September Haves & Wants

COMP | TECH | DIGI

Vuze: The most powerful bittorrent app on earth. Aggregates torrents from the major torrent search sites. Current popular movies on DVD take less than an hour (if not half) to download. I finally got RATATAT's Mixtape Vol. 1!

My AIAIAI Y-Com headset crapped out. The mesh in the left ear bud detached and stopped outputting any sound. :( Thank goodness there is a year replacement guarantee on defects and wear/tear. Since I use headphones practically everyday, I decided to get a pair of Grado SR60i's as a buffer (also comes with one-year replacement guarantee).

AIAIAI Y-Com $70 @ dijitalfix [+] Thick cord, 5+ pairs of different bud fittings. Compatible iPhone button/microphone is VERY handy when you need to pause music and/or take calls. This is great for me because I don't have to constantly unplug the buds with my dirty work hands. Very sleek design. All in all, I have to say that the Y-Com's quality of sound is the best I have experienced. The layers of music are crisp and easily distinguishable at a middle volume and the bass is booming. They also serve as a great noise canceler at a higher volume without leaking noise pollution. *These are the headphones you really need to get if you want to be engulfed and taken away by audio. [-] The wire at the buds are slightly curved so that they can hang behind your ears, but they tend to pop off my ears. The best fitting bud fittings help prevent the slippage. Since I have used them for long lengths of time every day, I have experienced hearing degradation.

Grado SR60i $79 @ dijitalfix [+] Looks great, and it's so comfortable! It is what it is—the sound is right at the outside of your ears. Good for "background" listening and wearing for long periods of time. The cord is so thick and long that you can use it as a self-defense weapon. [-] NOISE POLLUTION!! It is an open air system, so whatever you listen to, everyone else does too. :( Not good on public transport if/when you want to be a courteous rider.

VISUAL

True Blood. Let me guess, either you haven't been watching and all your friends have been raving about it and demanding that you watch too, or you're the one that's doing the raving/nagging. I am hooked and I'm currently downloading season two. (Don't spoil it. I'll bleed you!)

AUDIO

The great thing about working in a studio with your own table and blah blah blah is that I get to listen to my music, audiobooks, and podcasts ALL day. Album highlights!

	Jay-Z | The Blueprint What can I say? I regret not going to the 09/11/09 Madison Square Garden performance. BUT, I DID see Jay and Be in person, like five feet away, at the Beach House/Grizzly Bear Jelly Pool Party in Williamsburg. (holla.) *D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune) *Off That (feat. Drake) - A list of what's IN and what's OUT.
	Kid Cudi | Man On The Moon: The End Of Day Did you see my last post? CRAZY!! (Watch Mike SHRED!!) This is his first studio album and it truly leaves me wanting more. His narrative is pretty safe—it feels like being a freshman in college and having a sense of yourself, but you're exploring and trying to get to know yourself deeper. He's the quasi-quiet blossoming foundations Freshman who writes as well as draws in his sketchbook while Kayne is the Senior Art Star who still takes Junior classes and Jay is the alumni who everyone knows and talks about ALL THE TIME. *Alive ft. RATATAT - What? I love them. :D *Up, Up, And Away (The Wake And Bake Song) - TOTAL summertime Pop song.
	3OH!3 | WANT Okay, everyone's heard Don't Trust Me. I was a little bit more curious and listened to the full album...and What. The. Fuck. Totally not expecting what Wikipedia classifies as Electronic Dance Music/Rap-Rock/Crunkcore/Crunk-Pop. Is it really crunk? Well, listening makes me bare my teeth a lot and want a full grill ever more longingly. Give it a listen(?) *I'm Not Your Boyfriend Baby *Richman - WOW. And I ain't sippin' on a mixed drink, pinkie out, lips pink, Talkin' to a rich skank filled up like a sperm bank, I'm 'a go where I always go; Drinks are on the house, Whiskey's on the rocks while your sister's on my mouth.
	The Beatles | Abbey Road [Remastered] Come Together sounds so good, I could vomit. I once thought that Aerosmith's version was better, and now I sheepishly take that back. And I officially hate MJ's version. *Oh! Darling

Kid Cudi & Ratatat, Till's NEW MUSIC VIDEO!!

Hot. Shit. (!!)




Till made this!! ♥

AC/DC @ Giants Stadium

My friend Mike D. had an extra ticket and I was like "Hey, why not?" It was more amazing than we ever expected (well, I went in blind.) There was animation, fire blowing machines, pyrotechnics, glitter confetti cannons, inflatables, and FIREWORKS (way up in the list of favorite things). All rock performers should aspire to be as awesome as them in concert. Angus Young did a guitar solo that lasted like 30 minutes—in which throughout it, I had to hold my face together with my hands because it was melting in disbelief of how incredibly awesome it was.

Yay, it stopped raining!


"1! 2! FUCK YOU!" Anvil.


The show just went on and on. Amazing.

The concert and the crowd were a whole new experience for me. There were so many "dudes". Like white dudes—drunk New Jerseyesque white dudes with conservative haircuts that just grunt and yell lyrics who would all belong at a NASCAR event if they were out in the Midwest made up 90% of the attendees. I haven't seen so many dudes crowded in one place in my life. I wished I had took pictures of just people. :(

Then on the NJtransit back, there was a dude with a RATATAT t-shirt on. It made me smile.