Ariel in Wonderland

Bon Iver

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:35:45 -0500

Pitchfork rates Bon Iver’s album as number one for 2011?!

How clutch is that.

….I fucking love Bon Iver.

p.s. I cringe when people pronounce this name wrong. It’s french for ‘good winter’ go look up the pronunciation. Bo-n Ee-vére

Matt & Kim - Daylight So, I’m well into Christmas...

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:33:14 -0500

Matt & Kim - Daylight

So, I’m well into Christmas break, actually my birthday is this friday. My grades still haven’t come in :(. I’m halfway between giving a fuck and not. My holidays…well let’s just say I don’t enjoy family gatherings or more specifically any extended time period with my mother but I digress…

I posted Daylight by Matt & Kim even though its wicked old because I needed to post something more positive and this certainly fills the quotient. Winston Churchill said “I’m an optimist - there doesn’t seem to be much use being anything else.” I’m trying to be an optimist - that’s going to be my resolution for 2012. I mean, I should try - the worlds going to end anyway right?

Jønsi - Animal Arithmetic It’s finals week (1/2). For some...

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:26:09 -0500

Jønsi - Animal Arithmetic

It’s finals week (1/2). For some god forsaken reason Fordham has a final schedule that lasts a week and a half. I took both my philosophy finals today. I still have to finish my 20pg philosophy paper…that’ll get done…sometime tonight. I am SO ready for this semester to be over. I need a break…from everything.

I am sure that this week is going to be better than last week - mostly because I am willing it to be so. I’m hopeful - it’s getting closer and closer to Christmas and it’s getting me excited.

OH! So yesterday, Jonsi had this free little public event at Union Square and of course me being the geisha that I am missed it! My friend Eric went and met Jonsi…ugh SO JELLY. I love Jonsi. His music is so beautiful it’s nearly tragic. Every time I listen to him I wanna laugh and cry at the same time. There’s just something about his music that is so…magical.

SO, in honor of Jonsi’s music being the soundtrack to the new movie coming out ‘We Bought a Zoo’ I’m posting one of my favorite Jonsi songs - Animal Arithmetic. Everything he puts out is fantastic but this particular song has a soft spot in my heart. It just makes me…excited for life. Haha, enjoy.

This City feat. Lupe Fiasco - Patrick Stump (Breathe Electric...

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:43:12 -0500

This City feat. Lupe Fiasco - Patrick Stump (Breathe Electric Remix)

I spent the last day and a half in my room isolating myself. Kind of feeling sorry for myself just kind of hating life. And I allowed myself to have that time. It’s kind of justified.

I can take my life in two different ways right now. I can continue being sad and isolating myself. But that’s so not me. I’m not a sad, pathetic girl who’s just going to cry about how everything sucks. I live in New York City for christs sake and I STILL fucking love this city. This week was FUCKED - some fucked up shit happened and I can’t change that. But I’m moving on with my life. I’m not going to stay home scared that something bad is going to happen. I’m going to put myself back up on the horse and try to enjoy life.

That’s why, I’m going to go out looking like fucking sex in a dress. I’m going to some party in the city. I don’t know what’ll happen, but I’m going to be hopeful, I’m going to make the best of my life or this city.

This song, My City is an ode to NYC. It’s a fantastic dance song. Take a listen while you get ready to go out tonight and make the best of your life because it really is fleeting.

I don't know you at all, I have no idea what's going on , but whatever this is, you can get through it. I figured from what I've read, you could use some (poorly written) words of encouragement from a stranger on tumblr. It's not much, but it might help. You're awesome, so keep on being awesome.

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:16:02 -0500

Aww thank you! You’re sweet!

Kid Cudi - Up Up & Away “Cause in the end...

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:49:00 -0500

Kid Cudi - Up Up & Away

“Cause in the end they’ll judge me anyway so WHATEVER.”

God, words can’t describe how much I love Cudi. His music just speaks to me. This song has been all I want to listen to lately. It’s pretty friggin awesome.

I’ve had a pretty horrific week - things just went from bad to worse to horrific. I deleted my facebook so I wouldn’t have to deal with people talking to me about everything. I’ve had a shit week yeah, and some really fucked up things have happened to me but I’m a lot stronger than all that. I really hate being pitied.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad I have so many people who care about me. I appreciate their concern but…everything, it’s all too much for me right now.

I guess I just need time. I’ll be okay though.

Sneakin’ Out the Hospital - Beastie Boys Maybe I’m...

