Things To Obsess Over

Blonde Redheadis one of my favorite bands of all time, but when I play them for people it’s sort of a mixed bag. They are kind of an acquired taste. Some people love the melody of the music but can’t stand the lead singer’s (Kazu Makino) voice which is admittedly very high pitched, Or in general they don’t like their unstructured style. Often compared to early Sonic Youth, Blonde Redhead is haunting, beautiful and eccentric. Their music just sounds otherwordly.

While all their albums are really great, I think the best of the best is Misery Is A Butterfly, there is probably more stable melody in this album then any of the others but there was really wasn’t a single song on there I didn’t like, if its your first time listening to Blonde Redhead I would definitly suggest listening to Misery Is A Butterfly, Elepahant Woman, Anticipation and Equus after those slowly immerse yourself in the awesomness that is Blonde Redhead. The following video is a live version of Misery Is A Butterfly

Another Juxtapoz fav, Sas Christian is know for painting the cool looking girls with the enormous eyes. Her paitings are so smooth and detailed it blow my mind that they aren’t digital but actually oil paintings! Whats even more amazing about Sas Christian is that she is completely self taught!!

I see her work everywhere lately even my fiance pointed out some teen book that had a Sas Chritian painting on the cover. Its cool to see such amazing work get out there.

I think one of the neatest things about her paintings is that she shows a girl with a pretty face but just by the eyes or the background or something simple she makes the works seem so deep. My favorite work of hers called “Collette” which I couldnt find a pic of it to put on here is totally simple just a girl with brown hair looking at what I guess is herself as a reflection in a window because the background of the faded street makes it seem like she has no body or she is see through. Its just a really beautiful painting.