is anybody out there

heh. lets see if this works.

http://8tracks.com/beigebeigebeige/songs-i-keep-playing-in-my-head

give'r a listen:

Here's what I have to say about it:

1. CN Tower Can Work it Out - Owen Pallett/Q-Tip Mash Up [via www.amfmpm.org]
I'm a feind for mash-ups and dance mixes. These songs go together in a freaky unexpected kind of way. As someone who loves rap and alt stuff, its like ear sex hearing them together.

2. Idioteque - Radiohead
I am going to admit it. I dont like radiohead. I really dont. But this song is beautiful. sounds like a racing heartbeat and then theres that bastard Thom Yorke who I'm trying so hard to hate coming in with his voice saying "this is really happening...". He captures that moment when your world falls completely and totally apart.

3. Human Nature - Toro Y Moi [via Micheal Jackson]

Lo-Fi version of my favorite Micheal Jackson song proves that this man will always be relevant while at the same time proving that the new string of Lo-Fi or electro / chill-wave bands coming out might have just as much impact. An interesting statement, if nothing else.

4. Two [buffetlibre remix] - The Antlers [via www.killahbeez.com]

This song means a lot to me. It is beautifully written, and the original version is excellent too. This version is a bit more accessible. First of all, you can actually understand what the lead singer is saying. Second; you could possibly play this song at a party if everyone was drunk enough to dance without listening. I think its kind of interesting that Buffetlibre combine a song about being so sick from anorexia that you gave up fighting with a dance beat. Sort of further reflects the theme of the two voices, the one that hurts and the one that comforts, that go with an eating disorder.

5. Excuses - The Morning Benders

This song is just so lovely. Apparently Thom Yorke is in this too. I like the strings and percussion, they remind me of my junior high band experience. I decided to ditch the violin [which i had played for 4 years] for a flute and i could never keep a tune or a beat untill the strings and drums kicked in - then everything felt natural.

6. Exit Music [for a film] - Vampire Weekend [via Radiohead]

This song is epically nostalgic. I seriously think Vampire Weekend kicked Radiohead's ass on this song, Ezra Koenig just might be my God.

7. Winter is All Over You - First Aid Kit

These lovely sisters from Sweden (?) harmonize like they were specifically designed for it. That alone is enough reason to listen to this song. Their storytelling is flawless too... oh lord I'm swooning.

8. Good Friend - Plants and Animals

Smoke a joint and listen to the whole Parc Avenue album RIGHT NOW.

Sounds like an august romp in a field somewhere warm right before sunset.

9. Rich Bitch - Die Antwoord

Oh fuck man. This south african 'zef' rap group is all over the internet and with reason. I would not mess around with Ninja or Yo-Landi Ve$$er. Their image is rough, their songs are as fun as they are angry, and the fact that I don't understand the language of half their lyrics just means I get to fill in the blanks with my imagination.

10. Dirt Off Your Android - Jaydiohead [via Max Tannone @ www.Jaydiohead.com]

I'm going to keep giving ups to this guy until every single person on the internet has heard the Jaydiohead mashups in their entirety.

11. Summertime Clothes - Animal Collective

It might be a bit redundant at this point, but I'm absolutely in love with Merriweather Post Pavilion. Animal Collective has completely shook up the music scene and now hundreds of imitations are emerging. This album is lovely because it has a bit more structure than the previous ones, making it possible to listen to when your iPod's on shuffle - the imagery in this song is beautiful.

12. 2080 - Yeasayer

Yeasayer is epic. This album has been on repeat in my itunes for at least 3 months, though I'm trying to fall in love with the new LP Odd Blood. This song stretches the structure of a 'typical rock/folk/indie song' just enough to allow for free expression of emotion without going too far (which sometimes happens on the undeniably weird Odd Blood).

13. Pon de Floor - Major Lazer [via Diplo]

Guilty Pleasure: anything made by Diplo.

To be honest, the following songs are not SO great, but thought the bands deserved some Ups.

14. Young Bride - Midlake - sound's been done before, but I can see them being incredibly popular.

15. Automatic - Yuck [via www.yuckband.blogspot.com] - Can't really see this band exploding in the mainstream, but I think their music is definitely jammable and their creepy drawings kind of fun too look at.

what do you think?

