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<i>A List Of The Reasons As To Why I <3 Pacific Rim, Which Is A Movie</i></div>
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<i>That I <3 A Lot</i><br />
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<i>(because sometimes a thing is so awesome you just have to spend a lot of words and time just talking about how awesome it is)</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">***but yo if you haven’t seen the movie for the love of god don’t read this as it pretty much lists like every single thing that happens in the movie***</span><br />
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cause “don’t get cocky”</div>
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cause this fight yo<br />
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cause so many match cuts oh the glorious match cuts</div>
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cause Charlie Day is just the best scientist</div>
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cause it’s about resistance</div>
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cause not only is there is a guy named Hercules Hansen...<br />
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...but there is a guy named Hercules Hansen who actually looks like he should be named Hercules Hansen</div>
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cause the Dads oh god the Dads</div>
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cause fortune favors the brave, dude</div>
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cause the Tokyo Kaiju attack is exactly what a real tokyo Kaiju attack would look like and that alone would have been enough to etch the movie in my brain forever<br />
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cause the alley shot in Tokyo (you know the shot)</div>
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cause the shot, of lil Mako hiding behind a dumpster in an alley from a battle of two Giant Fucking Things, backs up its already significant aesthetic power with even more significant emotional heft and in a world of shooting for “trailer moments” that just does not happen enough<br />
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cause that little girl fuckin killed it!</div>
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cause every single element of a fictional world centered around one of the most basic conflicts imaginable is still somehow startlingly original</div>
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cause as the dudes on the escalator out behind me said, “they don’t don’t overexplain anything”</div>
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cause they don’t because they don’t have to, they just make it work</div>
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cause in every aspect of the movie, they just make it work</div>
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cause the whole movie is people just making it work</div>
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cause more thought went into just the color palette of this movie than probably 90% of the things that have ever been done by anyone<br />
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cause it’s not a sequel or reboot or adaptation for once</div>
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cause it’s the least grey-blue tinted blockbuster/action movie I have seen in like… a long time</div>
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cause every shot of the fucking Jaegers makes me feel like it’s the first shot of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park</div>
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cause FOR MY FAMILY!!!</div>
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cause FOR MY FAMILY!!!! AND THEN A FUCKIN SWORD</div>
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cause when that happened a sentence went through my head and it was: “this is the most beautiful movie I have ever seen”</div>
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cause there are no “plot twists”</div>
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cause you can take a kid to see it without tearing their faith in humanity to shreds and/or traumatizing them</div>
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cause I wish it had been PG instead of PG-13 so more kids could have seen it</div>
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cause Stacker Pentecost, Hannibal Chau, Raleigh and Yancy Becket, Mako Mori, and Chuck and Hercules Hansen are the actual names of characters in an 190 million dollar movie</div>
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cause there’s a lil bulldog! how could there not be a lil bulldog</div>
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cause all it took to get over the “hero’s refusal” was for Idris Elba ask him whether he’d rather face the end of the world inside a Jaeger</div>
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cause the Kaiju are the fuckin dinosaurs!!!</div>
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cause the Kaiju are totally Saiyans too think about it though!!!!</div>
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cause this dude...<br />
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cause “numbers are as close was we get to the handwriting of god” “…what?”</div>
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cause Charlie Day built a machine out of junk and connected with a Kaiju’s brain</div>
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cause it is not about the “dark side” of anything<br />
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cause the main American guy and the douchey Australian guy look so laughably fucking similar to the point where at the first screening I thought the Australian guy had won the fistfight and there is no way this wasn’t on purpose</div>
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cause alllll the steadicam</div>
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cause scientist buddy high five!</div>
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cause canceling the apocalypse and then actually stopping a specifically designed apocalypse clock</div>
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CAUSE THEY DIDNT KISS AT THE END BUT HAD A MOMENT OF GENUINE CONNECTION AND RELIEF AND THE STORY WAS ALL THE BETTER FOR IT</div>
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cause the conveniently placed toilet</div>
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cause the Russian giant robot and giant robot pilot team...<br />
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...are the most Russian fucking giant robot and giant robot pilot team anyone could possibly have ever imagined</div>
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cause distinct fighting styles!</div>
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cause reusing the same weapons and getting to know/feel them instead of just breaking out new throwaway gadgets</div>
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cause of striking the most happy medium between respecting the gravity of PTSD and making a giant action movie for everyone that at least I personally could imagine</div>
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cause holy shit those cockpits<br />
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cause I once got lectured over the internet by some dickhead about how the word "awesome" has lost its original meaning of instilling godlike rapture or whatever not just "cool" or something as it's usually used today or something I dunno I stopped reading but WELL GUESS WHAT DUDE THIS MOVIE IS THAT TOO AND THE AMOUNT OF AWE IS FAR MORE THAN JUST SOME</div>
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cause the 3d actually worked</div>
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cause Ron Perlman plays a Hong Kong-based one-eyed black market Kaiju body parts dealer who wears gold plated shoes and is named after his favorite historical figure and his second favorite Szechuan restaurant in Brooklyn <i>because of course he does</i><br />
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cause despite the absolutely ridiculous scale of everything in the movie, I’m pretty sure said shoes are still the largest thing in the entire movie</div>
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cause the set of the Alaskan wall could probably sustain like 10 movies entirely on its own, and it was only in the movie for like five minutes<br />
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cause I'm pretty sure there is an entire movie to be told about this guy:<br />
