tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60602372011-12-14T17:30:58.997-08:00fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.comBlogger601100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-18486834478026235702011-12-14T17:29:00.000-08:002011-12-14T17:30:59.009-08:00
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The Last Man, Brian K. Vaughn
This pleases my
apocalyptic fantasizing. Planes fall from the sky, cars crash, governments
collapse, the last images of man are slicked in the blood that spews from their
orifices when a mystery pandemic hits.
The world's population falls by half and Yorick is the last man on earth. He's suddenly left with the mystery of the
plague, an existential crisis (whyfred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-81974316348881705522008-07-15T00:10:00.000-07:002008-07-15T00:36:11.368-07:00the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford7.8the bad:a little long in the tooth at two hours and forty minutesconstant transitional imagery of clouds moving across the sky (annoying and eventually useless)constant and many times out-of-place repetition of musical themesthe good:beautiful cinematographyvery good performance by brad pittfucking amazing performance by casey affleck.fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-41310956359305745332008-04-28T20:51:00.000-07:002008-04-28T21:23:19.223-07:00Muxtapes I enjoyhttp://gregb.muxtape.comI have been listening to this the most. Favorites: the 3 great Anticon songs in a row (by Why?, Boom Bip & Doseone, and Subtle), the wonderfully exuberant Lonely, Dear track, and the hypnotic, breath-taking folk of Andrew Bird.http://definiteform.muxtape.comElectronic with a moody techno edge. Great picks with a perfectly edible mixtape length. Favoritesfred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-16306192572708247452008-04-16T09:58:00.001-07:002008-04-16T09:58:18.869-07:00James Brown - Night Train Dancefred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-49246553359673104402008-04-06T14:46:00.000-07:002008-04-28T20:51:26.951-07:00MUXTAPE~!a new, easy way to share mp3s online in mixform, and sure to be taken down soon because of questionable legality. get it while it's hot: http://negativespace.muxtape.com/fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-65786733540012665312008-03-21T01:36:00.000-07:002008-03-21T01:49:37.055-07:00mp3: Tortoise - Senecaa personal classic. opens with a warm roar, like an orchestra warming up, except this orchestra is genre pioneering, avant everything band that dabbles in jazz, krautrock, and minimalism. usually that kind of mix inspires sort of a lazy reflection, but then these drums come in. a powerful, monster break, like nothing i've heard tortoise do before, pounds its way through afred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-21222820355637994242008-03-17T16:25:00.000-07:002008-03-17T16:29:56.349-07:00DMX Interview in XXL Magazinehttp://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=20332read as DMX displays astounding (and entertaining) ignorance/indifference towards everything from the presidential elections to new rappers.excerpt:Are you following the presidential race?Not at all.You’re not? You know there’s a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then there’s Hillary Clinton.His name is Barack?!Barack Obama, fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-33225301385853543072008-03-12T08:24:00.000-07:002008-03-17T17:57:59.652-07:00djChairboy - Liberation Drops Vol. 1 - Find Your Spirithttp://djchairboy.selfsustainingsages.comwhat it sounds like: really lush, really melodic, many layered electronic music. this is true of all the tracks, and often, there are female vocals and often, the female vocals are lyricless. all of this is operating a generally propulsive tempo. genres would be house and probably trance (not of the fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-82446779646570791502008-02-27T15:59:00.000-08:002008-02-27T16:03:22.264-08:00mp3: Beirut - A Sunday Smileit was hard for me to pick a single song from the album to represent beirut. i am not sure even if this does. nonetheless, it is a grand statement of epic trembling voices and swelling folk instrumentation. it is rare when i hear such unapologetic grandeur done uniquely in indie music.it is an other worldly sound, and with my limited reference points, i am fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-30890900353760638742008-02-07T03:29:00.000-08:002008-02-27T15:07:21.354-08:00mp3: Clark - Gaskarth/Cyrk Dedication (Tape)this is a curious track on an EP that is marketed as a dancefloor-friendly release, because