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Week 1 Recap

Exercise:

Sun Dec 10 - walked 30 minutes on the treadmill after dinner

Mon Dec 11 - 6:07a, outdoors near home, 3 mi, 31:19, 10:25 pace

Tue Dec 12 - 6:04a, think I did it wrong, 5x400m in 8:00 to 8:40 pace range, walking in between, then I did a 5k in 27:58, 8:59 pace, will figure this out for next time

Wed Dec 13 - 6:05a, outdoors near home, 3 mi, 31:08, 10:20 pace

Thu Dec 14 - rest, maybe too much? only walked 6,508 steps the whole day

Fri Dec 15 - 6:09a, outdoors near home, 3 mi, 30:59, 10:18 pace

Sat Dec 16 - around 11a, 5 mi on hotel treadmill, 51:13, 10:15 pace

Diet:

Not terrible weeking eating-wise for the first week. I still need to figure things out, i.e. preferring a 16/8 noon-8p low carb eating strategy which doesn't really go with running. I allowed myself some carbs after lunch this week. I allowed myself some mid-morning snacks too when I was hungry after a run. We've been on a good routine cooking at home lately, so that helps.

The week ended with a bang though, Saturday at the hotel for a soccer tournament wasn't the greatest eating, but I didn't too bad considering the weird eating times and limited options. Did drink too much though because other dads kept buying me drinks. I had 2 beers and thought that'd be that, but then 4 more drinks were delivered to me over the course of the night.

Alcohol for the week - 6 drinks total, averaging just under one per day, but that was zero Sun-Fri, then 6 on Saturday, let's make this the high water mark and taper down from here.

Grading my diet...

Sun A-

Mon B+

Tue B+

Wed A-

Thu B

Fri B

Sat C

EGPA for the week of 3.14, a B/B+ average

Weigh-in:

I did my first official weigh-in on Friday at 190.9, so there's no loss or gain to report.

Music:

New song I heard this week and liked - "Numb" by Have Mercy (2023)

The more that I speak, the more I feel so numb And when the words just get in the way, how do you want ‘em?

Old song new to me I heard this week and liked - "The Energy Story" by College (2008)

It's all started when he was kid

Old song I listened to the first time in a while this week - "Back on the Train" by Phish (2000)

When I jumped off, I had a bucket full of thoughts When I first jumped off, I held that bucket in my hand Ideas that would take me all around the world I stood and watched the smoke behind the mountain curl It took me a long time to get back on the train

Rereading:

I feel more disconnected from the book because I'm not reading it every day. The first time I read it in 3 weeks by reading ~25 pages per day. In some way I can't explain, it motivated me to run another half marathon and start this blog. But now I just reread until there's a quote I want to post here and then stop. So I've read 46 pages over the course of week 1 and I'm not sure how I feel about going this slowly.

I've reread the first 5 chapters. The Boy Name Crow has convinced Kafka to run away. Kafka packs his things, takes some money and a cell phone from his dad and takes an overnight bus to Takamatsu. On the bus he meets Sakura and wonders if she's his sister. He finds his way to the Komura Libaray and meets Oshima and Miss Saeki. He reads Arabian Nights. Maybe I should read that too to mix in some more reading to this blogging process.

There's been two flashbacks to the unexplained Rice Bowl Hill incident where the school children fall into brief comas toward the end of WW2. They all recover quickly but for one boy named Nakata.

The thing that stands out to me upon reread so far is the battle between fate and freedom. I mean, maybe that's what this whole book is about. But I didn't catch how clearly that's setup from the jump.

One thing I didn't notice or think about the first time through is the location of the Rice Bowl Hill incident. Could it be in the same place as the forest cabin that comes later in the book?

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Musikalische Neuentdeckungen im Januar und Februar

Drückeberger - Nie gesagt - Es gibt mal wieder Nachwuchs in der Neuen Neuen Deutschen Welle. Drückeberger beschreibt seinen Sound auf seinem Instagramprofil als “Angsty New Wave” und k��ndigt dort auch an, dass seine Debüt-EP “unsichtbar” “bald” erscheinen wird. Außerdem hat dieser Song, wie ich finde, unglaubliche Hörk-Vibes.

