It’s me, Carles I’m a blogger but more importantly I’m a human 1 of many
Where have u been? How is AnCo going? Are those bros still chill? You guys gonna break up? Is there really a rift between you and Deakin? Is he rejoining the band because you are leaving?
N e ways. Answer those if u want. That’s not why I’m writing u.
Just wondering when your upcoming album Tomboy is going to leak We really need it. Let’s just say 2k10 hasn’t really been the best year tons of letdowns, legacy indie bands sort of ‘half assing it’ maybe they did their best but you could shit better than MGMT’s best
I know Arcade Fire is coming out soon but I’m planning on that being ‘terrible’ it’ll get a lot of coverage, too tons of product placement type of marketing
Ugh… so over it. So many bands being buzzed that don’t even deserve it. They haven’t paid their dues they don’t have a proven track record quite like u do
Listen, I’m saying this as a bro but every1 needs u now, more than ever it would be chill as hell if u could find it in your heart to leak ur album I might pay for it later, or maybe buy some merch / vinyl from you
But I’m just kinda bummed out 2k10 has me super down Sorta like 2k10 is a ‘think piece’ of a year trying to demonstrate how ‘hollow’ and ‘empty’ the generic album release marketing cycle is
So over it I miss the days in late 2k8, back when Merriweather Post Pavilion leaked I know u guys let that happen, just so we all had a good Christmas/New Year’s Eve Just sayin… we need that kind of magic again.
Can u do me a favor, send me a link to ur album rapidshare, megaupload, mediafire, zShare whatever it takes I promise to only share with my limited network of bros and they will only share with their limited network and so on, and so forth
But we promise We’ll be eternally grateful
U don’t owe any1 anything but u’d really be doing us a favor if you gave your bros a break right now we’re in a really tough spot
Thanks, Carles
******** Will Panda Bear’s upcoming album TOMBOY ’save’ 2k10? What have been the best bands/releases of 2k10? What album is ‘most likely’ to win album of the year from the bloggiasphere? Were we ’spoiled’ by 2k9? Will 2k10 ‘get better’ or has it already peaked? What can save 2k10 from being ‘a compete disaster’? Please use the comments section to write a letter to a buzzband who u think can save 2k10. They read this blog.
From what I understand, tons of youtube tweens enjoy making vlogs where they provide relevant commentary on stuff like Twilight, Justin Bieber, mainstream buzzbands, and whatever is on TV on MTV/the Disney channel. It seems like the community of youtube tweens have discovered ‘the art of hipster bashing’–the practice of pointing out the hypocrisies in the modern young, trendy, technological adult lifestyle. Not sure if her video is ‘revolutionary’, or if it is just like a new, tweenage voice spitting out the same ideas that ‘every1 already realized 500 blog years ago.’
Are yall ’sooo over’ hipster bashing? Should I start a blog that tracks tween hipster bashing? Seems like this tween has ‘knowledge beyond her years’, like she has been reading snark blogs since ‘the beginning of the internet.’ Feel like she has tons of messages that can teach us not to ‘be so consumerist’, not to be a slave to trends, and why we shouldn’t give up on bands. Do u think that even though she is younger than u, u can still learn a lot from her?
Do u think she is ‘hot’? Do u think she should ’shut her mouth’ and just keep being a slave 2 technology & trends? wtf is a ‘hipster’? Do u appreciate her tone, or does she need a solid set of parents/alt role models to ‘put her in her place’? Was ‘hipster bashing’ only a solid meme in 2k6? Are tweens taking over the internet/ hipster culture? Do u wish u knew how to vlog / had a macbook / knew how to ‘make fun of subcultures’ when u were 11 years old? Are hipsters ‘effing hypocrites’? Is this tween a ‘wanna be hipster’? Do u think she ‘gets’ AnCo, or does she just listen to Justin Bieber and not have the ‘balls’ to go into an Am Appy?
M.I.A. is ‘the greatest shit talking female’ in the history of the post-indie blogosphere. It seems like she ‘really understands’ who to ‘talk shit about’ to get headlines. I feel like her latest decision to ‘call Justin Bieber an inauthentic ass hole’ was probably a solid move because he is just a tween and can’t defend himself. He is just a spoiled American who didn’t live in a 3rd World country and didn’t witness people getting blown up every day on his walk 2 school.
Do u think M.I.A. ‘really means’ what she says, or is she sorta just a meandering soul, sorta like a twitterer, reacting to everything she sees on the internet.
“I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I’ve made,” she joked.
Directed by Romain Gavras, the ‘Born Free’ video features nudity, graphic violence and a plot where ginger adolescents are rounded up into an armour-protected van, driven to the country and either shot or made to run through a minefield.
MIA added: “It baffles me that everyone seems to be obsessed with deciphering the meaning to it. It baffles me in the same way as the Brick Lane riot for American Apparel leggings baffled me. We don’t know what the process is for this one is yet. I haven’t thought about it yet and I don’t want to have to.”
