In the last 5 mins:
I had a cat fall asleep on me. Said cat then bite my arm. Saw the sky go from sunny to dark because, of course, it's going to rain. And just saw a dude, about 21, walking down the street trying to light a black and mild. And now my eyes itch because I'm allergic to cats.
And now there are these fucking bros on the porch next to me that have no problem 1) being load and obnoxious 2) using the word "faggot" or "homo" freely to describe someone they don't like 3) and are now recounting their epic drinking achievements. Way to go boys.
Last Clams Casino post for a while. I promise. Just really wanted to throw this one up because this video really is beautiful and the song is pretty tight as well. A music video of nothing by nature shots of Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God? Fantastic idea. Number 1 idea, really.
That movie is about a ghostly river and a haunted man while this song seems to just float around like a ghost anyways. Perfect. And yea, fucking monkeys.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Apparently it's Clams Casino week here at Denim/On/Denim
I woke up this morning and it was sunny out, by the time I got in the shower it was pouring down rain, when I started shaving the electricity went out because of the storm, 15 mins later when I left it was sunny and hot out. It was gross sticky hot all day and now, guess what, it's fucking storming again.
Rainforest EP by clammyclams
This is Clams Casinos new EP "Rainforest" which is the shit. This dude is on entirely different level really. After the free instrumental mix-taped we post yesterday (I can't explain how bad you need to pick that up) and now this EP that officially comes out in a week but you can stream it now. This guy gets another round of gold stars. Just because I can.
I don't really see how this album is not an instrumental album and the other one is really. This one still have the soaked up vocals that get stretched to all sorts of different levels were, by the time he is finished with him, they really aren't vocal tracks anymore and just another ghostly layer to enjoy. It's kind of haunted, scary music that creates a world all to its self. I'm especially impressed with tracks 1, 3, and 5. God damn this is good. You know what this is? This is what James Blake could have been if he hadn't decided he wanted to be Bon Iver. I guess Clams Casino wins?
If I knew what I was doing I would try to give you more information about this dude, but I'm not because to be honest I don't think that is my job. Just Google the dude, but fair warning you are going to end up getting a lot of web pages about clams casino the seafood dish. Good luck!
Rainforest EP by clammyclams
This is Clams Casinos new EP "Rainforest" which is the shit. This dude is on entirely different level really. After the free instrumental mix-taped we post yesterday (I can't explain how bad you need to pick that up) and now this EP that officially comes out in a week but you can stream it now. This guy gets another round of gold stars. Just because I can.
I don't really see how this album is not an instrumental album and the other one is really. This one still have the soaked up vocals that get stretched to all sorts of different levels were, by the time he is finished with him, they really aren't vocal tracks anymore and just another ghostly layer to enjoy. It's kind of haunted, scary music that creates a world all to its self. I'm especially impressed with tracks 1, 3, and 5. God damn this is good. You know what this is? This is what James Blake could have been if he hadn't decided he wanted to be Bon Iver. I guess Clams Casino wins?
If I knew what I was doing I would try to give you more information about this dude, but I'm not because to be honest I don't think that is my job. Just Google the dude, but fair warning you are going to end up getting a lot of web pages about clams casino the seafood dish. Good luck!
Monday, June 20, 2011
Diggin'
If I could give Clam Casino a gold star I would. Several gold stars in fact. I think he has earned them.
Cold. Hard. Beats for an ugly day. It's god damn raining again for no good reason. The internet is fucking up, gotta take my car in. Kind of a stupid day.
But finding this stuff makes it somewhat better. Don't know a whole lot about this guy, he put out a free instrumental mix tape which is pretty sick and has done beats for Lil'B and Soulja Boy. Get on the hype train before it is too late.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
It was hot, then it got humid, then I saw a dude walking a dog, but, seriously, it could rain at any moment.
In high school I played for four years on the golf team. I was not all that great, scratch player at best. I was really into it for a long time. For several years golf just pretty much consumed every summer of mine. Between playing rounds for the team and for my own fun I was probably playing around 100 times a year. I was comfortable with the fact that I was never going to be all that great but then it happened. Just one day, out of no where I couldn't hit the ball straight. You hear people complain about how they always slice the ball right and they would just be a better player if they could get that under control. Mine was nothing like that. It was like a slice on steroids. I would swing and the ball would just go dead right. I have made the ball go so far right that I swear it almost goes behind me. I'm a danger to any person or object standing to the right of me when I swing.
