BUT, push us further with pointless rules, then your faces will probably melt/light up under angst-ridden candle flames.
---Zeitgeist,
--Zealousness,
-Zebra!!
"Oh it is simple false, but our system has been compromised."
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Zeitgeist
Wasting time to cover up a problem, is just a statement that directly pinpoints its own faults. We all are far more smarter than you think - even if we don't look it - but we just fail to take action on behalf of saving your faces.
BUT, push us further with pointless rules, then your faces will probably melt/light up under angst-ridden candle flames.
---Zeitgeist,
--Zealousness,
-Zebra!!
"Oh it is simple false, but our system has been compromised."
BUT, push us further with pointless rules, then your faces will probably melt/light up under angst-ridden candle flames.
---Zeitgeist,
--Zealousness,
-Zebra!!
"Oh it is simple false, but our system has been compromised."
Saturday, March 20, 2010
White Noise - knowledge; the airbone toxic event
An eloquent passage from Don DeLillo's "White Noise" that has inadvertently caught my eye.
"It's like we've been flung back in time. Here we are in the Stone Age, knowing all these great things after centuries of progress but what can we do to make life easier for the Stone Agers? Can we make a refrigerator? Can we even explain how it works? What is electricity? What is light? We experience these things every day of our lives but what good does it do if we find ourselves hurled back in time and we can't even tell people the basic principles much less actually make something that would improve conditions. Name one thing you could make. Could you make a simple wooden match that you could strike on a rock to make a flame? We think we're so great and modern. Moon landings, artificial hearts. But what if you were hurled into a time warp and came face to face with the ancient Greeks. The Greeks invented trigonometry. They did autopsies and dissections. What could you tell an ancient Greek that he couldn't say, 'Big deal.' Could you tell him about the atom? Atom is a Greek word. The Greeks knew that the major events in the universe can't be seen by the eye of man. It's waves, it's rays, it's particles.
"We're doing all right."
"We're sitting in this huge mouldy room. It's like we're flung back."
"We have heat, we have light."
"These are Stone Age things. They had heat and light. They had fire. They rubbed flints together and made sparks. Could you rub flints together? Would you know a flint if you saw one? If a Stone Ager asked you what a nucleotide is, could you tell him? How do we make carbon paper? What is glass? If you came awake tomorrow in the Middle Ages and there was an epidemic raging, what could you do to stop it, knowing what you know about the progress of medicines and diseases? Here it is practically the twenty-first century and you've read hundreds of books and magazines and seen a hundred TV shows about science and medicine. Could you tell those people one little crucial thing that might save a million and a half lives?"
"Boil your water."
"Sure, what about 'washing behind your ears.' That's about as good."
"I still think we're doing fairly well. There was no warning. We have food, we have radios."
"What is a radio? What is the principle of a radio? Go ahead, explain. You're sitting in the middle of this circle of people. They use pebble tools. They eat grubs. Explain a radio."
"There's no mystery. Powerful transmitters send signals. They travel through the air, to be picked up by receivers."
"They travel through the air. What, like birds? Why not tell them magic? They travel through the air in magic waves. What is a nucleotide? You don't know, do you? Yet these are the building blocks of life. What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything."
"It's like we've been flung back in time. Here we are in the Stone Age, knowing all these great things after centuries of progress but what can we do to make life easier for the Stone Agers? Can we make a refrigerator? Can we even explain how it works? What is electricity? What is light? We experience these things every day of our lives but what good does it do if we find ourselves hurled back in time and we can't even tell people the basic principles much less actually make something that would improve conditions. Name one thing you could make. Could you make a simple wooden match that you could strike on a rock to make a flame? We think we're so great and modern. Moon landings, artificial hearts. But what if you were hurled into a time warp and came face to face with the ancient Greeks. The Greeks invented trigonometry. They did autopsies and dissections. What could you tell an ancient Greek that he couldn't say, 'Big deal.' Could you tell him about the atom? Atom is a Greek word. The Greeks knew that the major events in the universe can't be seen by the eye of man. It's waves, it's rays, it's particles.
"We're doing all right."
"We're sitting in this huge mouldy room. It's like we're flung back."
"We have heat, we have light."
"These are Stone Age things. They had heat and light. They had fire. They rubbed flints together and made sparks. Could you rub flints together? Would you know a flint if you saw one? If a Stone Ager asked you what a nucleotide is, could you tell him? How do we make carbon paper? What is glass? If you came awake tomorrow in the Middle Ages and there was an epidemic raging, what could you do to stop it, knowing what you know about the progress of medicines and diseases? Here it is practically the twenty-first century and you've read hundreds of books and magazines and seen a hundred TV shows about science and medicine. Could you tell those people one little crucial thing that might save a million and a half lives?"
"Boil your water."
"Sure, what about 'washing behind your ears.' That's about as good."
"I still think we're doing fairly well. There was no warning. We have food, we have radios."
"What is a radio? What is the principle of a radio? Go ahead, explain. You're sitting in the middle of this circle of people. They use pebble tools. They eat grubs. Explain a radio."
"There's no mystery. Powerful transmitters send signals. They travel through the air, to be picked up by receivers."
"They travel through the air. What, like birds? Why not tell them magic? They travel through the air in magic waves. What is a nucleotide? You don't know, do you? Yet these are the building blocks of life. What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything."
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Teen Dream
2010 has gotton off to a great start in music.
Beach House - "Teen Dream".
My verdict: A beautiful and colourful adventure; you can literally see and feel the audio turn into swirling, shimmering visuals.
A top song [if you're one of those people] - Silver Soul or Walk In The Park
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Have One On Me
Joanna Newsom!
So, so, so golden. Two beautiful hours, striding through mixed time signatures, strings, mythic imagery.
