Lazy Blogger Friday: Fab & Glam edition

New Hercules & Love Affair Video - "Blind" (Feat. Antony)

This is what Burning Man would be like, if it was in antiquity and out of the dust. But, y'know, with more blinkies and all.

Lazy Blogger Friday: these guys

It's dreary and rainy here and will be for the forseeable (read: 10 day forecast) future. I threw up from 4pm to 8pm yesterday due to some bad eggs. This is a little bit how I feel today.

Lazy Blogger Friday: Polyphonic Spree

The Spree in their quieter moments, going through their days. Sweet, earnest and touching. I'm such a huge fan of theirs, and I often feel like I'm not approaching life in the way that they advocate. Makes me feel like ... not a hypocrite, but like a false disciple.

Portland folks: watch for the Polyphonic Tia. Everyone else: I love the part where the girl's hugging her mom over the fence.

What do you think?

Lazy Blogger Friday: Devil went to UGA

The Best Happy Music/Violent Image Scenes

Nice post over at You Ain't No Picasso. In a slight twist, I'd include the Gears of War commercial with "Mad World."

We're also working on a project which would include a "One Shining Moment"/violence juxtaposition...

You Ain't No Picasso: "The Best Happy Music/Violent Image Scenes

I enjoyed my film classes so much last semester that I decided to take the second part to one of them. To celebrate, I thought it would be fun to make a list of all my favorite scenes in movies where there is violent imagery shown while happy, upbeat or otherwise ill-fitting (in the conventional sense) music is playing. Some I disqualified because the music wasn’t exactly “happy” to begin with (”Goodbye Horses” in Silence of the Lambs, “Where is My Mind?” in Fight Club). So if it makes you winch while tapping your feat, it’s probably here."

OPmP3: stereogum: New Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - "Glue Girls" (Stereogum Premiere)

Otha People's mProperty3 today:

You may remember Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin from 2006 and fine tracks like 'House Fire' and 'I Am Warm and Powerful'.

stereogum: New Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - "Glue Girls" (Stereogum Premiere): "Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - 'Glue Girls'"

and http://www.myspace.com/boris

Polyphonic Spree: "We Crawl" Video Exclusive World Premiere! on JamBase

I'll post from YouTube whenever it shows up, but for now, head over to Jambase (whatever that is) and watch this sweet, earnest video for The Spree's "We Crawl (radio remix)"

Been having a hard time of it lately, and this is a good song to remind me to keep trying.

"i know when we're together, we'll be just fine"
we try hard, we crawl far, on our way today, day after day,

Polyphonic Spree: "We Crawl" Video Exclusive World Premiere! on JamBase: "Polyphonic Spree and JamBase
Exclusive World Premiere of 'We Crawl' Video
Plus The Signed Robe Giveaway Contest

Watch the World Premiere for The Polyphonic Spree's video 'We Crawl' from acclaimed indie film maker, Dante Harper, exclusively at JamBase!"

The R-I-A-A is a joke

From Wired:

RIAA Believes MP3s Are A Crime: Why This Matters -- Updated

By Ryan Singel January 09, 2008 | 5:26:00 PMCategories: Copyrights and Patents, Cover-Ups

In the confusion following the Washington Post's RIAA story, and its subsequent "correction," journalists and advocacy groups alike are missing an important fact: the RIAA has repeatedly taken the position that ripping MP3s from CDs you own is illegal, and it's using that argument to harm consumers.

Journalists, policy watchers and even copyright experts who fail to understand this risk helping the RIAA's ongoing crusade to cripple technology.

For those who still maintain the RIAA does not believe that MP3s are a crime, here are two very clear pieces of evidence:

• In the first ever trial of a person accused of sharing copyrighted music files over a peer-to-peer network, a Sony executive described ripping songs as stealing. Then the RIAA's lawyer grilled Thomas on the stand about whether or not she'd gotten permission before making personal copies of her music. (THREAT LEVEL's David Kravets covered the trial gavel-to-gavel.)

• Every three years, the Librarian of Congress decides what exceptions will be made to a federal law that makes it illegal to defeat copyright locks. That law is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In 2006, a number of exemptions were proposed.

  The RIAA, among others, opposed these exceptions. In a February 2, 2006 letter (.pdf) to the Copyright office, the group wrote that ripping MP3s from CDs -- also known as device shifting -- was not covered by Fair Use and thus was infringing. They also said that making a back-up copy of a CD was also infringing.

Lazy Blogger Friday - Wu tang clan-Triumph

There's a new marketing term about 'Swarm'ing. Basically, it's Internet plus Word of Mouth plus Social Networking plus, um, bumblebees.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQfVte5nfg0

they ‘swarm’ noise over all of the cussing. I believe it’s the Method Man at about 2:00 where there’s nothing but articles, conjunctions and swarm noises during his rap.