I'll turn it around!

I've been lazy. Summer vacation has officially started for me and I've been taking full advantage by being a bum. As a result my blog has obviously suffered. I'm getting back into the groove and will start being more productive...right after this nap...I kid, I kid.

Yesterday's show was all about cover song! (Yeah Boy! imagine, of course, in Flava Flav's voice) While researching and looking for songs within my own collection I stumbled on tons of covers. I found this amazing video of Alanis Morrisette on You tube. I've been laughing ever since! http://youtu.be/pRmYfVCH2UA

I definitely will be doing another cover show in the future.

Here is yesterday's playlist and link to the podcast http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/erica-24-june-2011/id348527752?i=95163021

Peanut Butter Wolf - Umbrellas
Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide
Bilal - High & Dry
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Inspiration Information
The Bird and The Bee (feat Sia) - How Deep is Your Love
Seu Jorge - Rebel Rebel
Lauryn Hill and Bob Marley - Turn Your Lights Down Low
Nouvelle Vague - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone (feat Dear Nora) - Hot Boyz
Skye Edwards - Feel Good
Bill Horist - Cello Song
Hollywood Mon Amore (feat Skye Edwards) - Call Me
Always Seem To Get Things Wrong - Willie Nelson

Last weekend in Pasadena there was the annual sidewalk festival. I took photos of the best (or what I thought to be the best) chalk drawings. Enjoy! Until next week!

It Happens (shrugging)

Short show today, as I was having technical difficulties, and if you were listening live I apologize for the repeated looping of Cold Cave. I guess I won't be playing that song anytime soon! Along with the short show there will be a short blog. But I will be posting again sometime soon...this weekend...stay tuned!

Abbreviated playlist. Podcast link soon to follow. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/erica-17-june-2011/id348527752?i=94978578

Daedelus - Penny Loafers (feat. Inara George)
Toro y Moi - New Beat
Janelle Monae - Wondaland
MGMT - Electric Feel
Friendly Fires - Show Me Lights
Gorillaz - Empire Ants (feat. Little Dragon)
Quadron - Average Fruit
Bloc Party - Sunday
Passion Pit - The Reeling
Cold Cave - Confetti

Good News, bad news

Good morning my eager little bunnies!!!

Last week I complained about having to go to a  wedding. Although the wedding was uber fancy ( i tend to cringe when I have to rock heels esp at weddings) it was pretty fun! It was at the Four Season Hotel in Santa Barbara. I've been to many nice weddings, but not one with a four course meal and different wine selection for each course AND a "butler" for each table.

The food was exquisite, I can still taste the Chilean sea bass and wasabi potatoes. There was even a dessert bar...needless to say if I do have a wedding I'm not going to invite any of the people who went to that one. I can't afford such luxury, I had always planned a backyard BBQ since I hate planning large events lol. Who's bring the potato salad????

Goes to show, keep an open mind and there is no telling the amount of fun to be had. Lesson learned.

I know my blog is super plain and very unexciting. I apologize for my minimal effort. I feel esp bad when I check out the blogs of others that are so engaging. I'm FINALLY done with finals so after catching up with sleep this weekend I'll start to work on the blog. You lovely folks deserve it!

To all my local Los Angeles fans, the Tim Burton exhibit has opened! I can't urge you enough to take the time to go see it. It's twisted and stunning and Tim Burton is my new art hero. I've always liked him, but it's awesome to know that you can become famous off morbid thoughts. There is hope for me yet. Anywho you can RSVP on the LACMA website. I saw it opening weekend at MOMA in New York. I would definitely aim for an non busy weekend, so holiday weekends no bueno.

Here is this weeks playlist. I will post the itunes link as soon as it's available. Last week I was having technical difficulties so last weeks podcast was available kind of late in the day, but I'll get that link up as well. Remember I can always be streamed live from 8am-9am EST on www.party934.com  Have a wonderful weekend!  http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/erica-10-june-2011/id348527752?i=94783343

Belle & Sebastian - If She Wants Me
Bent - So Long Without You
Buzzcocks - Even Fallen In Love?
Cat Power - The Greatest
Coconut Records - Nightiming
Damien Rice - 9 Crimes
Death Cab For Cutie - We Looked Like Giants
Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini
Gang Gang Dance - MindKilla
Gil Scott-Heron - I think I'll Call It Morning
Maximum Balloon Feat. Aku - Tiger
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Holding Hands in the Shower
Thom Yorke - Hearing Damage
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric

Wedding Season

It's that dreaded time of year again...wedding season.

Not to sound bitter or anything, but I hate weddings. I can't even really figure out why, but I really hate them. I going to one this weekend in Santa Barbara, great location and it should be fun...

I'll try to make the best of it. And before I get hate mail, I don't even want my own wedding! I hate having to sit through them so I don't want to subject anyone else to my own. I've always felt like those type of moments should be private. An expression of commitment that deep is special. It seems showy to do it in front of others, almost like you're bragging. I kind of feel the same way about funerals. Not so much the funeral it's self but the people who flop around and throw themselves upon the casket. I don't know it seems showy and over done.

Grief is powerful, at times more so than love, but at a funeral it's about the person who's going to to be buried not about the person rolling around on the ground in front of them. It's distracting.

Where was I going with that?

Oh yeah, I hate weddings. They are like funerals.

But of course I'm with a sentimentalist who wants a "small" one. Good luck! There is no such thing as a small wedding in Black and Mexican weddings (I'm black, he's Black&Mexican). We both have too many people in our families not to mention friends!!! If you fail to invite someone their will be hell to pay! And with minorities everyone shows, invited or not.