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cause the attention to detail in this movie actually makes me worry about Guillermo Del Toro’s mental health a little</div>
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cause there’s a hologram interface in a movie that doesn’t look like every other hologram interface in a movie</div>
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cause everything every giant robot and giant monster did made you feel like you were experiencing everything every giant robot and giant monster did for real</div>
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cause dialogue that would be cheesy if used <i>to</i> drive character can incite cheers and laughter and fist pumps when driven <i>by</i> character, <i>and this is a movie about people who drive things</i><br />
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CAUSE A GIANT ROBOT HIT A GIANT MONSTER WITH A CARGO SHIP WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT CMON</div>
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cause I really don’t need to tell you awesome Idris Elba is as the ultimate resistanceleader/general/dad/greatestJaegerpilotever-man</div>
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cause right before he dies, Mako says “I love you sensei” in unsubtitled Japanese<br />
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cause the accents are all over the place</div>
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cause seriously though, the 3d not only worked but had the coolest fucking particle effects ever and usually those are the most annoying thing</div>
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cause “you and I both know the Kaiju has a second, smaller brain it needs to control its whole body, like dinosaur"<br />
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cause future Hong Kong<br />
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cause the opening shot of the tear actually tears you into another world</div>
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cause the everything from the largest, beaten-to-hell Jaeger to the smallest street sign in Hong Kong is there to show you that the world of this movie isn’t just exist in a future, but that it also has a past</div>
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cause I will ingest any piece of media about the Russian team in any format you give me. seriously. I will take a fuckin flipbook if I have to</div>
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cause the movie opens with definition of “kaiju” and “jaeger” and they are exactly what you want them to be</div>
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cause said opening is in 2d in green font on a black computer screen</div>
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cause the douchey australian guy only doesn’t win the Hong Kong battle because of the EMP, so he might actually still be a better pilot than the main dude, but he never even brings it up and sacrifices himself for him anyway</div>
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cause it is an analog movie in a (literal) digital world</div>
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cause Mako Mori is an intelligent, courageous, powerful Asian woman who speaks English in a strong, non-European accent and is not for one moment mocked, victimized, objectified, or punished by the movie for any of these qualities</div>
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cause in addition in to meeting this very low (yet still rarely met by Hollywood) bar Mako Mori FUCKING ROCKS</div>
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cause humans have been fighting monsters and gods and giants and giants in stories for as long as we’ve told them, and it turns out we're still just as good at it as ever</div>
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cause there is exactly zero cynicism in this movie<br />
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cause simplicity is underrated</div>
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cause the dedication</div>
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cause you can always find me in the drift</div>
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cause a ton of rappers are about to start talking about how their rims are so large, they call them pacific</div>
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cause this movie is going to make thousands of kids either explode, go and become the next Guillermo Del Toro, or both (and in that order)</div>
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cause the sounnnnnnd</div>
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cause the score will not leave my head and that’s cool because I do not want it to</div>
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cause when I started writing this it was going to be an actual article but then I started listing all the things I wanted to include and now here we are 1350 words later</div>
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cause that same has happened every time I’ve tried to have a conversation about it</div>
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cause I expected to be hyped as fuck after, but instead I just felt… at peace?</div>
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cause a movie about giant fucking robots fighting giant fucking monsters made me thrilled, terrified, crack up, fist pump, applaud, turned me back into a little kid, and then made me feel at peace</div>
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cause we live in a world where hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on a move about giant robots fighting giant monsters and it was worth every penny</div>
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cause of how many equally <3-worthy things I have probably forgotten to write down even now</div>
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cause I am about to watch a whole lot of Kaiju movies now<br />
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cause the idea that we should work together is so seemingly simple and obvious and cliche, and yet when you look at the world you see that maybe it’s not, and that maybe it’s actually the most important thing you could ever think</div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">@<a href="https://twitter.com/sternbergh">sternbergh</a> @<a href="https://twitter.com/dankois">dankois</a> @<a href="https://twitter.com/max_read">max_read</a> I'm just so sick of jazz SHOVED IN MY FACE all day. It's inescapable in today's culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; text-align: start;">One of my favorite things to whine about is: why more people don't listen jazz? (waahhhh) Especially modern jazz. And while I still think the main cause really just boils down to a simple lack of exposure, one of the more nefarious obstacles the 21st century jazz faces (besides the fact that holy shit they playing jazz <i>innnn theee fuuuuutuuuuuuure!!!!!) </i>is that jazz just isn't considered very "cool" anymore, which is why otherwise adventurously-minded listeners don't seek it out like they used to. In fact, in some circles/cesspoolsoftheinternet it's even considered "lame".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="text-align: start;">Of course the idea of "cool" itself is a pretty problematic one, and the search for it (or "it") has led both society and advertisers down some pretty bad roads, most of which end up at Michael Bay movies. Not to sound all gushy here, but </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; text-align: start;">"cool" at the expense of authenticity--which <i>yes yes</i> is an equally problematic term I know but its a real thing goddammit it just is and I know you know it too--is bad. So "cool" here isn't about the surface sheen of 90's style "'tude" and "radicalness," but rather about jazz musicians who radiate such 'tude and radicalness, such coolness, because those things are an authentic part of their musical and/or bad selves. They don't look cool in some contrived marketing way, they <i>are</i> cool. Thus, as that link defined Prez's version above: </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"calmly audacious".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; text-align: start;">So, contrary to popular belief, coolness isn't about <i>not</i> giving a fuck, it's about giving <i>so many more fucks than anyone else that you exist outside of the normal-people's fucks-giving spectrum. </i>While the surface qualities of cool (sunglasses, ass-kicking, scoffing in the direction of The Man), are just that, surface qualities, said qualities, when they emerge from a place of authenticity, can often prompt into existence a unique type of fan response that extends the allocation fuck-giving types into an unstoppably cool juggernaut community... thing.