there's nothing danceable about it, even though it's the best track. it's all gentle chugging percussion, industrial wheezing here and there, and thin melodic figures. there are no hooks or anthems; nothing easy to catch your mind on to. there's no spectaclefred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-54857091549613032892008-01-16T17:20:00.000-08:002008-01-16T17:21:48.191-08:00Great passage from Simon Reynolds in Generation Ecstasy on the differences between techno and traditional western music:Sampladelic dance music also confounds standard notions about creativity and authorship in pop music. Not only is the romantic figure of the creator displaced by the less glamorous curator (the DJ-turned-producer), but the lines between art and craft, inspiration and technique, fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-28752943635442473912008-01-07T20:39:00.001-08:002008-01-16T18:05:45.251-08:002007the awesome:animal collective - strawberry jambattles - mirroredjustice - +mia - kalamatthew dear - deserter singleoptimo - walkaboutmodeselektor - happy birthdayburial - untruevenetian snares - sabbath dubs epthe first half of devin the dude - waitin to inhale the very good:yeah yeah yeahs - is is epgrizzly bear - friend eppanda bear - person pitchstars of the lid - and their refinement of fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-2336680365844047982007-04-27T00:01:00.000-07:002008-01-16T18:05:29.300-08:00Electronixmp3: Amon Tobin - Bloodstonemp3: Amon Tobin - EsthersA welcome return for Amon to more organic sounds and expansive compositions rather than his increasingly dense music of recent.mp3: Duster - TraveloguePost-rock. This one needs volume. I don't really know how to describe it, except that it sounds like time traveling backwards.mp3: Gangpol Und Mit - Notre Vie N'est Pas Simple.Vous Nefred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-27021198995752346312007-02-28T01:39:00.000-08:002008-01-16T18:06:36.795-08:00mp3: Vitalic - Poney Part 1- this is what house music does best: to somehow be simultaneously crushing and hypnotic; devastating and mesmerizing; visceral and dreamlike.- with this song i realize i really enjoy hyper distorted melodies drowned in both volume and texture.fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-35034052379870393212007-02-27T23:43:00.001-08:002007-02-27T23:43:47.274-08:00Another Beautiful Passage by John CageWhen a composer feels a responsibility to make, rather than accept, he eliminates from the area of possibility all those events that do not suggest the at that point in time vogue of profundity. For he takes himself seriously, wishes to be considered great, and he thereby diminishes his love and increases his fear and concern about what people will think. fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-73732417901687124232007-02-07T13:23:00.000-08:002007-02-21T23:12:17.732-08:00PalindromesThis is a movie I've been wanting to see since before it came out, but I haven't really had a chance to. I've always passed this DVD at the video store. The cover would always catch my eye - it's a cartoonish illustration of a large black girl walking in the woods. As someone who's into design of any sort, I wondered, "Why a cartoon?" It's not particularly beautiful, or captivatingfred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-82348426322022709322007-01-28T06:27:00.000-08:002007-01-28T11:54:33.295-08:00Mogwai (from Mr. Beast)1 MP3: Glasgow Mega-Snake2 MP3: Friend of the NightI'm a bit late to the gravy train of this climaxinghugesound sort of post-rock but it doesn't surprise me that I like it at all. If anything, I am surprised by how familiar it sounds. Almost easy listening for the avant garde set - familiar structures and sonic details, but instantly rewarding. Glasgow Mega-Snake is a fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-67946263371580231032007-01-26T13:16:00.000-08:002007-01-26T13:20:35.047-08:00Great Interview with Maynard of Toolhttp://www.avclub.com/content/node/55757Some choice excerpts:AVC: Do you feel out of touch with your audience?MJK: For the most part, I have no idea who those people are—especially when we're traveling through Europe. And it's not all our fault; it's a whole series of events. [You play] heavy music, and your record company, which has never owned an album fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-92208955477684926852007-01-19T11:26:00.000-08:002007-01-30T13:53:46.128-08:00"Here we are. Let us say Yes to our presence together in Chaos." - John Cagemp3: Autechre - AcroyearThis is one of my favorite songs ever. The track starts off with a skittering, untrackable beat with only