The Strokes / Robyn

The much anticipated "Angels" album from The Strokes has dropped today! Hoorayy! I was a little bit hesitant knowing that Julian Casablancas took a back seat on writing this album, but I'm going to be honest, I love it. Maybe it's just because I have been listening to so much heavy electro lately that it's a really nice change, but regardless, it's really great. It's a very good feeling album. Also, they performed on SNL and they killed it. I love bands that play better even better live. Check it HERE.

The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness



Well this was their single for a while now, so I'm sure you've all heard. So good.

The Strokes - Machu Picchu



This song reminds me of Atlantaaaa. Pre - Monroe street, Post backyard bonfires. The guitar in this song is SO happy.

The Strokes - Call Me Back



I'm gunna go ahead and say that this is probably my favorite on the album so far. I don't know what it is about the song, but there is something about it that evokes some weird emotion in me. If I was emotional, I would totally cry at :46 and on. This is definitely my new sleepy song. Yay.

The Strokes - Metabolism



Okay this might be a little crazy, but I swear to you this sounds like something Thom Yorke would produce. Tell me Casablancas doesn't harmonize in a Yorke-ian fashion in this song. He does. Which makes me like the song even more.




I always blog new Robyn. :)

TeddyBears feat. Robyn - Cardiac Arrest



She's like...kind of annoying in this song, but I put it past her, because, well, it's her.

Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend



Her voice sounds pretty in this :) And the lyrics are totally on point.

Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend (Sultan & Ned Shephard Remix preview)



OH MY GOD I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL THIS SONG DROPS.

Stolen Souls Pt. 2

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SB Tunage

Katy B - Broken Record



I talk about her all of the time. I really have a massive crush on her. Her voice is PERFECT. And hypem once again, graced me with the presence of this song. And I just found the video which I guess was released today. Yesssss.

OMC - How Bizarre



I'm a little embarrassed by how old this is, but my friend Carolynne and I kept saying "how bizarre" one afternoon, and then we started jammin to this song, and now I just can't stop. And it will forever remind me of the movie Parent Trap.

Usher - More (Red One Remix)



I heard this on the radio. I had no idea mainstream music was so much fun! But anyway, as expected this is my new dance song. I'm slightly in love with it, too bad I have nobody to go dancing with. Oh wait, that's a lie, I will be in Miami in two days. :)

Royksopp - Keyboard Milk



Uhmm...I have nothing to say. Royksopp's shit is always on point, so are every single one of their video's. Except this song makes me want to run away for some reason. Or
go to a graveyard. Or something....

Katy B - Broken Record



YESSSS. She's so pretty, I love the lights, the dancing, everything. Thank you APC for once again making my night complete.

Positivism

If you've been keeping up with my constant bitching, then you would know that the past couple of weeks I've been feeling depression creeping it's way back inside of my life. However, after telling that to my mom one night on the phone, and having her flip a shit and scream at me (I know it's because she just doesn't understand how it all works, and she honestly is just scared that...'that' will happen again) I made a conscious decision to tell myself to stop sinking and start swimming. Along with this initial internal power, a very cute friend of mine gave me a book to read. As I was reading it I could've sworn that he was either trying to convert me to Protestantism or he heard that I was negative and acted like he had just a random book floating around to give to me. But honestly, it was one of the most positive, healthy, nice, (literary defected) books I've ever read. It was all about Perspective.
Perspective.
That is something I'm not good at. Everything is half empty to me, everything is dead or dying, and everything is shitty. But honestly, where the hell is that attitude going to get me in life? Nowhere. Now I know why one of my best friends wouldn't take my shit any longer. She always had a positive attitude, and now she's the head intern at Vogue's accessory department. How depressing was I to be around the last year or so? SO WHAT, shit happens, I bet 80% of people have PTSD, clinical depression.... anxiety and panic disorder............but if I choose to just sit and wait for the worst...where is that going to get me. I was bitching about how I have to stay at school for spring break...WHO CARES, I live in freaking Naples, FL, one of the nicest warm areas of the south, I have a bajillion books I can finally read for myself, I'm with two of my best friends, and I have all the time in the world to blog and go to the beach. I did't really get to see this until I met thee most depressing person in the world. So self-loathing, so selfish, so negative....I never ever want to be that bad.
So damn, here is to brightening up my wardrobe from black to grey.