"jaydiohead"

this guy's radiohead/jay z mash up is EPIC.

follow him on twitter (http://twitter.com/maxtannone) and give him your respect.
or go to (www.jaydiohead.com) to hear more about him.

i really like the way these two very different types of music kind of fit together.

28 Days Later: Kind of Like Leviathan

in this delightful (though poorly written) essay I compare my favorite Zombie movie, 28 Days Later, with the groundbreaking work of Political Philosopher Thomas Hobbes. It may be silly (and nerdy) but this perspective helped me understand Leviathan a bit better and watch the movie in its entirety without covering my eyes or peeing my pants

28 Days Later: Kind of Like Leviathan
Some Hobbes-esque Movie Quotes:
Jim: What do you mean there's no government? There's always a government, they're in a bunker or a plane somewhere!
Major Henry West: This is what I've seen in the four weeks since infection. People killing people. Which is much what I saw in the four weeks before infection, and the four weeks before that, and before that, and as far back as I care to remember. People killing people. Which to my mind, puts us in a state of normality right now.

In a Zombie Apocalypse, man is literally in constant fear of death from his fellow man. The government, which has no power over mindless raging Zombies, is rendered irrelevant and thus non-existent.
In this chaotic state, the best one can hope for is a small group of like minded individuals who agree to work together for self -preservation. When approaching another, larger group (be they Zombie or Humans) the individual must be hesitant or aggressive, as it is more than likely this group will either mindlessly kill or harm, for the sake of their own preservation, the original individual or small group. While these individuals may believe in the powers of love and God, these beliefs cannot stand ground against the inevitable dangers of a lawless society, where it may be contextually ‘morally right’ to hack your Grandma’s head off with a machete for your own preservation. This is shown in the movie 28 Days Later, where Jim, the non-infected protagonist, enters a church and is attacked by an infected priest and slew of infected church goers beneath a crudely sprawled graffiti message proclaiming “REPENT, THE END IS EXTREMELY FUCKING NIGH”.
Most notable is the fact that this virus was set free by radical activists who disregarded laws imposed by the sovereign in an attempt to pursue liberties they perceived to be entitled to. If these individuals had not dissented, the virus, a metaphor for state of war, would not have been unleashed on the society. While compliance necessitates the denial of certain liberties, such as fair rights for animals, this is still better than the state of chaos which would otherwise ensue.
28 Days Later, like Part I of Hobbes’ Leviathan, depicts the state of war, where life is nasty, brutish and short, with the purpose of scaring the viewer. Towards the end of the movie, Major Henry West, a military official , describes how the state of Zombie apocalypse is not so different from what he has seen in war zones. This is visually depicted when a blood-soaked Cillian Murphy, playing protagonist Jim, murders a full platoon of military men with his bare hands, and is indistinguishable from the rage-virus infected-s from whom the crew of survivors are trying desperately to escape.
In short, you should watch this movie. It may keep you sleepless for weeks afterwards, but it leaves you with a wholesome appreciation for the peace and security you have been granted by your otherwise frustrating respective governmental system. We may have to put up with taxes and blatant hypocrisy, but its better than running from bloodthirsty zombies, right?

(the original had pictures, i can't figure out how to get them in here. Sorry.)

First Aid Kit

there's lots of tacky puns i could make to introduce my new favorite band, but I'm going to skip over it and get down to brass tacks. I hated this band when i first heard them in early september. But their song 'hard beleiver' stayed in my head the whole 5 or 6 months that have passed since then. I kept thinking 'what the fuck were those girls called??'. One of the girls looks like Bats for Lashes and so i ended up downloading a bunch of her stuff (also good) in search of these lovely swedish sisters. well its 1:30 am and I felt it was necessary to share with the world that i have found them!!! here's a take-away show with the astounding First Aid Kit ... they will blow your mind with pure molten folk-music power.

First Aid Kit - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

please go buy their new CD "The Big Black and The Blue"

Its Been Stressfull

New Problems always seem to be popping up, everything starts making sence again when i listen to these songs;

1. Daylight - Matt & Kim
2. A/B Machines - Sleigh Bells
3. Ghost Under Rocks (Passion Pit Remix)- Ra Ra Riot & Passion Pit
4. Verbatim - Mother Mother
5. Boy Lilikoi - Jonsi
6. This is The Dream of Win & Regine - Final Fantasy
7. Ambling Alp - Yeasayer
8. Cudder is Back - KiD CuDi ft. Vampire Weekend
9. Ulysses - Franz Ferdinand

and then everything comes up roses.

http://8tracks.com/beigebeigebeige/blog-2-songs-to-make-you-not-sad

best video blog ever.
go give this girl your five stars.

