Movies I Recently Watched:
Total Recall (8.5/10)
The 6th Day (7/10)
Tell No One (9.9/10)
2019 After the Fall of New York (7/10)
Cassandra’s Dream (6/10)
Night of the Comet (7.5/10)
12 Angry Men (8.5/10)
Mulholland Falls (5/10)
3:10 to Yuma (6/10)
Across the Universe (4/10)
Ultramagnetic MC’s
Music I’m Listening to:
Depeche Mode – Strangelove
Ultramagnetic MC’s – Critical Breakdown
Kool Moe Dee – Knowledge is King
Noir Desir – Des Visages, Des Figures
Foals – Antidotes
Dexter
Recent TV Activity:
Dexter
Futurama
Family Guy
Twin Peaks
The Cure – Greatest Hits (acoustic)
Rolling Stones – Bridges To Babylon
Oftentimes I get frustrated with hearing cookie-cutter bands on the radio, tv and even among friends – but I just want something different. like the same formula in chinese. oh wait. what’s that you say? there are other bands in other countries! check the link at the bottom for an article about the Beijing rock scene.
A list of Beijing Rock Bands:
New Pants
Milk and Coffee
Too Koo
Carsick Cars
Torturing Nurse
Here’s a link to an article about the Beijing Rock Scene: LINK
“Not only can prostitutes and escort services now run more efficient businesses, but they can leverage word-of-mouth advertising in new ways to build their brands and troll for clients.” LINK
Prostitution: A User’s Manual
This article goes through all those nagging prostitution questions like “what is prostitution?”; “do prostitutions have a comparative and/or absolute advantage is blowjobs?”; “why do prostitutes rake in so much dough?”; “how can I become a prostitute?”; and “where can I find prostitutes?”
Open wide, space and time distort the mind.
Constantly, we dare to cheat,
It feels so right to be so wrong
Normal love set aside, leave your
Heart at the bedside.
Contaminate the air like you do,
Swear I’m telling you the truth.
Jaded Masquerade. No Names.
Contradicting fates.
It’s all the same.
I’m telling you the truth,
I’m telling you the truth I swear.
I’m telling you the truth I swear.
I just want your attention baby,
Every sweat-soaked night, every
Taunting fight!!!
Lock the doors, turn off the lights,
Remove all your clothes!
Remove all your clothes!
“Don’t wait for inspiration – taking action puts you in a position to get inspired. You’ll stumble across ideas you would have never come up with otherwise, and maybe only because you were trying to meet a day’s quota of (song)writing. Show up and get something done, and invest in yourself and each other.
Anyone can come up with an excuse to say “no,” so don’t. Many of you are thinking “But, I can’t do that! I don’t have any songs/recording gear/money/blah blah blah…” But this doesn’t have to be the album, it’s just an album. Remember, this is an artistic exercise. Just do your best using what you have in order to get it done. If you have a four-track, become a four-track badass! A mini disc, a pro-tools rig, a Walkman, an 80’s tape recorder – use it. Do your best. Use the limitations of time and gear as an opportunity to explore things you might not try otherwise. If you can afford studio time in a “real” studio, fine, but let’s be completely free of any lingering idea that “good” records can only be made in a studio. If that were so, then all the old scratchy blues records or Alan Lomax field recordings that have changed our culture – the world’s culture – wouldn’t still resonate with us today as they do. Springsteen’s haunting classic “Nebraska” was a demo he did at home on a crappy machine. That album is fricking awesome. What label would put those recordings out now? (See: who cares) There are a million examples of this kind of stuff, but the fact will always be: Well written, honest music is compelling and undeniable no matter what it was recorded on. So put it to tape”
Honestly, I bet there are some gems here. But why be challenged to write music. why not just do? I guess you can be forced into stopping revising music/editing (fuckin Billy Corgan over here is wasting his time, goddam. you really hear a difference between a flanger through a phaser and a phaser through a flanger? get a real job, baldy) So check it out so you can listen to music that isn’t on loop. [as an aside, Vivaldi is a bitch. Spring, winter, summer, fall sounds all the same. get inspired Vivaldi]
Shibani is a 15 year-old girl in India. Her father only brings in 21 US dollars a month. She lives with her brother Joydeb, 14 and sister Bani, 7. Her favorite pastime is jumping rope and she is great at drawing. All 5 family members live in one multi-use room with walls and floors made of mud, and a roof made of corrugated metal. The home is heated with a coal stove. The sleep on the floor with a mat. Although water is not miles away, it is shared with the whole community Electricity is available, but not affordable. Their sanitary facility is an open field.
