mix-tape mix-taste and a rant

ima be posting the mixtape playlist in a couple of weeks. i just gotta take a drivers course. haha. that has nothing to do with the mixtape. i will continue to bring up the idea for the mixtape and if you are interested. comment the posts that talk about it. this one is gonna be good. maybe ill hook you up with goodies if you show some love.
also, if there is a song that is defining your fall season. tell me about it. ill take it in and let it make magic all over the walls. something to expect from a potential hard copy

its not like i want to get away because of something i hate. although, im not a fan of how school feels. i really dont like the culture. i acutally feel like shit when i think about where i am. when i sit and think about where i live, i buggs me. i am stuck on the grid known as on post housing for military families. please dont take me as unappreciative. i love my mother. she has done so much for me. i honestly wish she didnt live on post. i wish none of them did. they should all have houses on the beach or ontop of hills becuase of the kind of effort they put in for this country. but eh, this is how it happened. and we are gonna face it til we are ready to move on.
i want to leave. i cant really justify why i want to. at least not in a logical way. like, i really like how that field looks, it meets the sky perfectly. logically, i dont have a good reason. i dont plan to build a house on that land. there is no growth for me in that location. i am perfectly satisified with looking at it. even for a couple seconds. i wont get bored or think on it too long. just enough to develop a feeling. and with this town ive developed the feeling. i do not plan to explain myself. this place doesnt feel good and the idea of the pacific north west does. maybe when i get there ill end up changing my mind. but i am positive that there is more growth, especially compared to here.
im ranting like hell. fuck it.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: Julian Lynch

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: Julian Lynch [Part 10 of 14] from Ray Concepcioñ on Vimeo.

WOW. i feel like i just died. this is most likly what is heard, when you die, if a clarinet is present and things that you experience when you die is transmitted via sattelite. probily. hmmmm. this song is my alarm clock for the night. but this alarm is signaling that i aught to get some shut eye.
anyways. wear some headphones and watch this in "HD".

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: These United States

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: These United States [Part 9 of 14] from Ray Concepcioñ on Vimeo.

have them head phones ready and also, try clicking the title of the video. itll take you to his vimeo channel where you can watch in "HD" hmmm. 5.1 surround. i dont think its quite there yet. but the video's aspect ratio and such are still good.
QUALITY SHIT!

my mind was blown on

Tascha and I went to a show last night!
Yesterday morning she notified me that the mountain goats were playing at Antones in Austin, which made us PUMPED! haha. We continuously checked online to make sure the tickets hadn't sold out. Well, come the time when i got out of class at 5:30pm, all was fucked. It sold out. On a Wednesday night??? Don't people have work and stuff in the morning? FUCK IT! We still went.
We blew up everyone on craigslist with potential tickets. On the way there we got a call, this call had reserved us one ticket! Now we just need another. Continuously checking email and craigslist, we follow I35. We make it to Antones and do the ticket/money exchange with homeboy from craigslist. We got in line with hopes for a scalper to come around with a ticket. No luck.
Lots more people needed tickets were standing off to the side to catch that person whose date didn't show up and were in the same position we were, begging. This was starting to make us sweat a little. We came so far and so did they.
"did anybody realize that they really don't like the mountain goats and are confused about why you're still in line? i can help resolve this conflict. just sell me your ticket and walk away."
Well, cutting out about an hour and a half of this, a very kind lad had and extra ticket on will call and we got in! WOOOOOO!
fantastic!
Only got to see the last bit of the first act. SHE HAD A FANTASTIC VOICE AND A MOUTH TO GO WITH IT! ha. Larkin Grimm was good. I wish we coulda gotten a bigger taste.

Okay, The Mountain Goats were fantastic. John Darnielle is hilarious. The conversational bits between songs had the crowd cracking up. He is for sure a delightfully awkward dude with his glasses and such. If he wasn't a musician, he would be a techie for a radio station or something.
The acoustic songs had my attention. There was a song that i was very, very into. I have never heard it but later found out. Color in Your Cheeks. I couldn't find an mp3 to post today but since I am putting together a mix tape for you..... have your hopes high.

