The Big Pink/Great Week.

So, I haven't blogged in a while due to tech week(s) for the musical I'm currently stage managing, but this past week has been positively amazing!

Tuesday:
Got out of rehearsal early and went to the Big Pink concert at the Grog Shop. Both of the opening bands were good (and I already know A Place to Bury Strangers was good but I had my doubts about Hot Cha Cha) which is a rarity these days. And then the Big Pink came on....oh my wow. First of all, they looked cool as shit. Just straight up badass cool. Robbie Furze is my new favorite man (for this week, anyhow). They played essentially their whole album, including a new song which totally fucking rocked. What can I say, it was amazing!





Wednesday:
I found out that I was accepted to Pratt for Art History!!!! I didn't think I was going to get in and when I read the e-mail I freaked out (in a good way of course). Now all we need to take care of is the money situation. Brooklyn seems so close I can smell it (and I know what you're thinking and most of it doesn't smell bad!). I'm excited.

Curiouser and curiouser...

Flickr Exploration

If you go on Flickr and type in "the horrors" under a relevant search these are some of what you get. Just found it amusing.

The Pitchfork Top 100 Songs of 2009

*= Approved!




100 Darkstar – “Aidy’s Girl’s a Computer”
99 Julianna Barwick – “Bode”
98 Future of the Left – “Arming Eritrea”
97 The Smith Westerns – “Be My Girl”
96 Gucci Mane [Feat. Plies] – “Wasted”
95 The Thermals – “Now We Can See”
94 Best Coast – “Sun Was High (So Was I)”
93 Morrissey – “Something is Squeezing My Skull”
92 Cam’ron – “I Hate My Job”
91 HEALTH – “Die Slow”
90 The-Dream – “Rockin’ That Shit”
89 No Age – “You’re a Target”
88 Passion Pit – “Moth’s Wings”
87 Here We Go Magic – “Fangela”
86 Drake – “Best I Ever Had”
85 Wavves – “No Hope Kids”
84 Junior Boys – “Parallel Lines”
*83 Lady Gaga – “Paparazzi”
82 DJ Kaos – “Love the Nite Away (Tiedye remix)”
81 Bowerbirds – “Northern Lights”
80 YACHT – “Psychic City (Voodoo City)”
79 Pictureplane – “Goth Star”
78 Charlotte Gainsbourg – “IRM”
77 Frida Hyvönen – “Jesus Was a Cross Maker”
76 The Rural Alberta Advantage – “Don’t Haunt This Place”
75 Gold Panda – “Quitter’s Raga”
74 Neon Indian – “Should Have Taken Acid With You”
73 Woods – “Rain On”
72 Matt & Kim – “Daylight”
71 A Sunny Day in Glasgow – “Close Chorus”
70 Discovery – “Orange Shirt”
69 Taylor Swift – “You Belong With Me”
68 Röyksopp [Feat. Robyn] – “The Girl and the Robot”
67 Arctic Monkeys – “Cornerstone”
66 Julian Casablancas – “11th Dimension”
65 The Tough Alliance – “A New Chance (The Juan MacLean Remix)”
64 Annie – “Songs Remind Me of You”
63 Real Estate – “Fake Blues”
62 Volcano Choir – “Island, IS”
61 Atlas Sound [Feat. Lætitia Sadier] – “Quick Canal”
60 Kurt Vile – “Freeway”
59 tUnE-yArDs – “Sunlight”
58 Fever Ray – “If I Had a Heart”
57 Sleigh Bells – “Crown on the Ground”
56 John Talabot – “Sunshine”
*55 Bat For Lashes – “Glass”
54 Joker & Ginz – “Purple City”
*53 The xx – “Islands”
52 St. Vincent – “Actor Out of Work”
51 Antony and the Johnsons – “Aeon”
50 Matias Aguayo – “Rollerskate”
49 Yo La Tengo – “Here to Fall”
48 Destroyer – “Bay of Pigs”
*47 Yeah Yeah Yeahs -”Heads Will Roll”
46 Memory Tapes – “Bicycle”
*45 The Flaming Lips [Feat. Karen O] – “Watching the Planets”
44 Jay-Z [Feat. Alicia Keys] – “Empire State of Mind”
43 Camera Obscura – “French Navy”
*42 The Big Pink – “Velvet”
41 Major Lazer [Feat. Nina Sky and Ricky Blaze] – “Keep It Goin’ Louder”
40 Bear in Heaven – “Lovesick Teenagers”
*39 Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance”
38 Dirty Projectors and David Byrne -”Knotty Pine”
37 Surfer Blood – “Swim”
36 Fever Ray – “When I Grow Up”
35 Micachu and the Shapes – “Golden Phone”
34 Atlas Sound [Feat. Noah Lennox] – “Walkabout”
33 DJ Quik and Kurupt – “9x’s Outta 10″
32 The Very Best [Feat. Ezra Koenig] – “Warm Heart of Africa”
31 Lily Allen – “The Fear”
30 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – “Young Adult Friction”
29 jj – “Ecstasy”
28 Neko Case – “This Tornado Loves You”
27 Four Tet – “Love Cry”
26 Bon Iver – “Blood Bank”
25 Cass McCombs – “You Saved My Life”
24 Basement Jaxx – “Raindrops”
*23 Animal Collective – “Brother Sport”
22 Delorean – “Seasun”
21 Raekwon [Feat. Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, & Method Man] – “House of Flying Daggers”
20 Japandroids – “Young Hearts Spark Fire”
19 Joker – “Digidesgin”
*18 The Big Pink – “Dominos”
17 Fuck Buttons – “Surf Solar”
*16 The xx – “Crystalised”
*15 Girls – “Hellhole Ratrace”
14 Joy Orbison – “Hyph Mngo”
13 Neon Indian – “Deadbeat Summer”
12 Grizzly Bear – “While You Wait for the Others”
*11 Animal Collective – “What Would I Want? Sky”
10 Washed Out – “Feel It All Around”
*09 Girls – “Lust for Life”
08 Phoenix – “Lisztomania”
07 Big Boi [Feat. Gucci Mane] – “Shine Blockas”
*06 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Zero”
05 Grizzly Bear – “Two Weeks”
04 Bat For Lashes – “Daniel”
*03 Phoenix – “1901″
02 Dirty Projectors – “Stillness Is the Move”
*01 Animal Collective – “My Girls


MY Top Song of 2009 (single possibly released/leaked earlier, album released 2009):

"Sea Within Sea"- The Horrors

Who's Excited? Because I am really Fucking Excited

I'm SUPER PSYCHED to see Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland this weekend! Talk about the movie we've been waiting for forever! I can't wait to see all the special effects mingling with the live-action stuff. And as always, the casting is superb (I mean, I know we've seen the Helena Bonham Carter/Johnny Depp combo before, but they are so rad together!). Will post more after I see it....