Talk about a song that makes you happy and sticks in your head. I know that those can be the worst kind but this one is worth it. Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend steps in to help The Very Best on “Warm Hearts of Africa”. I love the video with the green screen and dorky dancing. A lot of fun. Enjoy.
I hope you’ve read “Dubai – The Old, The New, and The Trip in Rants“. It’s meant to accompany these photos. If you haven’t, do so NOW. If you have, you have some choices. You can view simple slideshows on flickr, watch the Animoto video, or do both. Of course, I encourage doing both.
Dubai – New Dubai - Flickr Slideshow
Image by johnbvasko via Flickr
Let’s just start off by saying that OLD in Dubai means 1980’s! Truthfully though Wikipedia states that written accounts document existence of the city for at least 150 years prior to when the U.A.E. was formed. So, yes, there are some old things there but I’m sure a lot of what I captured isn’t the oldest.
Image via Wikipedia
I doubt Fever Ray will take any Grammies even though they should. But they did one their country’s version of the Grammies and the acceptance speech is unlike any other. Karin Dreijer Andersson is known for not wanting her face shown at least in her Fever Ray persona. From what I understand, she is actually quite a beautiful woman, although you’d never know that from seeing this.
I wonder what Lady Gaga would think of this?
Karachi and its people proved to be wonderful subjects for my very amateur photography skills. These photos were taken with my new Fuji F-70 EXR, my third camera within the span of a year. Let’s hope that this one doesn’t get lost or stolen as the last 2 did. Between Karachi and Dubai I took over 1,000 photos but I managed to delete more than half of those. The Karachi portion came to a total of 329, which is still a lot to go through, so I split it up into a number of albums, including a Best of Karachi.
Here are some additional Galleries. Each one links to its own flickr slideshow.
Cover of Actor
In today’s times, this song might be more aptly titled “Out of Work” as it applies to many more people than actors who are perenally out of work. Or maybe it refers to the actor in all of us that has to come out whenever we interview for a job or are put in a situation when we have to put on a proper face. St. Vincent is the artist name that Annie Erin Clark goes by. She’s from Tulsa, Oklahoma, has played with a lot of really cool artists – namely The Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens – and released Actor in May of 2009. Here’s the video for the first single “Actor Out of Work”.
Image courtesy of RavenSingsTheBlues.com
Ok I know that it’s August so this is very late but better late than never. We can call this list “The Best of 2000 Late”. My friend Pavel feels that 2008 was quite a weak year for music compared to 2007 and 2006. I’m not sure if I agree. I guess I feel pretty good that this list of albums would still be selections I would come back to years from now. I should look back at my lists from ten years ago and see how much that holds up.
There are some great new artists out there that I want to mention. They didn’t make it into my top 10 or even top 15 albums of the year, which I detail here, but these artists are worth noting for some great singles and good albums. Here’s that list:
Every year, Adi and I get together with my friends Kerry, Pavel, Kristen, and Tommy and review our albums of the year (mine and Pavel’s). We seemed to let a few years get away from us but we did do it for 2008, 2007, and 2006 this past May. For 2009, we will definitely maintain the tradition. But, I wanted to publish something on my blog that is end-of-the-year music related. So, here are my top 25 songs for 2009 in alphabetical order (by artist). In many cases, this year for me was very much a “Singles Year” and in a lot of cases, I may not even like the entire album that these songs are on. And I will admit – it is very pop and diva heavy but give me a break. I had a tough year being unemployed and all. So what if Lady Gaga, Shakira, and Rihanna helped me though it! Note that some of these songs may have been released in 2008 but were played a lot in 2009. Enjoy and please comment with your favorites regardless of whether they are on my list or not!
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