Das Racist feat. Kassa Overall -Town Business

Das Racist - Commercial

Destroyer - Chinatown

 I haven't taken the time to dissect whether this song is about an actual chinatown, a metaphorical chinatown, or Chinatown, the movie. All that aside, I liked this song, but not as much as I like chinatown (the real toronto one, and the movie!)

Big Boi - Shine Blockas (ft. Gucci Mane)

Definitely in the top five most uncomfortable moments of my youtube watching career

Two Pretty Sweet Songs

So as all three of you know -- I write for The Varsity, the best newspaper on U of T campus. Well it just so happens, that the Varsity has a pretty sweet section on their website with recommended listens. These two tracks I thought were pretty sweet and since I was stealing two of them, I definitely felt obliged to credit where they were from.


All Around and Away We Go from Twin Sister on Vimeo.

and this track was pretty sweet too!

Girls - Thee Oh So Protective One

Kanye West - Devil In A New Dress

Black man loves Pokemon

Yo La Tengo - Mr. Tough

 

I realize, it's kind of a pain in the ass when I upload Dinosaur Comics, as they are tiny, and hard to read but just so you know, you can press on the image, and voila, it becomes bigger.

Smith Westerns - Weekend

Hipsters and Sociology

 I read this interesting article about "hipsters" today. Sometimes I ponder, if the hipster will be remembered like the Hippie...maybe, who knows. Anyways here is the article.

A  year ago, my colleagues and I started to investigate the contemporary hipster. What was the “hipster,” and what did it mean to be one? It was a puzzle. No one, it seemed, thought of himself as a hipster, and when someone called you a hipster, the term was an insult. Paradoxically, those who used the insult were themselves often said to resemble hipsters — they wore the skinny jeans and big eyeglasses, gathered in tiny enclaves in big cities, and looked down on mainstream fashions and “tourists.” Most puzzling was how rattled sensible, down-to-earth people became when we posed hipster-themed questions. When we announced a public debate on hipsterism, I received e-mail messages both furious and plaintive. Normally inquisitive people protested that there could be no answer and no definition. Maybe hipsters didn’t exist! The responses were more impassioned than those we’d had in our discussions on health care, young conservatives and feminism. And perfectly blameless individuals began flagellating themselves: “Am I a hipster?”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/books/review/Greif-t.html?_r=1&ref=books

Rivers Cuomo - Lover In The Snow

So I was listening to this song and really enjoying it and I was like "Imma put it on the J-list" but then I was like "Aw shit, I already put this on my blog." But then I stopped and thought for a moment. No one checks my blog adamantly enough to be like, "Hey Jakob, what the fuck, you put this song up on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009. Don't think I forgot that shit."

 

The Idles Of March - Vehicle

What's Up With That!

Fleet Foxes - Mykonos

The Kiss by Anton Chekhov

There's this Professor at University of Toronto that I've never taken a course with. He's a famous canadian writer as well as academic. Some students who have been with him have labelled him a misogynist. His course includes not only the story I'm linking on this website, but also Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, and Tropic of Cancer (a recurrent sex theme, seems to be happening.) Regardless, I met this Prof at the library the other day, and he recommended this story to me, and wow, it was pretty great. It deals with a sort of childish-teenage kind of sexual desire, yet the story is surrounded with beautiful language and awesome imagery of the surrounding country town that the characters are in.

Here it is (also, ignore the numbers on the website, those aren't chapter numbers):

At eight o'clock on the evening of the twentieth of May all the six batteries of the N---- Reserve Artillery Brigade halted for the night in the village of Myestetchki on their way to camp. When the general commotion was at its height, while some officers were busily occupied around the guns, while others, gathered together in the square near the church enclosure, were listening to the quartermasters, a man in civilian dress, riding a strange horse, came into sight round the church. The little dun-coloured horse with a good neck and a short tail came, moving not straight forward, but as it were sideways, with a sort of dance step, as though it were being lashed about the legs. When he reached the officers the man on the horse took off his hat and said:

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Kiss.shtml#3

Hooded Fang - Sleep Song

HOODED FANG - Sleep Song from Mitch Fillion (southernsouls.ca) on Vimeo.

