Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Your new favourite video game
New Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People Point-Blank In The Face
Ironic gaming is here.
You can play this gorefest here.
jej
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Piracy Mix - Everything is A-OK
I haven't made a mix in a long while, so I figured it was time to. This mix is entitled 'Everything is A-OK'. It's my cheer up because music is great mix.
1 - Seasick Steve - Yellow Dog
2 - B.R.M.C. - Whatever happened to my Rock n' Roll
3 - Sonic Youth - Reena
4 - The Hellacopters - Toys and Flavours
5 - Tokyo Police Club - Your English Is Good
6 - The Bank Holidays - This Elated Height
7 - The Eels - I like birds
8 - The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
9 - School of Seven Bells - Face to face in high places
10 - Pivot - Oh Soundtrack My Heart
11 - Secret Machines - Lightning Blue Eyes
12 - Death Cab for Cutie - Sound of settling
13 - Silversun Pickups - Melatonin
14 - The Beatles - Think for yourself
15 - The White Stripes - fell in love with a girl
16 - We Are Scientists - After Hours
17 - Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
18 - Fleet Foxes - blue ridge mountains
19 - Smog - I'm Here Now
20 - Yo La Tengo - You don't have to be sad
That's it :)
jej
1 - Seasick Steve - Yellow Dog
2 - B.R.M.C. - Whatever happened to my Rock n' Roll
3 - Sonic Youth - Reena
4 - The Hellacopters - Toys and Flavours
5 - Tokyo Police Club - Your English Is Good
6 - The Bank Holidays - This Elated Height
7 - The Eels - I like birds
8 - The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
9 - School of Seven Bells - Face to face in high places
10 - Pivot - Oh Soundtrack My Heart
11 - Secret Machines - Lightning Blue Eyes
12 - Death Cab for Cutie - Sound of settling
13 - Silversun Pickups - Melatonin
14 - The Beatles - Think for yourself
15 - The White Stripes - fell in love with a girl
16 - We Are Scientists - After Hours
17 - Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
18 - Fleet Foxes - blue ridge mountains
19 - Smog - I'm Here Now
20 - Yo La Tengo - You don't have to be sad
That's it :)
jej
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Telly - One Tree Hill - S1 and S2
Okay, the summer before last I finally sat down and watched The O.C. all the way through and realised that I have a total boner for lame teenage dramas. I watched the original 90210 as a kid, and of course Degrassi, and I guess I just forgot somewhere along the way that I really dug watching this trite garbage. SO, after speeding through the awesome Gossip Girl and getting up to date, we decided it was time to check out One Tree Hill. After all, there's 6 seasons of the thing so far, which means more to watch.
Here's the opening, with the nasaly awfulness of Gavin DeGraw:
Wait until episode 1.10 when you see him play it on the show. Yes, this show has classy performers starring in it, just like all teen trash shows should.
The beginning of Season One was hard work for me. I needed to play Tetris while watching to get through some of these episodes. When it all began there was this huge emphasis on sport, I only liked a couple of characters and not that much, and everything about it was this confusing try hard mess. Once it found it's feet a little further along I became an attentive viewer. It still train wrecks pretty often, but now I enjoy the trainwrecks because of the little moments inbetween where I'm an actual fan of this retarded television show. One of my favourite moments was when Blair took out Mouth, the nerdy guy, for a lap dance. The tone is all 'awww, this is a nice show' and they're in a strip club. Both of them have naked women giving them lap dances. It's golden.
A fan has slapped together this little montage of the events of Season One. Before you jump in, let me explain a couple of things. The blonde "spunk" is Lucas Scott. His mother (who I'm totally in love with) is Karen Roe. She has sex with the evil huge monster man Dan in high school and had a baby that she raised on her own. Why? Because Dan left her and hooked up with this chick Deb two seconds later to father Nathan Scott, Lucas Scott's half brother. Nathan Scott is the brooding brown haired doofus in the video.
You still following me?
Okay, so Lucas is super good at basketball, and so is Nathan. Lucas is finally going to stop playing b-ball on the streets and start playing in the high school team, alongside his half brother who hates him.