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Okay, maybe not <i>that</i> calm. The strangely punctuated group Soil & "PIMP" Sessions was my introduction which I think is sometimes called "Japanese Club Jazz". Well, I certainly hope it's called that, because that means that there are some bomb ass clubs out there in Japan that I would really love to go to because this is on some hardcore shit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They call it "Death Jazz", which, let's be honest, doesn't really make any sense (I guess the aggressiveness?). But any band with someone credited as "agitator" and "spirit" who basically just wears sunglasses and shouts a lot through a megaphone can write themselves into my book under whatever the fuck kind of label they want.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There is a unique way in which Japan distills, reflects, and distorts American culture to its own ends, through it's own sensibilities. It's more than I have room to really go into, but I think in essence, the extremes in Japanese culture stand out more than they do in ours, if that makes sense. For--to use a maybe overused--example, <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/8/3967268/akb48-minami-minegishi-how-a-j-pop-cult-took-over-japan">tragicomically chaste pop stars</a>, but also used panty vending machines. So when, my friend pejoratively labeled </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Soil & "PIMP" Sessions</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> "cartoon jazz," I think he was actually bringing a pretty apt description to the language-party that is music-nerd conversation. Cartoons, after all, are manic, goofy, and hilarious. You know, like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6zDfxZ4NcE">Cowboy Bebop.</a> Or--</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In the era of YouTube views, soundcloud plays, Facebook likes, and Hypemachine, err, hypes..(?) using a metric notion of "actual sales" to determine "popularity" is, uh, confusing. And besides,</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> I'm not going to like bust out the Billboard Charts cause A. Who cares and B. that might threaten the truth of my ass-pulled-out-of assumption that, at least in certain cool kid circles, Thundercat might be the most popular jazz cat around (pun soooooo intended). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Earthlings first heard Stephen Bruner's blazing, spidery baselines darting through Flying Lotus' astral planes like an Arwing in all-range mode, and his neither-thunderous-nor-catlike falsetto musing over "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uCyv05SG1g">MmmHmm</a>", but its the post-millenial journey through George Duke-harmonies meets a million crazy bass tracks coming at you at once that is "The Golden Age of Apocalypse" that cements Thundercat as a truly badaas mofo.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">cool, but still. When so much of the "people should play instruments" rhetoric comes down to either rockist fetishization of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNOa5Gjh2lc&feature=youtu.be&t=7m19s">pointless displays of technical virtuousity</a> or rockist fetishization of, well, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZp3meyWVm0">playing instruments really badly</a>, and so much of the "good music" these days comes from people who need naught but a computer or sampler... well, there's room for both ok, and can't we just get along? (JK <3 YNGWIE)</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But that said, hearing/seeing someone just cut loose and play their instrument like no has ever played it before is an irreplaceable artistic experience, a principle Thundercat embodies the shit out of. You have not heard a bassist not only rock that many bass chords but harmonize them, all multitracked-like, to his own singing into an organic rhythmic and harmonic structure generally managed by only the saddest of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82yNxiF-T4A">Robert Johnsons</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And not only can he rock those rarely used bass harmonies literally better than any bass harmonies I've ever heard (since I have never heard any other one but still), but dudes singing chops take the heavy George Duke inspiration and bring us some beautifully lucid <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKnO73LfoGs">Daylight-bringing results</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You'll remember not a few months ago that when a certain mysterious half-Captain, half-Murphy burst onto the scene, an intrepid young reporter set out to <a href="http://furryloathing.blogspot.com/2012/09/who-is-captain-murphy-scathing-expose.html">uncover</a> just who really was behind the animated mask behind these animated records. Unfortunately, my so-called "trusted sources" turned out to be what they call, in the parlance of modern journalism, mistrue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">To say the least: HOLY FUCKING SHIT HOW CAN ONE PERSON BE SO GOOD AT EVERYTHING. It's like if in the 70's Martin Scorcese had come out one day and been like "Yup, I am actually Robert De Niro too"; if Snoop was also Dre; Kurosawa was Mifune; Kobe and The Zen Master, one and the same; or the singer from Blur was actually also every member of Gorillaz, or some insane shit like that. So to you, Flaptain Murphtus, I say, well played, good sir--or should I say "good <i>Captain</i>"--well played indeed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I mean, he's apparently made everything else. Besides FlyLo, the only person I can think of to have such crazy and multifaceted talent in the world is one Otis Jackson Jr: <a href="http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2012/02/madlib-medicine-show">prolific-as-fuck</a> master DJ, genius producer, not one but <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55JZyku67Jg" style="font-style: italic;">two</a><i> </i>great rappers, kickass multi-instrumentalist for an entire <i><a href="http://www.stonesthrow.com/ynq/">universe</a></i> of made-up bands, and all while singlehandedly facilitating the entire marijuana economy of the state of California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Writers always love to write about FlyLo's Alice Coltrane connection, but what if it's all just a big 'ol red herring, and the real answer was right under our noses the entire time? I mean:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Or, speaking of crazy eyes, uhh, what about <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/elijah-wood-lends-a-hand-to-flying-lotus-in-tiny-tortures-20121129">this?</a> It's not just <i>anyone</i> who is able to get Fro-Fro the Bag-man himself out of his Ring-induced pity-party and into a music video. Between <i>Duality</i> and <i>UTQC,</i> dude has dropped a veritable shit-ton of songs this year--and you know what else had a shit ton of songs? WELL, IT RHYMES WITH BOARD<i> </i>OF THE SHMINGS AMIRITE?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Anonymous? Gamma ray strong? <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/8/3611344/film-crit-hulk-interview">Polymath?</a> Not just (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1qKg3lAJnY">giant green</a>) hands down the best film writer on the entire internet (who may or may not have inspired a certain curious little hamster to take up the keyboard and blog), but <i>suspiciously good </i>writing about <a href="http://badassdigest.com/2012/05/06/film-crit-hulk-smash-hulk-vs-what-the-f-really-happen-to-weezer/">music</a> to (giant green/actually a foot) boot? WOULD ANYONE BE SURPRISED?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sorry for lack of posts lately--there was a hurricane which... got the internet... wet? Anyway, here is one of those songs you might have heard a lot on the radio (and/or in the background of your sultry yet emotional dream sequences) but don't actually know who it's by. Well, the answer, it turns out, is Canadians: written by Canadians David Tyson and Christopher Ward, and performed by Canadian Allanah Myles, who could very be off captaining the <a href="http://reggieclevelandallstars.com/">Reggie Cleveland All-Stars'</a> karaoke team right now. But actually, her Canadian-ness is not incidental to the song--that kind of cross-border line-straddling permeates both the music and everything around it. