nwe yak ichy

This is just a post of a couple of videos that make me miss the city. Kinda really happy I am going back tomorrow (for the Girls/Real Estate/King Krule concert). Unfortunately, I have to wake up in like 5 hours in order to make my bus--I should go to sleep now.

Anyway, I am going to add some photos to this post shortly, but for now, check out this website: new york shots. Its a collection of photos from lost-and-found disposable cameras that people have left in the city. The photos are really interesting; kinda makes me feel like I'm seeing into someone's life....but like, in a deeper kind of way. I don't know what I am saying...I am so sleepy--must go to bed! Ok, goodnight, enjoy the videos.

Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX:



Some Biker Bro:



Some Skateboarders:



The Black Lips:

the shrine//an argument

(the fleet foxes)
unfortunately, the embedded link isn't working right, but try it out:

*The director of this video was Sean Pecknold (aka Robin Pecknold, the Fleet Foxes frontman's brother), check out his vimeo! As it turns out, he has done most of the Fleet Foxes' music videos, as well as some other beautiful short films/music videos.  

Life in a Day, Tomorrow in a Year

NYU has many 'satellite' campuses around the world, but the only one that has classes in my major, is Prague. I really want to go. The classes are only offered in the fall, so I would probably have to go next fall, or the one after (but I'd rather do next fall, and take some classes over this summer).
Many of my international friends have told me that Prague is nice, but I shouldn't bother learning the language (Czech)...that is a little sad, but ok. Hopefully, if/when I am studying there, I will have the chance to explore throughout the European Union (now that I will receive my Spanish Citizenship very shortly).

I've been listening to a lot of Washed Out lately. Everyone knows its some of the best music to make love to, it's just sensual//sexy. I mean just look at the cover art on the latest album--sex:

Also, tUnE-yArDs' song, Bizness is brilliant. I recently found out, that she will be performing at the Lincoln Center. Thats a pretty big deal right? The video (below) is similar to performance art, and I just love the sound of the guitar at the beginning. She is beautiful artist, whoo seems to be confident in her style/artwork. You go girl!



Hmm, check this out:
Life in a Day (a movie you can watch on youtube/right here).

*not gunna lie, I haven't watched it yet...but I plan on finishing it soon. For now, enjoy and leave comments about it!

The title reminds me of The Knife album, Tomorrow, in a Year (which I love, and just happened to buy last week). I like to describe the album as an electronic opera. Do you agree? or am I way off?

fall allergens are on the rise

I've been sneezing a ton, I hope its just my allergies....but I haven't been sleeping much--so much work to do! I keep trying to post, but then I run out of time, and then things get really out of date. So, below are a few things I'd like to post.

Random links/videos/shit:
Some cheesy video about living in NYC:


This is a great Tumblr for hipster jokes. It is very timely, and very true: Halloween or Williamsburg 

Another installment of Pitchfork 3D:

*This band is super chill. I love listening to them while doing homework (or while driving--when I had a car, back at home). **This video reminds me of what things look like when in an influenced state of being.

A friend of mine made this twitter, Space Dad. It is a program that he wrote to update every hour, posting random sentences found on the internet. Its pretty funny, check it out!!

If you love dogs as much as I do, you are gunna die from cuteness:
Tompkins square park halloween dog parade photos and more photos. and some suppa cute photos from last year.
This awesome, dog-filled music video, by a band whom I love:


Awwccupy Wall Street  is adorbs, and if you liked that, here are some more animals at OWS!

I am part of the 99%. I like this insight on the truths/myths about OWS.
Here are some inspirational videos about the movement. You go guys, keep it up!

and another #occupy movement, to save the earth:

Peelander Z!!!!!

I just saw this band (at the Bowery Poetry Club). I am pretty sure I can say without a doubt, it was the best concert I have ever been too. I want to see them again.
I'd never even heard any of their music before today, but it wasn't hard to pick up on the lyrics; the song titles gave away 80% of the words.
They were so goofy, and there was so much audience participation (limbo, baseball, bowling, banging on metal bowls, choreographed dancing, and huge index cards with lyrics).

This is a great music video:

*They were dressed up like that for the show (including the squid costume).

sorry for selling out.

so...really sorry about putting adds on this blog, i know its a pain in the ass...but i couldn't find a federal work-study job at nyu...and i kinda want to make a few dollars here and there (and i dont plan on being a drug dealer).

i dont really know how it works, but it think every time some one on clicks on an add on this blog, I make a couple cents or something..? i don't expect to make anything, but even a few dollars a month would be cool. 

i promise not to spend the money i make from this blog on drugs or alcohol. i'll probably use it for groceries or socks/shoes or something.  

thank you for your understanding.

much love. peace & prosperity.