Lykke Li

I am extremely pleased with her new album, obviously, so I decided to put up some of my faves.

Lykke Li - Rich Kid Blues



Lykke Li - Youth Knows No Pain



Lykke Li - I Know Places



(My new sleeping song)

Lykke Li - Sadness is a Blessing



And last but not least, my favorite.

I miss my friends :(

Me and Linz, RockYard NYC for Chief
Me and Laur, West Village NYC
Me and Brittany, Atlanta
Me and Colleen, West Village NYC

I Steal Souls.

From all across the blogspot globe.

Music Set 2

Sarahbeth Tucek - Get Well Soon (Team Ghost Remix)



The beginning of this song sounds like the part in Requiem for a Dream when Harry calls Marian for the first time when he's in Florida. And the rest of the song continues to be amazing. I haven't gotten a chance to listen to the original, but I'm assuming this version is better. I like her voice A LOT.

Slipknot - Vermillion Pt. 2



I'm well aware this song is extremely old. However, I have always been obsessed with Vermillion, and I had actually never heard Pt. 2. Softer, more passionate, and the violins that overthrow everything else is such a splendid touch. And his voice sounds good.

LCMDF - Future Me



I normally don't like music like this, it's far too happy usually, but for some reason I really enjoy singing along to this song. It's a good driving song.
For when I drive my car and all.....

Jamie Woon - Lady Luck



Okay so I posted a Jamie Woon song a couple of months ago, 'Blue Truth' and it ended up being one of my favorite songs for a while. And while I was rummaging through APC the other day, I found like a super acoustic version of this song, he's like...singing in a canoe. Anyway, I found the orig, and low and behold, I fell in love once again.

Radiohead - Give Up the Ghost




I think the anticipation for Radiohead's new album 'King of Limbs' was one of the most severe levels of album excitement I've expressed in a while. And then I got the album. And then my excitement faded. I guess I just always hold high standards for them ever since 'Kid A,' but for some reason this album is just much to mellow for me. But I forced myself to listen to the album everyday since I got it so like a good fan, I would support whatever sound they want to portray. And it kind of worked... There are like 3 pretty good tracks on the album. This being one of them. Enjoy.

I'm in the mood where I want to disappear, not tell anyone where I'm going...and just be gone.

It has been forced into my life that feeling lonely is selfish. So I try to kick that feeling when it creeps up on me. Maybe it's the season, .... of 85 degree weather we have down here...I don't know what it is but I want it to go away before I let it get all the way inside of me.

So then you hear the story about how people fill that secret void up with materials, and I try to fill it up with what I've been taught is the right thing, along with what I believe is my right thing. Music, duh. (Cliche? Bite me.) And it works for a couple days, then it get's even lonelier because you are enjoying it by yourself.
And then I miss my family, and my dogs, and my friends up in New York, and I crave the life my Brooklyn Barbie is living right now. And I wish school was over, and Florida didn't exist. And I wish I had a boyfriend even though I know if I did I wouldn't want him anymore. So it begins....
And I wish I looked different, and I wish I never quit ballet, and I wish I still modeled. I wish I was as happy as people I see walking around, or as happy as my sisters and friends. I wish I still had that religious high that I had from the retreat a couple weeks ago.

But then I remember that happiness is an illusion, along with every other emotion that we all want to believe we are feeling. And I become the ever hated deconstructionist, and tell myself that nothing matters, no emotions, or feelings, and that we are all going to change in a matter of minutes. And this feeling is a never ending cycle that eats away at you and then fills itself up again.

