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Hoppipolla

January 26th 2009 00:33

Sigur Ros are a wonderful and beautiful Icelandic band. Many of their lyrics are not even in a genuine language, but an invented one called Hopelandic, based on Icelandic sounds and open to interpretation.

Hoppippolla though, is predominantly in Icelandic. The title means ‘Jumping In Puddles’. The lyrics reference a group of friends having simple childhood adventures. The film clip porteys this with a childlike group of elders, and is a wonderful piece of film.

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Tori Amos – 97 Bonnie and Clyde.

January 23rd 2009 08:05

I find great difficulty in expressing the awesomeness of Tori Amos. Her music is classy, emotional, intense. Her work is… more pretentious than I tend to like. Artistic to the point of pointless. But that’s no thing. It sounds awesome.

One thing about Tori is that she’s a feminist. So as one might be able to simply assume safely, she’s not the biggest supporter of the following song;

Horrified that people were dancing and enjoying music about the murder of a mother, Amos performed her own version of the song, keeping the lyrics essentially the same. In the recorded version, Amos sings from inside a box to give the feeling that she is in the boot of the car – giving voice to the voiceless mother. This here is a recorded live version of the song.

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100 Green Things

January 20th 2009 12:47

1. Grass.
2. Green Tree Frogs.
3. Some dinosaurs.
4. Seaweed.
5. ‘Green Bags’.
6. GO traffic lights.
7. American Money.
8. Chlorophill.
9. Emeralds
10. Spinach
11. Big Bluestem; The state grass of Illinois and Missouri
12. Several Spiderman Villains (Contrasting to Spidy’s Red.)
13. The devil, as portrayed in "Saint Wolfgang and the Devil" by Michael Pacher, in the fifteenth century.
14. The Stars on the Syrian Flag.
15. Army Uniforms.
16. Asparagus.
17. The Libyan Flag is completely Green, in Honour of Islam.
18. Jade stones.
19. Moss.
20. Green Crayons

21. Olives.
22. Pine Trees.
23. Ferns.
24. Green Paint.
25. Leaves.
26. Limes.
27. Marijuana plants.
28. Iguanas.
29. Some Axolotals.
30. Mint.
31. Beech Tree leaves.
32. Watermelon.
33. Canadian $20 Bill.
34. Uranium Glass – Glass with decoration made using uranium – glows green under an ultraviolet light, and can also be green without.
35. Oriental Fire-bellied Toad
36. Archegosaurus is a prehistoric amphibian which may have been green.
37. Pyrotechnic flares can use a mix ratio 75:25 of boron and potassium nitrate to appear green.
38. Political Parties known as ‘Green Parties’ are based on the promotion of Peace and Non Violence, Grassroots Democracy, Social and Economic Justice and Ecological Sustainability.
38. Patrick Blanc makes spectacular ‘green walls’; vertical gardens using plants that grow on cliff faces.
39. The Lesser green broadbill or Calyptomena viridis is identifiable by it’s vibrant green plumage.
40. The Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis) is a Lizard Common in South East America.

41. Green Turtle.
42. Charlotte.
43. Dehydrated Spinach Powder, which can be purchased online.
44. Edamame, beans often served in Japanese pubs. Very nice.
45. Green Tea. Very healthy.
46. Green beans.
47. Green Iguana.
48. Green MNMs have been used as a promotional tool by MNM.
49. The Notre Dame Varsity team usually wore blue to contradict with the Freshman’s green team. However, when the opposing team wore blue, they would wear green.
50. Boyd's Forest Dragon
51: Green Tree Python.
52 The Turia or Rigid gourd.
53. Costa Rican bamboo palm (Chamaedorea Costaricana)
54. Go Traffic Lights.
55. Aunt Ruby's German Green are a green species of Tomato.
56. Green Garlic.
57. Green tree ants Oecophylla smaragdina have green heads and abdomens.
58. The London eye sometimes appears green.

