linkable laughter

Last night I was in bed watching Hook on my computer (thank you very much netflix on demand you are the love of my life), and a friend sent me a link to the video below. With all these views and how awesomely entertaining this is, I can’t believe I’ve never seen it before. I don’t think I need to say anything more…so enjoy the laughter and amusement that this video will bring you!

my lovely lady

I realized today I haven’t posted at all about my amazingly talented and beautiful roommate, Lindsay Steiner. Lindsay been a really close friend of mine since college, and recently moved in with me in NYC. She sings/writes all her own music and lyrics, and pretty much plays any instrument you can think of (within reason). Check out her music and let her know what you think!!!

I’m such a proud roomie:)

pop music (my secret vice)

I used to be embarrassed to admit that I love pop music… It’s not my everyday musical genre of choice, but there are definitely times when it’s exactly what I want.

So on that note…DJ Earworm has made it more acceptible as a listening choice with his awesome pop music mashups. I’m big on mashup dj’s anyway, but when I found this stuff and realized it was all pop my heart practically skipped a beat. ahhh love.

Anyway, here is one of his mashups I really enjoyed, check out his other stuff too!

party for your ears and eyes

Happy Friday all!! So today I wanted to post a video I saw on my friends blog TouchE*plode. The music makes me really happy, and the video is wondermazing (so good I had to mix wonderful and amazing).

…ps if you don’t like it, give it a chance because towards the end the colors in the video will make your eyes go, “oo…ooo…yessssssss!” 🙂

Yippity DoDa it’s friday! Have a great weekend!

more music fun

Firstly, I apologize for abandoning she dorks out for so long…I’m a bum. Officially. But, at least I’m coming back with something exciting: Songza.

I’ve written about music sites before, so here is another addition to that category. A friend of mine at work introduced me to Songza and I love it. It makes finding a song or artist that you want to listen to – for free- the easiest thing you can imagine. Literally typing in the name of the song or artist then clicking play. That’s all. You can play it as much as you want, scroll through the album, artist, or search again and keep playing- for free(this gets a double w00t…w00t w00t!!!!) If you really love it and you want to buy it, well guess what…you can! One simple click and you got it. And, one last thing, I think the design is great. Simple, clean, good color palate, and extremely easy and wonderful user interaction. So, go check it…son!

“and the beat goes on”

So today lets explore music; the sites that can give your ears something to smile about, connect you with artists you’ve never hear of, and give you something to put on while cooking for that weekly dinner party you love to look forward to.

To begin lets revisit Pandora Radio: http://pandora.com/ . I say revisit because this site has been around for a long time, long enough for me to say a long time and I’m only 23 years old. It hasn’t really changed much since I first heard about it years ago, but that being said it doesn’t need to. Pandora, after signing up for your free account, creates radio stations of similar artists to the main artists you typed in. It saves all of your created stations by the artists name you first typed in. Thumbs up Pandora Radio.

Moving on to Slacker Personal Radio: http://www.slacker.com/ . Slacker Radio got me through boring days working at American Apparel. We weren’t supposed to listen to this online radio, I’ll explain in a second, but it was great. Not only is it similar to Pandora where typing in a given artists results in a station of that artist and similar artists as well, but it mixes it up a bit. It almost seems to know what mood you’re going for and creates a mix list for you. Slacker also has pre-made play lists you can easily pick from, which is another great feature. I like it, I think you will, thumbs up.

Next on the discussion list is why we weren’t allowed to listen to Slacker at American Apparel; http://www.viva-radio.com/ . VIVA-RADIO is Dov Charney’s American Apparel side project. It sucks. It’s his models and friends creating playlists. You can’t skip songs, you can’t add your own input, the site is pretty boring visually, and the playlists, literally almost 100% of them, are terrible. I don’t even recommend looking at this site. Thumbs down big time.

Last on the list of online based music listening websites to chat about is Last.fm: http://www.last.fm/ . Last.fm is attempting to pull together the social network craze with an online radio site. On the social side of things, you being your Last.fm experience by creating your own profile, complete with a picture and all. The music part of Last.fm allows you to create playlists by typing in an artists name, just like Pandora and Slacker, and there are options to listen to related “stations” that have been created by other users simliar to yours. A feature distinct to Last.fm is the ability to upload your own playlists from your music. You can share your playlists with your Last.fm friends, and listen to other peoples playlists. There are areas on the site to upload videos, “track hype”- see what’s popular, see the top played artists, download free music, download Last.fm widgets, browse events going on in your area, and meet other users that have similar tasts and may be able to introduce you to some new music you’ve never heard of. Overall Last.fm is the new breed of online radio sites. It’s melting together the need for social networking on sites with music, as well as bringing in all sorts of extra goodies for users. Thumbs up. I highly recommend getting a free Last.fm account.