Kele - Everything You Ever Wanted (Fred Faulke Full Remix)

Chromeo - Night By Night

Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck (Jump Off)

Van Morrison - Bright Side of the Road (Live)

Cee Lo Green - FUCK YOU

The Whitest Boy Alive - Keep A Secret

An Honest Exit by Dinaw Mengestu

A very interesting piece. I've been meaning to put it up for a while. I felt as if it did something very interesting with the idea of a character. The story revolves around this woman (or honestly I thought it did when I originally read it. But after hearing that Dinaw Mengetsu was in fact a man, I can't remember the gender the main character. I do pride myself on my thorough reading of things. Just the other day I was talking about The Great Gatsby with someone and I said: "Oh ya? Who was Mr. Wilson again?") That was a bit of a tangent. So ya, it revolves around this woman telling her Literature class the life story of her father, except she's making the entire thing up. The story makes the reader question the motives of the made-up characters within the main characters story, yet you also begin to question how the main character is coming up with this portrayal of her father. Blah blah blah, the story is sick! Here is the opening paragraph:

hirty-five years after my father left Ethiopia, he died in a room in a boarding house in Peoria, Illinois, that came with a partial view of the river. We had never spoken much during his lifetime, but, on a warm October morning in New York shortly after he died, I found myself having a conversation with him as I walked north on Amsterdam Avenue, toward the high school where for the past three years I had been teaching a course in Early American literature to privileged freshmen.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/07/12/100712fi_fiction_mengestu#ixzz0xou7zkCn

Bon Iver - Lump Sum

Fleece Johnson Enjoys Booty

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey

Air - Alone In Kyoto

Metric - Black Sheep (Scott Pilgrim Soundtrack)

Hooded Fang - Highway Steam

Cool Pic

Belle & Sebastian - The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner

Erik Satie - Gymnopedies

Devendra Banhart - Foolin

Extreme Solitude by Jeffrey Eugenides

Here is a great story I read in the New Yorker. I had sort of fallen behind in my issues of the magazine so this one is from a few weeks back. Anyways, I really enjoyed the story. It's about two university students who meet in a Semiotics class and fall in love (oooh omg!) But really, I just like any story that takes place in University and shows the mysticism of the campus and everything that is being learned. Such mysticism is greatly shown through the discussion of semiotics (a subject that I still don't really understand--its like a sub group of literary criticism/theory, yet it deserves its own department and program, blah, blah, its a confusing subject.) Anyways here's the first paragraph (and obviously the link to the rest is below):

It was debatable whether or not Madeleine had fallen in love with Leonard the first moment she’d seen him. She hadn’t even known him then, and so what she’d felt was only sexual attraction, not love. Even after they’d gone out for coffee, she couldn’t say that what she was feeling was anything more than infatuation. But ever since the night they went back to Leonard’s place after watching “Amarcord” and started fooling around, when Madeleine found that instead of being turned off by physical stuff, as she often was with boys, instead of putting up with that or trying to overlook it, she’d spent the entire night worrying that she was turning Leonard off, worrying that her body wasn’t good enough, or that her breath was bad from the Caesar salad she’d unwisely ordered at dinner; worrying, too, about having suggested they order Martinis because of the way Leonard had sarcastically said, “Sure. Martinis. Let’s pretend we’re Salinger characters”; after having had, as a consequence of all this anxiety, pretty much no sexual pleasure, despite the perfectly respectable session they’d put together, and after Leonard (like every guy) had immediately fallen asleep, leaving her to lie awake stroking his head and vaguely hoping that she wouldn’t get a yeast infection, Madeleine asked herself if the fact that she’d just spent the whole night worrying wasn’t, in fact, a surefire sign that she was falling in love. And certainly after they’d spent the next three days at Leonard’s place having sex and eating pizza, after she’d relaxed enough to be able to come once in a while and finally to stop worrying so much about having an orgasm because her hunger for Leonard was in some way satisfied by his satisfaction, after she’d allowed herself to sit naked on his gross couch and to walk to the bathroom knowing that he was staring at her (imperfect) ass, to root for food in his disgusting refrigerator, to read the brilliant half page of philosophy paper sticking up out of his typewriter, and to hear him pee with taurine force into the toilet bowl, certainly, by the end of those three days, Madeleine knew she was in love.