-Ana xx

ps. a vid for enjoyment:

*portugal. the man are 'so american'--but in a good way.

John Cage is a hipster genius.

I saw Beirut last thursday at Terminal 5, it was amazing! They are so talented, and just awesome. 
The 2nd best part of the night (1st being Beirut/Zach Condon in his magnificence) was probably either making some new friends in line, or getting Halal gyros after the show. I am in love with Halal food trucks, I wish I didn't have to walk by them so often, the smell of them makes my mouth water. 
Have you seen the new-ish video for Santa-Fe? It made me sad because I love puppies...but I still enjoy it. Watch it below:



I also saw the FLEET FOXES last saturday! I saw them in Brooklyn at the Williamsburg Waterfront, which was beautiful at sunset. You could see Brooklyn Bridge and the landscape of Manhattan against the color-changing sky as the sun set. It was remarkable, as was the music of the Fleet Foxes; their voices/harmonies are so mellow and ghostly, in a great way. 


Below are some other new-ish music videos, by some chill-wave artists that are pretty cool:


I really love this Washed Out video: 
*So0o ChiLL Brah!
**but really, this video is great. Being carefree, finding love within the loneliness of the journey....I feel a deep connection with the character in the video (good acting/directing?), do you feel it too? 


Neon Indian - Polish girl:
*Neon Indian is really getting better/growing up--music-wise.


Explosions in the Sky - Be Comfortable Creature:




Avey Tare - Oliver Twist:


*its a bit disturbing, but its good animation and a great song. 


Best Coast - When I'm With You:

*BestyCoasty is goofy. But I am not gunna lie, I hate clowns--especially ronald mcdonald.

Wavves - Bug:

*lol, oh wavvves!

less human, more being.

No matter how hard I try, I still can't skip rocks...



i really wanna know more about that james blake/bon iver thingy: fall creek boys choir?!

I haven't updated this blog in like a week, but I am moving to NYC in a week, so I guess thats a good excuse (packing and shit...and hanging out with some friends for the last time before we leave). Sooo...here is a long post, with a lot of random shit. Peace and Love!

some goood tumblrs I found recently:
http://swagornoswag.tumblr.com/
http://pushthemovement.tumblr.com/

and a cool soundcloud with some cool sounds:
http://soundcloud.com/365daysofsound

I def do this:

Do you have a hype machine thingy? mine username is the same as my last.fm: oddities9

On steven colbert report a couple days ago:
instead of splitting up 'Obamacare' to 'Obama Cares' it should be 'O! Bam! A car! Eee!'
very clever, very clever.

Here are some more good vids:




Radiohead posted the entirety of the "From the Basement" live concert thingy on youtube (below)!



*yeah, even if they are over-rated, they are still pretty cool...*

and my friend, DMac, says this is the 'ultimate summer song':


*here is DMac's tumblr (click the link), its pretty good.

smooth sounds for lazy days

Yay, you can listen to the new Beirut album for free on NPR (link)!!!

After listening to that, I went on to check out some other stuff on the NPR Music website, below are some of my great finds!
These great musicians really love what they are doing, its cute how they smile and laugh at each other as they play:



*I also love the sound of the hollow-body guitar, and that the drummer sometimes uses his hands and actual broom-heads to play.

Tiny Desk Concerts of Givers and Y La Bamba and this amazing Spanish guitarist, Milos.

This is good for today:



*man, that is a great song.

Also, I just got Spotify, but I dont really understand it yet, whats the big deal? I get that you can make playlist, and listen to full songs without buying them, but other than that, I dont really understand what the point of having one is.

Real Love//Wishful Thinking

The past week has been full of long nights of staying out late in Barcelona (in the clubs and on the beach). It has consisted of Twix and kabobs at 4:00 am (on friday) and hamburgers and cereal at 5:00 am (on monday). Good food that late at night/early in the morning is the best.
I only have a few nights left in Barcelona, tonight, tomorrow, friday, and saturday. "Fly Me to the Moon Festival" is tonight and tomorrow (the Animal Collective and Beach House concert), so I only have friday and saturday to go out with friends for the last time here. I'm tired of staying out late so often, but everyone here does it, and most people do it much more than I do. However, I love meeting new and interesting people and just having fun being close to friends. When I remember that, I feel like it is almost better to go out and do my body harm by not sleeping again (versus sleeping and missing the 'fun').    

