Owner: Singing Pi, Collapsing Time, The Xenophile Wildstyle, and Other Song Stories URL:http://mog.com/Shinjuku_Zulu Join Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:47:43 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Stories behind & around the songs, with streaming posts, including "Speed Tribes & Slow Is the New Fast", "Repainting Mona Lisa & Scarborough Fair", "I (Large Hear) Music & Mrs. Major Tom", "Badminton &am Site statistics:Click here
Someone Great...and <i>Tuktuyuktuk to Timbuktu</i> 2007-04-09 07:20:47 I think figure-skating rules have been applied to the new release by LCD Soundsystem.
That is, the judges (critics) were so pre-disposed to love it that they graded it higher than it actually should have been. Unlike a lot of music writers, overall I think the CD is a disappointment, and it leaves me a bit flat.
But having said that, is does have one fantastic song: “Someone Great
”. It really is terrific, and here’s why: it’s not ironic, humorous, or self-deprecrating, like most of the other songs on “The Sound of Silver”. And as a result you can really feel the emotion of the singer directly… there’s no filter, or veil, of wit, and it has more impact. (But of course I’m a sucker for sad songs; see Mrs. Major Tom )
The good thing about digital distribution is that you can buy a single song. So you could buy just that one song. The bad thing about DD is that you can buy a single song. It’s always so much better to e
I (large heart) music... and Mrs. Major Tom 2007-04-09 05:03:11 I love music—I make it, I buy it (yes, buy!), I read about it, I analyze how it’s made, I wonder who likes what and why… I like to hear how songs came about, the history of music, and what the next development is; I read the credits on CD covers, I know the names of critics; I’m curious about new technology related to it (hello iPhone!), and blah blah blog.
So I’m happy mog came along, because I can now put down some thoughts. (Though not always coherent nor carefully-edited, due to time constraints). So I’ll be putting out some anecdotes, thoughts, lyrics, stories behind songs (mine and other people’s), etc. for anyone else who happens to (large
heart) music.
So… first anecdote:
When I bought the album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) by David Bowie back in the day I thought it sucked the first five or six times I played it. But I’d spent my money so I was going to keep playing it. And then about the seventh or eighth tim Read more:Major
The Wheels of Steel and Da Riddm Griffin 2007-03-13 16:07:02 Collage songs and chimerical music; I’ve always loved ‘em (which is why I also make ‘em.) Like poetry, it is a powerful way of combining a multitude of things; emotions, eras, information, cultures, even architectural spaces (because different songs were recorded in different ‘rooms’) in a very, very condensed way.
I remember hearing “The Wheels
of Steel
” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five for the first time and being electrified… Chic/Queen/Blondie and and and…all in one song.
So here’s a list of fave ‘meta-music’ songs to check out, with a list of some Shinjuku Zulu and K.I.A. songs at the end…
“Duck Rock” by Malcolm McLaren, a major influence. Hip hop, Juju, double dutch, merengue—the song “Buffalo Gals” of course, but also the track “Punk It Up”: African singers, Soweto-style funk, lyrics about the Sex Pistols… and later “Madame Butte Read more:Griffin
Courteney Cox Having Sex in a Limo... & <i>Allelujah </i> 2007-10-12 15:42:40 Forget past lives , brain entrainment, speed badminton, and out-of-body experiences. I know what you want.
You want sex. Particularily celebrity sex.
Preferably if it’s done in a limousine.
And especially… if you can watch that limo-sex on your computer, while also listening to Last FM, Facebooking , shooting down cans of Red Bull , playing Sudoku , editing your wikipedia post on The Disclosure Project, while shopping on Amazon for an iPod Touch . Maybe even whilst playing Halo 3
Even better if that Courteney
Cox sex is: a) free to watch b) not so embarrassing if someone (the ever-present NSA, or your ever-present roomate) checks up on your web history.
So here you go:
Jump to about 3 minutes in to see Courteney Cox
make the-beast-with-two-backs.
She does it to the song “Allelujah” by K.I.A., from the Adieu, Shinjuku Zulu CD ; the clip is from the tv series Dirt.
