Never Trust Robots

Thanks to @Kerber from Hacking The Gibson on KNDS Radio, a community supported, commercial-free station in Fargo, ND for introducing us to Andrew Thompson's music.


Andrew Thompson - We're In Business (Music Video)

Lyrics:

Robot: Hey Andrew!
Andrew: What's up Robot?
Robot: I love you!
Andrew:I know you do
Robot: Hey Andrew!
Andrew:What's up Robot?
Robot: I love you!
Andrew: I know you do
Robot: Hey Andrew!
Andrew:What's up Robot?
Robot: I love you!
Andrew: I know you do
Robot: Hey Andrew!
Andrew:What's up Robot?
Robot: I"M GOING TO KILL YOU!
Andrew: OH MY GOD!

Never trust a robot(s)
Never trust a robot(s)
You might think that they are your friend
They'll only kill you in the end
Never trust a robot(s)
Never trust a robot(s)
Don't leave them with your kids
Don't invite them to play bridge

Chorus:
Andrew:If you're a human being, we're in business
Andrew:If you are not a machine, we're in business
Robot: If you are not me?
Andrew:We're in business. We're in business

Don't take them along for trips
They might posion your bag of chips
Never trust a robot(s)
Never trust a robot(s)
Don't take them with you to work
They just might go berserk

Robot:Hey Andrew!
Andrew:What's up Robot?
Robot: I love you!
Andrew:I know you do
Robot:Hey Andrew!
Andrew:What's up Robot?
Robot: I love you!
Andrew:I know you do
Robot:Hey Andrew!
Andrew:What's up Robot?
Robot: I love you!
Andrew:I know you do
Robot:Hey Andrew!
Andrew:What is it Robot?
Robot:YOUR ASS IS MINE!
Andrew:OH MY GOD!

Chorus:
Andrew:If you're a human being, we're in business
Andrew:If you are not a machine, we're in business
Robot: If you are not me?
Andrew:We're in business. We're in business

Robot: Come on outside! I brought you a lollipop. Oh, what? This? It only looks a laser gun that kills people! Hahahaaaaa!

NYC Live Music 2009

The following is a list of bands (~68 of them) I saw live in my first full calendar year here in NYC. This is in no way a complete list. ^indicates not in NYC.

Animal Collective
Antony and the Johnsons
Au
Beach Fossils
Beirut^
Bell
Blitzen Trapper^
Blues Control
Bowerbirds^
Brightblack Morning Light
Brilliant Colors
Byrds of Paradise
Cannons
Cloud Nothings
Cryptacize
Dan Deacon
Das Racist
DJ Rupture
DM Stith
Ducktails
Dum Dum Girls
Dungen
Farmer Dave Scher
Final Fantasy^
Foreign Born
Frankie and the Outs
Frat Dad
Future Islands
Ganglians
German Measles
Grizzly Bear
Grooms
Handsome Furs
Here We Go Magic
Holiday Shores
Islands
Japandroids^
John Vanderslice
Julianna Barwick
Kurt Vile and the Violators
New Villager
Osso Quartet
Real Estate
Sentence Diagrams
Shark?
Smith Westerns
Sufjan Stevens
Sunset Rubdown
Surfer Blood
Swish and Flick
Tallest Man on Earth
Tapes 'n Tapes
The Amazing
The Beets
The Brazos
The Flaming Lips^
The Fresh & Onlys
The Get Up Kids
The National^
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Walkmen
Total Slacker
Ty Segall
Wavves^
We Are Country Mice
White Denim
Woods
Yonder Mountain String Band^

33 Years

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2009


1966


thanks to madeablog for the link!

It Might Get Loud

Lists

The 10 best albums of 2008 according to Citizen Analog.