a threadbare melody to guide us through. It's chaotic and schizoid, but that melody somehow is just enough to tie things together. Somewhere in the madness is a logic, even if buried. fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-47072628791694018702007-01-13T01:18:00.000-08:002007-02-21T22:13:09.880-08:00MP3: Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You In The Endoff key, amateur chords strumming in the darka weird little man in the distance trying to tell me how it isand oddly enough, it makes sensefred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-12156237057708570382007-01-03T05:36:00.000-08:002008-01-18T13:33:43.113-08:00moved to: http://duonginjapan.blogspot.com/fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-38325934791107164642006-12-07T18:51:00.000-08:002006-12-08T09:16:58.273-08:00The Clipse and Folk MusicSo I've been listening The Clipse and folk music lately, and not much else. Since it's easier to point out the differences rather than the similarities, let's do similarities!1) concern with being perceived as genuinekeepin' it real/being a common person2) primarily lyric based music(which is funny to me, as someone who doesn't listen to lyrics anyways)3) spare fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-70516929372331029802006-12-06T17:04:00.001-08:002007-01-13T01:25:37.689-08:00 Lady Sovereign - Love Me or Hate MeFile Under:obnoxioushair like the girl from Napoleon Dynamitelow classcompletely likeablefred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-19665784437925817212006-12-06T13:24:00.000-08:002007-01-13T01:24:11.172-08:00maybe this blog is too self-indulgent. i'm fascinated by my own peculiarities in taste and love thinking about them to no end. with that being said, one of my weaknesses is folk music. i'm a sucker for an interesting voice and an acoustic guitar. is that criteria sufficient enough to be considered good music? i don't know. but i can't get enough of it.MP3: Lindsey Buckingham - Shut Us fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-29262139209571637502006-11-29T08:53:00.000-08:002006-12-06T13:58:37.654-08:00I was online looking for that hidden link between Timbaland and Pharrell. Did you know that they knew each other since middle school? Their parents knew each other, their grandparents knew each other, they wuz tite.Anyways, what caught my eye was this:On the ABC show "Nightline" Pharrell said, "I could always visualize what I was hearing" and "It was always like weird colors," suggesting he mayfred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-50122494526286663102006-11-20T19:53:00.000-08:002007-01-13T01:24:38.757-08:00MP3: Joanna Newsom - Three Little BabesHow often do you smile every time you hear a song?Her voice tears into my head with the brittleness of a siren. And I enjoy it.Joanna belongs to the group of singers you either love or hate, and as with most singers of that ilk, I love her. There is a rawness of sound there, a very visceral sonic characteristic that reaches out with it's tendrils and fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-67448101678603880542006-11-12T18:39:00.001-08:002007-01-28T11:53:38.717-08:00Dabrye1 MP3: Bloop2 MP3: Game Over8bit melodies rocking amidst unsure hip hopfred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1162865620287066512006-11-06T17:36:00.000-08:002007-01-13T01:26:00.063-08:00MP3: Broadcast - Lunch Hour PopsBroadcast is now officially the top of my Last FM list. They have toppled the mighty Aphex Twin, who's influence loomed so large in my mind that first listening to him was a formative experience that set the stage for how I listen to music. So, what makes Broadcast so good?At times, such as this, it is simple, beguiling pop. Trish Keenan's cool, unaffected fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1160684278349936642006-10-12T13:03:00.000-07:002007-01-13T01:25:23.057-08:00MP3: Johann Sebastian Bach (Yo-Yo Ma) - Suite No.1, S. 1007 in G Major - I. PreludeI asked my coworker if he could identify a classical song and he smirked, "I know classical songs, but I don't know any classical song names... they're all like 'Suite in C B A' and 'Concerto in A Minor Plus Plus'". Funny... but it also got me thinking. Isn't this what Autechre also does with their song titles? fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1159163311641191802006-09-24T21:22:00.000-07:002007-01-13T01:26:11.480-08:00Sufjan Stevens 9/16 - Paramount Theater, AustinI like Sufjan Stevens. It's pleasant music, full of nice harmony and pop. A guy with a guitar and sickly-sweet double tracked vocals, what's not to like? It's the type of music you could play for a girl at