New (forgotten?) music and art

Old classmate posted a song from OneRepublic on FB to his girlfriend and after giving it a listen and loving it I wiki-ed and youtubed them and after coming across the song below I knew I had heard them before!

All The Right Moves - OneRepublic


^The music video for this song is great! It reminds me of something Abney Park might do. Very dirty Victorian and oh so addictive!

Anyway I was trying to recall where I have heard it before and I think that is was on x96, maybe the deep x-cuts they do with new bands and songs or such. Most the time when I hear a good song/band that I do not know I try and catch the name or some of the lyrics and jot them down to look up and I think that is what I did with this one but I lost the paper before I looked it up online. I HATE when that happens and I miss out on something as cool as this band. But HA-HA I now have them! MINE!

Another band that I found through the always funny Dooce is Animal collective. She posted the song "my Girls" for the background music on her end of the year clip review.

My Girls - Animal Collective


Defiantly worth a deeper look and listen.

I might have just almost smashed the CD/band goal for '11. LOL love feeling less guilty and free going off the mainstream circuit for awesome groups and great music.


Also was toying with and idea for the short story for this year. I was thinking of revisiting the idea of the man behind the myth of King Arthur. I like the idea that "The Bear" is the main man behind the myth. I kinda want to do a exploration of the making of "The Bear". How he got the man and a bit of 'his' back story, or should I say that is what I want to make up. I was trying to think of what would you call it. It is not a true historical fiction as there is more fiction then history and there is nothing similar like mythical fiction it would just be fiction. lol yeah I'm an odd one.

The way it is forming up in my head right now is that he is sitting around a fire at night with many of the young people from his tribe and a few of his warriors after a hard day of training and hunting in the field when a youth asks him about ...oh say a scar, or how he became known as "The Bear" and start in with that being the true story. I also wanted to think that the way he became known as "The Bear" was from saving his own group of youth in training from a menacing legend of a bear while they where alone training in the wilds.

This idea kinda meshed and sprouted from the training that the Spartan youth went through out there alone as young boys/teens. I also think that the Arthur idea came from watching the movie "The Last Legion" where they took the idea that King Arthur sprang from Roman roots and a Roman Legionary. I hate that they think he had to be a non-home grown hero and myth.

So anyway the idea is there and it just needs to have time to grow from the sprouts.

Also I have been making over the walls of my space from dorm room 'chic' to something a lil more mature. I have pics but not on my computer. :/

JOHN STAY OUT OF THIS POST!!! B-day planning post

Current Mood:

accomplished

Current Music:

the sound of me wiping my tired eyes

^ Like I said John stay out on threat of a ruined birthday surprise!





LAST WARNING JOHN!

Okay John's birthday is Thursday of this week and since payday is after his b-day all of this is going to be late but as he already knows that matters very lil. I think he is going to really love this idea anyway.

I was thinking over what I could and should get him for his b-day present. I don't recall when this idea formed exactly but I know it started with a very simple idea.

The first thing that popped into my head was to make him a simple Android™ stencil t-shirt.


As you can see the mascot is simple and very cute/cool.

(Yes I know I might be running this stenciling of t-shirts into the ground for some but I really like it! If you are plus size you know how limited it can be to get cool designed shirts and so this only limits what you have on a shirt by your imagination and or skill, and as we know practice makes perfect. ;D Plus this way you can always get what you want in the color you want. win-win)

But as I was mulling this over I had this funny idea pop into my head. What if I added the Companion Cube from the very funny game Portal and have them be in love. <3>

This is the raw stencil that I'm going to be printing and cutting out so the color is not final and all that will be changed when I put it on the shirt front. (...what color I want the t-shirt I have yet to finalize.)


BUT then I had another idea. What if on the center high on the back (kinda between the shoulder blades area) if I put what I might imagine the offspring of the Android and the Companion Cube *might* look like. LOL! The very idea cracks me up! So back to the web and tons for searches I found a 'evil' looking Droid mock up someone did and modding it heavily with the original and another Companion Cube stencil I came up with a very VERY rough mock up for the bastard offspring of them both.


The arrows on the face are from my modding and reminders for myself and won't be there and the color and such are going to be modded when I cut and paint it.

So here is my crazy idea. I have some big doubts about the second one for the back but I love the first one and know it will work out fine even it is goes it alone without the back one.

'musing Muses

To bad skill and talent does not keep up with imagination and the scary muses with the cricket bats (...if you ask about them they will come after YOU!).


With all the free time and very little brain occupation going on for the last several months of my trip back from Hell's LA-LA land I have had more then my fair share of time to think, plot and play with ideas.

Sucks that my skill level is "moderate" and the ideal level for my ideas coming out the way I see them in my head is "great" it makes me sad that I can't just wander around the in the woods and level those skills up to what I would want them to be. (gamers joke)

But real life practice is a similar and yet just as mind numbingly slow and tediously hard process. Whelp back to having my nose pressed to the grindstone.



I leave you with my new (ok this is months old and posted on another of my sites for quiet a bit but new here...) favorite saying: Lack of skill is no reason to put your tools down!






I have a better and longer post coming soon but just don't fee like grinding it out right now. Cheers my friends!