Music blesses our souls in a unique and different way every time we listen to it. Your experience with it is not necessarily the same as mine. Neither is your taste for music similar to mine. You might love emo song while I appreciate blues.

Music appeals to our emotional being. That is why we cannot explain what it does to us. It is like love, we can not quantify or say exactly what it is but the feeling is there. And that is what makes it real. So how do you love music? Simply share it. That is what love is. You share it with the people you care about. When you take time to enjoy every piece of emo, indie or blues song with the person you care about, you love the music even more. It’s a way of creating beautiful memories. Every time you play the song will be a reminder of that precious moment.

You can love your music even more when you intend it to be a part of your life. Do this by creating special playlists for different occasions. This puts life in the music. It becomes your company. Make songs for parties, birthdays, graduations, weddings etc. Play your emo or indie songs to your friends attending your birthday party. The music will always remind you of every single moment at that time. You will remember that instance where you hugged your best friend, gave your boyfriend a peck on the cheek or smiled at your next door neighbor, long after they are gone. This will make you love your music even better.

Let your music be your best friend. When you are sad or feeling broken, only your nice collection of music videos, emo or indie song can send that shadowy cloud of gloom away into the distance. Your music lifts your mood and you feel better. It helps you deal with a broken heart after a failed relationship. It takes you through those moments when you are all alone. When you have no one to talk to it tells you it will be ok, and it’s always is. With this, you get to love your songs deeply because they take you through life. They mean a lot to you. You appreciate them because you understand that they will always be there.

How about when the sun is shinning and the dark clouds are no more. Yes, your folk, alternative and music videos play on and you know that life was meant for living. Music keeps your spirits up. It brings an incessant smile to your face. The skies are never clearer. Music makes this real. It makes life so surreal that you feel your love for it growing.  It envelopes your heart like never before. It makes you aware of the endless possibilities. It prods you on towards them. When you find meaning in your music and carry it with you in your life’s journey, you can’t help but fall in love with it every time.

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By: Dante Simon

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Having shorst, medium or long hair can’t stop you from getting an emo hairstyle. There are just a few main things to fallow, like layers, dark shades and extra straight hairstyles. Here are a few tips to help you out in creating emo haircut that matches your hairstyle and your personality.

Short Emo Hairstyles

Short emo hairstyles are quite rare, especially between girls. Even boys get a longer haircut for this style. The choppy layers are the main must have in this hairstyle and the extra straight texture. Keeping it dark shaded makes the hairstyle even more edgy. Bangs can be left straight in this case, to create a more dramatic look. Colors can be used in strands, in any shade or color, just make it bright. But stick to the two tone hair colors so that you won’t get confused between emo and scene hairstyles.



Medium Emo Hairsyles

Medium emo hairstyles are very common, mostly featuring side swept bangs. With their asymmetrical, choppy layered haircuts, they may be styled in a messy unique look. It will need strong styling products to get the wright structure, but the result is more than eye catching. It is a great way to attract attention and stand out of the crowd. It is still dark colored in most of the cases and shaped in a bouffant style with a super straight texture.

Brookelle Bones Shoulder-length Layered Haircut



Long Emo Hairstyles

Long emo hairstyles are created in strong layered haircuts with extensions if needed. Dark shaded and in extreme cases spiced up with some colored strands, the long emo hairstyle is a really hight maintenance style to have. It needs touch-ups even if fixed with the strongest hair styling products. A good thing is, that the colored strands can be even more defined and get an even more outstanding effect. The hair is thinned out for a manageable style and the bangs are side swept.





By: BecomeGorgeous

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Emo Boy

on it’s gonna be National Smile Week, and what better way to get those grins cracking than with some humorous and funny quotes? Get ready for your checks to hurt the whole week through. Here are twenty-five funny quotes to get you started.

1. “If it’s sent by ship then it’s a cargo, if it’s sent by road then it’s a shipment.” ~ Dave Allen

2. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” ~ Albert Einstein

3. “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” ~ Mae West

4. “I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” ~ Fred Allen

5. “The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.” ~ Dave Barry

6. “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.” ~ Josh Billings

7. “Things ain’t what they used to be and probably never was.” ~Will Rogers

8. “Marriage is the only war where you sleep with the enemy.” ~ Gary Busey

9. “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” ~ Walt Disney

10. “Hippies, hippies… they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!” ~ Eric Cartman

11. “If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” ~ Flip Wilson

12. “If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

13. “I’m Jewish. I don’t work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.” ~ Joan Rivers

14. “A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.” ~ Emo Philips

15. “There’s no half-singing in the shower, you’re either a rock star or an opera diva.” ~ Josh Groban

16. “I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades…or a game of fake heart attack.” ~ Demetri Martin

17. “Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.” ~ Ruth Gordon

18. “It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snowblower or vacuum cleaner.” ~ Ben Bergor

19. “Have no fear of perfection–you’ll never reach it.” ~ Salvador Dali

20. “It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.” ~ Oscar Wilde

21. “You grow up the day you have your first real laugh — at yourself.” ~ Ethel Barrymore

22. “I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.” ~ Jim Morrison

23. “I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” ~ Winston Churchill

24. “Eagles may soar in the clouds, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.” ~ Jason Hutchison

25. “Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.” ~ Benny Hill

Are you smiling yet? Great! Now you’re ready for National Smile Week. Know someone else who needs to exercise their face muscles before the big week actually hits? Why not take these twenty-five funny quotes and share them?



