Lights Out: “Wrong Cops – Chapter 1,” a new short from director Quentin Dupieux — known in his music career as Mr. Oizo — features a music-loving crooked cop setting a lame teenager straight about what real music is.
Starring a semi-incognito Marilyn Manson as the musically-impaired youth.
(Sorta not safe for work, “I think you need a good music lesson, you little f*ck!”)
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Gay Marriage Endorsement of the Day: Colin Powell jumped on the gay marriage bandwagon today with an endorsement during an interview with Wolf Blitzer:
I have no problem with it, and it was the Congress that imposed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” though it was certainly my position and my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred, as you’ll recall. But as I’ve thought about gay marriage, I know a lot of friends who are individually gay but are in partnerships with loved ones, and they are as stable a family as my family is, and they raise children. And so I don’t see any reason not to say that they should be able to get married.
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ak47:
A man in Japan effectively used the solar eclipse to propose to his girlfriend.
(Source: meeohchan, via poussiquette)
“Majesty Snowbird” by Sufjan Stevens // Live at Town Hall (9.29.06)
For me, no talk of “best unreleased music” would be complete without mentioning Sufjan Stevens’ “Majesty Snowbird”. I’m a big fan of Stevens’ work, but he’s not exactly one of my go-to favorites. That being said, from the first time I heard “Majesty Snowbird” live in New York in the fall of 2006, I was obsessed. It’s a staggering work and it pains me that I’ve never heard a studio rendition that captures the movements which unfold almost like an opera. For me, it’s the finest work that he’s ever done, and it’s never sounded better than in those earlier performances when it was big and broad and removed from the later electronic noodlings that came in some of the performances on The Age of Adz tour (though it still sounds amazing). It’s actually strange, but I would put this song among the best things that I’ve ever heard, period. I’ve listened to this recording countless times, and each time it leaves me wondering “what if?”. Perhaps someday Sufjan Stevens will grace us with another album of orchestral pop that includes a stunning twelve minute version of “Majesty Snowbird”, but in the meantime, I’ll be quietly hoping for that day and listening to the bootlegs.