pop music and bad habits

i notice the gossip have disabled embedding, but from something called GossipTV it seems fair... very savvy, to have a media arm of your own little company and just market yourself

it's also what the internerd is famous and perfect for. anonymity and authority.

i'm a bit hooked on the gossip's heavy cross, still, and partly because i only ever hear it on video hits on a saturday morning, so in total, about five or six times now

(p.s. fuzzy, from video hits, faustina agolley, is a celebrity masterchef! go fuzzy!)

here is the youtube link

i'm also giving in to the relentlessness and weird faux emotion that's so synchronistically real... i don't know

do i love it, or do i hate it?

Music video by La Roux performing Bulletproof: Video with UFO [Video Director], Guillame Marien [Video Producer] (C) 2009 Polydor Ltd. (UK)

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and that's my pop hits for this fortnight

you're moments ago, but seconds away
it's a cruel world
oooo oooo oooo-o oh woah

beth ditto

that's a great voice

pretty relaxing

sunday afternoon, getting into sunday evening

listening to prefuse 73

wondering if there were any connection between them and my first favourites in the found sound music concrete collage genre - the books... and there is. an e.p. from 2005 on warp

prefuse 73 reads the books - reviewed here on pitchfork

i like sampled documentary style recordings with broken and overlapping beats and riffs throughout and underneath. it's nice to listen to. for some reason i find it immensely relaxing.

i can suffer from stimulation overload, especially after a few hours in front of commercial tv. get a bit twitchy.

makes sense that twitchy music could work as an antidote.

been watching something on dvd this afternoon - finally got a copy of 'overnight', the documentary about a young filmmaker whose unchecked egomania creates a kind of social black hole amongst his unfortunate associates and 'friends'. amazing film. has a lot in common with that other documentary about a deluded american filmmaker, 'american movie'. but where 'american movie' had at it's heart a solid friendship between one creative and one follower, 'overnight' has the richness of several intelligent, sensitive and suffering participants. it's painful, but awesome.

a bit like sun o)))

i never stuck with sun o)))... all the punishment deterred me. i;m not into music for the suffering.

i like jonathan richman, though, with the lessons, and lou barlow, with the raw poetry.

i'm not into theatre of cruelty, sort of the same way i'm not really into goya or the chapman brothers.

i like nice things. and even though it's a bit weird and occasionally challenging, i think 'glitch' music, which covers prefuse 73, the books, the wonderful funkstorung and others, is still a listenable genre.

here's an unofficial promo for prefuse 73's track 'pagina dos'

but i think i'd like to end this post with this video for the books - smells like content

just love this stuff. please make more.



enjoy :)

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... is totally understandable

i heard something on the radio today

and i wanted to be able to play it, to you, like the guy on the radio did

and the closest thing that comes to that is blogging with youtube embeds

but i totally understand why an artist would not want that to happen.

i can understand it less if i was a filmmaker, but i suppose filmmaking credits are as complex as they are long

someone different does different things, so who owns the total result?

rights.

the right to reprint, or sell copies of something.

it's a big part of the creative industries, but isn't that the problem?

isn't the mistaken nuptuals between creativity and trade one of the evils besetting the world? or is it a method for people who make things that are consumed as copies by virtue of their method of distribution to make some money off each sale.

business prefers large volumes of sales.

art is usually a one-off, and it's true. even a great recording is just one possible version of a work. like each painting of a certain design.

we're pretty precious about art, don't you think?

some art is truly precious though...

like brian eno, but he seems to really *get* digital distribution

that iphone thing is sweet

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head colds and so you think you can dance (us)

stayed up late last night to watch the season final of so you think you can dance?

i liked the way they used music on that program, and some of the dancing was truly moving, really entertaining.

last night we got to see a particular dance twice, because they couple two programs together for the friday night australian audience. it was a pasa doble (which always makes me think of strictly ballroom), and it was danced to this great piece from the soundtrack to matrix revolutions.

i love that post-metal, heavy industrial sound mixed with the modern minimalist influence... smashing stuff, and congratulations to all the dancers, winner jeanine and my eliminated favourite - janette.

i loved watching her dance. i hope she keeps going, although i am sure she'll always enjoy processing bank loans too. what a dear :)

caught a few minutes of rage afterwards and liked this track enough to make a note so i could find it again today. it was this band, and this particular video as well.

we were promised jetpacks - "roll up your sleeves"



am currently listening to a soothing playlist of stereolab, susumu yokota, spaceman3 and tobin sprout... helps with the cold

finding new music

how do you go about it?

i like amazon's wishlists, and people who bought this also bought... functions.

some websites are amazing aren't they? the things they enable a person to do.

i found an excellent online music store run by missing link

excellent because they have two, not one, but two loscil records, plus maybe more than one by a band i want to get to know: this will destroy you

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turning back to swan lake's all fires...



this guy has done a cover that got some good responses

"so it's teresa that i love the best"

and that is a nice cover, but it ends abruptly

and partly it's the production of the original that i love, those little high flutes and the droning bass...

so a piece from loscil instead