Achtung Baby!

Gun

[ U2 - Happiness Is A Warm Gun ]

+ "Halo 3" Registers Biggest Day in US Entertainment History
+ Sci-Fi, Serendipity Spawn Halo 3's New Weapons
+ Bono Receives Liberty Medal

Waves

Sandy Hook Lighthouse 1,2

[ Hayden - Roll Down That Wave ]
[ The Raveonettes - Black Wave ]
+ Fiona Apple - Sullen Girl: its calm under the waves, in the blue of my oblivion.
+ Jeff Buckley - Nightmares By The Sea: Stay with me under these waves, tonight.

I'm off on a little sea voyage of sorts for a week. 

Still Homogenic After All These Years

Bjork: Homogenic, Original Release Date: September 23, 1997. This Is My favorite Bjork album.

Live performances: Hunter // Joga // Unravel // Bachelorette // All Neon Like // 5 Years // Immature // Alarm Call // Pluto // All Is Full Of Love

Hail to the Master Chief

+ Halo 3 Private Preview
+ GameTrailers: Halo 3 Launch Center
+ Halo 3 ad: "Two Soldiers Reminisce"
+ Master Chief and Your Girlfriend
+ Studio 360: This Spartan Life
+ Halo: The Future of Gaming

the anniversary of the crash of flight 815

+ Executive Producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse mark the anniversary of the crash of flight 815 in this special podcast

icons via 1, 2

+ Eisley "Lost At Sea" (live)

Emmy Winner for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Mr. Terry O'Quinn! About damn time.

art by

/ love is an overwhelming currency /

~sweetzz145 | ~arlenephotography

[ love is an overwhelming currency: a mix ]

When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better.'It's all right' we whisper, 'I'm here, I love you.' and we lie: 'I'll never leave you.' For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.
Neil Gaiman

Texas is the Hottest State

by rockwilder

+ Jesse Harris - It Will Stay With Us from the "The Hottest State" Soundtrack.

The Film: The film is cliché in parts and the soundtrack/score is too overwhelming throughout the whole movie ( I don't think there's a silent moment at all ), there were enough funny moments and honest reminders of youth for most people to relate to it in some form or another. I would sum it up as a reminder that love is an overwhelming currency for some.   

The highlight: Norah Jones' surprise performance at the after party. She was flawless.

+ Actor Hawke Screens 'The Hottest State' At Paramount
+ Norah Jones opens new  Austin City Limits season
+ Norah - Ocean of Noise

She can't be serious, Obviously

Re: Nellie McKay's " Obligatory Villagers" album,

What The Fuck? I mean, seriously. What a calamity of an album.

+ Nellie McKay | Identity Theft

Leader(s)

Photo by Chepo

+ Elbow - Leaders Of The Free World Live in Seattle
+ R.E.M. World Leader Pretend Pinkpop 1989 ( Then )
+ R.E.M. World Leader Pretend 2003 ( Now )
+ Pearl Jam - Dissident, live at Reading Festival

Singin’ In The Rain

+ Lemon Magazine: Gavin Friday’s “Singin’ In The Rain”

ACL 07 - LCD Soundsystem - Devotchka - Muse

ACL 07 LCD Soundsystem from Juan Solo on Vimeo.

ACL 07 Devotchka "How it Ends" from AchtungBaby on Vimeo.

Untitled from Juan Solo on Vimeo.

Invisible IpodTouch

Some things never change.

[ Genesis - Invisible Touch (live) ]

ACL 07 day 3 - Regina Rules

ACL Fest LOVES Regina Spektor, she had a Huge crowd and was visibly overwhelmed when she first came on stage. She said she wanted to just stand and stare at us.

ACL 07 Regina Spektor Bobbing For Apples from Juan Solo on Vimeo.

More videos later.

ACL 07 day two - MUSE

ACL MUSE Knights from Juan Solo on Vimeo.

+ Photo gallery: Day 2 at ACL Music Festival 9.15.07
+ ACL: Four Bands Save Day Two from Meh-ness

Austin City Limits Festival 2007 Day 1

ACL Fest 2007 Bjork from AchtungBaby on Vimeo.