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Beyond the obvious bit of it being a Canadian eulogy of that American icon Elvis (which, ok, is not really that weird at all--even before the internet trampled all over the idea of the regional music scene, it's not like Canada was fucking Atlantis or something), the whole thing is very firmly a product of that strange, liminal time in which no one was quite sure as to whether it was the 80's or 90's yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Like, the production has that vaguely southern, pop country throwback twang that would come to erupt all over our faces like so like so much accidentally ingested <a href="http://youtu.be/WcOTYZFVT_0?t=6m55s">floam</a>*--but also those lovably ridiculous FM synth pads that it took ten years to realize don't actually sound like whatever the fuck instrument they were trying to imitate, a bassline that much <a href="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f28/bassist-black-velvet-cool-fretless-stuff-120693/index2.html#post7557753">forum wrangling</a> has determined to be a synth, and that quintessentially 80's distorted guitar chorus--along with all those awesome </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">(or, depending on your perspective, wanky)</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> little guitar fills, which you would never, ever hear in a pop song today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And at the same time, the video literally alternates between that classic 80's "leathery hairsprayed, band-on-stage bein' all fun and attractive and weirdly leaning all over each other" video trope, and that soon-to-be-established-as-classic <i>90's</i> "<a href="http://youtu.be/ka9mCmx9Jhs">girl in jeans just sort of hanging around steadicam shots of some house or cottage and like singing or something I dunno"</a>** video trope. And while it might be reading way too into it to point out that the video begins with a shot of a record player in a video made just on the cusp of the CD/digital age, I am going to point it out anyway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hi. How's it going? I know you get a bad rap, but I want to start off by saying, thanks for all the music! We all know you are far from perfect, and some parts of you--ok probably a lot--have strayed into full-on evil territory way more than any of us would have liked. But overall, I know that you have dedicated your lives to discovering and fostering and bringing us new and exciting music, and though I've never met you in person, I can only assume that anyone who would do that must be pretty cool. Which is why I would like to help you. So, inspired by </span><a href="http://lowerdens.tumblr.com/post/34308869231/on-spotify-and-music-consumption" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">a post</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> by Lower Dens frontwoman Jana Hunter on the economics of the music industry that has been making the internet-rounds lately, here are a few thoughts that I think might help us all out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Since Spotify finally opened its, uh, doors(?) here in the US, I have seen many people jump ship from both piracy and purchasing to instead legally streaming all their music, and since it's all legal and stuff, it must be better for the artists, right? Well, </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Lower Dens frontwoman Jana Hunter has come correct with an <a href="http://lowerdens.tumblr.com/post/34308869231/on-spotify-and-music-consumption">in-depth examination</a> on how the advent of streaming services (and the internet) has effected musicians' ability to actually make a living off their music, and it's not super pretty. I.e. the Spotify cut is tiny.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But that's not really what I want to talk about. Because while Hunter covers a lot of ground on the economics of music, there was one thing that I found particularly interesting. When adressing the common perception that "Record companies rob artists of profit more so than streaming," she replies that:</span><br />
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A common independent deal is the 50/50 deal, wherein a label pays for everything up front, and then recoups (takes back via profits) their costs, after you which you and your label split the remaining profits. If your record costs $40k, and your record makes $100k, you get $30k. If Spotify paid you for an equivalent amount of plays on their paid subscription service, you’d get $1250.</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Which is, like, good to know! Really! 50/50? Sounds like a pretty good deal for everyone involved. Were people less able to pull the "but all the moneys just go to the labels brahhhhh" argument, maybe they'd actually pay for more music. Or at least be less fucking self-righteous about it. But here's the thing:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>How the hell is anyone supposed to </i>know<i> this?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The gist of Hunter's message is that with technology constantly reshaping the landscape of music industry, we, the listeners have to act as a self-regulating force that guides said shaping into something that is mutually beneficial for everyone involved. Which is absolutely true. But t</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">he fact is, the actual economics of the music industry have been basically hidden from us, the fans/consumers, for its entire history. O</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">f </span><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">course</i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> most people don't understand the the economic implications of what they're doing--because how could we beyond very general statements about the industry as a whole, which, who knows what that means? "Sales declining? Thats probably just like, manufactured pop stars can't sell 20 million generic albums anymore, right? Not the music </span><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">real </i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">heads listen to right?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">In a <a href="http://lowerdens.tumblr.com/post/34460686839/a-response-from-our-label">followup post</a>, Hunter sums up her message to listeners as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Helvetica, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">A lot of people responded to 10/25 post and others with an almost confessional breakdown of their personal habits. “I spend x hours on spotify, go to x shows a month, and spend x amount on records,” and then drew various conclusions about their contributions to music. I hope that that sort of thing helps to put in perspective something about your relationship to music, and I’d really only respond to it by saying that if you don’t consider the flip-side, the musicians’ income, then you’re not seeing the end of that equation, and not getting a real picture.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And again, I say this is absolutely true. But again, maybe part of the reason no once considers the "flip-side, the musicians' income" is because that information is for the most part unavailable to us. I don't say this to attack Hunter or anything--on the contrary, her post goes into great detail on exactly this, which is exactly what I'm saying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But the music industry, indie or otherwise, needs to do far, far better than a few stray tumblr posts by artists on how much money they make from selling music in different formats. Shit like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc0mfw4EFEU">this</a> (warning, pretty violent 'cause it's the Boondocks) doesn't work, and actually exacerbates consumer resentment instead of building the listener-artist/label connection we need. Instead of vague platitudes or attacks, give us real data! People aren't stupid--I mean, this is the generation that's basically figured out how to topple the entire media industry. They can handle percentages.