This could be better than Ys; not sure yet, but I am already going to shortlist this for the top 2010 album. Of course, there are tonnes more new albums coming out this year that are going to be great - The National, Yeasayer, She & Him, The Clogs, possibly Sufjan Stevens.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Top albums of 2009
20) It's Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The BQE is a fantastic piece of art. Abstract, illusory and equivocal. It should be seen as a work of art rather than just an album.
Top Song: N/A - All of the BQE moves in a way where every movement blends and moves into the next movement.
6) Lungs by Florence + The Machine
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have always been a nice minimalist-rock listen. It's Blitz! continues this.
Top Song: Zero
19) Unmap by Volcano Choir
Justin Vernon adds some rich textural layers in his Volcano Choir debut.
Top Song: Cool Knowledge
18) Far by Regina Spektor
Spektor and her drum-beat piano style gives us another worthy album.
Top Song: Dance Anthem of the 80s
17) Slumdog Millionaire OST by A.R. Rahman
A.R Rahman tracks are great and perfect for the film. Though it did come out late 2008, it is well-worth recognition for 2009.
Top Song: O...Saya
16) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
Phoenix have created a great summer album, putting some optimism instrumentation back into music.
Top Song: 1901
15) Heavy Ghost by DM Stith
Amazing debut by Stith. So hauntingly arranged.
Top Song: Braid of Voices
14) Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
How could I deny Animal Collective a top album spot.
Top Song: Lion in a Coma.
13) The Resistance by Muse
Muse add in well done orchestration into their latest effort.
Top Song: Undisclosed Desires.
12) Noble Beast by Andrew Bird
Bird's distinct sound and truly professional whistling [!!!] makes this album a complete pleasure to listen to.
Top Song: Souverian
11) Devotion by Beach House
Beach House are a new discovery of mine this year, and Devotion has cemented my musical interest in them.
Top Song: Gila
10) Bitte Orca by The Dirty Projectors
I really enjoy David Longstreth's guitar, and the interesting time signatures used by the band.
Top Song: Remade Horizon
9) Hospice by The Antlers
There's something so emotionally compelling with Hospice. I can't quite point my finger on what it is, but some of the songs are truly and beautifully heartbreaking.
Top Song: Wake
8) Time To Die by The Dodos
The duo [or maybe trio now] base themselves on a bass drum and guitar, although they are somehow able to sound like a 100 people.
Top Song: Two Medicines.
7) BQE by Sufjan Stevens
The BQE is a fantastic piece of art. Abstract, illusory and equivocal. It should be seen as a work of art rather than just an album.
Top Song: N/A - All of the BQE moves in a way where every movement blends and moves into the next movement.
6) Lungs by Florence + The Machine
Probably one of the best musically arranged albums of the year. Florence's voice is captivating and deep; her imagination and ideas paint us her stories.
Top Song: Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
5) See Mystery Lights by YACHT
YACHT were an unexpected discovery this year. Interesting lyrics and arrangements.
Top Song: The Afterlife
4) Two Suns by Bat For Lashes
Like Florence + the Machine, Bat For Lashes offers us an entrance into another world, except this one is darker and more eerie, and it contains an alter ego.
Top Song: Pearl's Dream
3) Dark Was The Night
This Red Hot compilation contains music from [in my opinion] the most prolific artists of today. I'd love to have a few more artists such as Joanna Newsom and St. Vincent, but this is still a fantastic compilation of music.
Top Song: Hey Snow White by the New Pornographers.
2) Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
Of course Grizzly Bear will be up here somewhere. Veckatimest is fantastic, a smooth flowing album, with such complex arrangements.
Top Song: While You Wait for the Others
1) Actor by St. Vincent
It was difficult to pick a top album, but after long contemplation, I have chosen St. Vincent's Actor as the top album 2009. Actor is a perfectly woven story. With inspiration taken from classical films, Actor moves us through amazing audio colour; the distorted guitar versus the winsome flute. The album pulls you into a different world and it's difficult to find your way back.
Top Song: Generally N/A, but if you're someone who must hear one song to make your decision: Marrow.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
The Resistance
There's always been something intriguing about Muse.
The day I fell for their music was the day they were, consequently enough, in Singapore to perform [2007].
Could there have been a worse timing?
Anyways, I'm going to start doing a top song from an album kind of thing.
The Resistance, a respectable move into orchestral arrangements without over-doing it or sounding pretentious. The strings don't boast, it still gives way to Muse's progressive rock roots.
The political theme is a bit cliched at times, but it never treads on the senseless. Due to cosmos-esque instrumentality of the pieces, it can be seen as a futuristic 1984, another planet in out of space.
So, recommended song:
Undisclosed Desires
Why:
Staccato strings,
A Keytar [!!]
A Bat for Lashes aura.
Simple yet illusory lyrics.
Others:
Bellamy's "Exogenesis: Symphony, Pt. 3: Redemption"
Mentions:
They're coming next year - much better timing.
The day I fell for their music was the day they were, consequently enough, in Singapore to perform [2007].
Could there have been a worse timing?
Anyways, I'm going to start doing a top song from an album kind of thing.
The Resistance, a respectable move into orchestral arrangements without over-doing it or sounding pretentious. The strings don't boast, it still gives way to Muse's progressive rock roots.
The political theme is a bit cliched at times, but it never treads on the senseless. Due to cosmos-esque instrumentality of the pieces, it can be seen as a futuristic 1984, another planet in out of space.
So, recommended song:
Undisclosed Desires
Why:
Staccato strings,
A Keytar [!!]
A Bat for Lashes aura.
Simple yet illusory lyrics.
Others:
Bellamy's "Exogenesis: Symphony, Pt. 3: Redemption"
Mentions:
They're coming next year - much better timing.
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