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Monday, December 24, 2007

120


It just turned 12:00. So yea. Its Christmas. I'm not to ecstatic as its just another day for me pretty much. Well, I'll get some gifts...socks from grandma, ect...but for whatever reason, really for a lot of reasons, I'm just not happy right now. Maitta feels the same. We're just not happy, and something needs to happen for both of us to change this.

On another note, I collected together 120 of the songs I have made. I estimate a decent 20 or so missing songs that who knows where ended up...but out of these 120 I picked 19 to put together in a collection representing my last four years of musical endeavors. Tonight I made another track that fits into the experimental theme of material I have been working on as "Portlanded." At the rate I am going with musical production right now, I will have an mountain of tracks that will be created in 2008 and who knows where my style and sound will go...

And Maitta just called me wishing a me a Merry Christmas! Probably the best gift I will get I just received, a faithful friend close enough to wish me Merry Christmas from a far enough away place. =) And she inspired me to pass her call on to someone else, even more incredibly far away. I messaged Maria, a friend and mentor who resides in Argentina, who I hadn't talked to for months now, and we talked like time hadn't passed and we had been great friends only yesterday. She works for a magazine now and is living an eventful life which gives me hope for the future.

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Christmas!...

So its Christmas again! Again. again. yay. So I feel like writing before I make a song, here goes...

I am sitting in a Panera sipping on my free coffee made possible by someone a little more joyous about the 25th than myself. My sister is home for the holiday, though currently preoccupied by an old friend and another friend won't answer the phone leaving me somewhat bored and lonely.
On the way, Maitta called, she was bored as well and this saddened me as it brightened my mood as I realize how much I will miss her when I do not return to Warrensburg. And now I think about Warrensburg, and my reasons leaving that place. Part of me is now free from there, another misses the experience.
Warrensburg makes Rolla seem dull when it comes to diversity. All my friends are white here, in Warrensburg, this was not the case, and I miss it. I miss the fun I had in discovering the fun to be had with peoples of other color of skin. I miss the changes it presented for me and now I am bored with all white friends. I wont lie, I was at first uncomfortable with the African Americans I would later call my best friends as I had never formed relationships with people outside of white or Asian backgrounds. I choose to grow comfortable though and as a result found some people who genuinely cared about me and one particular individual who would become my best friend. I am changed because of this, and it is for the positive, and now I cannot go back to the ignorant individual I was.
But I am home again, and I have some truly great friends here that I am now getting to spend time with. Yes there are some complications, I am still single and very much despise someone who walked over me and sits conveniently in the center of everything, but I suppose all is going alright. As of last night I changed, and didn't stop caring about these troubles, but for some reason, they quit bothering me. I'm sure they will in the near future, or maybe not, but right now I feel somewhat secure and ok with the situation that is my life.
New Years. Shit. I know that won't be fun. I mean, it will in the sense of celebration of a new year, but it will mean another year of personal failure and another time I fail to succeed in my New Years resolution that I have failed in time and again. Since 04/05's New Year change, I have still failed to end the new year in a kiss. It means more that just a simple kiss, it means to end the new year in a relationship with someone who cares for me. Someone I love and who loves me. I don't suppose eight days will change this as two years have been wrought with failure for me in this goal. My heart sinks though when the new year comes and I am alone.
And I am alone. A friend complains to me how he hasn't gotten any action in months. I want to yell at him about how long the last two years have been for me where I have not experienced one single moment of intimacy. Not one single kiss. Only betrayal, usage of my emotions, and rejection have presented themselves to myself for two years.
But I am suddenly ok with it. I realize I have some amazing friends who care about me, and realize how much more I have then most people in that sense. I'll just have to stay myself and wait for a relationship, or forget about having one and someday I hope it'll just happen. I'll meet someone who isn't interested in drama, someone who has a genuine heart and cares about mine. Yeah its a lot to hope for, an idealist view. But I have hope.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Portlanded



Portlanded is my new project. Its basically thus far five songs I have made on my laptop in the past week. Its the first time I've put my vocals to my music and I'm happy with the result. I am doing a lot of sampling, but this time to much less recognizable notice and am doing away my older style of classic electronica and synth pop to an experimental realm, and strangely, the songs are pouring out and at one song a day as I've been doing, I'll have quite a bit of material out there before long...

Here's my new myspace, blah, I despise myspace, but its an easy way to show you my music...

www.myspace.com/landofport

...and on another note, if I ever tour and play my music, it'll be under the "Portlanded" guise...so Pauline's Basement, need an opener?

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Dancing Robots

I thought this was pretty cool...



but they still have nothing on Keepon...

Monday, December 10, 2007

Ed Banger!

I was in a random mood of busting moves to sweet French electro today...and decided to post about it. Ed Banger Records is the home of Justice, SebastiAn, Uffie, Mr. Oizo, Dj Mehdi, Busy P, and more... basically they kick ass and have fun at it...the artwork for all their albums is done by So Me...and I definitely want some of those designs on my shirts from the Justice video.

Justice vs. Simian - Never Be Alone




Ed Rec Vol. 2



http://rapidshare.com/files/35391794/ed_banger_rec_vol_2.rar

So Me's response to Kanye getting drunk and making an ass out of himself on stage at the Euro Music Awards...





Justice - †
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OTY8841Y

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Hearts in Clouds Vol. 1




I felt like starting a series of mixes to share music that I'm feeling strongly about, or simply enjoying too much to keep to myself.

So this is volume one and the tracks are as follows with the download link at the bottom.

Song - Artist

1. Royal Gregory - Holy Fuck
2. Mer du Japon - Air
3. Forecast Fascist Future - Of Montreal
4. Hurricane Jane - Black Kids
5. Stage Personal - The Embassy
6. Apologies - James Figurine
7. Don't Save Us From the Flames - M83
8. No Day Massacre - Mr. Oizo
9. D.A.N.C.E - Justice
10. You Don't Want to be My Girlfriend, Phoebe - My Little Airport
13. Good Song - Blur
12. Silver City - Ghostland Observatory
13. The Window is the Door - Maritime

http://www.zshare.net/download/5382412bc3d923/

La Blogothèque

La Blogothèque is a French film project that focuses on Indie bands and films them performing, in rather interesting ways...look them up on youtube and watch their videos...

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible & Wake Up



Sufjan Stevens - The Mistress Witch From McClure



Final Fantasy - Poor Light Is Spent

Monday, December 3, 2007

M83

and while I'm at it...yet another band from France. M83 mix use electronic synthesizers in a shoegazing style and the result is amazing. A follow up to "Before the Dawn Heals Us" is supposedly finished and being released in January...

Don't Save Us From the Flames



Teen Angst

Air

Another great French band...