#alrightweekend

[stevenwasarealboy]

ALRIGHTWEEKEND:2/2/16

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Adult life is scary. Every time you’re getting your shit together and getting more stable a crisis comes up and kills it. I want to combat that by just rolling into the wave and still having a good time while shit gets scary.

That being said I’m now seriously looking for a job and thats exciting. I’m ready for a fresh start. School helps me feel progress. It’s fake but it’s nice. This is gonna be a really hard year but maybe we’ll make it pretty cool.

I switched to spotify to save money but also to do that playlist thing up there. I liked how the other format looked because you got to see some cool colors from the album art and that’s kind of lost here. I’ve started to try and take more pictures so I’m gonna start adding those to these. I think it’ll seperate the music from my rambling after.

I’ll make two posts from now on, one with the music, one with my ramble s. there we go. it’s settled. wow that was easy.

and ill post some pics.

tight.

[stevenwasarealboy]

ALRIGHT WEEKEND: LIST 3

Lets get back to it.

November Has Come by Gorillaz

This song came on shuffle as I was leaving my house in Riverside to go to work in Anahiem in the morning. It feels like morning and I think it’s not often a song with rapping sounds okay that early. but this is the one. it’s spooky cool

Spread Your Wings by Queen

A year or two back now we were all dedicating ourselves to different classic bands just to see what we could find in there. We were hunting for the deep cuts in the classics and I wanted to try Queen out because I remember buying a cd when I was younger and only listened to like three bands. So I downloaded all of Queen and it’s kind of a lot to digest. So I couldn’t commit to full albums and got lazy and they hung out on my ipod and died there for a few years and then this song came on shuffle and I think it’s really cool.

Gone by Kanye West

This is everything you need in a Kanye song to convince you to listen to another Kanye song. He uses features as such a commpliment to what he’s doing, and it’s the perfect kind of Kanye verse. It’s worth it, trust me.

Lover of Mine by Beach House

By the sixth second this song will take you right into the dream it belongs in. get high with this one.

I Hope Time Doesn’t Change Him by The Drums

Super cool

Old Robot by James Supercave

another song I was really late to but that doesn’t mean you have to be. Check it. 

[stevenwasarealboy]

ALRIGHT WEEKEND: LIST 2

 I’m late, I know. Whatever though. I’m here so let’s do this.

1. Chinese New Year by Sales

I’m pretty sure I’m late to the party all the way around on this band. My friend Banana showed me this song and their other single “Getting It On” the other day and I just really loved it. It’s pretty simple and sweet I think, and that’s kind of what I like to start off a new year with. I just love when girls sing though too so I’m a sucker for shit like this.

2. Lightness by Death Cab for Cutie

I was going through a very serious Death Cab for Cutie phase a month or two ago. I’m late to the talent of this band too, but holy shit better late than never. It’s amazing what I feel like Ben Gibbard is doing with his songs and this album in particular. It’s powerful and it’s something like ballad. I believe this could totally be made into some sort of theatre piece. I would for sure buy tickets to Transatlanticism. Anyway this song is so tight because it feels so airy and open. His voice is close but far away from any of the drums or bass, so it’s extra clear and really feels set on top of the drums. It kind of traps you some where in between him and the drums and really in the middle of the room of the song. The lyrics are also just super cool. Ben Gibbard is the king of sounding like an almost sexy charming dude and romantic sappy little bitch at the same time and I just think thats something I aspire to be someday. 

3. Fine Thanks by Walter Mitty and his Makeshift Orchestra

This song has sentimental value now for me. But besides that it’s just super good. If you haven’t yet listened to them, please do. It’s good to have. 

4. Dust On the Ground by Bombay Bicycle Club

I really love the emotion behind his voice in this song, how it sounds like he’s singing close to tears. This whole album is very cool and something I think is best as a full item and worth checking out. To be honest I don’t know what it is exactly that I like about this band or what makes me want to listen or reccomend them to people but I know I want to. 

5.  Lonely Lonely by Feist

I just love it. 

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I’m waiting on three things before I’m ready to announce the new Satin Lives. I’m hoping to make it available to more people, and maybe even set something small up online for it. I’m excited about it. I think it’ll feel like something real this time, maybe a step beyond “my friend that makes shirts” but who knows.

I got to see alot of people from the desert the past few weeks. I didn’t really go up the past three years that I was living down the hill. It just didn’t seem like some place I’d want to go, and when Sean left I really had no reason to go up. But now I’m making that extra effort in for the people I’ve missed. and my parents. I feel how much time has passed for them and for everyone the past few years when I go up there. I’m less stressed up there. Driving against the sky and not the walls of buildings that line the world down here. It’s crazy what a comfort it is knowing the tallest building for miles is the dog food plant off Hesperia road.

I want to go up more. visit everyone more. make it less of visits and more of hangs. I want to be friends again. 

it’s comforting. 

[stevenwasarealboy]

ALRIGHT WEEKEND: LIST 1

OKAy here’s five songs I think you should definetely check out and why. a few of these are kind of already out of my current roatation in my personal use just because of how much i listened to them when I rediscovered them.(typically i want all of these songs to be things that i’m currently listening to or was reminded about within the like last two weeks. I want it to be as up to date with my current likes as about a week or whatever.) So yeah some of these are my current bangers and a few from earlier this month. 

1.False Advertising by Bright Eyes

This song is tight. I don’t know. It came on my phone on shuffle a few days after I added the album to my music for a rainy night. It’s sort of ahaunting the way it droans in and out of the back ground. i love when the girl walks in and interupts the song. I think it’s perfect right there. It’s a good little bright eyes song would stick out on a different album but gets tucked under how tight “Love I don’t Have to Love “ and “Waste of Paint” are. Its good when you’re high too so. (all these songs probably make it to this list because I really liked how they sounded high, just so you know)

2.La femme ressort by La Femme

This song is pretty tight. I heard this song for the first time when my friend Aaron showed me a video directed by this dude named Canada who did the new Tame Impala video. Any way that video is fucking super tight and the song is tight because of it . check it out here . That video is tight and is inspiring me a lot right now so thats why this songs gets on the list.

3. Lights Out by Santigold

This song is so tight. It’s just enough I think. It doesn’t do too much but it’s super cool and catchy and has the air of those cool songs that came out around this time in 2008 and were on that cute girls myspace you knew. just kidding. I mean it really has that sort of air but I didn’t experience that personally. I was definetely late to the good good music chain or at all to the current music train that was going on at that time. Like I probably didnt hear anything by vampire weekend till tenth grade. I know i listened to the fuck out of contra and the first album since that year but i dont want you to think I knew shit early on. I found this song playing in the background of a Halo 3 Mythbusters video thing on youtube at the time. That’s how I first got into a lot of amusic., and this one is still a hit.

4. The Agency Group by Alvvays

This song is tight. It’s not the hit off the album but I think it’s the lowkey one. I love her voice and I the guitars sound very dreamy. It’s all kind of colorful and It feesl very represented in the album art. 

5. Late Night by Foals

This song is fucking heavy. Listen to this song high for sure when you do. His voice is very very powerful and you can really hear him belting it. I like that about Foals and a few other bands. Alabama Shakes do that to, where she’s singing into the voice with so much that shes actually screaming it and performing it. It’s really like it wans to be heard and thats so cool. This song is a tight one. It’s one that has that need to be yelled. Also whenever a song is about some ones mother or they are singing out “Mama” I feel like they suck me in already and I have to think it’s powerful.

thats it. one down.  maybe ill see you here next week. see ya.