sábado, 4 de diciembre de 2010
B
viernes, 3 de diciembre de 2010
A
A.
A-Punk, de Vampire Weekend. Una de sus mejores canciones, aunque jamás podría decidirme.
Alison o Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, de Elvis Costello.
Claramente, Always where I need to be, una de las mejores canciones de The Kooks.
America, de Razorlight; Animator, de Pull Tiger Tail; Answer to yourself, de The Soft Pack; Another Sunny Day, de Belle & Sebastian; la muy mítica Are you gonna be my girl, de Jet,
domingo, 25 de julio de 2010
Ulyssiponia
El primer día, el día 16, viernes, estuvo bien, los que más destacaron (aparte de los Pet Shop Boys) fueron Grizzly Bear, con Two Weeks, y Keane, que tocaron sus famosas Somewhere Only We Know, Crystal Ball, Everybody's Changing, brillaron con Sunshine y nos amenizaron con algún tema más eléctrico. aunque realmente la nobhe estuvo marcada por las acuaciones de Jamie Lidell (Multiply) y Mayer Hawthorne (Just Ain't Gonna Work Out o Maybe So, Maybe No), que le dieron un carácter más soul al asunto. Otras buenas actuaciones fueron las de The Temper Trap, que se lucieron con Sweet Disposition, la de Cut Copy, Beach House, St Vicent... Yo leí en el periódico que retransmirían el concierto en directo en una tal RFM, pero qué va, estuve toda la noche escuchándola y nada de nada, de vez en cuando decían: 'Bueno, y ahora se han subido Keane al escenario principal' y nada más.
lunes, 5 de julio de 2010
¿A qué va a sonar este verano?
Y otra banda por la que la gente se muere últimamente es The Drums. Su máximo single, que les llevó a la fama, es Let's Go Surfing, tiene aires a los Beach Boys y a toda esa música surfera (el mismo nombre lo dice) aunque ellos son de Brooklyn, nada de California. Atento:
domingo, 27 de junio de 2010
Chorros misteriosos
sábado, 26 de junio de 2010
Summer
La música de la peli es buena, incluye canciones como There's a light that never goes out, de The Smiths, también Bad Kids, de los Black Lips; Have I been a fool, de Jack Peñate; Sweet Disposition, de Temper Trap; la ya demasiado mítica Mushaboom, de Feist; la pesada de Carla Bruni con Quelqu'un m'a dit; y sobre todo (a mí es la que más me gusta), Mumm-ra y She's got you high.Lo interesante de la peli son los saltos en el tiempo. Comienza casi al final de la historia, para luego volver al principio, y luego al final, y luego al principio otra vez... Y la parte que más me gusta es la de cuando están en el parque y empiezan a gritar: ¡pene!, y ella hace un gesto que me recuerda muchísimo a lo que tú llamabas algo así como maniobra de contacto. Míralo en este vídeo, que tiene las escenas más graciosas: la de los Smiths, la de ¡pene!, y la del IKEA.
jueves, 24 de junio de 2010
We Are Scientists
Su página incluye secciones varias, como información sobre la banda, noticias, música, vídeo, fotos… Pero hay una parte especialmente especial, ADVICE. Está genial. En ella, la gente pregunta cosas sobre temas varios. Hay una que llamó mi atención. Si no te apetece leerla entera, no pancha ná, yo te hago un resumen. Trata sobre una chica que pregunta cómo pedirle a un tío que vaya con ella al típico baile de fin de curso. Los de la banda le dan cuatro opciones, cada cual más... ¿ridícula? Lee sólo lo que está en mayúsculas, te ahorras mucho tiempo, lo sé.
name: Brandi
query: Ok i’m A girl and i need to find a prom date but I think it would be very akward to ask a guy what should I do?
There are a couple of reliable ways to get a guy to ask you to prom.
1) Go up to a guy and go, “Hey, will you read this out loud? Don’t fucking think about it just read it right now!!” And you show him a piece of paper that has “Want to go to prom” written on it. And so when he reads that you go, “You’re asking me? Oh my god, you’re asking me to prom? Yes, sure, yes! I’ll go! I will! I’d love to go with you!”
2) Come up behind a guy and grab his hair and hold a big hunting knife against his neck (hold it hard! It’s better to cut him a little than to hold it limply and not sell the stunt) and whisper into his ear, all threatening, “REPEAT AFTER ME. DO YOU.” And then wait for him to say “do you.” Then go, “WANT TO.” Let him say “want to.” Go, “GO TO PROM.” He’s all, “go to prom.” Then, “WITH ME.” He says, “with me.” “BRANDI.” Let him go, “Brandi.” Then get a kind of surprised, kind of embarrassed, but definitely pleased tone in your voice and be all, “Um… yeah. Yeah, sure, I’d love to.” Then knock him out with the butt of the knife, blindfold him, tie him up, put him in your car, and squirrel him away in your basement till prom rolls around, then get him out and take him to prom. This last step prevents him from welching on his offer.
