In order to make this blog not such a laughing stock to the blog house community, we at the frames have implemented some brand new sidebar features to our blog. The only thing that our sidebar won't do is serve drinks and fancy cocktails
Besides the normal oodles of links to other cool ass websites, we've acquired some widgets from useful websites such as Mukuna (Hey cityvibes! It's spelt MUKUNA....not Makuana! Get it right dorks! ) along with everyones favorite ruin it Aggregator, The Hype Machine and lastly RCRD LBL(Does anyone knows what these effin letters stand for?)
Other sidebar features include Adverts...Well we gots to get paid for this shit. I mean if boring Radio Live Hosts such as Michael Laws get paid to say whatever the fuck he wants....we should too!!!!!!
So gmail our lovely admin for rates......We can assure the cheapest in town!!!
Also I would like to point out once again (Are you paying attention Miss Doodles?) that all of the music featured on this blog have been legally cleared, along with their permissions ...which in turn means that you are getting it fresh from the artists or the remixers themselves. We've developed a working relationship between artist and blogger through vigorous trading of emails back n forth.....We run a tight ass ship on the frames, and we make sure that all legalities have been cleared by both parties
As we said many times on our "Demo Policy" we will be more than happy to remove certain links!
We do not in no shape or fashion endorse illegal downloads of mp3s! Besides we smash n grab from other blog sites who are willing to risk prosecution Hahahaha!!!!! But seriously.....
WE DO NOT IN NO SHAPE OR FASHION ENDORSE ILLEGAL DOWNLOADS OF MP3s!!!!
[photos by cityvibes.co.nz]
We will still continue the tradition of "Finger Muppets of the weak" cause seriously that shit is funny.....Why is it funny? Because the people who are featured in our "Finger Muppets" are always drunk and out of their minds. I mean not all their faculties (such as common sense) were not available at the time when the photog was there ready to take that embarrassing pict that will haunt him (or her) for the rest of their lives!
I mean lets face it we're not in America, this is not some East Coast, West Coast bullshit. So please for the love of god STOP IT!!! And to the white folks that do it.......
YOU ARE NOT BLACK!!!!!!!! SO STOP BEING RACIST TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE!!!!
[photos by cityvibes.co.nz]
However outside the photographing circles, feel free to use the "West Side" Fingers on your girlfriend when she wants some sexual stimulation in her clitoris . I believe they dubbed it "The Shocker" the last time I saw porn, so yes feel free to take your girlfriend pussy to the "West Side"...but keep it clean!
Anyways yes....yes!
So to the mainstream Auckland Dance Community that we've mocked and ridicule over the past month or so, think of this as a trade off...we at the frames will refrain from speaking ill of any promoters, deejays, local dance acts and venues if you can allow us to run this blogs favorite entry.
Besides we're not violating any copyright laws.....We have no intention to photoshop any of the picts, we love it the way it is...the camera speaking its own truth!
And speaking of insults, we at the frames would like to apologize to Miss Doodles for making fun of her and her bad grammar...Look all we're asking you to do is just dress down (say a nice pair of sneaks, a normal tee, some jeans) so people can take you seriously when you DJ, that's all!!! Whatever you do on the dancefloor is your business...Hell wear nothing if you want to on the Dancefloor, just, just....
See this works!
As for curling up and dying? Well that's never going to happen anytime soon...In fact don't we feel like inside ourselves we're dying anyways? Western civilization is falling at the wayside and the four horsemen of the Apocalypse will be riding into town within 2 more years...So in the end Miss Doodles we're already dead....But enough of this morbid talk, lets celebrate the fact that this blog will never go out of its way of ever insulting you mainstreamers on the dancefloor ever again.......because you're not worth it!!!
I'm happy to announce to the world wide web that I'm a DJ. Yeah I felt like an AA (Alcohol Anonymous) moment after doing the Blah Blah Blah for sooo many months and pleasing alot of the DJs on Fleet FM with my strange ear and openness to older forms of music in which I'm happy to merge into my genetic music makeup.
And I couldn't ask for a better DJ neighbor (who does his show before mines) to who I now call buddy, friend and mentor. Now I'm not going to divulge his name on this blog, because he regularly reads it, and I don't want you haters to go after him just because of my venting (and that includes you Miss Poodles!), but his reputation and knowledge is beyond reproach. In fact if you're reading this my friend, I thank you!
Photos by Neon Sleep
Now a couple of weekends ago, I went to Cross St Studios for a farewell party for my friends sister who is leaving for Berlin, the wonderful art capital of the world (in my view that is). I was approached by my good friend to do a DJ set, in which I said yes but there was a snug in those plans, and that was they had no CDJs for moi!
Now this is by no means a fault of their own knowing that buying good gear (working gear at that) is sooooo ridiculously expensive that mainstream Douche Jockeys in Auckland are that only ones that could buy the latest industry standard gear to play their awful shit house and electro house to the masses every weekend (Dare I say Zombie nation!) and with the party on Cross Street extending into the wee small hours, I was more that happy to drop a few minutes here and there, mingle and be asked to drop a couple more!
The prices for the industry standard model (Pioneer) start at a whooping $1,999.00 inc GST which is still an expense to say the least, plus you can't gig with just the one solo unit, you need to buy 2!
That's right 2 of the buggers...I say this is the price you pay to stray away from the mainstream clubs in order to start a new movement of dance. And what other locations are we talking about here....well besides Cross St. there's pubs, The Whammy Bar (as a last resort) um pubs...yeah the choices of venues here in Auckland are a tad limited due to the ongoing mafia attitude that promoters are enforcing to secure venues which forces the rather small indie dance crowd to be backed into a corner and force to sit there and watch the sucky-ness which is Auckland's well established, real named DJs!
