wedding song
Posted on February 8, 2010
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viral spice
Posted on February 8, 2010
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Grapefruit.
Posted on February 8, 2010
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Though I’ve written about them before, some of you may not yet be aware of Pomplamoose, darlings of the internet. These crazy kids, have – (gasp) -a manifesto, which states – if they’re recording music, then they’re filming it as well. When they mix the song they cut the video from the takes that were used. Its wildly convenient, in the first instance, because it means they don’t have top spend time thinking about how many hot girls they’re going to fit into what color Hummer, nor do they need to find the money to pay for such things. Instead they can spend the savings on the brown rice and miso. Not only do they save money on booty and rack, they also make videos that are wildly immediate and natural – compelling because they’re films of the music being made rather than being mimed to. And they’re rather good musicians -oh, and she’s kind of cute.
sing a long
Posted on February 7, 2010
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On the dangers of singing Sinatra’s My Way in the Philippines - from The NYT
The authorities do not know exactly how many people have been killed warbling “My Way” in karaoke bars over the years in the Philippines, or how many fatal fights it has fueled. But the news media have recorded at least half a dozen victims in the past decade and includes them in a subcategory of crime dubbed the “My Way Killings.”
The killings have produced urban legends about the song and left Filipinos groping for answers. Are the killings the natural byproduct of the country’s culture of violence, drinking and machismo? Or is there something inherently sinister in the song?
Whatever the reason, many karaoke bars have removed the song from their playbooks. And the country’s many Sinatra lovers, like Mr. Gregorio here in this city in the southernmost Philippines, are practicing self-censorship out of perceived self-preservation.
Karaoke-related killings are not limited to the Philippines. In the past two years alone, a Malaysian man was fatally stabbed for hogging the microphone at a bar and a Thai man killed eight of his neighbors in a rage after they sang John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” Karaoke-related assaults have also occurred in the United States, including at a Seattle bar where a woman punched a man for singing Coldplay’s “Yellow” after criticizing his version.
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advertorial
Posted on February 7, 2010
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The music industry has changed dramatically in the past few years. It can be very hard to locate stores that sell blank cassettes and once you do, you’ll often find that the batteries on your Walkman are flat.
But for every person that says home taping is killing music, there’s a true music fan who just can’t get enough of the good stuff. The likeithateit team have been long time fans of an Australian music company called Vitamin. With a roster that includes a wildly disparate selection of artists – the one thing you can be sure of is their quality. The people that run this label are fans, obsessives, that will trap you in the corner of the party to talk endlessly about Tony Buck’s drum tones or why Chris Abrahams is probably Australia’s greatest musician.
So in some rather exciting news, Likeithateit are pleased to announce, that the very nice people at Vitamin have an extremely generous offer to make to our readers. Every month, we’ll be giving you the chance to have some FREE MUSIC!
We’ll be featuring an artist from their catalogue we’re particularly fond and you can then download a couple of their tracks for nix! nada! nothing! and then, make a tape of it for your walkman or whatever it is kids do these days. This is a win win win situation and one that I hope you’ll all take advantage of, since for some reason or other, people now seem to think that music should be free, even though it costs tens of thousands of dollars to make an album and release it. Which brings me to the second part of this offer.
I want you to promise me, that if you like these tunes that you will go to their website and spend a few of your measly gold coins on buying some more, and not go off in a rush to some P2P website called piratecove or papster trying to get this for nothing. Agreed? Excellent.
So to get the ball rolling, we have some lovely tunes from Tin Pan Orange and David Lane.
Tin Pan Orange are a Melbourne duo that feature the stunning genetic good fortune of the Lubitz family. Brother and sister Emily and Jesse write a kind of romantic burlesque acoustic pop, which is charismatic, soulful and joyous. Emily’s voice is the delight here. She has the kind of tone that makes writers want to gush the kind of talk you find on the back of wine bottles, with its hint of berries and cigarbox overtones. But if this is not enough, there are the songs – delightful celebrations of pop’s love affair with loving. As a first taste – Vitamin are offering you the single Lovely. Try it – you’ll like it. Click here to enjoy free music offer!