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />Listeners need to give far more consideration to the needs of the artists whose works they take part it. But understanding is a two-way street, and it is the musicians' and labels' responsibility to trust the people they depend on for livelihood enough to actually provide them with information on how their industry actually works. And don't just release it, publicize it! If someone is deciding on whether to buy or stream or download an album, maybe they could know exactly where that money goes, or how much it cost to make, or how badly the artist probably needs it to keep going. I dunno exactly, these are all just random ideas. But we need to try them, and many more, and we need to figure out a better level of economic transparency than the current standard of "none". Because it is only with a real understanding of the dynamics of their relationship with the music that consumers can begin to cooperate with artists in reshaping those dynamics into something that will better serve us all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If you are checking the Black Radio: Recovered EP as hard as <a href="http://furryloathing.blogspot.com/2012/10/sunday-jamz-v.html">I am</a> (why aren't you?!) you may have come across the name Jewels, and wondered who that is. Well, Jewels, my friends, is the fucking fantastic producer of underrated as fuck group Sunz of Soul, who should all be checking immediately. "Life, Love" is a powerful entry in a long line of "gettin by and livin life" rap manifestos that have dropped over the years. Over a loping drums and a sample that toes the line between smooth strings and haunting <i>woogity-woogity-woogity</i> and back across every few bars, Black Mamba and guest Shawn Struggle spit tales of life. And look, there's that rarity, an actually good hook! Boom it in ya boom it in ya boom it in ya jeep.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324125074970995911.post-38906834424001647002012-10-15T15:50:00.000-04:002012-10-17T03:19:20.152-04:00mathy mondays vi<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>fuck a rock song, it's mathy mondays!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yeah, this had a music video. The 90's were a strange time for rock. One time, I actually heard this song playing on the radio at a Guitar Center, and wondered whether I'd ended up in an alternate universe where someone had grabbed rock by it's cock and pulled it permanently inside out--like how they used to think female reproductive organs were literally just inverted male ones (people were dumb as hell back then--I would google you a link but my stomach is not up for the results "inside out victorian genitals" will bring right now)--and instead of macho, crushing riffitude our priorities became this. Really, all the good alt-rock bands had that thing they replaced their fore-overbearer's <a href="http://youtu.be/ZDN9y2vTdUs?t=7m52s">primal</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcgZIz0Fd-w">oft-putrid</a>* "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_3TlrZLpQ0">maleness</a>" with--e.g. Nirvana's nhilistic <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcXYz0gtJeM">roar</a>, My Bloody Valentine's vocal-masking <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyYMzEplnfU">washes of distortion</a>, Garbage's, uh, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tLvXKRYsHg">sexiness</a>--but Shudder To Think's was one of the weirdest. For once deconstruction is an actually apt term; it sounds like they disassembled a rock song into its constituent pieces, strew them across the floor, and then duct-taped them back together with no rhyme or reason into some horrific monstrosity that just barely works, Sid-style.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here comes a part of a riff! Oh wait there's a downbeat! What the fuck it's a vocal! All just coming and going at wrongly timed intervals, the result of too small gears connected to too long pinions... or something. Throw in the seriously homoerotic video, and guitarist Christian Bale's** at first fairly straightforward sounding guitar solo made utterly weird by context until it evolves into a little buzzsaw of noise itself, and the next time you hear a normal song you'll wonder--just what the fuck is <i>really</i> going on under there anyway?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This is the shit they play in heaven at night.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324125074970995911.post-63203734555978949162012-10-12T18:21:00.000-04:002012-10-17T04:10:35.748-04:00Rafiq Bhatia - Strata EP - Pt. 1 (in which nothing is said about the actual album)<div style="text-align: center;">
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People don't really listen to jazz. That is, a lot of people who <i>should</i> listen to jazz, don't listen to jazz. Oh sure, everyone has their brief flings with Miles Davis and John Coltrane or whatever; and lots of people even go further and actually continue to learn about and listen to all that stuff, but I'm talking <i>current jazz</i>--the fucking shit that is happening <i>right now</i>. And Rafiq Bhatia's "Strata" EP, released earlier this week, is a blazing spacecraft, pointing the way though hyperspace to what the thing called "jazz" can be in 2012 and beyond. Or maybe already is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What the hell is jazz anyway? Peeps toss around words like and "improvised" and "saxophone" as if that would define. Sorry but no. If you're interested you can read some really <a href="http://nicholaspayton.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/1319/">angry</a> yet <a href="http://nicholaspayton.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/on-why-jazz-isnt-cool-anymore/">often on point shit</a> by Nicholas Payton on the history of the word "jazz", and the not little controversy that <a href="http://jazztruth.blogspot.com/2011/12/much-ado-about-nicholas-payton.html">followed</a>, but right now I'd rather just get some kind of operational definition that encompasses its unique ethos and explains the connection between a large and sometimes disparate group of musicians.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When most people think of "jazz" today, they are thinking of the creatively, African-American based-musics of the 50's and 60's, and maybe the various strains that branched off from them the 70's, but that is pretty much as far as they go, though it does go much further.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We got this kind of jazz--which is, for all intents in purposes, Jazz, so let's dispense with the qualifyingyness--when Bebop, with its emphasis on instrumental mastery, first splintered off from the rest of the jazz world. And while it might be an oversimplification to say that the goal of Bebop was to play some shit that white people couldn't play, I think that ethos has been and continues to be the defining factor of jazz to this day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">From Bebop, we moved to Cool Jazz, which on the surface would seem to be the antithesis of the former's lighting fast, fiery, competitive nature. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But, after all, its pioneer, Miles Motherfucking Davis, was there for Bebop, and while he may not have drawn explicitly on its vocabulary, did draw heavily on its</span><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> meaning</i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, as did most of the jazz that followed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But mastery of the instrument. Before we can discuss this, lets just get it out of the way that mastery of the instrument <i>does not mean playing really fast</i>. I would just use the word virtuosity, which <i>should</i> mean the same thing, but unfortunately it's been pretty much hijacked to mean stupid shit like child prodigies, <a href="http://youtu.be/jOCbkapkDzA?t=7m40s">guitar speed record holders</a>, and/or Yngwie Fucking Malmsteen, or as he is known in some circles, <a href="http://youtu.be/XNOa5Gjh2lc?t=7m19s">the most coolest motherfucker in the entire world</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Aaaaaanyway, this language, the kind of shared though still differing schools of Jazz, reached kind of critical mass in the mid-to-late 60's (as did like everything else) with the electric experiments of Miles, the swirling mixture of dissonance and spirituality of John Coltrane, and the <i>sui generis</i> free jazz of Ornette Coleman, before splintering off in the 70's into stuff like post-<i>Bitches Brew</i> fusion, post-Trane Black Saint/Soul Note, a whole bunch of crazy and sometimes European free jazz, and eventually *shudder* smooth jazz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I mean, look, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sayOJKN6yuo">This band</a> opened for fucking Neil Young at the Filmore. The Byrds' Roger McGuinn drew inspiration from John Coltrane for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH6UnvSlahc">this</a> guitar solo; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Thompson">Chester Thompson</a> could drum with Weather Report and Frank Zappa and even fucking Genesis; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW7mCDmP644">Rashaan Roland Roland Kirk</a> would jam with Jimi Hendrix (and if I could take a time machine to any jam session in history this would no question be it).