You're probably asking yourself "why don't you do something about it instead of moaning like a woman?", well I get that all the time, and I say its about time someone did!
Over the next couple of entries I will be keeping a blog entry as to how I would set in motion to perpetuate indie dance into the zombied masses.....And I will also do case studies here and there, and seek solutions. As adventurous as that may sound, I will give it a go because I got nothing to lose!
I will make it my goal to establish a brand for all the indie-dance kids to be proud of..
Now I know you're going to add into the mix the brand parties that are out there that already servicing the average indie slash hipster kid such as "The Quay Street social club" and "Sohomo", okay I have utmost respect for those parties and I won't discount their efforts, plus I know the promoters, but for this one its strictly for the indie dance heads and punters who want a ruckus of a party with good tunes that are not sourced from Australia's cheese offcuts!
I've just finished reading an article about patients bullying their doctors because of their reluctant attitude to finding any work stating that work and income told them to go on sickness, which according to one doctor, he disagrees with how one should abuse sickness.
Dr Van Herck, a GP from Belgium and a locum who has worked 16 surgeries said that a government agency should not endorse beneficiaries into sickness!
Dr Herck said and I quote: "A lot of people on sickness benefits say Work and Income staff have sent them and just expect you to sign the form."
Holy hell guys! Don't fuck it up for the rest of us. He also referred to a case where a woman was on sickness for an astounding 19 years suffering from asthma despite smoking a pack a day. She was offered from WINZ several quit programs, but admitted that "she was just too lazy".
He also believed too many beneficiaries had been diagnosed with depression. "Quite a few are just drug abusers."
Now for my response to this, otherwise I'll be just cutting n pasting contents from the source article. When I was diagnosed with depression, it was for a genuine reason. I was cutting myself every day, I couldn't get out of bed because I couldn't face another day being unemployed and going to those awful brain draining seminars where you know that out of all the people that are in the same room listening to some bureaucratic cockface (mine was a Polynesian, which spells bad news for yours truly) spew out some motivation bullshit, you're the only one that knows his game inside out which is to draft you into a job you hate, and get himself a nice bonus!
Also having someone close crush your heart all the time didn't help neither. I had this unfortunate situation with this girl that left me bed-ridden for months. Seriously I couldn't get out of bed. However not WINZ but a friend suggested to try sickness....and I've never looked back. Now I pop my Loxamine tablets everyday and I've never bullied my Doctor. He was always understanding of my situation.......and I'm always happy to take his suggestions.
I'm currently still on sickness, and speaking from experience I would like to give you some advice...never take any courses, especially privately established courses. Okay it may work for some, but much like the idiots who abuse sickness benefits on a regular, there are fuck ups that are doing the same at those poncy courses! Trust me!
I went to that horrible Carrich computer training course in 2001, and fuck me blind, I never learned a goddam thing at that place! It wasn't the fact that I was too reluctant, but just the level of distractions that were at the place didn't help. Motherfuckers playing Quake or Doom whatever the fuck it was on campus computers, the skanks that were roaming the halls, it was just too much! I wanted to learn something goddamit! For six straight years of going to privately owned campuses and what do I have to show?........Nothing!!!!! All I got is trust issues with woman, anger problems, body insecurities and closeted loneliness! If there was any a good moment to say something to our kids today, it would be "Stay in school and go to a reputable university.......either that or become a blogger"
Now back to the issue at hand about sickness. Yeah I can definitely sympathize with the Doctors about abusive patients who except them to just sign away their three month holiday to bliss, but believe you in me, it never a holiday. You're a regularly routine to see the Doctor ever 3 months, which still feels stomach turning every time I see my GP known that he's probably going to clear me for work, and you don't want to be known as a handjobber now don't ya?
Another thing to point out is that although I suffer from depression, there are far worse people with life threating illnesses which are also terminal, and people who suffer from disabilities such as non attached appendages who need aide the most........Am I ready for a reform in medical care in New Zealand?.....maybe! That's of course if more opportunities are readily available for able bodied people because they still have that inherent danger of becoming criminals! I mean the dole can get you only so far, its just a matter of time management and old school goal setting. My goal is to get off the dole and get into something that I enjoy doing as a possible full time job.
I like blogging, and I like to be able to do that as a substitute to collecting sickness every 3 months, Otherwise I may as well start cutting a limb off!!
Now this entry is not a pretext towards how you should bully your Doctor into a 3 month holiday! Sickness is for those who really need it...the sick!
Under any to no habituates whatsoever, I when on a digital dig into a relentless blog which I thought was never ending trip into hell, because the links just kept on coming and fuck all this started exactly around 5a.m in the morning, talk about being an addict to downloads sweet jesus I don't think I'll ever want to shop at an online .mp3 store ever again.......un you know what, don't quote me on that!
The blog in question was a blog named http://vibe4me.blogspot.com/, which houses the shittiest house music in all of blogsviles, I kid you not! Names like Roger Sanchez, Pryda, Deadmau5, Dirty South, Vandalism, Dave Spoon, Feddy le Grand, laidback Luke, Tommy Trash, Axwell Sebastian Ingrosso, TV Rock, The Potbelleez and.....and... ho ho wait a minute! Why do these names sound awfully familiar...That's right, since 5am in the morning leading up to whatever is timestamped on this blog entry, I've become every Auckland wanker DJ, every douchebag, and everything that I stand against!
