Grieves

The Picador in Iowa city welcomed Mac Lathal and Grieves with a crowd no larger then twenty people on Wednesday May 13th. Despite the small audience the show was most definitely worth it. Grieves and his DJ Budo performed music from their new CD 88 Keys and Counting along with songs from their first album Irreversible. Grieves is a hip hop rapper from Seattle who is just looking for people to appreciate his music.

At his show Grieves came on stage with a smile on his face and his apple computer set up behind him plugged into the huge speakers. Budo had a key board set up behind him and they were ready to go. Imagining myself in his shoes i have tremendous respect for the two on stage. Think of how frightening it would be to stand up there in front of 20 people and perform. In the middle of the show Budo played a solo on his trumpet and the crowd went crazy.

Iowa City is the only place where Grieves had been twice so far!! He has tour with Atmosphere and if that ever happens again i will go anywhere to see them.

Lollapalooza

So freakin excited...

First of all Atmosphere will be there and Lykke Li! Those are probably the two shows i am most excited about. But also i can't wait for The killers, Coheed and Cambria, Arctic Monkeys, Ben Folds, Snoop Dogg, and Rise Against. August 7th-9th i am going to be in heaven.

And the record begins with a song of rebellion

Graduation.....
SONGS
Set your goals-To Be Continued
Rise Against-Broken English
Modest Mouse-The World At Large
Atmosphere-Lovelife
Weezer-Best Friend
Rancid-Journey To The End Of The East Bay
Four Years Strong-Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die
The Ataris-In This Diary
Third Eye Blind-Jumper

The important thing is not to stop questioning.-Albert Einstein

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.-Aristotle

And we'll collect the moments one by one...


Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

New Release!

Rise Against came out with a new CD: Appeal to Reason.

Has been criticized for some of the songs being boring but the songs that are good are REALLY good.

The ones i like the best.....

Kotov Syndrome

Entertainment

Hero of War

Listen and enjoy.

The People's Court

Seeing Set Your Goals live changed my life. Front row, getting pushed into the people around me, singing the words as loud as possible while gazing at the band performing their art, it made me feel like everything was right. New Found Glory was pretty great too.

New CD comes out July 21st and i couldn't be more excited.

Also coming back to Des Moines with Four Years Strong (also great).

Photography

It's your chance to get one of your pictures in Monster Children Magazine! All you have to do is take a picture at exactly 3pm on Saturday, April 25th. Then write a fifty word essay describing the picture and send it here! It will be put in their monthly photo issue.

Monster Children is an art magazine. Very cool.

Inhaling Chocolate?!

This is a new product that was invented by a Harvard Professor. The idea is that you inhale the chocolate therefor eliminating the calories.

"[it's]a mix of culinary art and aerosol science" says the inventor David Edwards

It's a terrific way to curb an apatite or to accompany a cup of coffee according to the website. This product will not be released until later this month. You actually consume so little chocolate and that's what allows it to reduce the calorie intake to about one per spray. They will be sold in Paris, Chicago, London, and Tokyo. Inhaling one of these revolutionary chocolate tubes is called "whiffing".

I think it would be cool to try one just to see what it is like but i think it is kind of a stupid idea. Why should you want to inhale food? It doesn't even sound appetizing. But i guess i should try it before a say anything bad.

Buy One!