By: Noel Jameson

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By: angelofwind

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SHALLA MINGLES with VICTORe of the band, Tokadiscos

“Tokadiscos Reggaes”

by Shalla de Guzman

First off, who’s VICTORe? 

Well, I was born and have lived in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico my whole life, I’m 25. I’m the youngest of a family of five (My two older sisters always enjoyed to make me cry when I was a kid). I Studied Industrial Engineering here in Ensenada and I’m going thru a Professional Certificate in Construction Safety in the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

I like to learn new things in all aspects of life. Love roller coasters, rappel and willing to skydive as soon as I have some spare money. Recently I learned to scuba dive, and has become my new passion, I just love it =)

Ensenada is a quite small town, and that’s what I like about it, it’s not crowded and if you want to see big concerts or the advantages of a big city, you just need to travel an hour to the north to get to Tijuana or cross the border and get to San Diego.

We started Tokadiscos eight years ago (almost nine) with the idea of making music that we enjoy. There were no other bands in the town that would do anything like it. A curse of the small town is that 98% of the bands follow the trends instead of creating something because you feel it. Back then, everyone was playing like Nirvana, then Deftones, then Blink 182 and now Emo. I don’t mean to be rude to any style of music (I like Emo), but after the trend is over you can tell who actually liked it and who is migrating to a new trend. Pretty much like a mainstream Mexican band called Panda.

So far we have two records and are working on the third one. The band hasn’t given us enough money to live yet, but has given us a lot of personal satisfaction. We’ve been in many places around Mexico and a few important cities in the US (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix and Chicago). Roco and Pato form Maldita Vecindad recorded in our first record and we have some surprises for the next one.

Shalla: Hello VICTORe, nice band. Have you been performing long?

VICTORe: I’ve been playing for about ten years right now. I started a the School band and then moved to make my own music with some friends. In the band there are some older guys that have a longer road and some younger ones that have way less. We as a band as I said we have almost nine years and counting.

Shalla: When did you know you wanted to be a musician?

VICTORe: When I was about four years old I wanted to be a police officer (how wrong was I? Jaja), fireman or an Ice Cream Seller (I could get all the Ice Cream I could eat, can you imagine that???). After that I wanted to be a Professional Basketball player. As every average kid I used to play to be a singer with the comb as microphone, played the Air guitar since I started listening alternative music about the age of ten. But was at the age of 15 when I got my hands into a real drum set that I knew that I wouldn’t be able to drop the drumsticks anymore.

Shalla: Which musical instruments do you play? What’s your favorite musical instrument? Did you take music lessons or just learned on your own?

VICTORe:

I Love and have respect for all instruments. But my passion is all kind of percussion. I play drums most of my time, but I play a little (very little jaja)of congas, guitar, bass and trumpet. 

Shalla: Do you play the drums? Is it hard to play the drums?

VICTORe:

Yes, Is as hard as any other instrument. There’s no hard or easy instrument. Drums attract most common people because they think it’s just hit, hit, hit. The truth is that anyone can play an instrument as long as you dedicate enough (a lot) time to practice really slow and then gain speed. It becomes a second nature, like breathing, you never think about it, but do it all the time. When you start you only focus in that specific rhythm and any single distraction takes you out of the beat. But as you keep doing it, you can talk, sing, or even think about the after party and keep playing without even think about it. 

Shalla: Do you write your own music? What’s your inspiration?

VICTORe:

We as a band write our own music. I personally only work with the arrangements. Most of the time Tozzy (lead singer) comes to a rehearsal with an idea and we all together work it out. As I told you, our ages are quite spread (from 17 to 31), so we all have different influences and all put a little of ourselves into the songs.

Shalla: Any tips for other musicians on how to get your music out there?

VICTORe:

Well, forget about the record companies, the future of music is on-line. Make your own demos, records, and try to get it to all the audience possible. If they like your music they’ll start to ask for your shows and that’s how you start touring.

Shalla: Oh, and can we feature more of your music on SHALLA Magazine? (we can put a link to it or something)

VICTORe:

Well, you can find our music, videos or info in:

Music.com

myspace.com/tokadiscos

tokadiscos.com

youtube.com/profile?user=victoretkd

THANKS for the space =)

Shalla: Thanks so much!  Best with your projects!

or more on Tokadiscos: http://www.tokadiscos.com

Shalla DeGuzman’s short stories have appeared in the Mosaic Literary Journal and Mad Hatters Review, her articles in The Scriptorium and L.A. Freepress, her skits at the Stella Adler Theatre.

Her flash fiction Fish In My Bed recently won the FISH AND PLANE Competition and is featured in Issue 6 of Mad Hatters Review.

Shalla, a former writer and producer of a health and fitness cable show, is currently writing a novel. She is President of The ShalladeGuzman Writers Group

( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ShalladeGuzman/ ) where she interviews literary agents, publishers, editors, etc.

For more about Shalla: www.shalladeguzman.com

and

http://www.myspace.com/shalladeguzman        



By: Shalla DeGuzman

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