Just A Souvenir : beautiful and funky synth/clavichord organic work.
Squarepusher moves into improvisational, jazzy, progr and effected bass slaps over barely comprehensible vocoder blurbs “this album started as a daydream about watching a crazy, beautiful rock band play an ultra-gig.” http://squarepusher.net/justasouvenir/
Just A Souvenir is currently available as a digital download (in FLAC as well) from bleep dot com.
Archive for the ‘Rock’ tag
Squarepusher – Just a Souvenir
Media Against Rock ‘N Roll (It’s the beat, the beat, the beat)
Rock And Roll – The Early Days – Media Against Rock ‘N Roll
Still my guitar gently weeps (Bill Gates jams with the “Slash”)
Bill Gates plays guitar with SLASH at the CES, Las vegas
Burnt Out California
Shifting flame have burned across more than 1,550 square kilometres, killing at least 12 people, destroying more than 2,000 homes and prompting the biggest evacuation from north of Los Angeles, through San Diego to the Mexican border. More than 60 people have been injured, many of them firefighters. 500,000 people forced to flee in California Largest Evacuation In History were expected to be back in their homes by the weekend.
San Diego County
Witch Fire – 197,990 acres
Harris Fire – 81,100 acres
Poomacha Fire – 35,000 acres
Rice Fire – 9,000 acres
Horno/Ammo Fire – 10,000 acres
Wilcox Fire – 100 acres
Cajon Fire – 250 acres
McCoy Fire – 300 acres
Coronado Hills Fire – 300 acres
San Bernardino County
Slide Fire – 11,366 acres
Grass Valley Fire – 1,100 acres
Martin Fire – 123 acres
Walker Fire – 160 acres
Orange County
Santiago Fire – 23,00 acres
Los Angeles County
Ranch Fire – 55,756 acres
Canyon Fire – 4,500 acres
Magic Fire – 2,824 acres
Buckweed Fire – 38,356 acres
Meadowridge Fire – 40 acres
Santa Barbara County
Sedgewick Fire – 710 acres
Riverside County
Rosa Fire – 411 acres
Roca Fire – 270 acres
Ventura County
Nightsky Fire – 35 acres
“The End” is a song by The Doors. It evolved through months of performances at Los Angeles’ Whisky a Go Go into a nearly 12-minute opus on their self-titled album. The band would perform the song to close their last set. Released in January 1967, “The End” was ranked 328 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2004). The spoken-word section of the song includes the lines “Father/ Yes son?/ I want to kill you/ Mother, I want to…fuck you,” (with the last two words screamed (almost) unintelligibly). This is often considered a reference to Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, the tragedy of a single man who tries to outwit the Delphic Oracle inexorable slides toward ruin: “This is the end, Beautiful friend; This is the end, My only friend; The end of our elaborate plans; the end of everything that stands; The end; No safety or surprise; The end; I’ll never look into your eyes…again.”
Hairy Mona Lisa
Pascal Cotte announced at a press conference Wednesday that he has found definitive proof that when Leonardo da Vinci painted the original portrait he included “Mona Lisa’s” lashes and brows.
Pascale Cotte engineer and founder of Lumiere Technology, largely contributed to the knowledge of the Mona Lisa thanks to the multispectral digitization of the famous painting. The hidden knowledge of the true colors was revealed by multispectrally scanning the painting in thirteen channels – from Ultra Violet to Infra Red. Then the spectral response curve of the varnish in each pixel was isolated and subtracted from the digital file to virtually reveal the surface of the painting when it had freshly exited Leonardo da Vinci’s workshop.
Cotte examined the world’s most famous painting using a high-definition camera of his own design. The device scanned a 240-million pixel image using 13 light spectrums, including ultra-violet and infrared. The resulting ultra-high resolution photograph of 150,000 dots per inch yielded a reproduction of the “Mona Lisa’s” face magnified 24 times. And there Cotte found the evidence he sought : A single brushstroke of a single hair above the left brow.
Jerry Lee Lewis Mona Lisa
