Fairly genius site with top ten movie tie-in music videos. Watch out for the Pointer Sisters’ pointy shoulder pads.

Oh yeah, and for those who’ve clicked below already, The Meatrix 2 is up now.

xxa

By all accounts, people here lie about their age. Most have consecutive 26th birthdays for about ten years. Others just remove five years.

Bugger that.

Rather than face the challenge of trying to keep looking young, I’m going the other way.

I’m adding five years.

As of today I’m Thirty-Seven.

That way, when people get told how old I am, all I will hear is “Damn, you look good!”

XX a

PS: Here’s a photo of me playing rock n roll songs when I DJ’d at a club the other night. I either play Rock n Roll or hip-hop, and I do both badly.

Ok, so I just went and saw Morningwood.
They are fan bloody tastic.
Get their record.

Chantal the singer is a frikkin’ sex bomb, and the show ended with her getting super hot 80′s porn superstar Ginger Lynn up on stage, getting Ginger topless, and the two of them making out and playing boob games while Chantal sang the rest of the song.

That’s what every rock show needs huh? Semi-naked lesbo sex with a porn star on stage while the rock band pummels in the background.
Awesome!!

xx aa

Oh my ..

Morningwood rule.

’nuff said.

xx aa

I just went and saw the best tribute band in the universe, Metal Skool.
They play at midnight ever Monday at the Key Club on Sunset Blvd.
They sell it out, one thousand people pack in there to check out the show.
They play every week, and don’t finish until two a.m. yet they still pack it out.
Metal rules.
That Constantine guy from US Idol got up on stage a few times and sang, and Ryan Cabrerra was there too.
My friend G couldn’t stop looking at all the hot metal chicks everywhere, many of whom kept jumping on stage to get their baps out and pash each other.
It was like a Biker Party, but with more Def Leppard and less Rose Tattoo..

Take care.

xx aa

I spent my day hanging with some mates yesterday, being around muso types.
We played old guitars and talked self-indulgently about bands that not many people know about.
We dissapeared up our own clackers in musical wankery, out-musoing each other, and I was left in the dust by the other three who are all serious players.
The iPod came out and then it was obscure funk at forty paces.

Then we ate pasta and baked cookies.

I now have about one hundred more albums to buy on my shopping list.

I love music.

Ace.

xx aa

Ok, watching The Constant Gardener the other day started a chain reaction of thought for me.
The film is set in modern day Africa, and in the final scenes, a raid from a neighbouring tribe occurs on the village that our hero is in, and there’s much massacring.
Indescriminate slaughter of innocent people by baddies who just don’t care one way or the other.

It got me thinking about the one thing that scares me more than any other thing on this planet.

People who are beyond reason, with no value on another’s life, being in control of a situation.

I’m sure you’ve seen the same footage I’ve seen on the TV over the years, and you can get a lot of it on the net, uncensored, but with the advent of digital, portable cameras, the brutality of the world has, in the words of Marilyn Manson, “Become more televised”. It was always a brutal place to be, but now people stand around and film it.

The footage that I see brings out feelings of helplessness in me, and the absolute abhoration of morality/reason scares the living shit out of me.

At what point in your downward cycle of violence do you no longer blink when killing another human?
At what point does it become a kick?

Think: The famous fall of Saigon execution footage where a man is simply marched over to a police chief and executed without even a breath, the hours of footage documenting execution and torture of prisoners during the Serbian-Croatian conflict, and the untold number of pictures from Africa, Central America, or troubled parts of Asia, where men (or in the case of Africa, 12 year olds) just kill, torture and maim others for the sake of an ideology, or in Africa because they’re proabably just bored.

I’m not talking about standard “rules of engagement” style war, I’m talking about lawless, boundless, anarchic violence just unleashed on all in its path.

My dear friend Caroline who grew up in Uganda under Idi Amin (an later escaped, thankfully) has told me tales of when it was all going down that stopped me sleeping for days. Roaming, militia-style gangs, unaccountable to anyone just going house to house – I’m sure you can guess the rest..
Caroline and her family hid in the basement, walked for a few days, got across the border and fled to Canada, but thousands of their friends weren’t so lucky. The ravenous, violent, self-sustaining, murederous mess engulfed her country for years.

Is it like a drug? As first it was a little but the little wouldn’t do it so the little got more and more? (Thanks Axl)

What you shoot someone from a distance, and get a kick out of it, then next time you get a little closer, then the next time you go into a home and kill someone in front of their family to get a rush, then – I don’t want to think about what then.

I wonder.

I sit here and boil my kettle, I think about making tea, and what shows I shall watch that I taped off TV last night. Somewhere in the world people are still hiding in the basement to escape a fate with no trial, no reason, no remorse, only a horrific death (if they’re lucky) at the hands of someone who no longer has any boundary to their actions, internally moral or externally governed.

I thank and bless all that brought me to this point that I don’t suffer the same fate.