But that didn’t mean she had to tell anyone. Especially Leonard.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/06/07/100607fi_fiction_eugenides#ixzz0txjVS37I

The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For The Man

The Lonely Island (featuring Norah Jones) - Dreamgirl

By the guys who did Dick in a Box and Jizz in my Pants--Dreamgirl is one of their underrated and most likely has gone unnoticed by most.

The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - Chicago, My Home Town

Hoodie Allen - You Are Not A Robot (feat. Marina & The Diamonds)

This song is alright. I mostly like the incredibly clever name, its like a reference to Woody Allen, but since they are gangsters they are all like "hoodie allen." Hilarious. (hope the sarcasm is coming through.) Anyways I thought it would be funny to show the little youtube conversation I had on the comments page:

So first off, I said (or as jakobsnacks): what are they sampling?

then Ayble2Do said: @jakobsnacks All you have to do is click on the info tab directly underneath the video.

It's the small arrow to the left of the play counter. It will give you a drop-down box that explains everything you need to know.

Or, you could read the title of the video and apply deductive reasoning.

Then I said to Ayble2Do: ...alright that was a retarded question I asked. It's the internet, I like my shit spoon fed to me. Do it with less bitter contempt please.

And then Mr. Super Cool Ayble2Do had better things to do then argue with me over youtube, and thus, he never responded.

Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Been listening to this song since I was a little kid. I hadn't in a while and it came to my mind so I youtubed it. It seemed like such a sad bittersweet song when I was younger, and it always made me feel a little bummy. But if you watch this video, I don't think there is anyway you could feel sad.

The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut

 For any one who's read The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, this parody written for The New Yorker will make you laugh your ass off. I was laughing out loud at work one day and I had to stop reading it halfway through, because I couldn't contain myself. I'm sure it would still be funny to those who haven't read the book, but it is like a perfect parody.


There was a tap at the door at five in the morning. She woke up. Shit. Now what? She’d fallen asleep with her Palm Tungsten T3 in her hand. It would take only a moment to smash it against the wall and shove the battery up the nose of whoever was out there annoying her. She went to the door.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2010/07/05/100705sh_shouts_ephron#ixzz0sdmEiCYH

Peter, Paul, and Mary - Early Morning

I heard this song in an episode of Mad Men. Which is a show I highly recommend. I know some of you might think that watching television is the quickest way to destroying your mind, and well, I don't really have an argument against that but if you got nothing to do (and lets say you are tired after a long day of work and don't feel like reading) than waste your time with a little bit of Mad Men. It's a very interesting series and as I approach the end of the second season I'm beginning to form an analysis that the heroes of the story, are the women (that is, the women of the strange 1960s) and really its the men (the MAD men) who are the villains.

Also here is a link to the exact song sung again by a priest--from Mad Men!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnHDum8sG4o

The Kinks - Powerman

Casiokids - Fot I Hose

Vampire Weekend - Boston (Ladies of Cambridge)

Robyn - Don't Fucking Tell Me What To Do

Still Flyin - Good Thing Its A Ghost Town Around Here

Dido & Youssou N'Dour - Seven Seconds (Live @ Live 8)

Woody Allen @ The Oscars (...a couple of years ago)

Coconut Records - West Coast

This is a note, that I have meant to say on a lot of these posts. Ignore, the lame slide show, that accompanies the video--I honestly could care less if it were just a plain black screen. I would probably  prefer that.

