Archive for April, 2008

the best idea… or maybe not

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

I had this great idea: i was going to listen to my music ordered by track length, starting with shortest tracks first and decide which is my favourite song for each 15 second-length bracket.

Now one could argue that means this grossly favours songs that are shorter or longer than the standard 3-4 minute song…

For example, Vault Character by Calvin Harris wins 0-0:15, easily beating the only other possible contender ‘(Turning the Single Over)’ by Figurine, which lost because it’s not really a song as such. [And I must say I love how imeem or whatever-that-site-is says "log in to hear the rest of the song" when the song is 22 seconds shorter than the 30 second limit :P]

…I, on the other hand, think that’s the brilliance of my idea :D The radio discriminates against those which do not fit the standard song length, so this is simply positive discrimination.

It’s clear that I’ve come up with this as a form of procrastination, sadly it’s failed, as i’m already bored and i’m only at the 1:10 minute mark :P

quick thought

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

It just occurred to me that Camille’s Janine II and Kate Nash’s Dickhead are not dissimilar.*

Does anyone else in the wild world of internet agree?

[Edit] *sadly the song clips do not give full justice to the similarities… *The new song samples show the similarities better :)

Oh the outrage

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

There’s already been a report in the newspapers about this supposedly offensive t-shirt, which means aca/today tonight must be hot on the trails.

Oddly, I really don’t find it very offensive.
http://www.goatboy.com.au/products.php?product=She%27s-Dead

Although i do think charging $49.95 for an American Apparel t-shirt with with a picture printed on it is ridiculous. *Plugs Threadless again* (via)

curvy women

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Figures reveal that given the choice, most men will plump for a curvy girl. Apparently men like curvy women. Who knew?

It’s certainly not a scientific study, but never-the-less slightly illuminating.

Oh, and I’d choose the size 12 followed by the size 14.

music plagiarism

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

I’ve often pondered whether the huge catalogue of music available on the internet would mean it would be easy for music to be plagiarised and released by other “musicians” without it being obvious.
Here’s one example of that very thing happening. An electronic artist called Laromlab has clearly misappropriated the songs of others, as this statement on his record company’s website shows:

“Here are the original track names and artists that make up the Laromlab album:

Laromlab / Original Title / Artist
1 Rock!! Hard!! / Nightvision / CrazyQ
2 Mission for Glory / Haschkaka / Dubmood
3 C: Dancer / Cybernetic Dancer / DMA-SC
4 Phat and Phunky Pt. 1 / Phat and Phunky Pt. 1 / CrazyQ
5 Zipp Zapp / Zip Zap Space Attack / CrazyQ
6 They’re back!!! / Return of the Fighters / DMA-SC
7 Sid Attax / Atari Attacks / CrazyQ
8 Return of Da Stomp / Local Hero / CrazyQ
9 Punk Funk / Pink Phunk Monster / CrazyQ
10 Nightdrive / Stars of the Night / DMA-SC
11 T-girl Dancing / T-Girl / Lotek Style
12 (Hidden) / Hiapoe / DMA-SC”

After searching through my collection I found that I did have one track related to Laromlab, “his” remix of Daft Punk’s Around the World. I wonder who actually did it.