Brilliant!

I love this commercial. It's so smart. 

I sell comics baby!

If you haven't heard of Courage My Love yet, you're  missing out. They are the new, fresh, young thang in the canadian music scene. I just found out about the trio a few days ago. I was at a friends house and he played their song I Sell Comics and told me the story of the band. He had a few details wrong, but we still love him for being such a new music buff. 

I Sell Comics- Courage My Love 

The group started in early 2010 with  twin sisters Mercedes Arn-Horn (Vocals/Guitar) and Phoenix Arn-Horn (Drums/Vocals) as well as David Blake-Dickson (Bass/Screams). The under 20 three piece has a pop/punk sound similar to that of Paramore and Versa Emmergae, vocals reminiscent of Evanescence, and guitar work hinting at Avenged Sevenfold/Bullet For My Valentine. They are a perfect mesh of metal, pop, and punk. The sound is surprisingly professional for how young they are. While their sound is heavy and tight, the vocals complement the guitar work and frame the song very well. 

Anchors Make Good Shoes (If You Have Issues) - Courage My Love

The group is making it look easy as they rise to fame. I assume they will be huge within the next few years. The female front and drums is a very new difference that sets them apart from most bands of their generation. They get their influence from bands such as Paramore, Anti Flag, Rancid, and Cancer Bats.  The twins write the lyrics and David usually supplies the song names. For their age they're pretty amazing. They just released their first EP entitled "For Now" which you can purchase on itunes or through their website. In addition to playing their first warped tour the up and coming super stars just filmed their first video for the first single off their first EP! 

Barricade - Courage My Love

Despite their age Courage My Love is not afraid to follow their big dreams. As if all of their new spotlight wasn't enough responsibility the trio has also started their own record label. That's right! Homeskool Prom Records is the newest affiliate under Warner Canada. 

It seems that these spring chickens have all the recipes for success they need. Plus can we just talk about how absolutely adorable they are? I wish them all the best and hope to see them on tour soon! Check them out and spread the word if you like what you hear. For more information go to Courage My Love's Bookface, Myspace, Twitter page, or Youtube channel. 

Also on the up&up, not necessarily from canada:

Never Means Maybe (Hardcore)

The Amity Affliction (Screamo)

Victory, Sweet Victory (pop/rock)

Darling Parade (Chick Lead)

Word bird,    

Marquese Scott: The Next Big Thing

This speaks volumes for itself. This kid is crazy talented and needs a dance scholarship RIGHT NOW. Check out that sick move at 4:13. INSANE. Props to you Marquese Scott, props to you. 

Some more insane dance videos:

Take that Toddlers In Tiaras, we just got one upped by Russia... "In soviet Russia steps dance you!" Seriously, these kids are five. There are so many people that are better than me in everything lol. 

Can't forget Robert Muraine! Bloody genius. 

If you got new moves, get out there! 

Heineken

Let me just say, my beer of choice has always been and always will be Heineken Light. I saw the new commercial for Heineken a few weeks ago and I thought it was odd, but I couldn't get over the song. The song in the ad is fantastic. I finally just remembered to look it up.

Upon doing 5 minutes of research it came about that the song is actually taken from an old bollywood musical called "Gumnaam" in the 60's. The commercial is much more exciting than the actual song.

Also found out that the clip above along with the original song was featured in the opening credits of "Ghost World".  I'm always looking for some new movies to watch and it looks like Ghost World just made my, "never seen and need to watch" list.

I was interested in what the song meant and found the translated lyrics from this lovely blog:

"Jan pehchaan ho

Jeena aasaan ho

Dil ko churaane waalon

Ankh na churao, naam to batao

(Let us get acquainted

It would make life easier

You who steal our hearts, do not avert your glances

Tell us your name)"

 Kind of disappointed though, I really thought I was going to stumble upon some outrageous underground band... Oh well. Heineken still makes the song sound great and this little excursion led me to this fantastic blog that I will most likely be frequenting. 

Jan pehchaan ho, 

Rom-com reviews

 Like Crazy

This little independent number looked fantastic in previews. I honestly think it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen. About twenty minutes in I thought, "This movie sucks," but I had to see if it got better. A lot of independent films come to fruition and turn out to be diamonds in the rough, not in this case unfortunately. I found it to be overdrawn, uneventful, and weak. The plot made little to no sense and the ending was god-awful. Rate it for yourself, but I give it two stars. 

