Dear Nylon,

The February issue of Nylon Magazine is finally here! Loooove Nylon! Leighton Meester is on the cover. Also, in the magazine there are tons of bands to check out... I'm not going to list them all, but here are some to take note of... Group Love, Evangelicals, Refried Ice Cream, Esben and The Witch, and Telekinesis. Also check out the band agesandages their album Alright You Restless will be in stores & online Feb. 15th. For more from the latest Nylon go to NylonMag.com or buy the zine at a store near you.

Song of the Day = When I'm Small Artist: Phantogram

X Games 2011 starts tomorrow! Jan.27- Jan.30th. (Super Stoked!) Check ESPN.com for more info.

Shaun White. Image from Google.

Music, Magazines & More

Music: Song of the Day: Moment 4 Life- Nicki Minaj
The Get Up Kids has a new album called There Are Rules that was released today. (Good Stuff!) Amos Lee also has a new cd out called Misson Bell that was released on Jan 21. Peter Bjourn & John also have a new single out called Second Chance. Awesome song! love Peter & John. Also Check Out: Smith Westerns, Cloud Nothings, Talib Kweli -album called Gutter Rainbows.


Books: "The City" starlet Whitney Port has written a book called True Whit that will be availible in bookstores on Feb. 1st
Also, Check Out Max Lucado's book called Fearless


Magazines: The Nest is a great magazine with awesome home decorating ideas. Clever Decorating Ideas Magazine is really cool too! Also, Check out this month's Architechtural Digest (Very Cool!)

Song of the Day:

Indie Kids, Hipsters, Emos, Rock N' Rollers & Celebrity Wannabes

Our society is made up of all different kinds of people and pop culture is always surronding us with new media.
Check Out:
Books
FreakNation by: Kate Stevens. This book is awesome!, it explores pop culture and how people classify themselves as far as what they like and dislike from food to movies to music. Freaknation is an all encompassing guide to the many different types of people in America.  
Also, check out Metric's Emily Haines's father Paul Haines's book called Secret Carnival Workers. This book is a collection of poems and short stories.

Music
Iron & Wine has a new CD coming out on Jan. 25, 2011, it's called Kiss Each Other Clean
Cold War Kids has a new CD coming out also on Jan. 25th, it's called Mine Is Yours

Tonight on TV- Community is at 8:00 and Parks and Rec's new season premieres tonight 9:30/ 8:30c. Also on tonight, Jersey Shore on MTV @ 9pm.

The Decemberists

Song Of The Day: Soft Shock- Artist: Yeah Yeah Yeah's

The Decemberists new album came out today! Also released today, Social Distortion's new album, White Lies new Album,  and The Script's new album.
Check out: The Whigs Album called In The Dark
Also, Check out: Jars of Clay Album called The Shelter

Books:
Alice in Wonderland & Philosophy
Same Kind of Different As Me
30 Days Under The Overpass
Juliet, Naked By: Nick Hornby

Sorry, this post is so short. I'm tired, but I simply couldn't sleep without announcing to my blog friends that The Decemberists new album is availible in stores and on itunes. yessss!

Under The Overpass

This weekend I journeyed to a small town to see my grandmother. Although it was good to see her, the town she lives in couldn't be more boring. To paint a clearer picture of just how boring... everyone knows everyone else, so I spent a lot of time learning the life stories of old people I'd never met. Then, it also proceeded to rain the entire time I was there. It hardly ever rains there so this was a very odd occurrence, which left us stranded in the house and talking about knitting. I contemplated going to the movies on one of the days however, the theater only had three screens and none of the movies showing sounded good. I flipped on the t.v. to see if anything good was on, maybe Everybody Loves Raymond, Dexter or even Wheel of Fortune, but nope again nothing good or remotely entertaining. I kind of had a feeling this trip was going to be a lot of sitting around so I'm glad I had packed a book in my suitcase. I had bought this book a couple of years ago, but had never had a chance to read it. This weekend seemed like the perfect opportunity to read it and it was. The book is called Under The Over Pass- A journey of Faith on the Streets of America, hence today's blog title. This book is one of the most amazing books I have ever read, so eye opening and interesting. The book is about a young guy who is in college at a Christian University, but one morning he wakes up and decides that he wants to experience homelessness and put his Faith to the test. In this book the author Mike Yankoski tells of  his journey with a friend through five months of homelessness in six different cities. How he survived? The people he met? The friends he made? How his faith was put to the test and also kept him going. This book just goes to show that with Faith in God anything is possible! I read this book in two days and I will definitely be re-reading it and telling my friends about it. If you are a Christian I hope you will read this book and enjoy it as much as I did. If you are not a Christian, I hope you will read this book, and become encouraged to be a Christian. <><

Cage The Elephant

Cage The Elephant's new album is finally in stores today!