Islands - Switched On

The Beach Boys - Barbara Ann

Mark Mothersbaugh - Sonato For Cello & Pianist in F Minor

Love - Seven And Seven

The Benny Goodman Orchestra - Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing)

The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

The Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me

Flight of the Conchords - Think About It

One of my favorite Flight of the Conchords songs. I have posted the television version along with the live version. Both are excellent in my opinion! : ) Oh, also, the actual song in the live version starts at around 2:30 in the video.

Mark Mothersbaugh - Ping Island / Lightning Strike Rescue Op

Katy Perry - California Gurls featuring Snoop Doog

I feel a little embarrassed to put this on my blog, but this song is so catchy. And its not like I haven't posted terrible guilty pleasure songs (Party and Bullshit in the USA, anyone.) Also, is it just me, or do Katy Perry and Zooey Deschenal (spelling? I don't really care though) look really similar? They should do a song together, and it will be awesome. Way better, than that one time Shakira and Beyonce made a music video. It had so much potential, but that song sucked.

Django Reinhardt - Body And Soul

Grammar Nazi's (A Remake of the Opening Scene of Inglourious Basterds)

Rill Rill - Sleigh Bells

Suicide - Ghost Rider

La Vita Nuova by Allegra Goodman

 Another awesome story from The New Yorker's fiction section. Here is the first paragraph:

The day her fiancé left, Amanda went walking in the Colonial cemetery off Garden Street. The gravestones were so worn that she could hardly read them. They were melting away into the weedy grass. You are a very dark person, her fiancé had said.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/05/03/100503fi_fiction_goodman#ixzz0ndbkNbKX

Gorillaz - Some Kind Of Nature (Feat. Lou Reed)

10 Things I Hate About Commandments

Recently, I've been reading a translation of the Old Testament by this awesome guy, known as Rabbi Telushkin.  To make the whole Bible reading process a little easier, I've thought about different shortcuts I could take to learn all the famous stories. Obviously, there was the Passover episode of Rugrats--but a better more theatrical retelling of the bible can be found in "The Ten Commandments." I still haven't watched that movie (it is 4 hours long!) but I did find this re-cut trailer for the movie in the style of a teen movie. It's pretty hilarious. If you're really into fake re-cuts of films, here's a hilarious one for The Shining, as well.

Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough

Last night I was at a friend's confirmation. I didn't get home until around 7 in the morning. At 530 when someone put on Just Can't Enough, I think it might have been the best time of my life. Intoxicated, tired, and happy to be dancing with old friends, the nostalgia of the song and the situation made the moment one of those great times, when you're genuinely really happy, and are so conscious about how great the situation is. Great night, that's for sure.

Lost Limbs By Arthur Bradford

I read this awesome short story in the New Yorker today, and I was going to link it here. But then I thought about how all the short stories I put up on the blog are from the New Yorker fiction section, so I thought I might put up another fun short story I read somewhere else. I actually really like this story, its a funny, quirky tale about a guy dating a girl who doesn't have an arm. Here's the first paragraph:

It wasn’t until my second date with Lenore that I discovered one of her arms was missing. Our first meeting had been a blind date, arranged by my brother’s wife, who had neglected to mention this arm situation. I suppose I’m not a particularly observant person. This is something I’ve been told on a number of occasions. Lenore wore a very well-made prosthesis, though, and I believe it was an understandable oversight on my part.

http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n12/htdocs/lost-limbs-251.php

Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better

When I was shopping in Kensington Market this week, Phoenix came on the radio. It was a song I didn't recognize, but I recognized the lead singer's voice, so I asked, "Is this Phoenix?" And the lady working replied, "Ya it is. Some of their new shit. Their best album is there first." From this, I went and downloaded the first album, and it is pretty dope. Also, the radio station was hilarious, because (and I guess, they were playing more than one phoenix song) as the host, satirizing lameo hipster people, says, "the first phoenix song I played was from their first album, because I liked them before anyone else did. I don't even know if I like them anymore now that everyone does as well." I laughed, and left the store. Didn't purchase a thing.