Please, I’m looking for donations to send to her each month. With being at college and my income level being lower, I need your help. Each month I send 22 dollars to Children International to help Shibani go to school, have clothes and get adequate medical care. She needs your help. I hate to sound like a broken record, but you really can help. Even one dollar will help me get her closer to the comfort we all enjoy.
I love Devo. and NIN. Trent Reznor. His politics are great – on the opening of music. Me, being a Libertarian, loves the idea. LINK Also, you all know about Fight Club, the musical right? well get this, Trent Reznor Might do the Music. LINK.
This is my favorite classical piece: Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major. Enjoy it.
The decline of Maurice Ravel was one of the most tragic in the annals of music history. Beethoven’s famous deafness, though debilitating, did not prevent him from composing music in his head. Bach’s increasing blindness still allowed new works to be dictated to family. But Ravel’s brain disease left him lucid yet helpless, unable to write, speak, or play an instrument, full of ideas yet with no way to communicate them.
In 1929, still healthy and having finally achieved popularity via the ballet Boléro and financial success through an American concert tour, Ravel set to creating a long-postponed piano concerto for himself. The work would be a showcase for both his remarkable virtuosity and his compositional talents. Some of the material came from abandoned works of a decade before, while other parts were strongly influenced by the jazz craze that was then sweeping the world.
To prepare himself for the anticipated premiere, Ravel also spent long hours at the piano, playing études by both Chopin and Liszt. He was happily writing and practicing when he was forced to stop to attend a festival in his honor. Writing to friends about this, he said, “In the midst of my pregnancy with the concerto (I am at the stage of throwing up) I am suddenly called to Biarritz. You must have seen the billboards designed by Fugita [a famous Japanese painter] announcing “Le grand festival de Maurice Ravel.” Two hundred francs for a ticket! It’s lucky that I can get in “on the house.” This interruption was a brief one, but another would distract him longer. The Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in the First World War, asked Ravel to write a concerto for the left hand only. Ravel agreed, and the work he produced is undoubtedly the best-known of all the left-hand works commissioned by Wittgenstein.
Despite little sleep and many marathon composing sessions, the distraction of the commission delayed the completion of his own vehicle until late 1931. By then, however, the illness that would eventually kill him had affected him sufficiently that he could not manage the challenges of the keyboard, so he was forced to settle for conducting the premiere, which was played by Marguerite Long.
Ravel’s brain tumor (if it was that) may have been exacerbated by a car accident in 1932, in which he struck his head severely. In any case, the sickness progressed so rapidly that he completed only one more work, a song cycle on the subject of Don Quixote, before being forced into retirement. He suffered from both aphasia (a speech disorder) and a motor impairment that caused absurdities such as placing a match in his mouth and trying to light it with a cigarette. As if this were not torture enough, his mental acuity was unaffected, so that he was fully aware of his ludicrous actions even though he was unable to control them.
The composer survived six years after the first performance of his masterful concerto, never responding to treatment. Finally, in desperation, his doctors attempted surgery. The operation was unsuccessful, and Ravel lasted only eight more days in a coma before succumbing to the affliction that robbed the world of one of the most fertile and entertaining composers ever given us.
Silver Apples were a psychedelic electronic music duo from New York City composed of Simeon Coxe III, who performed as Simeon, on a primitive synthesizer of his own devising, and drummer Danny Taylor. The group was active between 1967 and 1969, before reforming in the mid 1990s. They were one of the first groups to employ electronic music techniques extensively within a rock idiom, and their minimalistic style, with its pulsing, driving beat and frequently discordant modality, anticipated not only the experimental electronic music and krautrock of the 1970s, but underground dance music and indie rock of the 1990s as well.
Oftentimes I get frustrated with hearing cookie-cutter bands on the radio, tv and even among friends – but I just want something different. like the same formula in chinese. oh wait. what’s that you say? there are other bands in other countries! check the link at the bottom for an article about the Beijing rock scene.
The Unheard 
