FINALLY a Jay-Z leak that doesn't sound like complete ass!
Let's see here.
Three Blueprint 3 songs leaked, each Timbaland-produced tracks, and they suck.
One Kanye-produced track leaks and it's wicked.
Verdict: Stop working with Tim, Jigga.
Sunday
Tuesday
Sunday
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
I just watched this movie and it aaalmost single-handedly kicks the collective french new wave cinema in its sexy, cigarette-smoking balls.
Deals pretty heavily with transsexuality, which is hard to contest with a couple of attractive and charming French people acting quirky while Jean-Luc Godard twirls behind the camera.
The playfulness and utilization of all dimensions in this are on the level of The Holy Mountain, and just such fucked-upedness by the end, tragedy and comedy entwined, that it feels like a 60s Oldboy.
Free Energy - Free Energy
This sounds like Summer's dying breath.
It had a good run, time for a new season. I'm sick of seeing shorts. Fuck off, shorts. You too, sandals.
Saturday
Grey Suit
This guy must've looked in the mirror before going out that morning and just been like "damn, you look good," and kissed the mirror.
Grey tie.
Amazing.
Friday
Mr. Newt by Nakayama Masaaki
Read a bunch of these comics last night and this one specifically gave me some nightmares.
Read right to left.
The Nightgowns - Narwhale Aerobics
"I (Trevor) 4-tracked a demo of the song about a year ago, shortly after which Cody convinced me to record it for our new record Sing Something. It’s loosely based on the Inuit legend of the narwhal whale and a woman who was dragged into the ocean by a harpoon rope that was tied around her waist, and became the tusk of the whale. But it is also about the violent nature of love."
-Nightgowns' frontman Trevor Dickson
Awesome!
Their songs have some of the best use of synth I've heard in ages.
Thursday
Jay-Z - Run This Town (ft. Rihanna & Kanye)
Rihanna's part is still a bit annoying to me, but this video has definitely helped make me like the song.
"What you think I rap for, to push a fuckin' RAV4?"
Wednesday
Robogeisha (2009)
Sometimes geisha are not demure. Sometimes they are robots.
From the makers of such groundbreaking oddities as Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police...
La Maison en Petit Cubes (2008)
A b-e-a-utiful French short film by an up-and-coming Japanese director.
It's a snack for the senses and deservedly won an Oscar.
Here it is:
Kazuo Umezu's amazing homes
Kazuo Umezu is an adorable Japanese horror manga writer/artist/pioneer.
He draws scary things like this:
And lives in a few not-so-scary homes:
I think I'm in love.
p.s. check out his books (on AMAZON or sumfin'. They're wonderful).
Monday
Do you know the number to heaven?
Poor kid.
Another wonderful Jason Eisener video.Part of a contest that required a boy, a monster, and the word "fantastic" at the end:
Sunday
Saturday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Boo-urns remix...
I'm getting over, possibly, the swine flu?
So I'm bedridden watching too much Simpsons and listening to too much stupid music, so obviously the two had to be combined.
So here's the most productive thing I've done in days:
Monday
Saturday
Ryan Hemsworth & J.ViLL - Biggie, Rihanna and I (Waiting On)
This is big news for me.
The first remix ever of one of my songs by an amazing NY rapper.
I'm not going to say much except:
1. It's wicked and I can't stop listening.
2. You should do the same, and share it with anyone and everyone!
3. YESSSSSS!
(right-click + "download linked file" or "save link as" to save MP3)
RiP: A Remix Manifesto
I went to a screening of this movie a while ago with a little conference of completely different but related people talking on the subject of copyright and music, discussing the undefinable rights and wrongs, and it went hand-in-hand with this movie perfectly.
If you want to learn a lot about copyright, the history of music, or just want to watch a really good documentary on Girl Talk's music, here it is in its entirety.
Friday
The Lovely Bones (trailer)
So many visuals in this that I didn't make from the book, some really.. fantastical ones. But still exciting.
4450
Wednesday
Radiohead - Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
“Recently the last remaining UK veteran of the 1st world war Harry Patch died at the age of 111.
I had heard a very emotional interview with him a few years ago on the Today program on Radio4.
The way he talked about war had a profound effect on me.
It became the inspiration for a song that we happened to record a few weeks before his death.
It was done live in an abbey. The strings were arranged by Jonny.
I very much hope the song does justice to his memory as the last survivor.
It would be very easy for our generation to forget the true horror of war, without the likes of Harry to remind us.
I hope we do not forget.”
The song can be heard HERE, and downloaded HERE for 1 pound (going to charity).
Tuesday
Love Exposure (trailer)
This 4-hour epic is getting rave reviews. It was only just released in Japan and there's no US distribution attached yet... I need to get my hands on it somehow.
Directed by the ridiculous, amazing Sion Sono (of Suicide Club and Strange Circus [one of the sickest movies I've seen] fame)
Monday
Mary Mary - God In Me
Of all the auto-tune songs, I never thought I'd hear one about God.
I mean, the way it's been there's only been two subjects that the effect is used for: drinking and heartbreak.
This is inventive, right?
Correct Answer: No.
They single-handedly made me not want to hear auto-tune again.
God hates you, Mary Mary. And so do I.
Saturday
Sebastien Tellier
What a performer. He said it took him a year to make his CD because he was just trying to find the "sexual notes" on his piano.
Look out for the best back-up singers ever there, and his use of helium in the second verse.
And this is a more personal, tighter version of the same song:
The Very Best - Chalo
Love these guys' music. Beautiful singing.
He's performing outside of his second-hand furniture store he owns in, I think, Britain.
I wish the music industry was successful so this guy didn't have to juggle jobs just to get by as a genius artist.
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