...let's leave it at that for now. Check out the vid:
Okay so, that chick that Nathan is kissing at 2:12 is Haley James. I HATE Haley James. I hated her right from the start, and then when she totally did the wrong thing by Nathan later on in the series I was all like "YEAH! I freakin' KNEW IT! BIIITCH!". TV is awesome. The other great thing about Haley James is her parents. We never see them for all of season one, and then we finally get to see them at the start of season two, and her Dad is none other than HUEY LEWIS!!!!!
You notice all that business with blondy Lucas, the blonde Peyton and the brunette Brooke? That's a total love triangle, ala Archie choosing between Betty and Veronica. The series tries so hard to make us like Lucas. He's the main character, and they continually try and make him out to be this smart book reading man. He's always quoting random people in conversation, while at the same time playing a lot of basketball and making really stupid infantile decisions. Now that I'm part way through season 3 I like him. I'm all like "Oh Lucas, you silly stupid young boy". I think maybe that's the charm of this show. That it has so many seasons. I have at least that long to get to know these dumb characters properly. Anyway, speaking of quotes, they aren't just your average quote either. There's some random quotes going on in here. One week he's quoting Chaucer or something, the next Bukowski, the next I heard a quote from Douglas Adams. I think my favourite was when he quoted Stephen King! I didn't think anyone ever quoted Stephen King, but I stand corrected.
There is this strange sense that Marck Schwahn, the creator of this awesome travesty, kind of knows what he's doing. Some of the transitions between scenes are kind of clever (yes, I noticed that) and the names of the episodes are all linked to bands and album titles. There's even an episode entitled from the edge of the deep green sea. Go the CURE! WOOT!
The more I type, the more I realise I could type forever about this crap. I'll try and keep it condensed, but I apologise in advance if it gets a bit too scary to read. Please don't judge me.
Okay, so this is Peyton.
To be honest, when I first saw her in the show, her introduction was leaning towards 'this is the hottest chick on the show' and I didn't see it. She's not ugly by any means, but I didn't understand the fascination that the show was trying to put on her. Then I kept watching it. Now she's my favourite part of the show and I'm totally in love with her. Apart from being one of the few redeemable characters (so far anyway) she can act. When she cries I get all upset like a big lame baby man. She name drops all these bands and has the coolest room in the universe, but the name dropping is forced and confusing. One minute she's saying she loves bands like Modest Mouse so I'm all 'yeah!' and then she's wearing a Dashboard Confessional t-shirt and I realise that the name dropping is possibly for my benefit, and the t-shirt is for some dashboard fans benefit. My absolute favourite thing about Peyton is her accent. She does the American accent thing fine, but every single time she says 'about' or any other 'o' sound, I can hear her awesome Canadian accent shining through and I go 'awwwww. Peyton is the best'.
I know I'm not selling this (or myself) very well at all, but it's so addictive.
Rather than go into detail about other aspects of the show that I love/hate I'll finish up by describing my reactions to one of the episodes I watched last night, ep3.7. It was mostly just boring me. The whole setup was about girls picking boys to date in this wierd sexist ballot voting manner. It was kind of creeping me out, and then Mister C shows up:
That's right. You're looking at a super old Mister Cunningham from Happy Days. Mouth and Peyton sneek him out of an old folks home to go for a go-kart ride. It's all very sweet and dull and a perfectly legitimate use of my time (SARCASM) and then BAM! this old man makes me cry. Look at his lame ass face. Why did I cry at that shit? Because this show is awesome and Peyton is awesome.
One last thing. Here's Peyton as a Death Angel. You know you want to watch this and make me feel less shamed out.
jej
Here's the opening, with the nasaly awfulness of Gavin DeGraw:
Wait until episode 1.10 when you see him play it on the show. Yes, this show has classy performers starring in it, just like all teen trash shows should.
The beginning of Season One was hard work for me. I needed to play Tetris while watching to get through some of these episodes. When it all began there was this huge emphasis on sport, I only liked a couple of characters and not that much, and everything about it was this confusing try hard mess. Once it found it's feet a little further along I became an attentive viewer. It still train wrecks pretty often, but now I enjoy the trainwrecks because of the little moments inbetween where I'm an actual fan of this retarded television show. One of my favourite moments was when Blair took out Mouth, the nerdy guy, for a lap dance. The tone is all 'awww, this is a nice show' and they're in a strip club. Both of them have naked women giving them lap dances. It's golden.