David Lane, sadly is not quite as busy as he used to be, but remains one of Australia’s finest songwriters. A musician with an uncanny ear for the pop hook and the ability to turn the melancholic into the upbeat, he has a voice that is relaxed, earnest, yearning and sweet all at the same time. He’s a compelling artist with a great back catalogue, but his recent album is in many ways his best, with a rawer, straighter feel that showcases the songs with excellent performances from his band, including some sterling work from local axemeister Richard Boxhall. Head in the Clouds is one of the stand out tracks from a great collection, and I’m sure that all lovers of indie pop will find it to be a toe tapping favourite. Click here to enjoy free music
nomenclature
Posted on February 7, 2010
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nicely saved
Posted on February 7, 2010
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For those who haven’t seen this – its pretty impressive – nice concept, beautifully executed, with a great message.
a perl necklace
Posted on February 6, 2010
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From The Guardian
So this is how punk ends – not with a bang but with a jumper. Today, all over the world, thousands of punks, goths, emos and other ferociously tattooed, face-pierced miscreant bastard folk-devil scum will take to the streets to protest their disgust with war, oppression and bourgeois conformity by crocheting hideous green twat-hats with stupid ear flaps.
I’m talking about World Wide Knit in Public Day. Which, by its very name, suggests that knitting is a sordid and disgusting practice best done behind locked doors and drawn curtains. Which it is.
On at least four continents muscular youths possessed of the sort of surly disposition and fashionable facial disfigurements that persuade old folks to cross the street, muttering under their mint-humbugged breath about the return of national service, will be sat in parks and on street corners, cheerfully nattering to one another and churning out skull-festooned jumpers that proclaim the need for anarchy. The sickening truth is that knitting is hip – and Western youth culture is knitting its own death shroud. continue reading
tripping out with the physicists
Posted on February 6, 2010
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The likeithateit team have been looking at this article for a while now and so far have gleaned, that the universe is either a giant Pringle with five dimensions or else a holographic projection – either way, its kind of intense. See if you can follow it and then get back to us. From The New Scientist
The holograms you find on credit cards and banknotes are etched on two-dimensional plastic films. When light bounces off them, it recreates the appearance of a 3D image. In the 1990s physicists Leonard Susskind and Nobel prizewinner Gerard ‘t Hooft suggested that the same principle might apply to the universe as a whole. Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.
The “holographic principle” challenges our sensibilities. It seems hard to believe that you woke up, brushed your teeth and are reading this article because of something happening on the boundary of the universe. No one knows what it would mean for us if we really do live in a hologram, yet theorists have good reasons to believe that many aspects of the holographic principle are true.
Susskind and ‘t Hooft’s remarkable idea was motivated by ground-breaking work on black holes by Jacob Bekenstein of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and Stephen Hawking at the University of Cambridge. In the mid-1970s, Hawking showed that black holes are in fact not entirely “black” but instead slowly emit radiation, which causes them to evaporate and eventually disappear. This poses a puzzle, because Hawking radiation does not convey any information about the interior of a black hole. When the black hole has gone, all the information about the star that collapsed to form the black hole has vanished, which contradicts the widely affirmed principle that information cannot be destroyed. This is known as the black hole information paradox.
Bekenstein’s work provided an important clue in resolving the paradox. He discovered that a black hole’s entropy – which is synonymous with its information content – is proportional to the surface area of its event horizon. This is the theoretical surface that cloaks the black hole and marks the point of no return for infalling matter or light. Theorists have since shown that microscopic quantum ripples at the event horizon can encode the information inside the black hole, so there is no mysterious information loss as the black hole evaporates.
Crucially, this provides a deep physical insight: the 3D information about a precursor star can be completely encoded in the 2D horizon of the subsequent black hole – not unlike the 3D image of an object being encoded in a 2D hologram. Susskind and ‘t Hooft extended the insight to the universe as a whole on the basis that the cosmos has a horizon too – the boundary from beyond which light has not had time to reach us in the 13.7-billion-year lifespan of the universe. What’s more, work by several string theorists, most notably Juan Maldacena at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, has confirmed that the idea is on the right track. He showed that the physics inside a hypothetical universe with five dimensions and shaped like a Pringle is the same as the physics taking place on the four-dimensional boundary. continue reading
makeovers
Posted on February 6, 2010
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Great stuff here from Reclarkgable on the Behance network. The same couple rendered as every kind of hipster dream type you can think of. Ingenious.
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