Admiral Fallow - Old Balloons

Lately I've been really into the Scottish indie rock scene. With bands like We Were Promised Jetpacks, The Twilight Sad, and Frightened Rabbit churning out some of the most gorgeous music around right now, Scotland is a hotbed of musical talent, and if this track is any indication Admiral Fallow will be yet another fantastic musical export from the land of bagpipes, William Wallace, and Groundskeeper Willie.

Totally Nebular - Captain Benson

Just came across these guys and I'm pretty sure they're the bastard child of Cloud Cult, Los Campesinos! and Animal Collective (yeah I know AnCo has been overused as a reference point as of late, but they work perfectly in this analogy so I'm gonna use them anyway). They play a brand of spastic indie pop that isn't overly cutesy and manages to avoid feeling either pretentious or contrived.

TOTALLY NEBULAR / Captain Benson music video from Carter Smith on Vimeo.

See what I mean?

Check out their last.fm here and/or their myspace here.

Plus the band is giving away their fantastic album Boat Boat for free (the mediafire DL link is on their last.fm page) so go grab that as well.

This Makes Me So Proud To Be Part Japanese

Only the land of my great grandparents (from my mother's side) could every come up with this.

Nice

Recently found this photo by a fellow named Richard Bellingham. I know nothing about the guy but I find this picture to be quite great so I thought I'd share it on here.

Back & Givin' Strega Some Love

Okay, I'm back from break, and thankfully with a foot that isn't broken (although still somewhat sore). Anyways, I have a presentation to prepare for so I'mma get on that immanently, but for whatever reason something triggered my memory of how fantastic the Strega Nona picture books were.

(I'm guessing it's a product of what I had for dinner...)

Anyways, just to clarify the overall point of tonight's post: Spring Break is over, my foot is not broken, and eating spaghetti can cause me to reminisce on my love for the adventures of Strega Nona and Big Anthony.

I mean how can you not fondly remember this sexy beast?

Spring Break

Being the party animal that I am I decided to go somewhere tropical for spring break, somewhere with white sandy beaches... Yeah, so in other words I'm still home here in Hawaii. Personally though when you live in a place like Oahu you might as well enjoy what you got right?

Unfortunately I'm pretty sure I broke something in my foot yesterday so thats gonna be hampering the extent of what I can do over the few days that my break consists of but oh wells. I was planning on taking it pretty easy over the break anyways so I guess you could say this foot thing makes a pretty good excuse for relaxing for the remainder of the week, but we shall see, I'mma get an x-ray and hopefully it's not as bad as it feels.

Anyways, other than that the breaks been fun. I wingmaned for a friend of mine last night for a first/group date he went on which usually would have sucked (those situations are always kinda awkward) but we ended up seeing The Hurt Locker which I was pleasantly surprised lived up to all the accolades its amassed recently.

Alright well, this is probably gonna be my last post for the next few days, but I should be back in full force once school starts up again and I have something to procrastinate from.

Lazy Post

Not feeling to well at the moment but it has been a while since I lasted posted so here's a bit of filler for now.

As a side note, this is awesome.

Arsenal 5-0 Porto

It's been a pretty fantastic last few days in the world of football. Honestly I was pretty worried about todays match against Porto without Fabregas, but man did the Gunners put on a show without him.

Arsenal 3-1 Burnley (yeah I know I'm a bit late on writing about this)

Admittedly beating Burnley is nothing special, but the fact that they've move into being even on points with Chelsea is pretty fantastic.

Stuff That Doesn't Remotely Suck: Waltz With Bashir

Watch This

Dark, beautiful, and deeply disturbing. This film is essential viewing.

A's are Far More Fulfilling When You Do as Little Work as Possible to Earn Them

Don't take pride in hard work, take pride in the ability to achieve excellent results through the simplest means necessary.

Your welcome.

Feel free to quote me.

Fang Island - Daisy

My God, there are no words fully capable of describing how stupid grin inducingly awesome this video is.

For the Pain

How was this scene not in any of the movies?

And This is When I Turn the Car Around

(*I didn't take this picture but who ever did is beyond awesome)

Finished With Midterms

YES! Midterms are done. I still have a paper to turn in on Monday but it's almost finished, and since I piss golden A's in that class I'm pretty relaxed at the moment about it. Anyways, the point is that after a hectic week it's nice to be able to not give a damn for a bit.

Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance

Music wise not bad, pretty much a straightforward Nick Drake rip-off, but it is quite pleasant.

The video though... Wow, I have no idea how I could have gone this long without coming across this short film (I mean its got like eleven million something views on youtube). Absolutely stunning.

Portraits of Past

One of the most important, and far to often badly imitated, bands of the last two decades.

Every single bitchy little "scene" kid needs to have their asses kicked while being forced to watch this.

Midterms

Yeah, what the guy with the claws said...