I'm getting a headache thinking of it.

Anywho, I need to pack.

Playlist for today, enjoy! http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/erica-3-june-2011/id348527752?i=94583255
F.Y.I. you have to scroll down a bit to find mine, but it's there! June 3, 2011

Toro y Moi - Still Sound
Daedelus - Penny Loafers (feat. Inara George)
Gorillaz - Empire Ants (feat. Little Dragon)
Little Dragon - My Step
MGMT - Electric Feel
Quadron - Average Fruit
Morrissey - The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get
Yeasayer - Tightrope
Bloc Party - The Prayer
Feist - Intuition
Flying Lotus - Tea Leaf Dancers
Matt & Kim - Daylight
Jack Penate - Tonight's Today
Empire of the Sun - Standing on the Shore
Sia - Electric Bird

I think she's got it!

Yay we all weren't raptured!!! Or boo we all weren't raptured???

What did you do?

 Short post... so sleepy so tired.

Quick note UCLA Jazz/Reggae Festival this Sunday and Monday. Sunday is the day I usually go and the talent this year includes Meshell Ndegeocello ( I may not know how to pronounce her name but I love her music) Quadron, and Little Dragon to name a few.

Also Ian Hultquist of Passion Pit will be at the Dylan Fest at The Bowery Room in NYC. The website notes it's a time to get drunk and celebrate Dylan's 70th. So you can slur your speech and mumble and everyone will think you're impersonating Dylan! Good Times! http://www.boweryballroom.com/event/6403


Oh oh oh one more thing (I know I promised a short one) Hollywood Forever another screening this Saturday, tomorrow. http://www.cinespia.org/calendar/


Also tomorrow Outdoor Cinema Food Fest starts here in L.A. and will be every Saturday until Sep. 3rd!!! http://www.outdoorcinemafoodfest.com/


On to the playlist link to podcast to follow:


The Reeling - Passion Pit
The Strangers - St. Vincent
Heart In Your Heartbreak - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
Villains of the Moon - Cold Cave
Just Don't (feat. Yukimi Nakano) - Raphael Saadiq
Hysteric - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Fire in Freetown - K' naan
When the Sun Don't Shine - Best Coast
Penny Loafers (feat. Inara George) - Daedelus
Me + Yr Daughter - Natalie Portman's Shaved Head
Why Can't I Touch It? - Buzzcocks
Still Sound - Toro y Moi
No Cars Go - Arcade Fire


If you don't like what I play then post a comment and request! If you like what I play then post comment too! If you hate me...well you can post a comment as well but it maybe deleted after I curse you then cry about it...  

What a Week!

Between school and work this week, I am exhausted!

But today could be my last, so I'm going to go have a drink with a couple of well wishers tonight and let come what may!

Not sure if you all were aware, but it's been predicted that tomorrow is the end of the world. I'm not sure if it's been specified if that's Eastern or Pacific standard time. So to kick off the pre-apocalypse party today I played a sampling of end-of-the-world themed songs.

If the rapture does indeed take place, you won't have to worry about your soulless, heathen pets, they will be looked after by them. For a modest fee of course:

http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/ 

A group of atheist willing to watch Fido if you depart. I don't remember seeing this job offered on Craigslist. Maybe it was a temp job, oh well.

And interestingly enough Fox News posted something on their website that wasn't completely hateful, but useful!

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/05/18/cdc-warns-public-prepare-zombie-apocalypse/

I think I could last in my apartment unharmed for a couple of days before I had to seek supplies. But it just confirms CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!! I already have my Zombie Apocalypse plan ready! I just need to save money so I can purchase a chain mail suit. Or does anyone know how to sew chain mail? Anyone? If you have time before the horde ascends may I suggest some reading. World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide both by Max Brooks. Oddly enough WWZ gives more advice on survival than the guide, things they never really cover in the movies are addressed as "personal" accounts of survival. But the guide is sound with quick and dirty steps.

If you're in the L.A. area and you haven't been obliterated, or you've been left behind then come on down to Hollywood Forever on Santa Monica Blvd and watch the Shining!

A long summer tradition in L.A. is to sit in a rich people cemetery and watch movies projected on the wall of the mausoleum. You can bring snacks and drinks, just no tall chairs! Check it out;

http://cinespia.org/

Here is today's playlist and the link to the podcast http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/erica-20-may-2011/id348527752?i=94185489

Depeche Mode - Told You So
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
Delays - No Ending
St. Vincent - Jesus Saves, I Spend
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Prince - Let's Go Crazy
Stevie Wonder - Heaven Help Us All
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
R.E.M. - It's the End of th World

Getting Better

Today wasn't so bad. I still need to work on counting down and fading out the music. I get so nervous and I don't want to mess up anyone else's slot. Oh well. 


Short blog today. I'm going to a protest rally in Downtown Los Angeles to protest further spending cuts in education. If you don't live in California, then don't move here. Granted we have the weather, but the way things are going now we won't have much else! 


Another day another day. I get so mad thinking about what our state and federal governments are doing to it's citizens.


Anywho here is the playlist for today's show and link to the podcast http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/erica-13-may-2011/id348527752?i=93976839


Is This Love (Horn Mix) - Bob Marley
I Know You Know - Esperanza Spalding
If She Wants Me - Belle & Sebastian
Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
Me and Armini - Emiliana Torrini
Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem
Electric Bird - Sia
Too Fake - Hockey
Daylight - Matt & Kim
P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) - Michael Jackson
The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get - Morrissey
The Reeling - Passion Pit
My Favourite Book - Stars
Standing On The Shore - Empire of the Sun