If you have a pulse, you’ve heard this song:

J. BIEBER – U SMILE 800% SLOWER by Shamantis

Okay, so, um, I don’t want to keep this a secret any longer.

Everyone my age [30] is always so embarrassed to say they listen to Justin Bieber, and for the longest time I’ve been equally embarrassed. But this has got to stop. I have to act like an adult. I have to stand behind my opinions. Enough of this waffling. Enough of this pandering to the general consensus.

I HEART JUSTIN BIEBER!!!!!!!!

I don’t see why everyone is always denying him his due. He has talent. Not just any kind of talent, but the kind of talent that is so FULL OF TALENT, so

TALENTED

that his downy skin shines. All right,

I know he has acne now. I know he has to use the PROACTIVE. His skin isn’t the best anymore. He’s losing his smooth cheeks that every teenage girl wants to squeeze and coat with rouge.

But that’s all right, he’s growing up, puberty is changing him, so what if he has to pop pimple meat?

This doesn’t make him less talented. This doesn’t spoil his voice. Although it may spoil his image.

But his image means nothing to me! I’m all about his music. I’m all about his fucken angelic music. Yes, I can say it now without mortification, I can say it out loud goddammit,

I HEART JUSTIN BIEBER!!!!!

Tags: ::MUSIC::, bullshit, justin bieber, satire

YouTube says:

This film interpretation of the Alfredo Triff song conjures memories of lost love and unbearable desire within an eternal night on the crowded and lonely streets of Miami.

Shot in Wynwood, Calle Ocho and South Beach, featuring contemporary troubador singer Roberto Poveda. “Delirio” is a critically acclaimed song from the 2007-released album “Boleros Perdidos” by Alfredo Triff.

I miss Miami. I miss the blue skies and the salinity. I miss shaving off most of my hair–and without taking a shower–running into the ocean and scrubbing my bare head clean. I miss searching for perfect seashells. I miss looking at life while shoulder-high in seawater.

The tropics.

If you’re there, don’t ever leave.

Tags: ::MUSIC::, alfredo triff, delirio, miami, miami beach, roberto poveda

This is how I feel today – a Friday – after a long week of work!

I’m about to dance my way out of the office. Have a great weekend!

Tags: ::MUSIC::, ::MUSIC:: Videos & Lyrics, christopher walken, christopher walken dance, dance, fatboy slim, happy friday, music video, video, weapon of choice

That one hit me right in the brain stem. Twenty years later, it was still there waiting.

Tags: ::KIDS KORNER::, ::MUSIC::, conceptual art, philip glass, sesame street, video clip

I have spent most of my life (like most people) avoiding transcendence at all costs, mainly because the shit hurts. Merely defining transcendence can sometimes be painful. I once heard that “Transcendence is the act of going through something”. Ouch. I see plate glass windows and divorces. Someone else told me that it was “rising above whatever one encountered in one’s path” but at this point in my life that smacks of avoidance as well as elitism of some sort. I am compelled to look back on years of going through, above, as well as around my life looking for loopholes to redefine everything including any and all of the ideas that I have held close to my heart along the way – Art – Freedom – Justice – Revolution – Love (a big one) – Growth – Passion – Parenting (a really big one) – and I find that for me, for now, transcendence is about being still enough long enough to know when it’s time to move on. Fuck me.

Steve Earle

Chicago

January, 2000

Tags: ::MUSIC::, ::SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY::, chicago, in search of truth, steve earle, transcendence, transcendental blues