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

 I actually liked this movie, but I thought it was going to be a lot better and by better I mean more meaningful or memorable. That being said the cast was great, the movie was cute, and let's get real I could watch Ryan Gosling make toast for hours on end so... It was a nice little rom-com though and it comes very highly recommended. Julianne Moore and Emma Stone two of my favorites as well. 

Last Night

Check out this upcoming rom-com! I think it could be potentially great. Honestly though who doesn't want to watch Kirra Knightly walk around in her skivvies dealing with love problems? I kind of adore her. Last Night is currently in theaters. I will not be watching it for a few months until it's released online.

See you at the pictures, 

B.O.B.

I was kind of late to jump on the B.O.B. train. I downloaded his stuff a while back and listened to it a few times through some months ago. I liked a few songs that stuck out but not the album in it's entirety. I wanted to change it up tonight so I put him in the ole' cd player on my way to Starbucks. The intro song, "Don't Let Me Fall" immediately struck me. The lyrics are very humbling and positive/hopeful all while being very honest. I viewed the song as an omage to his journey as a rapper as well as a message to his fans. He got himself where he is, fans keep him from falling back down. I quite enjoyed it. 

I'm not a huge fan of the music video so I chose to post lyrics. My favorite lines are, "Now I'm in your house, now I'm in your stove, now I'm everywhere your ipod goes." "Cause I put my pain, my heart, my soul, my faith in this." "It's easy to see I was made for this, from the womb all the way to the grave I spit just show ya'll nigga's what greatness is. Yeah, I'm talking very lucid, like making movies. To picture my life boy, ya' need a higher resolution. I used to cut class in the day then runaway at night, now I'm ruler of the upper-class and I don't even write." 

I love when rap is fittingly combined with the electric guitar. The guitar coming in around 40 seconds just makes the song. I love the idea that by being an artist you go everywhere an ipod goes. That's such a cool concept its like you are constantly in billions of places at once changing millions of people's minds/moods. Very inspiring to me. So inspiring, that I think I'm going to attempt to relearn some chords and make a few indie mockups of songs such as this. I'm not the best singer, but I'd like to find a voice for songs that leave me with lasting feelings.  I also would like to get my wits about me on piano. I smell a side project while attending university this upcoming semester. 

My other favorite on this cd is "Past My Shades". I like the subtle confidence of this song. Everyone is trying to place you in a category and figure you out at all times, but they can't even see past your sunglasses. It's humorous and singing about sunglasses instantly makes a song cool. I love the jam band sound as well, the whole song has an effortlessness about it. If you haven't purchased or downloaded B.O.B's album, Adventures Of Bobby Ray, you may want to give it a listen, it's pretty worth it.

"It's easy to see I was made for this,"

In the mourning

ITS HERE they are so cute. I like the acoustic version much better than the single. 

paramore.net for details.

Random video friday!

I like how the song married the two sides of this argument with the video. 

I hate the 80's and everything that goes with them, but this video was nice. 

I never understood how someone that speaks a different language could sing perfectly in english. This girl is great though. 

I love this cover. KARMIN IS AWESOME

Still torn between genius and stark raving lunatic. She either shows too much of her personality or hasn't shown any of it this whole time. I can't decide. She's like the world's biggest kid. She gets to have playtime and dress up every day. How the bloody hell does any one dance in heels like that. Lastly, I think baby gaga should stop singing and just start making her own series of huge production valued movies about her shutter island climb in the record industry. She's mental. She loves it.

Til' tomorrow,

Any Paramore fans?

Just a little news update. If you don't already know, Paramore has a new album coming out expected this January. They have released three singles thus far, Monster released in September, Renegade released in October, and the latest Hello Cold World early November. The next single out is December 5th called In The Mourning. Don't go racin' to itunes just yet, you won't be able to purchase anything there yet.

Paramore is doing something against the grain, which I love. Instead of making these anticipated singles available on itunes, they are only releasing their singles to "The Singles Club" which you can sign up for on their websites. This enables fans to have the first and direct access to their songs before everyone else. It's pretty awesome. I just downloaded all of the songs using utorrent, which I highly recommend.

