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Do The Duck Face!

archangel — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:07:16 +0000

Funny song with naughty words, but you’ll be safe at work with headphones. What’s especially sad are the girls who went for duck face, missed by a mile, and ended up on, “I think I just sharted.”

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OK Go’s Rube Goldberg Video

archangel — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:00:11 +0000

When I was a kid, I used to love Rube Goldberg machines, whether real or in the comics or cartoons. OK Go commissioned the creation of a rather clever one for their new video, amazingly shot in one continuous take lasting over 4 minutes. Also, the music is good!

Learn more about the machine and video here.

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Guitar Heroine

zbalance — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:39:43 +0000

My sister bought me Rock Band 2 for Christmas. I’m a little late to the rhythm beat-style game phenomenon, but I was instantly hooked and so was my wife and kids. So much so, that I went driving all around the next weekend looking for a second guitar since there’s four of us in the house, but the game ‘only’ comes with one guitar, a microphone and a drum set. The following weekend, I got the cymbal attachments for my drum-set. “I call drums!”
We now have a room pretty much devoted to this game.
Last Saturday (with a little alcohol) we played the game from 8pm until 3am. Kids too.
I’m telling ya…, hooked up to a nice tv with a good sound setup, you easily feel as if you are really playing that shit.
Which brings me to my point.
I FEEL as though I am playing but I KNOW I am not.
I have no delusions that I am actually a rock star despite my hours of fake drumming. None at all. Yes I feel that MAYBE I have a better sense of timing. Yes MAYBE I have a better understanding of using both hands and feet while following a beat. BUT I AM NO ROCK STAR. I CAN NOT PLAY DRUMS.
I am so sick of hearing mediocre musicians (and the media) criticize people who play the game.
They make blanket statements like this: “Guitar Hero punks who think they can really play guitar.”
Lets get something straight. NO ONE WHO PLAYS THESE GAMES, BELIEVES THEY CAN REALLY PLAY AN INSTRUMENT BECAUSE OF IT. NO ONE. Please show me ONE person, just one, who truly thinks this way because I have yet to see it.
As soon as I put the band controllers down, I return to my no-music-talent world of dullness, and I am fully aware of it.
Why all the hate over these music games?
You never hear NASA criticize people for playing Mass Effect. “So what, you think your some kind of astronaut now?”
Nor does the NFL come down on anyone. “Look at him playing Madden 09,… he thinks he’s a real football player!”

Hell, even those people who do that role playing with costumes don’t get as much flak. And they are throwing tennis balls in place of Magic Missiles! However, when the costume comes off, the player doesn’t continue to believe they are really wizards.

I will admit that one time while mixing prescription meds and playing Nintendo, I was pretty sure I was Mario. I did a lot of damage to my house with a hammer that day…

Anyway, to all the insecure musicians out there…
Look, I’m sorry that when I press four buttons on a guitar shaped joystick, that it somehow attacks your thrashing credibility.
Maybe if you stopped worrying about what I do in my living room and started practicing more, you’d actually get laid. and believe me, once you get laid for the first time, you will forget all about Guitar Hero.
Let me know how it works out.

Wherein the queen confuses the Scarlett Witch with Emma Frost…

archangel — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:39:27 +0000

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Nadia Oh

archangel — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:43:23 +0000

When I created a Pandora channel for Uffie, it kept playing stuff by Nadia Oh, who I never heard before.¹ I won’t over-hype this – it’s well produced dance music sung by a cute British chick. Here are some songs off Hot Like Wow, produced by Space Cowboy.

Something 4 The Weekend

N.A.D.I.A. OH

Got Your Number

My Egyptian Lover

BTW, Uffie make very different music, especially lyrically and vocally. And she’s got some really hot images out there.

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YOU Want To Be My Facebook Friend???

archangel — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:09:14 +0000

So I can’t say that any former lovers, who ripped out my heart and ate it in front of me, have tried to friend me on Facebook. At least one girl I gave the brush-off to over and over has tried, but I can’t blame her – who could resist this pile of manliness? But I have had a couple people who I never got along with send a request. I keep thinking, “We never liked each other, we haven’t spoken in almost 2 decades – why are you trying to connect?”

Kate Miller-Heidke puts this sentiment in song, and much more eloquently than I have:

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Trent Reznor On Band Marketing

archangel — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:29:47 +0000

Trent Reznor has written a very intelligent, thoughtful piece on marketing your band. If you want to make it in this relatively new world of rampant digital piracy, you have to approach the market in a different way.

Christian Bale’s New Dance Hit

archangel — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:30:55 +0000

Caution: none of these links are safe for work. One has a photo of RuPaul. Be safe.

Christian Bale recently got, um, peeved, when the DP ruined another scene on the set of Terminator 4 by walking through it. Not one to waste such great material from a talented artist, music producer Lucian Piane turns lemons into lemonade. By which I mean he turns profanity into a club hit.

You can download the Bale Out MP3 here.

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Mediocre Movies, Good Song

archangel — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:08:42 +0000

This weekend I watched Meet Bill and Cashback on Netflix downloads. Meet Bill has a great cast, but they’re tied to a messy plot with an unfulfilling ending. It’s also a bit gayer than was strictly necessary. I would have been better off watching American Beauty for the seventh time. Cashback has some hot naked chicks, and while I can relate with the protagonist’s (and director’s, I’m sure) obsession with the beauty of the female form, there wasn’t a lot of there, there. Here, I should have rewatched Art School Confidential. Neither are terrible films, but you can find better. Even on Netflix downloads.¹

But coincidentally, both films included Royksopp’s What Else Is There? in their soundtracks. This is a great mid-tempo electronic song with ethereal vocals, so I include it here for your enjoyment:

Netflix’s download selection is notoriously subpar, especially if you discount the classics. Illustrating this, one commenter on IMDB, complaining about Meet Bill, wrote “now I know why it was available for download”.

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Killing Joke tourdates

thinktank1 — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:18:15 +0000

Killing Joke’s tourdates appear to be firmed up finally for the US. Stops are as follows:

10/9: House of Blues, LA (8pm)
10/11 and 10/12: Fillmore East (the venue formerly known as Irving Plaza), NYC (9pm)
10/14: House of Blues, Chicago (7:30pm)

Tickets available via Ticket~~Bastard~~Master.

(nb.: Tickets for the Irving Plaza show are SRO, and are priced $25; not sure about the others, as I don’t live within striking distance of Chicago or LA)