Oscillations - Is Our Children Dancing?

a silly, little while ago i made up (yes, "made up") a silly, little love story about a sex addict trying true love and leaving his sexadelic past behind using the names of the artists and or the names of the songs. long walks by the balearic beach and cosmic candles crawling out of your ass and all that funky fresh stuff. here goes!


I wanna be your lover and now love has come around! I'll take you on my aeroplane to Paris (I promise!), but oh no, you might find out I'm a R'n'B drunkie and although I try to shed my Balearic incarnation it's like a dream I can't stop dreaming (with my wang) and it's still going and going... Oh, what a situation! Always trying to get fresh at the weekend, showing out my wang when it's on the rise. Dreadful moodiness, I just need some emotional rescue! Oh why, cruel fate?! Why testeth thou me so... uhm -eth? I can't kill the lady (in my heart, duh). No, it's too late... Here my love is! MORE, MORE, MORE!


lol.
sad.
but sadly cool, right? right.

Over a week ago, Zeigeist announced their split via their myspace page. We had the honnor to welcome the swedish band as our guests for our bash at Antwerp's Kavka, back in december. The buzzing and theatrical performance they put on that night turned out to be one of their last. Marie, Per and Mattias called it quits on personal grounds but I'm sure we'll be seeing them in other incarnations sooner or later.
Here's a video to Zeigeist's "Humanitariansm" that I made with my man Joris to commemorate the band's passage at Oscillations. I guess now is the time to post it here. Oscillations salutes Zeigeist!

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i read another article about how brilliant Romain Gavras' video for Justice's STRESS is. this annoys me because it is... well, it is simply... not. shock! gasp! seriously, its faux shock tactics don't contribute to anything. aesthetically it's nothing that hasn't been done before (even by himself!) or it does not aid in the least in delivering a platform for discussion. it just sells and they knew. Justice are really good salesmen. when something is done for the sake of salesmanship, i still consider it a form of art, but not the kind of art which i find interesting. however, dissing people or creations for the sake of it doesn't interest me either so i'd like to write about two other of mister Gavras' video clips. i will leave out the one he made for The Last Shadow Puppets, although i'm pretty sure it's quite impressive from a producer's point of view, it just ain't mah thang, G.

Romain Gavras seems to be quite fond of people living in the margins of society. and why not? they're excellent material for comic relief! hurray for margies making us laugh! which is certainly the case in his video for Dj Mehdi's Signatune (the wonderful Thomas Bangalter edit). when the protagonist pulls his head away from his caring and carressing mother... lol. classic stuff.





less hilarious, but still funny is the totally unsexy environment of an anonymous and what i believe to be a Eastern European village on the countryside for the sexy song I Believe by Simian Mobile Disco. the setting reminds me of Jonathan Safran Foer's excellent debut novel Everything Is Illuminated.




mmmmmmmm marginal folks.

i bought Curtis Mayfield's Curtis LP the other day and i thought i'd expand on Starlight's theme a bit with a classic tune from the Prince of Suave himself.



brilliant album cover but anyways: Move On Up!

and if you're planning on climbing a mountain, why not make it Mount Eerie? wooooooooooop woop woop-woop! Phil Elvrum (= Mount Eerie) played at our very first evening, which seems like a pretty long time ago already, but even longer ago he played under another moniker and my favourite song from Phil is back when he was The Microphones. it's from the The Glow, Pt. 2 album and bears the same name. the song reminds me of early to mid Modest Mouse, which i like mucho mucho, but in its own right the album is a wonderful trip that really sucks you in if you let it. Phil basically creates a universe for you to explore, lyrically it's a really metaphysical and existential record.



The Microphones - The Glow, Part 2

if you're not one for upward movement, you can still bomb the motherfucker (yay!) and build a tunnel, chip chip churrah! Here We Go Magic's been blogged about quite a bit early in january, but i thought it was a pity there wasn't much mention of Luke Temple. that would be the head honcho of Here We Go Magic who made (and makes) music under his own name before Here We Go Magic's inception, which was last year.

Here We Go Magic - Tunnelvision

and i'll add the video for Luke Temple's More Than Muscle, simply because it is one of the better songs of 2008. when he delivers the chorus... there lies so much power in his restraint. i'm not convinced by the video yet, i'm just not quite sure whether it's really dull or just silly and funny. the music is powerful stuff though.