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xkcd is what it’s creator describes as “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.”
A favourite:
And here’s a cute animation of the xkcd strip “xkcd loves the Discovery Channel“;
I Love xkcd from NoamR on Vimeo.
And it’s gorgeous video no. 3 from the deranged Empire Of The Sun. As We Are The People (shot in Mexico) gets into the UK Top 20 finally, Australia get the third single. This time the video is shot in Oz and has a lot of Luke doing the usual shape-throwing and being ridiculous. (And as frequent readers will know, this is precisely how Daddy or Chips likes his pop stars).
Question: Nick Littlemore doesn’t seem to be in the vid much (at all?). He’s also not going to be part of the Empire of the Sun tour in autumn. Has Luke got rid of him (as he did with pretty much everyone in The Sleepy Jackson)?
Question 2: How can they afford these amazing videos?
‘Cleaning out my closet’ as Eminem once mellifluously rapped. I bet he didn’t have to contend with 24-year-old mixtapes, Minidisc players, photos of self and others looking obscenely young, and alarming cassettes of the Now That’s What I Call Music 7 variety. Oh no, I bet it was all Uzis and Harley Davidson lighters with Eminem…
And the HD version of the video is on YouTube. There were quite a few leaks (all plugged) so EMI must have decided to release the clip a day early.
With PopArt back in the UK Albums Chart at 19, the Brits, and now this, it looks like PSB might enjoy another successful chart run.
Is this their post-post Imperial phase?
And it’s delightful. Continuing this week’s accidental Mexican theme,here is the proper video for my No 1 track of 2008. Shot on location in the towns of Garcia, Xilitla, and the Icamole Desert in Mexico. Here are the EOTS boys throwing shapes and looking silly as all sorts of Día de los Muertos malarkey happens around them.
And this is what proper popstars should do. Huzzah!
Happy weekend.
Luke Steel from the Sleepy Jackson meets Nick Littlemore from Pnau/Teenagers to form Empire of the Sun.
If that means nothing to you, then you simply must not have heard Personality – One Was a Spider One Was a Bird, the hugely ambitious and OTT album by the Australian Steel (and whoever he hadn’t ejected from his band at the time). It’s crammed with melodies, violins, multtracked voices and at times is at risk of collapsing inwards under the Spectoresque weight of its production.
Sleeve of Personality
Not one for the 128kbps torrent mp3. Buy the CD and rip her high, high, HIGH.
It came out in 2006 and I bought it in Fopp in London (RIP) purely because of the cover and a faint memory of a decent review. Over the next few months (and years), it became my favourite album of the 2000’s.
Anyway, Steel is back with Empire of the Sun, and the first single is the rather jaunty Walking on a Dream. There is a recognisable Sleepy vibe about it which bodes well for the forthcoming album.
In the video, Mssrs Steel and Littlemore cavort about Shanghai in a colourful and amusing fashion. I do like a popstar who makes the effort to dress up and risks looking like a bit of a tit.
Over at the site for the track (no artist site yet?), you can download the Sam la More mix (cosmic disco, mmm yes). [EDIT: That download isn't working (times out quickly) but look what hypem found....]
“I’m just thrilled, Father!”
Bonus Vid: Devil Was In My Yard by The Sleepy Jackson. Bonkers.
Beautiful new track from Justice. And with a sensitive, emotional video to accompany.
Glass of wine, good book and press play.
(Sorry…)