Sexy Sushi - A bien regarder; Rashida - Sexy Sushi ist ein französisches Electroclash-Duo. David Grellier ist außerdem Mitglied bei der Band College (”A Real Hero”). Der Song handelt von der ehemaligen französischen Justizministerin Rashida Dati. Ich liebe es, wenn man nen Song in einer fremden Sprache hört, ihn gut findet und dann bei der Übersetzung rausfindet, wovon er eigentlich handelt (und dabei hatte ich sehr lange Französisch in der Schule).

Walter Frosch - Searching Hands - Walter Frosch  (nicht zu verwechseln mit dem 2013 verstorbenen Fußballspieler, nachdem sie sich benannt haben) ist ein Post-Punk-Duo aus Schaffhausen in der Schweiz. Letztes Jahr noch Vorband von Edwin Rosen, diesen Februar schon auf eigener US-Tour unterwegs.

Ghost Shima - Matrix - Ghost Shima ist ein “artificial artist” und so etwas wie die deutsche Antwort auf Hatsune Miku oder Gorillaz. Die unbekannte Person hinter Ghost Shima schreibt auf TikTok folgendes zu dem Song: “Ich bin nicht gerne unter Menschen und Öffentlichkeit in irgendeiner Form macht mir Angst. Ich hab diesen Song gemacht in einer Zeit wo ich ziemlich isoliert war von der Außenwelt und eig nur was bittersüßes produzieren wollte was meine mood iwie catcht.” Die Leute von Warner Music scheint das Konzept überzeugt zu haben, sie haben Ghost Shima direkt unter Vertrag genommen.

GAST - rehaugen - Nur drei Monate nach ihrer ersten EP hat das Neue Neue Deutsche Welle Duo GAST jetzt schon wieder einen neuen Song veröffentlicht. Es ist natürlich mal wieder ein Song über Menschen mit Issues. Am 2. März folgt ihr erstes Musikvideo zum Song und weil die Neue Neue Deutsche Welle Szene ein verdammter Kreis ist, wurde es von Nils Keppel (”222″) produziert.

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On We Could Build A Home: the finale

“let’s run away. i mean it this time. tomorrow night. you and me darling. it’s always you and me.” ~@pebblebrainlovejoy

nami64, hobbyist // James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk // A Softer World Remix // Tiffany Young, Runaway // Jin Mo-young, My Love Don't Cross That River // David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary // Nettle Grellier // @lesbianjoeyclaire // Peter Wever //

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College feat. Minitel Rose - The Energy Story

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College: Shanghai - Review Of David Grellier's Rich Synth-Based Album | Under The Radar

College: Shanghai – Review Of David Grellier’s Rich Synth-Based Album | Under The Radar

Close your eyes and you could almost imagine the slick, ice cold movie this might score. – Stephen Mayne, Under The Radar   The latest review of SHANGHAI, College’s new album is now up at Under The Radar — read it here.  If you haven’t had a chance to hear the rich, synth-based album, it’s available now on all digital providers and coming soon to CD via Lakeshore/Invada Records.   Soundtrack…

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Drive soundtrack night call

DRIVE SOUNDTRACK NIGHT CALL TV

Martinez’s score has its element of homage, but it’s still modern and more ambient than something you’d find in a typical 80s picture. Kavinsky’s “Nightcall” is a brilliant opening credits number, but it’s a French Touch song produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk and French producer SebastiAn. Jewel’s contributions are likewise mostly modern in aesthetic, though “Tick of the Clock” has its John Carpenter moments. It uses our collective nostalgia to create something new, engaging, and timeless just like Refn and crew do with the film. “A Real Hero,” a modern classic, fits Drive so well as a love theme because it never gets too on-the-nose or cheesy. Indeed! I don’t see Drive as an 80s retro film and I don’t think its music is, for the most part, 80s retro. “The blend of sonic and visual nostalgia with a contemporary spin is always deadly,” he said. Drive will live forever because it “plays on familiar themes we have been exposed to while still remaining fresh.” Photo Credit: Neon Dream Designs and Tyler Stout/Mondo. “ stayed within the boundaries of good taste and bad taste… The right balance when you are not too 80s.” A cross between a Vehlinggo hashtag and the cover art for Mondo’s 2013 vinyl press of the ‘Drive’ soundtrack. “Refn had a good idea to pay tribute to a certain style of movies from the 80s,” David “College” Grellier - who along with Electric Youth wrote Drive’s popular “A Real Hero” - told Vehlinggo recently. Others see both the film and the music as using elements of that era to create something classic and timeless. Some see Refn’s apparent Michael Mann influences - a shade of the starkness of 1981’s Thief and the neon of Miami Vice, along with the heavy use of synth-based music - and consider Drive a 1980s-nostalgia piece. Right? Or, after five years, is Drive’s legacy also just another ’80s love fest? I enjoy, and have written about, all of those, but they all are much more indebted to a nostalgic exercise.

