this is why Resident Evil rules!

MUSIC: new Placebo! video for B3

woo! it's been too long. :) this is the lead single from their new five-track ‘B3' EP. did you see them play it in Russia in September 2012?

the video is meh...but i've always liked their part-era-of-Suede-and-Elastica, part-Gary Numan aesthetic. just listen, don't watch...

graphic novel of A Wrinkle in Time?

haven't read this book in years! and even though Madeleine L'Engle never wanted her book illustrated, here you go:

Key & Peele's dubstep skit makes you young again...?!

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WTFU!

Sorry my friends but there's no time to snore
An out-of-touch millionaire has just declared war
On schools, the environment, unions, fair pay
We're all on our own if Romney has his way...

WTFU!

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."