Cali born, NC raised, now living in DC. Twenty-something publicist obsessed with PR, movies & tv, music, media, fashion, Tar Heels, current events & fine wines.

muffintop-less:

I’m often asked my opinion on Lara bars, Luna bars and other protein bars. While I understand these bars are convenient on-the-go (I myself have resorted to protein bars too!).. it’s far better to make your own at home! That way you can control what goes into them.. as many of them are laden with unnecessary chemicals and sugars.

Just yesterday, I baked Jamie Eason’s Lemon Protein Bars.. which are AMAZING!!!! 

Ingredients:

• 1 cup oat flour
• 2 scoops vanilla whey protein
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 2 qt mix Crystal Light (preferably without aspartame)
• 4 egg whites
• 1/2 cup Splenda, Truvia, or Ideal
• 8 oz baby food applesauce
• 4 oz water

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix oat flour, vanilla whey protein, salt, baking soda and crystal light, in large bowl. Mix egg whites, Splenda, applesauce and water in a bowl. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix together. Spray 8x8 glass pyrex dish with non-stick butter spray. Pour ingredients into dish. Bake 23 minutes.

Makes 16 squares, 2 squares per serving.

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dailymementos:

President Obama talks with Jimmy Fallon during a taping of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon at the The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza, found here).

…it’s a fun thing when you get to be proud of your alma matter so often.  Go America, Go UNC and Go Jimmy Fallon. <3 it!

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• finding out about Kendall’s wrist last night

natural-phenomenon:

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Peggy: “I don’t think anyone wants to be one of a hundred colors in a box” Lady Sybil: “You’re right, it is a joke. But when I start my course, I don’t want to be a joke” 

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• Day 8: AraabMUZIK

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This review is written by my friend Jeff.
Artist: AraabMUZIK
Day Performing: Sunday
Genre: Instrumental hip-hop/electronic
Who? Abraham Orellana, aka AraabMUZIK, is a Sri Lankan record producer who focuses on creating instrumental hip-hop. His beloved instrument is the MPC 2500 LE (only 500 have been made and it’s shown on the cover of Electronic Dream). His ability to create melodies from cutting and chopping samples while freestyling rapid hi-hats and powerful kick drum rhythms is quite staggering. Since 2009, Orellana’s instrumentals have gotten him the attention of artists such as Eminem, Busta Rhymes, and Cam’ron, and Fabolous. Here’s a video to see him in action with his MPC.

Discography:

Electronic Dream
2011 How To Be An MC
(Instrumental Kings 5)
2010

 

Select tracks from Electronic Dream
AraabMUZIK - Electronic Dream
AraabMUZIK - Streetz Tonight
AraabMUZIK - Golden Touch
AraabMUZIK - Free Spirit
AraabMUZIK - Make It Happen
AraabMUZIK - Let It Go

Reviews of Electronic Dream
Pitchfork(8.2/10):

“…It’s tough to imagine the tracks on Electronic Dream getting any play in any dance club in the world, and it’s virtually impossible to picture anyone rapping over them. Instead, this album is a genre unto itself— ominous future shit that creates an atmosphere but never bleeds into the background. Araab’s snare-hits resonate like eye-punches, and his drum-programming is pure, unrelenting rap shit. But he’s applying that sensibility to songs where the melodies shine even when Araab’s using a screaming sound effect as part of the rhythm track. The end result is a truly weird little album— something at once anxious and euphoric.”

Pitchfork Top 50 Albums (Staff List):

“One of the predominant themes in the electronic music of 2011 was the incorporation of previously unfashionable, even unthinkable elements and styles into existent genres. But no one took a more literal stab at it than Dipset-affiliated producer AraabMuzik and his album Electronic Dream, which throws his memorable MPC antics right on top of entire trance songs. Kaskade, Jam & Spoon, Ian van Dahl: this is the real stuff, not just slyly winking hints. There was a precedent for this, particularly the Dipset Trance Party mixtapes, but Electronic Dream exhibits a new level of directness, calling modern hip-hop’s dance-obsessed bluff. The effect of Araab’s MPC demolition is more hazy than rousing, the anxious, palpitating heartbeat at the center of it all, manipulating trance’s preoccupation with ecstasy and pitching songs down wholesale. Kaskade’s “Streetz Tonight” is rendered a burnt-out lullaby, and the jittery coke high of “Lift Off” is the farthest thing from trance’s usual warm and fuzzy embrace. A lot of artists tried to make cotton-candy riffs and fist-pumping melodies acceptable in 2011, and AraabMuzik did it transparently enough to make even the staunchest of snobs reconsider aversions to the big and obvious stuff.”

Worth seeing? (IMHO) Possibly, but I wouldn’t make it my priority to go see him. The great thing about him is he can improvise and put his own twist on songs from any genre, whether it be trance, dubstep, or hip-hop. In this sense, he’s a very versatile producer and beat-maker. However, much of his music as an artist doesn’t feel genuine, and he often fails to properly credit the artists that he samples from. Many of his samples are left unchanged, or sound like they’ve just gone through the same minor tweakings through his MPC. I personally feel like the way he spun trance anthems into his own remix-like songs on Electronic Dream is a lot like how some DJs do mashups, which appears void of much originality.

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