treena's humble opinions on popular culture:
5 bands you should listen to (or download off hype machine. right now):
1. Beirut
Zach Condon has the magical ability to make you feel like you've just stepped into a bright red and yellow striped tent at a circus, moved to Italy, or are in the midst of a Balkan gypsy orchestra. either or anyway, it's a wonderful, beautiful, hypnotic adventure
2. Mewithoutyou
People ask me why I love this band so much, because Aaron Weiss does not sing, but rather grunts and screams and bellows (which is not standard treena style). Yet the man is so anti-establishment, yet so raw, and so sincere. He eats out of trashcans and rejects hygienic standards, and he makes my heart tingle, he writes quality lyrics for sure, one-liners like: "put music to our troubles and we'll dance them away" and has some great guitar riffs. listen to: "tie me up! untie me!"
3. Broken Social Scene
great canadian band. buoyant. chill. enjoyable.
4. Sigur Rós
just mesmerizing and so epic. the sound is huge. fills my imagination and day-dreams with silly adventure
5. Sufjan Stevens
nuff' said. i'm listening to his christmas albums as we speak.
5 books you should read:
1. Dave Eggars - Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius
He has a writing workshop at the back of a pirate retail store in San Francisco. I just wish Might Magazine was still around to read
2. E.E. Cummings - 95 Poems
the goal of living is to grow. the aim of waking is to dream. in time of all sweet things beyond, whatever mind may comprehend, remember seek (forgetting find)
2. David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
you can't deny his talent and gift to pull humor out of the sad and the mundane. it's amazing
3. Stephen Schbosky - Perks of Being A Wallflower
And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.
4. Pablo Neruda - Extravagaria
I once stole a textbook out of the storage closet of my mom's school just to find a poem written by him. Extravagario, is nonsensical or, rather, supersensical, being a mixture of the Spanish words extravagante, extravagar, vagar, extraviar, and variar
5. Jack Kerouac - On The Road
oh, the only people for me are the mad ones! the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved! I remember reading this book simultaneously with a biography of C.S. Lewis (not written by C.S. Lewis), but just comparing the roughness and cynicism that it inhabited, rather than the free buoyant spirit of Kerouac, one who "never yawns or says a commonplace thing, but burns, burns, burns like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars" this is how i choose to live, with this sort of energy, even if not with the same values
5 movies you should watch:
1. eternal sunshine of a spotless mind
thought-provoking and imaginative. nice work kaufman. nice work gondry. you guys maintain my favorite.
2. thank you for smoking
oh. the lobbyist. just so hilarious and intelligent and witty. the art and power of argument.
3. lost in translation
a unique and introspective look into very cool relationship, full of meaningful moments, even if argued anti-climactic. i thought it was wonderful.
4. the science of sleep
so neat and imaginative, distinguishing dreams and reality, just aesthetically so stimulating
5. love me if you dare: are you game?
i just love the witty, random dialogue of the french. top-notch foreign film. recommended to fans of amelie.
5 stores you should pay a visit:
1. ameoba records
i think they have 2, one in hollywood, the other san francisco - it'd be rad if their was one in seattle. it's just the most massive used record store, just wildly eclectic, massive selection, they have absolutely everything for super cheap
2. whole foods market
frickin' good (oh man. i used an euphemism). no, but really
3. therapy
wonderful and quirky, my favorite botique. you know in SLO they have a picture of a banana peel in a plastic ziploc bag signed by Karen O from yeah yeah yeahs up on wall. suh-sweet. so hip.
4. buffalo exchange
the best thrift store ever. really.
5. barnes and nobles
a slave to the books. i could just go there and chill every single day of my life
5 restaurants you should eat at:
1. Shin's Sushi Bar
I like philly and eel roll. yum.
2. Taj Palace
oh. monday night is buffet night. give us a couple extra baskets of naan.
3. Thai Kitchen
those hole in the wall thai places where you literally feel like you're sitting in some thai families' kitchen. it's de-licious!
4. Jaffa's Cafe
top-notch Greek food, a family favorite for sure
5. Oasis
mediterannean food, has the best lemon chicken and lamb, and vegetable cous cous, also cool ambiance, sometimes with belly dancers, my brother hates that
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For someone that hates comparisons. You sure make a lot of lists of your favorite places. Isn't that comparisons. Maybe you get that from me. Love you lots and lots.
Dad
I probably did get the love of listmaking from you.
but my comparisons are about music, places, and ideas, which if there is one thing i learned from studying design is these issues are complex and subjective and meant to be picked apart, where as comparisons of people are not, and are far more personal.... there is a big difference in its appropriateness. at least to me.
dad. i love you.
awww, a father that checks his daughter's blog and comments!!! k, i'll shaddup now.
where is jaffa's? i gotta try that. i haven't been to whole foods market yet, but i love trader joe's. it's a bummer living so much further away from that stuff, but i love the mountains. something draws me to them more than the beach. i know, that's heresy, but it's the truth.
cheers!
more than the beach? that certainly is heresy! no, no, the mountains are beautiful and peaceful. i def. appreciate both.
ask my dad where jaffa's is - i forget the street name - it's a couple streets past main downtown, i really recommend it. it has amazing falafels.
also. trader joe's is good. but you've gotta go to whole foods sometime -- it's seriously amazing.
man. you're making me miss home! i'll be home in a week and 1/2 -- you should visit your parents then too!
God bless Leo
wow. i feel dumb because i'm replying to my own post the most.
BUT. i forgot to add that Jaffa's is in San Luis Obispo -- just outside of downtown, yeah. ask my dad.
cheers!
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