kiss the sound and pound your senses

because i love deep house. because this song gets me groovin'. because it reminds me of manic monday. because i've pretty much had it on repeat. & because i haven't made a music post in a while.

good morning

i haven't been around this in a while

everything's amazing, i'm feeling cosmic

made three trips to joshua tree so far this year and

the latest one was for the beau's twenty-seven.

great times with even better company in the most awe inspiring place!

trying to be patient with my hair as i try to grow it out,

and i've been more scatter-brained than usual as of late..

honestly, i just want to go back to joshua tree!

but i'm definitely looking forward to our upcoming SF trip--

soon enough i'll be home sweet home, even if it's just for a weekend.

i have a ton of pictures to share!

but as for now i'm keeping to myself,

gonna enjoy the days without wanting to constantly

freeze-frame moments to suspend them in time.

because, sometimes, pictures don't do enough.

a machine can't quite capture things to the way our

eyes perceive the world around us, and believe me--

there is just so much beauty that we take for granted.

anyway, have a wonderful day, and i'll leave you with one of my favorites:

indian school, behind the scenes

a few months ago, i helped out my friend chris hawley with stylings and such on an album cover photoshoot for the band indian school. for those of you who haven't heard of them, they were formerly audio karate, and i'm sure that band name throws you back into the golden days of indie rock, when girls had big hair and raccoon-lined eyes and the boys wore tight shirts and even tighter jeans.

the answer

i'm absolutely obsessed with die antwoord.

they didn't really stick out to me when i first

came across "rich bitch" a year or two ago but

i recently came across "fatty boom boom" and

fucking wow dude.

i

am

OBSESSED.

and, i know, i know.

i'm into some weird shit.

carly rose sonenclar

i have been blown away by this little girl! so much soul, so much power, at such a young age! feeling good by nina simone is seriously a hard song to cover, and wow is all i can really say. i even got a little teary! she reminds me of christina aguilera a little, with so much range and jesus fuck such a powerful voice...let's just hope she doesn't end up the same as xtina.

went tres fou

smart went crazy, truth went trendy,

the story got lazy so i rewrote the ending.

smart went crazy, the rubber band went snap,

this goes to those who hold it down 'til i get back.

hold on to me, grow along with me, i don't know

where i'm going but i'll end up in your arms.

birthday wishes

i just want to take this time out to thank everyone for their birthday greetings and well wishes! every one of you are amazing, i definitely felt all the love around me. i do want to apologize for not thanking you guys sooner; i'm afraid i'm just barely recovering from the most wildest birthday weekend i've ever had in my life! from truck stop (best. experience. ever.), to last night's korean barbeque, the intoxication and "oh fuck, why did we do that?" didn't end. now it's monday, i'm so worn out and i really wonder how i used to do this every damn weekend for the most part of 2010. gahdamn, i really must be getting old.

happy monday, everyone, and thank you for celebrating with me :)

oh, and ps, i totally fell in love with this video over the weekend.

gangnam style

i heard gangnam style on the radio today,

and i'm not gonna go on about how genius psy is

and rant about the deeper meaning of this song + video.

all i'm gonna say is that i'm proud that kpop finally brokethrough

into american pop culture after years and years of trying and falling short

and also that i find it highly ironic that psy was the one to succeed what the

rest of the cookie-cutter kpop celebrities couldn't, despite all the $$ their labels spent.

if you really want to know what "gangnam style" is, click here.

camera shy

i need a camera to my eye, remindin'

which lies i've been hiding, which echoes belong

i've noticed that i've been kind of shying away from using my Nikon (i don't even carry it with me everywhere anymore), from sharing all the snapshots of moments i've captured onto the 8g memory card. they're all just sitting there, waiting patiently on the desktop of sean's mac (which i use for the amazing retina display and the cs5) to be edited and published somewhere, anywhere. to be really honest, i've been in a reclusive mood, not wanting to share more than what i share on my instagram account (which i haven't really been on as often as i normally am).

i'll be sharing the bits of my life and the world around me soon, but for now i'm reveling in the fact that i don't have this incessant need to make every moment a tangible one. after all, the memories that aren't captured onto some kind of memory space are especially golden.

ginger crush

i thought la roux's cover of the rolling stones' song was cute!

whatever happened to this electropop duo, anyway?

can i just tell you that i have the biggest crush on elly jackson?

her androgyny and her ambiguity (two of my favorite words) intrigue me.

plus, i have a major thing for gingers.

glory box

give me a reason to be a woman.


this is the beginning of forever and ever.

the idler wheel

my heart's made of parts of all that surround me

and that's why the devil just can't get around me

every single night's a fight with my brain

i just want to feel everything

she's back and i love her even more.

tattooed hands

now if i've learned anything in my years,

i learned i no longer believe in surprise.

3MG at lacma

the first of many monthly hip hop shows at lacma for through the mic.

i was so stoked to see them get together (first time in five years) to kick this series off!

and i leave you with this:

norah jones x danger mouse

wait, what?! i'm so glad i have spotify right now.

people under the stairs

"i let the music take over my soul, body and mind"

woke up with this song in my head

makes me miss my pothead days haha

i know it's been a while, things have been crazy

i'll be getting back into the groove pretty soon

violet nude women

this song is currently stuck in my head.

have you guys heard this album? i love purple naked ladies.

i honestly can't get over just how good this album is

don't miss out!

happyness in a happymess

i love SLUG, i love atmosphere, and i love this song

mostly because it reminds me of what happened between

us, what we went through, and just like the characters of the song,

we both broke the surface and we're making our own little happy mess.

diplo x usher

"don't want to give in so we both gave up."

i first heard this song about a month ago when diplo uploaded it on his soundcloud.

i thought it was just okay at first, but after paying a little bit more attention, i'm absolutely obsessed.

it's such a sad song and the bridge tugged at my heart:

"you say it's better if we love each other separately, i just need you one more time, i can't get what we had out my mind. where are you now, when i need you around? i'm on my knees but it seems we're going nowhere fast, we've reached the climax."

diplo said he'd described this as "electro-soul".

i personally think this generation is way past genres. 

e=mc2.