More info on the song Allellujah in this post. Read more:Having
, Having Sex
Einstein, Oliver Sacks, John Donne & Brett Michaels... and <i>She's All States </i> 2007-10-14 20:36:20 Have a listen to the mp3 while you read. The song is “She’s All States
” from the K.I.A. CD “Sonorous Susurrus” (at iTunes HERE ) Vocals are by Eugene Spanier and Patrick Duffy. FYI , the lyrics lift a line from John Donne’s poem The Sun Rising: “She’s all states/and all princes I”)
You can, apparently, tell a musician by the size of his corpus collosum. Now I know that for some of you—the oversexed ones—that phrase might seem like a euphemism for somethin’ else, and like, may conjure images of Tommy Lee st/rutting around in spandex tryin’ to get you drunk off of his man-mump, but xanax yourself—the corpus callosum (now spelled correctly) is simply that tube part that connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
Anyway, for musicians, the corpus callosum (and the cerebellum,) according to autopsies, are noticeably larger than for everyone else, including mathemeticians, scientists, etc. So even the dudes depicted below Read more:Einstein
, Oliver
, Brett
, Michaels
Multi-culti Marvelousness... and <i> Dervish </i> 2007-10-22 10:11:51 The song for this post is “Dervish”, from the first Shinjuku Zulu release, at iTunes HERE
So yesterday (Saturday) morning I had a couple people interested in the art come over to my studio to look at my remixable and static paintings. I verbally bittorrented the ideas behind the work at them as I showed them around, because I had to start get the space ready for a video shoot later in the day. (Aside: one person bought a piece, one is considering.)
Then my wife Zanesha Gowrali, a fashion designer, had in an actress in who had just worn one of her gowns to the Geminis (Canada’s Emmy Awards.) After that, she had a second meeting with a couple for whom she was designing some pieces. As her meetings went on, I remixed some of the large paintings so they’d function as color-fields for backdrops to the video, and did some cleaning and sweeping and dusting. (“The glamorous, the glamorous life”, indeed.) Everyone who’d come so far hun Read more:Multi
Jambalayan Mayans, Cholo Cherokees, Karaoke...& <i> Shanghai Masai (Instrumental edit) </i> 2007-10-29 11:06:44 Ahh… karaoke (FWIW, pronounced ka-ra-okay, not carry-oki). Admit it—just like watching “Dancing With the Stars”, (Marie Osmond! Fainting! Live!) we’ve all done it at some point. (Even Sid Vicious did, for at least the first half of his version of My Way .) And who didn’t enjoy Bill Murray doing Roxy Music’s “More Than This” in Lost in Translation ?
So for those of you who want to test your dental dexterity with some multi-syllabic MCing, here’s the instrumental edit of ShanghaiMasai
with lyrics provided below. (Sorry, there’s no animated bouncing red ball to help you with timing). If anyone wants to do a version for youtube, hit me up with an email and i’ll email you an mp3.
Email: info[atsign]nu4ya[dot]com
Good luck with the capoerin’ pharoahs phrase…
SHANGHAI MASAI :
Shanghai Masai, hybrid worldwide!Boom boom hustle, hustle hustle boom,Shuffle, bubble, jack, boogaloo and krump,Cape Read more:Instrumental
Britney Spears Beats Underworld to the Future... and <i>SXYLV </i> 2007-11-02 06:59:12 Perhaps I’m contrarian; I never liked Britney
’s music, her press manipulations, her looks— and found neither a sense of frisson nor schadenfreude over her recent, er, mishaps/crack habits… and by crack I mean
But now, now I have become her biggest fanboy.
I’m a new fan for this reason: she makes Underworld
sound dated. Let me rephrase that: Britney has beaten Underworld to the future.
Having recently purchased both Oblivion With Bells (Underworld) and well, at least some of Blackout (Britney) I gotta say that Kevin Fed’s Ex is more avant-garde. Yes, the Oops I Did it Again chick has techno-smacked the Dubnobasswithmyheadman boys into the past. Oh how the world has changed…
Take a listen to Piece of Me by Spears
, and then Crocodiles or Faxed Invitation by Underworld, and you’ll probably concede that Britney’s track has the more interesting sounds and beats, and that, most suprisingly, she even out-Underworlds Under Read more:Beats
, Future
, Britney Spears
Sexy Booty Shaking and Freaky Body Morphing; Kafka, Barney, Koons... and <i> Make Me Shake </i> 2007-11-12 09:33:17 Here’s the new music video for the song “Make Me Shake
(Gimme Some Crush Crush) by Shinjuku Zulu, from the Various Chimeras CD
The video casts allusions to Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”, or Matthew Barney’s “The Cremaster Series” in which the human body transmorgif—ah fuck, forget it. I admit. It’s a booty video. Just a sexy, scantily clad chick or two dancing and shaking their moneymaker(s). But they do it, you know, in front of fine art. (My remixable works , b.t.w.) So that makes it okay, right, Jeff Koons?
