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The Blue Hole

Wait, did I ever post the baby panda sneezing? No? OK, good. Then, yes, this is the cutest video I'll ever post.

My favorite song from a trailer since the movie about Dean Reed (Red Elvis):

For some reason, zombies in prison make prison less scary.

This blog is now officially merged with Glazing Part 2 (pictures) and Represpect (videos). If you haven't done so already, feel free to peruse those to catch up. When you've looked at all that, you will then know everything that I know, in its entirety. No more updates will occur on those sites. This site is the ultimate survivor. Posts now have labels indicating which of the 4 main topics they belong under (music, video, image, notice).

Enjoy. Or don't. Whatever.

The gates are open. I posted one single, and already here comes another...

While I managed to get the album this was on (Ukeyeye, "reinterpretations" of older songs, distantly involving a ukelele, I think), I found most of the other songs disappointing, and none remotely reached the peak of the awesome mountain on which this song resides. I hold by my convictions that the original song which this covers was completely awesome well before Kill Bill. Yet, as awesome as the original was, this is hands-down my favorite version. Slow, sultry, spooky, sparse (and in French!).... how could it not be awesome? Also, it helps that it has an equally stark music video that I think convincingly looks to be from the 60s.

I am considering consolidating my blogs. I really like singularly-focused blogs. So each "great idea" for blogging that I have becomes its own blog. Needless to say, I update stuff so sparsely that it seems sort of silly. So, consolidation finally occurred to me today, as I updated one blog, then another, in rapid succession. Some could argue that I am "all about" lazy, so why then have I let an attempted aesthetic overrule laziness when it comes to blogging?

So, I ask you, dear (and possibly non-existent) reader: Should I consolidate Represpect, Non-Existent Temporary Holding, and Glazing Part 2 into one super-mega blog?

If you read this blog, I would really like to hear your opinion. Be anonymous, if you don't want me to know that you specifically are stalking me. I can handle it.

Finally! I've begun to find other slow metal bands that I like almost as much as Om and Sleep and SunnO)))!! Sure, Black Sabbath is great and all (well, certain albums, at least), but that only amuses me so much, and there's something about newer bands doing the sludge thing.... I don't know, maybe its just that the production is better?

Anyway, Electric Wizard was discovered by a day of reading EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE on Wikipedia. I now know everything, just like Jack Austin. Or perhaps I just skimmed every article linked from those three links atop this post. Either way, I got Come My Fanatics... and was very pleased. Where a lot of sludge metal, drone metal, and stoner metal has a lyricist I can not stand, Electric Wizard's guy works for me. Not too screaming, not too melodic. Quite monotonous actually, just the way I like it. And the music is heavy, crunchy, repetitious.

I haven't been into much new music lately, but older music I should have known about forever. Shocking Blue is one of those bands. I sort of knew about them already, after hearing a non-Banarama version of "Venus" I discovered it was by Shocking Blue. Then, again, after hearing a non-Nirvana version of "Love Buzz" I discovered it was by them as well. Finally, an unnamed friend who I discover a lot of my music through (now you see why he's unnamed... if I told you his name, you wouldn't need me! the horror!) played this amazing sorta-garage rock, sorta-psych, sorta-bluesy album, and right as I was about to ask him what it was, "Venus" came on. I realized instantly that Shocking Blue was awesome. Sort of like Jefferson Airplane, but more focused, I would say, and more awesome.

I'm mostly recommending this grime EP based on 2 songs: "Keep Up" and "Axiom". "Keep Up" has this real nice thing where it works the tension from pauses into the song. Not a lot, mind you, just a few times. When added to the weird up-and-down of both the music and the lyrics, its almost makes me think of a grime version of Busta Rhymes' "Gimmee Some More"...

"Axiom" is an even faster song than "Keep Up," and that's part of the appeal. Weird beats that speed up and slow down, all while Durrty keeps pace, to weird effect. This is my pump-up song for when I've listened to Lips 2 Da Floor too many times. Actually, now that I'm listening to it again, this one might actually be more like that Busta Rhymes song. Whatever.

(BONUS! "Axiom" is available for download! For now, at least.)

I don't normally post about a single song, but this is a special circumstance. I already posted the video on my videoblogthing (Represpect), so if you read that you've probably heard/seen this song already....

Enough build up. The band is Tokyo Jihen, and it is basically a vessel for the singer, Shiina Ringo. This song is an energetic, garage rock-influenced romp. A few feelings that pop in my head while listening: ska, 5.6.7.8's, surf, garage, awesome, yeah yeah yeahs. But really, it is quite something else. The singer's cute growl is amazing and is certainly what makes the song. I'm fairly positive that this is how the character Gogo Yubari from Kill Bill would sound if she started a singing career. You know, the Japanese school girl with a ball-and-chain weapon?

Unfortunately, this song is not yet from an album. Apparently a single exists with the song, but its too new and obscure for me to find anywhere, practically. So, until someone is kind enough to hook me up with an MP3 of it, the only place I know to hear the song is this YouTube link.