+ "Toward the end of her set Bjork's speaker, which was behind a huge ACL banner, spontaneously caught on fire!"

+ The (Non-Arcade) Fire
+ Four burned at Austin City Limits Music Festival

+ ACL: Where The Streets Are Paved With Vomit

+ ACL (Day 1): A Rant: I learned today I have an incredible superpower: I have the power to turn whoever I stand next to at a large outdoor concert into the most annoying person in the world.

[spoon] live Cherry Bomb

Spoon "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb" Live @ Austin 9/13/07 from AchtungBaby on Vimeo.

+ KUT.ORG & ACL FEST 2007

ACL is almost here

+ Helter skelter in the summer swelter: ACL Festival: A look back
+ ACL Survivor Guide: Part 4 - A Quick Summary
+ ACL's battle of the bands, the Sound and the Jury..
+ Austin Chronicle's Guide

\ \ \ National Videogames Day \ \ \

+ It's National Video Games Day Apparently

Strong Recommendations from me: Jeanne D' Arc ( G4 Review & IGN Review ) & Bioshock ( the all-time top ranked Xbox 360 title on Metacritic )

+ Wired: Celebrate National Videogames Day
+ from the BioShock EP: "God Bless the Child" (original by Billie Holiday) Stream
+ New Halo 3 ad: "Museum"

ACL Fest, Austin, This and That

It's ACL Fest week here in Austin.

+ The White Stripes pull out of ACL | Muse will take White Stripes slot
"One wonders whether this will solve the audience-splitting problem created by the Arcade Fire/White Stripes conflict."

+ ACL Band Clash, Round 1: Spoon Vs. Queens Of The Stone Age

The Accidental Gentrifist

And sure, since you mention it, I am a little sensitive to the whole ‘Californians are flocking here, buying up real estate and homogenizing local culture’ ideology. Because it’s just not true. It’s a generalization. A stereotype that’s more reflective of your own fear and ignorance than any actual phenomenon. About as on-beam as saying gypsies steal children, or that Jews need the blood of Christian virgins, otherwise the matzoh comes out all doughy. Or that Mexicans are leprocidal wage invaders. Or maybe you’re right-on. Maybe we’re on the verge of a massive wave of people uprooting from Santa Cruz and Marin and Santa Barbara, spontaneously deciding to give up six-figure jobs, valley produce, seven months of skiing, and an Eden-like coastline—in order to live in a hot-as-seven-hells, ocean-less city surrounded by Republicans, with scant options for decent Italian food, and where the word queso doesn’t actually mean ‘cheese.’ But Lord, do we have football. And music. And healthy, pretty, friendly people... rare enough for a place with both good football and good music. My point is, you're not going to get on the boat unless you're already on board, so to speak.

Vh1 says....

I'm always curious to read descriptions of this thing. I totally missed the fact that this blog turned 5 in July. Random Fact.

+ Vh1 eyecandy

the one about the last Misshapes party

Songs that my pal considered highlights and made the kids go wild:
+ Killing In The Name ( Live in L.A )
+ Girls just wanna have fun ( live in Paris )
+ Back That Ass Up (Remix)
+ New York City Cops ( live Fiji Festival )
+ Gimme More
+ Freedom

// A global nightlife brand tries to grow up // We have the book // "it was amazing" // the grand finale // The Last Night of Misshapes: Hip, Post-New-Wave and Through // Misshapes Ends, Hipsters Divide

[ New York ]

[ Richard Ashcroft - New York ]

Song Selection by Martin

// Away Message: Gone to NY for a few days

[ Rainy Night in Soho ]

sometimes

[ Nick Cave - Rainy Night in Soho ]

[ Jane Siberry - It Can't Rain All The Time ]

[ Freedom `90 ]

Erin Nelson.

+ George Michael: Freedom 90 (live)

[ I'm Set Free ]

end.

[ the velvet underground  - I'm set free (live) ]

+  Thom Yorke and Beck: I'm Set Free

[ (I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free ]

the importance of being binary by chariche

[ Grinderman - (I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free ]

The best Friday Night Lights DVD Endorsement ever

+ FNL Gallery
+ Friday Night Lights – Money Back Guarantee