Yes Giantess, Surfer Blood

I watched Yes Giantess play at Dartmouth a few weeks ago and they are great live performers -- so fun to watch/listen/dance to, and their music achieves that rare combination of being catchy, with some depth. After their show, I'm a fan. :)

Last night at another concert, my friend and I were chatting with JP and Jonas, the lead singers of Surfer Blood and Turbo Fruits, respectively, and we realized afterward how difficult it must be to make it as a band; both JP and Jonas said they never went to college (well, JP went to one year of Palm Beach Community College...) and have basically been touring/trying to make it big since high school. And Surfer Blood is good, too, so we were wondering: Why aren't these bands well known (yet)? We concluded that there must be an element of luck to it.

Anyway, I thought Surfer Blood was breezy yet energetic and easy to listen to, Turbo Fruits had some interesting ideas but mostly hurt my ears - they need a keyboardist or something to modulate the harshness of their sound.  They were largely unpleasant to listen to, but I did appreciate Jonas's flannel shirt. It was similar to one I bought my younger sister this Christmas.

Take a listen to Yes Giantess:

And Surfer Blood:

The interesting song we liked by Turbo Fruits:

(VOLCANO! VOLCANO! VOLCANO!)

Obama's tie

I like Obama's muted lavender tie in this clip:

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/01/21/HP/A/28698/Pres+Obama+Remarks+on+Financial+Reform.aspx

I choose you, Couture!

Remember when I said one of those conceptual shoes reminded me of a polygon? Here's a series of similar comparisons made by blogger John at Textbook. Whoever he is, he is so cute!!

His photo collage:

His accompanying commentary:

"1: armani prive and ninetails: the gathers on this dress, the detailing on the neckline and the femininity of it all match up to ninetails pretty well.

2: alexis mabille and dragonair: the seamless blue column, the sheer neck and even the hair are reminiscent of this graceful dragon pokemon.

3: givenchy and jigglypuff: she’s wearing a jigglypuff, i swear to god.

4: chanel and jolteon: the sharp collar, jewel detailing and vibrant nature of this piece are a perfect fit for jolteon (evolved form of eevee when you use a thunder stone, duh)

5: christian dior and articuno: grey breasted bird with long regal tail? can you even tell if i’m talking about the model or the pokemon? it’s especially fitting because articuno is one of the legendary pokemon, just as galliano and dior are legendary.

it’s not so far fetched to think of these light-hearted similarities. have a great day all.

*note to pokemon fans: this is limited to the original 151 pokemon because i stopped playing after pokemon sapphire"