I Think I'm In Love...

...with this video.

Here's why...

...simple...
...great color schemes...
...dudes in dresses...
...girls in mustaches...
...extraneous black guy...
...beck...

Some Sunday Music Before Monday

Today I stumbled upon a handful of great music videos. Some I've seen before, some are new to me. However, they are all great. I just want to share the greatness of these videos with you, gentle reader.

Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry...

I don't know where I've been, but I feel like I missed this band at the party. She kept standing in the background, and I noticed her. However, every time I got close to her she was gone. I'm absolutely loving you, Cold War Kids. Don't ever leave me again. xOxO 4ever

P.S. I just heard and instantly fell in love with "Saint John". I'm tingles all over.

WATCH IT NOW!

Best Coast - When I'm With You...

If you haven't heard this album you are doing yourself a disservice to your life. It's heartbreaking and uplifting all at the same time. Plus this video has a very recognizable pop icon having a lot of fun.

WATCH IT NOW!

Free Energy - Free Energy...

Not only is the energy free, but there's so much of it. If their music doesn't pump you up and lift up your heart then you have no soul.

Other recommended listening: Andrew W. K. and The Go! Team

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Kasabian - Club Foot...

I've never actively sought to listen to Kasabian, but my friend recommended this song to me. After hearing it I realized that this song, is not only frenetic and blood-pumping, but it's been everywhere. Especially sports games and the other things macho. The video is superb! I love the mood the song sets for the video, and when it's paired with the black & white tones it only intensifies the despair of the situation.

Other recommended listening: I feel Ocean Colour Scene's "Hundred Mile High City" is a perfect mix of "Club Foot" and Cold War Kids' "Hang Me up To Dry"

WATCH IT NOW!

The White Stripes - Walking With A Ghost...

So, I had no idea that The White Stripes covered Tegan & Sara's "Walking With A Ghost". I have to say, I like The White Stripes version better. Plus! I really enjoy the music video, and from what I've been learning at school lately, that entire video seems within my grasp of animation production. That makes me happy.

WATCH IT NOW!

Blake Detherage's Day Off

Today's Day Off started just like any other one....

*wavy lines and wash out*

I pretended to be sick. I had come down with Oh... I don't know, let's say schoolislame-itis, and was coughing and wheezing. My mom came to take my temperature. As she stepped away I put the thermometer against the eco-friendly compact florescent light bulb. They aren't nearly as hot as filament bulbs, but it still did the trick; just barely. Then when she went to check my palms I licked them while hacking up a viscous lung biscuit to give them that authentic clammy fever feel. She was hooked. She called into the school, and off to work she went.

The day is mine!

*fade to now*

I just had the traditional day off breakfast of eggs over easy and toast along with a cup of coffee, juice, water, and fruit while sitting in my underwear. Every time I eat eggs over easy with hot sauce I think of Dexter. While eating I used my eyes to take in some music videos ala Pitchfork. I took in about three of them, and they are as follows.

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Bottled in Cork
Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes
Titus Andronicus - A More Perfect Union

TL&P - BiC...
Simply amazing. I've loved Ted Leo ever since I was first exposed to him in Hearts of Oak. And like a fine cheese he just gets better with age. Not only is his music still fun and rockin', but his video has dragged in guests with names like Paul F. Thompkins, John Hodgman, and Julie Klausner. The video also features a theatrical parody of Green Day's American Idiot.

WATCH IT NOW!

SB - FV...
When I watch this all that comes to mind is Anchorman. Good or bad, it's the truth. It's a fun video, and the music is good too. I'm no fancy schmancy music critter or anything, but that there is music I could skip to. The video is filtered through an old VHS cassette that has been recorded over more times than the tape I used to record old episodes of COPS. It displays a parody collection of vintage vignettes from the VHS era in front of a green screen... or probably a blue screen. If they want to keep it real, that is.

WATCH IT NOW!

TA - AMPU...
This song should be the anthem for Narnia. Not only do first impressions of this video make me think of that time I transported through that damned wardrobe, but the frontman resembles Mr. Tummus. Seriously, where are we on nominating this as Narnia's anthem?

WATCH IT NOW!

Now let's look at today's docket...

Shower
Toilet text
Deposit money
Send packages
Register for classes
Set up apartment meetings
Print off GBV tickets and forms for prescription refund
Assign dentist through BcBs website
Lunch
Futurama
Work out & Run
Shower
Toilet text
Read
Sketch
Carlos O'Karaoke
Drinks
Late night Guitar w/ Ian @ Hotel Lobby

Now everyone get out your official Blake Detherage's Day Off Bingo cards which you can pick up at your local Frito Lay's display stand, and keep your looking balls posted to my twitter @ 3kalb. I'll be updating through out the day, and recapping tonight.

Winners will be announced WHENEVER!

Blasted Beats From The Past

So, today I've decided to refill the ol' iPod. I'm going to trip back through the 3kalbia timeline, and load it up with music from my childhood. So, here I will post some of my favorite childhood albums.

And Begin!

Green Day - Dookie
Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
Rush - Counterparts
R.E.M. - Monster
Jethro Tull - Passionplay
Shaggy - Boombastic
Batman Forever soundtrack
US3 - Hand on the Torch
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
Beck - Odelay
Tom Waits - Mule Vibrations
Radiohead - The Bends
The Presidents of the U.S.A. - The Presidents of the U.S.A.
The Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
The Beatles - Anthology 1 - 3
Weird Al Yankavic - Running with Scissors
Aerosmith - Nine Lives
Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute

Additional:

Ace of Base - The Sign
Frank Sinatra - The Reprise Collection
Big Dumb Face - Duke Lion Fights the Terror!

If I think of anymore I'll post them.

That's right, laddies and gentle mends. I listened to that when I was but a wee lad, and you know what? I still love it all to this day. Well, with the exception of a couple of them that I still appreciate, but don't love AS MUCH.

Bonus!

• My 1st CD I ever owned was Green Day's Dookie
• My 1st concert I ever saw was Jethro Tull

Tell me about your musical childhood.