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and I are both fans of Community, an awesome sitcom that deserves to stick around at LEAST one more season to make it into syndication. Here’s his mix The Darkest Timeline, full of Community goodness and general weirdness.
Using DJay software, a Vestax Spin controller, and a MIDI keyboard mapped to work with DJay (it’s pretty easy to set up)
This is a really nice mix between the prepwork a DJ needs to do with setting cues and loops, and live performance (using a lot of features – effects, etc. – introduced in the newest version of DJay).
Weird. Makes Shia LeBeouf about a zillion times more interesting — he directed the short film/music video for Marilyn Manson’s “Born Villain,” and compares it to Un Chien Andalou – Salvador Dali’s and Jean Cocteau’s Andalusian Dog.
So… Brian’s still around. And making music, as well as painting and dropping odd quotes here and there from Shakespeare and others. Definitely still a challenge, but maybe with a different angle on things? I dunno.
Personally, I think AntiChrist Superstar is one of the best albums I’ve ever encountered. Since then… hits and misses.
Check out the music videos page. MM’s cover of Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus” is pretty great.
My former student Ryan is guitarist (and media guy) for Starter Kit. Their newest release looks to be 2009’s Unsettled.
Video for their song “Twilight Regret”:
I saw them back in … 2005 maybe?… in Dekalb, Illinois. The keyboardist is a new addition. They’ve stayed in the same hard rock vein with melodic vocals and emotional/internal/relationship-inspired lyrics. They’ve moved a bit away from their former frenetic constantly noodly guitarwork (I liked it!). You can see what I mean about their older stuff here in their first video, for “Tomorrow’s Never Better”:
These guys are a 5-piece band playing live, video game-inspired music in the Kansai region of Japan (Kobe & Osaka). The guys are all really friendly and cool to hang out with, and several of them also DJ.
3 songs by THE GAME SHOP on SoundCloud
ガメオベア!!! STAGE2 Preview #7 DJ : xanadujin from KAZ a.k.a.HIGE on Vimeo.
My buddy xanadujin playing a game music set in Osaka at Bar Guild.
Interesting overview of the connection between photographer (and director of the video) Ballen and the band.
"Ninja" masked in "Tension" trailer
And more interesting, the copyright infringement case brought against Die Antwoord by Jane Alexander regarding use of images from her art. Nice discussion from a South African about the exploitation of South African art by South African artists.
More on the same subject by the same author, but in a more complete (and scathingly anti-Die Antwoord) form here: “Butchered” by Linda Stupart, from Mahala.
one of Jane Alexander's "Butcher Boys"
Another “discussion of the discussion” raised by the whole affair.
An Art Times of South Africa article in which Ninja claims to be friendly with Alexander and expresses surprise at the controversy.
Interesting implications for art, parody, satire, copyright, and post-modern sampling culture.
Regarding the song? It’s freaky. I like it a lot.
IT Professional Technical Resources & Library – method using a static playlist and a couple of smart playlists to weed out multiple copies of songs on your hard disk.
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