January 20th, 2009: The Wait Ends Here

Today is a day of lasts–and tomorrow a day of new beginnings. We have waited so long, and it is finally here.

Yes, we all know today is Still-President Bush’s last day in office. Many rejoice. And, yes, tomorrow we here in the good old US of A will welcome Still-President-Elect Barack Obama into office with bells and whistles and parades and balls. We will buy stock in hope, and cartoon birds and bunnies will roam freely across our great land spreading cheer–but a less lauded animal will roam, too: the Noble Beast.

Yes, today is the last day I will have to live without Andrew Bird‘s glorious fifth album, Noble Beast. And tomorrow, I will get my grubby little hipster hands on a copy of it, and despite the economic disaster, wars, melting glaciers and all that general strife Obama has to look forward to, all will be well in my world for 54 minutes and 16 seconds. I encourage you to do your part in helping the economy by investing this CD. From what I’ve heard, it’s well worth it.

Because I’m in an uncharacteristically charitable mood, here’s a fabulous YouTube video of the first track, “Oh No!“

Like it? Good. Me too. Listening to that put me in an even better mood, so should you desire a sneak peak at the entire album before it drops tomorrow, look no further than this link. You may thank me later.

And so, we soon say goodbye to January 19th, 2009 and hello to January 20th, 2009–and then the wait ends.

Welcome to the White House, Barack Obama.
Welcome to my iTunes Library, Noble Beast.

The Ballad of Ferraby Lionheart

About the delay- we have been ironically busy. Now that things have seemed to calmed down a bit, expect a decent amount of posts. Or whatever.

Once upon a time last year a dear friend recommended me an artist by the name of Ferraby Lionheart and now I am recommending him to you. He has produced a self-titled EP and a full-length album, Catch the Brass Ring, in 2007. His music is key for the acoustic-indie-hipster music scene. He focuses on the main points of a good hipster band; good lyrics, pianos, guitars and various stringed instruments throughout. What makes him stand out from the rest? Well, while he may allure to the hipster scene, he is far too well read and interesting to be just any other hipster band, like Deerhoof or Dr. Dog. 

Two of his songs have gained popularity from his albums and have made it to video form, while every one I have hear has been wonderful. His music is the type of music you can listen to for hours while on a long train ride – it is calming a peaceful. Also good for picnics. 

His video for “A Crack In Time” is witty and cute, and rather aww-inducing. He uses his simplicity of a man with an acoustic guitar for his benefit, allowing there to be a space for girl and boys to swoon over him in a hope that he is the music he plays. He obviously is a great gentleman to the elderly, and seriously, who doesn’t want that in a musician? 

Hipsters and the elderly go hand in hand! 

 

Obama even thinks so! 

I seriously want that Hipsters for Obama pin. I know Paul does as well. We’ll be investing in them soon, I’m sure. 

So, put your political biases away and give Ferraby Lionheart a listen. He seems like a good guy, he’s has no reason to lie.

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Official Website

Other Recommended Videos: Here and Here

This Is the First Day of Our Blog

Yours was the first blog interface that we saw, WordPress.
We think we were blind before we met you.

And yet, here we are, blogosphere. We apologize for our delay in beginning our deliciously superior posts, but it seems we were held up donating our parents’ trust fund money at a recent Obama rally. We love his platforms. I mean, we’re totally into telling our friends how deck being green is–sure, we don’t recycle or reduce our carbon footprints by turning our Macs off or anything, but nothing shouts irony like riding down the street on a bicycle with a reusable tote filled with sustainable and locally grown organic goodies. And we find nothing more ironically stimulating to our cynical souls than all his talk of hopes, dreams and aspirations.

Hipsters Ironically for Obama ’08.

Anyway–our bloggings should begin shortly.
We are overconfident that you will enjoy them.