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Behold... a bunch of <i>very</i> fractured riffs, bouncing off each other over a springy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman_Stick">Chapman Stick</a> bassline. Which is all well and good and weird and mathy, and surprisingly fun (though hazardous) to airdrum to. But if you're not in love, just get to like the 2:10 mark, because there shit gets magical. Out of pretty much nowhere, a serious taping riff takes us away, building up a bed of emerald, videogame skies until we're comfortable--and then back come those bouldery riffs, crashing down in percussive crests, followed by a digital-sounding guitar solo I wish was about 27 times as long, but digital like how Neo is digital; the sound of chiptune having sex with Eddie Van Halen. ...uhhh yeah and then back to riffs again; but honestly I'm mostly just in it for the nigh-godly middle part. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This is the soundtrack to the most epic of bossfights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Holy shitfuck its indie rock! Only, unlike a whole lot of that stuff, MMJ mastermind Jim James/Yim Yames can actually <i>sing</i>. Witness his gruff throat croons over a fat, wierdly accented Bonzo-meets-breakbeat; the riff, the whole momentum of the riff driving forward, stop, forward... Undoubtedly a southern-inflected anthem for chilling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ok, I was going to finally break out the totally insane tech death metal shit today, but this just isn't a totally insane tech death metal kind of morning, so we are going with something a bit more relaxing. River Man is in 5/4, maybe the chillest of the non-standard odd meters, and, while it's not the mathiest thing ever, that is pretty weird for folk music right? More importantly, it is great. The strumming pattern creates kind of a stepping motion, as the song's subject, Betty, either steps through or imagines exploring the river, which then flows around her in lush string arrangements by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirby">Robert Kirby</a> (who arranged like every frickin British prog folk album ever) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Robinson_(musician)">Harry Robertson</a>. Listen to this while walking around on a foggy morning in Cambridge, where Drake probably wrote a lot of this album; or just close your eyes, and pretend you're in Narnia. Sometimes math can pop up in the strangest places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Shigeto comin through with this hauntingly beautiful chillibration of a tribute to Detroitian gone-to-soons Aaliyah and J Dilla. There's something about the shuffle of this one. As </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I am huge a sucker off kilter rhodes chords, pitch shifted ghost choruses, weird synth horns, and sustained string notes and reverb getting sucked in and out up by fat, sidechained kicks,</span><br />
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Strong Arm Steady & Statik Selektah come correct with some classic cruisin in convertibles with your crew on those hot summer afternoons bumpin boom-bap shit. What is there to say about a song like this? Just three veteran MC's who know exactly what they're doing; </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mitchy Slick's blunt slickness, Krondon's burning gravel throat, and Phil Da Agony's scattershot shout, complementing</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> each other perfectly as the smooth, stringy beat. Neither genre-defying nor overly defined;</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">not overly derivative, but still pretty precedented; not an apex, but one of many</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> quiet little everyday pinnacles, not GoAT but just... damn good. And while that praise can sound faint it is anything but; as much we like to talk about the ruthless, reckless innovators blazing their boundary-shattering trails throughout the turbulent yet stagnated world of music/art/the actual world, how we sometimes forget: e</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">xploring familiar grounds need not diminish their value or enjoyment. Especially when its this shit. Aw yeah. Dude comin' in hard on the third verse. Have we heard it all before? Sure, kind of. But who gives a fuck? I</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">t's all in the title.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324125074970995911.post-86306111899014754932012-09-24T12:10:00.004-04:002012-09-24T12:13:17.077-04:00mathy mondays iii<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Adders, subtracters, multipliers, and dividers, witness the Steve Lehman Octet, explorers of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_music">spectral harmony</a>, which is not a thing I totally understand other than that it sounds hella cool, injecting scalene subdivisions into the dance of the Liquid Swords on their crystalline cover of the GZA's "<a href="http://youtu.be/JwF_tbF0zTY">Living In The World Today</a>". Transmuting the RZA's weirdly truncated flute/vibes sample into actual vibraphone and this crazy hitch-of-a-beat thing that, lead on by drumming leviathan Tyshawn Sorey's 5th dimensional clock-tick hihat "timekeeping", threatens to give your neck some seriously confusing repetitive strain injuries. Replace rap with arabesque sax, stir, and run the hell away before it explodes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Do you want more?!!!??! Check </span><a href="http://pirecordings.com/album/pi30" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">the album</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">. Even more? Check </span><a href="http://pirecordings.com/album/pi26" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Fieldwork</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, the Cream (ie supergroup, also featuring Sorey) of modern jazz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If rappers had any balls, they would rap over the groove at the end. If you think jazz is dead, then know that at least it lives on a fucking flesh eating zombie. And not those lumbering fleshheads, but the James Gunn, 2004, <i>Dawn of The Dead </i>remake kind of zombie. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have basically been looping this song all week, because 777-9311, by The Time, is one of the ballsiest pieces of funk--and maybe song--ever. First, you've got the one, or the absence of it. Where most funk draws its, uh, funk from the first downbeat of the bar, but here we just have this batshit crazy <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3SK5xumSqU">linndrum thing</a>, which hits on like every <i>other </i>beat to create one of the most unique, syncopated grooves out there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then stemmping from that, we got some faintly kaleidoscopic guitar strumming (I dunno what chords those are but they are sweet), a rubbery baseline that, if you sat there for an hour trying to learn like I did it before giving in and looking it up, you'll find is actually <i><a href="http://youtu.be/mtkKfdTOk2c?t=4m1s">two</a> </i>basslines, one slap, one synth, which, voiced really close together, but actually totally different, and some classic Prince synth stabs. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Plus, the chorus , instead of just dividing up the beats evenly across the lyrics "seven seven seven nine three one one", holds the three extra long, then sings the more awkward, three syllable "eleven", because that is just a little weirder and more awesome. And, Prince even manages to shred it up at the with a <i>three minute</i> guitar solo. Would any hit song ever have that now? (or be 8 minutes long, for that matter?). </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Also, all the parts of this song, are written, produced, and played by Prince--with the sole exception of Morris Day on lead vocals--so, all non-Prince musicians, good luck with your life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But regardless of all that shit, this reporter would like to put us on a totally different track of internetified zeitgeistotronic-arguo-discussion as to exactly what a music video has the power to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Music videos,and the shots in them, exist on a spectrum. One one end, you have music videos that is pretty much just a bunch of shots of the musician/band. Closer to those old school promotional videos bands would sometimes makein the 60's and 70's. [1] Often these will just be footage of them performing live, or in a studio, or just a room or something.