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17 May 12 (Permalink)

R U going 2 the Crystal Ball?

Only one more sleep until Prince blows the roof off the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. I can’t wait!

Fingers crossed he’ll play She’s Always in my Hair, Mountains, and (this is pushing it) It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night.

What about U? R U going? What do U want 2 hear?

PS: I’m live tweeting the show if U can’t make it: https://twitter.com/stephenaxlscott/

13 May 12 (Permalink)
Kiss by Nick Runge - for Fandom Menace

Kiss by Nick Runge - for Fandom Menace

1 May 12 (Permalink)

Star Wars characters lip-synch “Party with my Friends” by Hot Problems.

Hilarious concept matched with meticulous video editing - watch it, laugh and PARTY!

13 April 12 (Permalink)
Prince is coming back to Australia! I’ve got my tickets to the Brisbane show, and now just have to get in the mood. Here’s my Prince playlist 4 2day …
When Doves Cry Gett Off Violet The Organ Grinder Joy In Repetition It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night Tick, Tick, Bang Superbowl XLI Medley My Name Is Prince Let’s Go Crazy Mountains Take Me With U She’s Always In My Hair Girls & Boys Nothing Compares 2 U Purple Rain Kiss Housequake Alphabet Street F.U.N.K. Play In The Sunshine Little Red Corvette 1999 Sexy M.F. Thieves In The Temple Sign “☮” The Times Erotic CityBaby I’m A Star I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man I Wish U Heaven (Part 1 2 3) New Position Pop Life Musicology Le Grind The Human Body U Got The Look Chelsea Rodgers She’s Always In My Hair (12” Version) Kiss (Extended Version) Shockadelica It Let’s Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix) Pop Life (Fresh Dance Mix) Hot Thing (Extended Remix) Delirious (single version) Paisley Park Let’s Work (Dance Remix) Little Red Corvette (Dance Remix) Fury Controversy Raspberry Beret (12” Version) Starfish And Coffee Letitgo Black Sweat Christopher Tracy’s Parade Raspberry Beret Cream 1999 Loose! U Got The Look (Long Look) When You Were Mine Hot Thing I Feel For You The Most Beautiful Girl In The WorldPeachPartyman3121BatdanceAmericaThunderDaddy Pop Diamonds And PearlsPushGlam SlamI Wish U Heaven7Life Can Be So Nice AnotherloverholenyoheadI Would Die 4 UThe Ballad Of Dorothy ParkerIf I Was Your GirlfriendLolitaErotic City 12”Alphabet St (This Is Not Music This Is A Trip) Sexy Mutha2 Whom It May ConcernMy ComputerGuitarHelloLovesexySometimes It Snows In AprilThe Beautifiul OnesDarling NikkiLet’s Pretend We’re MarriedD.M.S.R.I Wonder USign “☮” The Times (album)
Anything I’ve missed?

Prince is coming back to Australia! I’ve got my tickets to the Brisbane show, and now just have to get in the mood. Here’s my Prince playlist 4 2day …

When Doves Cry
Gett Off
Violet The Organ Grinder
Joy In Repetition
It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
Tick, Tick, Bang
Superbowl XLI Medley
My Name Is Prince
Let’s Go Crazy
Mountains
Take Me With U
She’s Always In My Hair
Girls & Boys
Nothing Compares 2 U
Purple Rain
Kiss
Housequake
Alphabet Street
F.U.N.K.
Play In The Sunshine
Little Red Corvette
1999
Sexy M.F.
Thieves In The Temple
Sign “☮” The Times
Erotic City
Baby I’m A Star
I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
I Wish U Heaven (Part 1 2 3)
New Position
Pop Life
Musicology
Le Grind
The Human Body
U Got The Look
Chelsea Rodgers
She’s Always In My Hair (12” Version)
Kiss (Extended Version)
Shockadelica
It
Let’s Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix)
Pop Life (Fresh Dance Mix)
Hot Thing (Extended Remix)
Delirious (single version)
Paisley Park
Let’s Work (Dance Remix)
Little Red Corvette (Dance Remix)
Fury
Controversy
Raspberry Beret (12” Version)
Starfish And Coffee
Letitgo
Black Sweat
Christopher Tracy’s Parade
Raspberry Beret
Cream
1999
Loose!
U Got The Look (Long Look)
When You Were Mine
Hot Thing
I Feel For You
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
Peach
Partyman
3121
Batdance
America
Thunder
Daddy Pop
Diamonds And Pearls
Push
Glam Slam
I Wish U Heaven
7
Life Can Be So Nice
Anotherloverholenyohead
I Would Die 4 U
The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Lolita
Erotic City 12”
Alphabet St (This Is Not Music This Is A Trip)
Sexy Mutha
2 Whom It May Concern
My Computer
Guitar
Hello
Lovesexy
Sometimes It Snows In April
The Beautifiul Ones
Darling Nikki
Let’s Pretend We’re Married
D.M.S.R.
I Wonder U
Sign “☮” The Times (album)

Anything I’ve missed?