The only reason I bring this up is because I have been watching the US Open. I don't know how this happened. It was really hot on Thursday and I had to be home during the day and there was nothing else on so I put it on. And then I watched it Friday, and then I watched it Saturday, and then I listened to a pod-cast about how to bet on golf, which is for degenerates only, let me tell you. I can't really say I'm even enjoying it all that much really. The person currently in the lead is up by 10 strokes. He is just running laps around these dudes.
Also, golfers as a whole have to look like the biggest group of idiots. If aliens crash landed at the US Open right now they would assume that humans are not worth saving because why would you willingly decide to wear something like this?
In high school I played for four years on the golf team. I was not all that great, scratch player at best. I was really into it for a long time. For several years golf just pretty much consumed every summer of mine. Between playing rounds for the team and for my own fun I was probably playing around 100 times a year. I was comfortable with the fact that I was never going to be all that great but then it happened. Just one day, out of no where I couldn't hit the ball straight. You hear people complain about how they always slice the ball right and they would just be a better player if they could get that under control. Mine was nothing like that. It was like a slice on steroids. I would swing and the ball would just go dead right. I have made the ball go so far right that I swear it almost goes behind me. I'm a danger to any person or object standing to the right of me when I swing.
The only reason I bring this up is because I have been watching the US Open. I don't know how this happened. It was really hot on Thursday and I had to be home during the day and there was nothing else on so I put it on. And then I watched it Friday, and then I watched it Saturday, and then I listened to a pod-cast about how to bet on golf, which is for degenerates only, let me tell you. I can't really say I'm even enjoying it all that much really. The person currently in the lead is up by 10 strokes. He is just running laps around these dudes.
Also, golfers as a whole have to look like the biggest group of idiots. If aliens crash landed at the US Open right now they would assume that humans are not worth saving because why would you willingly decide to wear something like this?
That is really just the worst, I mean what the hell are we going for here. Camo? Really? Anyways, the deeper problem is that I find myself sort of caring about golf because there are zero other sporting events to care about right. There is baseball but it is June which means we still have another 1,000 games left in the year. The NBA just ended, but on a side note, I've decided I'm going as Dirk for Halloween and I need someone to come with me as Deshawn Stevenson and you will have to have a fake or real neck tattoo of Abraham Lincoln on your Adam's apple.
I'm not really certain where I'm going with this. I think I'm trying to say that I'm kind of really looking forward to Wimbledon. I like any sporting event that makes me feel like I should be drinking a Pimm's cup while watching it.
Also, I'm kind of hungover which is A) why this is just a rambling stream on consciousnesses thing and (B) why I've been digging this all day.
Free Jazz Harp! Bammmmm! Alice Coltrane is a crazy person and makes Lady Gaga's music sound pedestrian. This is some wild shit here. Harp, bass, some drums, a sitar, sax. (Apparently it is not a sitar but a tambura, who the hell knows what that is?) It's like the late 60's just rolled into one bitching jazz album.
I swear to god, writing about jazz is like trying to describe a color. "You know, it's kind of like brown....ish"
Friday, June 17, 2011
Weekend Jams Vol. 2
It was cool when I work up, it got pretty warm by noon, it fucking poured from around 3-4:30 and now it is sunny again and blisteringly hot. Tonight it is going to be cloudy with a chance of meatballs.
How about we try some of these hits on for size? What do you say?
Wu Lyf for life
Straight from their description on the you-tube page:
I'm kind of dating myself here but when The Rapture released their first album I was totally obsessed with it. They were right on the incoming wave of nu-disco-ish bands and I totally fell for it. And that album still totally kicks ass but before I heard this tune the other day I probably had not thought about The Rapture in a good five years.
Two things that I remember about The Rapture; awesome vocals and awesome percussion. Those things were always really good and this song seems to pick up right where those left off. Well done. Just pick up at 3:20 and you will get a nice touch of both........and then there is a fucking sax part! Fuck yea! I can't stress this enough, not enough brass parts in dance songs. Really gotta fix that.
Now, I really truly believe that this is a good song. It has some awesome beats, the vocals are totally bitching and there are some nice changes in the song. Meaning, I'm not including this video in some ironic way to be like "lets watch this funny video from the 80's and laugh at them. Boy were things wacky then."
With that said below is live blog of this video
00:05 - Off to a great start, a very large black man wearing a bright green sequin shirt pointing at a sign that reads "Danger Deep Water No Swimming" I'm expecting this to mean something.
