New Music Videos I'm diggin

Faunts
"Feel.Love.Thinking.Of."
Dir: Ryan Bosworth
I love the animation in this video. What a cool concept.


MORAY MCLAREN - WE GOT TIME
Dir: David Wilson
What a creative way to show animation... new and old at the same time. Bravo.

Coachella 09

COACHELLA 09'

Just got back from Coachella! Here are my highlights:

* The Black Keys performed an amazing set. This was the first time I got to see them live and they delivered

* It was good to get the chance to check out Paul McCartney, since I will probably never have that opportunity again

* Fleet Foxes was just like I hoped... fantastic

* The Cure played a great set of new and old. It had a great casual feel to it and was the perfect show to end the fest

Other noteworthy things:

* Peter Bjorn and John was absolutely awesome, as were the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I'm still processing all the great things I saw.

If you made it out to the fest let me know what your highlights were.

Richard's picks and adventures-
After setting up camp quickly started to hit the bottle and check out the Filter party. Saw Flossadramus rock it till the end of the evening with a pretty packed crowd on some poolside type shindig. Met up with Franki Chan with friends and lost track of time and somehow woke up in my tent. I decided to go camping this year cause I didn't want to miss a beat.
Next morning met the neighbor campers and made some new fweinds!
Saw Leonard Cohen, Buraka Soma Sistema, Felix da Housecat, Morrisey, The Black Keys, Franz Ferdinand, Cage the Elephant, Paul McCartney ( the opening dj blew chunks) and some other stuff. Spent the rest of the evening hanging out with new fellow tent friends.
Saturday met up with old friend Damon and saw a few shows. Glass Candy, Henry Rollins, Liars, M.I.A (with Blaqstarr and RYE RYE), P.O.S, Surkin, Chemical Brothers, Micheal Franti & Spearhead. Ran into the lead singer from T.V. on the Radio and exchanged some words on ideas and such but of course missed their show. I've missed there show I think about 7 times. WHAT THE FUCK!
Missed Jesse Lee's super duper Dubfrequency party. I heard it blew the other parties out of the water though.
Sunday met up with Paul Devro, DJ Klever, Nick Catchdubs w/ Atrak, Graham, Toyselectah and more. Met my gay husband. Dude is the best. It was like sxsw followed me to Coachella. hahaha.
Saw Flying Lotus which was awesome. Notable shows that I saw were BusyP ( sorry about the beach ball), Lupe Fiasco, Lykki Li, Public Enemy, Clipse( they flaked), the cure ( i thought dude was boring), watched My Bloody Valentine ( I was blown the fuck away, WOW), Roni Size, Sebastien Tellier, The Knux, The Orb, Throbing Gristle, X, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Gaslight Anthem, Paul Weller ( this was cool)

Spent my birthday in Elpaso with Joe and Alex and went to a punk rock bar to toss pitchers while listening to Morrisey. Looked at Juarez from the deck and came home with this awesome shirt they made me. Some how ended up at this hotel eatting cookies. El Paso, I love you guys!

Overall it was fun and next year going to go hard. Seriously.

In theaters - Taken

Here's a movie I really want to see that somehow slipped under my radar until now.   It's the story of an ex CIA badass who's daughter gets kidnapped and he has to kick all sorts of ass for the sake of vengeance.  A guilty pleasure.  It's apparently very fast paced, violent, and quasi believable.  I'm sold... especially since the film was co-written by Luc Besson of 'The Professional' fame.  The trailer is really cool too.  check it out!

Upcoming Film: Where the Wild Things Are

Upcoming Film: WhErE ThE WilD ThinGs ARe

I am extremely excited to see this fantastic children's book come to life on the big screen. From the looks of the trailer, it's going to be very cool.  

Here's a link to the trailer via apple.com: Where The Wild Things Are

ENJOY!

sxsw2009 recap

This video sums up what goes on in my marble. It's a great video and well created.
Theme song for me during sxsw 2009.