I love the 'natural' kind of simple fun more than this crazy 'fun' that does not always end happily. It brings me more happiness than anything else, the Fleet Foxies know what I mean:

**I like playing with sparklers in the park too...it may sound childish, but its unaltered 'real' fun.

Its quite true:



'If we ever meet again--will we ever?'
*will we ever meet again?

So much life is wasted in wishful thinking.
Wanting so much to meet again--how can that be possible?
Lives continue, and there is no room for the unexpected.
Little time left, it is nearly worthless to try.
What more can be done? You've waited for the last chance once again.
Wishful thinking will get you no where this time.

¿Otro por favor?

It's so hard to stay up-to-date on posts. I keep falling asleep every time i get the chance (probably because I have been staying out super late--till 5 am--all week). But yesterday, I spent the entire day sleeping, cleaning/organizing, and talking to friends for hours on Skype. I didn't ever leave the apartment, I hardly even left my room (which worried my home-stay mother), but I really needed to rest for a day.

My super-sweet, really awesome roommate left a few days ago/ I miss her a ton. She was so friendly and we got along so well! Most of the friends, that I have made here, left yesterday as well. I hope I don't have to say I will never see them again, because even though I may have only known them for a few weeks, it feels like a life time. I am going to tell everyone that I've met in Barcelona (from all over the world) that they will always have an invitation to stay with me in NYC for a few nights if they ever want to visit, which I hope they do.

Have you ever drunken a 'cortado'? I forgot how amazing coffee in Europe is....trying hard not to drink to much everyday, I don't want to become a caffeine addict. A cortado is a coffee drink (one of three that are common), it is an expresso/cappuccino I guess...anyway its so much better than anything from starbucks. I do miss iced coffee though. If I wake up late and the coffee is already cool, then I attempt to make my self an iced-soy-coffee.
Other food that is really good and not available in the US: turon, hamon serrano, Lemon flavored Fanta, and well I can't remember anything else right now. But I miss peanut butter! I found out that the restaurant/bar Dostrece has breakfast food--american breakfast food. I almost cried when I found out that I can get a pb&j bagel. More than definitely going to have one on monday morning.

What I've been listening too a ton this weeked:



*best song on the album. funny how she doesn't sound that great live, but she sings on most of their best songs.



*I love: 'if I could just leave my body for the night!' It is such an integral part of human nature--the want to feel 'free' and 'alive' and 'connected to the universe'.

I really wanna go outside.

Yo.
I like the aesthetic that the Cults always tend to have. This video seems pretty powerful:




You probably know by now, I <3 Pandy Burr. Can't wait to see AnCo in a week and a half!! Omg, that reminds me that I NEED to get tickets ASAP! I hope I can get another "all-access" pass and get the chance to meet them, it would really make my life, but it would be very hard to control my excitement. I wouldn't want to freak them out...




I like the way he described writing music; it seems like writing music is very personal to him, I 'get' that:

if not now, then ever?

I have also just finished reading The Haiku Anthology (3rd Edition), so good. I guiltfully (is that a word?) bent down a lot of the pages to be able to go back and remember which poems where my favorites. I then recited most of them to some of my closest friends, they enjoyed them too. Some were serious (via exposing universal/human truths), while others were more simple.

tugging and begging/at the end of his leash/the dog's owner - Mykel Board
mirror//my face where I left it - Bob Boldman
morning surf/a dog fills the sky/with seagulls - Jim Boyd
it is growing dark,/no one has come to the door,/and still the dog barks - L.A. Davidson
back from vacation/I let traces of sand/remain in the car trunk - Robert Epstein
how come/whatshisname/never speaks to me - Dee Evetts
I hear her sew/I hear the rain/I turn back a page - Leroy Gorman
winter night/writing letters/to get letters - Marlene Mountain
acid rain less and less i am one with nature*/*less and less nature is nature - Mountain
tonite/nothing to write//but this - Alan Pizzarelli
Sunset:/riding the merry-go-round/alone. - Alexis Rotella
between cities/on the interstate/so many stars - Karen Sohne
alone at last/i wonder where/everyone is - George Swede
Sunrise:/I forget my side/of the argument - Swede
thick fog lifts--/unfortunately, I am where/I thought I was - Swede
the blues singer/tells us how bad it is/then the sax tells you too - Cor Van Den Heuvel
reunion:/a pause/before each hug - Ruth Yarrow
I stop to listen;/the cricket/has done the same. - Arizona Zipper


Also, for today:
a new video for Panda Bear-Surfer's Hymn



love that it seems spooky, but is actually happy (they're just doing what they love!)