Stoned in Suburbia

On of the better documentaries I've seen.
A fight for the 'stoners arent crazy their just people' camp.



im not advocating you start smoking pot. But theres no reason for everyone to fear stoners. In canada something like 44% of people over the age of 15 have or do smoke marijuana regularly. They are here all over the place, working in parliament, going to university classes, checking your blood pressure. Lets end the stigma against marijuana users, as best encaptured in 1936's "Reefer Madness!"



what do you think?

I Dont Know how to feel about this...

"Black" Ranger


"Yellow" Ranger


Oh the 90's. Isnt this Racializing their super powers? I mean and then theres the fact that the only other girl ranger (Kimberly) is "Pink Ranger"



I think this is a prime example of how race and gender become visible only when you defy your expected roles. I mean Trini is just a person. It seems kind of redundant to name her after her race. I mean her super power isnt 'being asian'. its karate and wearing a robot suit and fighting hilarious characters. I just find it interesting that the most visible factor of these three characters is their race and gender, not, say, their eye colour, hair colour, special powers etc. I mean, shouldnt Kimberly be the white ranger? or the brown ranger?

But this was the 90's. I just found it a bit hilarious.
Another non-related example is the use of the term "White Slut" to describe a white woman in an interracial relationship. Because she has defied the boundaries of whiteness (pumping out a new generation of whiteies by breading with other whiteies, much in the style of purebred dogs) her sexuality and race become visible. Cant remember the name of the reading i found the idea of "stigma transferrence" but the term was defined by Adina Nack in 2000 in an article called "Damaged Goods" about STD stigma. You can google that. I wouldnt recomend googling "White Slut" though. Feminists are not the only ones who 'examine' that term.

porn!

yuck!

what do you think, oh invisible reader?

Why Everyone Fails Their New Years Resolution : An Existential Rant/Memento Mori

People are pathetic. We are astronomically tiny in comparison to the universe. Our actions... even our lives... are pretty much pointless. But your reading this saying "how sad! how deluded! I am big and powerful and i make a difference, i accomplish things, im 'going somewhere in life' and im in control of where that somewhere is!"

news. you are wrong.



You are not in control of your life because you are only one small part of millions of tiny tiny parts of one big life; the planet, the universe, the galaxy. The big life just swings and sways and does its buisness okay. And the same way your appendix cant ever hope to be a lung, nor can it hope to help the big 'you' pass an exam... you cant control where you'll be in life, nor can you hope to be anything other than what you are. An appendix is best advised to just admit its kind of pointless and chill there at the end of your digestive tract.



Dr. Oz, for example, lists "aging" as a health ailment, along with addiction. He compares overweight people to animals who "will die prematurely"
What does it mean to "die prematurely". Like everyone gets to live to 95 and if they dont its because they did something wrong? Fact: You are going to die. You can't predict or control when you are going to die. If you are LUCKY you will get to be old. You got some grey hair? I am happy for you. Because that means you've been alive about 40 years which is a good 20-30 years on some people I've known. That doesnt make you better than them. It doesnt mean you've done anything wrong or right. it just means you were luckier than them. And that could all change in an instant.



So the next bit. Society, we feel like its not enough to chill and be happy. we have to be the best at something. We have to be clean and organized and 'healthy' and we compete to make our lives valuable. If you dont feel like your 'in control' then your life becomes invalid. So we pick an arbitrary day in an arbritary measure of an abstract concept we've created ("new years", "the 365 day year", "time") and on that day we vow to change who we are, though we know its impossible. We get so shitfaced we can't keep down out lunch so that we dont have to face our inability 'to change'. And we make these meaningless promises "i will stop smoking, loose 20 lbs, recycle, and BECOME A WORLD FAMOUS AUTHOR!!!" that 90% of us have forgotten a month later.

so what is the point of newyears then? If we cannot change who we are and time is irrelevant, what does 'newyears' accomplish? It seems like a day where we all a bit worse about ourselves, some of us get alcohol poisoning, and we do sexy acts with strangers.
does new years mean something to u?