New York Je t'aime

What a fairy tale trip it was to new York. From the day I have landed in US I have longed to visit NY. Somehow it never happened. The closest I came was when I was in JFK Airport for few hours on my transit from London to LA. But the wait was finally over last week. How it happened is an amazing story in itself.
So last week I had an enormous Cummunication Breakdown. My Macbook Graphics card died(hence no monitor), within minutes my jailbroken iphone froze. And my Desktop PC has been a infested by Trojan Viruses for weeks now. We I went to Apple store to get it fixed. I took Sarah along as we wanted to watch A Serious Man after we were done at Apple. While I was at the Genius Bar, Sarah found 150$ return tickets on Orbitz. It was on dates that I could not go. But such a deal is hard to pass. So Sarah bought her tickets to NYC in the apple store. On my way home I kept changing my mind about going to NYC to be with her. We had always wanted to go to NY together & it was the closest we have come. I finally decided to not go. It was quite depressing. I went to work & she went to a Pumpkin carving party at her friends house.
At the party she met Janie, who was move by our story. She immediately used her rapid rewards with Southwest to buy me a ticket to NY for the dates I could make it. In her kind words "You guys are yound & in love, He has never been to NY, Its a very romantic time of the year to be there"
God bless her. If Los Angeles was really a city of angels, she definitely is one of them.

And I loved New York. I wish I had moved to NY instead of LA. I miss Subways. It was so good to not need a car. Loved East Village.

Week 40 2009

1) Yegelle Tezeta - Mulatu Astatke

2) I am not a Robot - Marina & The Diamonds

3) Run Into Flowers - M83 ( Abstract Keal Agram Remix) A great song taken to another world by a great remix...

4) Driver's Seat - Sniff' n The Tears

5) Skye - Whats Wrong With Me

Week 39, 2009

Finally I bought a car. The 1st car I paid for since I moved to USA. Its a 2001 Hyundai Accent. I bought it from a really nice gal ZOE. Its manual, so I won't be driving it too much because of my sprained Thumb.

This week I discovered a really good blog - Audio Drums for my kinda music.
Since I discoevered them just 2 days back. My songs of this week will be from that blog.

1) Bye Bye Bayou - LCD Soundsystem This would be the song of last week for me.

2) Fate or Faith - Ror Shak

3) Tom is my only Friend - Rescue Cat Poorly made video doesn't do justice to the song.

4) Your Tiny Mind - Relation Another Brit group.

5) Exotika - Chris & Cosey - I was looking for sunglasses at Trading Post & song song was playing. I had to write down the info.

6) Like a Hobo - Charlie Winston A good song. When remixed well, it can sound even better.
Tru_Fix is that person.

Week 38, 2009

1) Green Eyed Love - Mayer Hawthorne A regular song elevated by CLASSIXX. They are master of that.

2) Luv Deluxe - Cinnamon Chasers A great video hooked me to this solo project of Russ Davies, nephew and son of Ray Davies and Dave Davies respectively, two founding members of The Kinks. I love almost all their songs so far.

3) Hugh Masekela with Paul Simon Thanks to Jaideep my other big discovery of this week. The last 5 mins of this video gives me goosebumbs...

4) Chileshe - Hugh Masekela

5) Missing the Light of the Day - Air

A Nobel Problem

What a world we live-in when winning the Nobel Peace Prize will harm the recipient. When we are discussing if winning the biggest prize of the world is good or bad for the President.

I think the Nobel Peace Prize is undeserving for Obama. I wish he had refused to accept it. But I'm very happy they gave it to him. It will give him so much advantage in his fight against the establishment. Esp in his peace efforts in Middle East & his desire to get out of AfPak war without a disaster.
For once I agree with Rush Limbaugh. He thinks that the Norwegians gave this to him to put pressure on him to work towards peace. Duh! I don't see anything wrong in that. But its interesting to watch 90% of the people bitching about it.
Maureen Dowd wrote a really hilarious op-ed about it.

Week 37, 2009

This week just flew by. I don't even know if I managed to do anything at all. Not a good thing to think of in the midst of a major depression. Anyways Music to our rescue. I could not find links to 2 of the songs this week.

1) Green Onions - Booker T & the MGs Not a bad masterpiece to begin this list eh?

2) Threat - Jay Z This is my fav song of the Black Album this week.

3) Midnight in a Perfect World - DJ Shadow What a smooth song. One of the best DJs of last 2 decades.

4) You Can't Go Home Again - DJ Shadow I love the song. More so because of the video. It reminds me of the masterpiece I am Cuba.

5) Son of Tribe - Tribe This if from album Rebirth released on Planet E.

6) Aneugalam - KZA(Forces of Nature) This is a compilation by Japanese artist KZA. Album is DAE(Dig & Edit) on Mule Musiq records.

Week 36, 2009

1) Astral Weeks - Van Morrison What a beautiful song.

2) The Way Young Lovers Do - Van Morrison

3) A Mountain of One - Bones Mario Cotto opened his set this saturday with this song.

4) You'll See It - Washed Out Discovered them @Hypem.

5) Threat - Jay-Z My love for the Black Album continues.

6) Faxing Berlin - Dead Mau5 A nice Sunrise song for an outdoor party.

7) Safari - Andre Kraml

8) After the Dawn - Peter Kruder

9) Emotional R - In Flagranti What a fuckin sexy song... Just heard it 10 minutes back.

Week 35, 2009

1) My 1st Song - Jay-Z So far I think this is my favorite Jay-Z song. I finally checked out the Black Album last night & now i know why it is considered his masterpiece.


2) The Numbers Song - Acid Girls Fantastic Electro/Techno song with blazing hot chics walking around half-naked. Sounds like just another music video, but this one is unlike any of them. It fits the music perfectly & creeps the hell out of you by the time its over. Its also a song that will be not liked by everyone. Esp because its techno. And thats why thing is a good song that separates the loser snobs of music.

3) My 1st Big Break - Cut Chemist

Worlds 1st 360degree Panaromic video.

4) Sing Sang Sung - AIR They are back with a new album. From how this song sounds seems to me like its a return to Moon Safari.

5) Velvet - The Big Pink I like almost everything I hear from their new album.

6) Die Slowly(Tobacco Remix) - Health

Add On Softwares

I discovered some really cool tools last night at 4am trying to go to sleep. Thanks to Farhad Manjoo @ SLATE. I never miss his articles.

I discovered the Prototypes on Facebook. I liked the Desktop Notification add-on for Mac OS. Now I need to sync it with Safari instead of Firefox.

I also opened a much needed account on MINT. Its a really fantastic tool to keep track of all your finances. Now instead of going to 3 different bank websites, i can keep track of everything on Mint. It also helps you organize your finances better. They just got bought over by Intuit last week for $170 Million.

Then I browsed FireFox Add ons for a minute just to see whats going on there. I ended up installing Cooliris.

Oh I completely forgot. Check out TWONES. Its a software that integrates all your online music accounts like Hypem, youtube. Its exactly what i needed. Now all I need is a invite. I even joined their Facebook Group( something I never do).

Week 34, 2009

A Flaming Lips Week. Esp their best album Yoshimi.

1) Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt.1

2) Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt.2 - My fav track of the Album.

3) Fight Test

4) She Don't Use Jelly

5) Die Slowly( Tobacco Mix) - Health A really cool song I heard on the first Hypem Radio Countdown.