Yes that's right look at those names! Every one of those names are DJs who have visited Auckland at some stage of last year, or some of their records (.mp3) have been played at some wanky Auckland club! Oh god I feel sick, I'm going puke!
So why did I go for the gang bang of downloading then? I really don't know to be honest. I've always had a serious compulsive disorder when it comes to downloading. But now I feel like a jackass downloading all that garbage from that fucking blogsite! So what to do?.........well I could delete the tracks from my desktop, or I can give it to you guys, but I must warn you as a friend and as a fellow blogger within the blogsphere community that the tracks are some of the most vile and the most putrid of cheeseburger house ever! And its infested with Australian Ebola that will rot your brain and your music tastes!
If the horrors of seeing Vandalism at Our House live, or ear rotting remixing of Dirty South shit productions are not your cup of tea, then you have been warned!
The one thing that astounds me about the blog where I got the tracks from was the fact that you'll be put into a trance of trying to look for active links, and as soon as you go deep into the crevice of the archive, it becomes a never-ending race to try get out of the blog and trying to find that indication of a non seeing "Older post" link.
Well I've wasted a perfectly good Thursday afternoon...but hey at least I won't feel guilty uploading that junk onto the next "Big Wednesday" haul! I think I'm going to lie down now!
And no I will not add that abomination of a blogsite onto my links table...I think I've suffered enough!
Oh flay fuck fuck I'm glad as piss that New Zealand Music Month is over!!!! If I see someone wear a New Zealand Music Month tee on the streets of Downtown Auckland, I will shoot them dead....Oh come on you're sooo thinking that thought too!!!!
I just don't get why people have this national pride to New Zealand Music when our product is still sounding mediocre and thousands upon thousands of undiscovered talent just ups and leaves our shorelines for good....like The Brunettes.
Sure they're no Opshop or Good night nurse who can make somewhat of a modest living from here (via licensing to ad agencies), but they have earned successes and praises in other countries which is more that I can say about New Zealand!
Firstly they're signed to Sub Pop, which houses the likes of CSS, Flight of the Conchords (Another offshore success from New Zealand), The go Team and many more (trust me Sub Pop have fuckloads of artists signed to their label), besides that, they've opened for international acts such as Rilo Kiley, The Postal Service, Broken Social Scene, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah which is more that I can say about those cunts from Opshop (You make me sick assholes!)
So we at the frames have a proposal to all of our undiscovered talent from New Zealand......Why don't we have a music month that rivals the balls of the New Zealand music commission's month by shipping you the fuck out of New Zealand free of charge?
That's right we'll have our very own month (That of course falls coincidentally on the government's music month of May) where we'll sell you some shoddy merchandise (such as our fabled tees pictured above which are currently being printed and can be brought for $30. Coming soon) and upon the sale of said merchandise, $10 will go towards a fund that will ship the most undiscovered talent (one group, band or singer per year) from here on our recommendation free of charge! I shit you not!
And yes there is a catch, we will be documenting everything, and I mean everything! From your major record deal signing, your first video, hell your first concert opener! You ain't going to get rid of us that easily hahah no, we will be documenting your process the whole way through!
I mean lets look at your options shall we? Sure be a gullible prick and go to those seminars to learn about what the government thinks is good New Zealand music and strategies, hear from some industry wanker who is still making more cash than you (royalties like a mother fucker), and for you male leads in the group, you can go as far as giving Helena Mcalpine (or as we call her Helena Mc-Ass-ugly) a cock beating of a lifetime so you can have your video played on Special Features.....or you can bypass all of that and let us ship you off (preferable in a container, fumigated from pests,stowaways and migrate Vietminese Asians) to anywhere around the world away from shitty New Zealand so you too can party like a rockstar........phew my brain hurts!
More details were emerge once I flesh them out......Let us ship you (the musician or musicians) the fuck out of New Zealand!.....Hopefully for good!
I personally hate copying and pasting other peoples literature because its sacrilege and against every moral fiber we believe in, but we at The nerdy frames are getting sued over our freedoms, and yet a writer is allowed to post her opinions on stuff.co.nz? I don't think thats right.
Just because we're not a tied down to some sterile national papers blogs and obeying rules of a Nazi editor, we should be able to voice out what we really think about the down fall of woman in this century! (The dumb women, not the intelligent kind FYI)
Besides the jury is clearly out on Lisa Lewis.............! Mark this as the defining moment of Alt TV's downfall, the jumping the shark moment!
Sure we colored the entry somewhat, but the truth was starting to unravel! Even if its not from the tappings of our keyboards, it was going to come out some other way!
Great tits are laying their eggs earlier in Spring - "they say".
By JANE BOWRON
The set was blue, the topless news reader's eye shadow was blue and the text was ever so slightly blue as Lisa Lewis made a tit of herself on Alt TV's News Flash or News "Flesh" at 10 o'clock of a Monday night.
Looking like a skinny Joe Cotton, Lisa Lewis struggled through a news bulletin, which included a laboured ornithological joke about Great Tits benefiting from global warming and laying their eggs earlier in Spring.
The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society must have been mortified to have been given a special mention, but I guess they had got well used to it when Benny Hill was at his peak.
Of course those who had tuned in wouldn't have appreciated the artistry of the script and would have instead concentrated their orbs on Lisa's, which I must say looked as fake as the news reader's hair colour.
Wasn't she a blonde when she infamously streaked across the pitch?
In lieu of our rather outrageous opinions and subjectivity matter, we got ourselves served by a lawyer representing somebody that we've made fun of recently......and here I am thinking nobody bother reading this 2 bit blog!