random from the street and she'd probably love it and love you for it.But I don't love his music by any stretch. The words "sugary" and "fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1158227646970096872006-09-14T02:46:00.000-07:002006-11-11T12:03:58.850-08:00It's funny whenever I tell someone I don't listen to lyrics. They just kind of nod their head, accepting the fact as if I just told them that I clip my toenails on Tuesdays. It's a matter of choice, they would think to themselves, it's not as if he can't really hear the lyrics. But I can't.My co-worker was getting pissed off because he was pointing out lyrics that he wanted me to hear. He fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1156556417159982752006-08-25T18:24:00.000-07:002006-11-11T12:03:58.729-08:00It's often I think the music I listen to isn't well known (sometimes it very much is though). It always makes me happy to find a fellow soul who likes what I do, especially the stuff that I would consider obscure. I'm gonna list some albums that I have yet to find others who enjoy them as much as I do (that I haven't introduced the albums to in the first place).snd - Tender LoveAsa-Chang & fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1156300365977291152006-08-22T19:31:00.000-07:002007-01-13T01:26:30.429-08:00Here's a counter-intuitive nugget from John Cage :"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually one discovers that it's not boring at all but very interesting."While I don't think it's always correct, there's something to that.fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1156027093826595932006-08-19T15:31:00.000-07:002007-01-13T01:26:44.617-08:00John Cage represents an extremism. He fights to let sound be sound, thus his fight is also against any sort of artist intervention or created symbolism. It's a bit paradoxical isn't it? Even if he were to set a tape recorder in a forest and then play it back to an audience, it would still represent a conscious artistic choice.His extreme stance when it comes to music making is perhaps why I'vefred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1155765971913685902006-08-16T15:04:00.000-07:002007-01-13T01:26:52.407-08:00Another "Silence" ExcerptThere are people who say, "If music's that easy to write, I could do it." Of course they could, but they don't. I find [Morton] Feldman's own statement more affirmative. We were driving back from some place in New England where a concert had been given. He is a large man and falls asleep easily. Out of a sound sleep, he awoke to say, "Now that things are so simple, fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1154820630273862462006-08-05T16:08:00.000-07:002007-01-13T01:27:03.236-08:00'Silence' by John Cage"As the unchallenged father figure of American experimental music, Mr. Cage wields an influence that extends far beyond sound alone....Indeed, the entire American avant-garde would be unthinkable without Mr. Cage's music, writings, and genially patriarchical personality."From what I understand, this nigga did more than anyone else to free sound to be -just- sound. I'm not fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1154767714896060272006-08-05T01:44:00.000-07:002006-11-11T12:03:57.703-08:00WHAT DID I DO??? I just uninstalled Warcraft 3 and Counter-Strike. Man, I feel ... less dirty.AGENDA1) Do things you are afraid of.2) Dance!fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1154676186786783712006-08-03T23:27:00.000-07:002006-11-11T12:03:57.492-08:00Brave New WorldGood, but flawed. It worked for me all the way up to the end, where the believability starts spiralling away into the clouds. The hero whips his own back in religious fervor to punish himself for lusting after a woman. His whip til he bleeds, and he curses himself for even thinking about her. It is outrageous, for the simple fact that you just can't relate. His earlier fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1123720721887953772005-08-10T17:36:00.000-07:002006-11-11T12:03:57.275-08:00markmaking in drawing is a good analogy for sound in music. some use both as a means to an end, and some use both as an end in theirselves. i think you can get fucking gloriously lost in just sound with the aid of repetition. melody and structure are present, but they fall to the wayside. the same with markmaking: in figure drawing i saw pieces by other students where the figure was discerniblefred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1122501619395685722005-07-27T14:59:00.000-07:002006-11-11T12:03:56.655-08:00inductive logic seems to be the cause of most of humanity's misunderstandings. ex: if A of group 2 is bad, then all of