Do u think she is trying to lead some sort of genocide against gingers / tweens? Feel like there has to be some underlying agenda that she is trying to push.
Who are some other good famous people/bands to talk shit about?
Lady Gaga (instant headline)
Justin Bieber (get the tweens all mad)
Miley Cyrus (will get some decent headlines)
Chillwave artists (will get the blogosphere pissed)
Pitchfork Magazine (will get Pitchfork pissed, maybe)
Obama (will piss off the liberal market)
People on Fox News (they will react to it on TV and create a youtube meme)
the Hype Machine (will get the hype machine all defensive/pissed off)
Mark Zuckerburg (will get banned from facebook)
Gawker / Huffington post (good for hits)
Beyonce (maybe throw in a racial slur)
Kanye West (seems like he gets pissed easily, then writes long blog posts in caps)
Radiohead (The british media loves to defend Radiohead)
George W. Bush (build a time machine, release ur album during the war with Iraq, and try to ‘go viral’)
Abraham Lincoln (say u r pissed that he freed the slaves)
Nelson Mandela (say he wasn’t a good leader, and he was just in jail 4 a while)
Tiger Woods (call him a ‘pimp bawla’ and piss off women)
Who are some good people to talk shit abt to get blog headlines? Is M.I.A. ‘cyberbullying’ Justin Bieber? Is it ‘wrong’ for a ‘grown ass woman’ to talk shit about the art of a 13 year old boy? Is M.I.A. ultimately going after the same fans who listen to Justin Bieber? Should M.I.A. collab with Justin Bieber, and sing a ‘rap interlude’ on one of his songs, sorta like the female version of Ludacris/Will.I.Am? If u were trapped on an island for the rest of ur life, would u rather have M.I.A. or Justin Bieber to chill with 4 eternity? [via Which 1 seems like a chiller bro?]
Listen. I’m still in love with you. I know I’ve done some terrible things in the past, but I’m over that era of my life. I’m just here at the music festival, but all I can really think about is you…
…Yeah… I just took a piss in a portapotty…
…No. She doesn’t mean anything to me.
…I was young back then, and I didn’t know what was important to me. I thought life was just all about getting fucked up and partying, but that’s not what life’s all about. It’s about the people you love–taking care of them. I know this for sure, I love you and I will never let you go.
…No. I’m not drunk. I just had a few beers.
…So what? I smoke dank all the time. Don’t let that cheapen this moment.
….Shit my phone is dying. How late are you going to be up? Can I come over later?
…Are you dating some one new? What the fuck is his name?
….You mean the bartender from Chili’s that you worked with for 4 months? That guy is a fucking pussy. Don’t tell me he knows how to man up and give it to you like you need it from daddy.
….You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me. Put that fucking chump on the phone.
…Put him on the phone.
…Listen babe. I’m giving you one last fucking chance to be with me, and if you pass that shit up, you can rot in hell with whatshisface and keep being a piece of shit who doesn’t even throw down with the scene.
…This is what you’re gonna do? You’re picking him over me? That guy is a straight chump. When I hang up the phone, I am gonna have pussy and ass in my face within seconds. I’m willing to give that up for you. Just make the call.
…Alright. Well I tried to give you a second life, but you fucking blew it, and you aren’t shit without me. I hope you think of me everytime whats his face puts his tiny cock inside of you.
…This is fucking it. Bye forever.
Do u think this bro was too harsh on his ex-gf, or should he have abstained from making the ‘drunk dial’? Have u ever ‘drunk dialed’ ur ex-lover, and had it ruin your entire night? Has an ex ever drunk dialed u and got all vulnerable, then u had to tell them that you move on to a new lover?
From what I understand, Ariel Pink’s entire career has sorta made him ’super unapproachable’ by the standards of mass markets. Like tweens who buy Vampire Weekend + Postal Service albums are probably afraid of his personal brand and don’t even have the high taste-level to appreciate his albums.. Even though his recent album Before Today already leaked, he is still sorta ‘going thru the motions’ of the album release, trying to prove that he is just a normal bro in a band, trying to rock across the USA.
In this ’studio session’ with Pitchfork.tv, it seems like Ariel is marketed as a typical ‘eccentric frontman.’ I feel uncomfortable viewing him like this, since I used to actually think he was ‘insane’/eccentric. Now it seems like they are trying to package him as a zany ass bro, like any other boring ass eccentric indie front man. It seems like a professional stylist probably made him wear that jacket.’
Will Ariel Pink ‘crossover’ or are his songs too unapproachable? Does the band seem ‘mad talented’ or are they just heavily drugged up? Will Ariel Pink make mad bank [via album sales], or has every1 who wants his album already downloaded the leak? Will Ariel Pink’s “Before Today” end up being the #1 album of 2k10? Do u think that Ariel’s record company / PR manager is trying to rebrand him as a zany solo artist worth following?
