Quick Guide: Top 5 Disney Blogs

I will make a promise before this post gets too far: I promise this will not become a 100% Disney blog.  

That being said, you may recall in my catch up post, I mentioned becoming a huge Dis nerd in the last year or two.  This nerdiness encompasses the history of the company, parks, & films, the specific worlds created through various art styles & music- I love it all, especially the tiny details.

Knowing this love, if may not surprise you to find out that one of my favorite things is planning a trip to Walt Disney World.  I’m sure it won’t be too surprising to find out that Losson & I are visiting Mickey (and Rapunzel!) for our honeymoon next summer & (coincidentally - not really, totally planned- ) for my birthday.

This will be our third trip to the parks as a couple (Loss proposed in the Magic Kingdom- that story will for sure be coming soon) & I’ve spent much time researching online, asking many random questions to the Disney resort line & conferring with others who have been to WDW more recently. Oh, and I may have 8 or 10 Pinterest boards on the different parks, foods, attractions, films & characters.

That being said, I’m not going to outline trip planning for you; I simply want to share some sources I look to often when planning & also keeping up to speed on what’s currently is going on in the parks.

Blog Round Up

I admittedly have too many blogs on my RSS feed- from news sources (Pitchfork, Seterogum- yes, music news) to lolcatz.
In this feature I'm adopting, I'll throw out some blogs that you might want to check out and give a few reasons why you might want to.

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Ryan Adams' "Foggy"

Mr. Internet Personality himself (see: his homepage and DJ Reggie and other interesting monikers) is at it again.

He began "fickleblogging", in the words of Pitchfork, a few weeks back, eventually naming the tumblr blog "Foggy".

With multiple posts daily, including quotes, iphoto self portraits and videos of Sunday afternoons on the town and of stuffed animals that upload videos while he's "out shopping at Marc Jacobs", it stands to be an interesting find.

The most interesting aspect of Mr. Adams' work is the notion of the entries on the said blog, it's not very clear on whether they are actual thoughts or random fictitious ramblings from good ole D. R. himself.


Mr. Adams, Warhol stripes & all

Of course, in this world of fickleblogging, the unknown end was due to come before long, and at this point, it has. I woke up this morning to find farewell posts on the blog, making the morning a little bit sadder for me. In his leaving, though, yet another video has been posted and it's a pretty good song. Made me almost forgive the craziness of D.R. (as I now prefer to call him).

Of course, the image of the Declaration of Independence is...random.

Anyways, if you dig the sound of his work, check out this video and check out what's left of the blog...you know it could, literally, all be gone tomorrow...


CROSSED-OUT NAME from Ryan Adams on Vimeo.

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And next time, hopefully I won't catch the end of a blog, as opposed to when it just starts. So is life, I guess...

SXSW: as seen from TN

My thoughts on what I read/saw, via "the blogs"

-I will give Pitchfork props on the photos, particularly the amount of them
[Pitchfork's Culmination of SXSW coverage]

-Nashville Cream- Not as in depth as Pitchfork, but much more entertaining. SXSW without a badge as expereinced by free food and drink taking, couch hopping Seth con Queso is quite entertaining. I'm looking for a wrap up after he recovers.

-Speaking of Nashvillites, The Nobility posted some nice photos on their flickr.

I vote the photo of Caitlin Rose, from their page, pretty much the most adorable thing ever:


-I was suprised to not hear a huge huge fuss about Vampire Weekend. Maybe they're running down a little bit...? I read around that their set was good, but not the hype like has been going on as of late.

-Jens Lekman, the previously mentioned Vampire Weekend, My Morning Jacket, Bon Iver, etc. all have sets on NPR. The party was in conjunction with other stations/independent outlets, such as KEXP and a few other folks. I'm not sure if they're downloadable yet, but I have listened to Jens and part of VW and it was pretty good stuff, great sound. NPR is one of the best sites I know of for live sets, regardless what time of year it is.

- Surprisingly enough, some of the band I would have thought to draw a crowd/press only garnered a little bit of coverage, from what I have seen so far. Some of these bands are Los Campesinos!, No Kids [who I got back into after seeing a few photos and reading a short paragraph on some blog. They're quite eclectic and cover a lot of territory..just check it out.], Okkervil River, etc.

- Bands with profanity in their names, guess they're in this season..

-I can't find the source or the quote, but there was a thought that if you are able to ever see Moby and Justice play a party in a warehouse, go. Personally, if I could ever go to a Justice party, I'd be a pretty happy camper for a while.

-I'm going to hold out on the bands that seem to have gained the most hype due to playing the festival. It's too early to say, at this distance from the actual shows.


And I have to say, I was hating on SXSW but I'll admit it- I deep down wanted to go. And we can call that most of the reason I was hating.

Just don't tell anyone I admitted to that...

Have any thoughts on Austin and their little gathering of artists, journalists and music lovers? Let's compare notes...

Have a great one!
Jenny

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And yes. the Wilco show review is still on its way. I'm trying to get it together to use for a short paper in my art appreciation class, too. I've just gotta sit down and write down what's floating around my head...