So the writers of Dexter are like:
… all right so we got this kid who’s damaged and a dad who is obsessing over him to the exclusion of his daughter. What damage does having Dexter in their life do to the daughter? Not the obvious stuff, a little subtler…
I know, she learns to see cold detachment as LOVE!
Great!
Lemon-Red was one of the first folks to introduce Bonde Do Role’s crazy new track “Funk De Esfiha†to the world. I got it from SUCKA, chronicler of the decadent life in Brooklyn. “Melo Do Tabaco” is the cdr promo this song comes from. It’s executive produced by Diplo, DJ Gorky, and Comunidade Ninjitsu. My copy came fedex from Turntable Lab the other day, and it has been in constant rotation ever since.
Funk De Esfiha is the last track on the EP. Built around a sample of the intro to “Summer Nights”; the John Travolta & Olivia Newton John song from the Grease soundtrack. The girl MC [whom I am assuming is Ribanceira] fucking tears it up over top of this munchy piano, bass, and snare loop.
Lemon-Red hints at the summer heat that leaks back lyricly from the “Summer Nights” track into “Funk De Esfihaâ€. Dawn sugested that Ribanceira was also copin moves from J.J. Fad’s “Supersonic” which I totally buy, in fact I would totally drop these two next to each other in a mix.
There is something about how easy and clean the ideas are in this EP. Any 12 year old kid should be able to follow the formula used here, but the sublime way these completely known ideas are applied makes these tracks just click. Click with a mind numbing fire.
FUMED opened at Polvo tonight.
The curator Jaime Mendoza had this to say:
| The participating artists have either practiced Graffiti for creative pursuits or have been influenced through contemporary urban culture. |
Nino Rodriguez’s small paintings, especially the one pictured above center; have an elegant sense of line and color, which contrasts well with their somewhat brutal lyrical content.
In a mini-installation parallel to the Graffiti show Marcella Chaidez presented a wonderful sculpture resembling a small bustier with umbilical cord constructed out of dyed blue holes punched from books. Which of course raises the question, which books?
It is perhaps more proper to say that the sculpture resembles the shell of a torso, a shell representing a small child. However my first thought was bustier. That thought, mistaken as it might be, is infecting my read.
The thing about these blue punched paper holes is that they look like sequins. They look like sequins a lot! They also appear to be fused to the body. What we are left imagining is a child beauty pageant fire which fuses a blue sequin dress to a pageant model. Any critique which reaches Michael Jackson is then automatically complete.
These are in the context of cleaning/tagging 10-50 albums a day.
1. One window to confirm all changes.
It is too easy to make errors. You need to be able to see all your changes in one space so you can do sanity checks just once per album instead of having to pay attention to correctness at every step. Media Scrubber is close to this but it doesn’t have the capitalization tools and renaming tools that one needs.
2. Drag and drop is too clumsy for this level of productivity.
3. Needs the ability to automate.
4. It is too easy to tag the wrong album.
If you do not notice that the “Folder of Files to Change” is set to the wrong folder, you clicked to open it instead of dragging a folder on it’s button.
5. Early versions had better support for stripping filenames down to all english ASCII with no punctuation. So different OS’s/Devices don’t choke on the filenames.
6. If a track name has ? in it, the File Renamer won’t work. [or any other character OSX chokes on, I assume.]
I miss ID3-TagIT. But Media Rage is the best tagging tool for OSX that I’ve found.
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This is possibly the most brilliant cover of any recording ever.
There is the fetishization of equipment. That stack of keyboards is drool inducing, but real the brilliance lies in the Pablov’s eyes; in the expression on his face. It is at once blissful lost in the groove; and blissful lost in a haze of drugs. This is the twin pull that makes us wish we were there, or at the least allows us to gasp in narcissistic recognition.
References: Pablov Black – Mr Music
True, The Polyphonic Spree and The Flaming Lips are both psychotic. However The Flaming Lips are psychotic in a “we take lots of drugs to make our cleverness strange†way, but The Polyphonic Spree are psychotic in a “we take lots of drugs to die for god†way; and that’s just creepy and sad.
I wonder if Tim DeLaughter missed Wayne Coyne’s sarcasm and anger when Wayne sings jesus songs?
References: Allmusic: The Polyphonic Spree – The Beginning Stages Of…