At this stage we've removed and changed certain entries from our blog, so we won't furore ourselves into more hot water litigation. Don't think this will be the first of many defamation suits! After all we're notorious.
Now to write another album review and leave the dissing to the real experts.....ala Perez Hilton
This is the tragedy, the drama, and sheer utter pain which I call "New Zealand Music Month". In response to Straight from the whore's mouth recent blog entry, about his shameful taste in music, which of course is New Zealand music, I will blog about my secret shame that I've harbor for many years about New Zealand music and the problems that arise when NZ Music Month comes every year.
Well if its anything to go by my friend, my taste for the nations sonnets are far more bitter. And in case you're wondering what bands that I'm showing love to for New Zealand Music Month? Well its only two at the mo, Disasteradio and Pig Out.........
So you maybe asking "Why out of the plethora of artist here in Aotearoa did you only come up with two bands to like?", well have you heard those other bands on offer? Yeah I thought so.
Well for one I've heard the "Visions" album from Disasteradio and Instantly I loved it! As for Pig Out, I've always had the pleasure of seeing them perform live, and they never cease to amaze me. Now if only Kitt from Pig Out gave me one of his albums so I can jam it on Fleet FM on his behalf!
Now every year the government has always encouraged every New Zealander to support New Zealand Music Month when it comes around, that's fine but hey you've got to meet me half way folks!
Probably the most sickening thing that I hate the most is when it comes to celebrations of New Zealand Music Month, that every Tom, Dick and Jane convening to some fancy soirée to discuss the goodness which is New Zealand music! Guys seriously 2 bands!!? Just 2 bands!!! That's all I like. Come on guys!
Photos courtesy of The A List (The disabling of the right click thing don't work on us!)
Just look at the schmucks (on the above photos) that these poor struggling musicians have to suck up to!
Or better yet how about the fat cow that's in this picture! (Far right with the doodles and stink lines. We pixelated the other woman for her own sake!) she does that horrible TV show (which in my opinion she single handedly ruined) "Special Features!" on C4 What the fuck does she know about music?
Helena McAlpine (some dipshit bird from the U.K.) has moved up the cock sucking ladder of Can West and became the replacement for the once prestigious show when Jane Yee stepped down!
I would like to quote something that Helena said in an impromptu piece for the New Zealand Herald in which she states the following
So what are your favourite bands?
At the moment, my favourite Kiwi band of all time is Autozamm. I'm a big Beatles fan, a big Rolling Stones fan. My genre of choice is hard dance. I love hardcore rave, I love drum'n'bass but it's right across the board. This morning I was listening to Robbie Williams' Sing When You're Winning. I'm really enjoying listening to old stuff again - the Ramones, old-school rock. I'm re-establishing the things I listened to back when music meant so much to me, what got me involved in the first place.
Wow....that's all I'm going to say to that! I'm in awe here!
Her genre of choice is Hard Dance!!!!!! Wow.........Hey in fact why don't you name some of New Zealand's Hard Dance producers of your hands......NONE BECAUSE HARD DANCE IS THE BASTARD CHILD OF SHIT HOUSE AND Illegal GATEWAYING TO HARDER DRUGS AND HERBALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry for that little outburst, but its people like her and the cronies that work at C4 that ruins it for me. From their interviewing of musicians, to their lack of education to basic interviewing etiquette, I hate it all! And what do they do during their quote, un-quote serious interviewing? They resort to using a shtick, in effect taking the piss out of the interviewee and wasting their time!
But hey what credibility do they have left over in C4? None is the short answer!!! Some of the good people that were at C4 (Jane Yee, Jacquie Brown, Camila from Bfm) have now moved on, and this pathetic channel is now unwatchable!
Juice TV is better to watch (although I don't normally watch it, but do look out for NZONE!)
Now about the other music channels!....In short its like this
MTV NZ is there to serve the greater purpose of anyone who is a fan of reality TV (The Hills, Pimp my Ride, ) product placement, and American brain wash, so it hold absolutely zero credibility for actual music television or music for that matter.
And please fire those 2 little star fuckers Amber Peebles and Jay Reeves!
Juice TV. Not a fan of it, and I'm wondering if they got rid of some of their hosts because I rarely see them every time I turn to that channel. I will give them points for hiring a fantastic interviewer (Aroha is fantastic!)
And Finally Alt TV...yes the channel that labels itself as "Actual Music Television!" Well congratulations for jumping the shark when you hired prostitutes to your network! You have lost the respect of this blog!
Other thing I would like to ask is what do they do with the profits from the sale of those NZ Music Month target tees? You know the ones (Pictured above) from Hallensteins! Where does the money go to with the sale of said tees? And don't you feel like an utter cock wearing something that is both a lie and a Target for snipers?
Now Cheese on Toast, the fantastic website that it is, has raised some valid points in his recent entry entitled "THERE IS NO DEPRESSION IN THE NEW ZEALAND MUSIC INDUSTRY" in which he uses Cut Copy as an example........Allow me to jest on it. Basically Cut Copy released their 2nd (I hope to dear god I'm right) album "Ghost Colors" which went straight to number one on the mainstream charts (circa March 30, 2008). That's right NUMBER FUCKING ONE! And bearing in mind they're signed to Modular Recordings, a record label with a Indie mind-set and a big distributer (Universal Music) as its backer!
Wow I will admit, that is one amazing feat! To have a relatively unknown band come up tops with a fantastic Sophomore..........I'm speechless!
