On Saturday my dad and his girlfriend are getting married.  Exciting right?!  So her parents are here and everyone's been bustling around our one story incredibly long but incredibly skinny house crowded with "stuff" and many many many people and making cakes and arranging food and cleaning and messing things up and cleaning again and love is in the air, but stress and anticipation is also in the air............
However.
It's all pretty fun once everyone has a couple drinks and relaxes and we can sit back and look at the pretty lights set up outside for the wedding and each of us think "secretly" of how many opportunities we will get to sneak off into the darkness with our significant others....... and of course we get to listen to the record player my dad got for his birthday!  I love it; I will just sit by that thing for hours listening to records I just love the grainy sound and the fact that I get to put the needle on and EVERYTHING.  So one of the records we've been listening to is Herb Alpert's Whipped Cream, with the picture that every young boy used to have on his wall.

 

Yup, there she is.

And here's one of my favorite songs on the album, and a famous one too.

As we are nearing the end of the year, I am nearing the end of this blog.  I guess I may still post on it sometimes during the summer, and it is an English assignment that I enjoy doing because I do love music, but to tell you the truth, I probably won't post hardly at all if anything this summer (no offense to Mr. Elkin, I do love this assignment!) So I just wanted to give all my diligent followers (because I have soooo many) the heads up that this is one of the last few posts I will be doing.  What to post?  Hmmm...  Thinking about my last post about Beach House, the Yeah Yeah Yeah's come to my head because for some reason they remind me of Beach House in a weird way... shall I?  I also want to post some Creedence Clearwater, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, Beatles, Springsteen, Cat Stevens, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Ziggy, Micheal Franti, Van Morrison, oh the list just goes on and on and there's soo many I haven't posted yet!  Hey, maybe I will continue this blog this summer....
Ah.  I have one.  Why? the band Why? is one of my favorite alternative indie rock hop etc. etc. band.  Kind of like The Pixies, they have this feeling of creepy-ish weird tones and a edgy sound.  Enjoy!

Ahhh Beach House.  I haven't talked to many people who have heard of them, but I love them!  I can remember the moment I heard them for the first time and fell in love with them so clearly!  They are a band from Baltimore, but actually I think the lead singer Victoria Legrand is French-born.. which just makes her name even more awesome.  And some people think she is a man when they first hear her voice which kind of makes sense to me for some reason... she has kind of a manly face I guess.  Buuuuuttttttt, she is awesome.  And Baltimore is awesome too.  Or so I've heard.  And so are white fur-lined recording studios........
This song is from their LP Teen Dream, listen to it a couple times and then go look up their other stuff because it's all great!!

My best friend is named Kalyja and she is amazing!  She is this absolutely beautiful talented hilarious great young woman and she has an amazing voice!  She writes her own songs (music and lyrics) and plays the guitar with them and she is just such an awesome person, if you knew her you would know what I'm talking about. She is so jazzy and spunky and I am honored to call her my best friend.  Here's a video of her singing a song she wrote, not very good quality video but still awesome!  Enjoy! :)

 

And here's the link to the video on YouTube so that you can check out her other videos on her channel if you want!

So I wanted to post some Pink Floyd tonight but I haven't yet found the song I want to post, so I was looking for something to post and my brother showed me this video that I think should be on Dylan's blog it cracked me up for some reason! It's not music but it's awesome!  These guys apparently do so many of these funny videos, but these two are my favorite so far.

So last time I posted a Pixies song and Elkin gave me a suggestion to check out Teenager of the Year, Frank Black's solo album.  I did and it was great!! Totally cool music and I loved how long it was because then I could listen to more awesomeness.  If you didn't know, Frank Black used to be the lead vocalist and one of the guitarists for the Pixies; he had the stage name Black Francis then.  His real name is Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV.  I can understand why he chose a short succinct stage name!  I like Teenager of the Year because its so different from the Pixies songs I have heard, but so to my liking as well (I like a very wide range of music).  One of my favorite songs from the album is Fiddle Riddle, partly because it seems to have a sort of reggae-ish influence, and I like reggae as well!

The Pixies are an American alternative rock band, but they were more successful in the United Kingdom and Europe.  They are one of my favorite bands!  The offbeat subject matter of their songs and the way in which they are sung and presented just draws me in I guess.  Also... one of my favorite movies is Fight Club. Aaaand in the end of Fight Club, Where Is My Mind by the Pixies is played!  When I heard one of my favorite songs at the end of such an awesome movie I was very excited.  Especially since the song fit the scene PERFECTLY! So I will post Where Is My Mind, because it is truly a awesomazing song.