Music is such an important part of life, not just for entertainment purposes, but because music also affects our well-being. Different genres and songs affect mood. Music is a way of coping with things because it's as if someone else understands exactly what you are going through. Whether it's losing someone, being happy, heartbroken, or just going through a difficult time, there is a song that can help. Certain songs become correlated with times in your life and whenever you listen to that song, you are instantly brought back to a time when you heard it.
When I am stressed or have a lot of work to do, normally I turn to electronica music. Well, techno, electronic, electronica, dance, house, trance, electro, rave music, whatever you want to call it. Today I've been listening to Deadmau5, (dead mouse not deadmau-5) to get me through an all-nighter of studying. It's amazing that creating noise and mixing beats produces such a beautiful sound. It's hard to describe, but you feel so light and airy when listening to it.
Circa 1950, Karlheinz Stockhausen, a German figurehead in electronic music said his listeners told him his electronic music gave them an experience of outer space, sensations of flying, or being in a fantastic dream world. It feels as close to living in the moment as you can get.
"Many of my listeners have projected the strange new electronic music which they experienced into extraterrestrial space. Even though they are not familiar with it through human experience, they identify it with the fantastic dream world. Several have commented that my electronic music sounds 'like on a different star' or 'like in outer space,' " said Stockhausen.
This type of music is very conducive to studying and is actually very peaceful. Right now I'm obsessed with this song. It's called Happiness in Brazil, a mashup with Alexis Jordan's Happiness and Deadmau5's Brazil (2nd edit).
Deadmau5 and Alexis Jordan - Happiness in Brazil (Al Vanjel Edit) by Al Vanjel
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Cheap and Cheer-Full
B & H Vegetarian Restaurant is easy to miss, blending in with the store fronts on Second Avenue in the East Village. I was skeptical upon stepping into the narrow restaurant, but for $7.50, you can get a delicious and satisfying meal- perfect for a college student's budget. It is a great place if you are looking for some comfort food.
For an atypical experience, sit at the counter and watch while your food is made. I ordered a B & H Special omelet filled with onions, peppers, tomato and mushroom. It comes with a generous side of thick and flavorful home fries and fluffy challah bread. The challah was so delicious and served with butter.
I gave into my sweet tooth and also ordered a cookie that I couldn't figure out what was in it but couldn't stop eating. My meal came to $8.95, WHAT A DEAL for a good-quality meal in New York City. I will definitely return with guests for an authentic Jewish deli experience. Tweet This
For an atypical experience, sit at the counter and watch while your food is made. I ordered a B & H Special omelet filled with onions, peppers, tomato and mushroom. It comes with a generous side of thick and flavorful home fries and fluffy challah bread. The challah was so delicious and served with butter.
I gave into my sweet tooth and also ordered a cookie that I couldn't figure out what was in it but couldn't stop eating. My meal came to $8.95, WHAT A DEAL for a good-quality meal in New York City. I will definitely return with guests for an authentic Jewish deli experience. Tweet This
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Cutest Advent Calendar of 2010
On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me A PAIR OF LIPSPIKES 120MM and a partridge in a pear tree. Tweet This
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
SPOTTED:
Just a few weeks after the opening of her boutique, Dash, Kim Kardashian was back in NYC yesterday to launch her new jewelry line at the Bebe store in SoHo. Kim Kardashian for Bebe features both affordable and trendy pieces with inspiration from around the world. Tweet This
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Oh the treasures you can find hidden in Bobst
Marvin J. Taylor kind of resembles Hulk Hogan and is as dedicated to the history of punk as a six year old boy is about his lego collection. Taylor is the director of Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University. “I’m living proof that you could take a dissolute childhood turn it into a career,” he said.
Fales Library is a part of Bobst that I didn’t know existed and is located on the third floor. It contains over 200,000 volumes of the country’s rare book collection. It is composed of the Downtown Collection, the Food and Cookery Collection and the general Special Collections. The Downtown Collection is the largest collection of archival materials of the Downtown New York art scene anywhere and the only one in an academic library.
My Reporting Downtown class toured the Downtown Collection with Taylor last Thursday morning. Not that the collection was boring, but I didn’t appreciate it as much because I wasn't familiar with the names or cultural references.