A fan has slapped together this little montage of the events of Season One. Before you jump in, let me explain a couple of things. The blonde "spunk" is Lucas Scott. His mother (who I'm totally in love with) is Karen Roe. She has sex with the evil huge monster man Dan in high school and had a baby that she raised on her own. Why? Because Dan left her and hooked up with this chick Deb two seconds later to father Nathan Scott, Lucas Scott's half brother. Nathan Scott is the brooding brown haired doofus in the video.
You still following me?
Okay, so Lucas is super good at basketball, and so is Nathan. Lucas is finally going to stop playing b-ball on the streets and start playing in the high school team, alongside his half brother who hates him.
...let's leave it at that for now. Check out the vid:
Okay so, that chick that Nathan is kissing at 2:12 is Haley James. I HATE Haley James. I hated her right from the start, and then when she totally did the wrong thing by Nathan later on in the series I was all like "YEAH! I freakin' KNEW IT! BIIITCH!". TV is awesome. The other great thing about Haley James is her parents. We never see them for all of season one, and then we finally get to see them at the start of season two, and her Dad is none other than HUEY LEWIS!!!!!
You notice all that business with blondy Lucas, the blonde Peyton and the brunette Brooke? That's a total love triangle, ala Archie choosing between Betty and Veronica. The series tries so hard to make us like Lucas. He's the main character, and they continually try and make him out to be this smart book reading man. He's always quoting random people in conversation, while at the same time playing a lot of basketball and making really stupid infantile decisions. Now that I'm part way through season 3 I like him. I'm all like "Oh Lucas, you silly stupid young boy". I think maybe that's the charm of this show. That it has so many seasons. I have at least that long to get to know these dumb characters properly. Anyway, speaking of quotes, they aren't just your average quote either. There's some random quotes going on in here. One week he's quoting Chaucer or something, the next Bukowski, the next I heard a quote from Douglas Adams. I think my favourite was when he quoted Stephen King! I didn't think anyone ever quoted Stephen King, but I stand corrected.
There is this strange sense that Marck Schwahn, the creator of this awesome travesty, kind of knows what he's doing. Some of the transitions between scenes are kind of clever (yes, I noticed that) and the names of the episodes are all linked to bands and album titles. There's even an episode entitled from the edge of the deep green sea. Go the CURE! WOOT!
The more I type, the more I realise I could type forever about this crap. I'll try and keep it condensed, but I apologise in advance if it gets a bit too scary to read. Please don't judge me.
Okay, so this is Peyton.
To be honest, when I first saw her in the show, her introduction was leaning towards 'this is the hottest chick on the show' and I didn't see it. She's not ugly by any means, but I didn't understand the fascination that the show was trying to put on her. Then I kept watching it. Now she's my favourite part of the show and I'm totally in love with her. Apart from being one of the few redeemable characters (so far anyway) she can act. When she cries I get all upset like a big lame baby man. She name drops all these bands and has the coolest room in the universe, but the name dropping is forced and confusing. One minute she's saying she loves bands like Modest Mouse so I'm all 'yeah!' and then she's wearing a Dashboard Confessional t-shirt and I realise that the name dropping is possibly for my benefit, and the t-shirt is for some dashboard fans benefit. My absolute favourite thing about Peyton is her accent. She does the American accent thing fine, but every single time she says 'about' or any other 'o' sound, I can hear her awesome Canadian accent shining through and I go 'awwwww. Peyton is the best'.
I know I'm not selling this (or myself) very well at all, but it's so addictive.
Rather than go into detail about other aspects of the show that I love/hate I'll finish up by describing my reactions to one of the episodes I watched last night, ep3.7. It was mostly just boring me. The whole setup was about girls picking boys to date in this wierd sexist ballot voting manner. It was kind of creeping me out, and then Mister C shows up:
That's right. You're looking at a super old Mister Cunningham from Happy Days. Mouth and Peyton sneek him out of an old folks home to go for a go-kart ride. It's all very sweet and dull and a perfectly legitimate use of my time (SARCASM) and then BAM! this old man makes me cry. Look at his lame ass face. Why did I cry at that shit? Because this show is awesome and Peyton is awesome.
One last thing. Here's Peyton as a Death Angel. You know you want to watch this and make me feel less shamed out.
jej
AOTW - Ulver
Okay, Album Of The Week has been on hiatus since 2008 so I figured that now we're 3 months into 2009 it was time to start it up again, or at least rant about music on here some.
