MRXEI (a poem)

Tho’ the love that I owe
To thee I dare na show,
I don’t know where else I can go:
Her Husband the Relater she preferr’d.

This crueel torment, and this peyne,
And all I have to do is think of her,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow.

All I really want is some patience,
Like a poet hidden
In the light of thought
(and adobe slabs for my girls.)

Lorsque tout est fini lorsque l’on agonise,
As the riper
should by time decease,
I can taste the fear.

Burns
Morissey
Milton

Chaucer
Harrison
Shelley

Morisette
Shelley
Animal Collective

Queneau
Shakespeare
Arcade Fire

There's a party in my tummy: so yummy, so yummy

Oh my god, I can’t get enough of this. It’s genius, pure and simple!

And if you thought that was weird, THIS is some seriously surreal shit!

Yo Gabba Gabba!

How good is Yo Gabba Gabba!

Chromeo are good…

…but the Yo Dazzlers are really working it!

John Cage's "4:33"

As performed by full orchestra and conducted by Laurence Foster at the Barbican.

For a piece explicitly about sound / music itself, I can’t help but note just how visual the performance is.

Also, I love all the coughing between the movements. Gold.

We Are Hunted etc.

Chris Salmon has a good piece for the Guardian today on a couple of interesting looking mp3 aggregators.

I particularly like the look of the Australian based We Are Hunted, which compiles the top 99 songs of the week, month, year into a very user friendly and good looking playlist for your listening pleasure. As Salmon points though, there is a propensity for some dodgy remix to turn up instead of the original track. I’m currently listening to a version of Empire of the Sun’s excellent “We Are The People”, which is fairly shitty. Nevertheless, a good service overall.

The Free Music Archive (with the amusing tagline - “it’s not just free music; it’s good music”) looks decent too. At the very least they deserve props for finding this hilarious image and alerting the world to the existence of an Aussie band called, tastefully, “The Poo Touchers”. Lovely.

The Pirate Google!

Lols, rofl etc.

The Pirate Google! A nice bit of satire the day after the unofficial english translation of the verdict (and paltry reasons) in the Pirate Bay case was released.

Check out the piece on Ars Technica for more detail.

The Espresso Book Machine

Library quality paperbacks at low cost, identical to factory made books, printed direct from digital files for the reader in minutes, serving a radically decentralized world-wide multilingual marketplace. In essence, an ATM for books.

Launching at Blackwells in London today, whether or not the EBM is indeed the digital equivalent of Gutenberg’s printing press as On Deman Books’ website claims, it’s still totally sweet.

When most online books searches lead inevitably to Amazon (particularly when you’re not after the latest Dan Brown), and when Amazon can barely manage to get a book to you in Australia within a month, I for one would love to see an EBM in the Uni bookshop here in Melbourne. Yes Derrida’s Acts of Literature (not currently in stock anywhere in Australia!) in under 5 minutes!

The video below takes a while to get to the point, but it’s definitely worth watching this bad boy in action.

Blip.fm

Haven’t played with this much yet, but so far it looks pretty cool.

The concept is simple: twitter + music = fun.

So why not listen to a lady with an annoying voice explain how it works.

Provided that evil bastard lawyers don’t send it the way of muxtape.com, it’s sure to be big.

Help I'm Alive

Doing a bit of research for my interview with Jimmy Shaw from Metric this evening, and I came across this very mini documentary on their website. Scroll down to “Help I’m Alive Video Documentary”. Very cool. Gotta love Emily Haines.

Also, the new album (which will be officially released in early April) is pretty sweet. Apart from the obviously awesome Help I’m Alive (which you can listen to above and/or download an acoustic version from the band’s website) there’s a number of very radio friendly potential singles (e.g. Satellite Mind and Gimme Sympathy - both above) and a slight change in tone overall.

But more on that in my article, which hopefully will be up soon.

This is what remix is all about