SOL Republic Headphone Are Freaking Amazing

   These bad boys right here, are the shiz! These have to be THE best head phones I've ever had the pleasure of spoiling my ears with. While window shopping at Best Buy, I was looking to see how much some wireless Dre Beats would be (since the corded one has been a little inconvenient for my studio set up) with my buddy JP. While browsing, this bad boy was on display and I thought, "what the heck, I've had the Beats for a while now, lets see what other headphones are out there." So I grabbed a jack, popped it into my cellphone and listened to one of the new tracks that I'll be releasing soon (which I think is a step above my past work. *said every musician always*), and was blown away!

   The pair that I tried were the Tracks Ultra On-Ear headphones and I've gotta say, they rival the Beats by about a mile. The sound was so freakin' CRISP! The bass popped, the mids and the highs were in the right spot and not smashed together! They were like mini studio speaker on your ears!! These headphones are defiantly one of the top things on my Christmas list (or more accurately, my "whenever I get the extra money" list) for sure!

   I absolutely want the Tracks AIR wireless but I'm not sure what the difference is between an A2 Sound Engine (which is in the Tracks AIR) and a V12 Engine (which is in the Tracks Ultra that I tested). I'll be looking into that for sure but these these would be perfect for mixing and mastering my stuff!

Top 10 Awesome Cartoons!

As much as I love hearing (and making) music that bring back memories of the sweet, fun, and adventurous past, there's nothing quite like kicking back in some boxers at 2pm (as if I don't do that already), with a box of Fruity Pebbles (king of all cereals) watching the greatest cartoons ever made! I need to pick a day to just watch these again:

10) Tiny Toons:
      I loved the idea of seeing what the Looney Toons characters were like as kids! I'm kind of glad they went into making Baby Looney Toons, and the current The Looney Toons Show, being a before and after.

9.) Mike Lu & Og
     I really remember loving the style of animation for this show. The characters outlines were always moving ever so slightly, and the coloring and texture was just different from the other cartoons, which made it refreshing to watch. Loved the turtle (lancelot), and felt bad he had to be the pet of that spoiled girl(Lu). Here's a good wiki about the show HERE

  8.) Secret Squirrel
       Oh yeah! I loved watching SS and the crazy spy adventures he'd go on with Morocco. My favorite was the episode with the candy people! WATCH IT! That was the craziest episode I've ever saw. Man, Secret Squirrel had to be THE coolest guy in cartoon history....and still is! If not who else?

  7.) Power Puff Girls!
        Look the show was awesome alright! They had the coolest villains like the Gang Green Gang, Him, and of course Mojo jo jo! They also had some pretty awesome episodes like the one with when the Broccoli invades the city ("Beat Your Greens"  was the episode).  I have to say they also did a great job with the movie.

 6.) Samurai Jack
      Gotta get back...to this right here! Although I love the show, I didn't really like it initially since I always confused! I never was able to keep up with the episodes in order, but when I caught a marathon of it, boooy was I glued to that T.V.! The crazy battles, strange creatures, and strong opponents kicking jacks butt had me on the edge of my seat wondering if he was gonna' to make it! I'm getting worked up just writing about it! Gotta finish watching the series.

 5.) Dexter's Laboratory
     Good Ol' Dexter. Freakin' love the hilarious adventures he unintentionally creates for himself and the rivalry between Mandark and Dexter is just beautiful. I will never forget the episode when Mandark first gets into town. (maybe because that was the first time I was mooned by a cartoon character).
I hated when they stopped showing the little shorts of Money and the Justice Friends (was that last one it's own cartoon?)

  4.) 2 Stupid Dogs
       This one is a little hard to place because I think it's safe to say this was one of those shows that everyone kinda knew about but wasn't aired much (I could be SO VERY WRONG ON THAT!) but there were some episodes that were not that great, and others that were. And it's not so much that is were bad, but dragged on too much. That was only some episode and the ones that weren't like that were really funny though.

3.) Cow & Chicken
      This show was just awesomely disturbing, especially when it came to The Red Guy. Him prancing around basically naked and always emphasizing his butt was just...different, if you will. In fact, they really had some obsession with butts if you think about it with the pork butts, I.R. Baboon and Weasels butts, cows butt, talking about butts, butts, butts, butts, butts, (say that ten times fast lol). Butt, it was an awesome show that had the milk flowing from nose.

Which should be number one??? I can't decide!!

 1.) Courage the Cowardly Dog
       This is my favorite cartoon right here. I've seen every episode at lease a thousand times and it just never gets old for me. Besides being funny and entertaining, Courage was touching up on "dem feels" with episodes like "Remembrance of Courages Past". and "The Hunchback of Nowhere" a d incorporating values and ethics in a way that wasn't obvious or preachy. Best cartoon ever.

  1.) Ed, Edd, and Eddy
       The very name brings tears to my eyes. This show is just the best out there. It was a show I easily connected with because it reminded me of my two best buddies so much (of course we fought about who was who lol). This show was just the perfect balance of funny, morals, and friendship. I loved all of the specials as well as Eddy's brother finally showing up! My favorite episode though had to be the one with the Video camera (not sure what it's really called).  

A Great Big World - "Say Something"

     I've heard for the first time which pissed me off, opened old wounds, and was simply great. It's one of those instances where (artist I'm sure you've gone through this) you hear a song that is extremely close to one you were thinking of writing and you get that feeling of, damn this guy beat me to it! (Not that it would change anything if I did write something like this since only 5 people know my music even exist).

    Anyways, When I first listened to the opening chords I was already disappointed in the writing although It wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for the never changing top note that you hear consistently plugging away. Of course you can't judge a book by it's cover or introduction, so of course I stuck around to hear if this would wither change, if the song would go in a different direction, or the vocals are really good. Turned out the latter was true and does the added benefit of moving into a richer progression.

    It went from seemingly stale to interesting pretty quickly even though the chord progression remained the same. The voice and the melody it follows works magic for the song and I interpret the chords as the feeling of limbo during a very rough patch in a relationship. So all in all, this song blew me away and was the "slow song" equivalent to a rock intro that starts with one clean guitar then explodes with the "in your face" overdrive sound, thick bass, and punch of the kick drum.

   I think I may cover this song in my own way. Great job A Great Big World!

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