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Happy Holidaze

I wanted to wish everyone a happy holiday, from Merry Christmas to Happy Hanukkah and everything in between. I hope 2014 has been a very good year for you, and that the new year brings you one even more enjoyable.

One of the things that I enjoy about this season is the lights and festive displays. Last year I was in the UK for the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, and since it took place near the end of November the city of London was fully decked out in anticipation of the holidays. I took quite a few photos there, since everywhere I looked seemed to have one holiday decoration after another. Sadly I am not a very good photographer, and a lot of the pictures I took didn’t turn out very well. So it was a good thing my companion on that journey is an amazing camera person with a true eye for what makes a great photograph; thanks to her skills and efforts, I have a few holiday images to share with you today. Enjoy the slid show, and may you and yours have a great holiday and an excellent new year.

OK Go: I Won’t Let You Down

OK Go is an amazing band, making excellent music with some truly unique videos to go with them. This time around we have the track I Won’t Let You Down, which features their signature out-of-left-field choreography, which I always find amazing to watch. In fact I have to admit that for some of these I enjoy watching the videos even more than listening to the music. As usual, they have a much more interactive version of the video online, and you can find this one here. I also appreciate that you can buy the videos of their songs from the band, not just the MP3s (get the link from their YouTube page). I don’t know what those things they are riding are, they look like a cross between a Segway and a motorized unicycle to me, but whatever they are I would love to try one out; they look like a lot of fun.

Ex Hex on WNYC

Ex Hex is Pop Punk for today, and they do sound quite tasty. The tracks below are from their recent live visit to Soundcheck WNYC-FM, and should give you an idea of what this band is about. You can hear more of their songs at their home page, including some from their recent session at WAMU-FM. And as you can probably tell from the studio music video below, they are a D.C. band.

New Superfly release

The new Superfly release comes out Tuesday, called By Blowing the Love to the Body (approximately) for the regular edition, they change the word order a bit for the special edition. They are a great rock band who have been cranking out music since 2007, you can pick up their stuff on iTunes.