BitchyVeganSoundtrack

H!!!! We made it to H! And it’s only… May… yeah this project is definitely looking at a solid year.

We start with Hands… a band with a name so cool that they rock the end of an arm right off. They have some pretty spiffy LA band friends like MGMT and Foster the People. So it’s no shock that they are taking off with the same kind of momentum (i.e. people adoring them before they even start to write thier first song, nuts). I couldn’t even find a video that represented them even slightly accurately but here it is, a choppy live show, and I was still pretty impressed by the innovation involved. Like.

Haroula Rose is a girl that I like moreso because I wish I was her. She plays guitar and sings sweetly and wears boots without her calves looking fat. Yep. Oh and her eyebrows are ridiculously perfect… it’s a girl thing. Whatever… if I was sweeter and less full of salt and bitterness, I bet I could listen to her more… for now, a song or two is all I can muster of her sugary sweetness. I am assuming people who read this might have more of a soul and be able to enjoy a whole album even.

It’s hard to mentally grasp everything that is going on around me currently. I decided that America might not be the place for me to teach given the current climate of teachers being labeled, “the bad guys”. With that notion, I have decided to move back east… wayyyy east to my second home in South Korea. That is to say, I don’t have a home there, just a base of friends and a country that welcomed me with open arms before, and will hopefully do so again on this second endeavor of trying to find oneself in a world that keeps throwing me for loops.

Between getting 20 emails a day of job offers (Korea should really hold the title of, “Land of (teaching) Opportunity”) and applying for grad school, and being laid off, and working a second job… it’s no wonder that I feel a bit lost. Thankfully, one thing has always stayed true and constant and my life, the love of the great art of music. Today/tonight (forgive me for my lateness AGAIN) is no exception, music will always be my way of finding center.

Bands for the day are Great Lake Swimmers (swoon of mine for years) They remind me why I am so in love with the sound of fingers sliding across strings… it’s the best noise EVER.

AH! YouTube isn’t letting me embed! I will fix this when it comes back, but for now, here’s the link.

And ok… so the second one is more of a joke…I am done with the G’s and want to give H a grand opening tomorrow so here’s a little taste of South Korean pop music that I will be returning to. So they weren’t at SxSW, but maybe they should have been… if not just because it’s ridiculously entertaining. If Japan is famous for their J-Rock, Korea is famous for it’s K-Pop. And this is why.