Saturday, July 28, 2007
CANT TELL ME NUFFIN
This video by comedian Zach Galifianakis with the aid of sidekick Will Oldham (aka Bonnie Prince Billy) is hilarious and quite possibly the best thing I've seen for a really long time.
love and peace.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
15 Minutes
This is a Video From Director Sam Allen.
I act in it.
The Video Is Titled "Fifteen Minutes". It is built around a young working man's break time from his job in a strip center, an slight escape from the material world that he so desperately hates but needs to survive.
So You And Whose Army? is proud to present the premire of "15 Minutes".
I act in it.
The Video Is Titled "Fifteen Minutes". It is built around a young working man's break time from his job in a strip center, an slight escape from the material world that he so desperately hates but needs to survive.
So You And Whose Army? is proud to present the premire of "15 Minutes".
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
A SILVER MT. ZION
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band
would probably be called a side-project of Godspeed You Black Emperor!.
Down from a nine-piece rock orchestra to just three people, GYBE!'s lavish soundscapes are stripped down to the mere basics of piano, violin, and contrabass. Even with the occasional addition of some guitar, drumming, vocals (yes, vocals), radio samples, and clarinet, A Silver Mt. Zion relegates its music to sparse, oppressively sad passages that bleed silent anguish. Compared to the ominous symphonies of GYBE!, this music is less foreboding and dark. Instead, it is just sad, like a weight on the soul.
would probably be called a side-project of Godspeed You Black Emperor!.
Down from a nine-piece rock orchestra to just three people, GYBE!'s lavish soundscapes are stripped down to the mere basics of piano, violin, and contrabass. Even with the occasional addition of some guitar, drumming, vocals (yes, vocals), radio samples, and clarinet, A Silver Mt. Zion relegates its music to sparse, oppressively sad passages that bleed silent anguish. Compared to the ominous symphonies of GYBE!, this music is less foreboding and dark. Instead, it is just sad, like a weight on the soul.
Sparse symphonic music (think Sigur Ros) is often the most beautiful to me, because it functions as an emotional release. This album is beautiful, but it is a distressed beauty that is difficult to listen to sometimes.
A tough sell to most people, certainly, and I don't doubt that it in the hands of lesser writing talent something like this would be quite awful. But it is far from any such denigrating adjective. I rank this up with some of the most beautiful music I have.
"Broken chords can sing a little" opens the album with simple and unsettling piano chords and a subtle electronic hum. A crying violin glides into the atmosphere as two strange vocal samples appear in stereo. This sets the tone for the album -- barren, sheer requiems based mostly on piano and violin with some odd tape effects appearing in the background (the whale-like mantra appearing between slow swipes of violin on "For Wanda" makes me shake).
"Sit In The Middle of Three Galloping Dogs" is slightly more robust, arranging jarring violin strikes against marching drums in a way both disconcerting and weeping.
"Movie (Never Made)" has Efrim actually singing, his voice breaking apart over a simple piano melody, and the band sounds like they are playing in some abandoned cathedral. "13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round the Side of Your Bed" is a teary mist of sorrow, pure heart-crushing sadness with sonics that can only be described as profound. The interesting thing is that it doesn't sound like the music is trying to make anyone sad -- it is just unqualified expression.
I wouldn't listen to this if I was ever close to suicide, but for those times when you want something gorgeously melancholy, I can't think of anything better.
A tough sell to most people, certainly, and I don't doubt that it in the hands of lesser writing talent something like this would be quite awful. But it is far from any such denigrating adjective. I rank this up with some of the most beautiful music I have.
"Broken chords can sing a little" opens the album with simple and unsettling piano chords and a subtle electronic hum. A crying violin glides into the atmosphere as two strange vocal samples appear in stereo. This sets the tone for the album -- barren, sheer requiems based mostly on piano and violin with some odd tape effects appearing in the background (the whale-like mantra appearing between slow swipes of violin on "For Wanda" makes me shake).
"Sit In The Middle of Three Galloping Dogs" is slightly more robust, arranging jarring violin strikes against marching drums in a way both disconcerting and weeping.
