Most of these songs shaped what was to become 60s folk and rock (Dylan and the Rolling Stones always pay tribute to Robert Johnson, Charley Patton or Ma Rainey when asked for their sources of inspiration)... and even influenced a certain Mr Kobain ("Where Did You Sleep Last Night?")
This is even more awesomely daring than 2 Many DJs !
The Belgian duo's "As Heard on Radio Soulwax" was excellent in that it had you dance to the strangest combinations.
Yet this goes further into something that is both a funky treat (expertly synched and syncopated) and a daring conceptual object/manifesto.
Thanx for the .torrent links...
The Wire is definitely one of the best music magazines around.
The span of genres, subgenres (and niches :-p ) reviewed every month is quite amazing, without too much submission to "underground hype", nor complacency of the "if it sells more than 1,000 copies, then it's sh!te" type...
I'd love to see those two girls model for Victoria's Secret.
BTW, are they real-life nurses or just average-nurse-looking professional models? A question worth investigating...
Well, the problem isn't what "super-rich patrons" make of their money, but how they earned it.
(IMHO, you can't get "super-rich" without at least once exploiting people -- e.g. Indonesian 14 year-olds who sew T-shirts for your sportswear firm as an alternative to prostitution or being sold as quasi-slaves to Qatari cheikhs -- but that's another debate altogether).
Any form of art (well, maybe not American Idol) contributes to the betterment of society, by creating something that has no utilitarian value (a feat in itself in our productivity-, performance-obsessed age, isn't it ?), and brings a sense of beauty and/or wonder in people's environment.
Hell! I think every comment so far has a point... So I don't know what to think of this article any longer.
This site is making me so confused! What with straight-guys-doing-gay-stuff and finger-skateboarding, and hippie evangelists, I begin to wonder what world I'm living in...
I suggest we should bring down the Sixtine Chapel in Rome (useless piece of Papist "art" from the Renaissance) and use the stones to re-build hotels for Australian and Swedish tourists to come and have fun for nothing in poor Asian countries... er, to build housing, schools and hospitals in Phuket, I mean.
I really would like to see Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work... too bad I'm no New-Yorker, and no wealthy, idle Frenchman either.
And Peaches' "Rock Show" is a great electro-punk(?) song...
You can download a (rockier, less electro-tinged) cover by Electric Six here :
http://www.electric6.com/media/RockShow.mp3
Most of these songs shaped what was to become 60s folk and rock (Dylan and the Rolling Stones always pay tribute to Robert Johnson, Charley Patton or Ma Rainey when asked for their sources of inspiration)... and even influenced a certain Mr Kobain ("Where Did You Sleep Last Night?")
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
Real cool oldies ! BTW, when will the Elvis Presley back catalogue fall in the public domain ?
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
In "The Toymaker"
Real nice stuff ! Funny how the Web can offer such old-fashioned, yet delectable, activities...
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
In "The Raiding the 20th Century Expansion!"
This is even more awesomely daring than 2 Many DJs ! The Belgian duo's "As Heard on Radio Soulwax" was excellent in that it had you dance to the strangest combinations. Yet this goes further into something that is both a funky treat (expertly synched and syncopated) and a daring conceptual object/manifesto. Thanx for the .torrent links...
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
In "Dragostea Din Tei RULES YOUR WORLD"
This was scary... Fun vids, though...
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
In "The Wire's"
The Wire is definitely one of the best music magazines around. The span of genres, subgenres (and niches :-p ) reviewed every month is quite amazing, without too much submission to "underground hype", nor complacency of the "if it sells more than 1,000 copies, then it's sh!te" type...
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
In "The Tree of Life Web Project"
Will some counties in GA outlaw the viewing of this Website ?
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
In "Monkey Gone To Heaven "
Sittin' there wishin' on the cement floor Wishin' that I had somethin' Kim wore.
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
In "Can you beat the computer?"
I just added Lieutenant Templeton "Face" Peck from the A-Team (A.K.A. Dirk Benedict)...
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
In "Surgical scrubs"
I'd love to see those two girls model for Victoria's Secret. BTW, are they real-life nurses or just average-nurse-looking professional models? A question worth investigating...
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
In "River of Gold."
Well, the problem isn't what "super-rich patrons" make of their money, but how they earned it. (IMHO, you can't get "super-rich" without at least once exploiting people -- e.g. Indonesian 14 year-olds who sew T-shirts for your sportswear firm as an alternative to prostitution or being sold as quasi-slaves to Qatari cheikhs -- but that's another debate altogether). Any form of art (well, maybe not American Idol) contributes to the betterment of society, by creating something that has no utilitarian value (a feat in itself in our productivity-, performance-obsessed age, isn't it ?), and brings a sense of beauty and/or wonder in people's environment.
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
In "The internet pushes everything, even sexual limits."
Hell! I think every comment so far has a point... So I don't know what to think of this article any longer. This site is making me so confused! What with straight-guys-doing-gay-stuff and finger-skateboarding, and hippie evangelists, I begin to wonder what world I'm living in...
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
In "River of Gold."
I suggest we should bring down the Sixtine Chapel in Rome (useless piece of Papist "art" from the Renaissance) and use the stones to re-build hotels for Australian and Swedish tourists to come and have fun for nothing in poor Asian countries... er, to build housing, schools and hospitals in Phuket, I mean. I really would like to see Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work... too bad I'm no New-Yorker, and no wealthy, idle Frenchman either.
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
In "The Command Line in 2004:"
Interesting reading. And the most impressive use of an extended metaphor I've found in a long while... Yet aren't car-driving monkeys a strange idea ?
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
In "Skate or Die: Finger Style."
And Peaches' "Rock Show" is a great electro-punk(?) song... You can download a (rockier, less electro-tinged) cover by Electric Six here : http://www.electric6.com/media/RockShow.mp3
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
In "As if Google wasn't awesome enough..."
Definitely a zen-like experience... transience vs permanence sh*t and all that jazz.
posted by JohnRoux 19 years ago
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