tight lips do catch us
and whispeirng is easy
fooling your slef as to what yo should be
tango and dancing
the steps are the thinking
but the music has challace and cheers on thier way

trash and the heaps of it
scattered inside me
the in-dig-a-nation to inspire the fame
confidnce is weekness
and what is the measure
and chasing perfection when its perfectly sain

seek with a caution
get carried away
beutiful what nots the most desprate of things
balanced in chaos
intimite mieetings
closing the night and then opening the day

Radiohead

Harry Patch (In Memory of)

Thom Yorke, one of my favorite creators of melodically interesting sounds has put out a new song called Harry Patch and debuted it a few days ago.

As usual the Radiohead guys are bypassing labels and selling the song through their website and all proceeds go towards a good cause.

As for background on the song, Harry Patch was the last living UK World War 1 Veteran, he was 111 years old. Radiohead released this single in order to make sure he is not forgotten.  The song is a tribute to Harry, as well as a fundraiser for the Royal British Legion.

The Sun reported that the family was enamoured over the song, “Our family is very touched thatRadiohead has reached out to its followers and especially the younger generation through the single that echoes” and that Harry “.

Patch was buried on August 6th 2009  in Wells, Somerset, with a public service taking place in Wells Cathedral.

Oliver Sacks

Musical Minds on PBS

Just saw Musical Minds on PBS, pretty interesting stuff. The only problem I had with it was that it was to breif..

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/musicminds/

Musical Minds examined the inate symbiotic relationship man has with music, more specifically in this peice was the extraemem cases of this relationships. The film is broken up into 4 stories the first about a man having no music bone in his body who was struck by lighting and is now a composer and pinists playing to sell out crowds, the next is an amazing story of a blind autistic boy who began playing piano at 2 and now has the ability to

Derek Paravicini

process music he hears in microseconds and then can play them back, a young man with a bad case of tarets who’s tcks are completly subdoed when playing the drums and finnaly a case of a woman who has amusia which is like color blindness for music, rythm, or melody. Cool show based on the works of Oliver Sacks, who is the man behind the movie awakenings and many of famous books on oddities of extremes of human mental limits such as the man who thought is wife was a hate. This is a fun movie that expores ow deep the connection between man and music go and as oliver pits it, Rythm is the only thng that can not be taken from the core of a man.

Do you or a friend have amusia? Take the test here to find out!: http://www.delosis.com/listening/measure1.html

( I am proud to say I scored 29/30 on both tests )

Catch some peices from the show here:

http://science.discovery.com/videos/musical-genius-color-notes.html

Chamber Music

Wu-Tang, Chamber Music

Found this new album on http://newmusic4.us (Shows recently released albums and a sle of ways to get them from torrent to youtube to amazon etc….)

It’s very Wu and it’s new and thats all I could ask for. Some times I want a completly new take and some evolution form a musician sometimes I just want more of what I like….This is just more of what I like as far as I cant tell.

I am a Kanye West music fan, and I am not afraid to admit that I can love his music. I  appreciate his message but I do so for example  the same way one appreciates the lady in the next cubicle, who annoys the hell out of you, tells your jerk of a boss off in front of everyone. It’s intensly awkward, and your jaw drops open in amazementat the audacity of the action. In the back of your mind you may think however, ”way to go, you sure did stick it to him!’ — but you would rather not associate with them moving forward.

Anyways I came across his blog not to long ago (http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/) and find that it churns out some great fasion, style, and songs. So I figured I would share the link and some of the posts with you, you can decide what to do with it for yourself.

Ryan Leslie

Music

Great Jam with harpsichords and a tight beat:

http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=235082_-1__0_~0_-1_5_2008_0_0&em3161=&em3281=

Design

Design

Cool looking interior designs:

http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=234786_-1__0_~0_-1_6_2009_0_0&em3298=&em3282=&em3281=&em3161=

Art

Art

Cool Art work:

http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=234756_-1__0_~0_-1_6_2009_0_0&em3298=&em3282=&em3281=&em3161=

Video

Videos:

And Interesting Videos:

http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=234763_-1__0_~0_-1_5_2008_0_0&em3161=&em3281=

I have heard some pretty bad jokes recenlty about his death, and although I am just as cras and cold as the next guy, and although comically they were pretty funny, let’s try to show a little restraint and give the man some R.I.P respect — for at least a little while. I beleive although he was a hurt sole and seemed to be abused as a child both physically and mentally Michael had some great intentions and made quite an impact on the world in allot of positive ways. He transended all things black, white, masculine, feminine, child, adult pop icon, and recluse which inadverntently kept us all a bit more accepting or creative.

Kanye and Jackson

Tight beat laid down on Billie Jean track. Pretty sick.

http://hypem.com/#/artist/michael+jackson+with+kanye+west

Jay-Z and M. Jackson

Jay-Z’s remix of  You Rock My World by Michael Jackson.

http://hypem.com/#/track/850467/Michael+Jackson+-+You+Rock+My+World+remix+ft+JayZ