June 2012
1 post
Harlem Shake: June 2012
It’s June now and I haven’t done this for a bit. I got lots of new stuff on here from post internet trap music (Baauer) to the latest gems from some of the best bands going around (Walkmen, Liars, AC, Black Dice) to some crazy ass rap music (Le1f, Killer Mike, El P, PURRP) to Albertan outsider music (Haack). Let’s do this.
1. Animal Collective - Honeycomb
2. The Walkmen -...
May 2012
4 posts
Academics
Despite not being that overly serious about my academic career at this point, somehow I’ve parlayed a sparsely attended conference paper last December into a slot on an all star invited symposium at the same organization’s annual conference. There’s a dude who invented his own department and has published 20 books, a couple of shit hot affect studies / education researchers with...
El Producto releases a new album seemingly every...
NEW ANCO
http://www.myanimalhome.net/
April 2012
1 post
Back from the Grave: April 2012
After a week in mighty Ulaan Baatar, I’ve been holed up in humid, rainy Hong Kong, where I’ve enjoyed/abused the hotel’s bandwith to catch up on the latest in music. No theme here but most tracks seem sweaty, noctural and languid to my ears (in the best sense of those words). Enjoy and discuss.
1. Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, The Congos - Happy Song
2. Major Lazer feat....
March 2012
2 posts
The Worst Flight Ever
I spent the last week in Hong Kong very ill with a motherfucker of a cold. That wasn’t that great and the colds in China seem to be post-apocalyptic in strength. But then just as I was etting better I came down with food poisioning on the plane back to Beijing. The likely culprit was a sandwich from Pret a Manger before the flight. I’ve been in bed now for 2 days.
But, in better...
February 2012
2 posts
EARL →
Earl Sweatshirt is back from Samoa!
Finally the most talented OFWGKTA dude has returned.
Adventures Behind The Great Firewall, Part 2
Wikipedia’s entry on “Lars-Erik Sjoberg” appears to be blocked by the Great Firewall of China. Peculiar. Why does the CPC not want its citizens to know about a Swedish defenceman from the 1970s???
January 2012
10 posts
Lessons for Mongolia's Copper and Coal and Gold...
”We were the end products of the system, the logical outcome, slabs of burnt-out capital. We were also men with families and homes, whatever our present situation. We had beliefs, commitments. It went beyond systems, I thought. They were asserting that nothing mattered, that distinctions were dead. Let the markets crash and die. Let the banks, the brokerage firms, the groups, the funds, the...
The Book Bench: In the Labyrinth: A User’s Guide... →
towerofsleep:
This might potentially be useful for people, and it’s a handy sketch of Bolaño’s ouevre, but the author’s description of 2666 paints him as a complete philistine, as far as I’m concerned: “The book is a desert of negative space across which the panting reader will search in vain for the traditional pleasures of the novel: form, character, coherence, meaning.” Seriously, is he...
What the fuck?
Cloud Nothings are terrible!
MONGOLIA
I’m off to Mongolia tomorrow …. and it’ll be -45C (without exaggeration).
Oh well, at least the internet is uncensored.
blownspeakers:
Pulp, Refused, At the Drive-in, Godspeed, Jeff Magnum, Mazzy Star, Dre and Snoop Dogg are all playing Coachella.
Not sure if excited or just fooled into being 19 again.
I called the At the Drive In reunion back in 2004.
Websites that are blocked (a continuing list):
Facebook
Twitter
Google (sometimes)
Youtube
IMDb
Mediafire
Pitchforkmedia
Blogger (and all blogspot)
All individual tumblrs (but not the dashboard)
Wow, somehow tumblr is available from China.
December 2011
1 post
Music Wrap Up 2011
2011 has been an interesting year in a lot of ways. Musically, I’ve found myself retreating generically to comfort zones (such as most of the Odd Future stuff), not expanding outwards, and showing much more cynicism to “new” movements (chillwave, for instance). It’s also been the first year where I’ve had non-precarious (basically), day in and day out, 8:30 to...
June 2010
2 posts
Hey everyone,
what’s the tumblr with the pictures from design magazines and amusing captions? you know, that one.
Thanks.
blownspeakers:
beckyontheinternet:
...
August 2009
1 post
July 2009
3 posts
Films I Will See At The Melbourne International...
I’m currently booked in for:
1. Treeless Mountain
2. No One Knows About Persian Cats
3. Moon
4. Home
5. 35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum)
6. ANTICHRIST
7. Black Dynamite
8. The Hurt Locker
9. Going Down
10. Amreeka
11. The White Ribbon
towerofsleep:
Kurt Vile - overnite religion...
“50 Cent, like Disneyland, makes everything else seem real because his work is so...”
– Me. I came across this old paper from 2004 (shit!) on 50 Cent and Baudrillard. KEEPING IT UNDERGRAD!
June 2009
4 posts
Finale - Heat (Produced by J Dilla)
HOLY FUCK.
...
J DILLA - Expensive Whip
This banger is off his...
May 2009
10 posts
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/37... →
everythingdies:
THE BEN ROSE HOME-site of the famous movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, cantilevered over the ravine, these two steel and glass buildings, which can never be duplicated, have incredible vistas of the surrounding woods.
J Dilla - Oxtopus Boom Boom
I have no idea what...
Now that Rollie- er, Roland is poet laureate, I...
The City of Edmonton: Hip Hop Artist Roland... →
I’m proud of the dude.
blownspeakers:
Roland Pemberton (professionally known as Cadence Weapon), poet, writer and hip hop artist, is the City of Edmonton’s next Poet Laureate. Pemberton will assume the role on July 1, 2009. “I’m honoured that the City of Edmonton has considered me to be their Poet Laureate, a worthy chronicler of events and a representative of the diversity and cultural...
blownspeakers:
neilhillbrandt:
HEALTH - Die...
J Dilla’s archive of beats and tracks must...
Dam-Funk recasts Animal Collective’s...
Greatest Verse of All Time
Prodigy in Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones Pt. II”:
I got you stuck off the realness, we be the infamous
you heard of us
official Queensbridge murderers
the Mobb comes equipped with warfare, beware
of my crime family who got nuff shots to share
for all of those who wanna profile and pose
rock you in your face, stab your brain wit' your nosebone
you all alone in these streets,...
Amazingly, I’ve had that Eddie Kendricks...
April 2009
3 posts
blownspeakers:
If it’s wrong to toast your bread in the pan you fried bacon in, I don’t want to be right, frankly.
Quinn, you truly are the fattest skinny dude I know.
March 2009
15 posts
“Hey, I thought of a good name for a sci-fi gay porn”
– Naben (via blownspeakers)
which was???
(via soulonice) “Large Hard-on Collider” (via blownspeakers)
GENIUS. Naben is a prophet.
