“Whateva whateva, I post what I want.”
After Metallica revealed their “Revolutionary Pricing Tiers” for their Mission: Metallica experience the parallels between Microsoft and Metallica got scary.
Why am I calling Metallica the Microsoft of music. Well, firstly, both Microsoft and Metallica have had a troubled relationship with the internet. Recently for Microsoft, the Yahoo debacle has drawn attention to the company’s online [...]
This blog can’t be about music alone. So, here’s something for ya.
I loved The Muppet Show as a kid. Thankfully, Youtube is full of all kinds of Muppet videos. I’ve picked out some of my favourite Muppet parodies / tributes. Some of these are disturbing, some are funny and some are just so cute.
No Eurovision song will ever beat My Lovely Horse (which wasn’t actually a Eurovision song but, well, you know…). They should just say this is the ultimate Song for Europe and be done with it. Forever.
Note: I wrote this post for another blog (that is now dead) sometime ago. Since the Eurovision Song Contest is being held today I thought I’d repost it here.
In 2006 Lordi won the Eurovision Song Contest with Hard Rock Hallelujah. This year Finland brings heavy metal back with Teräsbetoni performing the song Missä miehet ratsastaa [...]
Since I seem to be posting about French New Wave directors on this Friday I thought it would be intellectually appropriate to post this meditation on the nature of loneliness and the related desire to reach out and touch the world with one’s body. The feelings of alienation expressed in this video both from other [...]
Over the last weekend I sat down to watch Jean-Luc Godard’s 1968 film Sympathy for the Devil or One + One. It was filmed almost exactly 40 years ago and, in honour of its anniversary, I though it was about time I saw it.
I didn’t expect a masterpiece. The film has been denigrated ever since [...]
I was going to write a post about how in the olden days you had to buy advertising space to peddle your new record.
Instead, I decide to admire the synergy.
Death Cab For Cutie Take Over Stereogum
As a 33-year-old with a good-for-nothing minor in political science I should probably scuff at politics at the music video level. Having said that, I like this new alternate Coldplay video for Violet Hill. Talk about undermining political image building. The highpoint… well, I can’t pick.
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And if you want to talk about the issues [...]
Leonard Cohen Sleeveface
Originally uploaded by Husky
I’m not. And please don’t call me Shirley.
I must have been the last one to be clued in on this. Thank you Popped Culture. These people even have websites and groups. Blows. My. Mind.
Sites:
www.sleeveface.com
Damn Cool Pics
Flickr groups:
i am… a record cover
LP portraits
Update 2008/05/16:
Also, Gawker.
What is a chiptune? According to Wikipedia it’s:
music written in sound formats where all the sounds are synthesized in realtime by a computer or video game console sound chip, instead of using sample-based synthesis.
Got it? Never mind, just think back to the kind of music video games had back in the eighties (if you’re old [...]