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:27:00 -0500

Sneakin’ Out the Hospital - Beastie Boys

Maybe I’m growing up, maybe I’m growing apathetic I’m not sure yet. This week’s (semester) been fucked for me. I tried to do too much…I took too many credits. I’m excited for next semester. I have a much better schedule…this one…it needs to end. I don’t think I’ve ever wanted/needed a semester to end so badly before. I’m not sure what exactly is going on with me…I don’t think I’ve ever skipped so many classes before. It’s pretty fucking awful. I think this Thanksgiving break is necessary. I need to “me” time. Just some time to reconnect with myself and get my priorities in order. I miss the days where I could be carefree about most of my life…carefree doesn’t exist in New York City.

This song, by the Beastie Boys is off the album Hello Nasty. It’s wicked old. I’ve just recently gotten backen into them. It seems like/is an interlude song for the album but just so necessary. It came on randomly while I was writing this (I was originally going to upload something else.) and I just thought “this is just so much more relevant.” So, listen and accept it for what it is - a good fucking song.

Again, I’m sorry, I don’t feel like putting up the dl link, message me for it.

Yup, the story of my life.

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:49:02 -0500

lemurz:

sometimes i think about doing my homework.

that’s it, that’s as far as we get

Bon Iver - Skinny Love Conflict. I never know what(who) I...

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:42:31 -0500

Bon Iver - Skinny Love

Conflict.

I never know what(who) I really want. I never know how to read people - at least when it comes to people I’m interested in. I have this issue, with two people, who I equally like. But, on both sides, I’m not so sure if I really should. They both have respectively their pros and cons. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life gahhh I hate it.

I hate men. I hate relationships. I hate hook ups. I hate my indecision/insecurities. I hate sounding like an 8th grade boy crazy school girl.

I don’t feel like/have the time to put up a download link for this - message me for it. It’s wicked old but so friggin’ cute. Bon Iver is such an underrated band - they really need more recognition because they’re so god damn fantastic. It’s off their first album Emma; that entire album is just fantastic and their second album is just as good. I highly suggest looking into them.

Occupy Wall Street. You know what really pisses me off? - Quite...

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:55:30 -0400

Occupy Wall Street.

You know what really pisses me off? - Quite a few things actually but I’ll focus my annoyance on one topic today - the media’s coverage of Occupy Wall Street.

Ann Coulter calls them “Demonic Liberal Mobs”
Tea Partiers calls them “Law-Breaking Anarchists who want tear America down”
That “accidental” internet black out of the Occupation
CNN refusing to covering it, along with other mainstream American outlets

People are angry, people feel slighted/taken advantage of/frustrated/angry. 25 million Americans are unemployed yet profits of major corporation CEO’s are record breaking. When you push and push and push people eventually they’re going to push back. The onslaught of negative media against these protests are just ridiculous and vastly ignorant.

I saw this article when I googled Occupy Wall Street:

In contrast, those occupying Wall Street want less of what made America great — and more of what is damaging America. They want a bigger, more powerful government to come in and take care of them, redistributing the wealth of those who innovate and create something, so they don’t have to work like the rest of us who pay their bills.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66257_Page2.html#ixzz1bBwHtZtr

Uhmmm what? Yes, we DO want to redistribute the wealth because its not fair that there are people starving to death while people are flying on corporate jets. Yes, we do want more government regulation so corporations will stop taking advantage of every day people. And I can only speak for myself and the people I know supporting/attending the protest but, we work and pay our bills too.

We are not a group of uneducated liberal demonic protesters like Ann Coulter tries to make us out to be. In fact, we’re quite educated - we see a fallacy in the American government and we want to do something about it.
We are not law breaking Anarchists who want to tear America down - Well wait, in that same article we’re called anarchists and then he says we want more government regulation? Who’s the hypocrite here?

God! I just so sick of this bull shit!

p.s. The song I’m posting - I posted it before a long while back is an auto tuned version on a Martin Luther King Jr. song its pretty decent. The video is on youtube - look it up.

THATS COOL. I mean who doesn’t like being...

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:51:00 -0400

THATS COOL.

I mean who doesn’t like being backstabbed.

While you’re at it why don’t you stab me in the fucking face too.

Its cool if you want to date someone who completely disrespects you, will/has cheated, and is a complete douche bag. Lets not forget that his tiny, skinny, excessively hairy, jewish dick that has never actually made you cum ONCE during sex. Whatever - I really don’t care what you want to do with your romantic life. Do you. But to date someone after all that he’s done to you or more specifically me is unacceptable. The actions that he did last January were unacceptable.

Apparently to you they weren’t.

Have a nice fucking life - slore.

And as a tribute to you here are a couple of songs you might relate too. Ke$ha and Dresden Dolls.

My life. How can I describe it lately? I’ve been out and...

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:43:00 -0400

My life.

