Pieces and Bits
Just a roundup of things that I’ve experienced this week that I thought were cool.
High Vibes Festival
Hipsters are fucking idiots. It is NOT COOL HIP OR IRONIC to wear a keyboard around your neck ala mid eighties hip-hop. Your facial hair looks ridiculous. Attempts to walk in those stupidly tight jeans with any modicum of dignity fail dismally.
GAH!
DJ Fresh – Hypercaine
Stumbled across this little gem on melbournebeats today and quite enjoyed the mid-afternoon pick-me-up. Combines quick beats, happy vocals and a little audio quirk reminiscent of J.Majiks Space Invader. Going to be a massive track once it’s released, and hopefully Mr. Fresh will drop it at his show this Saturday.
Stan SB – Tears in Rain
If you’ve known me for any length of time you would have witnessed my massive nerd boner for anything Blade Runner. In the case of Tears in Rain its Roy Batty’s classic line from the close of the film (and if you haven’t seen it by now… fucks sake just go buy it). I could go into the significance of the sample but all you really need to know is that the track is both bittersweet and happy, filled with trancey synths (giving just the slightest hint at the Vangelis score in Blade Runner). Tracks like this remind me why music is worth listening to and loving with every fiber of your being. As an interesting aside… the producer is also the vocalist on the track.
How I Met Your Mother
American television is experiencing somewhat of a renaissance in the last few years. Shows like Dexter, Battlestar Galactica, Band of Brothers, True Blood and 30 Rock are well written, (generally) well acted and much, much more enthralling than what seemed to be an endless run of crap reality TV at the start of the decade. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the majority of American sitcoms. Nothing has really come close to touching the success of Friends in the 90s, but with How I Met Your Mother comes very, very close. Look, I won’t bore you with a rundown and I tend to judge stuff I’ve just started watching on the quality of their bloopers… so watch and enjoy.
Bored To Death
This show started screening today and stars Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis. It basically follows the story of a down on his luck … well… loser, who starts masquerading as a private detective. Quirky, well scored and funny, it doesn’t seem to take itself too seriously and will be interesting to follow. Hopefully Schwartzman can lift his game a little, as his typically flat style of acting seems slightly out of place when he’s the central character.