Recently posted, the Make Me Shake video is currently in the top 10 of the youtube charts, somewhat above Soulja Boy’s “Crank That”, Alicia Keys’ “No One” and something by Avril Lavigne, but sadly, somewhat below “V is for Vagina Tattoo”.
The video is directed by filmaker Warren D. Wilensky
Read more:Shaking
, Freaky
, Morphing
Major Tom... and <i> Mrs. Major Tom </i> 2007-11-18 06:43:45 Due to requests, from time to time I’ll be posting lyrics from the songs on the K.I.A. and Shinjuku Zulu releases.
Below are the lyrics for the song “Mrs Major
Tom” (at various places on the web and at iTunes HERE . This song (Major Tom Part IV?), told from the wife’s perspective, expands on the story began by David Bowie in “Space Oddity” and continued in “Ashes to Ashes” (also by Bowie,) and in Pete Schilling’s”Major Tom (Coming Home)”.
Anyone interested in memes (the viral spread of an idea) might want to check out this Major Tom epidemic on Wikipedia
Vocals by Larissa Gomes…
You went up, so bright TomThought my love was rocketing you alongWhen you didn’t come back, and didn’t come backMy nova heart collapsedTo a black, black hole
Floating on sine waves in inner spaceAwaiting a signal of graceFrom ground control, to lost control, Ballet to battle, halo to hole
You were s
Collapsing Time (repost)... and <i> Hummingbirds </i> 2007-12-15 21:07:34 NOTE : this is a repost, vocally related to the Mrs. Major Tom post...
I was in an old building with large windows, right next to Naka-Meguro train station. It was a typical Toyko summer, super humid, and the windows were open to try and create a breeze (there was no air-con).
A bird flew in and settled on a desk before looking around. When it noticed its salaryman surroundings (shady, but sllim-food-pickings), it decided to leave. It immediately crashed into a closed window, then looped out and tried again, and then again, smacking into more and more invisible walls. As it grew crazier in its flight it drew more attention, and people were trying to open all the windows they could. They were also getting brooms and shaking newspapers and waving their arms to try and direct the little bird out. Nothing worked.
Eventually, after an especially loud thump on the window, it fell to the floor. (It remained on its feet, like an aging professional boxer near career's end.)
Remixable Sculpture(s)... and Tuktuyuktuk to Timbuktu 2008-02-27 17:20:02 A visual art project I'm working on is to exhibit 10 large remixable sculptures in a gallery/museum situation where the installation will change over time-- the sculptures will be remixed and intermixed and accrete meaning as the show evolves/changes.
Each show (say, Tokyo, Paris, etc) will also be context-specific, that is, the installation will take into account surrounding historical, cultural, enviromental influences... (so say a show in Beijing would intermix all works in a form echoing the Great Wall, show in Tokyo would reference manga, and so on.)
Much more detail at my K.I.A. art site HERE
(The show is in the proposal stage so please feel free to pass along to any curators or gallery directors or patrons...)
The video is a quick illustration, showing moving and static v
Out, out, damn celebrity... and Kiss the Honey, Honey 2008-01-21 13:23:01 This song has nothing to do with this post, however, the below wax-cylinder/electronic pop confection is from the most recent Shinjuku Zulu e.p. Kiss the Honey, Honey so have a listen while you read the below rant:
Celebrities are like cock-a-roaches, they are everywhere and you can't get rid of them. (Scott Baio, Hulk Hogan, Anna Nicole Smith, anyone?) In post-apocalyptic America-- which, say, should be sometime in the next year or so-- I suspect there will be nothing left but celebrities scurrying around the ruined cities.
To which I exclaim, in the tone of Lady MacBeth trying to wash out bloodstains-- or perhaps more accurately like Father Merrin trying to exorcize the spirit possessing Regan in The Exorcist: Out out, damn celebrity; I cast you out of my [fill in the blank].
Speed Collage... & "Shanghai Masai" (the video) 2008-03-16 11:04:53 Composed from 400+ images, it's basically an A.D.D. rebus for the obsessively-compulsive-multi-syllabic-phoneme-full electro-rap song "ShanghaiMasai
" by Shinjuku Zulu (feat. MC Shankhini).
(A rebus basically uses pictures in place of words,i.e. the lyric "Tokyo gringo" = toe + key + yoyo + the letter "g" + wedding ring + green light... etc. )
The song is from the "Various Chimeras" CD, on iTunes Here and Mp3s for any player (& CDs) of the song are also at CDbaby HERE
PS. Check the tags above for this post for celebrity appearances in the video
...
P.S.S. please post in the comments section any of the rebuses you happen to catch... lots of visual puns, i.e. bass (fish) for bass guitar, etc.
Here's the video at Youtube:
Read more:Speed
, Collage
Shinjuku Zulu Widget (share & embed): Make Me Shake, SXYLV, & Dirty Liar 2008-03-23 15:46:37 A widget featuring the Shinjuku Zulu songs Make Me Shake
(pop/dance/electro/rap), SXYLV (electro), and Dirty Liar (er, ye olde schoole hippe hoppe), that you can embed
on yer sites like facebook, etc by clicking on the Share button to get the the code....
Make Me Shake is from the Various Chimeras CD, and SXYLV and Dirty Liar are from the Kiss the Honey, Honey EP. (Links to 'em top right of the blog.)
Japanese cheergirls + electro + german cabaret + technogogo... & Da Riddim Griffin 2008-04-01 09:08:20 Free for download for the moment at the Shinjuku Zulu MYSPACE SITE is the track Da RiddimGriffin
by Shinjuku Zulu
The track features The Tokyo GoGo Cheergirls on the ichi ni's, MC Shankhini on the dancehall & squaredance calls, Caryn Green on the cabaret
stylee, and moiself (K.I.A.) on cowbell and background "Skoals!" and "Chin-chins"...
"Some phenomena & some shenannigans...Jump & jive & gyrate, shimmy, shuck & shake...The xenophile wildstyle..."
It's on the full "Various Chimeras" CD/any-player mp3s HERE Read more:Japanese
Here Come the Future, Cool Like Silicon... & SXYLV (the video) 2008-04-10 23:15:20 Brand-new video
for the electro/dance song SXYLV by Shinjuku Zulu now up at Youtube... ( any-player mp3s of the song available HERE )
VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS : people doing the robot, robots doing the people, robots doing each other... lots of Japanese cybernetics, from microrobots to android love dolls and Transformers... cybercelebrity guest appearances by Data, Cylons, Robocop, HAL , and more...
VIDEO LOWLIGHTS : 'roid boi doin' the android; Data highland dancing; rubenesque lady in red latex trying to move mechanically
To quote "We Do Supersonic", "Here come the future, cool like silicon/Here come the future, hot like the sun...
Read more:Future
, Silicon
DXLR8 - Downtempo 'Best Of" K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu 2008-04-24 16:30:37 Brand new 'Best Of' compilation album of chillout tracks now available (any-player MP3 ) HERE With two-minute samples...
Tracks are taken from each K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu release, with one new bonus track "Broken".
Here's the track list, with, for what it's worth, a micro-description of the song:
"Scarborough Fair" (A True Dub of Mine) (21st cent. version)"Mrs. Major Tom" (continuing the story from the wife's p.o.v.)"Allelujah" (dancehall, 17th cent. style)"Rainbowbeau" (ambient pop)"Yedayed" (chillout/world)"Broken" (dubstep)"Scatter" (jazz scatting & breaks, don't call it trip hop)"One Come We" (peacetronica)"Dubmarine" (chill, feat. two reggae haikus)"Sweetness Likes the Reverb" (acapellatronica)"Rise Up" (like Sigur Ros gone dub, w/choirboy vocals)"Coal Coal Black
"We are the true speed tribes"... & Slow Is the New Fast (the video) 2008-05-01 14:23:43 A thousand words is worth a video
... and so here's a thousand words or so for the song "Slow Is the New Fast" by Shinjuku Zulu, from the Various Chimeras CD (at CDBABY.COM and at iTUNES )
If you want to read the text completely you have to pause or manually scroll through the video. Or just watch it a few times at regular speed... each time you see it, you'll pick up on different words and perhaps get a different experience of the video.
It is, obviously, about speed, time, and perception. I like the idea of having to interrupt/stop the song to get something out of it, while still being able to just follow the karaoke-style large lyric words up top...
PS. There's a slightly different version up there too, but this one you can watch in higher resolution if you go to Youtube H
"DXLR8 - Downtempo 'Best Of' by K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu" feat. Mrs. Major Tom, Allelujah, etc. 2008-05-04 11:35:27 Sampler video for the new best-of-chillout songs by Shinjuku Zulu and K.I.A. from the release "DXLR8", (at iTunes HERE and any-player mp3s at Cdbaby.com HERE
Not as artful as the recent video for Shinjuku Zulu's "Slow Is the New Fast" (see the post We Are the True Speed Tribes ), but it's slow and contemplative, and gives 20 second samples of the music found on the 13-track release... (More details on the DXLR8 release, including tracklist and song descriptions, in this Post
Tracks on the DXLR8 compilation are from these CDs (links at the top right of the Shinjuku Zulu / K.I.A. mog site):Shinjuku Zulu:-"Various Chimeras" (19 trax)-"Shinjuku Zulu (14 trax)K.I.A.:-"Sonorous Susurrus" (22 trax)-"Adieu Shinjuku Zulu" (15 trax)
Read more:Major
"DXLR8 - Downtempo 'Best Of' by K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu" feat. Mrs. Major Tom, Allelujah, etc. 2008-05-04 11:35:27 Sampler video for the new best-of-chillout songs by Shinjuku Zulu and K.I.A. from the release "DXLR8", (at iTunes HERE and any-player mp3s at Cdbaby.com HERE
Not as artful as the recent video for Shinjuku Zulu's "Slow Is the New Fast" (see the post We Are the True Speed Tribes ), but it's slow and contemplative, and gives 20 second samples of the music found on the 13-track release... (More details on the DXLR8 release, including tracklist and song descriptions, in this Post
Tracks on the DXLR8 compilation are from these CDs (links at the top right of the Shinjuku Zulu / K.I.A. mog site):Shinjuku Zulu:-"Various Chimeras" (19 trax)-"Shinjuku Zulu (14 trax)K.I.A.:-"Sonorous Susurrus" (22 trax)-"Adieu Shinjuku Zulu" (15 trax)
Read more:Major
"We are the true speed tribes"... & Slow Is the New Fast (the video) 2008-05-01 14:23:43 A thousand words is worth a video
... and so here's a thousand words or so for the song "Slow Is the New Fast" by Shinjuku Zulu, from the Various Chimeras CD (at CDBABY.COM and at iTUNES )
If you want to read the text completely you have to pause or manually scroll through the video. Or just watch it a few times at regular speed... each time you see it, you'll pick up on different words and perhaps get a different experience of the video.
It is, obviously, about speed, time, and perception. I like the idea of having to interrupt/stop the song to get something out of it, while still being able to just follow the karaoke-style large lyric words up top...
PS. There's a slightly different version up there too, but this one you can watch in higher resolution if you go to Youtube H
DXLR8 - Downtempo 'Best Of" K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu 2008-04-24 16:30:37 Brand new 'Best Of' compilation album of chillout tracks now available (any-player MP3 ) HERE With two-minute samples... and at iTunes HERE
Tracks are taken from each K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu release, with one new bonus track "Broken".
Here's the track list, with, for what it's worth, a micro-description of the song:
"Scarborough Fair" (A True Dub of Mine) (21st cent. version)"Mrs. Major Tom" (continuing the story from the wife's p.o.v.)"Allelujah" (dancehall, 17th cent. style)"Rainbowbeau" (ambient pop)"Yedayed" (chillout/world)"Broken" (dubstep)"Scatter" (jazz scatting & breaks, don't call it trip hop)"One Come We" (peacetronica)"Dubmarine" (chill, feat. two reggae haikus)"Sweetness Likes the Reverb" (acapellatronica)"Rise Up" (like Sigur Ros gone dub, w/choirboy vocal
Here Come the Future, Cool Like Silicon... & SXYLV (the video) 2008-04-10 23:15:20 Brand-new video
for the electro/dance song SXYLV by Shinjuku Zulu now up HERE at Youtube... ( and any-player mp3s of just the song available HERE ) NOTE : for those who see this post as a white, one-post-page only (that is, not the main brown Shinjuku Zulu page where all the posts are), you'll have to go to the comments below to see the video. It doesn't show up in the (white page) post itself.
VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS : humans doing The Robot, robots doing The Human, robots doing Each Other... lots of Japanese cybernetics, from microrobots to android love dolls and Transformers...and cybercelebrity guest appearances by Data, Cylons, Robocop, HAL , and more...
