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some love and some hate

hate! whats up with kids these days!
check for example –

what?

love! give a 4 year old an autotune and you get pure love! this youtube clip is better than 99% of music released this year. i’m serious! its even better than vampire wolf france! but yeah. you can basically layer this clip over the top of any song that you like, and the song instantly becomes 10 times better. honestly i’ve tried it, tonight. a lot. just pull up itunes or whatever, get a song started, then come back here and press play on the clip. love!

hate! google continues to funnel rabid pixies fans to my pixies ms paint creation / time-space continuum solution – although, the latest one was confused as to whether or not to actually hate or not. love or hate!? all 21st century dilemmas essentially boil down to this. hobble over to the right hand column to check out his love/hate indecision. its ok to love! also engaged in recent conversation with this blog – connie from network solutions weighs in on my last post. i can’t say it was my intention to get the attention of anyone at network solutions when i wrote that rant on the perils of parked domains – i didn’t even really refer to them in my post, their name was merely quoted in the article that i was referencing – but yes its still fascinating to me that companies now employ people to monitor the blogs and go into bat for them. i guess this is very 2005 but it still intrigues me.

love! i’m just coming off a moody blues bender, and i’m just starting on a bit of a robert palmer curve. here’s a bit of a taste of what my head is sounding like at the moment. the moody blues track is not a real edit, don’t get excited. i just took out some of the middle bit. you won’t even notice.

MP3: The Moody Blues – Question (edit) (1970)
(removed due to 40,000 downloads in 6 weeks… whoops… sorry moodies)

MP3: Robert Palmer – What You Waiting For (1983)

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hate! gotta hate how long its taking new faux pas material to come together. hold tight! the anti-climax awaits! the newest news i have on this is that the album is going to be called “CHARISMA MODIFIER” and its going to be a concept record about a 4 year old who communes directly with the forces of time and space (ie the pixies – voiced here by justin hayward and the guy from thin lizzy) finds an autotune plugin while searching for the lost orb of frobozz, and then buddies up with a savvy domain name registrar employee named connie to save the people of earth from the devastating forces of… well… dudes who wear white sunglasses! here’s the revised album cover:

love! tuned into a golden oldies station on the way home from work this evening i heard a song by bland mcbland band snow patrol that totally contained the lyric “Put Sufjan Stevens on / And we’ll play your favorite song” i knew you’d get yours, stevens!

shucks now i empathise with you again. i feel great pain… and… suffering

2 comments:

1 Connie Bensen { 07.16.08 at 7:31 am }

Hi,
I hope that the information in my comment was helpful.
Connie

2 bob { 08.05.08 at 6:50 pm }

LOL i too love scabhetti.

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July 2010

/// New 6-track Vanderbilt EP features two Faux Pas tracks plus remixes by Crumbs, Aoi, Pasobionic and Lewis CanCut. Its a free download, get it here.

/// My album Noiseworks – featuring “Vanderbilt”, “Chasing Waterfalls” and “Silver Line” – is available here.

/// I’ve been working on remixes for local bands Rat vs Possum, Flying Scribble and Akimbo. These are good people.

/// I’ve started making some new songs – if you want to have a sneak peek at what they sound like, here is the place to start.


 
 

Tim Shiel lives in Melbourne. He makes music under the name FAUX PAS, and is also a broadcaster on public radio station 3RRR FM. This blog began in 2005.

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Tim’s meaningful BIOGRAPHY

1981: Born in Melbourne Australia, life feels empty and without meaning

2005: FAUX PAS created – life still meaningless

2010: Tim writes brand new three-line biography

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