Sylvia Plath reads her poem 'Daddy'

Born Ruffians - What To Say

With the new found time of Summer, I'm all of a sudden posting twice in a day. I sigh at the freedom.

Anyways, here is a new song from Born Ruffian's upcoming album 'Say It.' I'm not sure if this is my particular favorite, but most songs by this band take me a couple of listens to get into. They also re-did a version of a song that they had already recorded called 'Sole Brother.' I really like how the new version sounds, so here it is as well:

Frank Zappa - Bobby Brown

Boz Scaggs - Lowdown

Prefiguration of Lalo Cura by Roberto Bolano

New short story from new literary (and dead) sensation Roberto Bolano. Here is the first paragraph of a newly translated short story by him featured in The New Yorker:

It’s hard to believe, but I was born in a neighborhood called Los Empalados: The Impaled. The name glows like the moon. The name opens a way through the dream with its horn, and man follows that path. A quaking path. Invariably harsh. The path that leads into or out of Hell. That’s what it all comes down to. Getting closer to Hell or farther away. Me, for example, I’ve had people killed. I’ve given the best birthday presents. I’ve backed projects of epic proportions. I’ve opened my eyes in the dark. Once, I opened them by slow degrees in total darkness, and all I saw or imagined was that name: Los Empalados, shining like the star of destiny.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/04/19/100419fi_fiction_bolano#ixzz0ly2TfQT5

Beastie Boys - Body Movin (Fat Boy Slim Remix)

First off, my exams are officially finished and for those of you who frequently read this blog should be happy to know that I should be posting more frequently.

Second, I was listening to this song, after leaving the pit of sadness that was my residence building on move out day. The song doesn't really empathize with any of the emotions that were being felt at the time, but maybe a message can be drawn, and that is: just be pumped that its now summer!

Cream - White Room

Black Lips - Dirty Hands

For those of you who care, I only have two more exams!

Telegraph Avenue - Something Going

I apologize to my four readers, I've been busy with exams. But trust me, this song is sick. I heard it in this used book store I was about to hand a resume into--and the funny thing is, I was slightly impaired when I walked into the store, and thus I was immediately dancing to the song, snapping my fingers. Why was I 'impaired' at four o clock in the afternoon? You see, I was offered a sip of my mother's drink, and well, you know how it is.

Hall & Oates - Rich Girl

High School Redux

Funny personal essay in New York Times. Here's the first bit, with link below:

Paul was one of my best friends in high school, but we drifted apart after graduation. We weren’t good about staying in touch, and it had been years since we’d seen each other. I blew off my 20th reunion two years ago. Don’t get me wrong: I love witnessing the ravishing effects of time on bodies that aren’t mine; it’s just that you have to go through so much lame small talk to see the train wrecks. But I really wanted to know how Paul was doing. We were close once. It felt wrong that we’d gone through 22 years of life experiences without talking. If we reconnected, I wondered, could we still be friends? Does the raw material for friendship remain intact despite decades of separation?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04lives-t.html?ref=magazine

Miike Snow - Animal

Cat Power - Sea of Love

In totally unrelated note, I would like to mention that I now I have a twitter account (and I am having so much fun.)

Charanjit Singh - Raga Bhupali

Ocarina of Rhyme (Rap Mashed-up with Ocarina of Time Music)

A friend of mine showed me this last night, and I figured that it would be best to share it with the rest of the internet (well technically it was already on the internet--so sharing it with the people who view this blog. Also by comparison, it would be an overstatement to say that this blog would count as the rest of the internet.) Anyways, enjoy.

Next Big Thing In English: Knowing They Know That You Know

Just read this article in the NY Times, pretty interesting. Here's the first paragraph (link to full article underneath):
" To illustrate what a growing number of literary scholars consider the most exciting area of new research, Lisa Zunshine, a professor of English at Kentucky University, refers to an episode from the TV series “Friends.”