DRIVE SOUNDTRACK NIGHT CALL TV

People lump the Drive soundtrack and film in with the likes of films like Kung Fury and Turbo Kid, and even TV shows like Moonbeam City and Stranger Things. The thing is, Drive’s use of some elements of the 1980s to create something new and contemporary has over five years led to some extraordinary escalations of nostalgic expressions. I saw the film and music as having a cool, novel, and engaging aesthetic - colorful synths, great voices, tight beats, a comforting earnestness, and an unrepentant minimalism. I’ve been thinking heavily about how we all got here. Photo Credit: College’s Instagram account. From left, Uncle TNUC, David “College” Grellier, Austin Garrick, and Bronwyn Griffin. Drive Soundtrack: A Contemporary Template with Retro Elements A Valerie and Friends quasi-reunion in Los Angeles, December 2014. “I think its influence has been such that it’s contributed, however big or small, to what is now the new normal,” he told Vehlinggo recently. “Anything created with real feeling and value continues to unfold over time.” Jewel shows up twice on the soundtrack - once with Chromatics on film opener “Tick of the Clock” and once with Desire on “Under Your Spell.” At one point, he was hired to score the film before the producers ultimately went with famed composer Cliff Martinez.Īustin Garrick, one-half of Electric Youth and one-third of the trio who created Drive’s romantic centerpiece “A Real Hero,” says he’s heard that everyone from cool, new artists to folks like the Backstreet Boys have yielded to Drive’s musical influence. “ Drive lasts because it is good. This is not meant as an understatement,” Johnny Jewel told Vehlinggo in an interview recently. Johnny Jewel of Chromatics, Desire, Glass Candy, Symmetry, etc. Films still bear the sheen of Refn’s approach to filmmaking (and his and editor Mat Newman’s song choices). Bands are still inspired by the chic synth-pop aesthetic. Music fans still buy the soundtrack and go down the Discogs rabbit hole of all the artists on it. The film and its key player - the music - have defied mainstream culture’s ephemeral shelf-life and are still viable today. Aaronĭrive - the neon-noir from iconoclastic director Nicolas Winding Refn - turns five years old on Sept. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I’ve enjoyed working on it this year. To aid in my quest, I interviewed Drive soundtrack artists College, Electric Youth, Johnny Jewel (Chromatics/Desire), and Cliff Martinez, among others. Note: This piece looks at Nicolas Winding Refn’s iconic film Drive as it approaches its fifth anniversary on Sept.

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Monthly Media - July 2017

I decided to try and do all the illustrations this month in Cinema 4D. It is a lot harder to get across detailed concepts like existing movies or tv in 3D (for me), so I gave up after Movies. I’M SORRY. Anyway. Lesson learned. Also the movie illustrations are nae bad and learned a lot which is what it is all about so there.

MOVIES

Baby Driver (2017) - ★★★★½

First half of this film was 3.5 stars, second half was 5 stars. Mix it all together in the Jonnometer and you get a 4.5 star movie that left a real good taste in my mouth.

Great performances from Foxx, Hamm and Spacey. Great tunes, obviously. Great gory deaths. This film knew what it was the whole way through and did what it wanted to do real well, rising it above standard action getaway films.

Keanu (2016) - ★★★½

Watched this on a plane, with the F-Word replaced with 'fudge' and MF with 'motherfather'. Even with these setbacks, this film was super enjoyable. Key's performance was great, as well as Forte and Method Man. Also just Method Man. A great first (?) Key & Peele feature, excited for more.

Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press (2017) - ★★★½

Watched this on a 17 hour Nepali journey from Kathmandu to Tansen. Even in a state of dehydrated delirium and sweat I enjoyed it a lot. Quite a standard format and style for a documentary, so nothing groundbreaking there. However it did link together multiple stories nicely into a finalised point, as well as gave me respect for good journalists. Go watch this Netflix Original, especially in today's trying times.

Don’t Think Twice (2016) - ★★★½

This is like a coming of age, feel-good comedy but written by a teller of great, authentic stories that are centred around doing comedy. Or rather it is actually that. Either way, really enjoyed. Probably enjoyed more so after having an intermediate knowledge of Saturday Night Live and hearing about what it's like to work there.

