This is interesting. Just received a tip about The Cataracs:

“I wanted to hit you up about The Cataracs…two guys with poppy-electro-urban influenced music who are currently touring with The Pack. They have been getting attention from being a Myspace featured artist, to videos debuting on VH1, to cover stories with SF Chronicle. Their latest video “Julia” is set to debut on MTVU, was directed by 20 year-old Scott Tilley, a protégé of music video director Taj who has shot videos for Rihanna, NAS and LL Cool J. “It’s an accomplished video for an emerging pop band that you should keep your eye on.” - Arjan Writes”

So I checked out their video and the tune was definitely catchy… had that trendy electro-pop sound that has been building up. If you were to window browse you may think postal service, but if you go into the fitting room you find it to be Inoj.

Judge for yourself:

Best thing: The song “Julia” has a line that I believe goes like,
“You only fuck me in the dark.”
classic! haha

If there is one event in San Diego that gets the love of all FR*Aers far and wide and that’s the San Diego Asian Film Festival!

As I did back in 2007 I’ll be updating with event coverage of the festival event and happenings along with commentary and photos.  If you’re attending this year give a shout out int he comments and say hi!

Here’s a photo from the 2nd day volunteer meeting:

KO will be conducting a LIVE CHAT session today (10/08/2008) at 5:30pm (pst). Be sure to tune in as KO comes to you live from his studio.

Click HERE to enter.

In a world where items, objects and ideas are all classified into boxes that we construct, such as the genres of music, the race of a community, the faiths of people, when do we take a look back and see the commonalities and realize that a common denominator brings them all together? Music has been crossing over with mashups and hybrid sounds of Gnarles Barkley, MIA and MGMT, races are synergizing, adopting and accepting other cultures and languages which normally distinguished one from another, and faiths have been colliding, evolving and expanding. Taking a look at the arts we have in this world, fine art drips into film into illustration into photography into music into anything that expresses the concept via medium. And this is what we have. One might call it chaos, but I consider it as an organized chaos which is left to us to make sense of, produce and present.

In the same vain, the Be-in-1 event explores the concept of collaboration and collusion of the arts from visual to performing. An arts and entertainment festival held next week in Beverly Hills at the Aqua Loungem, any aficionado of music and arts must attend! Expect a truly genuine collaboration of visual art of film and photography, comedy, music spanning a multitude of genres, movement in dance, and fashion.

An event to discover the bubbling underground of LA, this is truly the event for artists to meet fellow artists, for aficionados to indulge their creative and cultural interests, and to come together in the spirit of the arts.

Comedy: Joe King
On the 1’s & 2’s: DJ Styles Davis
Performances: Sektor 7, The Pleez, Les and the Now
Film: One Night in LA, Jon Maxwell
Fashion: Kitty

Saturday, October 18
Aqua Lounge
424 N Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills, CA

Doors open at 8 pm
Entry: $10 before 9:30, $20 after

I can’t believe I slept on this band for so long.  I first got hip to them when I saw Rocknrolla (which by the way was a mediocre Snatch).  I love Rock & Roll Queen as well as many of their songs which sound hmm… maybe like the bastard child of Oasis & Nirvana?  Anyways the band itself features formerly engaged couples and relatives.

See “Rock & Roll Queen”:

One of the best PSA’s I’ve seen, this new video makes my inner Rock the Vote soul bubble in nostalgia.
I first saw the running time and said to myself, “4:48 to tell me to vote? Man, this is going to get stale real quick.” However, the barrage of celebrities and their honesty and their genuine messages truly resonates. The video strikes a nice chord between the serious nature of voting, or the lack thereof, and humor.

Check it out.

About the video:
“Leonardo DiCaprio, will i. am, Tobey Maguire, and Forest Whitaker have created public service announcements to encourage American youth to register to vote. The non-partisan PSA’s, produced by DiCaprio’s Appian Way, were created to engage and inspire young people to register and vote and participate in the upcoming election. Celebrities appearing in the PSA’s include: Amy Adams, Tatyana Ali, will.i.am, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Maria Bello, Halle Berry, Selma Blair, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Connolly, Courteney Cox, Ellen DeGeneres, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Jonah Hill, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Kiedis, Ashton Kutcher, Adam Levine, Laura Linney, Eva Longoria, Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, Esai Morales, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Ethan Suplee, Kyra Sedgwick, Michelle Trachtenberg, Usher, and Forest Whitaker.”