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Year in Review 2011 Part 2: ○○○48
So, after battling illness for the entirety of the past week I'm not at a particularly good level of mood or wordcount. However, today I've had a battle with Richard Branson and tried my hand on the stockmarket with Splen so I'm raring to go.
Now, the biggest problem with reviewing everything the 48s have released this year is twofold.
On one hand, there have been 72 promo videos (by my count) released by them this year.
On the other, most of them are not on Youtube, except as snippets.
So, I'm left with a dilemma. Do I link the snippet videos for those that do not appear in full, and assume that everyone reading this has heard every song, or do I link in from Tudou and have everyone complain that the videos take 2.5 hours to load?
Honestly, I'm not entirely sure yet.
I'll decide as I'm writing up the stuff that the first group has actually achieved this year.
I'm gonna exclude SDN because 1) I excluded Dream Momusu, 2) I'm lazy, 3) I can't stand any of their songs this year anyway.
Also exluding Baby Gamba because I can't find a full video where the two AKB girls actually appear.
This takes me down to under 60 vids, which is slightly easier.
So, firstly...
Obviously. This year will go down as possibly the most successful year in idol music history, due solely to the fact that no other group in Japan, male or female, can claim to have taken the top five places in the year-end chart, let alone selling over a million for each of them. They've taken apart all opposition, and even had a period near the end of the year where an AKB-related group released a single every week except one (which was marked by an Arashi single, meaning that I guess Aki-P has a deal in place with Johnny's that he won't release on the same day as Arashi because it'll make Johnny's look bad).
On the other hand, this year has been a complete copy/paste of last year.
To run through:
Sakura/Graduation Single: February 2010 - Sakura no Shiori; February 2011 - Sakura no Ki ni Narou
Hair Accessory/Voting Ticket Single: May 2010 - Ponytail to Shushu; May 2011 - Everyday Kachuusha
Senbatsu Election Single: August 2010 - Heavy Rotation; August 2011 - Flying Get
Cool/Dance Single: October 2010 - Beginner; October 2011 - Kaze ha Fuiteiru
Janken Single: December 2010 - Chance no Junban; December 2011 - Ue Kara Mariko
Also, no new AKB stages, unless you count the new addition of Team 4 (also known as glorified kenkyuusei, no matter how much I like them), who're doing a cover stage anyway.
Regarding Team 4, it would be a lot easier to accept that they were actually a part of the "real" AKB now if AkiP actually gave any of them some single A-side time. But, with their highest placed girl in the election currently suspended for suspected underaged prostitution and drinking (though due back in January), and their second highest place girl in the election having the looks, brain-size and mass-appeal of a six year old, it's hard to think of a likely candidate. Paruru still looks too loli, Haruu is a bit too manly, Ranran's probably likely to destroy the place, and Shiori's busy with Uni. The others really don't appeal to me so yea.
In other happenings this year, my favourite, Maachan, graduated. I still haven't found a new oshi in AKB itself. Currently, a ferocious battle of strip-twister is taking place in my brain involving Mayuyu, Nacchan, Harugon, Lovetan, Wasamin, Paruru, Lemon, Amina and Suuchan to decide for me. The result may be announced at some point when I stop fapping.
Regarding fap material, Mayuyu's PB. Delicious it was.
TV shows and dramas have been everywhere this year. Majisuka was more lulz than the first season, mostly because of the lack of Maeda "I Can't Be Fucked" Atsuko. The Sakura drama was shit though, even if the Maachan "I've had plenty of abortions" line did make me lol too much. The Sae/Mayuyu lezzing was not good enough. AKBingo has become a bit stale, relying too much on the same segments over and over again. On one hand, Muchaburi Dodgeball will always make me laugh. On the other, I still want to kill that fashionista queen. Burger Shop battles also suck. AKBeginner was an interesting segment though, if only for Lemon and her steel head. Shukan, Ariyoshi and Naruhodo are as variable in quality as ever, though AKBtoXX was pretty good for a while when they had the three teams facing off against each other. Nemousu specials are always good, but the main series usually sucks. Don't know why. Bimyo~ is full of more win than anything else this year.
