ARHYTHMATIK

This is the illest thing in the history of music!  You gotta peep this application.  It is a program that allows you to listen to various online radio stations, but it allows you to totally customize your experience.  You can search for specific artists, listen to their songs, and save their songs to listen to ANYTIME.  It also shows a list of other similar artists and allows you to listen to and save their songs as well.  You can share your “stations” and access them anywhere.  They have also just announced that a Blackberry and iPhone version of Slacker is coming very soon.  Illy!  Peep it at  www.slacker.com.  Too bad no Arhythmatik music is on there yet!  I gotta find out more about how to make that happen.

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Have any of you seen this show? It’s freeking amazing. It’s done with Morgan Spurlock (of “Supersize Me” fame). He (or someone else in the cast) goes and lives a certain lifestyle for 30 days.

My favorite episode is the one where a Minuteman and strong anti-illegal immigration advocate, goes and lives with a family in East LA who illegally immigrated here to the US. The Minuteman and the family clash at times, but later become very close. Eventually, the Minuteman goes to visit Mexico to see where the family was living before coming to America illegally. The circumstances this family was living in while they were in Mexico were utterly astonishing. It will blow your mind. Needless to say, the Minuteman comes back a changed man and now views the illegal immigration issue in an entirely new light.

The reason I dig this show so much is because it destroys all political arguments about certain issues, and shows the most powerful human issues involved first-hand . All rhetoric aside, it shows real life in raw form and the effects certain governmental policies have on humans’ lives during their sojourn here on earth. It is a very powerful show. I highly recommend you check it out on FX, or better yet– watch it on HULU.COM right now for free.

UPDATE: The illegal immigration episode isn’t available on HULU.COM, but it is available on iTunes.  Another favorite episode of mine is the one where Morgan Spurlock goes and lives on the Navajo reservation.  Growing up near the Ute Mountain Ute rez in Colorado and the Navajo rez in New Mexico, all my friends growing up were Native.  So this one hit really close to home for me and had a big impact on me.  This one is available for free on HULU.COM

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That’s right y’all!  This is the first ever LDS Youth Fest and yours truly is performing live.  The Fest will include a dance DJ’d by the world famous DJ Shawn Phillips (Movin’ 100.7).  Other performers include the hardest LDS rocker, Mark Hansen, along with tween alternative group Squish.  If you’re in Utah, don’t miss it!  It should be mad fun and quite a unique event.   For all the details, be sure to check out WWW.LDSYOUTHFEST.COM.  Big ups to yourLDSneighborhood.com for their sponsorship of the event.

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This is the weirdest thing to me. My entire life (well, since I was in 3rd grade anyways) I have always loved hip hop music. I used to refuse to listen to any other types of music growing up (part of it was me wanting to be rebellious- boy am I a revolutionary or what- and part of it was me just not liking other types of music), but now I am really uninterested in any hip hop I hear today. It just doesn’t move me like it used to. I am sure me aging has something to do with it, but perhaps not. In Christian hip hop, there used to be the Redclouds, the entire Syntax Records crew, the DeepSpace 5 crew, that were constantly new, fresh, and innovating. Most of them now just do a record every few years. In underground hip hop, it was The Visionaries, Swollen Members, Blackalicious who really moved me. Same goes with them– a mediocre album every few years. I dunno– am I the only one who sees some void in hip hop now?

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