One of the current exhibitions is a tribute to that church that NYU students walk past everyday on their way to class. The exhibit takes a look at Judson Memorial Church between 1954-77, a site for the first safe abortion clearing house, various social movements of the 1960s and home of the first gay support group.
Judson Memorial Church
Among what we saw was a recording of Yvonne Reiner's “The People’s Flag Show,” a 1964 modern dance performance in the Judson Memorial Church, with the dancers only wearing American flags over the front of their otherwise nude bodies. The press showed up and were outraged. “I think it’s absolutely brilliant,” Taylor said. “How liberating it must be to do this.”
Carolee Schneemann’s Meat Joy was another delight. It was like a sexualized synchronized swimming performance on stage. Undoubtably, very uncomfortable to watch with my class. It’s all about the body movements and the way the men are positioning the women. Partially clothed dancers writhed on stage. Women are sticking raw fish between their legs and men are putting raw chickens in their pants. “This totally changed dance and turned dance into performance,” said Taylor.
Moving the tour along, Taylor showed us what he considers “the best collection of punk rock anywhere.” I’m not into punk, but punk has certainly influenced fashion and many aspects of today’s culture. As Taylor put it, “[Punk] is so many things to so many other people.” The East Village is the birthplace of punk; what a better place than Greenwich Village to preserve these relics for artifactual value. "We believe the physicality of the object is just as important as the text in understanding the work," said Taylor. The primary sources are impressive, including the Richard Hell papers, the first copy of Punk Magazine from Jan. 1976 and a priceless interview tape with performer John Sex duping the interviewer.
Fales Library is open to all NYU students, faculty, and serious researchers. Fales is an example of a passion turned into something that all can enjoy, as well as an impressive documentation of the 70s, 80s and 90s in lower Manhattan. Tweet This
Fales Library is a part of Bobst that I didn’t know existed and is located on the third floor. It contains over 200,000 volumes of the country’s rare book collection. It is composed of the Downtown Collection, the Food and Cookery Collection and the general Special Collections. The Downtown Collection is the largest collection of archival materials of the Downtown New York art scene anywhere and the only one in an academic library.
My Reporting Downtown class toured the Downtown Collection with Taylor last Thursday morning. Not that the collection was boring, but I didn’t appreciate it as much because I wasn't familiar with the names or cultural references.
One of the current exhibitions is a tribute to that church that NYU students walk past everyday on their way to class. The exhibit takes a look at Judson Memorial Church between 1954-77, a site for the first safe abortion clearing house, various social movements of the 1960s and home of the first gay support group.
Judson Memorial Church
Among what we saw was a recording of Yvonne Reiner's “The People’s Flag Show,” a 1964 modern dance performance in the Judson Memorial Church, with the dancers only wearing American flags over the front of their otherwise nude bodies. The press showed up and were outraged. “I think it’s absolutely brilliant,” Taylor said. “How liberating it must be to do this.”
Carolee Schneemann’s Meat Joy was another delight. It was like a sexualized synchronized swimming performance on stage. Undoubtably, very uncomfortable to watch with my class. It’s all about the body movements and the way the men are positioning the women. Partially clothed dancers writhed on stage. Women are sticking raw fish between their legs and men are putting raw chickens in their pants. “This totally changed dance and turned dance into performance,” said Taylor.
Moving the tour along, Taylor showed us what he considers “the best collection of punk rock anywhere.” I’m not into punk, but punk has certainly influenced fashion and many aspects of today’s culture. As Taylor put it, “[Punk] is so many things to so many other people.” The East Village is the birthplace of punk; what a better place than Greenwich Village to preserve these relics for artifactual value. "We believe the physicality of the object is just as important as the text in understanding the work," said Taylor. The primary sources are impressive, including the Richard Hell papers, the first copy of Punk Magazine from Jan. 1976 and a priceless interview tape with performer John Sex duping the interviewer.
Fales Library is open to all NYU students, faculty, and serious researchers. Fales is an example of a passion turned into something that all can enjoy, as well as an impressive documentation of the 70s, 80s and 90s in lower Manhattan. Tweet This
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