Every several months, there is a new viral meme blog that gets a book deal [via tumblr]. Recently, a viral meme blog called Animated Albums has emerged, and it seems like some bro with photoshop remixed a bunch of popular album covers to have an animated element. For example, in the above image, u can see Bjork ‘gettin her mouf fed’ with some sushi.
This seems like a ‘very sharable meme’, like an excuse to talk about old albums, and ponder whether or not album art is authentic as it used to be.
What’s ur favourite Animated Album?
Wonder if the Strokes would have sold more albums if consumers got to see ‘a nice ass being smacked.’
Sorta just want to make a Bowie meme that ‘goes viral.’
Might pretend that Xtina Aguilerian is ‘riding my penis’ in .gif format.
Does n e 1 know what album cover this is? I usually see fat stoners wearing a shirt with this design on it, but I thought it was just a dead brand like Mossimo or Yaga, or something like that. (miss u Airwalk era)
Maybe i will just make Beatles-only memes to ensure a higher sharability rate.
As many of yall know, there is a difference between a .gif and a .jpg. .GIFs are able to move around and be all zany, but .jpgs are flat and kinda boring. Books seem like they can only really handle flat jpgs, unless they are converted into zany flipbooks.
Do u think Animated Albums has a shot of ‘getting a book deal’ or would it be impossible for them to get the rights to use these seminal album covers? Feel sad when a meme blog can’t get a book deal. Like it might as well should have never existed. Even though I got a giggle out of it, seems like there is no point in having a blog unless u can monetize it. What is ur favourite blog to book deal of all time?
‘Viral meme blogs that get book deals sorta makes me sad, because I am an authentic writer, but I will never get paid what I truly deserve for my insightful opinions + crafty ass sentences with tons of meaning+analysis.’ -a ‘real writer’ who h8s the internet
what modern album do u want to see animated? Is album art overlooked since it is basically just a boring jpg when no 1 buys the actual album? Should all albums be animated in the modern world?
Is the Merriweather Post Pavilion album art a .jpg or a .gif? How is it moving? Is it animated? Feel confused, like I live in a 3rd world country and believe that this album cover is ‘black magic’ [via the devil]. What is the greatest album art of the indie/post-indie era?
From what I understand, bands are required to have a ‘crazy ass’ live show that is not only an audio experience, but also a ‘visual spectacle.’ Some bands dress like normal people, then just rely on trippy visuals going on behind them. Other bands feel like they have to do something ’special’ with costumes to differentiate their brand from all the rest. Sort of like that flamer band Of Montreal.
This lady apparently created the Daft Punk robot costumes. She is some sort of ‘fashion engineer’, who made Kanye’s illuminated heart, and did some miscellaneous work for M.I.A. I guess artists with ‘massive budgets’ can hire her to create clothes that light up. She says in the video that she gets to work with her fave artists, and that if she listens to an artist enough, eventually they will magically contact her to do business.
The founder and Chief Fashion Engineer of Enlighted Designs, Inc, Janet’s sewn her lifelong passions for fashion, art, and technology together into spectacular lighted costumery that’s illuminated shows like Dancing with the Stars and laser-lined real-life Tron characters Daft Punk (like this and this). And yes, she gave Kanye his illuminated Kanye shades.
In this episode of Motherboard, Janet shows us her San Diego studio and explains her technique for coaxing the robot side out of some of the world’s biggest future-minded performers. After learning to sew at age 7, she began installing miniature lights in her own dollhouse, and as her costume-making hobby bloomed, she began to incorporate more electronics into her fashion. While developing her artistic skills — she’s also a multimedia painter and sculptor — Janet studied engineering, and picked up a PhD in biomechanics. Today, she is arguably the most prolific lighted clothing designer in the world.
Always thought that maybe if I didn’t make it into a buzzband, maybe I would go to design school and try to start my own line, kinda like the people on Project Runway. I would get to meet tons of kewl celebrities + artists + musicians, and help them to strengthen their brand thru my artistic vision. Sad that I don’t really have any legitimate skills to bring to the table, even though I feel like I am a really interesting person.
Feel like this lady actually went to school and learned real things. Worried that I am too dumb, and don’t know enough about physics, engineering, fashion, architecture, or design to actually make something that I could contribute to society on any level.
Do u like musicians who wear costumes, or are they just trying to distract u from mediocre music? Ultimately kinda bored with this kind of blog coverage. I’d rather not know about this type of ‘insider’ info–would rather just assume that it is ‘magic’/stuff that I don’t have to think about. Do u like artists who have visually stunning live performances? Do u feel bad for artists that don’t have major label money who can’t afford clothes that have neon lights on them?
N e ways. I was at the mall last weekend, and I saw some ethnic bro selling ‘light up tshirts’ that had ying yangs and shit like that on them. Not even sure if what she does is a skill, or if you can just get that kind of stuff custom made at the mall.
Should I contact Janet Hansen to make me a meme costume that lights up?