And who do we have in New Zealand.................Well young sid (a Gangster wannabe), Opshop (Some crappy MOR Band who'd licensed their music for commercials) and Good Night Nurse (.....Fags!) thats all we got to show to the world!
Wow and all this for the greater good of New Zealand Music Month.............Bravo! We are soooo spoiled for choice here folks! Crap......!
Now lets cover some valid points about the Australian music scene, and why it rules balls over ours any day of the week!
They don't have a national commission to govern over Australia's music (ie. No music month in Australia folks)
In fact they don't need a national commission anyways because their product is of a high standard time and time again
They don't force their musicians to wear targets on their apparel to show some patriotism towards Australia's music scene
They have no need for a quota system to telly up airplay
And finally what international would want to come to New Zealand? Most of them end their Oceanic touring in Australia, meaning better exposure for Australian music and more variety and value for the consumer! HELL THEY HAD DAFT PUNK NOT SO LONG AGO@! FUCKK!
I Know that I maybe showning favoritism towards Australia despite my reservations about traveling to the country, but hey if its anything I don't like their Rupert Murdoch grotesque TV media conglomerates strong hold! Case in point, the guys who host Beat TV! What a bunch of drongos!
So will anything make me change my mind about New Zealand Music when this dreadful month concludes? Maybe........Only time will tell.
Hey at least I got a love for 2 bands okay! Don't sweat me!
I would like for a relatively unknown band from here to reach that stratosphere of Cut Copy's success nationally, and don't bring up Steriogram okay! Those guys......ouch! They've cleaned up and found jesus so shut the fuck up! Oh yeah Capitol Records drop them so......blah!
Its time that our bands locked themselves in a room with adequate ventilation and lighting for months, hell years if need be, and practice on those instruments that you bugged your parents for!!!!! Because if we have to ride the coattails of our past successes such as Split Enz and the Flying Nun era, we may as well call it quits!
Another thing that I want to point out before concluding......More Maori music for airplay!!!!! I mean Iwi stations can only do sooo much (And no Mai FM and Flava are not Iwi Stations by definition), it would be nice if our national tongue was still preserved and we as a nation didn't follow Australia's lead and their crapping on indigenous culture....(Where the Abos guys? I only see white people).
Come on ZM, drop some Whirimako Black! Or better yet Kiwi FM drop some Dam Native on some of your prime time shows!
SO HAPPY FUCKING NEW ZEALAND MUSIC MONTH ASSHOLES! NOW PRACTICE YOUR INSTRUMENTS and beat up the members of Opshop.....
This is how far that the Blah Blah Blahs are willing to go to get themselves fresh tunes!
Hello Gerome Sportelli and greetings from Auckland, New Zealand.
We have been looking for one of your tracks entitled "Growth", which we believe is a popular track Miss Kittin has been dropping on your behalf.
We've looked everywhere! Beatport, Junodownload, Bleep.com, Turntable lab. You name it, we couldn't find it!
Is there anyway that we can get you to send "Growth" through an email instead (320 Kbps preferable)? We would love to drop this beautiful gem at our next gig. I know you want us to pay for it, but as said earlier we couldn't find it on any paid MP3 site.
Let us know if there is another option as we will pay top dollar for the digital track of "Growth"
Thank you and love The Blah Blah Blah DJs
Ouch! Wish us luck on that front.
The track in question that we're looking for is "Growth" which has been a record box favorite of the Blahs favorite Dj and all rounded woman Miss Kittin!
Check this video with Alter Ego and listen to the very first track she starts off with
As for the Blahs, this is probably the lowest they've stooped to!
Wow there must be a blogging bug going around Blogsvile, because this weekend is a stinker.
I would blame "His whoreness" for his recent entry, but I have no one to blame but myself!
I guess you may have read that Conan wanted to go see the hype which was "The Thursday Night Tea Party", but was turned down at the door because of a dress code violation, which was sad because I know that he is a very passionate DJ that loves his dance music! He also said that he was going to write something good about it, but he is left with nothing but regret....Poor guy!
But you know what they say about the underdogs, they'll have their day.....Keep at buddy!
In fact just try tonight to stream his broadcast on Fleet FM with the Blah Blah Blahs, and you'll see why clubland needs guys like him!
I've checked my gmail inbox and got a Fwd from a close friend, and here we go again with more stinkers to weep over in clubland! I mean look at this!
Have we fallen into a repeat dimension of heavy branded parties with all the regular scene whores who come, pay $20-$30 Dollars to see a DJ fingerbanging his hands in the air, piss off back to Australia, come back in a months time and repeat the whole thing again!
Someone just bring Erol Alkan already...He's our god! That man can make us quiver and quake in our boots! I just hope to dear god that a certain Promotion company doesn't dip their dirty hands into our Erol, otherwise I'm screaming blue murder!
Hmm I'm still writing...............
On Thursday I went into Real Groovy........Man what a good feeling! Some time ago there was an industry rumor floating abouts That our beloved homegrown franchise was going to be bought out by JB's Hi Fi.
Image if you will JB Hi Fi's logo slapped on the side of your beloved Real Groovy store all up in your grill.........Not visually pleasing is it? Now that would have been the scenario if the sale of the Groovy were to happen, the deal fell through, so kudos to Real Groovy!
As always I can never say anything bad about the Groovy, it has it all and more of more! The cool thing about the Groovy is if you're a big electro fan and you can't be fucked asking the banging female hot assistant at the counter to slap your nuts...I mean slap on a cd for you, you can always go to the vinyl section of the store, pick it out and just play it on the Turntables!