12 April 12 (Permalink)
Go Go Gotye!

Go Go Gotye!

16 March 12 (Permalink)
lunaticentertainment:

Weekly US charts just released - Gotye (@Gotye) has a top 5 single with ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ (feat Kimbra)! Album moves up to #16. Can the single make #1?

And the album would have charted higher if the stupid 25 cent digital album deals didn’t happen during the week. It makes me so happy to see a true artist (and lovely human being) gaining recognition globally. Hopefully these people will delve back to his previous albums and see that Wally isn’t an overnight sensation. He’s been sensational for years!

lunaticentertainment:

Weekly US charts just released - Gotye () has a top 5 single with ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ (feat Kimbra)! Album moves up to #16. Can the single make #1?

And the album would have charted higher if the stupid 25 cent digital album deals didn’t happen during the week. It makes me so happy to see a true artist (and lovely human being) gaining recognition globally. Hopefully these people will delve back to his previous albums and see that Wally isn’t an overnight sensation. He’s been sensational for years!

Reblogged: lunaticentertainment

Tags: Gotye Music
12 March 12 (Permalink)
Lovers of Kate Miller-Heidke rejoice - the new album “Nightflight” is scheduled for a 13 April release! Pre-orders already available on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/au/preorder/nightflight/id509016142

Lovers of Kate Miller-Heidke rejoice - the new album “Nightflight” is scheduled for a 13 April release! Pre-orders already available on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/au/preorder/nightflight/id509016142

1 March 12 (Permalink)
Song map

Song map

27 February 12 (Permalink)
If you’ve only just discovered Sia thanks to David Guetta’s Titanium (or the myriad of other songs she’s featured on), then get your mitts on her “Best of” when it’s released next month. Every tracks a winner!
01. Clap Your Hands02. The Girl You Lost To Cocaine03. Destiny (Zero 7 feat. Sia)04. Buttons05. Day Too Soon06. Numb07. Where I Belong08. Breathe Me09. Sweet Potato10. Bring Night11. My Love12. Titanium (David Guetta feat. Sia)13. You’ve Changed14. I Go To Sleep15. The Fight16. Soon We’ll Be Found17. Taken For Granted18. Buttons (CSS Mix)

If you’ve only just discovered Sia thanks to David Guetta’s Titanium (or the myriad of other songs she’s featured on), then get your mitts on her “Best of” when it’s released next month. Every tracks a winner!

01. Clap Your Hands
02. The Girl You Lost To Cocaine
03. Destiny (Zero 7 feat. Sia)
04. Buttons
05. Day Too Soon
06. Numb
07. Where I Belong
08. Breathe Me
09. Sweet Potato
10. Bring Night
11. My Love
12. Titanium (David Guetta feat. Sia)
13. You’ve Changed
14. I Go To Sleep
15. The Fight
16. Soon We’ll Be Found
17. Taken For Granted
18. Buttons (CSS Mix)

Posted: 9:36 AM (Permalink)

lunaticentertainment:

GOTYE - ‘EASY WAY OUT’ VIDEO

The ‘Easy Way Out’ video was made in Melbourne by animator/director Darcy Prendergast and the Oh Yeah Wow crew. A true labour of love, the video took nine months to finish. The set was a five room house built from scratch and took up Oh Yeah Wow’s studio space for almost nine months. We’re extremely pleased with the results!

From Wally: “The guys from Oh Yeah Wow made this grouse new film clip for ‘Easy Way Out’ with me(s). Hope y’all enjoy!

Reblogged: fuckyegotye

26 February 12 (Permalink)

Music I’m Listening To

Top Ten Songs
1. Giving Me A Chance - Gotye
2. Cold and Happy - Brendan Maclean
3. Put Your Hands Up - Nerina Pallot
4. Why Don’t We Do Something? - Hey Geronimo
5. Tattoo - Van Halen
6. Let’s Roll Like We Used To - Kasabian
7. Easy Way Out - Gotye
8. Spare Change - Ingrid Michaelson
9. All I Know (extended) - Eagle and the Worm
10. Lonely Boy - The Black Keys

Top 10 Albums
1. Making Mirrors - Gotye
2. Velociraptor! - Kasabian
3. A Different Kind of Truth - Van Halen
4. Memories of a Beautiful Disaster *my ep edit- James Durbin (*tracks 7-11, the first 6 are very average)
5. Format - Pet Shop Boys
6. Her Best - Etta James
7. Stone Rollin’ - Raphael Saadiq
8. Moonfire - Boy & Bear
9. Pajama Club - Pajama Club
10. 21 - Adele

What’s in your high rotation ATM?

24 February 12 (Permalink)

“Nyan Cat” Variations - composed by Craig Davis Pinson (Boston Conservatory)
Recorded February 9, 2012 at Seully Hall in The Boston Conservatory as part of Composer Recital Series 12

Original Theme (Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!) by daniwellP 
Theme used for non-commercial purposes as per daniwell-P’s request.

