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music is so bloody beautiful, more than any other form of art; it connects souls, instantaneously. when someone sings to you, right, you understand everything about them; you're best friends for a minute. it throws into relief the inherent beauty in the world around you that you'd've overlooked. people put music in the most important parts of their lives - their weddings, funerals, intercourses. even suicides are set to music (it's not that music soundtracks these; it's us making the music video for them ). it's played in lifts and shopping centres because it makes the people there feel better. it is a current that runs under society. doesnt it say something about humans that 99% of our songs are about love (or lack thereof)? it's the only thing in the world other than a person that can wrap itself around you. A: "The street people agree" 1. [something noodly and raw] - genus: Tim Kinsella 2. Gig Intro - Hot Club 3. Bonded By Blo...

In other good news, heard some people calling the Yeah Yeah Yeahs a riot grrrl band. ******************************************************************** Side A: 'Prepare To Lose Your Dignity' (envoi, 'Act 1: Clarksonomics') 1. Call Me Mr Demolition Man - Hot Club de Paris [Radio 1 skit] 2. My Eyes Adored You - [eek. lowkey soul...Betty Everett?] 3. Movies Of Myself - Rufus W 4. I Love You Like A Madman - Wave Pictures 5. [cut to] Boss Hoss - Sonics 6. [cut to] Breaking Up - Ronettes 7 . [Why Don't You Leave Me Alone? - some pop-grrl...Raincoats backed by Ian Dury?] --> [20secs of some exemplar 60s popchorus] Act 2: Dachshund 8. Beeper - The Count & Sinden 9. - [some really smart 8bitsy electrons] 10. Un bel di vedremo - Puccini & Callas 11. Do Your Thing - Basement Jaxx 12. Hellebore - Safetyword 13. A Clean Break - Talking Heads [cut] Act 1 plays very nicely into what's become my comfort zone of late [souly/guitary/lyrically reflective],...

(Including now, if even you could before , "read this blog.") WHAT THE STATE SEZ YOU CAN'T DO Cross the The Great Firewall : Their infamous, systematic internet censorship, usually wrapped in moral rhetoric. So, no more living on Facebook, Twitter, myspace, youtube or blogspot...the Iron Curtain 2.0. source , source , source , them admitting it. It's a real sophisticated project, though, by no means just a process of strong-arming search engines, controlling the router infrastructure , and forcing through crap filter software . (Which is so effective that official Communist Party propaganda sometimes gets blocked .) Scopes text messages sent on China Mobile , too... "The joke was censored on China Mobile most likely because it mentions Hu Jintao, which they have probably entered as a keyword for blocking. That implies an assumption by China Mobile that any Chinese person who mentions their president on mobile SMS is likely to have bad things to say..." ...

A series of honorary every day i wake up, out of the darkness, into the light posts about some tapes what I got. If they had an order they don't now. No tracklists either, so what follows is more work than it looks. Audio to follow. I know fine the joy of seeping into my music collection with someone else's ear in mind; when I'm mixtaping is probably when I love music most. But, Item: none of youse tell his mam that this is (some of) what he was getting up to in that 'Revision' month, alright? A - 'Just Barely Enough To Believe In ' 1. [some plainsong] 2. [cuts to] [More plainsong] 3. [cut] Crumb by Crumb - Rufus Wainwright 4. [violent cut] You Got The Love - Source (Candi Staton) 5. [cut] Can't Seem To Make You Mine - Ramones --> 2s of "Teenage Kicks --> 6. [ The Fandango Boys mocking the Bee Gees?] 7. [some light-stepping grime, 10s] 8. [this is classic, but I can't name it] - Benga? --> 5s of techno-y rnb - Kanye? --...

© 2009 Loretta Lux Good metaphor: " Her face lost a layer of worry " Leads to (with increasing degrees of Worry, and decreasing degrees of Doubt): THE STRATA OF ANXIETY Astro: I may not exist. Exosphere: It is conceivable that all of my beliefs are falsely directed. Thermosphere: What if David Icke was right? Mesosphere : What if David Irving was right? Stratosphere : What if Mohammed was right? Tro po sphere : What if Nietzsche was right? Aerosphere : Neofascism. Nukes. Climate chaos. Late-capitalist consensus. Polarization of wealth, elites, faith. Thin air: I am fat and decaying. 1 bar: Eventually, I will give in to my ideological circumstances. (Want what the world wants me to want .) Crust: Eventually, I am going to die. Mantle: Eventually, I am going to be found out. Core: Eventually, I will vote Conservative. ********************************************************************* " they're treating us like animals; let's shit on their floor !" ...

Have you ever really thought about Nirvana? Well, no. Why would you have to? They're so overexposed they've become cultural white noise. It's far from easy for anyone born in the late C20th to delimn them, to separate them out from the whole. Some questions in philosophy get called "truth-inapt" (that is, without a determinate reply, because the answer to them is not really a 'proposition'). The question of whether you like Nirvana is like this. You certainly can like them - and, boy, we seem to - but what good does it do you? Notes from "Unplugged In New York" anyway: - Cobain is actually a country singer. No, really - sure he's a mutant one, but the indelible praise sticks. Where Country's purpose is to glorify and dramatize the ordinary (and actively absurd) facets of Midwest America's experience, Nirvana demonize and delve under it instead. Often into things which are, too , ordinary, but unspoken, unspeak...

Regarding the interpretation of art (All the following are people's responses to 'American Pie' on SongMeanings: folk criticism.) NOSTALGIC/POLITICAL 'We were still in 'Nam. We were confused and afraid and very divided about our troops being in 'Nam. Martin Luther King was killed. Lennon had developed an interest in communism. The Byrds were a popular band. We older Americans lived through this, but we were never the same. "Father, Son & The Holy Ghost" = John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy & Martin Luther King.' EXTERNALIST "Flat out you're wrong. It was written about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper. their plane was called Miss American Pie. A line made famous in Buddy's "That'll Be The Day", one of the best songs of his short career contains the same line - That'll be the day that I die." ESCHATOLOGIST "the writer is proubaly thinkin about the end of the wo...