(Follow closely now; this is about the science of English.) Phoebe and Rachel plot to play a joke on Monica and Chandler after they learn the two are secretly dating. The couple discover the prank and try to turn the tables, but Phoebe realizes this turnabout and once again tries to outwit them.

As Phoebe tells Rachel, “They don’t know that we know they know we know.”

This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are equipped with this capacity and what particular brain functions enable them to do it are questions that have occupied primarily cognitive psychologists. "

Enjoy: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/books/01lit.html?ref=books

The Matrix Reloaded Club/Dance/Sex Scene

So I just walked into my common room, and people were watching Matrix Reloaded, and I forgot how ill this scene was. Pretty much you see the humans dancing and clubbing while also seeing Trinity and Neo doing it. The message is simple: its way cooler to be a human then a machine.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMzw5ARknRM

Street Art (the new pretentious term for Grafitti!)

My Professor showed this video the other day, he was doing a lecture on street art--he showed us this sick video. Check it out, watch the whole thing, I think the beginning might be a little slow, but by the end your jaw will be dropping due to amazement.


JR - EXTRAIT "WOMEN ARE HEROES", Kibera, Kenya
Uploaded by JR. - Discover more animation and arts videos.

The Pura Principle

Recently read this short story in the New Yorker. An excellent little tale. Junot Diaz has a sick style, writing in an authentic sounding Dominican voice. Here is the first paragraph:

Those last months. No way of wrapping it pretty or pretending otherwise: Rafa estaba jodido. By then it was only me and Mami taking care of him and we didn’t know what the fuck to do, what the fuck to say. So we just said nothing. My mom wasn’t the effusive type anyway, had one of those event-horizon personalities—shit just fell into her and you never really knew what she felt about it. She just seemed to take it, never gave anything off, not light, not heat. Crinkled her eyes, maybe, or frowned, but that was it. Me, I wouldn’t have wanted to talk even if she had been game. The few times my boys at school tried to bring it up, I flipped. Told them to mind their own fucking business. To get out of my face. I was seventeen and a half. Smoking so much bud that if I remembered an hour from any one of those days it would have been a lot.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/03/22/100322fi_fiction_diaz#ixzz0jIKNCAih

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World The Official Trailer

I'm not going to lie, I am not a huge fan of this trailer. Hopefully the movie is still good. A second viewing has made made me come to the decision that the problem lies in Michael Cera...he is doing his regular thing, and that's not a very accurate portrayal of the character in the comic. But, here's hoping the movie is good (I mean we got the Shaun of the Dead director, amazing source material, and Jason Schwartzman is in it to.) Let us hope. :)

Awesome Video of Festival in Thailand

This is a really cool clip of this festival in Thailand. Surreal.

MGMT - Congratulations

The Swearing Episode of Arthur

This is actually the craziest video I have ever seen. I first saw this episode of Arthur when I discovered they had started making new episodes. This is probably one of the better new episodes and it isn't even that good. Its only cool due to the shock value of all the swearing. 

New MGMT album!

New MGMT album is out. From the one listen I gave it, it was a pretty sick album. Shout out to Nathan for linking me the link that I am now linking to you. : )

http://www.whoismgmt.com/

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (the greatest live video ever!)

Woke up this morning with my roommate playing this across from me. Seeing this made my day, I should have just slept for the rest of the day--there was no potential for anything as great to happen.

Belle & Sebastian - She's Losing It

Interesting New York Times Article On Scientology

Last night I sat through the not so uncommon debate on religion. You know the one, where everyone waits for their turn to speak, throw some big words around, and then let the next person have a go. For a minute I thought I felt a slight superiority realizing how silly the conversation was--but then I think I realized I was truly just jealous that I didn't get to throw my own pretentious comments into the bag.