59. Green Eggs and ham is a bestselling children’s book by Dr Seuss.
60 The Newport Harbor Light comes on as the sun sets to aid navigation.
61. The Australian Green Jumping spiders or Mopsus mormon
62. Steigerite is a green mineral.
64. Absynthe.
65. Mucus appears green.
66. A Green Power Ranger has alternated on and off in different series.
67. Jalapeños.
68. The breastplate of Superhero Kamen Rider is Green.
69. The Skin of the Hulk turns green when angered.
70. The Tudor Rose, symbolising the end of the Wars of the Rose contains elements of green.
71. Marge of the Simpsons wears a green dress.
72. Krusty the Clown of The Simpsons
73. The floor of the Canadian House of Commons.
74. Army Uniforms incorporate green for camouflage.

75. The Canadian $20 Bill.
76. Many Maps use Green to indicate land.
77. The bench used in ‘the card game’ on the American version of ‘The Price is Right’.
78. Liquid naqahdah is a fictional superheavy metal in the Stargate Universe.
79. The background of the Mona Lisa incorporates green.
80. The stature of Robin Hood in Nottingham has a green tint.
81. The Top Right square of the Windows logo is green.
82. The Cannes Birdwing, largest butterfly in Australia incorporates green in its design.
83. Some Container ships are green.
84. Green is one of the main colours of the Mexican flag.
85. The bottom half of the flag of Wales is green.
86. Leeks.
87. Challotte.
88. Aeschines is shown wearing green in ‘The School of Athens’ by Raphael.
89. The German Braun HF 1 model Television had a green tint.
90. BP (British Petroleum) Makes heavy use of the colour green.
91. Green eyes are the product of low to moderate amounts of melanin and probably represent the interaction of multiple variants within the OCA2
92. Pickle Gerkins
93. Many carry bags are green to symbolise there environmental impact.
94. Many Cacti.

95. Leprechauns are often portrayed wearing green
96. Character Mike of Monstors inc is Green.
97. Algae
98. One of the Rings from the Olympic Rings is green.
99. Caterpillars.
100. Some Gummi Bears.

Image 1 by Ivy Dawned under an Attribution Share Alike License.
Image 2 by MannH under an Attribution no Derivs License.
Image 3 by DAmo1977 under an attribution license.
Image 4 by Wlodi under an attribution Share alike license.
Image 5 by Kretyen under an attribution license.

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Swarf Sisters

January 1st 2009 08:56

I had NOTHING to use related to the Swarf Sisters so please enjoy this unrelated image of LPs.

Swarf Sisters are a relatively unknown little bunch. As far as I know. Considering, you know that the last time I wrote an article about an artist using these such terms, he came out of retirement. (On a side note, my skill for affecting international persons of interest is not so positive; on the morning of Rosa Parks death I had made a speech about her; a bizarre synchrisity)

Ignoring this curious tangent, the Swarf Sister did disappear, before their album was even released. The story goes that the group formed and stuffed around trying o get an album recorded and released. Really nothing got done – everyone argued and could come to no kind of decisions of any kind, each instead dropping off to work on personal projects. Eventually with all possibility of an actual release all but doomed, member Swarf stepped up to the challenge, and the CD was released. The resulting piece of music was deeply curious, in it’s variety of musical styles.

The genre is hard to define. The opening song is a piece of heavy techno, and such songs appear throughout the album, one in the middle, one at the end. Songs number 2 (Sand in My Face) and 6 (Sunflowers) are fairly credible pieces of dark depressing trip-hop. The third song gives us a gentle acoustic piece. Then, just when we think we’re getting an idea of what they’re about we get a spoken word piece written by Patti Smith in the middle. Towards the end we also get Beverly – a Circus polka type song, and then we finish off with a soft Jazz number which leaves us with a secret track of… more strange spoken word stuff.It's also incredibly British, which actually works to give it some kind of coheisivity.

I obviously like it, but that doesn’t make it flawless. The Sisters have some good ideas, but they tend to have one cool idea and just repeat it for ten minutes. So some songs are good for a few listens but grow old fast. However it’s certainly a pleasant little curiosity that’s worth a bit of your time.

The album can be found on ITunes under the new title of ‘Crass Moments in Twentieth Century Culture’.

As best as I can tell they are now still around in a more sophisticated Trance outfit known as Swarf.

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