00:20 - Alright, his face was on the sign and now we are in some sort of abandoned alley with a lot of smoke. Lots of weird dancing and I believe he just waved to someone off camera.
00:50 - Ok, it looks like we are on a dock or something. Lots of spinning around with some smoke. Also, I believe he is sporting a mullet. I can't be certain but I think he is.
1:10 - Oh my god he is seizuring......no, wait, he isn't. He's dancing.
1:40 - Is it wrong that I think this song was really about a sandwich?
2:00 - Ok, I'm starting to think something is wrong because he is seizuring again and now hollering at the top of his lungs? He maybe a man possessed.
2:15 - He is waving to people off camera again.
2:20 - WTF is going on here? Why did we leave the dock? And why did he change outfits into a black sequin shirt?
3:12 - This video has just turned into some weird video of a large black man with a mullet spinning around and mouthing made up lyrics that we can't hear to the song.
Holy shit is this song good. When those drums in bass kick in that's the kind of stuff that makes me want to run through a brick wall.
Also, I want to hang out with Grinderman for a weekend. Like it doesn't have to be on tour or anything I just want to go out a couple nights and see what it's like. Because based on this album and the last one it would be some sort of alcohol infused weekend of chasing woman and convincing them to fall in love with you but then either A.) Breaking their hearts and being forced to leave or B) Breaking the law and having to leave them because you are on the run from the law. Either option is fine with me.
"Cause that music doesn't have a groove/Doesn't have any balls"
How about we try some of these hits on for size? What do you say?
Wu Lyf for life
Straight from their description on the you-tube page:
the lucifer youth foundation don't mean shit, our papers aint legit. this the baby boys playing like men. were a mother fucking boy band, a brother loving girl band. funny/ not funny? touch me i'm sickYea, I don't think I could have put it any better.
cut by oli sparki/ directed by no one
fuck
I'm kind of dating myself here but when The Rapture released their first album I was totally obsessed with it. They were right on the incoming wave of nu-disco-ish bands and I totally fell for it. And that album still totally kicks ass but before I heard this tune the other day I probably had not thought about The Rapture in a good five years.
Two things that I remember about The Rapture; awesome vocals and awesome percussion. Those things were always really good and this song seems to pick up right where those left off. Well done. Just pick up at 3:20 and you will get a nice touch of both........and then there is a fucking sax part! Fuck yea! I can't stress this enough, not enough brass parts in dance songs. Really gotta fix that.
Now, I really truly believe that this is a good song. It has some awesome beats, the vocals are totally bitching and there are some nice changes in the song. Meaning, I'm not including this video in some ironic way to be like "lets watch this funny video from the 80's and laugh at them. Boy were things wacky then."
With that said below is live blog of this video
00:05 - Off to a great start, a very large black man wearing a bright green sequin shirt pointing at a sign that reads "Danger Deep Water No Swimming" I'm expecting this to mean something.
00:20 - Alright, his face was on the sign and now we are in some sort of abandoned alley with a lot of smoke. Lots of weird dancing and I believe he just waved to someone off camera.
00:50 - Ok, it looks like we are on a dock or something. Lots of spinning around with some smoke. Also, I believe he is sporting a mullet. I can't be certain but I think he is.
1:10 - Oh my god he is seizuring......no, wait, he isn't. He's dancing.
1:40 - Is it wrong that I think this song was really about a sandwich?
2:00 - Ok, I'm starting to think something is wrong because he is seizuring again and now hollering at the top of his lungs? He maybe a man possessed.
2:15 - He is waving to people off camera again.
2:20 - WTF is going on here? Why did we leave the dock? And why did he change outfits into a black sequin shirt?
3:12 - This video has just turned into some weird video of a large black man with a mullet spinning around and mouthing made up lyrics that we can't hear to the song.
Holy shit is this song good. When those drums in bass kick in that's the kind of stuff that makes me want to run through a brick wall.
Also, I want to hang out with Grinderman for a weekend. Like it doesn't have to be on tour or anything I just want to go out a couple nights and see what it's like. Because based on this album and the last one it would be some sort of alcohol infused weekend of chasing woman and convincing them to fall in love with you but then either A.) Breaking their hearts and being forced to leave or B) Breaking the law and having to leave them because you are on the run from the law. Either option is fine with me.
"Cause that music doesn't have a groove/Doesn't have any balls"
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