Anyway, to the PV reviews:
Sakura no Ki ni Narou
So, the Sakura song. It's a soft, slow ballad. As ballads go it's not bad, but it has the same problem as Sakura no Shiori. It gets dull. Also, due to Sakura no Shiori featuring so many more voices, some good call and response, and harmonies, I can't rate this anywhere near as high. The PV has some interesting production values and a story and Jurina as a tree or something. Not entirely sure. 5/10
Guuzen no Juujiro
So, after trying to no avail to get Tudou to let me actually embed the bloody thing, I'll just link. Also it's horribly low quality. I expect all the Tudou ones to be at least this bad, if not worse. Anyway, this song is cute. Horribly generic, but cute. There are a few points where it picks up, the prechorus is pretty cool, and the palm-muted guitar in the buildup chorus, but other than that it is just an average song. PV is also cute, has Non at the front (with Yokoyama "I Can't Be Fucked" Yui), and also has Maachan, Lovetan, Harugon, Churi and Kuumin. Yet despite it being filled with people I like, the song's still pretty meh. 5/10
Kiss Made 100 Mile
Last year I really hated the Mint song. This year it's completely different in tone, feel and just about everything else too. Quite an upbeat song, it gets points for that. However, it loses points for being unimaginative, vocally poor and musically weak. Not to mention what they're wearing in the PV. It's like they looked at Moeno and Sakiko and thought, "damn, they're ugly... let's make them worse." Maeda "I Can't Be Fucked" Atsuko looks most normal, but she has a giant flower on her head, and Haachan doesn't look too bad. But this is just disturbing. 4/10
Area K
So, the final song of the original Diva before they became a weird shit thing. From their costumes I was expecting cock rock or at least metal. Instead I get weird dance-y Jpop with a fatter Japanese version of Nick Barker (with corpsepaint too) randomly standing around. Song does nothing for me. PV does even less for me. Ends up a right clusterfuck. 3/10
Dareka no Tame ni ~What can I do for someone?~
The AKB downloadable support single for the Earthquake is the same song from the 3rd Team A stage. On the other hand it is one hell of a win song. The PV is formed of clips from them doing supporting things for the earthquake, and suchlike. That guitar riff is still as win and 80s as hell. The call and response heard here and there is win. Solo is cool. All in all, win. Plus it helped raise quite a lot of money for charity, so all good. 10/10
Everyday, Kachuusha
This PV is basically "let's redo every single PV we've ever done. In 7 minutes." The song is okay, not amazingly stunning but has enough hooks and major-key-ness to draw one in and keep you occupied for a while (as if the bikinis in the PV weren't doing that already). This single had the highest number of girls in senbatsu ever (unless you count Sakura no Shiori, which was basically a "let's use everyone!" love fest. Also the first single for NMB appearances. Lots of firsts for this single, and it's not too bad. 7/10
Korekara Wonderland
Just a warning that from now I'm drinking so if I become more rambling and incoherent, that's why. Another fucked up PV. Old school motown style song. Pulls it off better than last year's similar effort, Namida no Seesaw Game. Quite colourful. Interesting enough song structure, quite fun beat and odd enough concept. 7/10
Yankee Soul
Theme song for this year's Majisuka is nowhere near as cool as last year's. But one cannot have anything, and as a song in its own right it does fit in slightly better with the songs that precede it on this single than Majisuka Rock'n'Roll did on Sakura no Shiori. The PV is basically a super-extended version of the Majisuka season 2 opening credits. Songwise it doesn't do a lot for me. It's an okay-ish song but no fireworks. 5/10
Hito no Chikara
The undergirls song. On a Cside. Disappointing. I like the bassline, the song is midpaced and lacks any gaudy frills, but it's cute enough. Chorus is uplifting and good, which is pretty impressive for an unassuming song. Solo is weak though. PV is okay. Lack of negative things to say means pretty short review. 8/10
