If "it" is worth contemplating, then "it" is of interest.
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I'd like to meet:
You! Everyone Has a Story to Tell, no matter how deep it's buried.
Indulge your senses with the Pop Surrealism of Toronto artist, Oli Goldsmith as he ravages the digital medium to the frenetic aural experience of Squarepusher's Music
Music:
MUSIC
As George Winston once said:
"I live in a Universe of Sound."
For me though, I'd like to make music that creates light underwater.
Here are some new and not so new artists to check out on myspace, listed in no particular category or order, just scroll down and click the linked names for some aural euphoria.
Colbie Caillat *
United By Sound *
Project Defunct *
Imogen Heap *
MJ Cole *
Conya Doss *
Gym Class Heroes *
Cary Brothers *
8mm *
Elizaveta *
The Feverfew *
The Black Keys *
Immortal Technique *
Foreverinmotion *
Sol.ILLaquists of Sound *
William Fitzsimmons *
Paper Airplanes *
Vienna Teng *
Baumer *
Ulrich Schnauss *
Jonathan Clay *
Numina *
Kim Taylor *
Karsh Kale *
Musetta *
Megablast *
The Seedling Escape *
The Streets - Leo The Lion *
Annekei *
Kimberly Linn *
Panta Rei *
Miss Baby Phatt *
Anarbor *
HeavyGrinder *
Kaila *
Aiden *
Shiny Toy Guns *
Manuok *
Ellen Cherry *
Stars of Track and Field *
Moshav *
Amanda Sena *
Idiom of Sad *
Boards of Canada *
the Album Leaf *
Tim Fite *
Natalie Williams *
Pockets of Resistance *
Alison David *
Puchi *
West End Boy *
Kuriaki *
Charlotte Gainsbourg *
Abrazos *
Sleeping At Last *
Howard Jones *
Emily Overstreet *
Granite State *
My Brightest Diamond *
Améthyste *
Vertigo *
Les Shelleys *
Genji *
Chi *
Virginia Nascimento *
I Love Pop *
Casting Pearls *
Tilly and the Wall *
Vessy Mink *
Saltillo *
Breakestra *
Jazz Addixx *
Scienz Of Life *
Elizabeth Shepherd *
MC Abdominal *
Connan and The Mockasins *
Hello Saferide *
Gina Kaz *
Mellow Baku *
Andrea Revel *
Amy Winehouse *
Billie Rainbird *
Saliva Slingers *
The Old Ceremony *
Superstring *
Melyssa Marie *
Ian Cooke *
Maria Taylor *
Butterfly Explosion *
Dawn Kinnard *
May *
Milosh *
Substance Abuse *
Atmosphere *
Lenka *
Oddrun Valestrand *
Bugbeat *
Vanja *
Justin Smith and The Folk-Hop Band *
Justice *
Here, In Arms *
Eccotonic *
Ketz *
Bird York *
Movies:
A Recovering Former Film Student.
Television:
"If I had a sledgehammer... otherwise good journalists or cartoons."
"I'm not lying, I'm writing fiction with my mouth." - Homer Simpson
Books:
Frequent BookWorm and words are my bread.
Check out my list on Zaadz.com
Heroes:
I do not practice Idolâtrie. Though I do admire people who do things worth Idolizing, but then tell you "not to" idolize them.
Some of my favorite quotes...
"Everyone has an end, but in order to liberate yourself from the fear of death you must not be afraid to live" -Mr. Topher
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
- Søren Kierkegaard
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety."
...or
"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power."
-Benjamin Franklin
"History supplies little more than a list of people who have helped themselves with the property of others."
- Voltaire
"...they whom Truth and Wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed."
- William Cowper
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
- William James
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."
- Mark Twain
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest people of past centuries"
- Rene Descartes
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde
"A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones..."
- George Eliot
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Time has told me, not to ask for more...for some day our ocean, will soon find its shore."
- Nick Drake
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
- Neil Gaiman
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
- Albert Einstein
"Only sick music makes money today."
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Leave the gun. Take the canoli."
-Pete Clemenza, in
The Godfather
