Every once and I while I get to sit down and write like I mean it. I scribed this little Dusty Basements piece last week and people really seemed to enjoy so I figured I'd throw it up over here for those who haven't made the Madbury Music move yet.
I’d kindly like you to press play on the above track. What your ears will be treated to is a slow, plodding piano introduction backed by what sounds like some sort of xylophone or triangle and strings before the whole productions drags to a beautiful beginning like an old turntable pulling the platter along to the start of a song. The next thing you know the drums start and it starts to sound like the soundtrack to your parent’s wedding recorded on VHS. Flowers are falling from trees, birds are chirping and making love in the trees, and those damn ribbons Stevie Wonder wouldn’t stop singing about are drifting down from heaven. Never mind all of that though, focus on that introduction.. Those seemingly non-important piano chords that get the whole production started. Oh deary me hold onto your Tumblr accounts and Tamagotchi pets, those pianos are about to get a work out like you would not believe.
Click the image below to read the piece.
Stay Safe-Phil.
Last week my younger brother, my cousin and I spent a night on an island off of the coast of Massachusetts.
To put it simply. There's nothing better than waking up in the morning, and seeing this:
As great as all of this style, internet, blog nonsense is...nothing really compares. Excluding the ridiculous case of poison ivy I managed to come across. So work with me as I come down from the natural high and get back into the swing of things.
Stay Safe-Phil.
That's what I'm currently dealing with at the moment. Wifi in this region is an absolute joke. I know the majority of you are pretty much fed up with pictures of nature at this point but I've got to be honest. Someone gave me this blog and all I can do is provide my perspective. For the next week or so that's going to be straight green leafage and vast blue oceans. I'm just getting started with the images.
We're shooting a new Award Tour lookbook this weekend, that's exciting stuff for those of you who care about the whole industry, behind the scenes sort of thing. I'll throw some of those shots up here as it goes down.
I'm preparing to jump off a few quarry walls and camp on an island tomorrow night. Trust that the images from those proceedings will be much more enjoyable than all of the clothing/blogging stuff. Coming soon.
Stay Safe-Phil.
I sat down with the youngest slinger of rhymed verse a few days back for the latest Madbury feature, "Ready for the World". Give it a glance, give it a read, good business all around. Diggy is a smart kid, capitalizing on all of the madness surrounding his name right now. He's most definitely no longer that kid from Run's House, I'm not saying you have to love his music, but I will say that for a kid with his reach and position at the moment, he is incredible level headed, down to Earth and personable. Good people all around.
Photos by Vinny Picone. Big ups Great Scott!
As always the proceedings go down on MADBURY.
Stay Safe-Phil.
It's been one of those weeks folks. I think we've spent more time driving up and down the various state highways than sleeping over the past five days. Tradeshows, listening parties, backstage interviews, photo shoots and the day to day antics that only seem to come about during these brief summer months. I'm going to indulge in a quick dumping of photographs from the past week to half way catch everyone up on what's been going on. The best moments go completely missed by camera but I think that's a good thing, some things should remain as memories only. Hopefully your summer, wherever you might be, has been as productive and more importantly enjoyable as ours has. Read this and then go outside, it's too nice to be on the computer.
Lower East Side movements.
Ellington has been putting in massive hours on Madbury over the past few months but like everyone else is just having a good time first and foremost.
Hawaii Mike looks on as one half of the brother duo behind denim line Naked & Famous explains to us why exactly they decided to make the world's heaviest pair of jeans. That pair of jeans standing there clock in at 32 ounces. The jeans you're wearing right now are probably somewhere around 9-12oz. So imagine wearing three pairs of jeans at once and you're beginning to get the idea. Why would you ever want to do that to yourself you ask? Well niether I, nor the guys behind Naked & Famous have an answer but sometimes that lighthearted approach and a willingness to not take everything too seriously is the key to good business. That and the fact that those jeans are standing up on their own. That's sort of cool as well.
I guess I have to explain this. Demetri and Juice haven't stopped watching old Dragon Ball DVD's. So whenever both of them end up in a photograph together, they either do the "suck it" pose from D-Generation X or they begin doing a Fusion Dance to combine their Super Sayian abilities on the streets of New York. Funniest thing I've seen in a long time.
You'll see the results of this turn up on Madbury sooner than later.
As dubbed by Quentin, this is my "bad 80's director" shirt. I think it gives me an appearance that suggests serious class and sophistication. Regardless, be sure to enjoy these days folks. We've run into some people this summer who are completely missing the point. Killing yourself working is no good if you're not enjoying the fruits of your labor. Work isn't work if you love what you're doing. Work hard and play harder, and if you're blessed what you considering playing will be your work.
Stay Safe-Phil.
