radio joy+emily

Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans (Penguin Prison Remix) So, I am...

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:17:58 -0400

Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans (Penguin Prison Remix)

So, I am remembering again for the Nth time that my life is really a cycle of realizing a few key things about myself, then slowly forgetting these important things because I start focusing on other things. Then one day, I look around and I feel very upset and unhappy and dissatisfied with my life and wonder ‘How did I get here?’ And then I begin the process of rediscovering and remembering these things that I’ve known all along, but have just sort of forgotten…

One of these key things : dance music always makes me feel better.

Which sounds ridiculous, sort of. But I mean it in the most sincere way. I have a theory it’s because I am so so very sensitive to everything outside of me, I have a tendency to be so strongly influenced by others’ emotions and sometimes I don’t even realize it…I pick up these external cues and somehow end up taking them on and carrying them around. Which includes music. So if I’m feeling down, it makes it a lot harder to stay down if I turn on something with a dance beat…

I found this song yesterday and I’ve been listening to it a lot since then. It feels dark, and I’ve been feeling pretty dark lately, but I’ve also been sticking to my resolve that things are going to get better if I just keep plugging away, and not get stuck in sadness and inaction. I know things are going to get better.

Tired Pony - Dead American Writers Hey mama, good morning.

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:31:39 -0500

Tired Pony - Dead American Writers

Hey mama, good morning.

Video

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:49:51 -0400

Telekinesis - Coast of Carolina This is the perfect pop song to...

Sat, 09 May 2009 10:01:42 -0400

Telekinesis - Coast of Carolina

This is the perfect pop song to start off the weekend!!!

PS Fires of Rome totally got me through a tedious and tired week.

The Dream - Fancy I am very much in love with this song, except...

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:12:45 -0400

The Dream - Fancy

I am very much in love with this song, except I can’t believe the beat only lasts for four bars. I was so excited the first time I heard it and then I was pissed it was over.

Fires of Rome - It Makes Me Weak

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:10:35 -0400

Fires of Rome - It Makes Me Weak:

It is okay. But call me soon. I still love you too!

Listen to this song, and then listen to the whole album. OH MY GOD.

!!!

Bachelorette - Complex History of a Dying Star Sorry I...

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:49:31 -0400

Bachelorette - Complex History of a Dying Star

Sorry I didn’t call you this weekend like I said I would. I still love you though.

- EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Back in Black (Live) Vacation! New stuff! Yeah! I ate a bagel!...

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:58:00 -0400

Back in Black (Live)

Vacation!
New stuff!
Yeah!
I ate a bagel!
Everything is awesome!

Hello, Joy! From, Emily.

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:56:59 -0400

Hello, Joy!

From, Emily.

Keyboard Drum Set

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:26:00 -0500

Keyboard Drum Set

Justine Electra - Killalady “Your musical compatibility...

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:23:00 -0500

Justine Electra - Killalady

“Your musical compatibility with joyy is SUPER” - LastFM

Telefon Tel Aviv - Stay Away From Being Maybe I hope you are...

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:44:08 -0500

Telefon Tel Aviv - Stay Away From Being Maybe

I hope you are having a wonderful Saturday. It’s beautiful here, sunny and almost 70 degrees. I found the apartment I want to live in today — it’s a loft downtown, a corner apartment on the 6th floor of an old building.

I’m going to sit in the hammock and read a book.

Anathallo - Cafetorium Good morning. I feel like this song...

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:30:03 -0500

Anathallo - Cafetorium

Good morning. I feel like this song sounds like seven other songs squished together, but I can’t figure out what any of them are. Can you?

Raphael Saadiq - Big Easy This song kills me. In response to...

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:21:00 -0500

Raphael Saadiq - Big Easy

This song kills me.

In response to your feelings about the O.W.L. song: I say, don’t be embarrassed.

I’ve thought some about the experience of enjoying and appreciating music, and I’ve come to the conclusion that for ME (your views may be different, I don’t know, tell me what you think), it’s most fulfilling to completely discard the concept of ‘ironic enjoyment’ or ‘guilty pleasure’ and just fully own whatever liking I have for the song.

I think we both have a strong tendency to critically examine the world around us (remember that phrase!?! Critically examine!?!), which can be helpful to some extent but personally, I think it can stop me from having a more genuine appreciation of things. It’s like I remove myself from having a direct experience with music or art or people or life by having to slap words/analysis/appraisal on it. I went through a long phase of music snobbery, but eventually I started asking myself, “What’s the point?”

And really, what the hell is the point!? I used to read a bunch of music criticism and reviews and stuff like that, but it all just seems so exhausting and trivial to me now. I still believe that you can have an in-depth discussion about whether a song was skillfully constructed, or what’s implied or invoked by the lyrics, or the level of inventiveness or originality it shows…but that’s all stuff far removed from the genuine experience of the song.

So, speaking in very vague, general, and over-simplified terms about LIFE and PEOPLE in AMERICA, I’m just really fucking tired of the proclivity to destructiveness and negativity, rather than just being goddamn POSITIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

…so I’m feeling a bit keyed up, tonight’s our first bout of the season and it’s going to be ridiculous. I’ve been listening to lots of metal lately.

Love,

Joy

Battles - Atlas I FORGOT ABOUT THE AWESOMENESS OF THIS SONG...

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:09:32 -0500

Battles - Atlas

I FORGOT ABOUT THE AWESOMENESS OF THIS SONG UNTIL JUST NOW.

Late of the Pier - Broken This song is currently the only song...

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:24:30 -0500

Late of the Pier - Broken

This song is currently the only song included in the soundtrack for designing my new life.

IT’S GOOD!!!

I feel like I have lost the ability to reflect or contemplate. More on this…later.

PS I loves you, EP!

Love,ME

O.W.L. - Be Alive Sometimes I am embarrassed that I like this...

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:32:00 -0500

O.W.L. - Be Alive

Sometimes I am embarrassed that I like this kind of music. But I really, really do. It’s kind of like that song “Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon?” I mean, I totally only like it in an ironic way…… but then there’s another part of me that likes it in an unironic way also. I want to make a mix cd that only has those kinds of jams - the kind with that irony/sincerity tension about them. Although it might just end up being “Everything I Own” by Bread just repeated 12-14 times.

Also, yes, that Death Cab song is real good.

THAT IS WEIRRRD. It seems to me that she should marry someone much cooler than him. …I have...

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:17:01 -0500

THAT IS WEIRRRD. It seems to me that she should marry someone much cooler than him. …I have been listening to this song lots lately though, so he must be kind of cool.

That article was funny, too.

I’m sleepy and I’ve got another cold! STUPID. Life’s still good, though. We were/are/will be right about 2009.

Death Cab for Cutie - Cath…

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:16:00 -0500

Death Cab for Cutie - Cath…

Zooey Deschanel and Death Cab's Ben Gibbard to wed

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:51:14 -0500

Zooey Deschanel and Death Cab's Ben Gibbard to wed:

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.