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que veux-tu (madeon rmx)-yelle

marriage: the three-legged race that never ends

possession is just premature reincarnation.

skins series five episode five: nick

this season is devastatingly terrible. i feel no connection whatsoever to any of the characters. and why the fuck is franky everywhere all the time? i hope it turns out she's a ghost or some shit. that'd be a little interesting at least.

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fuck it, i just am going to devote this whole week to royksopp. since it's a friday, here's 'the alcoholic'.

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more royksopp. this one's called 'senior living'.

post-apocalyptic detroit: chavs and zombies

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should probably save this for beatz and bleepz but waiting is so 2010. here's 'interleave (xxxchange's 1993 mix) by win win & alexis taylor:

and it's dark. and this is how people die.

skins series five episode four: liv

didn't mind this episode so much, mostly because they were on drugs the whole time.

things i dream about installment three

last night i dreamed that i saw grace on the train. she was painting her toenails. i told her everything and she just listened and smiled.

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derniere-yann tiersen

real life can only occur when you're alone.

this thing i thought about cranberry juice

and i'm looking at the cranberry juice on the table. and it moves on the table. but it only moves on the table when i move on the table. or on the floor. i control it. i control the cranberry juice. i only control the cranberry juice.

i don't even really understand coffee tables.

beatz and bleepz: the d&b edition

i don't have to be anyplace today until 5:30 and the semi-downtime is weirding me out. i say "semi" because i'm still transcribing interviews and writing freelance articles, but at least i'm not running to get dressed and catch a train. speaking of trains, this week's beatz and bleepz is inspired by songs that keep my energy levels up on my subway commutes that probably add up to a total of around two hours a day when all is said and done. my go-to's are usually of the electronic variety in the first place, but more specifically i've been listening to a lot of drum & bass and dubstep. that being said, here are some chunes for you to peruse:

red mist vip-danny byrd
one (logistics vocal rmx)-sky ferreira
mr. majestik-calibre & high contrast
splash ft. coco-sub focus (kind of obsessed w/ sting's daughter)
deep-tc
rolex sweep (vandalism rmx)-skepta
pirate bay-netsky (i've blogged it before but it is SO GOOD)

EMO TIME:
brothers on a hotel bed (bachelors of science rmx)-death cab

ps, if this ain't your jam keep a lookout...if i'm feeling ambitious i might hit you up with a double dose of weekend beatz and bleepz tomorrow.

because the weather outside is quite nice...

...i will give you some reggae bits to listen to before it gets cold and dreary again. ps i've definitely blogged some of these before but they merit repeating. slash rudy's pretty predictable but it's a good one nonetheless.

uptown top ranking-althea and donna
fu manchu-desmond dekker & the aces
pressure drop-toots & the maytals
grooving out on life-dennis brown
hard road to travel-jimmy cliff
downpresser-peter tosh & the wailers
rudy, a message to you-dandy livingston

things i dream about installment two

last night i dreamed i saved this kid from drowning in the ocean. and then i said let's go eat some fuckin' ice cream. and so we did. it was red. THE END.

sometimes i think that shadows are bugs.

songs for feeling expensive when poor #1

modular mix-air

that dog looks like he is fixin' to die.

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flowers bloom-high highs

beatz and bleepz: the i'm poor edition

i'm pretty poor this weekend because i spent all my money on shirts and nutella. so the only logical thing to do in this situation would be to save money by drinking at home and dancing around to the following jamz:

with you-crystal fighters
shades of black (extrait, bummer)-breakbot
do for you-daniel j. santillan
back to stay-fred falke
pretty pleas-sanjo
the truth ('96 bulls rmx)-pnau
i don't listen-shazam
i look to you (tim fuch make out mix)-miami horror

things i dream about installment one

last night i dreamed i was riding on a train through the high desert. for a while i was flying above the train and taking pictures of the sky. i got wobbly whenever i did that but i kept on doing it anyway. everything was really quiet. the sky was blue and the mountains were orange and yellow and red. and i hope that's how it will be when i'm dead.

TTYN TTYN TTYN TTYN TTYN. TTYN. JK TTYL.

so pretty much there's a lot of internet slang that i don't understand and therefore am not a fan of. (actually, i guess i've never been a big supporter of acronyms in general. exception: roygbiv.) anyways, i decided to invent a self-proclaimed rorschach test of the internet slang variety. basically this was inspired by all the times i've seen tweets and tumblr posts and have not been able to figure out what the eff people are talking about, but then have been too lazy to look up. which usually leaves me no other choice but to guess what the letters might stand for. usually i am wrong. par exemple:

ftw: fuck the world.
gpoy: girl power of yore.
smh: shit! my head!
pma: pumas: maul, attack.

if you must use internet slang (hopefully in an ironic and hilarious way), here are some acronyms i support: nbd. omg. brb. wtf. (but you have to say all of them out loud like en bee dee and oh em gee and bee are bee and double you tee eff). THE END.

skins series five episode three. mini.

i'd have used the rock to smash the sun

there are five dead trees outside my window.

this thing that happened to me one time but not really though but i wish it did kind of.

did you ever see how rednecks say “nay-ow” for “now”. i did one time. and also “wawnt” for “want”. “ah wawnt eet nay-ow.” i saw like a whole redneck family today and i followed them around or maybe they followed me around too but i don’t think they did though. because sometimes i turn invisible when i go to stores but only on wednesdays and leap years. and one of the rednecks had glasses and i always think that’s funny when rednecks have glasses. none of their necks were really red though i don’t think. and then they said hey do you want to hang out with us and i said yeah sure okay and so we did and now i am in their redneck family and we sit in rocking chairs and say “nay-ow” all the time. and we are really good at bad words and living in terrible places because we don’t even think they’re so terrible because nothing is terrible when you have satellite tv and four-wheel drive. and we do have all of those things. THE END.

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another modular influenced track...hadn't heard this song in a bit but it came up on my shuffle on the train yesterday.

why won't you make up your mind?-tame impala

sometimes i feel so lethargic that i disintegrate.

skins series five episode two. metal mania.

this episode kind of sucked. i've come to realize that if you ain't got the stonem family then you ain't got skins. i really do enjoy the new glitched out theme tune, though, so if nothing else just watch that part.

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helena beat-foster the people

beatz and bleepz: the modular edition

well hello there and sorry for my (roughly) week-long hiatus. i've been very busy mary tyler moore-ing the shit out of new york city. for real though...i'm not even dead yet, AND i already have landed not one, not two, but THREE jobs. one of which is w/ modular as an intern, hence this week's beatz and bleepz is going to be partially influenced by the stack of cd's i got as a signing bonus. you'll notice these are pretty slowed down tracks, probably reflective of the week i wish i'd had...the last one is especially good for those late night situations where you want people to get the eff out yo house:

slowburn-photek
i know (com truise rmx)-franklin
night skys-thrillkill
so high-van she
ask yourself-julio bashmore
golden wings-bag raiders
shews untied-kill them with colour

bonus for the sake of everyone out there mtm'ing nyc: