11:23 pm: The low, ambient hum of the overhead lighting fills the offices. It is unusually quiet for the time of night. Deep within the Channel 10 offices, only one of the boardrooms is in use this late at night, but it is by no means sparse; a dozen men and worn in tired suits surround the table, minds deep in groggy thought. Idea generation is, after all, a slow process. For several minutes, no one speaks. Pens are tapped, heads scratched, but not a single word offered. Somebody coughs, but to no effect, and the room is silent but for the hum of the lighting and the gargle of the watercooler once more.
Without any warning, Steve jumps to his feet, a slow grin growing across his cheeks. All pairs of beady, anxious eyes turn toward him, with a glimmer of hopeful anticipation. Could this be this answer they are looking for? Steve clears his throat once for effect, then enunciates with all the slow, confident clarity he can muster: “Being Lara Bingle.” The boardroom bursts into applause, Channel 10 writes up a draft immediately and Steve is celebrated as a national hero for his timeless contribution to Australian television
Yeah so this year my preparedness for exams has gotten so low to the point where I’m technically just winging them.
Let’s just say that I started my exam study tonight, and let’s also just say that my exams start tomorrow. And let’s also just say that most of today’s ‘study’ was as much studying as playing around on my phone. Maybe 60:40, at best.
But like, it’s year 11, and in the student vocabulary (or at least mine), ‘year 11’ is pretty much a shorter way of saying ‘not year 12 yet’. And there aren’t any methods midyears anyway, so sue me if I’m finding it hard to take any of my attention off video games / girls / music / practically anything and devote this attention to doing well on my 1&2 exams. I have more important things to deal with at the moment, like getting through this Röyksopp album and finishing up side quests in Arkham City. Yeah.
Okay so now both spamtron and Lake R▲dio follow me
Two really neat electronic musicians that I am a fan of
Follow my Tumblr
Yeah, I understand that this means absolutely nothing in the real world but I want this on my résumé anyway
![AOTW #7: Beach House- Bloom [2012 - new release]
pretty much the definition of dream pop
So, I was getting some music off a friend of mine about a month and a half ago, and pulled off some random albums from his USB. Turns out one of those was a pretty early leak of Bloom, which came out last week, not that I knew who Beach House were at that stage anyway. So yeah, I’ve been listening to this album for a while now and only just realized a couple weeks ago that it wasn’t even supposed to be out yet.
:3
But yeah, Bloom’s a cool album.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4oaq5Chl01qftoe4o1_1280.jpg)
AOTW #7: Beach House- Bloom [2012 - new release]
pretty much the definition of dream pop
So, I was getting some music off a friend of mine about a month and a half ago, and pulled off some random albums from his USB. Turns out one of those was a pretty early leak of Bloom, which came out last week, not that I knew who Beach House were at that stage anyway. So yeah, I’ve been listening to this album for a while now and only just realized a couple weeks ago that it wasn’t even supposed to be out yet.
:3
But yeah, Bloom’s a cool album.
“So what did you get up to on the weekend, man? Went out? Got some work done?”
“…Yeah, something like that.”
Had an English essay due last Friday, forgot to do it.
So the only homework I had for the weekend was to do my English essay. Still didn’t do it.
So the only homework I had for Monday evening was to do my English essay. Didn’t do it, decided to stay up late and just get it done. Chatted with someone till 3 am but still didn’t do it.
So over the course of Tuesday recess and lunch, I frantically typed up some pretty incoherent and irrelevant crap. Handed it in the next period.
Got it back today expecting the worst, and instead got an A+ with a 19/20.
School is fucking weird, yo.
Literally, in its most sincere meaning of the word ‘literal,’ this is my life right now.
this may or may not be my exact position right now and the reason why i am awake at half past one in the morning on Facebook instead of doing the essay that i stayed up to do in the first place.
hint: it is.
(Source: angry-comics)
![AOTW #6: Squarepusher - Ufabulum [2012 - new release]
idm / electronic / glitch
Let’s be honest, this week’s AOTW was pretty obvious.
But yes. I do like it. This album’s had people yelling ‘sellout’ a fair bit, but I like it. It’s more accessible than his other albums, sure, but accessible isn’t synonymous with bad. Neither is ‘weird’. There’s good weird and bad weird, and there’s good accessible and bad accessible.
Look, in Ufabulum, I feel like Jenkinson’s moved in a new direction, and not necessarily for the worse. It’s more purely electronic than his past bass guitar driven albums, for sure. But I do get where the disappointed fans are coming from: Ufabulum doesn’t break new ground in the world of electronica like his other albums have done, and some of the tracks do have some pretty familiar and well-used sounds to them. It’s not Squarepusher at his best (completely contradicting what I said about Dark Steering a few weeks ago, but shut up), but where Ufabulum shines, it really does.
I don’t care how pretentious this sounds, but the whole album (the whole Ufalbulum?) has this brilliant atmosphere to it. The album was created in duo with its visual counterpart, and it shows. It feels wholly futuristic, modern and alive, just made to accompany some visual show of blue lasers, smoke and LEDs forming images of spaceships approaching warp speed.
But what’s really great is this positively dark and foreboding mood that begins somewhere in the middle, peaks at Drax 2 and completely pulls the listener in. For this reason, the latter half is a lot more likeable to me than the first; the gloomier tones add a lot more strength and direction. Dark Steering, with all its dramatic power and build-up (brilliant use of the motor samples, too), just feels so ‘big’ in every sense of the word, and works as a great climax to the album, and the glitchy yet still sort of upbeat synth in Ecstatic Shock closes it all off nicely.
Ufabulum is well made, and it’s thick with this sleek, futuristic and delightfully dark aura. It has its flaws - some of the tracks or synths might feel a little out of place, and it’s a little weak at points, especially in the first half. But, like other Squarepusher albums, there is one central quality that makes the album very hard to dislike: the whole thing is a journey. Through deep and powerful electronica, it’s an exploration into some dark futuristic setting, all signed off with Squarepusher’s distinctive messiness.
Really, Ufabulum, despite where it falls short, reminds me why Squarepusher is one of my favourite artists.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4bipxZG3N1qftoe4o1_r4_1280.jpg)
AOTW #6: Squarepusher - Ufabulum [2012 - new release]
idm / electronic / glitch
Let’s be honest, this week’s AOTW was pretty obvious.
But yes. I do like it. This album’s had people yelling ‘sellout’ a fair bit, but I like it. It’s more accessible than his other albums, sure, but accessible isn’t synonymous with bad. Neither is ‘weird’. There’s good weird and bad weird, and there’s good accessible and bad accessible.
Look, in Ufabulum, I feel like Jenkinson’s moved in a new direction, and not necessarily for the worse. It’s more purely electronic than his past bass guitar driven albums, for sure. But I do get where the disappointed fans are coming from: Ufabulum doesn’t break new ground in the world of electronica like his other albums have done, and some of the tracks do have some pretty familiar and well-used sounds to them. It’s not Squarepusher at his best (completely contradicting what I said about Dark Steering a few weeks ago, but shut up), but where Ufabulum shines, it really does.
I don’t care how pretentious this sounds, but the whole album (the whole Ufalbulum?) has this brilliant atmosphere to it. The album was created in duo with its visual counterpart, and it shows. It feels wholly futuristic, modern and alive, just made to accompany some visual show of blue lasers, smoke and LEDs forming images of spaceships approaching warp speed.
But what’s really great is this positively dark and foreboding mood that begins somewhere in the middle, peaks at Drax 2 and completely pulls the listener in. For this reason, the latter half is a lot more likeable to me than the first; the gloomier tones add a lot more strength and direction. Dark Steering, with all its dramatic power and build-up (brilliant use of the motor samples, too), just feels so ‘big’ in every sense of the word, and works as a great climax to the album, and the glitchy yet still sort of upbeat synth in Ecstatic Shock closes it all off nicely.
Ufabulum is well made, and it’s thick with this sleek, futuristic and delightfully dark aura. It has its flaws - some of the tracks or synths might feel a little out of place, and it’s a little weak at points, especially in the first half. But, like other Squarepusher albums, there is one central quality that makes the album very hard to dislike: the whole thing is a journey. Through deep and powerful electronica, it’s an exploration into some dark futuristic setting, all signed off with Squarepusher’s distinctive messiness.
Really, Ufabulum, despite where it falls short, reminds me why Squarepusher is one of my favourite artists.