Performed by the Juventas New Music Ensemble:
Lidiya Yankovskaya, Conductor
Zach Jay, Flute
Marguerite Levin, Clarinet
Julia Scott Carey, Piano
Yohanan Chendler, Violin
Drew Ricciardi, Viola
Rachel Arnold, Cello 

Experimental classical variations to discover how far the Nyan Cat melody could be transformed before losing its identity. 

From the composer: “On a large scale, the work is structured along a simple alternation pattern. The theme and its variations alternate, similarly to rondo form. However, the theme is progressively dissolved, meaning that each time it returns it contains less percentage of the source material. 

This chipping-away continues until there’s nothing recognisable left.

In the variation episodes, more tools are employed to change the essence of the theme, especially, pronounced changes of duration, texture, harmonic character, and of the intervallic makeup of the melody.

Each of the variations has its own defined character, and they contrast sharply with one another in mood and technique.

Despite of the contrast of its sections, the piece exploits a long-scale narrative arc, playing on the contrast between the theme’s duration - which remains essentially consistent at each iteration - and the durations of the variation episodes, which seem to grow out of control as their proportions become subverted.

via Boing Boing 

14 January 12 (Permalink)
KISS’s first promo picture in full makeup and costume!

For Fandom Menace

KISS’s first promo picture in full makeup and costume!

For Fandom Menace

Tags: KISS music
13 January 12 (Permalink)

Tonight I’m Frakking You

I think my favourite bit (apart from Kunal Nayyar’s brilliant rap) is Richard Hatch’s cameo.

Damn, this is all my geek dreams come true! Wonder Woman, Spock, Darth Vader, Spiderman, Pacman (or his wife, I’m not too sure about that one) … and heaps more!

Sing along!

I’m like Kenobi
Seeking passage to Alderaan with you
We’ll watch Big Bang Theory
As you ride my TARDIS and call me Doctor Who

You’re into Cosplay (oooh)
Damn that’s one fine skin job on you.
Beam Me Up Hottie (oooo oooh)
My Vulcan Logic tells me its time to groove

Across the federation
My Jedi inclination
Tells me that I am a suitable mate for you
We Love Next Generation
Xbox over Playstation
Its time that I tap from your Mana Pool

Cause tonight I’m Frakking You
Whoa you know
That tonight I’m Frakking You
Whoa you know
Are You Gwen Stacey
My Spidey sense says I’d shoot my web all on you
I’m No Fergengi
I drop more coin than Mario on mushrooms

Your Dharma education
Delorean transporation
Revs my engine to warp speed like Mr. Sulu
Dollhouse’s cancellation 
Hurt like Luke’s amputation
Its time to Mork Me and say Nanoo Nanoo

Cause tonight I’m Frakking You
Whoa you know
That tonight I’m Frakking You
Whoa you know

Ha! Kunal…
Let’s Meet Up In Naboo
We’ll roll around like R2-D2
You’ve set my phasers to stun
Cause your Sarlaac Pit’s
Got more spice in it
Than the planet Dune

From Asgard’s
Hallowed halls
Everybody big bangs Kunal
Gotham or Hogwarts
My Broad Sword’ll Be the one
Thing To Rule them all
Lets clone your body
Join them all together to form a Guild
and go on a Quest
We can use my expansion pack
Then I’ll take you down like Boba Fett
Up Up, Down Down
Left, Right, Left Right
B, A, Select then Start
Its time to one-up
Thirty lives with you, (cuz tonight I’m)

Cuz tonight I’m Frakking You
Whoa you know
That tonight I’m Frakking You
Whoa you know
That tonight I’m Frakking You

8 January 12 (Permalink)
Adele may rule the CD & download album charts, but the USA Vinyl LP Chart has had a clear leader for THREE YEARS! 
Congratulations to those spring chickens, The Beatles, who hold pole position with 41,000 sales (compared to Adele’s 5.8 million to clinch the top-seller on the overall chart).
1. The Beatles - Abbey Road (41,000) 2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (29,700) 3. Bon Iver - Bon Iver (27,200)4. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (26,800) 5. Radiohead - The King of Limbs (20,800) 6. Adele - 21 (16,500) 7. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (16,200) 8. Wilco - The Whole Love (14,900) 9. The Black Keys - Brothers (14,200) 10. The Black Keys - El Camino (13,800)

Adele may rule the CD & download album charts, but the USA Vinyl LP Chart has had a clear leader for THREE YEARS!

Congratulations to those spring chickens, The Beatles, who hold pole position with 41,000 sales (compared to Adele’s 5.8 million to clinch the top-seller on the overall chart).

1. The Beatles - Abbey Road (41,000)
2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (29,700)
3. Bon Iver - Bon Iver (27,200)
4. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (26,800)
5. Radiohead - The King of Limbs (20,800)
6. Adele - 21 (16,500)
7. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (16,200)
8. Wilco - The Whole Love (14,900)
9. The Black Keys - Brothers (14,200)
10. The Black Keys - El Camino (13,800)

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh & tweaked like crazy by Darth Ambiguous