| on corruption in the music industry |
[May. 9th, 2006|10:18 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Radiohead - Bodysnatchers | ] |
rock, and popular music for that matter, will be ultimately passe and comodified (as they have been for some time now), until the curent incarnation of the music industry is destroyed, and entertainment truly turns into a form of manipulation.
then hopefully, in a wonderfully science-fiction esque scenario, the desire to create non-derivative music and destroy the oppresive structure of one's own country will meld and we'll get rock bands doubling as terrorist insurgent squadrons with gun barrels instead of guitar necks. |
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| commercial noise |
[Mar. 6th, 2006|09:37 pm] |
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I saw one of those internet ads today. the ones that ask you a question and tell you that if you know the answer, you win something. the question was: what is the name of paris hilton's dog? I was REALLY glad i didn't know. |
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| this is kinda funny |
[Jan. 8th, 2006|03:10 am] |
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crouching tiger, hidden dragon and brokeback mountain have the same director. |
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| check out some music I've written |
[Dec. 29th, 2005|01:49 pm] |
www.myspace.com/timofthepls
these tracks aren't very good quality and they are just piano parts to unfinished songs, but... well, they're the main core idea to those songs so I felt they were ready to be heard a little bit. |
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| New Music |
[Dec. 25th, 2005|04:09 pm] |
12 Rods
They are a band and they are called 12 Rods.
They sound like new wave/80's college rock/shoegaze, but were recording music between 1993 and 2003. So they also sound a bit at home in the mid nineties alternative rock area.
I heard them last night and they're one of my favorite bands already.
If anyone wants me to post them for download, let me know. |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 24th, 2005|12:02 am] |
You Are 35% Normal
(Occasionally Normal)
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You sure do march to your own beat...
But you're so weird, people wonder if it's a beat at all
You think on a totally different wavelength
And it's often a chore to get people to understand you |
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| putney swope |
[Dec. 19th, 2005|02:54 am] |
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I've been watching too much TV lately. Escapism isn't all it's cracked up to be because you can't really escape menial things. So it's wallowing.... wallowing in apathy or depression.... but you don't escape anything. Just enslave yourself to the world of relevance for relevancy's sake. |
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| well |
[Dec. 16th, 2005|01:32 pm] |
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| | a local beverage machine hum | ] |
NOW, I am REALLY cured. Because after I posted last... well... my fever went back up to 101. But it wasn't as bad as it had been before, and even though I wasn't able to sleep a whole lot last night, I got rid of my fever (just took my temp with one of those neat digital thermometers and it was 98.7). uhhh... coming home today... probably sleeping a lot, and I need to finish a project I was doing on which I was already given grace by the teacher but got pushed back farther b/c of my fever. |
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| well |
[Dec. 15th, 2005|07:14 pm] |
I'm out of bed after being in it for 20 hours. I came down with a fever last night at about 11pm. I was delerious for about 4 hours this morning and my temp got up to 102 throughout the whole fiasco. During probably the worst of the fever I recorded a freestyled hate rap-track about Peter Jackson. It's good to be alive again. |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 9th, 2005|04:32 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Radiohead - High and Dry | ] |
The Expatriate
Achtung! You are 23% brainwashworthy, 27% antitolerant, and 9% blindly patriotic |
Congratulations! You are not susceptible to brainwashing, your values
and cares extend beyond the borders of your own country, and your Blind
Patriotism does not reach unhealthy levels. If you had been German in the 30s, you would've left the country.
One bad scenario -- as I hypothetically project you back in time -- is
that you just wouldn't have cared one way or the other about Nazism.
Maybe politics don't interest you enough. But the fact that you took
this test means they probably do. I'm gonna give you the benefit of the
doubt.
Did you know that many of the smartest Germans departed prior to the
beginning of World War II, because they knew some evil shit was
brewing? Brain Drain. Many of them were scientists. It is very possible
you could have been one of them.
Conclusion: born and raised in Germany in the early 1930's, you would not have been a Nazi.
The Would You Have Been A Nazi? Test
- it rules - |  |
My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 12% on brainwashworthy | | You scored higher than 37% on antitolerant | | You scored higher than 3% on patriotic |
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| Coldplay still Radiohead light |
[Dec. 9th, 2005|04:19 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Radiohead - Thinking About You | ] |
Here's a little bit from this months Q magazine. An interview with Coldplay's Chris Martin & Ricky Gervais:
How will Coldplay develop? You've mentioned you'd like to work with Timbaland.
RG: What, the boots people?
CM: Yeah, the people who make boots.
RG: Bruce Foxton's got a brand new pair of Timberlands.
CM: Yeah, I thought what we need to do next is a CD that comes in a pair of durable walking boots, so you can listen to it when you're hiking.
RG: You're going for the working class vote now aren't you? [Thinks] Who are your fans?
CM: Ah, man, it's tricky. I don't think we'd be anywhere if Radiohead didn't exist. I think we're like why Diet Coke was big. Because some people couldn't handle Coke. That's how i see Coldplay.
RG: That's very humbling. |
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[Dec. 8th, 2005|06:51 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Xiu Xiu - Fast Car | ] |
List ten songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your Livejournal along with your ten songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.