VIDEO LOWLIGHTS : 'roid boi doin' the android; Data doing the Riverdance; rubenesque lady in red latex trying to move mecha Read more:Future
, Silicon
Japanese cheergirls + electro + german cabaret + technogogo... & Da Riddim Griffin 2008-04-01 09:08:20 Free for download for the moment at the Shinjuku Zulu MYSPACE SITE is the track Da RiddimGriffin
by Shinjuku Zulu
The track features The Tokyo GoGo Cheergirls on the ichi ni's, MC Shankhini on the dancehall & squaredance calls, Caryn Green on the cabaret
stylee, and moiself (K.I.A.) on cowbell and background "Skoals!" and "Chin-chins"...
"Some phenomena & some shenannigans...Jump & jive & gyrate, shimmy, shuck & shake...The xenophile wildstyle..."
It's on the full "Various Chimeras" CD/any-player mp3s HERE Read more:Japanese
Shinjuku Zulu Widget (share & embed): Make Me Shake, SXYLV, & Dirty Liar 2008-03-23 15:46:37 A widget featuring the Shinjuku Zulu songs Make Me Shake
(pop/dance/electro/rap), SXYLV (electro), and Dirty Liar (er, ye olde schoole hippe hoppe), that you can embed
on yer sites like facebook, etc by clicking on the Share button to get the the code....
Make Me Shake is from the Various Chimeras CD, and SXYLV and Dirty Liar are from the Kiss the Honey, Honey EP. (Links to 'em top right of the blog.)
Speed Collage... & "Shanghai Masai" (the video) 2008-03-16 11:04:53 Composed from 400+ images, it's basically an A.D.D. rebus for the obsessively-compulsive-multi-syllabic-phoneme-full electro-rap song "ShanghaiMasai
" by Shinjuku Zulu (feat. MC Shankhini).
(A rebus basically uses pictures in place of words,i.e. the lyric "Tokyo gringo" = toe + key + yoyo + the letter "g" + wedding ring + green light... etc. )
The song is from the "Various Chimeras" CD, on iTunes Here and Mp3s for any player (& CDs) of the song are also at CDbaby HERE
PS. Check the tags above for this post for celebrity appearances in the video
...
P.S.S. please post in the comments section any of the rebuses you happen to catch... lots of visual puns, i.e. bass (fish) for bass guitar, etc.
Here's the video at Youtube:
Read more:Speed
, Collage
Remixable Sculpture(s)... and Tuktuyuktuk to Timbuktu 2008-02-27 17:20:02 A visual art project I'm working on is to exhibit 10 large remixable sculptures in a gallery/museum situation where the installation will change over time-- the sculptures will be remixed and intermixed and accrete meaning as the show evolves/changes.
Each show (say, Tokyo, Paris, etc) will also be context-specific, that is, the installation will take into account surrounding historical, cultural, enviromental influences... (so say a show in Beijing would intermix all works in a form echoing the Great Wall, show in Tokyo would reference manga, and so on.)
Much more detail at my K.I.A. art site HERE
(The show is in the proposal stage so please feel free to pass along to any curators or gallery directors or patrons...)
The video is a quick illustration, showing moving and static v
Out, out, damn celebrity... and Kiss the Honey, Honey 2008-01-21 13:23:01 This song has nothing to do with this post, however, the below wax-cylinder/electronic pop confection is from the most recent Shinjuku Zulu e.p. Kiss the Honey, Honey so have a listen while you read the below rant:
Celebrities are like cock-a-roaches, they are everywhere and you can't get rid of them. (Scott Baio, Hulk Hogan, Anna Nicole Smith, anyone?) In post-apocalyptic America-- which, say, should be sometime in the next year or so-- I suspect there will be nothing left but celebrities scurrying around the ruined cities.
To which I exclaim, in the tone of Lady MacBeth trying to wash out bloodstains-- or perhaps more accurately like Father Merrin trying to exorcize the spirit possessing Regan in The Exorcist: Out out, damn celebrity; I cast you out of my [fill in the blank].
Collapsing Time (repost)... and Hummingbirds 2007-12-13 08:20:12 NOTE : this is a repost, vocally related to the Mrs. Major Tom post...
I was in an old building with large windows, right next to Naka-Meguro train station. It was a typical Toyko summer, super humid, and the windows were open to try and create a breeze (there was no air-con).
A bird flew in and settled on a desk before looking around. When it noticed its salaryman surroundings (shady, but sllim-food-pickings), it decided to leave. It immediately crashed into a closed window, then looped out and tried again, and then again, smacking into more and more invisible walls. As it grew crazier in its flight it drew more attention, and people were trying to open all the windows they could. They were also getting brooms and shaking newspapers and waving their arms to try and direct the l
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