BABY PANDAAASSSS!

I am so vulnerable to cuteness:

*what is cuter than baby pandas? - nothing.

Saw Panda Bear at Webster Hall on Saturday. It was fucking awesome. Surprisingly, he played almost all of Tomboy, pretty much all the way through.
Here are some pics my roommate, Kate, took at the show:

*me, getting my mind blown by the awesomeness of the trippy lights inside of Webster Hall.

He ended the show by leaving the stage and leaving this graphic playing for a few minutes (a weird guy sticking his tongue out and moving it around):

....omg, so artsy! so conceptual!

*photos via my roommate's iphone.

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.

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.