Song of the day: Shake Me Down- Cage The Elephant (Great song!)

Music to Check Out:

Summer is Forever EP w/ artists Wavves, Best Coast and No Joy

Cake's New Album was just released today too. Their album is called Showroom of Compassion

Also, Britney Spears has a new single out it's called Hold It Against Me ( nobody cares!)

Young The Giant has a free song availible for download on iTunes it's called My Body

Also check out the Electric Owls.

Discovery Download on iTunes is Tennis- song: Marathon (good stuff!)

Movies:

I just saw Country Stong the other day, it is a good movie but it's too long. It's the classic run of the mill story about a musician's decent into drugs and alcohol and how hard it is to be famous. So, with that being said, it was nothing new and interesting. However, Gweneth Paltrow is a really good singer. I really enjoyed the soundtrack too. The soundtrack is availible on iTunes and probably in stores.

Also, Social Network came out on DVD and Blue-Ray today.

The Green Hornet starring Seth Rogen opens this week in theaters

The Dilemma also opens this week, it stars Vince Vaughn and Kevin James

No Strings Attached stars Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman, it opens in theaters on Jan. 21

and The Mechanic starring Jason Statham opens in theaters Jan. 28

Where Is My Mind

The title of today's post comes from the song "Where Is My Mind." I was watching Fight Club last night on FX and that is the last song at the most epic moment of the movie when Tyler kisses Marla and everything around them is chaos. I absolutely love this movie for many reasons. I love the music obviously, but also the twistedness which is Fight Club. Chuck Palanuik is a very talented writer. If you have not read the book or seen the movie you should see it ASAP. Ok, enough about Fight Club, in other news Spin Magazine has a free playlist availible for download of the hottest music of 2010. The link is http://www.spin.com/itunes. This Spin playlist is full of great music from Deerhunter, Wavves, The Walkmen, Spoon, MGMT & more. Also, my friend who wants to be an interior designer recently showed me a really cool blog for all of you Home Decor lovers, it's called http://fuckyeahrooms.tumblr.com/ This website is full of great decorating tips and ideas for any home space. Check it out!

Books:

Looking For Alaska By: John Green

Paper Towns By: John Green

The Lying Game By: Sara Shepard  

Wishful Thinking By: Alexandra Bullen

The Hunger Games  By: Suzanne Collins (if your into sci-fi type stuff)

SoulPancake By: Rainn Wilson ( Great Book!)

I am currently reading: Deadly Little Secrets By: Laurie Faria Stolarz

This book is in a series. Book #2 is Deadly Little Lies and Book # 3 is Deadly Little Games.

Movies:

I recently purchased High Fidelity @ target.com for super cheap. It is a movie about a record store and it's employees starring John Cusack and Jack Black. I absolutely love this movie! The soundtrack is really good too! You should watch it if you haven't seen it.

Also, Empire Records is a great movie... I just bought it for super cheap on Target.com too.

Music:

Today's Song is : West Coast By: Coconut Records

Checkout:

Ben Folds & Nick Hornby's album called Lonely Avenue

Starfucker- albums called Jupiter One, and another just called Jupiter.

Y La Bama- album called Lupon

Typhoon- album called Hunger & Thirst (kind of like Ratatat)

Mirah- album called Advisory Commited

Guster- song called "This Could All Be Yours" (Good Stuff... loving Guster!)

The Antler- album called Hospice

Lil Wayne & Cory Gunz song called "6 Foot 7 Foot"
Bad Books- a collaborative album called Bad Books from Manchester Orchestra and Kevin Devine

Other sites to checkout:
ModCloth.com
and of course one of my favorites Etsy.com (Awesome Jewlery ladies!)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year Everyone! I am so excited for this new year. I just ate my black eyed peas of good luck in this next year. Today, is a beautiful day. I have no New Year's resolutions yet, but im working on it. I think my first resolutions will be to drink more water and eat healthier. I also want to travel more in this new year. I really enjoyed watching Lil Wayne's time square performance and Greyson Chance's performance covering Lady Gaga's song Paparazzi. I liked his version of the song a lot more than Lady Gaga's actually. 2010 was full of good music and I'm looking forward to the music of 2011. Death Cab For Cutie has a new cd coming out this year, as well as Blink 182. Also, Pete Wentz has a side project called Black Cards. You can hear one of the songs called Dominos on Alt. Press.com. In other news, I know I have mentioned this before but as a reminder, Cage the Elephant has a new album coming out called Thank You, Happy Birthday that is set to release on Jan.11. The Architects also have a new song out and it's called Learn To Live.
well that's all for now. Check back for more pop culture and music news soon.