Something that I've decided it was about time to do was get ALL the albums from bands that I totally dig. It's something I've been meaning to do for a while, but now I'm finally getting on to it.
The first band off the rank was Ulver. Ulver is Norwegian for Wolves. They started out as a pretty straight black metal band, which then kind of became this experimental folky black metal thing, which then became industrial/experimental/dunno music. Even though the change in style could seem drastic I think they've still kept that amazing Ulver tone and atmosphere. There's just something undefinable that I totally dig about their music.
Here's the last track from their 1994 album 'Bergtatt' - ' Ind i Fjeldkamrene'. Tell me this isn't amazing black metal:
See? I love how it changes from black metal into this classical wanky guitar thing, but for some reason it makes sense. It doesn't sound like Zorn or Mike Patton, jumping from one style to the next in a jarring way. That's cool and all, but I love how Ulver can pull it off without it being this kind of 'shock' thing. It just makes sense and fits.
Then you can jump to their 2005 album 'Blood Inside' and I think, even though it's very different, it gives me the same feeling; I have the same reaction to it. This one's called 'Dressed In Black':
Sure, it's not really black metal, and it's wanky as all hell, but I don't care. I really dig it. As far as liking wanky stuff goes, I can't really talk either. I like Radiohead.
Their 2001 album 'Perdition City' came with this thick photo book. Here's a track with some of the images:
It's written in the CD booklet that it's designed to be listened to on headphones in trains stations at night, or something wanky like that. It does sound designed for headphones though. There are all these little things going on that you can't really pick up on regular speakers. A door closes at the start of track two, and it's my favourite moment on the album. The music has this really tragic sound to it, and I feel like I'm listening to a film soundtrack or something:
You'll notice that the video above has been put together with scenes from David Lynch's Lost Highway by some fanboy. I guess Ulver attracts wankers who are into Lynch, like me.
Just one more to share with you. Here's the first track from their latest album, 2007's 'Shadows of the Sun'. It's called 'Eos'. It has this obviously morose, tragic sound, but it works on me:
That's it. Having only listened to a handful of their albums repeatedly, it was nice to get the rest of their stuff and check it out. I'll blab again soon about some other tunes.
jej
Something that I've decided it was about time to do was get ALL the albums from bands that I totally dig. It's something I've been meaning to do for a while, but now I'm finally getting on to it.
The first band off the rank was Ulver. Ulver is Norwegian for Wolves. They started out as a pretty straight black metal band, which then kind of became this experimental folky black metal thing, which then became industrial/experimental/dunno music. Even though the change in style could seem drastic I think they've still kept that amazing Ulver tone and atmosphere. There's just something undefinable that I totally dig about their music.
Here's the last track from their 1994 album 'Bergtatt' - ' Ind i Fjeldkamrene'. Tell me this isn't amazing black metal:
See? I love how it changes from black metal into this classical wanky guitar thing, but for some reason it makes sense. It doesn't sound like Zorn or Mike Patton, jumping from one style to the next in a jarring way. That's cool and all, but I love how Ulver can pull it off without it being this kind of 'shock' thing. It just makes sense and fits.
Then you can jump to their 2005 album 'Blood Inside' and I think, even though it's very different, it gives me the same feeling; I have the same reaction to it. This one's called 'Dressed In Black':
Sure, it's not really black metal, and it's wanky as all hell, but I don't care. I really dig it. As far as liking wanky stuff goes, I can't really talk either. I like Radiohead.
Their 2001 album 'Perdition City' came with this thick photo book. Here's a track with some of the images:
It's written in the CD booklet that it's designed to be listened to on headphones in trains stations at night, or something wanky like that. It does sound designed for headphones though. There are all these little things going on that you can't really pick up on regular speakers. A door closes at the start of track two, and it's my favourite moment on the album. The music has this really tragic sound to it, and I feel like I'm listening to a film soundtrack or something:
You'll notice that the video above has been put together with scenes from David Lynch's Lost Highway by some fanboy. I guess Ulver attracts wankers who are into Lynch, like me.
Just one more to share with you. Here's the first track from their latest album, 2007's 'Shadows of the Sun'. It's called 'Eos'. It has this obviously morose, tragic sound, but it works on me:
That's it. Having only listened to a handful of their albums repeatedly, it was nice to get the rest of their stuff and check it out. I'll blab again soon about some other tunes.
jej
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