5.21.2008

The Birdman




Artist Benjamin Verdonck is currently nesting on the Rotterdam Weena Tower. His week long performance “The Great Swallow” involves a nest, man, and a gaint egg.
*Spoiler alert Rotterdam*

"It's the tragic story of a man who comes, sees and in a final attempt to embrace his audience eventually falls." - via

He came. He saw. He nested. He laid an egg. He then plummeted 500 ft and asked people how they felt about it. They should have asked Knol Tate.



For the Fierce! arts event in Birmingham four or so years ago, a similar cage was affixed to the Rotunda.
Before THAT, the Birdman was hooked on the Anspach in his native Belgium.

5.15.2008

Lace Fence



"LACE FENCE is a high-end metal fabric that gives new insights in how we can create unique environments.

The design, quality and density of the patterns are flexible. Meaning that for each application we create according to its function. For example to prevent climbing on, to hide or enhance its surroundings. To deal with harsh weather or to give an unique custom made look."


Seriously, if you can crochet a fence we need to be friends. Stat. I'm having trouble with HATS.

3.13.2008

Six Degrees of Human Nature

Initially I was looking for hip hop videos featuring flaming garbage cans for my new favorite blog break project, Flaming Garbage Cans in Hip Hop Videos (a collaborative effort between myself and Monolith).

I cam across this gem, but to my dismay there are no flames in any of the garbage can clips. There is smoke, yes, but that just will not cut it. It's almost as annoying as what we've come to call "general fire" and the deceptive "flame like lighting."

Needing a break from my search, I thought I'd take the opportunity to play the sample game. I was under the distinct impression that Kool G Rap sampled Human Nature at some point, but I can't find confirmation. If anyone can back me up or shut me up I would be greatly obliged.


Nas - It Ain't Hard To Tell



2Pac - Thug Nature



SWV - Right Here



Michael Jackson - Human Nature



Madonna - Human Nature



Main Source - What You Need





3.05.2008

Gnarls Barkley "Run" (may cause seizures)

The video for Gnarls Barkley's new single, "Run," may feature a cameo from Justin Timberlake, but it's still not quite ready to air on MTV.

That's because of its strobe effects, which caused the clip to fail the Harding Test -- guidelines established to prevent TV images from triggering epileptic seizures.

"I don't know exactly what's going on, but we're having issues. I think (the video) is cool. It works for me. But I'm not necessarily that easily seasick," he told Billboard.com. "We can't predict how people are going to interpret it."

"Run" centers around the fictional public access TV show "City Vibin"' and is set in the early '90s. Timberlake appears as the host of the program, on which Danger Mouse and fellow Gnarls Barkley principal Cee-Lo then perform the track.

With its new album, "The Odd Couple," nearing its April 8 release date, Gnarls Barkley are about to shoot a video for the second single, "Who's Gonna Save My Soul."





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2.29.2008

Checkmate


Relegate me to the geek table in the internet lunchroom if you'd like, but I've been playing chess online like it's my job. In fact, I wish that it was my job.

I know that there are those of you that play against your computer from time to time (thanks for the hints and undo options Mac!), but playing against other people is always more fun and generally includes a gang of trash talk.

Bring it to the TrailerParkNinja at gameknot for a correspondence based smack down...
I just signed up today; you should chess it too.

Internet Chess Club | Free Internet Chess Server

Come get some.