Which raises the question – am I to enjoy my cup of tea and my couch time while so many millions have so much less than me? Do I smile and drink in my good fortune with no feelings of guilt that so many in the world would do almost anything to live in the country I live in? At what point does one draw the line at charity? I like to give cash to the homeless guy, but will I invitie him and all his plastic bags into my house where it’s dry and warm? That’s real charity right?

Kettle’s boiled.

xx aa

BAck about a million years ago, for a very short period of about nine months, I played double bass in a band called ‘Resin Dogs’. They went on to get the much more talented and accomplished Chris ‘The Rock’ Bozley in on bass, and found massive success almost instantly. They are all awesome felllas, they work their arses off, and are pushing the limits of what Aussie beats are all about.

I love their new album, I’ve heard a few tracks and it’s amazing.

A much different direction to their earlier work, it’s much more of a hip-hop feel, no samples, all live and amazing.
They’re touring soon and will blow your socks off when you see them.

One of the things that was awesome about working with those guys (who were my heroes way before I played with them) was how it got me into hip-hop and sampling and all sorts of other music I wasn’t aware of.

Which brings me to this.

As you can see, I’ve been poking around on google video and youtube when waiting for my poker hand to come up, and have found some great things.

This is a clip of one of the most under rated bands of all time, live on some TV show.

The band is Trouble Funk. These guys were at the forefront of a Washington DC based scene called GoGo.
Robert Reed, the keyboard player from Trouble Funk produced a Resin Dogs record a few years back, they flew him out to do it.
The guy is amazing.

Bands like Rare Essence, Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers, and the Backyard Band were also part of it. It almost (but didn’t) take over hip hop.
I read that LL Cool J (back in his ‘Radio’ days) was all worried because this was the new sound that was to change everything.
However it didn’t, as this music never went anywhere because it was a predominantly live experience that never translated to record.
You can see that even in a sterile TV studio it doesn’t really work, but imgine it live!!
I have some live DVDs at home and they will peel your head off. It’s brutal.
Try and picture seeing this band in a packed club, sweat dripping from the ceiling, people bouncing everywhere, girls grinding, guys jumping, this would have been the best thing ever, ever, ever..

A few things are awesome about this clip.

The hair.
The Outfits.
The Choreography.
The FUNK.
The playing.

These guys still play in clubs in D.C., if you’ve the balls to go to those neighbourhoods (well if you’re as white as me).
They don’t wear the satin anymore, but the music is the same.

The thing I love the most about it is, that these guys realize there is SHOW in showbusiness.

Try and look beyond the sillyness of how the appear now, and appreciate how groundbreaking they were at the time, after all, the world was only buying disco records at this time, they had to appear as if they fit in some how (see: Earth, Wind and Fire’s ridiculous egyptian space man costumes).

Dig it.
The perfect fusion of early hip-hop and 70′s big band funk.

Trouble Funk.

xx aa

PS: Don’t forget to take time out to get close to the ladies..

Wow. Thanks for all the input! Thinking! Discussion! Hooray for humans!

Now let’s celebrate with more gravity defying.

This video had so much influence on me in my youth, I can’t even tell you.
Thanks to Stuart Bundesen whom I sat next to in grade 9 and told me about this band.
He even broke his wrist skating and wrote “Possessed to skate” on his cast.
At first I thougt, what a wanker, but I was just being afraid of something I didn’t understand and using aggression to hide my fear behind.
Then I got talking to him and realised he was a super cool guy, and listened to every thing he had to say from then on.
He taught me all I know about skateboarding.
We would sit in class and look at skate mags under the desk and freak out about this ‘Tony Hawk’ kid who was only a few years older than us and ruling the world.
Thanks Stuart.

I never skated a short board, but I love this band so very, very much.
This video represented a very large change in the way I look at the world.
It got me into Suicidals, and of course Infectious Grooves and Cyco Miko.
These guys were hard core, no emo limp wristing here I tell you!

An absolute classic of the genre.

Timothy Leary plays the Dad in the video!!

Bring on the 80′s hardcore/skater punk revival.

Enjoy.
xx aa

Ever get that feeling when you suddenly experience a pradigm shift and realize that what you thought you knew doesn’t mean anything anymore?

Check this out.

I’m alone in the house with the dog and all kooked out by this.

Experiments done in the late 70′s by a Canadian called John Hutchison, where he was working on transmitting electricity through air, resluted in a bizzare series of effects on objects. Levitation, anit-gravity and simultaneous bonding of unlike materials.

My favourite is seeing a piece of wood absorb a piece of metal, with no displacement ie: like when you get in the bath and the water level rises.

The video has a spooky sountrack too.
wwwooOOOOoooooo..

For more, poke about on Google with the search string ‘Nucleonic Energy’.

Geektastic since 1982,
xx andrewg

PS: (post posting script) Real or unreal? Post me some evidence to either. Actual papers with references, not just angry web forum geeks. Also, look into the credibility of your sources. Get googling. Prove me wrong/right.