.

My top 5 songs (at the moment)

2012-01-03T10:49:00.000-08:00

"I'm a teenager. My music will tell you a lot more about me than my mouth ever could."
Enjoy!

Theme Park - Milk

Just watch the clip and listen, you will understand. :)

The Paper Kites - Featherstone

The Paper Kites out of Melbourne play mellow pretty music and also have music videos that are magical storytelling adventures.

The Black Keys - Lonley Boy

I'm digging this guy's nice dance moves. The Black Keys has me smiling real big today. This album is just awesome! Download it NOW!

Youth Lagoon - Cannons

So cute, I just love them so much! This is the kind of song that I keep on repeat.

Twenty-two year old Trevor Powers, whose musical venture is called Youth Lagoon, has had a long year. Not because he's been endlessly touring or pursuing some wild dream, but because of life -- the life of a kid going to college, being in love, dealing with heartache, and just living. Although his music seems somewhat dreamy with the first listen, the lyrics show a different side to the matter. Hidden beneath the melodies is a voice that is eerie yet nostalgic. Powers claims his music is like letting people read his journal. "I don't think I could ever write a completely happy album. It's not that I'm not a happy person," claims Powers, "but I just have too many things in my mind that haunt me." here.

Other song that I love from them: Afternoon.

Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle

How can you not love them?