Vinyl will always be king! Expensive I know, but its the little things that comes with vinyl, things such as sleeve designs, artwork, the fidelity of the audio and various colored pressing of vinyl which gives it that extra value!
Its a shame that I gave away a full album from Madonna's "Confessions on the Dancefloor" to a friend, and it was pressed in pink!! I know stupid!
As for my fucked weekend, well nothing a good book can't fixed!
At the risk of sounding like a cheap Perez Hilton crossover paired with the trashiness which is Gossip columnist Bridget Saunders from Stuff.co.nz, we at the Frames have ourselves a little scandal on one of New Zealand's successful singers, which may not sound like news to you or you may have already heard it somewhere, but its time to crush some heterosexual hearts (Anika's people start writing those retraction orders).
Its been rumored that Anika Moa's sexuality has been hidden for quite some time, which I would understand, but what the hey. If you boys had a ranging hard on for this lovely yet foul mouthed singer, well its time we at the Frames crush those nuts for ya.
Anika Moa is a lesbian and for a long time! A reliable source has confirmed that she has been going out with another one of our up and comers Anna Coddington
Anna Coddington who also fronts another band "Duchess" is sure giving us straights a run for our money...I mean look at her. Tell me that you wouldn't want to hit that!
The Frames also suspected Kara (Pictured second, far left) from the recently canceled music show "Coast" as one of Anika's Flings, seems as how they're always hanging out getting chummy and all. Can everyone say Ménage à trois?
So we at the Frames congratulate not only our favorite singer (yes we would tap that), but now our favorite public domain lesbian.
A complimentary two headed dildo gift package will be sent from our offices to your home very soon Anika, you know for those Ménage à trois that we dream of.
We love you!
BTW: At least it can't get any worse for ya. This bitch right hear posed for FHM
Well its Wednesday and I'm blogging live and direct from your mommas house bitches......Nah from the Dole cue.
Yeah its Nerdy Frames Music Month, and I know that someone from the team said that they I was going to review DISASTERADIO's album, well that's still going to happen, its just I've got 10 other albums dying for my attention including the new Shinichi Osawa (Mondo Grosso) album "The One".
I know I know, my love for Japanese music is somewhat obsessive, but it masks the pain of my environment that I live in which in my case is my neighborhood. If you haven't caught on, I live in the most dangerous part of Auckland which feels like damnation if you ask me. I've been living in South Auckland for far too long. I've seen friends come, and friends go. Back in the day it was a good time to be alive, go to the pools, play at the arcades (Otara had the best arcades around), you know good times!
But fast foward to the present, and I'm now regretting the fact that I now call Otara home because people have changed. More violence crimes are now rampant, and newer criminals are emerging from drugs, alcohol, spousal abuse and speed (both kinds).
Which leads me to my next point about speed, in fact I'm talking about "P". The Killer Beez (a local gang here in Otara) were raided this week when police seized $500,000 worth of methamphetamine and $200,000 in cash. The scumbag who spearheads this gang goes by the name of Joshua Masters.
This lying sack of shit was recently interviewed by John Campbell for "Campbell Live", stating that The Killer Beez were not running tinny houses around South Auckland nor selling the drug "P". He lied on national Television!
And bearing in mind that I was also close to this action when to my surprise, colorway records (their Record label) was just down my street! Jesus Christ grid!
The media is not doing any favors to fan out the fires in which they dubbed the local gang as "Modern day Robin Hoods". Well if that were the case, where's my fucking crumbs you greedy assholes? I do remember Robin Hood going by a motto "Take from the Rich and give to the poor", well this logic was not present when 18 people were arrested, 120 cops were involved in the operation, a entire neighborhood terrorized and scared for life! What do you have to say now?
It makes me sick to the stomach that this is happening around where I live. No wonder why the youth around South Auckland is fucked in the head, because things like this are happening.
Kids around South Auckland harbor their own problems, and I know they're looking for an escape and gangs are the answer. They're seduced by the money, the lifestyle, the black culture! I would amount the whole experience as brain washing, because thats what it is! Want proof? Look at the youtube vid below.
Put your Colorz on
Behind the scenes!
I'm no rap expert, but fuck a tree these guys seriously can't rap. Not even for a record company advance I would not give or grant them! The 2 vids shown here were used as recruitment tools for possible future members. Well they can forgot about me that's for sure because I'm not convinced nor seduced. I think for myself bro's!
I read somewhere that youth gangs are vast in numbers. There are 72 gangs recorded in South Auckland which is 7200 strong! And if you want a Hitler figure head, it would most likely come in the form of this guy
Young Sid (to my surprise has not been arrested) has ties with the Killer Beez and several other violent gangs around South Auckland. I personally don't think highly of him. His rapping is too "macho" and too "Blingy" for my taste. Why the fuck did they give this guy a grant to film a shitious video for? Yeah I'm sure that his performance at the last Big Day Out was a ripper...........Yeah right!
He and his beehives nest released a diss track about established hip hop label "Dawn Raid" probably calling them fags or something....but like who cares! I personally don't like them either Sid rinse, believe me I've tried to diss them from time to time but hey they know how to brush off their haters my friend. Just come to a realization that there are here to stay, and much like cancer they are not going away!
Sorry about all this talk pertaining to gangsters! All I know is that I for one will do my best to get out of the hood and just be a friend to all!
Yes I'm feeling a little bit better now, as you can see with the influx of blog entries that have been posted this week alone. As I said earlier I caught a nasty infection (and no its not AIDS thank you very much! ) from somewhere which ended up at the point of my elbow. It swelled up around the radius of my arm which left a welt. I need to get back to tip top shape ASAP, and I need to finally clean my room also!