group 2 is bad.happens with music all the time. it's easy to stereotype music, because labels give a convenient organizational method. ex: if Aceyalone is hip-hop and you hate hip-hop, you must hate Aceyalone. the end result is you're missing out on a fuckload of good music.fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1120016855956881522005-06-28T20:33:00.000-07:002006-11-11T12:03:55.915-08:00i hate conversations where you go "my experience is x," then as soon as you stop and maybe a little bit before they go "my experience is y which is only tangently related but i'll say it anyways because i have nothing to add and only heard words coming out of your mouth and not any actual ideas conveyed and i might as well be listening to a frog croaking because really i just want to talk about fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1119463653512258252005-06-22T10:46:00.000-07:002006-11-11T12:03:55.554-08:00i guess i'm on a run of attacking commonly used words. slut is one i've been meaning to write on for a while. i don't have anything exciting to say that hasn't been said before - it's a double-standard, sexist word, socially constructed idea, yadda yadda yadda. despite it's disgusting meaning to some, it's disgusting to ME to hear it used the way it oftenly is. WHY is there a negative stigma fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1119401939947263282005-06-21T17:50:00.000-07:002006-11-11T12:03:55.274-08:00thumpdit never ceases to amaze me the thing thats we choose to remember, the things that we respond to, the things we are stimulated by. what's the process of 'hey, i think this is interesting'? the things that impact me, i have this huge urge to take a step back and consider 'why?'. many times it's conditioning, but equally many times i have just no fucking idea. just no fucking idea. we all arefred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1119054504238942982005-06-17T17:20:00.000-07:002006-11-11T12:03:55.049-08:00sitting here at my house with a decent 3 speaker set up, a thought just occured to me. the way i listen to music now at my apartment is a 2 speaker boombox system that sits way up high above my head. i still love music as ever, but the images that go through my head now are pretty different than what it was when i was living at home.the way i used to visualize music was very layered, the bass fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1118683909204818302005-06-13T10:14:00.000-07:002006-11-11T12:03:54.642-08:00child sexualityone of the most mysterious, provocative, and taboo subjects. i read an enlightening essay on it one of my sociology books of which the following points struck me most: 1) child sexuality is definitely normal, 2) the aim of most normal child sexuality is self-stimulation, 3) child sexuality is not erotic (aiming for the goal of sex and or orgasm) but rather sensual (merely fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1118558115626123542005-06-11T23:21:00.000-07:002006-11-11T12:03:54.525-08:00rules (and reminders) for life 6-17Life isn't supposed to be comfortable.Just accept yourself as you are and live as you are supposed to. That is freedom.Don't ever say no to a reasonable invitation to do something that might be fun. This is a WASP rule, and one of the reasons why rich white people rule the planet.There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all thefred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1118343156891269682005-06-09T11:32:00.000-07:002006-11-11T12:03:54.304-08:00an expansion on music as spiritualityexcerpt from an article about tantric sex discussing a full body orgasm:"Instead of a localized genital release, you experience a prolonged series of subtle, continuous wavelike pulsations that spread through the body, resulting in the impression that you are melting in your partner."it sounds extremely similar to what i have experienced with just music. fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1117382368417256632005-05-29T08:53:00.000-07:002007-01-13T01:28:06.953-08:005 shows in 3 weeks, fucking ridiculous. pinback, caribou, autechre, prefuse 73, melt banana. i became addicted to the live show this month. i rediscovered the power of volume - how mere loudness can shake my consciousness into experiencing something higher.or more primal, because it's a sensory experience with the thinnest layer of interpretation possible. the volume is so loud, the music is so fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1087205598033968022004-06-14T02:32:00.000-07:002006-11-11T12:03:53.983-08:00Frost - Endless Love (Analogue Euromix by Royksopp)not a perfect song by any means, there's some very