"Movie (Never Made)" has Efrim actually singing, his voice breaking apart over a simple piano melody, and the band sounds like they are playing in some abandoned cathedral. "13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round the Side of Your Bed" is a teary mist of sorrow, pure heart-crushing sadness with sonics that can only be described as profound. The interesting thing is that it doesn't sound like the music is trying to make anyone sad -- it is just unqualified expression.
I wouldn't listen to this if I was ever close to suicide, but for those times when you want something gorgeously melancholy, I can't think of anything better.
This Has been out for a little while, so this is nothing new. It just struck me as so amazing. And I had'nt heard much from Godspeed! since they broke up so it was a shock to me they were still making soul torching music.
A Silver Mt. Zion: "Sit In The Middle Of Three Galloping Dogs"
A Silver Mt. Zion: "Movie (Never Made)"
love and peace.
Matt And Kim
Matt And Kim Made a Song.
It was called "Yea Yeah".
Flosstradamus Remixed it.
Now its better.
Much Better Than Before.
You'll Be walking around going "yea yeah yea yeah yea yeah yea yeah yea yeah yeah yea yeah yea yeah".
And people will think you're stupid.
but you know they suck cos they havent heard the awesome song in your head.
Matt And Kim: "Yea Yeah (Flosstradamus Remix)"
http://www.zshare.net/audio/2639672b97631f/
love and peace
It was called "Yea Yeah".
Flosstradamus Remixed it.
Now its better.
Much Better Than Before.
You'll Be walking around going "yea yeah yea yeah yea yeah yea yeah yea yeah yeah yea yeah yea yeah".
And people will think you're stupid.
but you know they suck cos they havent heard the awesome song in your head.
Matt And Kim: "Yea Yeah (Flosstradamus Remix)"
http://www.zshare.net/audio/2639672b97631f/
love and peace
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
CANT STOP THE WHEEL...CANT STOP...
Leave it to a couple Brits, thousands of miles away from the hood, to snag SOUTH CENTRAL as the moniker for their punked-up, electronic efforts. Don't, however, expect them to address gang politics or aesthetics in their dance floor offerings. On their forthcoming single, due August 13th on Regal's Single Club, the b-side track, "Revolution," and its refrain "Can't stop the wheel," pays homage to both Spacemen 3 and to the novel of Russian philosopher/mystic P.D. Ouspensky, The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, who explores the idea of eternal recurrance. Deep, trippy stuff to be sure.
This Song is so cool.
You dont even know.
SOUTH CENTRAL: "Revolution"
http://www.zshare.net/audio/25647260719d95/
Love and Peace
The Airborne Toxic Event
Well once again the internets have dilivered tastey goodness to me,
this time in the form of the AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT.
I aquired their brilliant self-titled EP, which sounds like Franz ferdinand meeting Albert Hammond Jr. in a back alley with the Smiths waiting in the car.
And it makes me dance like the heathens.
Why? Well, take a listen to their single, "Does This Mean You're Moving On?". If you dont start tapping your foot by 15 seconds in, you have no soul. I can't help but think that the hipster crowd will love this band, whose easily quotable lyrics and extremely pretentious mannerisms onstage and off make a perfect recipie for myspace success.
The Airborne Toxic Event: "Does This Mean You're Moving On?"
(((((HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!)))))
http://www.zshare.net/audio/2561549b031787/
And as an added bonus,
I've got the video for the same song here.
It's interesting and funny. like the band.
love and peace.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Whoop Whoop!
Okay, so this IS Evan Bernard, the genius behind the Beastie Boys "Sabotage" video, but I
hadnt seen anything from him in awhile.
What should I find on youtube today but "POUND", a short but brilliant film from Evan.
Check it.
Squeak-E-Clean.
Thats my shhhhhh.
love and peace.
hadnt seen anything from him in awhile.
What should I find on youtube today but "POUND", a short but brilliant film from Evan.
Check it.
Squeak-E-Clean.
Thats my shhhhhh.
love and peace.
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