Warm Visions

Okay, this is my only rant for the year (hopefully).

I used to love the Grammys. They were awesome and had a variety of acts and music. Not all acts of the same thing each lasting about 10 minutes each. The prime examples is in probably 2004(?) where The White Stripes played. That was freakin’ sweet. My family actually went out and bought that album that night after watching. But here we have so much wrongness going down here, I can’t even stand it. Taylor Swift nominated for Country? Really? More like Pop.

Lemme give you a breakdown of  the nominations: Beyonce with 10, Taylor Swift with 8, and Black Eyed Peas with 6. What? I mean, try and spread out the  awards to other people! It’s not a popularity contest! Or is it?

I mean, the fact that MGMT and Silversun Pickups were nominated(and with no surprise, lost to a mainstream act) is  pretty good. But that is the  only thing. It just drives me up the wall! More updates after…

Comedy album – Stephen Colbert? I mean, okay. But Lonely Island not nominted? That album was hilarious! Jamie Foxx and autotune = ROFLCOPTER

I am an avid fan of Conan O’Brien. I think that he is a very funny and witty comedian and a great interviewer. I have been watching the show for about 3 years now, and pretty much every episode has left me in stitches. Now everyone has probably heard of the whole beef with him, NBC, and Leno. Well, it’s been confirmed that this friday will be Conan’s last show. This makes me sad. Well, I’d thought I would try and scrape up some great clips from his run on NBC. I’ll be updating this post with more videos as time goes on. I hope everything works out for Conan and his crew in the future.

^^When Conan went to FAO Schwartz in NY^^

::UPDATE:: Conan’s last show was this evening, and it was a bittersweet moment indeed. Mostly bitter, cause it’s the end of Conan on NBC, but sweet cause of how funny it is. He had a great montage of the great times in his short 7 months on the Tonight Show, followed by a surprise appearance by Steve Carrell. Then a great interview with Tom Hanks, and a performance by Neil Young. Then finally, Conan jammed out with Will Ferrell, one of the guitarists from ZZ Top, the Max Weinberg Band, some guy playing a slide guitar, Beck, Will Ferrell’s wife, and some other people(?) to Free Bird. It was fantastic indeed. He will be so missed so much by a multitude of people. You better find a new gig soon, bud. I don’t think the world can last long without you.

“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. If you work hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, amazing things will happen” – Conan O’Brien, 2010.

The well known music festival, Coachella is coming up, and the lineup list has been published. The artists that are attending these 3 days of music just blows my mind. Check it out.

Yeah. AWESOME! Here is the thing for me (and probably all the people reading  this), though. It is in California, in April. I cannot just skip school in April and go to California for about 5 days (if you account travel, and all that). I don’t  have the resources to go there either. Unless I get a ride  with someone else who wants to go. Oh well, final comment is that I cannot go, and I am sad. BUT, some great pictures and stories are going to come  of it, so I’ll just read  those. Pretty much the same, right? Right guys? Hello?

Here is the list, if you cannot see the names that well.

FRIDAY APRIL 16: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray, Grace Jones, She & Him, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Cribs, La Roux, Yeasayer, Lucero, DJ Lance Rock, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Proxy, Ra Ra Riot, Deer Tick, Wolfgang Gartner, Aeroplane, Iglu & Hartly, Sleigh Bells, P.O.S., Baroness, Hockey, Little Dragon, White Rabbits, Wale, Kate Miller-Heidke, As Tall as Lions, Jets Overhead, Alana Grace, Pablo Hassan.SATURDAY, APRIL 17: Muse, Faith No More, Tiësto, MGMT, David Guetta, The Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskade, 2Many DJ’s, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-Trip, The xx, John Waters, Les Claypool, The Raveonettes, Mew, Sia, Camera Obscura, Tokyo Police Club, Porcupine Tree, Old Crow Medicine Show, Aterciopalados, Bassnectar, Frightened Rabbit, Dirty South, Flying Lotus, Corinne Bailey Rae, Pretty Lights, Shooter Jennings, RX Bandits, The Almighty Defenders, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Craze & Klever, Zoe, The Temper Trap, Portugal. The Man, Band of Skulls, Girls, Beach House, Steel Train, Frank Turner.

SUNDAY, APRIL 18: Gorillaz, Pavement, Thom Yorke????, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, MUTEMATH, Deerhunter, Infected Mushroom, Club 75, Matt & Kim, The Big Pink, Gil Scott-Heron, King Khan and the Shrines, Florence and the Machine, Yann Tiersen, Little Boots, Miike Snow, Talvin Singh, Ceu, B.o.B., Babasonicos, Owen Pallett, The Glitch Mob, Mayer Hawthorne, Local Natives, Rusko, The Middle East, Hadouken!, The Soft Pack, Kevin Devine, Paparazzi, Delphic, One EskimO.

WHY IS THE LINEUP SO GOOD!?!?!