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Submitted for your approval. A video of things I don’t understand. Offensive language and images abound.  Some people may even describe this a racist. I’m just trying to understand it.

The Lookin Ass Nigga Videos

Basicly, they are a series of still pictures presented in a slideslow along with a song where every line ends with “lookin ass nigga”.Sounds dumb doesn’t it? Yet I am strangely drawn to it.

My personal favorite, the Houston version.

The one I believe started this meme.

Some others…

Late Pass Review: Origin "Antithesis"

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Amazing technical metal by Orgin on this Relapse Records LP. Great production with nothing sounding muddy. The singing is growled so you can’t understand the lyrics but that’s typical of grindcore. But you can’t just call this grind, there are other elements that can’t quite be explained. Moments of dissonance abound but never feel intrusive.

Breakdowns are scarce but when they are present they are short and the music never let’s up. This stuff is definently too technical for non metal fans, but fans of dillinger escape plan, meshuggah, locust and converge should feel right at home with this one.

Tunage

Algorithim

The Beyond Within

Linkage

myspace

Buyage

shop

Man Man at Amoeba Music

Thank god almighty for the technology to allows Amoeba Music to be not only a records store but an online music video portal as well. This time we are watching a Man Man interview where they only have one mic, so they choose to relay all their answers through their tour manager.

Then we have 41 minutes of pure bliss with Man Man live at Amoeba Music SF.

The Bay would be such a cool area to live in, just for Amoeba Music.

Jay-Z covers “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”

After Saul Williams did this song,  Jay-Z does a version where he actually raps to the track which is infinitely cooler when properly executed in the Jay-Z fashion. I’m not really into mainstream hip-hop but Jay-Z is someone I’ll make and exception for.

Free Mogwai mp3 "The Sun Smells Too Loud"

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The new Mogwai single “The Sun Smells Too Loud” almost sounds like an indie pop song and is very structured compared to the post-rock drone of days past. There very basic single oscilator synths and the guitar isn’t the most prominent instrument but still manages to seem like some kind of a Pixies outtake…

“The Sun Smells Too Loud”

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links for 2008-07-07

• Hypebot’s problem with emusic
  It’s hard out here for a record label.
  (tags: musicindustry)

Fugazi First Demo

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This is not an official release and it’s apparently transfered from a tape but I don’t know for certain any details because it’s not for sale anywhere but I don’t know the entire status of it or else I would make the whole thing available.

Merchandise

This track is kinda different and I can tell if the tape is screwed up or if the four track EQ is being messed with.

Waiting Room

This one is a pretty much the same with the only difference being in the vocals and a few guitar licks.

Do try and buy things from Discord Records. They seem like the nicest guys around. But if you are going to DC don’t make plans to go to the Discord House, they have their own office now and the house is an actual residence and Ian is rarely ever there. How do I know this? From their FAQS! There are enough people out there that have wanted to go to the Discord house that they have to write something about it on their web site.

In the News 7/6/08

So I don’t really read the news very often. I have an RSS reader that has a million unread items. By the time I die it will have enough unread material to fill an entire server farm, not to mention all my unread email. Today I was looking at a news page on this online bookmarking tool called “symbaloo” and immediately three stories caught my eye.

An entire set of reels for the movie Metropolis was found intact and cut the way Fritz Lang had intended.

These guys are too wild for the Barbershop Harmony Society and are causing a rift in the Barbershop Scene between traditional barber shop purists and new school barbershop harmonizers. The new school harmonizers adapt more modern tunes instead of the old relics that everyone else does.

I have to say, I love windows live writer. It’s almost the best piece of free software available except for Firefox. I can take any picture and warp and re size it any way I wish.

You are probably wondering why I have posted a photo of a clown. Well it’s because Larry Harmon, the man who capitalized the most off of clowns by licensing the name “Bozo the Clown”, kicked the bucket. This news is relevant to me because Symbaloo was displaying featured Yahoo content. Somehow, Bozo the clown made it through all the B.S. and grabbed my attention with that hideous photo.

links for 2008-07-05

• Worst.Movie.Games.Ever.
  (tags: videogames)
• Hellboy On Inside The Actor’s Studio
  (tags: hellboy film deltoro)

Independence Day USA

It’s July 4th and while I used to feel like making political statements on holidays thinking they would resonate more, I strangely don’t feel as compelled to do it these days. Instead I feel more like sharing some happenings that may be old to some and new to others. In the world of blogging I see the same “amazing content” recirculating yearly and the same “big deals” being hyped over and over again so I don’t really claim to be a news site.

What is freedom? Is France freedom? Is nearly free health care and mandatory vacations worth giving up your hard earned clams for? France really cant be that bad of a place if this guy is allowed to make art from there.

Strangely enough, I stumbled upon this random little fact today.

Without Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, Americans wouldn’t have the Declaration of Independence. Rather strangely, both men died on the same day, exactly fifty years after the signing of the Declaration – July 4, 1826.

What a Co-Winky-Dink. Perhaps they defied the illumason and bones, but somehow I don’t think so.

And Finally….

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

links for 2008-07-04

• Please Give Ian Curtis’ Grave Stone Back
  The memorial stone dedicated to former Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis has been stolen from a Cheshire cemetery.
  (tags: joydivision music)
• Men Who Look Like Zach Braff
  the floppy hair, the close together eyes, the flirty smirk, the bottom-heavy forehead to jowls ratio, the potato shaped head. it’s braff face and it’s
  something a lot of white american men–and even some not-so-white, not-exactly american men–seem to ha
  (tags: film celeb funny)
• It’s ok google, we still love you
  Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom
  (tags: tech eff copyright)
• An unnecessary wealth of information about Carlton Banks
  Alfonso Ribeiro from Fresh Prince .
  (tags: tv)

links for 2008-07-03

• WFMU presents Selected Sounds from the Free Music Archive vol. 1.
  This compilation previews 21 of the thousands of tracks that’ll be freely available under Creative Commons licenses when the fully interactive Free Music Archive website launches this November. We’re working with a group of fellow curators to fill the
  (tags: music freemusic)
• List of problems solved by MacGyver
  Ain’t nothing macguyver can’t fix.
  (tags: wiki television)