How can I describe it lately? I’ve been out and about with fun trips to NH, concerts (or lack thereof), days spent in central park and so many other things that have made this semester so unbelievable. If I were to look at my life from a 3rd person perspective this is pretty close to a life I’ve wanted to be living for a while now. And yet, I’m not satisfied. I want more.

I’ve been reading this fantastic book - St. Augustine’s Confessions. It basically describes my life. It really is a coming of age story for mankind. And as much as I want to be at the heightened state of being that he is at the end of his book…I’m just not. I would still consider myself lost. I look for truth and find error, I look for “Pleasure” and find “Pain,” I look for beauty and find disgust. I want wisdom but don’t know how to attain it. I think maybe humanity is called to do that.

The song I’m posting today is by a little ole’ band called State Radio. It’s an old song and I just rediscovered it in my itunes. My roommate freshman year took me to see them live in Rhode Island it was definitely one of my best experiences of that year. This band is so fantastic, they have their own little charity or organization called “Calling All Crows” I really encourage you to look into it. Its pretty awesome. This song is pretty cool too - Man in the Hall is my favorite song from this band. Enjoy.

The Starfucker Story So, a couple weeks ago my friend Eric and I...

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:17:29 -0400

The Starfucker Story

So, a couple weeks ago my friend Eric and I went to see starfucker live at the Bowrey Ballroom. We planned on drinking…copious amounts of alcohol but seeing as we’re both underage we needed a sneaky way to do it. Hence we came up with the idea of bringing a hiking backpack. If you’re a hiker you may know that often these backpacks come with something called a hiking bladder. These a hefty concealed pouches that house liquid (assumably water). We however, crafty bastards we are instead put boxed wine in it. Yes I said it, BOXED WINE. JUDGE ME.

Anyway, we got there waaaay too early and by early I mean like two hours early and for some small relatively unknown indie band its kind of a big deal. So we of course start drinking as soon as we get there. By the time the opening band (Casio Kids) start we’re hammered. I’m just going to put it out there are say that Casio Kids were one of the best bands I’ve seen live and up until that point it had been my best night in nyc. Then..they stopped and a security guard pulled us out of the crowd. I guess people had been watching us on camera the entire time…they didn’t find our hiking backpack clever…or legal. We got kicked out literally minutes before Starfucker was to get on stage.

So, being incredibly hammared and getting kicked out of that show was bad enough, somehow miraculously we end up making it back to the 6 train. We get to Canal st before the train stops. Ten minutes after leaving our initial train station there was a murder there! Insane right?! Anyway the train stops moving and we’re stuck at canal st. Eric in his drunker stupor suggests we just walk home (apparently its not THAT bad of a walk from chinatown to Pace Uni)

Do I even need to say what happens next? Obbbviously we got lost in Chinatown. Walking around that area is bad enough, try doing it drunk and at night - not a good combination. We end up in this ho bunk chinese restaurant, eat the most random food, and then give up walking around chinatown and take a taxi cab home.

the end.

Well, even though I DIDN’T see Starfucker live their newest album is still wicked good. And in celebration of that I’m posting a few of my favorite songs from the album.

Vampire Weekend - White Sky (Basement Jaxx Remix) Casio Kids -...

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:15:21 -0400

Vampire Weekend - White Sky (Basement Jaxx Remix)

Casio Kids - Finn Bikkjen! (Lightsoverla Remix)

This past weekend - killed me.

In a fantastically awesome way. Saturday I went to my first (and definitely not last) Anti-War protest. Literally thousands of people gathered at Union Square and marched all the way to City Hall (for non New Yorkers thats a pretty decent walk) It was fantastic to know people all over the city are so in tuned to whats going on in the world and actually want to do something. I felt like I was living in a moment out of the 1960’s (with better style and taste of course). I happened to be in the student contingent and people from universities all around the Northeast came, UConn, Cornell, and Brown…just to name a few. It was definitely an inspiring day.

And how do I celebrate this fantastic day? I drank boxed wine out of my hiking backpack and headed on over to Williamsburg. I went to this little ho-bunk club that was really not much bigger than a typical loft in Brooklyn that was hosting “Brain-Cave” and displaying some of the Brooks up incoming indie artists. They weren’t too shabby either! (I’ll post some of the stuff I liked on my next post. I’m definitely a little behind on blogging.)

Today, I’m going to give some of my more dancable hipsters a treat. Two suhhhweet club mixes of two awesome bands - Casio Kids and Vampire Weekend. You’ve probably never heard of Casio Kids and thats because their this relatively unknown band from Norway. A couple weeks ago they opened for Starfucker…and that story will be my next blog post. Anyway enjoy these two songs, I think given all the glorious music I’ve been hearing over the past couple of days these two definitely stood out a bit too me.