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">On the other, you got the crazy "music video-y" shit. What. Don't give me that; you fuckers all know what I <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914">mean</a>. And while I didn't exactly research this claim, I would say this probably grew out of the explosion of resources and popularity of the music video world that started in the 80's. Sometimes these are just absolutely spastic malarky, but generally they tell some kind of story that is somehow tangentially related to the song. [2]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Oh god that got tangenty. Anyway, I just want to talk about the stuff on the former side of the spectrum. The most basic, and perhaps important aspect of the music video. The thing a standalone song actually cannot do. And that is to <u>s</u></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><u>how you what the damn band actually looks like</u>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Gunplay video up there is, minus some, uh, funky editing, is pretty simple. Dude standing there rapping. But it's the <i>way</i> that dude is standing there rapping that makes him, well, Gunplay. The sneer, the hilarious way he rolls his eyes and looks up to see how gods grace is--hell, I could write you a fucking essay just charting the positons and movements of his hands (double barrel gunz at 1:32 ftw)--him losing his shit on the molly lines and then coming back down to name drop fucking Amar'e Stoudemire (which leads me to believe Gunplay hasn't seen a Knicks game in the last year)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Most rap videos (</span><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">especially </i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">from the 90's [3]) are like this. Pretty basic. Which really works for the genre, and not just for budgetary reasons, since the charisma/perceivable swag of the rapper is often the most important aspect of the music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">After all, there's a reason that even with with all the money he's been gettin' from the fuckin start that could conceivably be blown on some crazy Hype Williams shit, Rick Ross still makes <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MVzP4MaJ0">videos</a> where he just stands around rapping (okay and sits a lot, but it is Rick Ross we're talkng about.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We'll get off rap in a second, but here's just a few more examples. Ab-Soul's hilarious manifesto "Gone Insane" generally makes me dance around, shake my hands, make silly faces, and just generally bob around all drunken master-style. But when I played it for a friend, I could see he just wasn't feeling it--wasn't moving to the weird, fun, funky rhythms of Ab-Soul himself. [4]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"It's better if you see the video" I found myself saying. And that's when I realized, all that weird shit I do when I hear this song listed above? You know who else does that? Fucking Ab-Soul himself:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It's not that the song is actually made better by the video, or that it's worse with out it, but that by allowing us to see how Ab-Soul himself is physically affected by the music, we can just gain a different and maybe better </span><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">understanding</i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> of the song that we wouldn't have had otherwise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cause look, we don't always appreciate a song right away. Sometimes its just not to our tastes, but sometimes you're just missing something. And Movement such an innate part of music (cue faux-anthropological bullshit about dancing around fires or whatever) that often, you'll find, just seeing the artist flopping around to the music coming from inside <i>them</i> is what ultimately unlocks whatever its going to do inside <i>you</i>. [5] Like, maybe you find Danny Brown kind of annoying. But when you see the dude, you might realize, oh, this dude is <a href="http://youtu.be/QSX4vkHENLk">entertaining as fuck</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But actually, onto the non-rap! Take for example, this Shiina Ringo song, "Yattsuke Shigoto" (which apparently translates to: half-assed job). Just casually listening to it, you might get a pretty standard RAWK vibe, albeit with a pretty interesting bassline and some good singing. But watching the video:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The song title translates, from what I can tell, to "half-assed job", which makes sense. Here is a badass badass mofo rocking the kimono, wailing away, but all through that impenetrable air of not giving a <i>fuuuuuck, </i>so that when some sort of emotion/energy does break through--peep the </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">crazy eyes at 1:30--it punctuates the feeling/attitude of the song in a constantly developing way, leading up to those brief flashes of crazy at 2:28 and 2:33, and culminating with the creepy whites-of-the-eyes-only-stare at 2:40. Oh, and not to mention </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">breaking out the fucking </span><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">fan</i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> at 1:57?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The point of all this is not that I am kind of in love with Shiina Ringo [6], but simply that the way musicians movements and expressions develop over the course of a song can tell us its story in a different, kind of primal way we couldn't have experienced otherwise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Not to belabor the point here, but the same kind of thing happened to me with Swedish pop-gician Robyn. I wasn't a huge fan of this song, that all the other hamsters were constantly bumpin, but then I saw the video, and well</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ultimately, I guess, what I am trying to say is while you can't judge a book by it's cover, sometimes a cover can help you find a new way of understanding book. And it's not even just videos--some things that have made me understand and even love music I hadn't been into at all before include: the album cover, an interview with the artists, seeing it used in a movie, blasting on a highway, hearing it headphones in the rain, listening in a different city, watching people dance it in a club, hearing it LOUD, watching a friend react to parts of it I'd never noticed, hearing a cover, actually playing on an instrument myself, hearing a live version, and most of all, reading what others have to say about it. Reading reviews, reading criticism; traveling back in the day with reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Out-Vinyl-Deeps-Ellen-Willis/dp/0816672830/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348189197&sr=1-1&keywords=ellen+willis">Ellen Willis</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Giants-Jazz-Studs-Terkel/dp/156584999X/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348189227&sr=1-2-fkmr0&keywords=studs+turkel+jazz">Studs Turkel</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Psychotic-Reactions-Carburetor-Dung-Literature/dp/0679720456/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348189170&sr=8-1&keywords=lester+bangs">Lester Bangs</a>, an interneting it up today with <a href="http://allmusic.com/">AMG</a>, <a href="http://darkforcesswing.blogspot.com/">Dark Forces Swing</a>, or <a href="http://passionweiss.com/">Passion of The Weiss</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">[2] Or, y'know, there was that time Michael Bay directs a music video for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GNhdQRbXhc">Meatloaf</a>. Which feels like it really explains... something.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Dat bass!