Fitter Happier:
1. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
2. Tv on the Radio - Dear Science
3. Sigur Ros - Med Sud i eyrum vid Spilum endalaust
4. Shearwater - Rook
5. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
6. Wolf Parade - At Mt. Zoomer
7. Secret Machines - Secret Machines
8. Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
9. Aimee Mann - Smilers
10. The Dears - Missiles



Paul:
1. Jim White - Transnormal Skiperoo
2. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
3. Hanne Hukkelberg - Rykestraße 68
4. Roma di Luna - Casting the Bones
5. Jeffrey Lewis - 12 Crass Songs
6. My Brightest Diamond - A Thousands Sharks Teeth
7. Matt Bauer - The Island Moved in The Storm
8. Herman Dune - I Wish That I Coiuld See You Soon
9. Bowerbirds - Human Hands
10. Why? - Alopecia



Old English:
1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
3. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
4. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
5. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
6. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
7. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
8. Prefuse 73 - Preparations (Technically released in late Oct. 2007, but i didn't hear it till 2008, and it's badass so i'm including it)
9. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - Lil Tae Rides Again
10. Beck - Modern Guilt



MTS:
1. Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
2. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
3. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
4. Dodos - Vister
5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
6. Deerhunter - Microcastle
7. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
8. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
9. Sigur Ros - Med Sud i eyrum vid Spilum endalaust
10. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

Collaborative lists coming soon.

Central Park in Fall

On a little side project at work this week, I completed my very own line selector! Connections clockwise from bottom right are Input, Output, Send B, Send A, Receive A, Receive B. The design is completely passive, i.e. no power supply needed, and can also function as a regular A/B selector. Graphics done by Kate. (Excellent job BTW!)


Also spent more time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art again this weekend, and got lost trying to cross Central Park on my way home. Pictures, sight-seeing, exercise... these are not bad things run into on a Sunday.

From the Basement

Get yourself some Radiohead. There are other videos too, I guess...

Radiohead | MTV Music

Become History

Photo Cred


Is there something of value in the universe besides planet Earth? Yes.

Will I inevitably forget to close the shower curtain again? Most certainly.

I think about these things.

And Deerhoof!

I find their latest offering Offend Maggie a bit more accessible than past albums however, it can still only be accurately described as a Deerhoof album. It seems they've found a groove in creating new and strange musical arrangements that fit succinctly into 4 minutes or less (save the last song which comes in at 5:49). If the indie rock, odd and asymmetrical, female singer type thing appeals to you on any level, this shall be enjoyed. See them live Oct 21 / Oct 22!

Deerhoof - Offend Maggie

Studies In African Music

Studies in African Music Volume I and II

Written by A.M Jones

Arthur Morris Jones (1889 – 1980), was a missionary and musicologist who worked in Zambia during the early 20th century. He was stationed at St Mark's School in Mapanza in the Southern Province of present-day Zambia (called Rhodesia at the time). He is best known for his ethnomusicological work. He made an important contribution to the literature with his work in African rhythmic structure. He is also remembered for his controversial theories on scales and the music of the marimba, which he claimed migrated from Southeast Asia to Africa.*from wikipedia.


Volume I
Volume II

I found this while listening to Information Transmission, Modulation and Noise: Steve Reich and John Gibson (November 6, 1970) link

I think it will be an interesting read/study. The first book is more essay based and the second volume is the music to accompany the essay in volume one. You can purchase a copy of it for big bucks at rare book re-sellers on the internet, but this version is free. Enjoy.

Commuter Music

Dan Deacon

Some late hour finds me poured into a dark cushioned seat waiting for the lights to dim and whoknowswhat to flicker across my synapses. Middle of the middle. Primo location. I order a Royale with cheese and an Arrogant Bastard Ale. It's Texas and all the quaking bodies pulse in ryhthm to the pre show music, their able pieces drinking in the stark cold of the theater while it can.

A montage of coming events leaps onto the screen with the dissonant buzz of electricity and a throbbing kickyouinthelungs bass line. My senses are attacked again and again with the progression of images, the salted amalgam of cleverly named diner fare, and most insistently the mountainous crecendo of a song unlike any song I'd heard before. Filling the soft spaces behind my eyes and under my tongue. I am closed off and the sounds creep across my muscles and sloose through my pores.

All Dan Deacon's Early Albums Free

Dan is surprisingly eloquent:


The Sound of Young America: Dan Deacon