1992's best records according to vks

please stay tuned...but for now, check these out for a little taste!

world leaders congratulate Obama via the Twitt'r

@AmamaMbabazi (Prime Minister of Uganda) @BarackObama Congratulations from Uganda. A victory so well deserved!

@NajibRazak (Lebanese Prime Minister) Congratulations @BarackObama on being elected to a 2nd term. I hope our countries’ relationship continues to go from strength to strength.

@Number10gov (UK) PM: Warm congratulations to my friend @BarackObama. Look forward to continuing to work together.

@jensstoltenberg (PM of Norway) I congratulate @BarackObama on the reelection. Will continue our good relations.

@JuliaGillard (Australian Prime Minister) My sincere congratulations to President @BarackObama on your re-election! JG

@David_Cameron (UK PM) Warm congratulations to my friend @BarackObama. Look forward to continuing to work together.

@BarrosoEU (E.U. Commission President) Warm congratulations to President @BarackObama. Looking forward to continuing to work together for an even stronger relationship. /JMB

@euHvR (President of the European Council) Heureux de l'élection du Président Obama #Obama .Herman Van Rompuy

Check other Twitt'r accounts via verified world leaders list on Twitter and the Atlantic

Forward, NOT backward.

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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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

VIDEO: you got cookie, so share it maybe?

leave it to Cookie Monster to turn an awful song into something AWESOME! thanks to CoFin and DanEf for sharing.

MUSIC: New Jack Techno on Turbo Recordings

OH MY.

this is exactly what i would want to hear on the dancefloor. check out that GINGY & BORDELLO track!

Donna Summer dentist office mindblow

such a gorgeous song...but maybe not when you are 10 years old, in the dentist's chair hopped up on NO2, and this song comes over the intercom..which i was. just saying, 'twas a life changing moment.

i ♥ Giorgio Moroder, btw! and RIP CHUCK BROWN.

100% medically [IN] accurate

let it be known that today is the day that AlSto and PhiLe viewed the second full sequence... THANK YOU, Tom Sicks! i mean, Six!

the state of dance music at the Grammys

'I know it's not cool to get too hung up on "authenticity," but this was not what dance-music culture looks or feels like. Most DJs and laptop performers actually do something onstage.'

 Read Philip Sherburne's well-written piece at spin.com:  Dance Music at the Grammys: What Skrillex, Deadmau5, David Guetta, et al. Mean (or Don't) .

He's referring to the perplexing performance seen here:

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