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Posts Tagged ‘Music’
East side. West side. Best side.
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010Dirty Words
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Fact: Cee-Lo Green is the soul machine.
Fact: Cee-Lo Green can rock a costume.
Fact: Cee-Lo Green has a new song with a teaser music video that’s nothing but text. No chicks, no boats, no Cristal, no ice. Just colors and fonts.
Bonus points for the LACK of Sketch Rockwell font. I think we can all agree on that one.
In related news, the song’s lyrics, title and theme all contain a word that is giving my mother heart palpitations right now and she doesn’t even know it exists. You can find it easily enough on google. Pretty screen shots, full speed ahead!
Update: This version is miles better than the recently released “official video.” You’ll always be the official version in my heart all-text video!
CLASSIC!
Friday, February 19th, 2010Classical music reminds me of the dentist office. Every time I think I’m going to mellow out and give my neurons a little pick-me-up I’m gripped by the anxiety of knowing that I will soon be reprimanded for not flossing eighteen times a day. My dad enjoys the old stuff and pointed me in the direction of his favorite station, KUSC, which proffers this bold manifesto on their Web site:
I think this is a station I can get behind.
For my hipster brethren, The Hood Internet is throwing down the awesome with indie/hip hop mash ups that are single-handedly keeping me in the loop with what’s playing on terrestrial radio. More holler, more MGMT…or something like that.
The Hood Internet – Two Weeks Of Hip Hop (Dead Prez x Grizzly Bear) by hoodinternet
Spending Hanukkah in Santa Monica
Friday, December 18th, 2009West Coast Christmas for the win!
1up for Xmas
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009Ho Ho Ho-ly crap! Christmas classics done in the musical genre of 8-bit video games? It’s a Festivus miracle of creativity and good old 80s nostalgia. Gloria and Joy to the World are highly recommended.
Word is Blog
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Last autumn-ish, a group of my friends got into a heated and passionate debate over grammar, thanks to a popular song by hipster darlings Vampire Weekend. It began with comma use, then escalated to an argument over how many spaces should be used after each period. Like a 24 hour cable news channel, voices were raised, positions were laid out, struck down and reiterated, and everyone left with the same opinions with which they came.
Turns out, once you get away from diagramming sentences (something they never taught us in public school) and start focusing on the way grammar should be rather than how it actually is, suddenly everyone’s got an opinion. All of which is to say that I’m going to be guest blogging from time to time at Little Red Bird, wherein I will let the world, the internets, the AP Style Guide, MLA Style Guide and Chicago Manual of Style know the way it ought to be.
My first post is already on the site, and let it be known, I take no prisoners.
The cure for the 3pm sleepies
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009I’ve been a huge fan of The Go! Team for a few years now, and in addition to having an awesome band name, they put out some amazing music to write by. Some of their stuff has a more laid back ’60s vibe, and then there are tunes like Junior Kickstart. If I was running the show over at NBC, I would have thrown money hand over fist at these guys until they were forced to sell-out and let me use this very song to put together the greatest commercial for the summer Olympics of all time. For now, it suffices as a caffeine-free pick-me-up for the 3pm sleepies.
The Go! Team’s modern-day, live-action Mrs. Pacman video for Junior Kickstart will blow your mind with its mute humor. Truly, truly inspired stuff. It might be an overstatement to call it “the greatest thing ever,” but it basically is.
The Go! Team – Junior Kickstart, from their debut 2004 album Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Newman!
Thursday, May 21st, 2009No sooner had Wall-e’s credits started to roll then I was online trying to find the film’s soundtrack. It was a professional and personal necessity that it occupy both my iPod and my mental landscape. The magnificient score was created by Thomas Newman (with a bit of help from Peter Gabriel). No surprise then, that many of the tracks would immediately join Paper Writing Music, a playlist largely built on the foundation of the Newman’s soundtrack for American Beauty. Hit it boys!
Thomas Newman & Peter Gabriel – Define Dancing
Thomas Newman – First Date
Paper Writing Music
Monday, April 27th, 2009There are times when the gloves come off, the headphones go on and the only words you need filling your head are your own. And like rainy days and Mondays, these times call for a well-crafted playlist. Enter Paper Writing Music, my personal archive of super-focused, late night playlist to end all playlists for your favorite copywriter. The qualifications to gain entrance into this esteemed group are as follows:
1) Track must be full-on instrumental
OR
2) include only lyrics in a foreign language
OR
3) contain lyrics that are inconsequential to the overall effect (see Mylo – In My Arms)
(bonus points for being loud enough to drown out any surrounding noise and peppy enough to ward of sleep and/or boredom)
As with any quality playlist in this digital age, it’s work in progress. Here’s the latest track to gain entre into the playlist: from the Amelie Soundtrack (and on the recommendation of MeFi via This American Life) J’y suis jamais alle by Yann Tiersen.