it's that time of the year...

when you get no sleep 'cuz all yo' finals are right around the corner so you gotsta spend all yo' time booklearnin' in the biblioteca. and while you'z hard at work plowing through yo' study materials, you gotsta have some epic beats to keep you focuuuuused. i'm really digging this free mix cd i got from metropark one time when i was shopping there.

1. sam sparro - black and gold
2. kid sister - control
3. nico vega - burn burn
4. ladytron - runway
5. sebastien grainger - renegade silence (sorry i couldn't find any version other than live..)
6. chester french - she loves everybody
7. of montreal - id engager
8. troublemaker - all night (so youtube failed me here...)
9. the airborne toxic event - this is nowhere
10. late of the pier - heartbeat
11. k'naan - abc's
12. white lies - death
13. christian - 1,2,3 turn around(youtube failed me again -__-)
14. the pharcyde - runnin' (philippians rmx)
15. koushik - lying in the sun

and of course, the playlist must be started with survivor - eye of the tiger, if you REALLY want to feel puuuuumped.
good luck on your finals, lovelies.
SUMMER!

between us and them

so i first heard this song in a MAC store (the make up, not apple) in new york. it was playing at what i like to call, "the opportune moment." it fit the mood, made the ambiance, and perfectly described my mental state at the moment.

obviously i had to ask the employees what it was called and who it was by.
moving units - between us and them.
enjoy.

my new fav song

the black ghosts - anyway you choose to give it.
man i love it when itunes plays AWESOME songs.
listen to it here.

also, i'm really liking stuff off of the ratatat album, LP3. and the new the fray album. oh and i reaaaaaally love the new franz ferdinand album hehe :D

Joshua Radin

So I am a big fan of the style of music Joshua Radin happens to fall under. Call it whatever you want. Anyway, his song "They Bring Me to You" is a current fav. So sweet :) Hey guys, have some mercy. Sometimes it's time to be sappy.

[how could you be so] heartless

guess what i stumbled upon today!
the fray covered the song, "heartless," by kanye west. it sounds so much better when they sing it haha..
check it out!!
enjoy (:

in honor of

electropop night, i bring you
attack attack - "set the sun (klaas remix)", which was actually given to me by jimmy.
enjoy.

you lot

are certainly quiet :/ i will assume you are busy with school (as am i, which is kind of why i haven't been posting either hehe...)
book stuff: i was having dinner at dom's place with him and sara, when i stumbled upon his copy of the his dark materials trilogy. i haven't reread it in quite some time, so i picked it up, and kind of walked out the door with it haha... yeah.
other than that, i'm reading il decamerone, by giovanni bocaccia. it is very... canterburry tales-esque, but a lot more lewd. sigh.

music: i was recently introduced to tecktonik, by sara. apparently, it is the dance they invented to dance to techno music, since there previously hasn't been one. it's also huge in europe right now; she said kids would do it in clubs and stuff while she was in italy and spain. check out the dance here. i found the song catchy, so i downloaded the entire mondotek album.

other stuff i've been listening to lately include: belle&sebastian, ladyhawke, phantom planet (especially the song, "too much too fast"), and the nightmare before christmas soundtrack.

hope you all are doing well (:

mix cd's

so i'm back in socal, and i decided it was time for a new mix cd:

1. calvin harris - "the girls"
2. daedelus ft. paperboy and erika rose - "my beau"
3. hercules and love affair - "blind"
4. katy perry - "hot n' cold"
5. kevin rudolf & lil wayne - "let it rock"
6. MGMT - "kids"
7. MSTRKRFT - "chromeo - tenderoni"
8. MSTRKRFT - "annie - heartbeat"
9. paramore - "decode"
10. paramore - "i caught myself"
11. kid cudi vs crooks - "day and night" (this one's totally for you, GG<3)
12. pussycat dolls - "i hate this part"
13. ratatat - "shempi"
14. silversun pickups - "lazy eye (jason bentley remix)
15. the veronica's - "untouched"
16. white apple tree - "snowflakes"
17. 3OH!3 - "don't trust me"

yeah. i like it.

ratatat

ratatat must be a wintertime thing for me. you may recall last winter break headbanging in the car to "seventeen years". well, i've been listening to their latest album, LP3, and the song, "shempi" is what's keeping me awake in the library all day. that's right. i hear this song, and i start bounce-dancing in my chair (i'm sure i get a lot of weird stares for this), it's that good.

a few christmas songs i like:
jimmy eat world - "last christmas"
hellogoodbye - "winter wonderland" (i love forrestt, he is so cute<3)
mariah carey - "all i want for christmas is you"

and the traditionals:
"rockin' around the christmas tree", "jingle bell rock", "deck the halls"
what are your favorites?

playlist

i spent approximately half an hour making a new playlist on itunes today called "high school."

special features include: the academy is.. - almost here (anyone remember me giving mr. legere my copy of the cd to listen to and then him not returning it until like 3 weeks later when connie chai asked him for it back? ily, connie chai<3), style="font-weight: bold;">anberlin - never take friendship personal, cartel - chroma, the fray - how to save a life (remember how i used to play "over my head (cable car)" everyday in my car for over a month? you guys are so awesome for putting up with that (: ), hellogoodbye - hellogoodbye (how could i NOT mention hgb? they're from our hometown!!!), jimmy eat world - futures, matchbook romance - stories and alibis, motion city soundtrack - commit this to memory, straylight run - straylight run (aww, "existentialism on prom night" <3), etc.

and of course "our" songs: "rock 'n' roll" by the sounds, "deceptacon" by le tigre, blah blah blah you know the rest of them. anyway, i hope this blast from the past finds you well and makes you melt and say "awww," and all that good stuff.

eleven days 'til home and i get to see all of you lovelies again<3 (:

i have been waiting, for this moment

silversun pickups - "lazy eye" jason bentley remix. for the MGMT fan in all of us.
listen here.

taste change

so my main playlist right now centers around: MGMT - "kids", the virgins - "hey, hey girl", lady gaga - "summerboy", daedelus - "my beau" and "make it so", devotchka - "how it ends", MSTRKRFT - "chromeo - tenderoni", phantom planet - "do the panic," etc.

there are others, of course, but these are the ones i can remember off the top of my head (:
albums i'm enjoying: jimmy eat world - chase this light (especially the song, "dizzy"), all anberlin albums, and i'm trying to listen to all of the new bloc party album, intimacy, but so far i've only really listened to a couple of tracks ("mercury", "ion square"). but yeah. check that stuff out, ladies. gone are the days when my main music influence was basically jimmy, and my daily playlist contained mostly thursday, thrice, coheed, a7x, etc. blah blah time passes, things change, tastes differ, etc. sorry, pooks :/ right now i'm very much into chill mellow music, and things with a beat you can dance to.

enough procrastinating studying, i have work to do.
&exeunt.