And then my music comes on again and I feel all better.

STOLEN.

All of these images were stolen from random Tumblr's I stalked.

When I was little, I never thought I was secretly a Princess...I always believed I was a Mermaid....

I am slowly but surely realizing my insecurities, along with understanding what I have to do to fix them.
But for some reason, I am far too stubborn to do anything about them. So I will continue to fixate myself on the emptiness rather than focus myself on my blessings.

I am becoming lonelier the more I let my head listen to itself. The more I yell at it to stop, the worse it becomes. I am passed being that reckless endangerment to myself, I wish to move on and become wholesome once again.

Materials and the superficial are just how they sound. Nothing fills up a void. Nothing except the Higher. I only pray that They become my friends once again.

Music Set 1

Lykke Li - Paris Blue (Death to the Throne Remix)




For starters, I have a huge crush on Lykke Li, and I hope to some day grow up to be like her. All of her original music is absolutely beautiful, but for some reason these remixes that I am so blessed to find are just that much better. Death to the Throne remixes are pretty significant, you can always tell their remix apart from another...but they did a really good job on this one.

Hussle Club - Loose Tights (Flinch Remix)



I mean it's okay. It's not something I would die without in my itunes, and I'm not even that huge a fan of dubstep because after a while it starts to make you severely ill...but this one works. I think I just like his old school British sounding voice. 1:32 = WOMPWOMPWOMP.

Flo Rida feat. Akon - Who Dat Girl (Hardwell Club Mix)


I deeply do not like either of these artists. But it's such a good remixxixxx. Ugh I hate when songs like these happen to me, because I hate playing them and giving artists like this credit, but whatever, can't help it. Props to them for getting me to dance unwillingly.

Laidback Luke & Steve Aoki - Turbulence (feat. Lil Jon)



Clearly anything you see with either Steve Aoki in it or even if it's just a remix by Laidback Luke, it's usually gold. And this is a very uppity hype track. The beat is super killer, although I somewhat wish the BPM's were raised in the second half, just to make it a little bit more exciting. And as annoying as Lil Jon is, he really does make a song fun.

TUNAGE

Moby - Sevastopol



Wowww. Moby I have missed listening to you. This is so beautiful, pretty haunting, but in a lighter, softer tone. The more I listen to it, the more in love with it I become. It sort of reminds me of a Groove Armada song that I cannot pin point right now, but this is definitely my new bedtime song.

Tiga - Mind Dimensions (Bloody Beetroots Remix)



Huge crush on Tiga, bigger crush on Bloody Beetroot remixes.

GTronic - Sucker Punch (The Only Remix)



SUCKA PUNCH. It makes me want to run far away ... Or run from a bad guy or something.

Freestylers - Cracks (Flux Pavillion Remix)



You know how I feel about Flux Pavillion. Their remixes rule all. Sounds similar to the Jamiroque's 'Blue Skies' remix that they did... UGH it's just so good. That is all.

JOB feat. Anjulie with MadV - Warrior



My brother sent this to me. No words included, just the song. Because he knew that I would obsess over it. TOTALLY Natalia Kills - esque. Sounds like her, dirty beat like how she rolls. Sense of a dark passion throughout, also.

Enrique Iglesias - Tonight



DON'T HATE. I'm sorry, but Enrique is becoming my new Pitbull. These beats he's been singing over are so incredibly sexy. This is one of those songs that just gets me into so much trouble. The video is disgustingly raunchy, but completely enticing. I haven't danced this hard to a song in quite some time. Sin sin sin.

And this is one of the cutest commercials I've seen in a while.

EF - Live The Language - Paris from Albin Holmqvist on Vimeo.

Directed by Gustav Johansson

Happy Valentines Day...

Happy Valentines Day....




Just remember everyone was slaughtered at one point on this day. Just keep that in the back of your mind.