Not to fear, the whole album will be up on itunes when it drops this January. I'm a little in love with quirky little front woman Hayley Williams. She's super fun, super honest, completely herself and a positive young lady. Not to mention the rest of the now three piece Taylor and Jeremy are super talented and the band as a whole is very tight and together. The only thing left for Paramore is... more! They only prove to be getting bigger and better. I wish them all the luck in the world. They are some of them most deserving people in the music business. I look forward to the album and whatever else the touch this year! For more info check out Paramore's website

Check out the video for Monster.

Listen to Renegade

Lyrics 

Listen to Hello Cold World 

Lyrics 

I keep listening to Hello Cold World in my car on the way to work. At first I scrunched up my nose at this song. I thought it sounded more on the poppy side. But after givin' it a right listen I found I quite liked it I did. The lyrics are really positive and have a great message behind them.  

Listen to the acoustic demo In The Mourning

(Here's a leak I found of the acoustic version)

Lyrics  

 "Get out and go and get it!!"

Do you love giraffes?

Today while discussing my future plans of paying a scientist to somehow create a real miniature giraffe my friend asked me if I had ever seen "puppy cams"... Apparently there are people in the world that spend countless hours of their day watching puppies being broadcasted on the internet just playing and being cute. I think that's really stupid. If you are a puppy cam advocate I apologize for my bluntness, but what the cuss? Anyway, he mentioned that one day someone put up a giraffe cam using the same concept. Not to be selective, but I find giraffes captivating and have loved them for as long as I can remember. Thus, I am completely down to watch them gallop in the african plains in all of their giraffe like splendor during my free time.

I just decided to google a giraffe cam, being 2 in the morning here there are none being broadcasted on the site at the moment. However, there was a very eye catching link under the stream that spoke to me: "adopt a giraffe"

WHAAAT?

Yes, it turns out that some giraffes are endangered and zoo animals in general are expensive to pay for and maintain. Similar to Africa's adopt a child campaign you can now adopt your very own zoo aminal, yes aminal. By "adopt" of course they really mean you send us money and we send you a tote bag, a stuffed animal and a bill for a year, but still this concept is really cool.

With the holiday's around the corner this would be a great gift for an animal lover or a friend that has a favorite animal. If one of my friends were smart enough to give me an adopted giraffe as a gift I would cuss myself to bits. If you would like to donate, adopt, or just watch giraffe cams/ other live animal cams feel free. It's a really good cause and it's benefiting something other than the human race, which I find very important when it comes to mind. All of those likes are just for the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. I'm sure yo can donate to you're local zoo as well, all zoo's are usually in need.

I'll keep you all posted on the gmini, if anyone knows any scientists hit me up.

Spotify

A close friend told me about this little gadget/site/player the other day after a chat about finding music online. I thought it was a site at first like Pandora, however, it's actually a player (similar in appearance and layout to itunes) that you download to your computer. It's no utopia player, but it's quite handy. I will say that it has a VAST amount of artists, it recognized everyone I typed in. I listen to a lot of underground music and I was very impressed with the amount of artists it recognized and the amount of albums it listed. In most cases I found that every song featuring the artist and every album containing the artist showed up. It's not organized ideally, it's actually a bit hairy and takes some time tinkering to figure out. 

CONS:
commercials (3 every few songs, they're quick and mostly about spotify products)
search (everything must be typed exactly as is or it won't show up)
organization
no downloading


I plan on using the player to search for new music and to check up on my collections as well as browsing   and listening. Overall it's a great idea and it's huge. If you're really into music or you just want to listen to more I definitely recommend it.

Enjoy,

First Post

Hopefully this will be a mile marker for something great in the future. I'm creating this blog to motivate myself to write and collect the findings of silly little things I like to look up. My goal is to make this space  a vault of information I find intriguing as well as a visual archive/timeline of my life. I'd like to try and keep it professional, trying my best not to cuss like a sailor and or rant about things I can't see to get over... work in progress. I wold like to try and bring a few different aspects to this blog such as: fashion, film, music, art, good information, cheap finds, food & dining, literature, some of my own work, creative/useful home decor & design ideas and much more I'm sure. I'll try and keep personal entries to a minimum. Any questions or comments just ask mryseas@gmail.com

Here's to a new adventure,