Rob sent me a link to this video. Pretty incredible story, and beautiful images.
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No One Loves Me And Neither Do I | Them Crooked Vultures
I’ve been listening to Queens of the Stone Age since Songs for the Deaf came out. I had graduated high school around that time, and soon after was moving to Tahoe. Lulabies to Paralize had come out around the time I made it to Tahoe, and I remember that was the time I really became a Josh Homme fan. I soon after got into the Eagles of Death Metal, and picked up old Kyuss and Desert Sessions albums as well. The guy is a really talented guitarist, and he sure knows how to make some groove heavy rock and roll with always clever lyrics.
However, recently I’ve been kind of out of the QOTSA music. I’m not sure why, but I haven’t really listened to their albums in a while. I certainly haven’t been keeping up with Homme’s work, as I had no idea about Them Crooked Vultures until my brother Seth shot me an email last week. Seth is a big fan of Homme’s music as well, and apparently he’s been keeping up with his side projects more than I have.
So it’s Homme doing his thing on guitar and doing the vocal heavy lifting, John Paul Jones from Led Zepplin doing bass and keyboards, and… Dave Grohl. I know Grohl has been on a lot of Homme’s work in the past, and I can’t say it’s ever bothered me. But I can’t stand Dave Grohl. Everything he’s done that is any good was being held together by someone far more talented. Grohl was fine in Nirvana, but Kurt Cobain was the obvious talent there. He’s done okay on other Josh Homme written and produced stuff, but, again, Homme is the one with the brains and drive there. (I know this statement is going to evoke disagreement from a few people) The Foo Fighters are a terrible, shitty band that haven’t made anything resembling a good record in over 10 years, and I wish Grohl would have just kept his mouth shut on this album and played the drums and let Homme do his thing. The bottom line is that I like what I’ve heard of this album so far, but only when it comes to the guitar work and very clever lyrics that abound. As for now, though, I’m on the fence as to weather or not I’ll buy the album, just because Dave Grohls really irritating voice pops up now and then. I just can’t see myself replaying the album a lot, and for that reason I can’t justify paying for it.
C’mon, Homme- you work with a lot of talented artists. Next time partner up with someone else.
“ We do not have two political parties in this country, America. We have one party; called the Big Government Party. The Republican wing likes deficits, war, and assaults on civil liberties. The Democratic wing likes wealth transfer, taxes, and assaults on commercial liberties. Both parties like power; and neither is interested in your freedoms.
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Kiss Your Freedoms Goodbye If Health Care Passes - Reason Magazine (via bellatoris) (via hilker)
The essence of the reason I can’t belong or vote for one of the two major parties. I just want some other options. What did George Wallace say? Oh yeah- “not a dimes worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats.”
Queso helado- an Arequipeña dessert that usually can be found in small shops and being sold by street vendors with little umbrella covered carts. Queso is, of course, cheese, and helado is ice cream. This really doesn’t make much sense, however, because there is no cheese in it. I mean, I guess it has a creamy and sort of cheese-y consistency, but it’s definitely not cheese flavored. The ingredients are actually just milk, sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla. Whatever it is, it’s my favorite. Any time I find myself walking somewhere in the city (pretty often, actually), I change my route around so that I’ll end up passing a queso helado vendor. Yesterday, I had the extremely good fortune of finding it sold by the liter in a local market that I visit to buy stuff for breakfast and dinner cooking at Damara’s house. I’ll probably be buying a few liters of it a week until I leave.
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Filing a patent application, of course, doesn’t necessarily mean that the company plans to use the technology. But the application shows, at the least, that Apple has invested in research to develop what it calls an “enforcement routine” that makes people watch ads they may not want to watch.
Its distinctive feature is a design that doesn’t simply invite a user to pay attention to an ad — it also compels attention. The technology can freeze the device until the user clicks a button or answers a test question to demonstrate that he or she has dutifully noticed the commercial message. Because this technology would be embedded in the innermost core of the device, the ads could appear on the screen at any time, no matter what one is doing.
The system also has a version for music players, inserting commercials that come with an audible prompt to press a particular button to verify the listener’s attentiveness.
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Please no.
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Nov 19
Lots of music to talk about tonight.
When I have a laptop again, I’ll be back on top of these new tracks and album previews, but I’m really behind on this shit these days.
The news from the Cold War Kids camp is a new 4 track EP called Behave Yourself, which will come out the 19th of January. After Loyalty to Loyalty, which was largely unimpressive to me- especially when compared to their first 3 EPs and the wonderful LP Robbers and Cowards- I’m really happy to see these guys take a step back and produce what looks to be an album focused on quality and not quantity.
One of the tracks previewed in this video is definitely “Sermons vs. the Gospel” from the With Our Wallets Full EP, a song that is really great in its low-fi rendition on said EP and as a hidden track on the end of Robbers and Cowards. We’ll see if a studio version of it steps it up or ends up not quite as good (I’m leaning towards the latter).
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Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky
You’re not the only
one that treats new Animal Collective like a surprise present.
Here’s a track that you may be familiar with if you’ve seen AC live, but it will be present on their upcoming EP Fall Be Kind.
Good stuff. Listen up, soak it in.
Two albums I-m really excited about- Fall Be Kind (Animal Collective is working hard this year for the best album of the year title, I think), and BlakRoc. Both dropping next week!
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Vampire Weekend - Cousins
Man, I want to hate this band.
Yeah, I’m one of the anti Vapire Weekend crowd. I avoided their first album for so long, and eventually bought it and really liked it, despite all of the things I dislike about the band. Then, the free single from Contra “Horchata” came out- I downloaded it and was completely unimpressed. Now this new single. How can I not like this? Damn it.
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