SXSW 2010

Another SXSW raps up in Austin, Texas. The festival of music for up and coming artists has changed over the years! The aspiring bands travel from all over America and all over the world in hopes of being seen and discovered. For the music executives is now less about signing new bands, but more about socializing, enjoying the parties and catching the headliners - usually older bands supporting their latest album. It is not all lost for the younger bands. They all comment that meeting other musicians is the best part of the experience. In many cases, it has resulted in bands finding touring partners and friendships that last a long time. The music industry is down! You can see the difference walking down Sixth Street or getting a drink at Four Seasons. Even with the decline of CD sales and with so many lay-offs taking place, the panels at SXSW has always been in denial in the past. This year the mood was different! It was about acceptance that things are not the same and it is going to be a different business. Let’s now find new ways to materialize this art form. The music industry executives know they have to make changes to survive. So many irreplaceable people and personalities have been forced to leave the business. It is just not the same! This affects the quality of music that is being recorded and makes this process more difficult than ever. With this said, the music industry might be different and changing, but music will never die! People will always seek the latest and coolest sound.

Fashion - The Last Ten Years!

Fashion in the last ten years has been such a mélange of all the previous decades! We really have not seen much that has been new and nothing that would define the start of this new century. Also no superstar designers have emerged into the fashion scene! In the past, every ten years, not only we were presented new fashion and new way of wearing cloths, but also the attitude to go with it. The roaring twenties, movie star style of the forties, disco seventies and of course who could forget the decadent eighties are just a few we can name. Even the nineties with the emergence of grunge music had its own vibe. Who knew heroine could be so chic!!! Not sure if fashion influenced the culture or vice versa! The last ten years everything went. You could take a piece from different decades of the past and wear it together. It has been more about how you put it all together that showed your personal style, and not one designer that did it for you! With the start of the second decade in the twenty first century, it will be interesting to watch and see if this is going to change. Are we going to experience once again new and must wear items and attitude, or just a few new trends that come and are gone by tomorrow or the next day!

Introducing Moi

This blog serves for me to introduce myself and to write down my opinion on various subjects and daily occurrence in the world. I have to admit that I am very opinionated and I enjoy discussing ideas, fashion trends, exciting places to see and most of all my favorite music. Music and artists give a theme to the background of our lives and set the mood. With all the social networking and blog sites, it is so nice and easy to stay anonymous and just write about what inspires me, makes me happy, laugh, angry, and what makes me want to live more… I invite you to comment and express your opinion too – in a fun and friendly way.