autumn music

I've been listening to a lot of mixcloud lately to get all my bizzar-0, lost and forgotten music. I go through phases with how I find new music, back when I was 13 it was all about kazaa and limewire. Then after those died off I would just type "artist-album name" mediafire into google to get .zip files of albums. Then eventually that stopped and I started using soulseek (which is still a good way to get hard copies of hard to find shit if anyone is interested). And then I started using mixcloud, because I found a few good people who put up Quality Mixes and that way I find out about music without having to research it first. If I really like something in the mix I will like shazam it or whatever and then find it on youtube.  Do you have any favorite DJ's on mixcloud? leave a comment.

Genre's I'm into: bossa nova, balearic beat, deep house, acid jazz, library music, pys folk, proto-electronic

Mubi

So, I'm like a big time fan of the Criterion Collection if you couldn't have guessed that piece of trivia about me. At one point after I graduated college I actually wrote them an email to ask if I could intern for them, even though nothing on their website suggests that they have any interns. Never heard back, but it was worth a try.

When you're in film school it's easy to find great movies, because you're force fed them in class for the most part. But after college I found it was pretty hard to consistently find interesting titles and then actually find a way to see them. Mubi is an online counterpart to Criterion Collection, the website has evolved a lot over the past 5 years, I didn't really fully understand what it was for a while, but they seem to have simplified it quite a bit. Now they're offering what I will refer to as, "the netflix of art house cinema". So I signed up for this service, and everyday they put out a new movie to watch from their collection, so you know it AT LEAST has to have some sort of merit to it. But a lot of the stuff they put out is obviously amazing. and then you have a month to watch the movie before it disappears. They also do thematic programming, for example, now that it's october they have a lot of horror. I like it because now I don't have to try to find a movie from the depths of time/space that seems like it'd be worth watching, there's always new stuff on their page.

This is one of my favorite things I watched on mubi so far, it's from the NYFF

https://mubi.com/showing/something-between-us

trying to start drawing

-(ja)neen

Live bands

I've been doing some live band taping here in Philadelphia, mostly of my friends bands. Here's a few videos I've taken of Sheer Mag, Neolibz, and Dirty Fences. I've been using my sony hi-8 camera from middle school to tape this stuff because I like the quality of the video it produces. Plus the zoom is crazy! Really good for getting up in people's faces and guitar solos while still standing a good distance away. Now that I've taped all my friend's bands I have to find some other ones that I like to tape. I don't really want to get into taping every single show that comes through philly, just stuff that I personally like. I want to re-vamp this blog and also start posting stuff regularly on my youtube channel.  Subscribe to me on youtube to see the rest of my stuff https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5CfzU3D_bUflCIXh7JrH5g

New Sounds

I'm working on a new album but i made this lil organ diddle for fun in the meantime

Summer Movies

Check out this list of summer movies that really SPEAKS to my summer aesthetic.


1. Dogtown and Z-Boys

2. Waynes World

3. Dazed and Confused

4. Gimme Shelter

4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

5. Easy Rider

6. Crumb

7. Gummo

8. Heavy Metal Parking Lot

9. Roswell

10. L'eclisse

You may have noticed an americana trend, except for l'eclisse of course.

Spring video

Made this as part of my seasonal ephemera series ~