2.26.2008

JEA




Track Listing

01 . The La's - There She Goes
02 . Belle & Sebastian - Get me Away From Here, I'm Dying
03 . Pinback - Penelope
04 . Minus the Bear - Pachuca Sunrise
05 . Band of Horses - Our Swords
06 . Modest Mouse - Trailer Trash
07 . Colin Hay - Overkill
08 . Ben Gibbard - They Don't Know
09 . The Diskettes - 1 2 3 4 5
10 . Half-handed Cloud - You've Been Faithfull
11 . The ELected - a Time for Emily
12 . Park - Conversations With Emily
13 . Say Anything - Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too
14 . Metric - Combat Baby
15 . Vox Vermillion - Controller
16 . Tegan & Sara - Back in Your Head
17 . Askeleton - Cities, Not the People who Live in Them
18 . The Brunettes - Cotton Candy
19 . Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Kiss Kiss
20 . Kings of Leon - Cha rmer
21 . Boxer - Mistaken for Strangers
22 . A Place to Bury Strangers - I Know I'll See You
23 . The Thermals - How We Know
24 . The Subways - Take me Away
25 . Ela - Professional Love
26 . The Format - Tie the Rope
27 . Spoon - Everything Hits at Once
28 . Britt Daniel & Conor Oberst - Let the Distance Keep us Together
29 . Get Set Go - Wait
30 . Olympic Hopefulls - Drain the Sea
31 . Nightmare of You - Ode to Serotonin
32 . Tilly & the Wall - You and I Misbehaving
33 . Woods - Skin and Bones
34 . Roma di Luna - The Face of my Friends
35 . Inara George - Fools in Love

Spring Fever

2.24.2008

Puppetmasters

Some of you may remember Sifl & Olly, a short run MTV experiment that ranks as my favorite shows of all time. Mostly, the relationship between originators Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco reminds me of one I've share with the home slice T.Bag for the past twentysome years. They live together with young, clueless Chester. Their landlord wants the rent money, he wants them to get rid of the monkeys, and they put on a show every night.

"Sifl was the calmer leader of the show while Olly was more excitable and often broke into crazed furies. Their assistant, Chester (made out of an inverted mold for a Buddha statue combined with a sleeve), was a mumbling, often nonsensical character who still claimed to be great at everything. No real living people or animals ever appeared on the show (except the hamster during Precious Roy's foot long hamster sale), only puppets" (wikipedia).

As the show has been canceled for nearly a decade, one of the few sockhead bastions to survive the blast is YouTube.




Includes ninja exam, letters to Chester and the song Ninja of the Night.
...you are weak like the salted slug and your mind is slow like the sloth on sake...

How Sifl & Olly came into existence.
The Making Of | a glimpse behind the scenes


Sifl & Olly Season 1 Episode 10: (part 1) (part 2)
Blacklisted Nursery Rhymes / Calls: Problem in the Bathroom, Cheater, Landlord (Waterslide) / Rock Fact: What Human Oddity Will Forever Link Bjork & Will Smith? / Song: "Country Boy Song" / Precious Roy's Night Vision Goggles / News: Olly Won't Do The News / Calls: D&D Wizard Has Herpes, Wart Gems, Take Me Back To Mary's House / Chester: Pet Peeve / Rock Fact: What Is Queen Latifa's Real name? / Interview: Giganticus the Elephant / Song: "Lullaby Song"

Sifl & Olly Season 2 Episode 1: (part 1) (part 2)
Calls from the Public: Pennywhistle Swallower, Gremlin Exterminator, Zafo, Alien / Snailsuit Chester / Olly Moondust sings: "Star Lover" / Precious Roy's Elf Hotel / Interview: President of Shadows Inc. / Kickin' It Old School: "Fake Blood" / Interview: Brett the Gremlin / Chester: Getting Into TV / Craig Allen sings: "The Elf Song"

Sifl & Olly Season 2 Episode 2: (part 1) (part 2)
Calls: Olly's Mom (Fafoo's Recital), Madame Dominique / Chester: Naked Girl / Song: "Remember" / Precious Roy's Disaster Suit / Interview: Olly, Sifl & Chester Read Their Diaries / Kickin' It Old School: "Rock and Roll Friends" / Interview: Peto & Flek (Lost Episodes) / Letters to Chester: How To Break In Jeans / Song: "Empty Zippo Blues (Olly's Dylan Song)"

Sifl & Olly Season 2 Episode 3: (part 1) (part 2)
Sex Girl Intro / Calls: Cres Dude (Uncres), Webby Avalton, Mindblow / Chester: Tranquilized / Song: "Hawaiian Rap" / Precious Roy's Hooker Monkeys / Interview: Sex Girl Returns / Kickin' It Old School: "Prostitute Laundry" / Interview: Cooking With Aesop Jones (Waffles) / Letters to Chester: Picture Pose / Song: "Hair Of The Dog (Now You're Messin' With A Son of a Bitch)"

Sifl & Olly Season 2 Episode 4: (part 1) (part 2)
Calls: Worlock Wannabee, Zafo (Mt. Rushmore), Meteor / Letter To Chester: Modern Lover / Song: "65 & Over & Over" / Precious Roy's All Purpose Juicer / Interview: Breakfast Serial 2 / Kickin' It Old School: "Performance Art" / Interview: Hitch-hiker (Hit by the Car) / Chester: Water & Magnet Collector / Song: "Soda Pop (the magnetic car song)"

...skip a few...