Forgiveness is the Key to Happiness

I went on a retreat this weekend. I first decided to go because my mother offered to pay me if I went, but then I realized that it has been a while since I've retreated and been in touch with my spirituality. So I decided to go, and as I walked onto that bus all I could think about was how random this group of girls and guys was. Seven girls, all from different groups of friends at Ave, and I had no idea what the retreat was about.
'Catching the flame' was the title of the retreat I learned once I got there, and it's main focus was how to turn away from despair and depression and embrace your suffering.
Ironic? Nope, just God working severely for all of us.
It started off okay, kinda awkward...and then one night as all the girls were in their cabin getting ready for bed, one of the girls started talking about this relationship she was in, and she was SO hurt and upset because the love of her life had just broken her heart. Now, we all know from my constant bitching that I have been there plenty of times before, so I joined in the conversation and decided to put in some advice. My advice led to a story, and a story led to me pouring my soul out to these girls. I hadn't told anyone at Ave about my past, I loved having a clean slate here, but for some reason I knew that I needed to tell these girls. My story led to the next girls story, and the next, and the next...and so on. Every single one of those girls was hurt more than you could imagine. Every single girl couldn't forgive the people that hurt them, or themselves. Me included. But through this new friendship and through the Blessed Sacrament, and Jesus being exposed to us, we all developed this incredible strength and power to forgive the bastards that have too seriously damaged our minds, bodies, and souls.
I will remember this weekend forever, because it was the first time I actually let myself cry about what has happened, and find it in myself to let go of everyone I held so much anger towards. I forgave myself, too, which I haven't been able to do in forever. I had so much pent up guilt and anger towards myself for what I put my family and friends through this summer. I am so sorry. But now, I kind of feel free. And like I'm honestly almost crying as I write this because every single one of those girls is so, so incredibly beautiful, inside AND outside, and I can't thank God enough for bringing us all together. We all needed it so much.

Which brings me to my next point. Why do I love so much the comfortability of being depressed, when I can be so happy in the presence of Jesus and Mary. I don't know.

But I do know that from this day forward that I am going to stop selling myself short, because as much as I seriously suck as a person, I deserve a hell of a lot better than what I have been giving myself.

Wildfox Couture - Vive La France

Martin Solveig & Dragonette - Hello

Hate the video, LOVE the song. I danced to this song in Miami this weekend, and the lights that the place had to go with the song were crazy, and it was one of the best feelings I've had in a really long time. When you close your eyes, and all the lights are flashing behind closed lids, you forget about everyone who is in there and you dance only for you. Best. Feeling. Ever.
ANYWAY, the lyrics to this song...describe me. It's unfortunate, but so damn true.

"I could stick around and get along with you, hello.
It doesn't really mean that I'm into you, hello.
You're alright but I'm here, darling, to enjoy the party.
Don't get too excited 'cause that's all you get from me, hey.
Yeah, I think you're cute, but I really think that you should know.
I just came to say hello, hello, hello, hello.

I'm not the kinda girl to get messed up with you, hello.
I'ma let you try to convince me to, hello.
It's alright I'm getting dizzy just enjoy the party.
It's OK with me if you don't have that much to say, hey.
Kinda like this game but there's something you should know.
I just came to say hello, hello, hey, hey."

I laughed when I finally got to hear all the lyrics to this song. I haven't had a song describe my life in quite some time.

Happy 22nd Birthday, Laurali Mary

Surprise Viewing Tunes, dedicated to you, Lu.







I hope you have a wonderful day my dear! Happy Birthday from the bottom of my heart, wish I could be in NYC with you celebrating. <3

Savage Skulls & Douster feat. Robyn - Bad Gal

Savage Skulls & Douster feat Robyn - Bad Gal from Mad Decent on Vimeo.

yayyyyy. I <3 Robyn.
The tennis scene is straight out of that movie 'The Business'.