| Shakira - Did It Again remix |
[09 Nov 2009|08:30pm] |
A touch wonky on the vocals, since as far as I know an acapella of it doesn't exist yet. (If it ever becomes available I'd do a proper one, but this is good enough for now -- wonky noise-reduced acappella w/ free software, you get what you pay for...) The beat's off the new DJ/rupture and Matt Shadetek album, beat by Mizz Beats.
"Official" remix with a deadwood Kid Cudi available at Kanye's site. The original song feels like a mid-album track thrown in to track 2 (imagine the Wyclef track would sound better at track 2 spot)
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| Rihanna 2 |
[09 Nov 2009|02:52pm] |
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Another thought, maybe a strange comparison in that the connection is just that the two of them were interviewed on TV, but...
Consider, when she was faced with the most important interview of her life, how much more thought Rihanna gave to who she was and what she was about, and what her responsibilities as a public figure were, than Sarah Palin did when she was faced with the most important interview of her life thirteen-and-a-half months ago.
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| oh i ching you are very coy this season! |
[09 Nov 2009|03:57pm] |
"If the water in the lake gathers untl it rises above the earth, there is danger of a break-through."
"It is favorable to find friends in the West and South
To forego friends in the East and North"
"... the mare combines the strength and swiftness of the horse with the gentleness and devotion of the cow"
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| Some people hate my conkers |
[09 Nov 2009|12:39pm] |
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Now, if you don't already know about this, it's alright, I don't really like him that much but this is quite catchy:
But this is just fucking brilliant and I can't get the damn thing out of my head. It's been on repeat all morning. I just wish there was an actual video! (sorry, but this is the only way I know how to give you the song)
Now - while looking for the second one, I found this, and I can't decide where it sits on the awesome scale.
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| Yet Another Year In Pop: 45 |
[09 Nov 2009|12:31pm] |
JLS are straight in at the top. They seem like well-behaved young gentlemen, don't they?
Poll #1482869 Yet Another Year In Pop: 45
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20Which of this week's new entries are any good at all? It's only 6 chart weeks until Christmas! What sort of song do you think will nab the Xmas No.1?
*Looking at who's left in the competition, maybe this is the first year ever this isn't a dead cert?
Reminder: You have until tomorrow afternoon to vote in Heat #4 of 2003 - at the moment there's an exciting tie for 5th place between Dizzee and Will. Don't forget to pick your best new track as well!
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| 'How It Is' by Miroslaw Balka |
[08 Nov 2009|06:09pm] |
In an almost unprecedented break with tradition I find myself actually liking the latest Turbine Hall installation at Tate Modern. Since the sun was taken away I've generally only managed to work my way up to not violently hating what various artists have done with the place, Rachel Whiteread's 'I'm Really Not Trying Am I/One Trick Pony' will live in infamy, or there's Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's piece 'Stealing Bits From Other Artists Works That Are Popular With the Public' last year. But Balka's 'How It Is' is a simple idea well executed, namely a big empty box that is so dark that you can barely see your hand in front of your face once you step inside. Immediately you are forced to navigate by sound, the sound of other people's footsteps on the floor, their nervous giggles and sounds. I want to go back there with a broom so I can go underneath, hit the floor above me and make fifty visiting tourists soil themselves.
Technically speaking it's breaking the unwritten 'rules' for the Turbine Hall in that, like Whiteread, it's not really using the space available. While it is refreshing to see the Tate continue their tradition of installations that break health and safety laws and will probably lead to them being sued, as they were by dullards on the slides or who got stuck in Doris Salcedo's crack I was imagining beforehand that the entire hall would be enclosed and the lights turned off, but I suppose the Tate will only go so far in the name of art.
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| quick bomfiretreasonplop notes b4 i go out |
[08 Nov 2009|10:20am] |
T and her excellent if disorientating new hairdo cycled (!) over from west london for rooftop view of all of london's fireworks shows (except the northwest: sorry northwest, you are behind an building), while we drank wine and ate grubb -- bacon sossidge and fried rice -- and chatted to the twins who live in no.4: little displays all round the horizon, what we took to be blackheath the clear winner, until victoria park started up, 45 mins late, but OOOOO!
one of their starbursts had a thing where all the little points of light sort of shimmied sideways a bit after the explosion; and another one created red lovehearts
then a fiery dragon which flew low and burst with a huge bang over bywatercanada water obv
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| Buffy Season Two Episode Twenty |
[06 Nov 2009|01:40pm] |
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Ah, this is a refreshing change of pace, a thoroughly mediocre episode. There was a nice exchange, though:
"You you you. What about me? It's one thing to be dating the lame unpopular guy. It's another to be dating the creature from the blue lagoon."
"Black lagoon. The creature from the blue lagoon was Brooke Shields."
( Cordelia watch )
The rest of the episode involved so-what monster transformations, a boring villain with obvious motivation you could see miles away, and some correct but boringly done swipes at jock privilege and date rape, almost no emotional resonance. Felt like hack TV, really. But it did get me thinking even more about the Cordy role, which is the most problematic, and about the show's neglecting to give the school an underlying social fabric. Buffy The Vampire Slayer isn't about the school's social fabric, so the neglect isn't debilitating, but I wish Whedon and his colleagues had nonetheless given the fabric more thought, worked out a deep social background they could draw on. So under the cut we go for speculations and wishful thinking.
