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Do you ever get in the mood, when you are scrolling through your large digital music collection, to listen to something different? …something that stands out? Well I do too. Therefore, I introduce you to… ‘Indie Funk’.

I do not know if the term has been coined yet, but it seems extremely fitting for my latest musical interest, ‘The Astroids Galaxy Tour’. This danish band plays dance-able funky music that will neither make VH1′s Classic Masters or Pitchfork’s Top 100 albums of the year. Mette Lindberg’s vocals (and the respective effects) seem as though they would be a contemporary indie rock band’s. Not entirely emotionless, Mette does not have the soulful, climbing vocals that you would normally associate with true funk music. Instead she drives the music and emotion with a specific harshness that resonates quite cold. Her songs of social heartache and physical conquests echo this sentiment.

Fruit is a perfect example of fun, driving, new music that pushes pop closer to the edge and is, therefore, intriguing. Give it a few listens. I promise Mette’s melodies, the simple bass lines, loose percussion and background brass will bring you out of that slump and back to tapping your foot to something you love in no time.

You can buy it at lala.com.

Grand Rapids had Art Prize this week and so I ran around town with my camera. There was really low light with the night shots. I think the shutter was open for a full second for most of the portraits.

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Self Portrait

The Station

David Schultz

Jason Murray

Central Station

Joel Stob

This happened in June. I just found it now. Why would you mention a fist pump being compared to a terrorist’s gesture? This thought is a newsworthy piece of information to share with your viewers? The New York Times had the same information, NBC, CBS, NPR, CNN, all had the same information, for some reason, they didn’t feel it worthwhile to mention how some people think Obama is a terrorist because he pounds. “Terrorist Fist Jab”. They actually said it. Unbelievable. That’s what Mark Mcguire (not to mention everyone in my generation) has been doing for the last 10 years. We must all be terrorists?! “Terrorist Fist Jab.” Besides them not regarding my generation as their demographic AT ALL, I think it seems very clear that Fox News has only one real purpose. The scary thing is that some people actually believe that garbage.

I love the response that the reporters in the video I attached have. The best way to combat this ridiculousness is to mock them. To call them out and make them know how ridiculous it really is. But if I hear anything about how the media is trying to slander Palin… I swear…

This is an interesting video of many of the women in cinema morphing from image to image. Just something I thought I would share. I also enjoy the cello.