squint : interpreted visually as a succession of fluids one drinks at a lazy saturday morning breakfast

video: phantomcolor.com
sound: bit.ly/lascenseur

This was many moons ago in Chicago @Wizard World

When I’m at the pearly gates
This’ll be on my videotape
my videotape

When Mephistopheles is just beneath
And he’s reaching up to grab me

This is one for the good days
And I have it all here
In red blue green
Red blue green

You are my centre when I spin away
Out of control on videotape
On videotape

This is my way of saying goodbye
Because I can’t do it face to face

No matter what happens now
I won’t be afraid
Because I know today has been the most perfect day I’ve ever seen.

Smashing Pumpkins – Perfect

I know we’re just like old friends
We just can’t pretend
That lovers make amends
We are reasons so unreal
We can’t help but feel that something has been lost

But please you know you’re just like me
Next time I promise we’ll be
Perfect
Perfect
Perfect strangers down the line
Lovers out of time
Memories unwind

So far I still know who you are
But now I wonder who I was…

Angel, you know it’s not the end
We’ll always be good friends
The letters have been sent on

So please, you always were so free
You’ll see, I promise we’ll be
Perfect
Perfect strangers when we meet
Strangers on the street
Lovers while we sleep

Perfect
You know this has to be
We always we’re so free
We promised that we’d be
Perfect

This blew my mind.
Skinny Puppy’s Wrong Rip Fixin over Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance video.
Amazing!

Nosaj Thing visual dj show test shoot. Designed by Julia Tsao & Adam Guzman.

Quoting Adam:

The live show for Nosaj Thing, a collaboration with Julia Tsao. Video clips are the formatted for mixing in modul8. Each clip belongs to a certain part of a song. We triggered and manipulated each clip live with 2 midi controllers. Our performance is focused around disorientation and using the projector as a light source.

The first half of the show is dedicated to slowly building a visual style. The images are black and white lines and squares. The positive/negative space is used to create rhythm that is synced with the audio. As the set progresses, the imagery becomes less abstract and focused less on light. Patterns begin to form and space begins to open as if the two dimensions exploded into a third. The relationship the graphics create with the performer is interesting. As the graphics become more spatial, the performer flattens, becoming a 2-D cutout version of himself.

via nosaj thing’s blog

This reminds me of highschool and people I don’t talk to anymore.

Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings – I’m Not Gonna Cry

How wonderful is this song? I can’t sit still, I want to dance :) Funky!

Posting videos is easier than feelings.

Brother Ali – You Say (Puppy Love)

[Verse 1]
You say I made you fall in love with me
Wish I could make you fall in love with you
You believed in the magic that us could be
And what that you and I means one could do
Every instinct you had said run from me
That this newfound touch is uncomfortable
And to truly stand naked in front of me
Or yourself for that then matter is something new
I take no pride knowing that
You avoid the mirror to shun what you despise
Never knew the beauty you came here with
Till the first time you caught your reflection in my eyes
Never you mind what I see in you
Grow because you’re beautiful, not because I need you to
Grow till you outstretch every single piece of you
Heaven will see you through but you got to believe it’s true
Go write your story
Even if in the end you might outgrow me
I’ll always treasure the chapter that was mine
And twist through time with a smile knowing you’re free

[Chorus]
Puppy love is real to a puppy
I still want to feel you touch me
I’m not saying leave me, please just be free
I love you so much, I don’t want you to leave me
Puppy love’s real to a puppy
I still want to feel you up under me
Not saying leave me, please just be free
I love you so much, I don’t want you to leave me

[Verse 2]
The sky all alone is glorious
We behold it but we can’t hold it up
When god says that’s it and hits the switch
It’ll all come tumbling down when it’s bored with us
Sweet you and all your radiance
I can please you, but I can’t save you sis
I adore you and might even open up
But even I can’t love you enough for both of us
Can’t hold you close enough
Can’t enter the holes you’ve boarded up
Close your eyes, concentrate on my voice
Want to make your love for me pure, make it a choice

[Chorus]

[Break x2]
The sky is there to behold
You just want to be held when you’re cold
Just grow, stretch out your soul
And if you still want me I’ll watch you grow old

oh. my. fucking. god.

When it dropped, my jaw dropped

Alive in Wild Paint – Everywhere, An Ocean

I’ve been sailing for so long
I don’t recall what I set out for
I’d trade this disbelieving sea
To make peace upon your shore

Waves carry me out

Like the breaking of day
Darkness peels away
By the dimmest light

And it’s fear of what the sun would see
Beckoning me into the tide

Waves carry me out
Where you’re not

Came on last night; a tribute to how much I love this song.

I love Sadie Nardini. Next time I’m up in NJ/NYC visiting Rodney, I’m going to sneak away and take one of her classes. She inspires me more than I could ever convey.

Also, you should pick up her book, Road Trip Guide to the Soul: A 9-Step Guide to Reaching Your Inner Self and Revolutionizing Your Life

I was talking to a friend about Mars Volta, and how I went and saw them sometime in 08, I looked up the concert on youtube. This is my favorite song by them.

Also this is the only concert I HAD to leave the pit because I was SCARED for my life.