confusion.

Question: Do I have a computer?

Ansewer: Yes, siree, I do.

I have lost count of the months, but it's been a while, and in between, there has been some confusion. Many things I wanted to write about, that I can't remember, that I am no longer interested in & no, I am not suffering from ADD, but things come & go as do people who were interested in my blog, that no longer are, shit happens n'est ce pas?

But boom baby, I am back and will continue to be until someone decides to step on this computer & crack my screen (when I say someone I mean me, but it really wasn't my fault, what was the shit doing on the floor under my sisters bed? The answer? I do not know, you need to ask my sister).

So after a long hiatus... I need to attempt to get whoever was interested, interested once again.

So let's do this shit.

1o songs you should be listening to simultaneously, like now, let's go,

o1. God & Satan - Biffy Clyro

o2. LEAVE! - V V Brown

o3. My Hands Are Shaking - Sondre Lerche

o4. Us - Regina Spektor

o5. Carmensita - Devendra Banhart

o6. Then I Kissed Her - The Beach Boys

o7. Merry Happy - Kate Nash

o8. Sea of Love - Tom Waits

o9. It's Oh So Quiet - Björk

1o. Crimson & Clover - Joan Jett

No particular order, just listen.

matthew gray gubler.

Weather getting nice, summer approaching, & everyone should be ecstatic.

Sorry for the temporary hiatus, I prefer to have a few beers under the warm sun then to sitting in front of my computer for hours. That and I do have an education to tend to.

Dum diddie.

So my new article (if you haven't intelligently deducted from the title) is about Matthew Gray Gubler. A true modern day renaissance man. Actor/Director/Artist...

Now, I haven't done extensive research on him because, well, I like to cling on to the thin threads of a life I still manage to have left (only god knows why), but he seems like he would be an excellent dancer, he's got that tall, thin, white boy thing going on & I am sure he can bust a move like no other.

But that is not really the point of this particular blog entry, it is more to enlighten you on the coolness that this actor possesses and that all should aspire to.

Let's start at the beginning of my discovery.

I was watching Alvin & the Chipmunks, because what 2o year old wouldn't be? And I see the name that voices Simon & I was like "interesting". Then he just kind of happened to pop up in literally everything else I started to watch, the list would be the following:

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, directed by my favorite Wes Anderson, and I had yet to see it, I figured I had to get on that.

How To Be a Serial Killer, found this one by accident, I love mockumentaries and I think the whole concept of this movie was HI-larious.

[5oo] Days of Summer, Joseph Gordon Levitt & Zooey Deschanel. Who would say no?

Then, one day out of sheer boredom & lack of anything to do, I started to watch Criminal Minds & I thought "Heeeeey, it's the Gubler guy" and to be honest, if I was a tad crazier I would actually think I was being followed, but the people in the little box aren't real, is what the doctor keeps saying, even though I beg to differ.

So obviously I deducted that some higher power was forcing me to google Matthew Gray Gubler, so google I did, and I got sent

-here-

Which I think is one of the coolest sites I have ever been to.

And for that reason I decided to come out of my hiatus early.

Matthew Gray Gubler, was born on a day in a certain month of a certain year, somewhere in some state most likely, & if this is the info your looking for I don't have it, go to imdb.

Things I do happen to know is that he hasn't been in many movies, & he hasn't had enormous roles in most of the movies he has been in, but he plays each character to a tee.

He is one of the stars of TV show Criminal Minds which just happens to seem like every crime show out there but really isn't, it's smart & funny when need be, and you literally fall in love with every single character.

The Gube (cause the two of us are at that nickname stage in our relationship) does a marvelous job as the socially retarded genius Dr. Spencer Reid.

But the acting is not all.

As someone who can not draw a picture if I had a gun pointed to my head BUT that has been known to write short films & snap a picture or two, I have become a huge fan of his artwork, which should be admired by everyone reading this right now, so go.

I am an American who has been living in France for quite a while I must do my part to make sure that we are well perceived & correctly represented abroad.

So to anyone who ever doubted the coolness of us US of A-ians;

Pretend we are all as hip as Mr. Gubler.

Playlists: o6 things you should be watching, listening to and/or reading.

MOVIES:

o1. Half Nelson

o2. An Education

o3. The Boondock Saints

o4. A Clockwork Orange

o5. Pirate Radio

o6. The Darjeeling Limited

TV:

o1. Rescue Me

o2. How I met your Mother

o3. Entourage

o4. Skins (Seasons 1&2)

o5. 3o Rock

o6. Sons of Anarchy

ALBUMS:

o1. Glee OST (Volumes 1&2)

o2. Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend

o3. Regina Spektor- Begin to Hope

o4. Kings of Leon- Only by the Night

o5. MIA- Kala

o6. Dead Man's Bones- Dead Man's Bones

SINGLES:

o1. Cobra Starship- Hot Mess

o2. Tyler Hilton ft. Alex (Chic Gamine)- Boots of Spainish Leather (Bob Dylan cover)

o3. Jay Z- Forever Young

o4. Joy Division- Love will tear us apart

o5. The Beatles- Happiness is a warm gun

o6. Hoodlums- Paper Planes

BOOKS:

o1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky

o2. High Fidelity- Nick Hornby

o3. The Little Prince- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

o4. Less Than Zero- Bret Easton Ellis

o5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain

o6. No Exit- Jean Paul Sartre

The ONLY YouTube channel you should be watching is: Indieghetto.