Louis CK: Hilarious (2010) - ★★½

This was alright. It was funny but also felt long and also some of the vulgar charm didn't get through to me like '2017' did. Maybe he discussed topics that are now well-trodden and samey, but were fresh back in the day. Or maybe it just wasn't as good. Who's to say. 

Chris D’Elia: Man on Fire (2017) - ★★

Wasn't feeling this teebz. Big fan of his podcast and his online presence (ehhhh s'2017), but his stand up doesn't do it for me. I find him very funny when he doesn't seem like he's trying (podcast et online presence). But hey. Still a talented dude.

Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin (2017) - ★★★★

"She didn't have her guards up. She was taking lots of shots" 

After a couple of lukewarm stand-up watches, this relit my enjoyment of stand-up. Hilarious, self-aware, unapologetic stuff from someone who's worked his way to that comfortable position. Great mix of dark and dumb and self-deprecating.

The Darjeeling Limited (2007) - ★★★½ (rewatch)

One of the better Wes Anderson movies. Watched it whilst doing work and still was very enjoyable and got to me. Great acting from the 3 lead characters. The river scene is one of Wes Anderson's best scenes I think. Emotional and deep whilst somehow remaining lighthearted and hopeful. Also those suitcases are peng.

THE ILLUSTRATIONS STOP HERE

PODCASTS

Revisionist History w/ Malcolm Gladwell (2016 - present)

Was turned onto this via S01E10 - The Satire Paradox, as I’d heard that it discussed Harry Enfield’s work in the Thatcher years and that was enough for me. Only listened to one other episode so far, S01E01 - The Lady Vanishes, but both episodes were so interesting and well produced that I felt I should recommend it here!

Creative Mornings ATL: Jacob Escobedo (2013)

I’m counting this in podcasts because it was informative listening, as opposed to musical listening. Either way, it was great, and really made me think about my work through the filter of memorability. I found Jacob’s name via a recent New York Times illustration footnote, which Googling led to zero website, only this talk. I was going to leave it until I saw he worked at both Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, and thought that it must be good. It was.

MUSIC

Shanghai - College (album) - ★★½

Been a fan of College (David Grellier) since hearing him on the Drive soundtrack. His Heritage album has got me through many study sessions. However Shanghai seemed to lack the downtempo, throbbing, bassy synth that I go to him for. Which is fine, you do you David, don’t let me stop you. But in the self-contained world of Jonny’s Monthly Media you won’t score high with that nonsense.

Mura Masa - Mura Masa (album) - ★½

Liked Lovesick. Everything else sounded like I’d heard it 100 times in the charts.

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Decent month of MEEEEDIA. Lots of films. I like dat. Definitely polished my Cinema 4D chops thats for sure. Onto tha NEXT. 

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Tour de France Stage 2 Preview

The race goes into the mountains for a hard day’s racing with two big climbs and a hilly finish, a route borrowed straight out of Paris-Nice. The good news is the sun’s shining.

Holiday on Nice: the early break of three from which Fabian Grellier (Total Direct Energie) took the mountains jersey for a day, not a giant triumph that’s his Tour made. We also learned that Peter Sagan looks like he wants another green jersey, he contested the intermediate sprint. So far, so normal but this is a very different Tour, the start in Nice practically behind a wall and a strange mood inside and outside the peloton. It rained and the roads turned into a skating rink with countless riders crashing, it was no balade niçoise. Pavel Sivakov fell twice and with no Ineos riders coming back to help him at first it cleared up any team leadership hopes and he lost even more time. The Jumbo-Visma team were visibly truing to neutralise the race, Tony Martin was flapping his arms in a gesture that looked like he wanted to express “piano, piano” but resembled a cassowary trying to take off. The decision to neutralise the race is never a democratic matter, strong teams can enforce their will on the others but collectively most agreed. Astana had other plans, only to get hoisted by their own petard when Miguel Angel Lopez lost control on a descent and planted his face into a roadsign. Once the racing resumed things everyone looked to be heading back to Nice safely only the peloton to go down like bowling pins at the 3km point. We got the promised sprint but none of the team trains could take control and a surprise result, Alexander Kristoff launching a long sprint to win ahead of Mads Pedersen and Cees Bol, a trio of powerhouse sprinters.