This blog isn't really about The Mountain Goats or Larkin Grimm with here giant chompers, they were fantastic. My mind was blown on by our good sir, Owen Pallett as Final Fantasy.
JESUS!!! That dude has talent. Ive never seen anything like his performance. Looping sounds and melodies with his violen and looping over those, all in real time. I was mesmerized. Also, his percussionist/guitarist was a trip. The man was a beast on the guitar. My favorite part of the entire show was him covering Joanna Newsome. WOAH! Did not expect that. Because I suck and waste all of my money on fast food and cigarettes, I do not have a fancy video camera yet and have to post from youtube and such. Although this video is not from last night, it gets the point across well.



He did great!
After the show, Tascha and I had body pains from hell. Starving, we ate ourselves some of that JUMBO JACK from Jack in the Box. HEALTHY!! and we smoked cigarettes.
We drove back to Killeen from Austin, got to her room, and passed the fuck out.

but okay. i am out of words.
*note to self, buy a camera

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: Big Troubles

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: Big Troubles [Part 8 of 14] from Ray Concepcioñ on Vimeo.

eh. this one is not really my favorite. at all. you can barely hear the vocals, which almost turns this song into a pop-punk instrumental. at least in my ears.
here is a good post with a song by them called Grey Days. i totally dig it.
FRIENDSHIP BRACELET <<<--- click, plus theyve got more music and such.

anyways, wear headphones with thes vids.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: Pill Wonder

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: Pill Wonder [Part 7 of 14] from Ray Concepcioñ on Vimeo.

smoke crystal meth than listen this, of course wear headphones too.

and the reasons keep pileing in

so today, i went to pick up my little sister from school. the drive is about 20 min there and 20 min back and sometime between this 40 minute time span, a few people decided to fire some rounds at innocent people. us driving had no word of the sort.
we pulled up to the gate, where i flash my military dependant id at the guard to get let onto post, and were let in just as usual.
into our neighborhood. we pull into the drive way and get out. as we walk through the back gate, sirens take over the airspace.
our neighbors start to slowly walk out of their houses to listen in.
Listen to this audio clip now.
We were all very confused. One lady said there was a shooting and to go inside and watch the news.
Woah. Surprisingly enough, in the town i live in, people were being killed, by other people. I am, at this moment, still under lock down.
If you listened to the audio clip, than you have heard what has been repetitively playing from the trees and through the streets of my neighborhood for the past two hours.
They are soldiers and they were upset. there is no justification for what they've done and are still doing but the motives, im sure, go deep.



I am going to move to the pacific northwest very soon.

what an inspiration

all of this music and all of these videos have been a big part of my days recently.
in the middle of december, i will post a mixtape of a sort. all of my fall listenings.
i am a beliver in fall music. just like how there are summer anthems and hits. about summer love and being with friends.
fall has always impacted me the most. always. the weather always reminds me of what comfort is.
i dont mean comfort like temperature really. i am honestly a warm weather person.
i mean comfort. understanding what you want most. wanting over needing. and being comfortable with how i feel with what i want.
these songs will be there for me.
and whenever i listen to the songs again, next year or the year after, the reflections will be of warmth. the warmth that is to be found.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: Alex Bleeker

OH MY GOD! thats exactly what i have to say about that.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: Alex Bleeker [Part 6 of 14] from Ray Concepcioñ on Vimeo.

headphones my brothers and sisters.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: Grooms

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: Grooms [Part 5 of 14 from Ray Concepcioñ on Vimeo.

GET YOUR ASS SOME HEADPHONES. the audio is GREAT.
oh and dont be shy. turn off my music player. suddenly, everything is better.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: Air Waves

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: Air Waves [Part 4 of 14| from Ray Concepcion on Vimeo.

wear headphones or have a dope ass stereo speaker set up while listening. the audio is FANTASTIC, given they are live recordings.
(its okay, pause my music player. than watch the video. thats the key)