Not to steal the thunder of the artists that I've posted here but Santogold is an artist that you should be looking out for over the coming months. Sure shes been compared to M.I.A. but somehow this comparison will be rubbed off shortly.........as soon as she releases her debut album.
Its the Anzac weekend here in Auckland, and I'll be finally getting off my computer tonight to help out with the Blah Blah Blah radio show. This show has been in existence now for about a year on Fleet FM playing the best in underground dance from around the world. I'm one of the Djs who gets to play out every Friday on radio! I'll be debuting some new tunes tonight fresh off the free severs of many mediafire links, and many blogs...Click on the link below for more info
A band that I'm currently enjoying right now is Elika (pronounced E-Lee-Kah) which is also Nerdy frames hit of the week.
Formed in New York in 2005 by Evagelia Maravelias and Brian Wenckebach, Elika describe their dreamy music as “blissed-out ambience with head-nodding beats that range from Downtempo to Trance to IDM.”
Their blog entry should be below us if you want more information.
Now on to stuff from youtube. Ask a Chola is a anarchist from the heart of South Califas! (hey I'm writing it as I see it okay!)
Chola in most of her vids is always masked with her trademark do rag bandanna, and much like that other masked idiot 'Ask a Ninja', Chola is always up for in-dept discussions about situationist movements, anarchy,America's dark history, unclassified information and whatever she can take down with her words, AK-47s, Switchblades, and Molotov cocktails! Its a blast watching her channel, especially her new episode about the relationship of the Irish and Spanish.
However there has been alot of negative backlash about whether she is another Borat. A white girl posing as a Hispanic. Trust me Borat has done more disgusting things than Chola, and she doesn't do it for fame nor fortune much like Borat.
Her Spanish sounds dead on to me when she was talking to some Mexicans on the streets of Los Califas!
All I can say about Chola is just watch her channel with an open mind. Would you rather have a dumb ass ninja, a even dumber ass Brit posing as a journalist from the great nation of Kazakhstan or a tough ass bitch from Los Califas!?
I just finished reading a blog from Momus of click opera frame about the imminent death of the magazine format, which of course I can relate to because some of my artwork was not only featured in this months issue of Black Magazine, but it was also Black Magazine's last issue ever as the mag announced that it went into liquidation (which probably explains why the mag took so god awfully long to come out).
Pavement, New Zealand's longest serving magazine closed its doors in 2006 due to a decline in advertising revenue and I would suspect that the internet was getting so popular around that time which also meant that blogs (or information conveniently available for the end user) was garnering much of a niche and unique readership which posed a threat to magazines.
Should magazines and other print media be cautious now? I mean give or take 3 more years, and you could be reading your daily through a 12"monitor!
Now not to play the dumb blonde advocate here, but have you noticed that Nz Herald, Rolling Stone and whatever mag you can think of the top of your head now have blogs on their sites? Does this also mean that our beloved print industry is also endanger of facing extinction? I can pretty much visualize it now, getting up in the morning, have some coffee, some toast, plopping your laptop on your lap, and not ever having that guilt of destroying another tree just so you can feel informed about current events.
Another thing which relates to the manufacture of the magazines is why on earth mags like Pavement and Black Magazine are sooo bulky? I know because of the advertisement and shit, and a good article about a certain someone does the magazine justice (Many memories from Pavement's vast articles), but why fill it with heaps of pointless photoshoots? Don't you know people have insecurity issues with their bodies? Just shoot the model at the back of the studio and call it a day!
Have you ever lifted a magazine (and by lift, I mean pick up)? Well back to the issue about blogs.
Are there any good blogs to read?...........Well it all depends on personal tastes. Much like a magazine there are thousands of blogs online. So to each, their own.
This blog for example is all about the facets of music, art, video games, TV, Movies and pop culture in general. The reason behind the name was influenced by many nerds who are out there either behind the scenes or infront of you everyday to amuse and entertain you, like Bill Gates! hahaha!
So lets end on this high and amusing point by saying this. Will blogs replace magazines? Straight up, yes they will. I mean lets face it, we're in the future now, and not many people can keep up with collecting magazines all the time. In fact I threw all of my IDN and Computer Arts magazines out because they now are available via their respective websites. So kids, remember what to say to your pops if you ever want to stay out of trouble..........Buy me a Computer!
Go to a mass service for the fallen Realizing that the Yoof of NZ don't give 2 shits about their Grand Parents and their war stories Play every Violent Video game you can think of Get drunk and pouring a 40oz to the falling homies from the 1940s Beating the shit out of anyone from Turkey Go to some shitty dance party and yes not giving 2 shits about the fallen Enlist in the New Zealand Army, which deploys nobody in war torn countries, because our army is really that bad
Having a huge orgy for the fallen
Have sex with an older guy (from the 1940s) Go on some murderous rampage in town just to pay tribute to the Anzacs! Go completely goth at some random grave site (which may have some deceased ANZACS) Go on a huge P binge And for the superficial, burnout your granddads credit card which is loaded with his pension! fuck Gossip columnist Bridget Saunders from Stuff.co.nz watch every ANZAC TV special.....or
Just observe a minute of silents to the men and woman who died defending your country so you can have those liberties to go to some shitty dance party with all of your mates, get fucked in the ass, and come back known you get to live another day without war!
(PS: Those radio buttons don't work....But thats the point!)
Well here's something we should answer to the 3 people who bother to even read our blog and that is..........When is everything going to be back to normal? 'Like when am I going to have my moments of smashing it big with 'Big Wednesday'? Or where's conan's top 5? Or have you (editor) recovered from that weird elbow infection?'
