Avalanche-rock

I've grown over the past weeks / months / years to thoroughly enjoy the music of The Avalanches
eg.

and i've enjoyed the music of Cornelius for quite some time.
it's almost inaccessible to some but i find it amazing
eg.







A Bit About Each Artist

The Avalanches:

are a melbourne-based Australian band.

they create ALL of their music by sampling

no live instruments.

except in live shows, where it would be boring otherwise.

they sampled their way to making an entire album, which i think is incredible, and when you consider the amount of 
    hard work, 
    precision, 
    beat matching, 
and all that went into creating songs like "Since I Left You" - where none of the individual tracks come from the same song.. 

wow.

Cornelius:

is a japanese dude, who creates all of his own music.

he is just going on 40 this year, 
so he's not the youngest cat out, but he has been kicking around for a very long time.
He's been in a few bands i've never heard of, from the Shibuya-kei scene back in the day. It may be worth checking them out. details at 10

He's released more albums than i realised, i just have "Sensuous"(2006) which is incredible.

he uses real instruments, samples. drums, a live band for shows, and anything he wants, cause he can.

in this video, what we have is Cornelius remixing The Avalanches.
thus combining the twin disciplines of litstening to Cornelius and The Avalanches.

that's my kind of synergy, no?

Break Out

A stream of completely unrelated images

 

Holy shit

Picture-in-Picture

  

Prof. John Frink

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"i'll have these babies on the market, and he'll still be dabbling with the pickle matrix"

the world famous Ke$ha vs. Uffie debate

(at no point in my life do i condone or support this song, this artist or anything she does.

this video is here merely as a comparison.)

now the internet has been talking a LOT about Ke$ha and Uffie lately,
i think it's time we settled this once and for all.

Ke$ha:

USA Hip-hop backed (produced by that guy who helped, sadly Katy Perry, Flo Rida, Britney, Avril, Kelly Clarkson, Sugababes, and all the worst people in the world).
Her career took off with her one-hit in 2009 "Tik Tok", and swarms of teeny bopping girls are eagerly awaiting her album "Animal" to be released early 2010.
Ke$ha is one reason that i HOPE the concept of the album dies out soon, because i don't know if i could stand hearing 4 more Tik Tok clones.
Also, she's a hussy, and uses a dollar sign instead of an "s"in her name.
what the fuck.

Uffie:

backed by France, and french electro. Her beats are made with the assistance of the lovely FEADZ, Busy P signed her to Ed Banger in 2005 or 2006, and she's worked with a who's who of French electro - the best kind of electro. (Justice, Busy P, Mehdi, basically all of  Ed Rec)
Her album will ALSO be released in early 2010, it is to be called "Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans"
it's an album that could go either way, but her music is, over the large number of songs she has released, actually quite varied.
also, i'd marry her. if she wanted to.

compare Ke$ha's song, released in 2009, with this song, released in 2006

or this one, released in 2007

"oh come on, it's not THAT similar, maybe it's just the same style evolving at the same time" you may say. but the best comparison yet comes from this one.

compare all facets of this song with Kesha's Tik Tok, keeping in mind that this was released in early 2007.

congratulations, Ke$hat. you're doing something that was done two years ago,
and peddling this filth as something new and innovative.


i think we should probably just put them in a room together
and watch Uffie freestyle all over Ke$ha's face

walking around in our summertime clothes

lets get out of here

it's become too hard to stay

steal a car, get away

"Garth! That was a haiku."

No alarms and no surprises, please

Dear Santa,

a tall ship

and a star to steer her by
and the wheel's kick
and the wind's song
and the white sail's shaking.
and the grey mist on the sea's face
and a grey dawn breaking.

but if it's not tall, and there's no peace, and no quiet,
i'd settle for a 49er

i think i could deal with that
(some extracts from John Masefield's "Sea Fever", a life changing poem)

i'm super serial

so i'm back, getting into the swing of things again.
thus forth, let us continue our foray into the bowels of the interthing.
could this be manbearpig?

more photocredits to people who aren't me.

of course.

David Lynch's Interview Project

On InterviewProject.com David Lynch has posted all of these interviews his crew have done, with all sorts of people all around the United States.

unfortunately, there is no embed code or anything like that because i'd post my favourite few.

but some of these people are really interesting, if more than a little crazy.

check it out if you like Twin Peaks and stuff like that.

moonrise

this was one of the coolest things i had ever seen

moonrise at Byron Bay, please forgive the blurred/ grainy nature of these.

i was using drunken hands and a camera not equipped to take these kinds of photos properly

(without tripod etc)

i wondered briefly what may be Beyond The Moon

then i realised that's what i'm here to find out.

i swear my doona loses a corner as soon as i turn off the lights

home from my week of decadence.

some great times were had by all.

then Hunter S Thompson came to visit...

"damn mescalin, why'd they make it so pure?!"