Schwartzbros, memes, links

[bohemia]

I was thinking too much this morning, so I threw away my little schedule and went all happy place.


I found the alternate versions of Coconut Records' albums. I've been asking around recently and people were all "YOU CANNOT HAS." But I found it! Most are just different instruments used, but I like the ones that have different lyrics and/or notes because you can track the progression of the songs. I'm a geek about that with music.

Also, I just realized that's Robert Schwartzman singing on "Easy Girl." I knew it sounded too low for Jason but I figured it was altered. And then I read somewhere how Robert did "backing vocals" and listened to it last night and was all, "FUCK NO, THAT'S LEGIT ROBERT ON THE WHOLE SECOND VERSE." Which is more apparent with the alternate version I found today because that whole section is missing, haha. It's like Robert came over and was like, "Wait, I wanna do something too!" and Jason just stuck him in somewhere. And I guess I was wrong about Louie Stevens doing keyboards on the Davy album, but whatever, it sounded like Rooney, okay.

Okay, now I can't stop myself. Let's talk about Rooney's Wild One EP.

Suckceed - I LOVE THIS SONG. It's just like "Daisy Duke" or "Paralyzed" or any of those other songs where Robert tries to be witty and sexual in a wink-wink way while also being super-serious. It's classic Rooney and I've been known to run around the house singing the chorus.

Wild One - It's so weird hearing Ned singing, but I like his voice enough to get upset when Robert pops up in the background. It doesn't sound much like Rooney (every time it pops up I've gone, "Wait why is Kane on this playlist-- oh, no, that's Wild One, whoops.") beyond Taylor's guitar, but it's an interesting direction. It's cool that they're willing to switch around like that, but the idea of that mixed with all the side projects they've got going on worries me they're not so much expanding as they are separating.

The Days Keep Going By - Awesome, awesome. What I like most about Rooney's sound is how their guitars sound so bluesy and 50s-like but also really modern. And I can just picture this song playing at the end of a sock hop or something, with poodle skirts and Pepsi at the fountain and everything Americana. <33

I Don't Understand - I can't get into this one at all. It sounds sooo incomplete and the lyrics sound like something they wrote when they were 17 and little Cindy turned them down or something. If they were on a label I'm sure this wouldn't have even made it to the actual record before being worked on much, much more.



Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí.


MY DAD IS AN ARTIST. DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW HARD THIS ONE IS FOR ME. Okay, it wasn't so hard. I share my name with Dalí (I wasn't named for him; it's just a random coincidence that I ended up being very in touch with my dreams and he was a surrealist), and this is still one of my very favorite paintings. I could go on about pointillism, modernism, Japonism, impressionism, El Greco (who is another artist whose prints are immediately going in my apartment when I get one), Van Gogh, Monet or Picasso. But no, Dalí is always going to have a place in my heart. Which is also why I'm super-hesitant to watch that movie with RPattz in it.


Have some links:
This is a beautiful slideshow of New York storefronts. Do people really not have Optimo stores elsewhere? There's so many here I thought it was a chain in itself! And Frank Bee's, that's where I used to get my school uniforms! I know that place is still there, at least. Never seen most of the others to know about them.

LOL this child's drawing of her mom's job. Honestly, before I even read what was going on or what you'd assume it was, it looked like a cashier kiosk and the pole that has the numbers of the lane on it.

Lia

Comments

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wasn't sure why it looked like they were running at her until I read the girl's caption. And then I quickly read the rest to figure out the real story.

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

Those store fronts are amazing.

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

I thought so too. Whenever I pass a store front like one of those I always used to wonder what it-- and the rest of the city-- looked like when it was *new*. And I guess most of them are being torn down for the new and shiny. Makes me appreciate what's still around for the time being.

[demented2468.livejournal.com]

Here stores seem boring in relation to those. So creative

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

I never realized they were so "New York." I guess it's one of the smaller gems about the city. Sometimes I forget there are interesting things around.

[demented2468.livejournal.com]

Mostly there are no little stores here, well maybe a few, because they just don't make money and finally have to close. There are a few smaller ones scattered about but nothing like that. Most don't take the time to decorate the store windows like that unless it is for the holidays. Guess there they are around art so much that it is just the natural thing to do.

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

They don't make money because of chains serving the same people or just lack of necessity for their goods?

By me there's a lot more mom and pop stores, but most have the regular awning and storefronts, if not neon signs and Wal-Mart like signs in lights. These are more from the 40s, 50s, etc that just... never had to change to get their customers' eyes. I guess they showed more originality back then. Like you said, there's so much art around, it was easier.

[demented2468.livejournal.com]

Just don't make enough money and more and more tossed aside as bigger chains move in

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

That always confuses me. I guess because they're independent, they can't carry as much stuff as the chains and people go to chains for convenience. But for things like food and restaurants I'll always favor the smaller stores over the chains. I feel like I can trust people better with my food at diners and dry good stores than say, PathMark.

[dream20.livejournal.com]

*giggles at the "snow shovel"*

Also way to go Dali!

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

hah, it's pretty huge for sure.

Hooray!

[meiou-set.livejournal.com]

I could go on about pointillism, modernism, Japonism, impressionism, El Greco (who is another artist whose prints are immediately going in my apartment when I get one), Van Gogh, Monet or Picasso. But no, Dalí is always going to have a place in my heart.

Mmmm, so interesting.

I love the insanity of this one.

Speaking of modernism (one of my favorite topics) several months ago came across the Picasso with the African masks, I forget the title. But it was really interesting to look at how cubism is linked to the larger modernist movement (I was reading some Stein and other stuff with played with perspective in literature at the time at the time).

Very interesting stuff. I love the 20s and 30s.

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

I love how he did the horizon and how everything was so peaceful in the distance but so much was happening in the foreground-- most of it not making sense to the common person.

Modernism is one of my favorites, too! The painting with the prostitutes, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, you mean? And yeah, I love how certain pieces are reflected in other movements. I think we see it best in fashion, how today is a re-imagining of the 80s, and the 90s were about the 70s, but the 80s and 90s themselves were reflections of earlier periods. But it's true with classic art and sculptures too. Everything's influenced by something else, you know?

The 30s are my favorite. Art deco! All my favorite buildings are art deco.