It's here: The Official Austin City Limits 2012 lineup

Finally, here it is, one of the last music fests of the season has revealed their 2012 lineup.

No real surprises in this lineup, with acts like the Black Keys, Jack White, Avicci, Gotye, Kimbra, Black Lips, Florence+The Machine, The Shins, M83, and Alabama Shakes--all bands making the festival rounds and with a new album to promote. Actually I stand corrected: the big surprises here are Neil Young and Iggy Pop, which are welcome oldies but goodies. Still, with Bjork touring this year, and Pulp deciding to tour the US, you'd think we would've seen one of those two as part of this lineup. And I'm up to my chin with the Black Keys. Saw them at Coachella and they are booooring to watch live. Boring. I think I actually fell asleep standing in my place. 

I have to now make up my mind as to whether I will attend this year. I love music fests, don't get me wrong, but I am hesitant since I saw half this lineup at Coachella already, and none of the headliners is an absolute favorite of mine here. Hmmm, decisions, decisions...

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Music Dose: She Sleeps with One Eye Open

Okay, so this music post is a bit different. I gotta admit that I didn't know Florence+The Machine had covered  Ludes' "Girl with one eye", much less that she actually performed it live with Jarvis Cocker, who is my newly developed musical crush, after watching him dry hump his way all over the Coachella stage back in April. 

I am going to post both versions of the song here, the one by Ludes and the one by Florence, followed by a short clip of Florence with Jarvis. I really, really want you to watch the clip with Jarvis. Not only because it's fuckin' Jarvis Cocker, but even though the clip doesn't have the whole song, you have to see Jarvis scare the crap out of Florence. Well, he either scared her, or turned her on, you be the judge. 

This is what's so exciting about live music to me: it's so primal, so visceral, and the performer can either give you a lazy, cookie-cutter, CD-playing-on-your-stereo kind of performance (coughblackkeyscough), or they can fucking own the song and just disturb your whole existence while you're both mere meters from each other. It's not even Jarvis' song and yet he gets to own it, and own Florence, right in front of our eyes. 

I don't care about being a hipster and be all up on the newest, most unknown bands just so I can act like I knew before you, and think that it somehow makes me a better person?? I love good music, old or new, I love everything that moves me, that shocks me, that gives me that tingly feeling down my spine and makes me open my eyes and perceive the world around me completely different from before. This song--or actually, Florence's version with Jarvis--made me feel that way, and I hope it does the same for you.


All I know is I'm going to be singing this song for the rest of the week.


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Music Dose: I'm so Tired

I'm so tired, sheep are counting me.

No more struggle, no more energy.

No more patience, and you can write that down.

It's all too crazy and I'm not sticking 'round.

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Wants vs Needs

As you may already know from past posts (if anyone reads them, that is), my trusted digital camera left this world for a better place after coachella, so at the moment I have no decent digital camera to fulfill my shutterbug needs. I really want a DSLR as well as another camera with an integrated superzoom like my old camera, which comes in very handy to take to concerts and music fests. It is imperative that this need be met pretty quickly. This requires me to save in order to get the DSLR I want, the superzoom camera (must be a non SLR otherwise I can't bring it in to concerts and other events), and tickets to Austin City Limits which go on sale this coming Tuesday. Right. Instead of doing the savvy, rational thing and pennypinch my way to my two new cameras and tickets to ACL, I went ahead and got these:

                                                                           Source: nastygal.com via Aquarelle on Pinterest

I've been eyeing these boots FOREVER and can't wait to hold them in my paws, but I'm considering returning them and instead use that money towards the ACL ticket, and then work towards getting the cameras. I don't know what to do. Decisions, decisions!!

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Insta-week

Check out my random daily and weekly visuals via instagram at @azulacuarela

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My Outfit: Thursdays in the Park

Thursday evening I met up with my friend Clau to chill out at the park for some free music and then check out the Musical "American Idiot" with music by Green Day at the Winspear Opera House. It was sort of a last minute plan, so there was no wine and cheese for us, but it was for sure fun.

I'm wearing turquoise jeans and necklace by Forever21, top by American Eagle Outfitters (very, very old), yellow Ecote sandals (urban outfitters), lime green leather clutch by H&M.


When I picked up my friend I was wearing deep blue peeptoe heels by ALDO and a white blazer, which was before I changed into the ecote sandals for the park. This outfit made my friend give me a great compliment: "You look like one of those outfit girls on Pinterest! I wish I could just pin you on my style board right now!" Awe, she's such a sweetie pie. Also, her gladiator sandals are the shit, but I forgot to ask her where she got them. I also must apologize--these pics were taken with my cell. Did I tell you my camera died at Coachella? Yes I think I did.
Please don't laugh at our feet. We are hard working girls with a demanding day job so we don't get a lot of leisure time to actually pay for someone to pamper our feet. Or any part of us, for that matter!

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Music Dose: Father John Misty

Recently my brother posted a Sub Pop youtube video for some new artist on my Facebook wall.  Clicked on it, and sadly lost interest within the first minute of the song. I quickly glanced at the other sub pop youtube videos though, and found this gem. In case you don't know this is the drummer from Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty being the name of his new solo project, and the song sounds a bit derivative of some other band that I can't quite put my finger on (no I don't mean Fleet Foxes). Still, it's a good song, and the video is quite fun. From a fashion standpoint, the protagonist/anti hero looks awesome, but it makes me wonder if the idea for this video was pitched like this: "imagine a badass, hot gun-toting Rihanna look-alike, styled by OracleFox". That's exactly how the girl in this video looks, which is not a bad thing at all! Loving the high-waisted leather hot pants and all the knuckle rings, paired with her kinky curly hair. 

But back to the song. I am loving it. Not love at first listen but growing on me exponentially. It doesn't hurt that this video was carefully thought-out for the "target demo" I'm part of: indie music fan, gets the French new wave references in the wall (Breathless), reads fashion blogs and is all caught up in that witchy/the Craft/Satanic aesthetic that's been populating the hipster sites of now, and tumblr, of course. Gosh, we are so easy to read and not as unique and "creative" as we want to say we are. 

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