Anyways, the conversation inspired me to read this article on New York Times about Scientology. And wow, I recommend reading, very interesting. Its weird because you read up on the practices and you think, how eery, creepy and strange the whole religion is--but then at the same time think about how moronic it sounds. Though, the article I have linked below was really interesting because for scientologists it really isn't a joke--its their life--they believe in what they are doing. Though, after reading the article it seems that there is a growing  divide between scientologists and their subsequent church. It seems like scientology soon might be going through it's own 'reformation.' Nuts!


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/us/07scientology.html?pagewanted=1&sq=scientology&st=cse&scp=2

All this scientology business had me thinking about the South Park episode. The controversial episode that lead to Isaac Hayes leaving the show, and subsequently lead to Tom Cruise trying to ban the episode.

Chat Roulette Funny Piano Improv

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

Interesting Essay on George Orwell

The writer of this piece is talking about how it's difficult to place George Orwell as a journalist, novelist, political scientist, and more. It is for this reason that his ideas have endured. I didn't really care, I just thought it was fun to read what to me was a mini-bio of George Orwell.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/books/review/Wheatcroft-t.html?scp=2&sq=george%20orwell&st=cse

Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill

Super Mash Bros - Meet Me At Fantasy Island

MGMT - Flash Delirium

A Monster Lecture on Justice and Law by Friedrich Durrenmatt

I'm reading this short story/lecture/philosophical article/essay by this dude known as Friedrich Durrenmatt (picture above this.) I have an essay of his linked at the bottom. I haven't read the whole thing and I probably won't, though I recommend reading the first page and a half (start on page 74 'first story' or so I have linked, as it is a bit of a laugh. The story concludes with the prophet Muhammad being explained to by God his reasoning for the injustices Muhammad observes. Suggesting a sort of cosmic view of justice/injustice which Durrenmatt then goes onto discuss (his conclusion: I have no idea, I stopped reading to make this post. Can someone say procrastination!)


http://books.google.ca/books?id=4IwtDDSO554C&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=a+monster+lecture+on+justice+and+law+friedrich+durrenmatt&source=bl&ots=yxeX22wUdd&sig=_VZ2pQNjanINWCGtRoBf_LrUG84&hl=en&ei=cSGVS5CBC4_iNfuzmKsN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Dave Chappelle - Kid's Cartoons

Die Antwoord - Zef Side.

New Roman Polanski film: The Ghost Writer

So this movie looks dope. Roman Polanski (director of Chinatown and The Pianist. And also on another interesting note: Roman Polanski can't go to the United States due to charges related to molestation and rape of some little girl!!!) is coming out with a new movie called Ghost Writer. And it's some mystery/thriller, I don't really care, the guy is an excellent director as well as the movie gets 85% at rotten tomatoes.com. All systems are go. This movie looks sick.

Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi

The J-List: An Everchanging List of Awesome Stuff (Not Just Great Music)

Hello to the supposed 24 viewers who view this blog (this statistic is taken from my google analytics account, I doubt it's true.  So I correct myself, the four of you). I've been meaning to do this for a long time, but with a certain level of .html retardation I've had no real initiative to begin the endeavour. I plan to change the content of this blog. I will not be getting rid of the music recommendation, I will just be adding interesting articles, essays, short stories, trailers, funny videos, and other interesting/cool/awesome things I find over the inter-web. Reason for change is pretty simple: I don't listen to music as meticulously as I used to (i.e listening to podcasts, frequently going to music blogs, etc.) Now it seems, at university with all the work, that I only hear music when I'm partying. A few days after adding such tunes in my hungover-ness, I realize that half of it is shitty, so to retain the quality of the music on this blog but at the same time have frequent amount of posts, I've decided to up the content. Hope that makes sense. Anyways, on the right side, you can see a section entitled 'labels' that is where everything will be going now, expect that list of labels to grow. Umm, the painting above is one by Francisco Goya, and I only put it up to grab your attention. Hope you liked it.

Jakob