THIS.IS.HOW.I.FEEL.RIGHT.NOW.

x yani

Ah.. the sweet, sweaty remedies of some good ol' DANCIN'

If you don't know our dudes Snack & C'mish of the Turntable Lab NYC, also known as Jay Snackson and Matthew Ro, NOW YOU KNOW .

Read this sick review of these amazing DJ's on rcrdlbl.com here. Basically, we love and respect Snack & C'mish and can't help but kiss their toes for making our bodies shake for hours on end. This is one of an exponential number of examples of why they're rad.

 

ANYWAY,  I had the pleasure of going to MAGNUM,  one of their parties on Friday night at Tandum Bar in Bushwick.  Peep some of the photogs..........

 

 

That's all for now, 

DES

This one goes out to all the ladies..

 Hey kiddies! So I know that Desi is usually the one on here giving some narration to our crazy lives, but after finishing up South by, I felt compelled to post. Austin was absolutely insane! My trip down south started off sort of up in the air. Long story short, all of my plans buckled at the last minute (hours before my flight to be exact) leaving me freaking out in NY and potentially homeless in Austin. I've been in this situation before (i.e. Buenos Aires) so I knew I would be able to work it out. After exhausting all of my Austin connections and networks, my friend Lauren (who is probably the nicest person you will ever meet) was able to hook me up with one of her dear friends, Mallory. The house is actually owned by Maury, I believe, and that dude is the raddest person I've ever met. He has an extensive collection of pattern socks AND brews his own beer,case in point, check out the kegerator sitting in the kitchen below (the stout was super-delicious btw).

When I walked in the door these kids were chillin out, relaxing all cool, so I got to hang with them for most of sxsw. I ran into these suckas, and a whole bunch of other people who know people that I know in Brooklyn. Anywho, the whole point of this post is not to make you all super jealous, but to actually write about why I went to South by in the first place..for the music, duh! I saw over 20 free shows (most of them at Cheer Up Charlie's aka Ms. Bea's). 

After jumping around from venue to venue, gig after gig, I found a positively common theme arise: the girls were absolutely killing it! It was so nice to see girl bands and girl leads fuckin rippin it on stage, being sexy without having to be, and musically putting the boys to shame. I loved every minute of it!  Best Coast, These are Powers, Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls and Chew Lips all delivered. My favorite, by far, has to be Warpaint. I adore these girls. Even with shitty sound problems they still worked it out and delivered one of the best shows I've been to in ages. The haunting harmonies were on point, and man o man do those girls know how to master their instruments! I've been obsessed ever since 'Elephants' dropped, and was beyond ecstatic to find out that they would be playing sxsw. check it:

x yani

WEAR THIS - BLISS LAU

No seriously.  WORK.

"All of the jewelry is created and designed three-dimensionally using traditional garment draping techniques.  Each season, Bliss focuses on a new part of the body to enhance and decorate, inspiration is found in history, the study of Hawaiian culture or corsets and armor as well as the architecture of New York such as the Brooklyn Bridge and Chrysler building."

Go to Court at 178 Mulberry Street, NYC for Bliss Lau's sexy pieces.

PEACE, LOVE, AND GREASE
-Desirayray

CHECK YO'SELF

 HOLA, BONJOUR, HELLO!!!!!! 

Photos are a little late, I know, BUT here you have em.  Crazy tsunami rain this past weekend in NYC so it looks like everyone cured that cabin fever with a dash of boogie and a dose of drank.  

Good thing spring has sprung and we can take our cats for a walk now!

HALLELUJAH HOLLA BACK!

Strive to be more positive

There's too much hate in this world.  Some people use so much of their energy on hate.  Why not be more efficient this week and spread that positive energy.  I know everyone has some in them. *Cheers*

xo-Des

Buckle your seat belts...

Do it and do it some more.  This week at No Malice Palace was superb. More new faces pile on to get flipped! Tunes on point, check.  Tall guy lookin fresh, check.  Delightful faces in the house, double check. Buckle your seat belts, ya'll, cause the crew is preparing for take-off.

xxx Des

Peculiar.....

I know that a million cool things occur every second of every day in this city, it is New York afterall.   Most of the time we don't even have one second to observe our surroundings or think twice about small occurences that are actually really important to our existance in this TYRANNOSAURUS REX of a city.

Well anyway....something really fucking cool happened to me today.  Let me give you a little background information.  About six months ago I was in the Bank of America at Astor Place, probably pissed that I was dishing out hundreds to pay my rent, and a man came up to me and said "are you a natural redhead?" in a very sincere voice and mannor.  I looked over and it was a short 56-ish year old fellow, i'll say fellow and not a guy because he was a fellow, named Abe.  He proceeded to ask me my name and what I do and tell me a lot about himself and ask me to have a cup of coffee with him and ask me if he could give me his phone number.  I was a little puzzled but I took his number and never looked back at the odd experience until today.....

TODAY I was at the corner, walking to the train, at Astor Place and a man came up to me and said "are you a natural redhead?" in a very sincere voice and mannor.  I looked over and it was a short 56-ish year old fellow, i'll say fellow and not a guy because he was a fellow, named Abe.  He proceeded to ask me my name and what I do and tell me a lot about himself and ask me to have a cup of coffee with him and ask me if he could give me his phone number.

I didn't tell him that we already met or that I actually had HIS PHONE NUMBER stored in my phone.  1. Because I wasn't sure if I was going crazy, and 2. I dont know, just because.  Needless to say, I will probably never forget this and I hope that in another six months I hear the same question and I look over and see Abe.

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY

On the real....YA'LL ARE MISSING OUT.  This past Sunday was a blast to say the least.  AND there were some surprise appearances by some long lost friends, Tomashi and Nia.  Yani killed it with the tunes, as usual, and Ryan gave us enough body to hold us over until next week, of course!  Peep some of the beautiful photos of the night, courtesy of the G11.  Cha*Ching!

xxxxx Des