Hey readers, I'm proud to introduce Green Shock's newest contributor Nicholas (Nick "The Hip") Palumbo! He's the pseudo-hipster Veep of WMAR and knows infinitely more crazy and obscure bands than I do, so I'm bringing him to you! Here's his first post...enjoy!
Today, I saw a fox (and a gorgeous one at that). It was stalking a squirrel that had climbed up a telephone pole. I thought it was such a marvelous site that I forgot why I went to my car. I remembered 20 minutes later why I was outside, spending the whole time fixated on this extremely beautiful creature. I had not gone out of my way to find this fox, it just surprised me. I love it when music does the same to me. When a new artist or song hides around the corner and waits for you to get closer before it pounces and screams, “Surprise!” This week, I came across a folk band called “Gregory & The Hawk”. I found them on Myspace but came across them accidently (quite similarly to how I came across the fox). The vocals are velvety, the music extremely basic. “Boats and Birds” is a song that legitimately brought tears down my face. It is the kind of song that will play while Zach Braff spoons with Scarlett Johansson on a bed in an empty apartment in the next best film since “Garden State” (one can wish, right?) We need to be open and aware of our surroundings. If we aren’t, we might miss that new artist or new song that will change the world (or miss that fox). There you have it! Nick the Hip will be writing as often as he can, and helping me raise the baby love child that is Green Shock! Groovy baby --Nicholas Palumbo.. |
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