The Route: Stage 2 and solid day in the Alps with two long climbs and beaucoup climbing metres, this is an important stage. Why such a tough day so early? Because Nice is sat between the Alps and the sea, it’s not like there’s much other choice and besides these inland roads are very inviting, they’re staples of Paris-Nice.

It’s 45km up the valley roads and straight into the Colmiane. It’s become a regular in Paris-Nice and at 16km it’s a long, steady ascent where you get into a tempo and hardly change gear, just stand on pedals for a few ramps and to round some of the hairpins. There’s a reciprocal descent.

The Turini is next, 15km at a bit steeper and more irregular in places. The descent via Peïra-Cava and Lucéram starts with regular roads but rough in parts and it’s later down that the twisty section comes. After Peïra-Cava the race forks left and the technical part begins with a series of hairpins cut into the rock before reaching Lucéram. Pass this and the road gradually levels off into Nice, the road is more engineered and if there are hairpins they’re the kind trucks can take quickly.

They ride into Nice and head for the Col d’Eze. The climb is 7.8km at 6.1% but with a steep start of 7-8% for the first two kilometres. Once past the Col, they take the Moyenne Corniche descent back to Nice, it’s very familiar from Paris-Nice. They cross the finish line and climb the Col d’Eze again with the same steep start but this time they turn off before the top, at the Col des Quatre Chemins. Here is the day’s special bonus point, a time bonus of 8-5-2 seconds for the first three. The descent is on familiar roads from Paris-Nice too.

The Finish: the Paris-Nice finish, the same roads as used in recent editions of the spring stage race, its downhill off the climb. The official profile shows a small rise with 1km to go but this is barely a bump in the road with a flat run along the promenade.

The Contenders: not an easy day for a breakaway because nobody wants to lose time, miss the move today and many teams can waive goodbye to taking the yellow jersey before it becomes the property of the overall contenders. At the same time today’s climbs are so big many sprinters should be dropped.

Julian Alaphilippe (Deceunick-Quickstep) is the obvious pick, he can win sprints from a group and is capable of launching on either of the two final climbs. But he’ll be heavily marked.

Alexey Lutsenko (Astana) good on terrain like today and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) used to be an obvious pick. Marc Hirshi (Sunweb) and Tiesj Benoot have decent chances today, Hirschi’s very quick from a small group and Benoot has the punch. Sergio Higuita (EF) is a fast finisher but would prefer an uphill finish. Matej Mohorič (Bahrain-McLaren) is quick, famous for his descending which helps today he won a stage of the Deutschland Tour from a big group. UAE Emirates probably won’t wait for Kristoff, instead Tadej Pogačar and Davide Formolo are cards to play, David de la Cruz’s won a stage of Paris-Nice on the same roads but fractured his pelvis. Greg Van Avermaet (CCC) and Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-Scott) might be able to hold today or get back on the descents, and an outside chance Bryan Coquard (B&B Hotels-Vital Concept) too.

Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) is a stealth pick because he’s unlikely to follow Alaphilppe over the Col d’Eze as if it’s the Poggio but if things come back together he can sprint and take the win. Also Primož Roglič is a candidate in case the GC contenders turn on each other early and make this an early selection.

Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) was going to be today’s pick from months out but an Italian motorist emerged from a garage or driveway onto the course of Il Lombardia and took him out, cracking his collarbone. He’s racing but today’s surely too much now.

– Julian Alaphilppe, Davide Formolo, Matej Mohorič Lutsenko, WvA, Hirschi, GvA, Herrada, Benoot, Impey, Roglič, Coquard

Weather: sunny and mild, 24°C in the valleys inland and warmer back in Nice.

TV: live coverage from start to finish. The stage starts at 1.00pm CEST, the top of the Turini is around 4.00pm and the finish is forecast for 6.00pm Euro time.

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College: Shanghai

When the French electronic musician David Grellier landed one of his songs on the soundtrack to Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2011 film Drive, it must have felt a little like a prophecy fulfilled. Grellier, better known as College, has been taking cues from Hollywood aesthetics since the beginning of his career. The sleeve of 2008’s Teenage Color EP could pass for a knocked-off John Hughes poster; the cover of his debut album, Secret Diary, echoes imagery from Risky Business, Body Double, and Flashdance. The sound of those early recordings is no less faithful to silver-screen staples like John Carpenter (particularly his Assault on Precinct 13 score), Tangerine Dream (specifically, their sultry Risky Business contributions), and zapping and squelching synth-poppers Yaz.

