PeSuit and Tie

  music of the week in honor of api heritage month, here are songs by and featuring asian and pacific artists that i love:   2gether - far east movement, roger sanchez, kanobby la la la (acapella) - naughty boy, sam smith atoul - zeyne paper planes (dfa remix) - m.i.a., dfa spring breakers - charli xcx, kesha  after reviewing my old radiooooo likes, i discovered the song conscious of my conscience  by womack & womack . the instrumental is so addicting, i realized i like a lot  of songs with that and similar kind of guitar sound. i am instrumentally illiterate, and cannot play one instrument, nor have any knowledge of musical and instrument terms. i did compile a playlist of similar guitar(ish?) sounds that i thoroughly enjoy. i can't describe the sound other than it being rich like mousse - or tasty like umami. just indescribable. not sure if i have some kind of synesthesia (can one be diagnosed with it or do we self-diagnose?), but here's the playlist, simp...

  books of the week i completed my reading of medium raw.  my takeaway? the all american hamburger died some time ago. what would anthony bourdain think about the millennial burger joint meme circulating?  i want to try a tasting menu one day in this lifetime, as well as to visit a michelin rated restaurant.  my new read is unmask alice  by rick emerson . i read the book go ask alice  when i was in 4th grade, and it left a mark on my impressionable preteen brain. this book, however, uncovers the truth and backstory on how this controversial book/diary was actually a total scam, and how it boosted the drug panic and satanic panic (as the "anonymous author" also wrote a similar diary about a teenage satanist). i am so excited to dive into this investigative piece. 15 years later, let's uncover the truth about alice. 

  music of the week record store day was on saturday and i was eager to get a hold of more vinyls for my collection. while i was at the thrift earlier in the week, i discovered a ton of old jugoton  vinyls, which is a famous record company of the yugo days. most of these were just opera and orchestra hits, but still, i am never able to fly back home out fear of warping vinyls so i'll take what i can get here. i lucked out at record den and got an lcd soundsystem   vinyl called x ray eyez  including the original mix and a trash can dub. getting sleazy this week... some discoveries of the week are bands from cro like žen  and chui . žen was caught in a controversy for simply being a lesbian shoegaze band, that was supposed to perform at a children's cultural festival in the home of ivana brlić-mažuranić - the most famous children's author in croatian history. we've heard this story over and over, of parents supposedly freaking out about what ideology is a que...

  music of the week there's a really cool music discovery app called  radiooooo , which i discovered, thanks to buzzfeed , years ago. i believe it was the summer before my senior year that i listened to it pretty constantly. i redownloaded it recently, and i am pretty saddened to see how many features are unavailable if you're not a premium subscription member (subscriptions are the cancer of our society in my opinion). still, you can enjoy shuffle mode and some islands (themed playlists). this spring, my plan is to discover some new songs through this app, so i'll be reporting back soon with some gems.  at the mix  i discovered a new local dj - dj red-i,  as well as an indigenous dj   shub . shub's songs are much more dubstep and ravey, but his visuals at the mix were mesmerizing. dj red-i is also part of a duo called freshproduce. some songs that i saved while listening to their work on spotify: move like that - dj red-i gold pieces - freshproduce. m...