Sorry its been a while since my last post, I’ve been...

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:06:37 -0400

Sorry its been a while since my last post, I’ve been suuuuper busy. I have an anniversary coming up! I’ve almost been blogging for an entire year now and I’d like to thank those of you who have been following me since the beginning! You guys are great!

And speaking of good news I finally moved out! I’m so freakin happy to be in a normal living situation. (Although I wish that my boots weren’t stolen…) Its funny just how much of an effect a bad rooming situation can bring your life down. Things at Fordham are definitely looking up!

Anyway! The video I’m posting is by Casiokids! They’re a fantastic band who are even more fantastic live (I saw them this past Saturday). They opened for Starfucker (I’ll tell that story another time) and were so freakin awesome. I highly recommend them. Oh and this video is wicked chill too.

There comes a time in everyone’s life where you just feel...

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:40:05 -0400

There comes a time in everyone’s life where you just feel completely beat down. I guess due to recent events in my life thats a little what I’ve been feeling like. There are definitely some really shitty people out there, I’ve unfortunately had some first hand experience with that.

However, as much as people suck, there are always a few people who kind of make up for it. People who make you not give up on humanity. I’m fortunate enough to know a few of these people, namely my sister. I legitimately believe that in the genetic lottery I’ve won by having the privilege of being related to this person.

She’s the one person in the world who accepts me completely for who I am and when I’ve fallen to bits she’s right there to pick up the pieces and put me back together again. I can’t have asked for a better sister we truly are ying and yang.

This one’s for you Olivia - You’re my heart and soul.

This is an acoustic version of Family Force 5’s new song Baby, You Got It. You can thank me for this glorious gift later.

My life is a giant unyielding ball of stress. It never ceases to...

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:45:00 -0400

My life is a giant unyielding ball of stress. It never ceases to amaze me when I think that things literally couldn’t get any worse they do. I legitimately believe that I will cruelly laugh at the next bit of bad luck/news I get.

Sometimes I think of leaving my life here, I think of learning french and running away to live in the french countryside, marry a farmer and live a really simple, uncomplicated life. Sometimes I just want to run away to Brazil and live with a tribe in the amazon. Sometimes I want to move to India and dream of sitting with beautiful elephants all day. Or even moving to italy and working in a gelato shop for the rest of my life. Sometimes, I just want to run.

In that spirit I’m posting a song by Post Foetus, a spin off band of Baths. The song is called Migration (convenient eh?!). Its really chill and it has inspired some of my recent runaway fantasies. Enjoy.

P.S. Has anyone seen a missing pair of UGG’s?

Video

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:28:00 -0400

SPRING TIME FEVER music cont. Starfucker - Florida First off, LOVE the band name. Secondly, this song kills, perfect for spring. Freelance Whales - Kilojoules I'm on a thermochem chapter in chemistry and the main symbol for energy is the kilojoules. Shape Of My Heart - Noah and the Whale Like I said, you can't go through spring without this band. Loveeee this song.

Spring Break is over and I’m both nervous and excited to...

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:19:19 -0400

Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring You can't go through this season without this band. Its just not possible. Electric Indian - Kids These Days Awesome song, Awesome Video. Enough Said

Spring Break is over and I’m both nervous and excited to return back to school. I’ve received a ton of emails regarding my last two posts and why they were edited. So, I’ll reiterate.

1) I don’t plan on making a habit of editing posts - chill out.

2) The reason why I edited those posts in the first place was because the things I had written in them was completely unlike my character and in complete opposition to the purpose of this blog. I would like to apologize to any parties who may have been offended to anything originally said.

The main purpose for this blog is to document my life (and offer to really snazzy music!). It is not and never will be my intention to slander anyone’s name. That being said, I’m not perfect, I make mistakes. I’ve said this multiple times, so do forgive this indiscretion.

Anyway! Over spring break we (those in the New York/New England area) experienced a particularly beautiful week. A lovely gift from mother nature (…especially if you consider whats going on in Japan atm) This beautiful weather inspired copious amounts of music listening, the kind to inspire spring…and summer! I’m posting a few of my favorites. Enjoy!

Fleet Foxes oh how I adore thee. I saw this on a friends tumbler...

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:10:00 -0500

Fleet Foxes oh how I adore thee. I saw this on a friends tumbler but didn’t feel like rebloging so I’ll just post it myself. It sounds like he’s going through a rough patch right now and I hope he gets well soon. I wish him only the most illogical, fantastic happiness. I love you Adam!

In light of recent events this post has been edited to suit the needs of established parties. Free expression is dead.