Shout outs to:
Fader Magazine crew, Frank 151 crew, Dubfrequency crew, Mad Decent crew, Matt Sonzala, IHEARTCOMIX crew, Jesse K, Paul Chang, Johnathan (ninja) Flufftronix, Skeet Skeet, Dirk Diggala, Mattnice, BRMG, Crop Diggie, Six Lounge, Toddy B, Tarek, Eric Power, Blaqstarr, Kid Cudi, Nick Catchdubs and the Fools Gold brigade, Danny Rocha, Kmac, Matt Costa, Haul, Emily Rabbit, Simon and the Taxlo crew, James Nasty, Sega, Tameli, Dirty South Joe, R.I.P. REMINGTON, Malu, Noah & Arron, Digiwaxx crew, Mo, Franki Chan, Dylan Roadie, Toxic Avengers, Wemakeyoufamous, DMG$, DJ Rhythmic, Fern from the famousish, Bun B, Lezlie Rogers for being Lezlie, Migs & crew from UloveI, my cabbies, the interns, Dreadedphoto, Barcelona, Mad Classy crew, Tash for wise words, Curt from flossy, tequila w/monster drank(don't do it), Jolie, Ren&Stimpy, Mike Relm, U God, and everyone else I was kickin it with going hard and worked with.

* Now back to out regular format bloggy blogs. Next up an interview with the Legend and creator of Baltimore Club and a review of a grammy nominated film.

Destroy all Monsters SXSW Parties

Destroy All Monsters Parties

This is the beginning but will have more shows exclusively produced by Destroy All Monsters for an enjoyable interactive experience.

Eric Power designed all the flyer's with a common theme and I created the events.

Introducing: Sharkweek & Mad Classy

Introducing: Shark Week & Mad Classy

I first ran into Shark week via the club scene in Austin after time and remember him telling me about his new weekly a while back and ventured in. Thought and still think it's one of the most fun weeklies. Good basslines and all that jazz. I'm starting to have some dub step in my sets now.

Where did you come up with the brilliant name Shark Week?

Hahaha it just kinda happened. I was picking out random dj names for a while just fuckin around, one day i went with sharkweek and some friends basically said i couldn't stop using it. I think its hilarious but it works, people don't forget shark week.

How long have you been djing for and how did you swim into dub step?

Started djing in late 2001/2002. Played drum and bass for a while in San Antonio, eventually moved up to Austin in 04 and stopped playing out, just played hip hop at home with my roommate and would tag with friends and shit randomly. I didn't really get into dub step when I first heard it.. The first few tunes I heard were on laptop speakers and didn't do it justice at all. I started going to check out Weight @ Plush and got into Parson's Tractor Pull and Grommit's Crawlspace Funk mixes and pretty much loved it since then. Didn't start playing it alot until later but I haven't looked back.
It's basically got everything i want out of some electronic dance music with a whole lot more bass and ladies love it.

How did the weekly develop? Hows it going? Any cool past and present and future guests? Who's entirely involved?

Well we went up to Barcelona to talk to Garrett, the bar manager after a friend had told us he was getting into dub step. We talked to him one night, then a week later we showed up with tunes and gave him a live demo. That was the first Sunday and its just kinda grown ever since.
Mad Classy is Chango, JE, and myself. Parson & Marst have been down since day one also. we've got a big irresponsible family of crazy people with awesome ideas, its pretty dope.

Where do you see dubstep going as you hear through the water?

As far as growth, its been snowballing basically. every show we do has been pretty successful, and they keep getting better. We've had MRK1, 6Blocc, Joe Nice, OSC, and most recently Reso which was super dope. In the next few weeks we've got Matty G and Rusko coming in for sxsw. i have a feeling that's going to get pretty retarded awesome. We've got a small (pretty much some free beer) sponsorship with Heineken and recently got hooked up with Scion through you which is bad ass.

Dub step is exploding man.. I see Texas blowing up even more than it has been. This place is swimming with super talented people. The music is expanding in all directions also and more and more people are getting into it. I don't see it slowing down any time soon.

Do you and crew have an projects on expansion from Austin? Taking it to a new floor to get down on?

Shit I'd love to travel, I'm trying to get out to California sometime this summer to visit my sister and would love to line up some shows out there. For right now we play around Texas, mostly Austin and San Antonio and clubs and these new raves they've got. played a Texas Dub show in Houston that was really dope. Hope to be back out there soon and want to hit up Dallas as well.


What's your favorite film monster?

The aliens from Alien count cause they're fucking ruthless.




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