The Unusuals are Daniel Lynas, Brian Trent, Yoni Rabino. Yoni Rabino went to Bard with me. Daniel Lynas went to Stuyvesant with me. Daniel has recorded a lot of the DR songs we've done. He's what I like to call a "solid dood." Take the time to peep the new EP from The Unusuals - Daily Routine has been on repeat in my world:
http://www.wonderfulrecording.com/mp3/asusualep.zip
MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/theunusualz
I've been wanting to do something like this for a while. I cut out some of the doods from these Amar Chitra comic books I got in India when I was there in 2006. Amar Chitra comic books are educational tools to make learning about Hinduism and Indian History heck of enjoyable to kids. Glued them onto some NY post cards. I don't know how to work a scanner so I took some picture joints with my camera phone. Then I played with the saturation and shit. Maybe I'll start doing more and scanning them properly...
Hanuman 1:
They Will Know Where I Can Find The Herb:
Blogs are about lists. Like remember that time I made a Top 50 Songs of 2008 list, complete with 3 or 4 songs I never even heard? Here's a list I just made with some help from Ashok. It's like Oprah's Things:
10) Arj Barker's character on Flight of the Conchords
9) Hating Guyanese people
8) Swizz Beatz and his fond appreciation of Basquiat
7) Calling the cops and telling them a bouncer is selling E after you've gotten kicked out of a bar
6) Replacing S's with Z's (i.e. Tap Dat Azz)
5) Making violent jokes about your parents (i.e. I'm going to go home and knee my Dad in the face bro!!!) - This could be replaced with that one thing on the Simpsons where the spoiled kid is being a dick to his mom and Bart's trying to get his Bonecrusher video game.
4) Google Image Search
3) Pretending large bottles of Mango juice are 40 Oz. bottles of malt liquor
2) Calling animals and inanimate objects "faggot" (i.e. I gotta take the faggot train now.)
1) Spanish girls (aka The New Books)
Sohale Siddiqi (also Hal Siddiqi) was the best friend and roommate of Barack Obama while he attended Columbia University in the early 1980s. He is identified as “Sadik” in Obama’s memoir, Dreams From My Father. Obama describes Saddiqi as “a short, well-built Pakistani” who smoked marijuana and snorted cocaine. Siddiqi was from Karachi, Pakistan and came to America from London on a tourist visa. He overstayed his visa becoming an illegal alien.
Obama and Siddiqi would go out together and enjoy the nightlife of New York City. Siddiqi claims Obama stopped using drugs when he arrived at Columbia. Obama eventually moved out when Siddiqi’s partying began to interfere with his studies. [Link]
Obama had an international circle of friends — "a real eclectic sort of group," says Vinai Thummalapally, who himself came from Hyderabad, India. As a freshman, he quickly became friends with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, two wealthy Pakistanis. [Source]
(Brought to my attention by SepiaMutiny.)
Not only were their wilder Indians in the 1980's, who look awesome, but our new President used to hang out with them in hood-ass apartments in New York? I've always been a fan of New York in the 70's and 80's - one of my obsessions. It's the reason books like Please Kill Me and the photography of Ricky Powell appeal to me so much. It's the reason I love the band Television. To imagine a young Obama living in Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights, two of the five residences Columbia lists Obama as having lived in while attending the school, in the 1980's in New York is just something else. He lived in Brooklyn before it was the cool thing to do. To imagine Obama living in the Upper West Side with a Pakistani wilder while I myself crashed many a night on the couch of two good friends in an apartment on 106th that we called "The Rat Hole" is another little way dood's brought hope into my life. And those boots are cool.
Oh and as for Sohale Soddiqi, I will find this Pakistani man and I will chat his ear off...
How many of you minority folk watched the speech with fingers-crossed, cringing for it to end as quickly as possible so he could get off stage? And rather than celebrating his presidency it was the fact that he didn't get shot that made you clap? Operation: Don't Get Mercked was a success today. God bless America!
And this also marks the first inaugural address to include a shout out to Hindus! A cause to celebrate. So who's going to Animal Collective tonight?
Or how I'd just watch the first season of A Different World over and over again because I love anything Whitley Gilbert (Jasmine Guy, of course) ever said in that awesome Southern accent or because I love that Marisa Tomei was on the first season of the awesome Cosby spinoff, set at an all-black college, or because I love anything involving Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet, as if you didn't know)...
January 20th is a big day. It marks the end of President Bush's eight years of stoopid. It marks the beginning of President Obama's how-many-ever years of "at least he's not president Bush". It's the day Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion officially releases, as in not only on vinyl. It's the day I'll see Animal Collective live at Grand Ballroom, vibing dolo in the cut. It's also the day you read about Fever Ray on my internet web log.