3) Get a guy’s number and call him up — make it night, like around 4 in the morning. When he gets on the phone be like, “We have your sister.” Disguise your voice with one of those voice disguisers (you can get them at any supermarket). Have the thing make your voice super-deep. Be all, “Unless you do exactly as we say, we will begin cutting off parts and stop when there’s nothing big enough to cut off without the risk of cutting our finger by trying to hold the part that we’re trying to cut the other part off of.” Then put his sister on the phone and electrocute her or stomp her or something to make her cry out in pain. At this point the guy will probably yell something like “OKAY OKAY!! I’LL DO WHATEVER YOU WANT!! OH GOD!! OH JESUS JUST PLEASE DON’T HURT HER!!” When you hear those words, that means you’re going to prom. Take a second to congratulate yourself in your head. Job’s not done yet, though. Now go, “Tomorrow you will go to school. You will find Brandi. You will ask her a question. The question will be, do you want to go to prom. If she says yes, you will take her to prom next month. You will rent a limo, and you will get [name of cool friend of guy] and his date to share the limo with you and Brandi. You will make alcohol available to everyone. After prom is over, you will take Brandi to a good hotel and let her fuck you. You will stay over at the hotel with Brandi and let her fuck you again in the morning.” He may need you to go over the details a few times — remember, it’s late at night, you’ve just woken him up, and he’s scared. Tell him his sister will be returned at lunch time on the day after prom. Et, voila! You have a wonderful prom in store! Get rid of the sister as soon as you’ve made the call because she now represents a major liability rather than an important bargaining chip.
4) Create an email account the name of which has absolutely nothing to do with your appearance or name or anything else about you that this guy would know about. Then email the guy from your new account, and write “Dear [whoever], I have it on good authority that if you were to ask Brandi to prom, she would say yes. You should totally do it, as all us guys[!] agree that she’s the sexiest girl in school. She doesn’t know anything about this. How, you ask, do I know that she’ll say yes then? For many years, I have observed human behavior, making a careful study of what makes people want certain things but not others. I can now tell with a high degree of accuracy how a person will behave in a given situation, even if they don’t really know themselves. The reality is that Brandi probably doesn’t even know your name, much less actively yearn to go to prom with you. However, by watching her for several weeks, I’ve determined that if you ask her, she would say yes, and even go to bed with you after prom. Therefore, it is my professional opinion that you should ask her. Sincerely, an anonymous friend”
Have a great time at prom! Remember to wipe down your room for any kind of evidence that his sister was ever there, as you’re likely to receive a cursory visit from the cops after the call, and you can never be too careful!
Normalmente, como esta vez, se explayan un montón, incluso incluyen gráficos para responder a preguntas como: How skilled are each of you at paddle ball?, o (ésta es muy buena) Do any of you boys like chicken?
So let’s walk you through what you’re seeing. Chris, the meat-eater, doesn’t like chicken much for breakfast, but is down with chicken for lunch and loves a good chicken dish for dinner. Chicken rarely shows up in Chris’s dreams, but when it does, it’s neither as an object of desire nor a source of fear or disgust.
Michael’s also a vegetarian, also refrains from eating chicken. Michael dreams almost exclusively, though, of eating chicken. During the day, he tours the world as We Are Scientists’ drummer — playing concerts, signing autographs, sitting down with reporters, eating pasta and vegetables. At night, he sits in restaurants and eats chicken. Chicken, chicken, chicken. Chicken soufflé, chicken pudding, chicken popsicles, chicken lollipops, chicken milkshakes, chicken granola bars: no form is too strange for chicken to take during Michael’s dreams, and he cannot eat enough of it. If you put your ear against the curtain of Michael’s bunk, you hear, “Chicken please… I’ll have the chicken… more chicken… do they make that in chicken?… let’s go to that chicken place… I smell chicken; do I smell chicken?… let’s do chicken…”
Pero, en otros casos, las respuestas son simples, escuetas, sintetizadas, reducidas, como en el siguiente. No hace falta explicar nada.
name: Sarahquery: when you write songs, what comes first the lyrics or the music?
The pile of bills
Y eso es todo. Quizá estén un poco locos, se pirran por las mantas de los caballos (no me preguntes por qué). La mejor canción que tienen, en mi opinión, es Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt.
Cheers!