Bloc Party's 'Kettling' refers to police tactic

according to the CBC: "The use of the word kettle in this instance is based on the German word "kessel" — a cauldron, or kettle — to describe an encircled army about to be annihilated by a superior force... The analogy is that for soldiers in the kettle, it would quickly become unbearably hot."


Kettling*

We smash the window
Popo don’t f*** around
As their cameras take pictures of us
We just laugh
We laugh

Because they can’t stop this
We can feel it in our bones
The future’s ours, yes it is
We can feel it in our bones

We drop the lighter into the gas
If the whole world is watching us
Let them watch us
Let them watch

They can’t stop this
We can feel it in our bones
The future’s ours, yes it is
We can feel it in our bones
* from AZ Lyrics

chatroulette pranking of Psy's 'Gangnam Style'

4 days straight of filming/"dance choreography",
1 day of moving the entire living room,
1 day of cleaning, and 1 all nighter of editing =
a week of Gangnam style LIVE...on chatroulette.

(and how nice of Stef&Stefani to mention his buddies!)--->
HUGE thanks to my housemates for putting up with me: CYR: http://youtube.com/iamcyr JACK: http://youtube.com/Jacksfilms

MUSIC: two Rufus Wainwright videos

in case you didn't see my previous mention, the latest RUFUS WAINWRIGHT album is fantastic. it has renewed my love of him, and his music.

the CBS video here cuts out on Montauk right before the beautiful accidentals in the melody. listen for them, in the last song of the Tiny Desk Concert above!

let the K-Pop hilarity ensue!

a little something scary from TMB SHOW, complete with eye candy...and probably brain toxin, too. you can't ignore the fact that PSY, according to the interview, graduated from Berklee College of Music. pretty awesome.

MUSIC: gorgeous sounds from Actress!

Andrew Matson writes about ACTRESS on npr:

"Sidechaining is a common effect used by producers in dance music to make that pumping, woomp-woomp-woomp sound. Actress uses it in a punk rock way, sidechaining elements of the track to the drum, then removing the drum, throwing away what was supposed to be the big draw — leaving rhythmic remnants of sonic pressure. It makes the track feel like a sausage being squished from the outside."

VIDEO: Golden Clouds by the Orb with Lee 'Scratch' Perry

2012 continuation of Little Fluffy Clouds...more like permutation...but even better! Dr. Lx and Fehlmann look like they're having a grand old time with the dub master Perry!

LOVE the studio footage at the very end. Thanks to Kip at Tell All Your Friends PR for turning me on to this.

VIDEO: Snoop Dogg / Lion's reggae journey - Jamaica movie trailer

PLEASE BE AWARE: THIS IS NSFW.

i think Frank Ocean's been in Orange County, CA

i DIG this!

[CHORUS]
too many bottles of this wine we cant pronounce
too many bowls of that green no lucky charms
the maids come around too much
parents aint around enough

too many joy rides in daddy’s jaguar
too many white lies & white lines
super rich kids with nothing but loose ends
super rich kids with nothing but fake friends

[VERSE]
start my day up on the roof
theres nothing like this type of view point the clicker at the tube
i prefer expensive news
new car new girl
new ice new glass
new watch good times babe
its good times yeah
she wash my back three times a day
this shower head feels so amazing
we’ll both be high
the help don’t stare they just walk by
they must dont care
a million one a million two
a hundred more will never do

[CHORUS]

(Earl)
i’m searching for a real love i’m searching for a real love
alright
close your eyes for what you cant imagine
we are the xany gnashing caddy smashing bratty ass
he mad he snatched his daddys jag
& used the shit for batting practice
adamant & he thrashing
purchasing crappy grams
with half the hand of cash you handed
panic & patch me up
pappy done latch keyed us
toying with raggy annes & mammy done had enough
brash as fuck breaching all these aqueducts

(Frank Ocean)
we end our day up on the roof
i say i’ll jump i never do
but when im drunk i act a fool (talkin bout)
do they sew wings on tailored suits
im on that ledge she grabs my arm
she slaps my head
its good times yeah
sleeve rips off i slip i fall
the markets down like sixty stories
& some dont end the way they should
my silver spoon has fed me good
a million one a million cash
close my eyes & feel the crash

[CHORUS]

real love
(aint that something rare)
i’m searching for a real love
(talkin bout real love)
real love yea
real love
i’m searching for a real love talkin bout a real love

celebrating The Endless' 25th anniversary

From JH Williams' Flickr.

From JH Williams' Flickr.

so, NEIL GAIMAN is returning to Vertigo to commemorate a quarter century with Dream, Death, Delirium, Desire, Destiny, Destruction and Despair... with JH Williams, no less...
HUGE thanks to JaHe for sharing this news.

ANOTHER reason i want to go to Norway: Magnus Carlsen

first PETTER SOLBERG, and now Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen...?! #tivodelay