Fever Ray is the solo project of Karin Dreijer Andersson, one-half of The Knife. Remember the Knife? They had that song "Heartbeats" that you loved, then you hated, then you loved again. You loved it but then you kind of stopped liking it when it became "that" song, the one everyone had to play at their dance party. It was like Rhianna for the kids that fancied themselves too cool for Rhianna - which no one is. And then when people stopped talking about it because they started liking some other shit, you started liking it again. Tough Alliance got boring after four months and you could only appreciate Swedish electro-pop (until M83 came out and then eventually other stuff) because fidget house and bass was beginning to get way too abrasive for you and you were amazed that people still talked about Justice because it was 2008...
Here are three new MP3's from the upcoming Fever Ray album, ganked from the awesome ObscureSound.com:
-- http://mineorecords.com/mp3/fray-now.mp3 - Now's the Only Time I Know
-- http://mineorecords.com/mp3/fray-tri.mp3 - Triangle Walks
-- http://mineorecords.com/mp3/fray-whe.mp3 - When I Grow Up
I don't know if this is the official video, or what.... but here's a YouTube of If I Had a Heart, which I believe is the lead single:
A couple of weeks back we had the opportunity to take some cool photos with a lovely lady named Victoria Jacob. Definitely visit http://www.victoriajacob.com/ to peep some of her swate photos. I was recently sent a couple of "snaps," as we say in India, from our shoot . I leave you with 3 photos. There should be mo' to come, including some more standard YO! type of joints...
Sorry about the lack of posting here, faithful 3 readers. Things seem to be picking up at work which makes my usual perusing the web for cool things to steal a little more difficult. I'm trying to do big things - trying to stack that guap. Duckets.
I'm not a businessman. I'm a business, man.
I'm not a garbageman. I'm garbage, man.
I'm not a burger, man. I'm a burgerman.
But I digress... I come to you today with a lookbook of one of my favorite brand's Spring/Summer 09 collection. Canada's Krane has been one of my favorites since I started looking into non-street-wear fashion. (Slowly street-wear and high-end seem to be converging in a funny way anyway - or at lease that's how I'm going about dressing). Peep their look book for the Men's line and their always awesome bags:
http://www.kranedesign.com/catalogue/Krane_ss09catalogue.pdf
Here's a look from their Fall/Winter '09 line. Should be dropping soon as the fashion event (capsule) in NY will be holding a preview on Monday:
Video for Veronica's Veil by Fan Death. They play at Le Royale on Feb. 5th:
Youtube Comment Highlights:
Neil Patrick Harris hosted SNL this past weekend and it was actually amazing. Anyone who's watched How I Met Your Mother, which is no-joke one of my favorite tv shows, knows that dude has got great comedic timing. Even his monologue was entertaining as he discussed Fred Savage getting the offer to host over him: "So I turn to my girlfriend at the time and I'm like 'what is this guy, allergic to timing?' and she goes 'why wont you kiss me?' and I go 'not right now, i mean look at this guy!" The highlight for me was this digital short on the awesome Doogie Hauser MD theme:
*Also, while roaming the net for feedback on how awesome Neil Patrick Harris was, I came across something more awesome than anything on SNL this weekend:
THE TRUTH Jan 12th, 2009 - 04:58:18
LOOK UP 'PROP 8 MUSICAL' ON YOUTUBE AND U WILL SEE HOW NEIL PATRICK HARRIS TOTALLY INSULTS JESUS CHRIST. IT IS UNBELIEVABLE AND DISGUSTING! I WAS A FAN, BUT I WILL NEVER SUPPORT ANYTHING HE EVER APPEARS IN AGAIN. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD AFTER YOU SEE HIS FILTH. THANK YOU. SORRY FOR WRITING IN ALL CAPS, MY KEYBOARD IS STUCK.
When Slumdog Millionaire came out I wrote a pretty long piece about why I was excited for the film and one of my main reasons was the soundtrack by AR Rahman. He also came up here while discussing Gang Gang Dance's most recent album Saint Dymphna and their appreciation for him. One of the personal highlights of the film for me was noting that I wasn't the only person who's interest rested heavily upon its soundtrack as during the end credits, at Angelika Theatre where I saw the film, several people in the audience clapped when Rahman's name came up. Last night dood finally got the global shine he's deserved for years with his win of a Golden Globe. The film also brought home Golden Globes for Best Director, Danny Boyle, Best Screenplay, Simon Beaufoy, and Best Film. And to think, all it took for Indian films to get the shine they deserved was some white people!!! (And I don't care what the reasoning is - this is an Indian film.) Let's see if Rehman and the others can rack up some Oscars too.
And here are some of my favorite joints from Rahman which I've previously posted here:
Tu Hi Re - from Bombay
Yaire - from Rangeela
Chaiyya Chaiyya - from Dil Se
Also, no homo, who saw Maggie Gyllenhall's sweet Lanvin dress?
Lanvin continues to kill it, with regard to both their gear and their increasingly-sweeter sneaker game. And speaking of game's, step your pronunciation game up - it's not LANNN-VINNN. Here are new looks from their sneaker and shoe S/S '09 line. Also some throwbacks to their '08s to peep the progression.
Lanvin Spring/Summer 2009 Sneakers:
Lanvin Spring/Summer 2008 Sneakers:
