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bragi: what kind of music do you like?

I love music. I love all types of music. I was raised predominantly on classic rock and roll. However, I do like modern pop and some rap. I really like indie rock music which covers a huge range of different talents. I also like psychedelic music, vintage country, vintage western and vintage gospel music.

BFB

I did mention that Joshua has a band, right?

He's the drummer for the band Bachelors For Buchanan (BFB). The guys (Joey, Andrew and Joshua) have been making music all together for a long time now and they have slowly been working on getting their stuff together so that they can become a considerably popular indie rock group. So far they have already done a few shows in Jacksonvile, Fl, they have also made some demo tracks for anyone out there who is interested in listening. I am writing about the guys on my blog to get them a little more publicity from the traffic on my page. BFB rocks so listen to their stuff. Add. Subscribe. Share.

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Look#27

Outfit Inspiration: Lana Del Rey

Lana is a beauty queen. To me, all of her fashion just screams traditional, American, big-haired beauty. Her haunting and more often delicate, yet powerful songs deliver a feeling that she believes that she is strong and that she wants to be strong... But somehow struggles. I think that Lana Del Rey is a fabulous artist, even if Josh always gripes at me when I play her stuff. He says that it all sounds the same, and maybe that is true, but I could care less. To me, Lana rocks.

I feel like I will probably attempt a look inspired by Lana again sometime in the future. Now, when I think about Lana Del Rey, I picture big, beauty queen-teased hair, thick-winged eyeliner and pouty lips. I am not to brave enough as to tease my hair to such an extent, especially considering that I am working on growing out my locks. Therefore, I parted my hair down the center and gave my waves a considerable tousle along with a spot of dry hairspray. I also donned a cute flower headband. I was inspired by how spooky Lana's music sounds... That's why I chose a semi-formal, black dress. I dressed down the look a little bit with some chic, casual fringed boots. I am also wearing my chunky, black ring, along with my saints necklace.

Look#26

Outfit Inspiration: Steely Dan

Where do I begin with these guys... Well, they may be old now, but back in their heyday they really had funky beats. When I listen to Steely Dan I always get a feeling of slight relaxedness/badassery/drugaddicticus. With their music, they can go anywhere from super mellow slow jams, to haunting melodies about time's past. Steely Dan are an epic tribute to jazz-funk-rock from the early 1970's. That being said, I wanted to do a look that paid tribute to their retro-vintage, old fashioned (yet, new at the time) sound.

I wanted to create a casual look that really got the feeling of what I was aiming for. Hence the sued moccasins, Jim Morrison inspired necklace (made by me, for Joshua), high wasted jeans, big sunglasses, raccoon tail, and the vintage purse.

To me, Steely Dan represent a lost age. An age of fast paced, drug reeling, cruising the coast with a bottle of Jose Cuervo Gold kind of age. What that says to me is big sunglasses and classic-vintage 70's wear for the laid back partakers of the so called fine Columbian.

Music inspired Fashion

While taking a stroll/scroll through Tumblr, I found this:

At first I didn't think much about this picture, but then I took a second look and decided that this was a pretty cute concept... And seeing as how I feel like I have been running short on outfit ideas, this would be a great way to refuel the fiya! Therefore, the next few looks that I do will be inspired by musical artists that are my favorite. You get to see cute outfits and you also get to learn about some of my musical preferences.

Enjoy, buttercups.

ps. I found this here: imjustawildgirl.tumblr

Producing Music

Josh and I want to start making our own music...

     Along with the billions of other people out there that are producing their own music Josh and I have decided to jump on the bandwagon... Pun intended.

     As you may know Josh is in fact already in a band, which I will be posting about at a later date, but today I'm going to talk about the side project that we will soon begin work on...

     Me, with my little to no experience with music and Josh equipped with a pretty good bit of knowledge on how to make the music sound like it should we are about to embark on the most interesting of endeavors... The idea is that first we will begin work on a few covers of older music that we have come to hold so dear, bands such as The Beatles, The Kinks, The Mamas & The Papas and Marty Robbins! Josh also has a lot of his own material that he has made over the years, he just hasn't quite put it all together yet... That's why we decided to make covers while he is completing lyrics and instrumentals. That way we can hopefully gain an audience with the covers and gain a little more experience (more so on my behalf) before we make anything completely original...

     With our small arsenal of instruments (including an acoustic guitar, bass guitar, harmonica, keyboard, cowbell and Josh's drums, of course ) we begin with the task at hand. Not to mention we have a computer at our disposal laden with programs ready to edit and add effects.