Classic Graph

In case you haven't got it or heard it at all, here is the link to my first ep (2005).
http://sharebee.com/f11d7298
Hope you can enjoy and don't forget to check out my new tunes! (2010)
http://graphgonzales.blogspot.com/2010/12/graph-gonzales-new-music.html
Will be posting what I've been up to in between 2005-2010 soon :)

Hi!

Enjoying the holidays?
I'm taking the time to enjoy an old habit of mine that the internet has kind of killed~
reading a book!
Now turning the pages of The Collector by John Fowles

Meditation is a movement in and out of the unknown.You are not there, only the movement. You are too pretty or too great for this movement. It has nothing behind or in front of it.It is that energy which thought-matter cannot touch. Thought is perversion, for it is the product of yesterday;it is caught in the toils of centuries and so is confused, unclear. Do what you will, the known cannot reach out for the unknown. Meditation is the dying to the known.

J. Krishnamurti

200 Cigarettes

200 Cigarettes is a fine piece of entertainment for this holiday season.
Besides the cast acting their asses off, it will leave you craving a night just like this.
Happy New Year!

Rae Dawn Chong

I thought Rae Dawn Chong was super awesome when I was a kid. She's a Canadian actress featured in many flicks from the late 80's and early 90's such as Beat Street, The Color Purple, Commando and also appearing in the original Melrose Place series. Yes, I will admit wanting to be like her. She was also featured as Mick Jaggers love interest for his video "Just another Night", which pretty much solidifies her as one hot bitch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTo5zlyPKDo
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Odd Future are definitely the most interesting Black kids around these days.
They remind me of (my favorite rap group) the Wu Tang Clan even though they are straight outta LA, repping skate culture and humor belonging only to the blissful ignorance of youth. Watching clips of them had me nostalgic, this kind of energy and charisma has been missing from hip hop culture for a very long time. We're used to hearing rappers shoot for hit song after hit song, we don't get to see movements springing up and coming to life (the way rap culture did originally). I'm a little torn. I love the Odd Future as artists. I'm not so sure I'll appreciate their fan base lol........only one way to find out, catch the show!



http://oddfuture.tumblr.com/

Articulate!

I'll be the first to admit it. Articulation isn't one of my strengths as a vocalist, lol,
anyone who's worked with me can tell you that.
My heart and head has always been more interested in the passion and character of the delivery.
However, I do want everyone to know what I'm saying and not have to make up funny lyrics like when you were a kid and didn't understand the words, or in the 80s where the mixes were so artsy you couldn't quite hear. So I looked up a couple of articulation exercises on youtube and found this. If you don't need to practice your vowel sounds and consonants please watch anyways
this video is soooooooooo funny.

Graph Gonzales- New Music

A SIDE

Tears in the Dark by Graph Gonzales
produced by Chin Injeti of the New Royales

B SIDE

Get It 2gether by Graph Gonzales
produced by Franchise Music

Yacht rock for the Obama generation

Now this is music!

watch/listen 4 inspiration

Hi

My mom always says: Jump high, jump low if it's meant for you, you will have it

AUTOBIOGRAPHIA LITERIA

When I was a child
I played by myself in a
corner of the schoolyard
all alone.

I hated dolls and I
hated games, animals were
not friendly and birds
flew away.

If anyone was looking
for me I his behind a
tree and cried out "I am
an orphan."

And here I am, the
center of all beauty!
writing these poems!
Imagine!



Frank O'hara

My New Favs

Tentacle Building Installation

(images via: FilthyLuker)

An artist calling himself ‘FilthyLuker’ installed inflatable octopus tentacles in the windows of an unnamed building in June of 2009, making it appear as if the building is being devoured by a bright green kraken that somehow emerged from the sea and got stuck inside.

Salcedo's Chair Building

This amazing art installation was made by Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo for the International Istanbul Biennale in 2003. She used over 1,550 chairs stacked on an empty lot between two buildings.

Watch

Sebastian's Voodoo from Joaquin Baldwin on Vimeo.

Deep and Touching

Hi!

I wouldn't mind if the future ran a little faster

My other roomate Oboe fresh out the tub

K'Naan @ HOB Los Angeles

Audrey's, my fav cafe in L.A.

The Subject Tonight is Love

The subject tonight is Love

And for tomorrow night as well,

As a matter of fact

I know of no better topic

For us to discuss

Until we all

Die!

-Hafiz

Hi!

my heart? it howls and has teeth

Yes, Miss Anna.

Yes, Miss Anna.

snapshot of my childhood

Things I liked @ LA International Short film festival

Wouldn't mind having this fella next to my bed

Angel sent by god to guide me
Be my light and walk beside me
Be my guard and protect me
On the path of life direct me

Cotton Candy Martini

@ SLS hotel

Hi

I grew up listening to WBLK 93.7

Reading

it's always a pleasure to revisit

On the Walls of Bathroom Stalls

I'm proud of my own as well

go Brandon Scott!!!

We live in an ass obsessed times

Says:
defacing public property is
pointless and yet here i am
writing on a bathroom wall.
hooray 4 petty crime :) yeah
i'm going places in life!
have a good one- thx 4 ur time

Rockwell Bar Silverlake (L.A.)

Vegas Getaway

Pretty SinCity

Oboe is jet lagged

and Esthero rehearses a show for club Rain

I think about heading poolside

while Oboe orders room service

after her rehearsal Esthero plays slots for a bit


In the Evening around 10pm we head to club Rain.
The club is fully entertaining and packed for the Esthero/Snoop Dogg show.
I enjoy the acrobatic dancer who flips around til she lands safely in her bathtub.

Esthero hits the stage

I watch from the crowd and enjoy myself way too much to get a good picture


Then Snoop rocks the stage to close the night

twas a very fun day indeed!

Hi

Just did a photo shoot with Anna Keenan Photography.
She's shot everyone from sports hero Steve Nash to rock band Metric to
super duper star Pharrell Williams.
Can't wait to see the pics!
Shout out Yvonne Macinnis of Mac Makeup (queen/bay)
she had me looking good!

This is my roomate Esthero.
She is uber talented. If you don't have her records you should.
Breath from another (Sony/work)
Wkkkd Lil Grrrls (Warner bros)
I have been lucky enough to have penned a few works with and for her.

Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

Hi

am i in lurve? think so.....

hello there?looking for me Mr?

(artwork @ Origins restaurant 107 King st E)

a new fav spot of mine

Congrats New Royales

luv luv luv the New Royales

passed by my old neighborhood

yes i'm gaga over gaga