mediocre sung melodies here, but what makes this track stand out is the true dancefloor euphoria that hits when the singer stops and royksopp slathers on the instruments in ridiculously lush layers into starry eyed propulsion like they know how to do best. slithering flying floating lines of fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1075190470487691612004-01-27T00:01:00.000-08:002006-11-11T12:03:53.794-08:00Radiohead - "Skttrbrain" (Four Tet remix)"The song is a perfect match for Four Tet, first of all. The original is stretched-out and whinsome, Yorke's voice like a piano playing gently in an empty room. Four Tet adds in jumbles of percussion, a more flickering guitar, bells and steampunk sounds. All of a sudden, Radiohead's barren, boring tune has this thick inner life: it's like we're hearing thefred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1071188490263740352003-12-11T16:21:00.000-08:002006-11-11T12:03:53.706-08:00Madonna - La Isla Bonitathroughout my childhood i was only occasionally exposed to mainstream american music. i do however remember a tape of madonna videos. this was fantastic, alien music. i liked it, but i was at an age where i wasn't really sure why, i couldn't express it in words. i just sat there entranced by my senses, in a thoughtless reverie. it's exotic, it's groovy, it's melodic. fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1070930479002413812003-12-08T16:41:00.000-08:002006-11-11T12:03:53.561-08:00Kings of Convenience - The Weight of My Words (Four Tet Remix)
loping thoughts musing over a string quartet recording shattered into glistening dropsfred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1070780602427946802003-12-06T23:03:00.000-08:002006-11-11T12:03:53.398-08:00LFO - 'Premacy
here i am procrastinating on my essay for finals. fuck it, i'm listening to this.fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1070429736779552222003-12-02T21:35:00.000-08:002006-11-11T12:03:53.150-08:00Come Into My World (Fischerspooner remix)
fat pulsating throb throb throb. a bath of unapologetically electronic textures stairstepping to sex.fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1070401757067538182003-12-02T13:49:00.000-08:002006-11-11T12:03:53.003-08:00Bubbles - Bidibodi Bidibu (Super Troopers Mix)tantalizingly catchy and simple hooks and hypnotic repetiveness. this is what i thought all electronic music sounded like before i had really heard any. what little i did hear was boomed out of car stereos and funked in short snippets on tv, absolutely compelling me to hear more.fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1070331943029841572003-12-01T18:25:00.000-08:002006-11-11T12:03:52.873-08:00µ-ziq - Lunatic Harness
getting stoned out of my mind, sinking into aaron's massive comfy bed, listening to manic drums rain down on me from outerspacefred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1070330721308932282003-12-01T18:05:00.000-08:002006-11-11T12:03:52.554-08:00ok, no more middleschool poetry and overwrought prose! just songs/albums and short thoughts, if i can be bothered.Air - All I Needaaron: is this madonna?fred: no.(on a separate occasion)aaron: i love madonna.Air - La Femme D'Argentbetter than sexy boy (off the same album). works the same mercury floating through space territory, except less poppy and more heady.fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1068482241948540822003-11-07T22:37:00.000-08:002006-11-11T12:03:51.660-08:00Jeffy Buckley - So Realthis is the song i played so i could cry. i remember the jack, i remember the pain of trying to will up the emotion to squeeze out some tears, i remember the depressing agony of having to use outside aids to help me cry because i felt so fucking dead to the world.fred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1068480931752291562003-10-28T19:28:00.000-08:002006-11-11T12:03:51.478-08:00Chris Clark - Empty the Bones of Youcrumbling sod walls closing intrapping light, forever spinningunderground moistly dirt mouth scream muffledfred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060237.post-1068480856285416282003-10-17T03:00:00.000-07:002006-11-11T12:03:51.153-08:00Typical Cats - Snake Oilit completely encapsulates this romanticized construct of austin i've built in my mind -- an arteest paradise where there's an anything happens vibe.the song is infuriatingly effortless. i can't help but love that jazzy bohemian air that it conjures up in my mind. all slouched figures and smiles seen through cigarette smoke, united by communal head nodding. for me the songfred duonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02074921419454249235noreply@blogger.com