1. Talking Heads - The Great Curve
2. Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
3. Haemoth - (something off the album 'Kontamination')
4. David Bowie - Suffragette City
5. Xiu Xiu - Apistat Commander
6. Radiohead - Dollars & Cents
7. Deerhoof - Spirit Ditties of no tone
8. Animal Collective - Purple Bottle
9. David Bowie - Belway Brothers
10. Xiu Xiu - Fast Car |
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| This has nothing to do with the matrix, by the way, that's just the picture the test used |
[Dec. 6th, 2005|12:08 pm] |
Androgynous
You scored 63 masculinity and 70 femininity! |
| You scored high on both masculinity and femininity. You have a strong personality exhibiting characteristics of both traditional sex roles. |
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My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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You scored higher than 53% on masculinity |
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You scored higher than 73% on femininity |
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| OZ |
[Dec. 6th, 2005|12:43 am] |
| [ | music |
| | amon duul - phallus dei | ] |
I saw most of the first season of OZ (that old television show about some kind of experimental prison). And tonight I watched the first two episodes of the second season and... they sucked. They were almost completely terrible. All the characters have become unrealistically irritable or maniacal... I hate television. It was like a Tom Clancy novel written for middle schoolers. |
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| oddities |
[Dec. 4th, 2005|10:41 am] |
I saw the first eight parts of R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet," yes, I watched them, and I enjoyed them. In retrospect I can't but think they could have been a lot better, what with him being the only one singing, there not being any distinctly laid out alternating melodies, and every track sounding almost completely the same; but, though I probably would have turned this hip-hopera off it had been on the radio, watching the videos was actually very entertaining. The plot is rediculous and engaging because the acting is great and the direction is quite good as well. R. Kelly really does have a nice voice, and I guess I just never noticed because I was too busy hating his flacid r&b songs with vocals that only stress superlatives in strained pleas and explanations while noodling around modern r&b style voice sliding like those awful, awful versions of "The Star Spangled Banner" that everyone was in a huff about in the late nineties. I don't think I would want to listen to the album by itself, but I think that if every character actually sung their own part (rather than R. Kelly affecting his voice to sound like a woman when he's singing for one (while it is humorous... I just can't quite "get that dirt off my shoulder" about it)), the songs didn't all sound the same, and the project didn't seem like a tribute to its lead character and pop star, it could be a real modern opera, and maybe be good. I guess, not this story specifically, would be good... but then again, these kinds of things (cheating, guns, making fun of white people) are prevalent in rap and hip-hop, and so maybe they would be appropriate for a black, urban opera.
Of course, there are some rediculously hilarious things about this whole project of R. Kelly's. The first being that he calls it an urban drama while it all clearly takes place in the VERY rich suburbs (i guess R. Kelly didn't want to play a poor character... i mean, what 15 year old girl wants to get micturated on by a pop star who gets his kicks pretending he's poor? I know I wouldn't accept that golden compliment). The second being that when the story finally reaches someone's home that IS in the ghetto (or, at least, not in "_______ hills"), it's a cops house and he's married to an unatractive fat white woman with a southern accent! So I guess the class commentary here is hot tempered, gun toting rappers are more favored in society than black cops who have a thing for corpulent women... but I mean, I could have told you that. The third HILARIOUS thing in this video is the "accidental shooting." R. Kelly's brother in law walks in right as he and the cop are wrestling for a gun as part of a big misunderstanding, and the gun goes off by accident, hitting (you guessed it) R. Kelly's brother in law "Twan." They think he's dead at first, but then he gets up, coughing (though he's only been shot in the shoulder.. why would he be coughing??), and the cop says "we need to get you to a hospital," and he's like "no man, it's just my shoulder, all I need is a bathroom." Ok, first of all... this guy just got out of jail, so I guess he's the video's "gang-banger" or whatever, and the dude is so baddass that he thinks he can give himself proper medical treatment for a gun wound in a suburban bathroom, except--wait--he can! The very next camera shot after he says this is him in the bathroom standing next to R. Kelly patting a bandage over the wound on his arm, which only has a small little circle of blood in the middle, and though, while clearly not being a graze wound (the bloodstain is right in the middle of his bicep, he is fine... because, as they say "dudes a gangsta'"). So...... this whole thing is incredibly stupid and rediculous, while being entertaining and catchy... even though I'm pretty sure R. Kelly wasn't trying to be self-effacing through ludicrous histronics, he is, and it makes the whole thing more entertaining. But the truth is, I still liked it, which I'm suprised at, and I would now actually like to see a REAL hip-hopera (by which I mean, more than one distinct song, more than one person singing, and no fat white women from the south).
aduei |
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| siddhartha is a good book... is it dogma? it seems to simple to be dogma. |
[Dec. 3rd, 2005|10:18 am] |
Govinda said: "But what you call thing, is it something real, something intrinsic? Is it not only the illusion of Maya, only image and appearance? Your stone, your tree, are they real?"
"This also does not trouble me much," said Siddhartha. "If they are illusion, then I also am illusion, and so they are always of the same nature as myself. It is that which makes them so lovable and venerable. That is why I can love them." |
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