Monday, January 31, 2011

How to Dance like Beyonce


How to dance like Beyonce...it does exist, please allow this wonderful voice-over to instruct you on how to do so, while you akwardly try to find out if the girl on screen is a dancer or a "dancer" (aka: stripper)...it's hard to figure out I know.




Or...you could learn how to dance like this guy too, but he only attracts ice cream trucks VIDEO

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Something to make you not give up on music...

Every so often our ear drums are scared for life (ex: anything by Ke$ha) and then there are times where you can't stop talking about a band that you've just learned about that you want to share with all of your friends after you hit "play"...this group/ song is one of those.

The group WARPAINT won my ear drums after an amazing friend who has a keen skill for effortlessly scouting out musical talent sent me this YouTube video....because now-a-days the only groups that get played on mainstream radio are looped terrible songs (ex: Black Eyed Peas)....when the merge between major label executives & corporate radio executives decided that whatever they feel work will be played 24 hours a day...womp womp...

The group WarPaint's song "Bees" reminds me of the 90's when alternative/semi-indie rock bands began to blend with danceable beats (think Luscious Jackson), while playing with simple styles & sounds...it's a sound that I can dig and maybe you will too:

LISTEN/ WATCH HERE

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Good Programs on TV...

Are there any good shows left for the rest of us that have yet to discover? I hope so, I haven't been finding much on the larger networks and I feel like every time I turn on my TV, I become dumber for watching some new Reality TV show. Can we start calling them something else? Because lets be honest here for a second, those shows are scripted and are far from reality, they just use regular cameras and cast the DUMBEST HUMANS TO POSSIBLY ROAM THE EARTH, therefore calling it "Reality" ???...also, what has happened to our TV culture as a whole. Do you see yourself as more intelligent than you were 10 years ago? Or do you find yourself stuck, or what I see myself becoming....dumber.

I feel like I need to start only watching the following programs to keep my IQ up: Jeopardy, News Hour (PBS/ WETA), any historical documentary that holds significance to how our society is being shaped as a whole or repeating itself, Road Trip Nation (PBS), and anything on CURRENT TV (the network). Everything else is pure fluff...and it's not that I don't like that (because we all want to mentally escape our work lives/ days), but lets be honest, ALL the programs on TV are fluff. Nothing is original anymore, it's just a remixed version of something we saw in the 70's, 80's, or even the 90's. It's been done before. I am fearful that our most intelligent, witty and creative people have been axed by major networks because they're not drinking the Koolaid like the rest of them and for that simple fact, I will have to ban my TV. This doesn't include FILMS...only TV shows.

I don't even have cable and guess who benefits from that...me, because my pockets are fatter with cash than those who waste $100's on those crappy shows that you could watch online for free anyways, just delayed by 1 day or something. I don't know about you, but I want to enjoy my cash by GOING SOMEWHERE...not just my couch.