December 2011
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In The Spotlight: Timothy Garrett
Marveling at his wide variety of projects, I once asked Timothy Garrett if he essentially did anything that the word “creative” could be attached to. He’s an overall creative director, graphic designer, video director, concept creator, hand illustrator, screenwriter, after effects animator …and more. What can he artistically not do? He laughed and took in my light-hearted rhetorical question but...
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Who Is Lana Del Rey?
I believe it is a sign of the times. We are seeing the transformation of a singer/songwriter into a full-blown artist happen in front of our eyes. Before there was Internet like we know it today this would not be a transformation we would find controversial. We would not have bared witness to it. Now we have to decide for ourselves if we approve of the way an artist becomes a star. Are we getting...
This Just In: The Future of Rock Music is SAFE
One of the greatest things about rock music is it’s unconscious ability to completely knock the listener right off their feet. In recent years, many people have thought that rock was dying a slow death due to the rise of computer generated beats & the dreaded auto-tune. Not to mention the fact that the great bands were starting to creep up in age with limited talent waiting to...
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Why You Are A Fool To Hate On Bieber
1. He is fearless: His most defining and heroic trait is that he moves into each moment blindly sure of his own destiny. For each time in your own life that you have delayed your own success, he was already busy manifesting his.
2. He is not a duplicate: His story is the first, entirely original success story of his kind. There is no other pop star of his magnitude that can say they were...
August 2011
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July 2011
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Living
On a beat
The words coming softly to sing
Sitting
In my seat
Moving as it vibrates ‘till I ring
Pick it up, love
It is for you
For me
To give to who
I eat, so I must feed
I made that promise
So far down
I move so I’m not stuck
I stay still
Until I’m found
I have to ask of those who know
How strong is the sound
How loud until I see
And does it swim in blood
Or blow in the breeze
Can I...
June 2011
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Going Up! The Boys of Foster The People
I had a slight reaction to seeing the boys of Foster The People up close and personal yesterday. Here is what I felt:
Cubbie Fink:
So casually he sat there with his bass draped across his lap. Legs crossed, exposing his ankles. Free of socks. Full of style. With ease. That’s the feeling of the man with the bass. He fingered each string gracefully while looking out on the crowd. It appeared he...
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The Boys of Summer
Simply put, it is not summer without the Dave Matthews Band. It was July of 2000. My parents had let me go to my first DMB concert unchaperoned in Buffalo at the ripe age of 16. We waited on line at the Ticketmaster booth and prayed for tickets to be available by the time we got to the counter. It’s crazy how things have changed. I can still remember how incredibly happy we were to have...
TINY DANCER
Her heart explodes,
each tear turns to fire while her body becomes ice,
it couldn’t last this way.
Her heart knows blue,
and she sees red as it seeps onto her face,
it couldn’t last, anyway.
Still she holds onto the moment when she lets go of the past,
it couldn’t last.
Her eyes are heavy,
so she hangs her head and whispers,
“Save me. Only you will.”,
she knows...
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Nice to meet you, Reeve Carney.
Reeve Carney is the reason I go to rock shows. There are few places more blissful for me than in the company of fresh played music with a group of humans that it has to pass through to hit me. It’s always in a crowd when I feel the most solitude (hence finding peace in NYC), and at a rock show I can be moved while standing still. When it happens, every time, I fall deeply in love with whoever...
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October 2009
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“What it all comes down to is that thing. The indefinable thing when people catch...”
– Almost Famous