And an amazing/beautiful/lo-fi? video for the newest Fleet Foxes-Grown Ocean. If the embeded video isnt working, try the link below (it is really worth watching!):



http://pitchfork.com/tv/music-videos/383-fleet-foxes/#ooid=1qcGYwMjrgB7gRxX8m7Kji9MBNzx-vak,54OXNjMjqVsZ_BGb8Iubu_EDT8vAQ57Q

That music video makes me want to be best friends with them and live the way they do, so I can be happy like they are. I want my life to be like that video: full of love and freedom.

Slow Motion

This a a great video. It has the music video for 'Slow Motion' (off Tomboy). Then at around 4:30ish an interview starts (I believe its from gorrillavsbear) and Panda Bear talks a lot about his ideas for Tomboy, which I have been listening to soo much lately, and I really 'get' what he's saying.



I found this video on Pitchfork, Stereotype Helenski, and HipsterRunoff, but I think it was originially posted on Gorrillavsbear.

Things That Make Me Genuinely Happy:

• cute puppies/animals
• roasting marshmallows
• laughing too much 
• cuddling
• napping on couches
• playing with silly putty/clay
• comfortable silences
• clicky pens
• finding candy/chocolate in my lunch
• driving around on a sunny day
• chillaxin' with my 'bros' and 'hoes'
• having deep discusion on life/music/everything
• "things hugging things" (via animalswithstuffedanimals)
• being goofy
• dancing in cars

I can't think of anything else right now, but I know there are more.

**on another note, isn't James Blake beautiful?

<3 u.

bblllaaahhhaaagggghhhh

^^that is how i feel right now.
I feel: exhausted, happy, congested (cold or allergies?), sleepy, so relieved, and unproductive.

Yesterday was really busy. But everything worked out, and went almost flawlessly.
I had a great time partyin'/hangin'/dancin'/eatin' with some of my closest friends. I love that I can be a complete goofball with my friends, and they still love me anyway! I am going to cry when I leave for NYU, and I might not see some of my friends ever again.

Anyway, here is a video for the Panda Bear song, Alsatian Darn, from Tomboy.    

Riding the 3D-wavves!?

Pitchfork in 3D?
At first I thought it was a joke...but no, its legit, and it works!


The funny thing is, when I bought a few vinyls (Flying Lotus, Panda Bear) from a recod store in NYC (I think it was called 'Other Music' or something), I saw a pile of the 'official Pitchfork 3D glasses' and picked one up just because it was free. So I can actually see it in 3D!

I feel infinite.

I just started reading "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chobsky. I don't know why I waited untill now to read it. Friends have always told me I would like it, I love it. I don't read that much, but I had to take this book everywhere with me today, and I can't wait to finish it. I am reading it for a book report project in AP Psychology, the project is to relate the novel to psychology or something like that...

What I like about it so far is that I can relate to the characters, I think Charlie (the narrator) is experiencing/thinking/questioning a lot of the same things I have. I also have friends that remind me of the other characters, and makes it seem realistic. A lot of them are depressed or having trouble. I have been there, I know what it feels like, I've have seen many others deal with it aswell. I really 'get' this book, and I definetly recommend it. Probably, if you liked "The Catcher in the Rye" then you'll love this book because Charlie reads it in the story.

There was one part in the book that really spoke to me. It was about feeling 'infinite'--when everything just feels right. I know what it feels like, I think I've tried to discribe it as 'feeling free', but 'infinite' works better. I crave to feel that way right now, hanging around close friends, listening to music with comfortable silence, and just sharing the moment/feeling the love.

This is the main character's favorite song, it means a lot to him. I 'get' that.



**Other books I have recently started or finished:
On the Road-Jack Keroac (started months ago, but I cant find it now...)
Shoplifting From American Apparel-Tao Lin (finished last week)
The Kite Runner (reading it for English class)
The Omnivore's Dilemma (finished last month)

**Books I hope to read over the summer (but most likely won't get to):
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
EEEEE EEE EEEE-Tao Lin
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-Tao Lin
Life of Pi
Ishamel
The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test
House of Leaves
Extremely Loud and Increadibly Close?

Any suggestions on what else I should read?

Scenes from the Suburbs

Trailer For Spike Jonze's Arcade Fire Short 'Scenes from the Suburbs'

Its May, so I would like to get the DVD and see the entire film now!

I've seen the Music Video for The Suburbs, I didn't completely understand it. It made me feel something...saddness?curiosity? anger? catharsis? I don't quite know, but its one of those feelings that makes me think a lot about life. Its almost the same feeling I had after watching 'The Curious Incident of Benjamin Button' its a great movie, but I refuse to see it again because it made me cry....I am a loser. Anyway, I really want to see the whole story behind this film because it looks beautiful/mysterious/reminisent.