Sifl & Olly Season 2 Episode 14: (in one fell swoop)
Calls: Sifl from Jail, Johnny Fucking Appleseed, Sifl Clone, Sports Talk / Chester Takes an IQ Test / Song: "Speed Reading" / Precious Roy's "Dangerous Don't" Dolls (Betty Blade, Elctrocutie Kitty, Pete Heat) / Interview with Sifls and Olly Clones / Kickin' It Old School: "Weird Day" / Interview: Grout's Trivia Trapazoids with Stealth, Precious Roy, Chester & Cres / Letter to Chester from Dewey Kraus in Prison / Song: "I Sure Do Miss The 80's"


United States of Whatever





2.22.2008

Remembering Lamont "Big L" Coleman

Big L

Remembering Lamont Coleman
via hiphopdx




Put It On / Producer - Buckwild
MVP / Producer - Lord Finesse
No Endz, No Skinz / Producer - Showbiz
8 Iz Enuff / Featuring - Buddah Bless, Herb McGruff, Killa Cam , Mike Boogie, Terra, Trooper J, Twan / Producer - Buckwild
All Black / Producer - Lord Finesse
Danger Zone / Producer - Buckwild
Street Struck / Producer - Lord Finesse
Da Graveyard / Featuring - Grand Daddy I.U., Jay-Z, Lord Finesse, Microphone Nut
Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous / Producer - Lord Finesse
Times Iz Hard / Producer - Buckwild
I Don't Understand It / Producer - Showbiz
Fed Up Wit The Bullshit / Producer - Lord Finesse
Let 'Em Have It "L" / Producer - Craig Boogie



The Big Picture (Intro) Producer - DJ Premier
Ebonics
Size 'Em Up
Deadly Combination / Featuring - 2Pac / Producer - Ron G
'98 Freestyle / Producer - Lord Finesse
Holdin' It Down / Featuring - AG, Miss Jones, Stan Spit / Producer - Pete Rock
The Heist
The Enemy Featuring - Fat Joe / Producer - DJ Premier
Fall Back / Featuring - Kool G Rap / Producer - Shomari
Flamboyant / Producer - Mike Heron
Casualties Of A Dice Game
Platinum Plus / Featuring - Big Daddy Kane / Producer - DJ Premier
Who You Slidin' Wit / Featuring - Stan Spit / Producer - Pete Rock
Games / Featuring - Guru, Sadat X / Producer - Ysae
The Heist Revisited / Producer - Lord Finesse
The Triboro / Featuring - Fat Joe, O.C. , Remy Martin / Producer - Showbiz


Lifestyles ov da Poor & Dangerous (repress)| The Big Picture
(download via Megaupload c/o yours truly)


Atmostour

...helping the homie Jake Money pimp his internet duties as the Rhymesayers nerdsite monkey.

photo credit to Dan Monick



Atmosphere announce North American tour dates; to coincide with the April 22nd drop date for their upcoming release "When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold".

When Life Gives You Lemons, Paint The Road Gold.
Get your citrus krylon on, and meet me at Metro!

In the meantime, if you haven't already downloaded Strictly Leakage (complimentary Atmos LP), you've been asleep. A nostalgic nod while I'm lost in my music box awaiting my pre ordered shipment.




The Real Rhymesayers on YouTube



Recently, the masochists at the Onion asked Slug to whip up a Valentine's Day advice column featuring classic Daley wit and smcharm.
Peep game and pick up a few tips from a pro.

Dear Slug | the A.V. Club




can you digg it?