Well to answer all of that, it has gone back to normal (or what the worlds perception of normal is?). Posts are flying out the windows XP window, and shit is just getting better with new posts that the crew has been posting recently (notice that I've said 'post' 3 times within this paragraph?)
IHEARTCOMIX.COM & another reliable source has provided the fodder for us unreliable stupid arse Aucklanders to get with the program in the real world of music. None of this secret handshake bullshit or fellatio to some record company big wig or even trying to anally fuck some gay arse superstar DJ to get to the top of things!
No we at the nerd do it like it was the underground railroad, you know with the secret messaging and shit to our hommies on the front line of syndicated radio, pirate radio and wherever we can get that message across!
Here in New Zealand its 'New Zealand Music Month', a month that proves yet again that we as a nation still have this inferior complex towards Australia as Australia don't have a music month to prove that their music scene is 10 times better, faster, stronger than ours! I mean whats with all the hype with The Mint Chicks? Tui Nominations, now fucking Australia's MTVVA!
That's Ruban Nielson hanging off some scaffolding. Remind you of At The Drive In anyone?
Can I go out on a limb and say that I don't like The Mint Chicks?........Well can I?
After some intensive and extensive research, these guys have packed their bags and made their way Stateside to Portland, Oregon! Yes much like any Kiwi mans dream, to be American, just like the hommies who live in South Auckland!
Now let's Parlay this fact on another band from New Zealand, The Brunettes. Yep the band that consist of a man and a woman (a some backup band) and gross generalization of tween pop!
The band has made tracks Stateside also (I think they're signed to Sub-Pop.....I think) by moving to America, or it could be this other rumor that lead singer and xylophonist Heather Mansfield is married to her American Boyfriend.
Okay you're wondering 'is there a point to this?' Why yes there is........In order to make some form of living from your music here in New Zealand, you have to be a conformist, otherwise Helen Clarke will have to tell you to leave New Zealand, live in a small town in the U.S. and never come back, leaving more room for shit fuck artist like Opshop, Goodnight Nurse, Scribe, Mareko and Shapeshifter! (YES I HATE THIS FUCKING BAND SHAPESHIFTER. IF I HEAR ONE MORE ASSHOLE UTTER THE BANDS NAME IN MY PRESENTS, I WILL GO JESUS MEGA GRIM CHRIST ON THEM AND SMASH THEM BACK TO THE STONE AGES!@!#@$#$# )
And with Auckland still being a huge Polynesian city, New Zealand Hip Hop will still have some dominance here with the wealth of resources available for New Zealand shit hop fans such as radio stations, iwi stations, magazines, websites and record labels! I as Islander endorse those bands who keep it traditional with brown music. And please stop infusing rap into your tunes! Please!@@! For the last time we're brown, not black so stop it young sid!
So in conclusion take a real listen to what's out there New Zealand, a nice long listen, and if you got a friend that's in a band that refuses the dogma which is New Zealand Music Month, tell em Helen Clarke says hi and now fuck off.
By Cornchips Jeff Yes Winter is here in New Zealand.....Now if only I was a little prepared for it!
I was on a momentous streak with blogs over the weekend. I wanted to post some new shit like some new music reviews, but then the cold shivers struck me, and this unbearable pain at the point of my elbow was putting a utter strangle hold on my wellbeing! I've got this swelling at the point of my elbow, and now I have to go to the Doctors to get some antibiotics! There is the inherent danger of my body building a resistance to the drugs, but yeah.......
As you can see, we've added some new posts to the blog, such as Shibuya Suki's "album review" and now "Finger Muppets of the weak".
Now there is a reason if not explained already as to why we've decided to dedicate a post to shooting the bird, and it's because at nightclubs, people are suppose to have fun, and crack the odd grin or so! I do it, I love to smile for the camera and my favorite non threating hand gesture is the good old thumbs up! Or you can take a page from the Asians and give the peace sign!
Save those one finger salutes for other situations that will mean it the most, like if some douche is harassing you, or if you need to give an immediate answer to some cock who constantly butts you on the road.
I was surfing the youtube waves and I found this channel on youtube called 'thecruelworld'.Its basically a nit picking old frat who rips into the most popular youtube channels. He reads their stats such as how long they've been on youtube for, how many subscribers they have and other boring stats that blogs like ours can't cover or give a shit!
We did however found some of his reviews delightful and insightful such as him ripping into user Daxflame (which was recommended by a friend to check out)!
Although Dax comes across as a retard who needs more therapy and shock treatment, his youtube style of humor intrigues us!
There is one thing I would like to say about this critic of youtube.......Why should people work on proficient lighting and sound? That's the reason why youtube was set up in the first place, to promote a D.I.Y.aesthetics that most TV networks lack there of, otherwise it will come across as contrived and thats the last thing that we need in cyberspace! Fakeness! I was very reactive when he did a review on the nerds favorite Pinay Happy Slip!
Here's a lists his gripes as if he'd graduated from the same film school as Spike Lee!
>Shot composition needed work
>Her editing needed work
>Invest in some lighting and sound equipment
>And make some friends???????? WHAT!
Overall to each their own I say. I don't mind him ripping so much into Dax Flame cause he's a tard that needs therapy, but to hammer on Christine's DIY attitude due to her lack of equipment or friends is just a stretch too far within his critique!
And most critics tend to be utter cunts anyways! (Please don't give me that look!)
As for me, I love living on blogger.Now If only I can found a way to earn some cash and write blogs at the same time! Perez....Help!
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