more sifting of old videos led to this gem of homeboys We Are Lions putting on a brilliant performance at UCSD. they were the opening act for Lupe Fiasco and Ben Kweller. great job guys, you did it.

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workin’ on a new thingy. it’s far from realized, but i like where it’s going so far.
to be continued…

i don’t know how these guys slipped through cracks for the best of ‘08, but damn. big ups to my main man Darren for introducing me to them. check out their website for the skinny. here’s one of my fav’d tracks from Nights Out.

Metronomy “My Heart Rate Rapid”
Nights Out
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(video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwbhxvUzpbM )

doin some color variations on these guys. can’t find one i love yet…

“Context Free is a program that generates images from written instructions called a grammar. The program follows the instructions in a few seconds to create images that can contain millions of shapes.”
this prog is RAD. reminds me of Processing, but it’s easy enough for a dummy like me to grasp.

because you care and i have nothing better to do, here are my top 10 tracks from ‘08 (in alphabetical order, i love them equally). for a thorough compilation of dynamite music let me suggest Pitchfork’s 100 Best Tracks of 2008…  shut up Pitchfork.
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