( Cordy and the missing social landscape )
( An Artist Of Style )
( The social canvas reimagined )
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| SAUSAGE |
[06 Nov 2009|11:17am] |
I was informed YESTERDAY by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) katstevens that this week is National Sausage Week. pink_weasel has covered this ground, but DEAR SAUSAGE PROMOTERS - get 1x ability to PROMOTE YR SAUSAGE! I could have been eating sausages ALL WEEK if only I had known.
For lunch I shall be hitting up "Banger Bros" (um?!) and I hope you will also all use your best endeavours to consume SAUSAGE. Salami etc all counts. Well, I say it counts and seeing as teh SAUSAGE PEOPLE have made no dissenting noise, my rules apply. W00.
Today I like:
♥ Caffe Nero free 10th coffee
♥ SWISS ROLL (M&S have to call it a 'sponge roll', lol, if you will)
♥ This Yudu screenprinting whatsit - would I like one of these? Have I ever screenprinted anything in my life?! Well perhaps not, but I am sure that I *would*...
♥ Pam is setting up a Handmade Holiday Christmas Craft Fair on Dec 5 - I plan to attend with a few pennies to spare!
♥ SAUSAGE.
Words for sausage: sausage, saucisson, banger, wurst, salchicha, ソーセージ, oh no!! The Dutch word for sausage is really actually worst... argh! And apparently, this is the Greek: λουκάνικο. Latin for sausage is probably 'eheu'. Who says my journal does not teach you all about cultures.
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| of kindly ghosts |
[06 Nov 2009|01:08am] |
though i've been back now and then, it's a lifetime since i spent full true friend-time with rob and his semi-random housemates in far shepherds bush -- i remember a nice party at his where i teased cath h abt the ugly guy who was dogging her -- and half a lifetime since i last escaped the crush of carnival in lovely gentle steph's weird-shaped ladbroke grove flat: rob's more than 20 years dead now, and cath got married and steph ended up i know not where -- she fled london for the crusty nomad trail and we lost touch -- so the nice thing about an evening spent at entirely practical friend-time things (helping piratemoggy move house) in that potentially haunted zone is that the lost and the vanished didn't feel needy any more, so much as amused and supportive
update: er obviously this wasn't the ONLY nice thing, bcz i was with piratemoggy and triffidfarmer and friedslice and hoshuteki, which is the definition of nice all round, but yes: ghosts being ghosts, it is nice when they agree with you about the living...
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| Meme: Resistance is Futile |
[05 Nov 2009|08:18pm] |
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From wildcat88
Leave me a comment saying Resistance is Futile.
I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity.
Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
( Questions and answers )
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| October Books |
[05 Nov 2009|04:44pm] |
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October
The Military Philosphers - Anthony Powell
A Comedian's Tale - Ian Cognito
Dimsie Moves Up - Dorita Fairlie Bruce
Dimsie Moves Up Again - Dorita Fairlie Bruce
Dimsie Among the Prefects - Dorita Fairlie Bruce
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People - Toby Young
Dimsie, Head Girl - Dorita Fairlie Bruce
Dimsie Intervenes - Dorita Fairlue Bruce
Cover Her Face - P.D. James
A Comedian's Tale (on his website, here) is a disjointed look back at his career, from the first gig to the latest, with notable successes and failures (mostly failures) along the way. Probably only interesting if you are already interested in the history of UK stand-up.
I am rather stalled on Dimsie now, as I have reached Grows Up, which is BORING. Although to be fair it did start with someone nicking a car at gun-point, but she's an adult now and there is no more trying on corsets in the lower music room (what? there's no rule, that I've ever heard, against trying on new corsets in the lower music-room)), rescuing poetry from a burning shed or suddenly finding that an escaped bear has leapt into your sports-car.
Toby Young is not exactly meant to be likeable in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, but I don't think he was intending to come across as boringly irritating as I found him. He kept banging on about how in the US women judged him on what he did, and in the UK women judged him on what he was like, and it seemed that not being judged on what he was like could only be a bonus.
Cover Her Face is the first PD James I've ever read. I enjoyed it - it took me a while to get into it, because no-one died for ages. But good.
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| Round-up |
[05 Nov 2009|12:34pm] |
* Rumours of the original Sugababes line-up getting back together have been quoshed, but would Keisha, Siobhan and Mutya benefit from the addition of Little Boots as 'the blonde one'? Er...
* You have until tomorrow (Friday) lunchtime to vote in Heat #3 of 2003 (and to pick your best new track to earn an extra tick in Heat #4). It's pretty close at the moment for 4th/5th place!
* New Roisin Murphy single is definitely on the WTF side of things musically (i.e. it sounds like Art Of Noise) and lyrically (err well yes um, best not sing it in front of your Mum, like). Also it features an even more ridiculous guitar solo than 'Russian Roulette'.
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