I wanted to do a Best of 2008 list, but the truth is, I hate ranking things. If you know me or you read the blog regularly, you already know what the favorites are. Hopefully you've related to a post, been put on to an artist, or gotten something out of The Labyrinth from time to time. That's the goal anyway. So, rankings aside, here's a little summary of what Lacezilla repped, closed her eyes for, nodded with, and danced wildly to in '08...
SERIOUS IPOD BURN:
N*E*R*D, Seeing Sounds
Freindly Fires, Friendly Fires
Raheem Devaughn, Love Behind The Melody
MGMT, Oracular Spectacular
Kings of Leon, Only By The Night
Duffy, Rockferry
Wale, The Mixtape About Nothing
Gnarls Barkley, The Odd Couple
Kate Nash, Made of Bricks
Kid Cudi, A Kid Named Cudi: The Mixtape
Jasmine Sullivan, Fearless
Cold War Kids, Loyalty To Loyalty
Lykke Li, Youth Novels
Kanye West, 808s and Heartbreak
(These albums can get played all the way through and have multiple songs that should also be included in the list below.)
PLAYED LOUDLY, ON REPEAT:
(Songs decoded below... click to listen!)
Sam Sparro "Black and Gold"
Chris Brown "Fallen Angel"
Hercules and Love Affair "Blind"
Thriving Ivory "Angels On The Moon"
Lil' Wayne "Playin' With Fire"
Justin Nozuka "After Tonight"
Keane "Spiralling"
Cut Copy "Hearts on Fire"
Leona Lewis "Bleeding Love"
Flobots "Handlebars"
Ashanti "The Way That I Love You"
Black Kids "Love Me Already"
Max B. "Live Comfortable"
MGMT "Electric Feel"
MOST FUN TO PHOTOGRAPH:
Wale and Blu @ SOBs
(LINK to Friendly Fires post)And don't forget Lykke's enchanting cover of Wendy Rene's "After Laughter":
N*E*R*D @ Madison Square Garden
(LINK to post)
Matisyahu (with Brett Dennen) @ The Music Hall of Williamsburg
(Post coming soon!)VIDEOS THAT LINGERED IN MY MIND:
Kanye West "Flashing Lights" WATCH
MGMT "Time To Pretend" WATCH
Gnarls Barkley "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" WATCH
Hot Chip "Ready For The Floor" WATCH BELOW:
LIVE SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
and Thriving Ivory @ Mercury Lounge:
(Beatboxing Rahzel's "If Your Mother Only Knew," and then transitioning into Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven." Oww.)
3 comments:
hmmmmm this is prolly my favorite post
got put on to kid cudi in this blog. You've got pretty good taste in music keep up the good work lady. Also, ya gotta check out 88 keys - Death of Adam. one of my favorite albums of 08 hol em down ma
Ours is an envionment where evil is perceived to be rewarded while good is punished. As with everything the Gods have a reason for creating this perception::::
People who fall on the good side of the good/evil scale have more favor, and when they do something wrong the Gods punish them BECAUSE THEY WANT THEM TO LEARN. The Gods want them to receive this feedback in hope they make corrections and begin to behave appropriately. The Gods DON'T like evil and refuse to grant this feedback.
EVERYBODY pays for what they do wrong, only evil people must wait until their next life before they will experience the wrath of the Gods, manifested in their reincarnation as a lower form of life into environments with increased/enhanced temptations.
Sadly, this allows the Gods to position this perception of evil rewarded as temptation, one which they use as an EXTREMELY effective corruptor.
Both Africa and the Medittereanean are regions which have sexual issues. This is a sign of morbid disfavor once you understand that females are the God's favored gender. Muhammad's (Mohammed's) polygamy halfway through his life as a prophet was preditory. Now a huge percentage of Muslims believes in male superiority and that the abuse of women is God's will. Female genital mutilation is still practiced in Africa. Black misogyny is the most eggregious example in the recent past.
Black member size is temptation to a predisposed population.
The patriarchal cancer spread throughout Europe because of Christianity, of which the majority of policy makers were Italian men. Expect the largest landowner in Europe and the continent's original superpower also played a major role in African slavery.
Militancy in Africa is consistant with the Iraqi example, as was slavery and the KKK here in America:::Fear enforces proper behavior. Without it we see what happens as a result of gross/morbid disfavor:::::AIDS, crack babies, dead young men in gangland retaliation killings. This is the purpose behind many black's historical tendancy towards resistance.
The same principle was true in Europe and throughout the world for centuries:::People whom lived under iron fists were conditioned to think the right way. As a result they experienced higher numbers of children ascend into heaven because they were taught to think and behave appropriately, which they passed on to their children. Our preditory envionment of "freedom" was the primary purpose the Gods had when implimenting this strategy that is the United States, one which they used to spred the cancer of democracy and westernization throughout the world. And the Gods use this tool that is America to prey on the disfavored both at home and abroad:::Much like the ghetto, America in general experiences a heightened level of temptation due to the people's disfavor.
Even the Old Testiment is not to be taken literally, but the Gods do offer clues throughout to help the disfavored:::The apple is a tool of temptation used to corrupt Adam and Eve and cast them out of the Garden of Eden.
There is another lesson to be learned from this passage, and it is quite similar to the vailing issue and the discourse over women's attire which ultimately died in the 70s:::Women are responsible for and control the fate of mankind.
Think about what I say. Consider what I teach. Society is going to become disturbingly ugly as we approach the Apocalypse due to spiralling, runaway disfavor.
I do not know when this will occurr, but it is the God's way to grant some time before they end on Planet Earth.
Make the decision to always be good and never look back. Until you do this technology will employ tactics to test your resolve:::Ridicule, beligerance, doubt and refusal to abandon what people perceive to be their "investment".
Pray daily. Think appropriately. Too many are confident, unaware of the God's awesome powers or their status as antients. Others may fall prey to their positioning.
Be humbled, God-fearing and beware of the God's temptations, for everyone is tested to evaluate their worthiness.
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