Welcome to Musictown, may I service you?

EMPIRE RECORDS

IMDB LINK HERE

Hmm. I don't know where to begin... The killer cast? The great script? The bitchin' soundtrack?

I guess I do know where to begin.

Renée Zellweger & Liv Tyler are two actresses that annoy me always have & despite the fact that in a general manner of speaking they make okay movies I think they always will. But, I will admit that in this movie they play their roles to a tee.

This is the movie that made me fall in love with Ethan Embry, it's a shame that he has vanished off of the movie scene because I think he is an extremely underrated actor, but he is only one amongst a whole list in this movie.

Johnny Whitworth, Rory Cochrane & Brendan Sexton III, all actors that we don't hear much about but good actors none the less. Robin Tunney fits very nicely into the mix & Anthony LaPaglia isn't playing a mobster, it suits him.

The script is very real, you really do feel like all of these people know each other very well & have been working together forever.

In a movie about a record store the soundtrack is crucial & this movie has one of the best OST's evvvvvvvvver, very 9o's but in a good way, it's everything you love about the begining of the 9o's.

Empire Records has become a timeless movie, cult classic, it's one of the few movies that actually makes you want to become an underachiever. The first time I saw this, I was 11 years old & all I wanted to do was work in a record store. Funny, entertaining, good music, good actors, good story, wonderful location. I don't know what else people really look for in a movie.

watching on the TV...

IMDB LINK HERE

So, an other show produced by Mark Wahlberg amongst others. On the contrary to Entourage this show isn't about once you make it big, it's the before part.

I think that the location is use a lot better than in Entourage. New York is a beautiful city & you can see it in the show.

Bryan Greenberg is what I think an extremely underrated actor. I have loved him in pretty much everything I have seen him in, and here he does a great job of a struggling underacheiver who wants it all but doesn't nessecarily want to have to work for it.

Victor Rasuk has one of those faces, you are sure you have seen him somewhere but you just can't place it. He plays the role of the loud mouth, out-going somewhat cooky best friend to the tee. He is likable, but has the potential of becoming very annoying soon.

I am THRILLED to see Shannyn Sossamon is in this, she is a beautiful, elegent & talented actress & I think the NYC art scene role that she has taken on suits her very well.

I am curious to see how Scott Mescudi will succeed as an actor, everyone knows him a lot better under the pseudonyme Kid Cudi. I like the music, will I like the acting? After o4 episodes it is hard to tell.

That being said this show has a lot of potential. Great location, because after all is said & done who doesn't love New York? Good cast. Real writing. Great producers. Amazing directing. Everything that this show has going for it, is being used to perfection. The fact that the show isn't about having loads of money, women, material things, etc... Is what I like about it. Don't get me wrong I love Entourage, but I love this aspect of making it in the art business aswell, it's what every artist wants, the story of struggle before success, because who wants to listen to a story where having it all came easy? We all want to know that we are working our asses off for a reason...We do it because we hope that one day it might turn into something great & in the mean time, you are doing what you love & that is the story being told by this show.

I would tune in if I were you.

uh huh holy shit, it's about time you get off my dick.

BAM!

listening to...

HOT MESS - COBRA STARSHIP

Don't let the pretty colors distract you. Although I must say this album cover confused me for a quick second.

Now, I will be honest. Cobra Starship was never really my cup of tea. But then again I never really listened to them...
I was a fan of The Sounds, and I heard "Bring it" which was on the Snakes on a Plane OST (DO NOT get me started on that movie). And to be honest this was a song that I throughly enjoyed. I heard their version of "Hollaback boy", which I find HI-larious. Then, a while back I heard that Leighton Meester was doing a song with Cobra Starship and I was all "Ahhh, I know them", so I figured, check it out.
And I am very happy that I did.

Hot Mess is refreshing & different. You can not really class Cobra Starship into any one genre.
Which in my opinion is one of the many reasons this is a great band.
They have those new age rock roots, literally just a pinch of hip-hop influence then add a semi-electro sound without the annoyingness of actual electro music into the mix and you have Cobra Starship. Kind of.
On this album every song you hear makes you want to not only get up & dance but it makes you want to go out get piss ass drunk and start shit.
"Good girls go bad" is a wonderful collaboration between the band and Leighton Meestor, Blair Waldorf has a voice, who'd a thunk it. She does a great job & the video is just... The colors, the music, the ambiance... It is a perfect combination of everything you want out of the song.
"Hot Mess" hmm. What to say? It is a song pretty much any girl who likes to party can relate to.
Goddamn when I am stumbling the streets I can only hope I am looking hella fine because if not, with the amount of alcohol I consume... We may have some issues.

People rate "classic" songs by their meaning. What is behind the song, what message is being sent, what kind of role model they were, how that song changed your life... Which is normal. You know a great song when every time you hear it, it brings you back to the first time you heard it.
Cobra Starship is not trying to change the world, or force their opinions on the masses through their music. There may not be a deep message behind every word, or there may just be the deepest message of all:
Life is short & it could end at anytime, so just do your thing.
Which may not seem deep but these guys & girl get the point across, that is what makes them great.

Cobra Starship is revolutionizing a whole new music genre, and how often can you say that nowadays when everything sounds the same?
And the fact like they seem like people you just want to spend all day with helps:

A HOT MESS: A person who is a handful, he/she is a piece of work, and or a colorful character.