Daft Punk Videos all Night

If i owned a club, I think there maybe nights that I just show daft Punk videos all night. Click on each photo for a different Daft Punk video.
"Check yourself before you wreck yourself."

The Beat Generation

Today I was lured into reading about the beat generation. Having lived the past two years with a couple of English majors, of course i learned a lot about different literary movements and such. This movement is very interesting to me even though i am very much "drug free." This is one movement that was truely "American", and young American at that, considering most of the authors and artists were young when the movement was born. And being in the early-mid twenties, i guess it is a bit fitting to be attracted to the wandering, traveling, testing, learning type of living. It is funny to think at one time in history, LSD and many hard drugs were legal. These drugs were being created around the fifties when really the only common toxicant used was alcohol. Just like the scene from "fear and loathing in las vegas" when Johnny Depp and Benecio Del Toro are in a public restroom tripping on acid; people simply mistake them as drunks; and everyone loves a good ol' drunk. Jack Kerouac is the name most associated with the beat generation, after all he coined the phrase. This summer I will hopefully make it around to reading his book titled "Dharma Bums", the follow-up to the popular "On the Road." Charlest Bukowski is another famed writer of this movement. He published a few works in the 40s and was thought to have stopped writing for twenty years, while wandering aimlessly and taking odd jobs. When he returned to publishing works twenty years later, it was revealed he had in deed been writing and publishing in this "off time." These works are now very limited and hard to find, but today Bukowski has a solid following. Two other Beat writers, Neal Cassady and Ken Kesey took a series of cross-country adventures, one being to the New York World's Fair. The two and others and traveled along called themselves the "Merry Pranksters" and drove a psychedelically painted bus named "Further." They recruited a struggling local band along to play while they filmed the travels. The band later became "The Greatful Dead." You can read about the bizarre events that took place during these travels and parties in the book titled "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe.

Even though i will never be involved in anything like this, nor do i desire to, these events amaze me.
The site that was most interesting and easiest to read was created by 1 guy named ken rumsey.
The link is: The Beat Page. Read about this time and the people involved. It is history after all.

Eleonora

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." -Edgar Allan Poe

summer to be

Today is March 12, 06' and i am so excited about the summer that aproaches. I speak of summer because the weather this past weekend was amazing summer weather. Friends and I packed coolers and spent the weekend under the sun at Folly Beach. I am sun burned. We watched a surfing competition all Saturday. Each flight of ~5 surfers had 20 minutes to wow the judges and spectators. The Talking Heads and The Cure played over the speakers as we watched, talked about good times, threw football, made drinks, and talked about future plans. Saturday night we had dinner and drinks @ Poes on Sullivans Island. Incredible burgers! We spent the late night @ the Rooftop Bar at Vendue Inn.



























Wilco @ the North Charleston Performing Arts Center:
The show was amazing. I got to see the band from 2nd row pit seats. It was amazing listening to the songs and being able to read Jeff Tweedy's lips as he sang the songs. The playlist was great. Tweedys got a full beard now and it is nasty and great as well. He was really happy on stage. He didn't make a single left winged or negative comment. He smiled and even danced to "Hummingbird". A few songs were played that i had never heard, and they played a few songs from "Being There" which was nice. These guys are all about the music. This show had no props; no backdrops. This was my third Wilco show and I definitely will see them many more times.
Atlanta, GA 9/23/04
Charlotte, NC 2/21/05
Charleston, SC 3/08/06

This afternoon at the beach i decided i would do a good bit of reading this summer. So i made a booklist for myself to accomplish by the end of the summer. I am not a reader in general. I have always wanted to be, but when it all comes down to reading a book, i always choose the easy way out; watching the movie. Living in Charleston, I figure i should read some of the great books that have been written about this beautiful part of the world, so I plan to read atleast two books by Pat Conroy. I am pretty good at achieving goals if i just take the time to set them, so here is my list.

Summer 06' Reading List:
"The Lords of Discipline" Pat Conroy
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"The Dharma Bums" Jack Kerouac
"East of Eden" John Steinbeck
"Undaunted Courage" Stephen Ambrose
"Into The Wild" Jon Krakaur
"The Alchemist" Paulo Coelho
"Beach Music" Pat Conroy
"Through Painted Deserts" Donald Miller
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" Robert M. Pirsig