</i> I just heard this shit for the first time last night, very loudly, and having that blasting gyroscope of a bassline churning </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">beneath a rotating cavalcade of strings, weird little guitar jibberings, oohs, ahhs, and, of course, french accented singing was enough to send any hamster scurrying off to the internets to hear it again, and again, and again... The song was apparently written by the bassist, Phillipe Lemongne, who unfortunately seems to be on nothing else, much to the detriment of funk. Now I am going to check out the rest of this album, <i>Mambo Nassau</i>, 'cause that shit was recorded in the <i>Bahamas.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">EDIT: Also, does that crazy ass skittery drumbeat not prefigure that Low End Theory skittery <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANHu6CUnOro">drum</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtjZOf0WmdE">steez</a>? (and contemporaneous craziness like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJHzCrBJ-wQ">this</a>)</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324125074970995911.post-35655507018691607362012-09-13T19:54:00.003-04:002015-04-10T02:03:07.520-04:00Who is Captain Murphy: a scathing expose by Hamtaro S. Thompson<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><u><b>UPDATE:</b></u> in the wake of <i>shocking</i> new revelations, we have issued a follow up report, which you can read <a href="http://furryloathing.blogspot.com/2012/11/who-fuck-is-flying-lotus-way-more.html">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />Since bursting onto the scene a couple months ago with this blistering Flying Lotus + Earl Sweatshirt </span><a href="http://stereogum.com/1100341/flying-lotus-between-friends-feat-earl-sweatshirt-captain-murphy/mp3s/" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">collabo</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, Captain Murphy has left the mouths of the collective hip hop blogosphere have been agog with one question: just who </span><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">is</i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> the purveyor of this new brand of deep throated, well-animated madvillainy? A rapper with the balls to literally descend into gibberish in </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4amEWUw6t4" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">the middle of a verse</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, but beyond that, Captain Murphy is also really fucking good. But while most peoples theories seem to just end with "it's probably Tyler, The Creator," this reporter is a fucking journalist, and, idle speculation be damned, intends to do his fucking job.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It's not Lil B.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Malice of the Clipse </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">While Pusha-T was busy infiltrating the p4k editorial staff and submarine racing Kanye to the next man-made coke-volcano island, perhaps one Gene Thornton merely bid his time before unleashing a villainous and piratey assault of verbiage over similarly lurky production from some potential <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4cT5mLu2ME">next-Neptunes</a>. Apparently he's also changed his name to No Malice--and isn't that kind of 180 away from such emotion just a little too convenient for someone who is hiding said supervillain status?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">HAS ANYONE EVER SEEN MIMS AND CAPTAIN MURPHY IN THE SAME ROOM I ASK YOU?!?!?!?!?!?! Actually has anyone seen MIMS in the last five years at all? Plus, how much of a coup would it be if he had actually been some hard-talking, baritoned garble-master the entire time? It would certainly go to great lengths to demystify the apparent reflexivity of his hotness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You know, actually this one kind of makes sense. He even has the Flying Lotus <a href="http://soundcloud.com/lil-z-x-otroscosmosis/i-think-im-flylo">connection</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Whether <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ3xkWuP3Ck&feature=youtu.be&t=3m2s">sacrificing Tipper Gore's favorite chicken</a> or providing us with images of an alternate universe in which not only is Glenn Danzig a movie star but in which Glenn Danzig is a movie star starring the film <i>X-Men </i>(2000), in which movie star Glenn Danzig is playing the part of the character Wolverine, only, compared to our fey little Hugh Jackman-Wolverine-playing-based universe, Glenn Danzig: singer, songwriter, comic author, punk-legend, entrepreneur, alternate universe movie star, Misfit, Samhainian, and, uh, Danzig is <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/05/danzig_legacy_wolverine_stalker_misfits.php?page=2">playing him less gay.</a> So why not Captain Murphy as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In the world of electronic music, there seems to be like a ten percent chance that anything new is actually some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tuss">new</a> <a href="http://aphextwin.wetpaint.com/page/Richard+D.+James+and+His+Aliases">alias</a> of Aphex Twin. I see no reason not to extend that theory here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Kind of similar; no one seems to know who Burial is, <i>even when they <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-real-school-of-rock-780693.html">know</a> <a href="http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/347/">who</a> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/oct/26/urban">he</a> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/aug/06/burial.myspace?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487">is</a>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>*Wooooogity woogity woogity...*</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But actually, perhaps we are looking at this wrong. In fact, much of the proof may just be in the lyrics. To wit:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's all there: "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4amEWUw6t4">I'm Gojira in the mirror on some nonstop chop</a>." Who else would see themselves in the mirror as such but what is essentially a Godzilla made in variously Alien and Japanese government <i>Kaiju</i> chop shops?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Batman's crazy ass League of Shadows-trained son, no doubt <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVCH8O-5DzI">"lives his life like [he's] Bruce Wayne, in bittersweet pain ... and guilt..."</a> just as does the new Robin as he attempts outgrow his childhood as an assassin in order to became a hero and good person. With all those Batman samples, you might be asking, "but is he not then more likely to be The Batman himself?" to which I would only say "um, Batman isn't real, dumbass."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But after putting myself through the (proverbial) ringer, unearthing mass conspiracies, and pouring a literal metric fuckton of liquid adrenaline into my brain, this reporter can proudly say that here is the big one, the exclusive, the huge-ass-motherfucking-scoop-de-la-scoop to end all internet-hip-hop-blogs-looking-for-the-identies-of-anonymous-rappers-who-everyone-thinks-is-Tyler-The-Creator-for-some-reason scoops. Because my friends, the answer all along, was right under our noses. Verbose? Good with words? A phenomenon, yet somehow able to remain unseen by the public. Ye gods, and stay back, my friends. For Captain Murphy, quite obviously, now that you think about it, none other, than... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Captain Murphy is Thomas Pynchon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hamtaro S. Thompson. Signing out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(You're welcome.)</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7324125074970995911.post-36930272667896207682012-09-10T11:32:00.004-04:002012-09-16T11:58:18.361-04:00mathy mondays I<i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Flail your arms in crazy meters on your way to work--it's mathy monday!</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">How does Hella write a song? I always figured they just covered all the frets they wanted to use in honey, unleashed a swarm of bees, wound up Zach Hill, and let everything do its magic. Or maybe they just sit around the campfire, figuring out with some percussion and the trusty ol' <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiohHh6hkpE">acoustic</a> geetar? ...</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I guess that's why I don't play this stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(also, you gotta love that shit at :57.)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0