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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)

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

so there is about 2% of you out there that are probably feeling left out recently, so i thought i’d make your dreams come true by dropping on this blog some details of the new faux pas album. because if theres ever something that doesn’t make me want to vomit, its when blogs breathlessly get jacked about upcoming release details. so here it is!

the new album is called “7 wolves 1 shirt” and it is a concept album about my favourite t-shirt. its a story about how if you look at a thing for long enough, a thing can look like seven things. how long? six months. it is also about girls, and about things like death and suicide, and also about serious shit like politics. of course several songs are specifically about how i feel now that the howard government has been ousted, because not only is this a seriously fresh topic to make music about, its also an endlessly fascinating topic to make music about! there is also a track about how i like to go to clubs, and one where i sing “la la la” a lot

guests on the album include eric the badu, rockhoreographer and tom selleck. it goes for 7 minutes and will be released solely on atari cartridge format. i will not be giving away the album for free, or saying you can pay whatever you like, or anything like that – i will be going a step further and will actually be paying every customer 5 dollars to ‘buy’ the album. this is about art not money, and you know, this is the new model and we all need to look to the future. no-one wants to pay for music right now when they can get it for free – i am one of few pioneering artists that understand that in the future, no-one will even want the music unless they are also getting cash as part of the bargain. its about the money and about the hos. it will be a limited edition pressing of 80,000. stocks may not last.

‘7 wolves 1 shirt’ will be released on august 7 – it will be released by EMI but distributed by pigeons. without further ado, here is a sneak preview of the hot artwork put together by melbourne’s own style icon yerock:

and here is the lead single from the album:

MP3: Faux Pas – Robin Uthappa Theme