But once you’re known for a filmic style, those associations can be difficult to shed. Grellier has let moving images—or at least the imaginary stills from the neon-tinted mood board in his mind—do much of the heavy lifting on his music. On 2011’s Northern Council and 2013’s Heritage, his two-minute sketches often came off frustratingly half-finished. It was easy to wonder if he was resting on his laurels—or even getting tangled up in them. Just as Drive’s “A Real Hero” was inspired in part by Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot who wrangled US Airways Flight 1549 to a water landing on the Hudson River, Northern Council features a track titled “TWA Flight 450”—which, coincidentally or not, is also the number of another flight rescued from the brink of disaster.

In its mood and its discipline, Shanghai is the most focused work that Grellier has done. Where previous albums often felt like collections of excerpts scooped up from the cutting-room floor, Shanghai’s 15 tracks fit together so snugly that they could easily be repurposed for an actual film score. He has largely jettisoned the percolating synth-pop of earlier albums, instead favoring slow-moving synthesizer bass, airy pads, and plenty of empty space. A less-is-more approach prevails: There are rarely more than three discrete elements in play at any given moment, and few tracks stretch beyond two-and-a-half minutes. With the exception of “Hotel Theme Part I” and “Hotel Theme Part II,” two organ variations that lend a sense of déjà vu to repeat plays of the album, tracks don’t necessarily repeat themes or even specific synthesizer patches, but in their muted colors and economical gestures, they all feel like parts of a greater whole. Like a roomful of minimalist canvasses, each one feeds off the others.

At their best, his patient miniatures waver between wistful and distant, leaving plenty of room project your own emotional states. Album opener “A Strange Guide” has sunrise chords and scene-setting crickets; “Bloody Palms” lingers on bittersweet major sevenths, lilting and understated; the regal “Hotel Theme Part I” evokes Philip Glass’ organ thrum. Only the album’s lone vocal cut, “Love Pass,” featuring a singer named Hama, breaks the mold: A soft-focus swirl of plucked strings and hushed legato. It’s pretty, almost cloying, and its wide-eyed sparkle comes closer to the work of M83, another Frenchman with a penchant for ‘80s blockbusters.

The only problem is that none of it is quite enough; there just aren’t enough musical ideas here to sustain an entire album—at least not if Grellier wants to aim for anything more than background listening. Take “Briefcase,” a single coldwave arpeggio extended for two minutes, or “Mansion Road,” a brooding bit of keyboard noodling: These aren’t songs, they’re cues in search of a scene. The album is meant as an homage to 1920s Shanghai—a tribute to “a fantasized and blurry period of time,” as the press release puts it. But that is barely the kernel of an idea, and the music doesn’t develop it beyond the level of an elevator pitch. There’s nothing specific to China, or the 1920s, in his synths or tentative melodies, and the ill-advised album cover—a pastiche of the old movie-poster trope where the male protagonist clutches a woman to his chest—doesn’t do the project any favors. Whatever he was going for, it comes off instead as an Orientalist cliché. Next time, instead of looking abroad for inspiration, Grellier might do better to start closer to home—to find his own story to tell, one that doesn’t require moving pictures in a darkened room to bring it to life.

[mount-real]

College - Teenage Color

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"Save the Day (feat. Nora Wren)," College

easily one of my favorite tracks from 2014.  there's no doubt that i'll be playing this throughout 2015.

[au-revoir-paree]

Saw College last night, and it was so good! amazing turn out which was actually quite surprising for Toronto on a Monday night - so thank you to Lakeshore Records and Cliff Martinez for making the Drive soundtrack happen because otherwise I wouldn't have known that synth wave existed. xoPatti 

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College: Shanghai Album CD Review | AllMusic

College: Shanghai Album CD Review | AllMusic

Grellier also borrows from film composers including Angelo Badalamenti, whose influence is apparent on “Elizabeth Monterey”‘s breezy synth washes and “Mister Fang”‘s ominous textures. – Heather Phares, AllMusic   David Grellier, aka College, released his new full-length album, SHANGHAI, digitally through Lakeshore / Invada Records, with the CD and vinyl coming soon.  In anticipation of getting…

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So call me crazy all you like, I'll still come running every time you fall.

Save the Day by College

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College feat. Nola Wren - Save the Day EP and Video To watch and listen visit Music Adepts: http://musicadepts.com/college-feat-nola-wren-save-the-day-ep-and-video/