Flying Get
The senbatsu election single. This song had like seven different PVs, one which hit more than twenty minutes, so it's pretty bloated. Hence I'm only posting the dance version. Easier. Plus, all the PVs sucked anyway. Not that anything could appease me after Heavy Rotation last year. Martial art film parody would only have worked if they'd hired Zhang Yimou to direct it or something. A few surprising results. Yuko eventually lost by some margin to Maeda "I Can't Be Fucked" Atsuko, Yukirin came third, Tomochin dropped out of the top 7, Sasshi came 9th, and Amina came 18th yet again and was completely ignored yet again. Now to the song... Boring. The song isn't particularly good. There are a few bits, but the bassline and chord progression suck. Vocal melodies aren't particularly good (annoying as for a change Sayaka and Yuka are in an a-side, meaning there are at least double the usual amount of people who can sing), but the solo is pretty cool. Still, lacking. 6/10
So, from a high budget, overblown yet shit PV, to a cheap, tidy and silly one made much cooler by the fact that it was done in one continuous shot. Song isn't bad either. Bassline is interesting. Song is cuter than usual for undergirls, which is odd and impressive. Another song where I don't have enough to say, so I'll just say that there are quite a lot of SKE girls that aren't Kuumin in it... 8/10
Seishun to Kizukanai Mama
Yes, this video will probably be taken down in a few days, but oh well. Majisuka ending theme. Another ballad. Some Beatles influence in the background, but only quietly. Vocal melodies are okay. Chorus is awesome. This is way better than Sakura no Ki ni Narou as a ballad. Solo is awesome as hell, and this is easily the best so far from AKB in this list. 9/10
Ice no Kuchizuke
So, the AKB tribute to their fake member. The song as a whole isn't amazing, but the chorus changes things up nicely and does a good job as it is. Shame the rest is so meh. Video on the other hand is very cute, giving gifts to each other in a chain brought on by Fake-chan's kindness or something. In any case, glad Eguchi Aimi is properly deceased now. 5/10
Kaze ha Fuiteiru
Again, going with the dance version as the proper video is fucked up beyond any sense of measure. Giant hairy snaggletooth Diglett what? Anyway, the song. Oddly for this year, it's fucking amazing. Let me say that again. This song is fucking amazing. The chord progression for most of the song is based on the 50s progression, that giant sexy beast of a chord progression that goes I V vi IV. Just Kaze takes it, burns it, and makes it vi IV I V instead, which, because it has a different and minor key signature, should be written as I VI III VII. Which is cool. Vocal melodies are also good. Really epic. 10/10
Kimi no Senaka
Yet another cute Undergirls song. And this one is the best yet. Plus Suuchan/Lovetan joint centre is full of yay. But anyway, song. Cute, vocal melodies are good, the chord progs don't suck, and the whole thing is good. Only thing that might improve it is an extra 20-30bpm of speed. Solo is good. Bit after the solo is cute and reminds me of the old Hello Morning themesong. Buildup chorus also win. 9/10
Baragumi undergirls, and this certainly has pace. Nacchan as a boy = hot. Not sure how they managed to get a load of celebrities famous for stupid things in the PV, but I guess that's Japan. I'm liking the song, though the PV is pretty shit (aside from Nacchan). Again though, lack of bad things to say. 8/10
Gondola Lift
Yurigumi undergirls with a ballad. Quite a drop between singles for Asuka, Sayaka, Yuka, Amina and Umeda. From top 22 to second Cside. Still, gives this song the required vocal strength (Amina aside) to back up it's ballad credentials, which are already quite stacked. The song is slow, but packs a nice little punch in the chorus, which is one of the better ballad choruses I've heard in a while. Piano solo is much awesomes. Video is nice too. 9/10
Uekara Mariko
Alas, this time a frontgirl won the Janken tournament. Shocking. The original plan was to release the Theatre Cside, Hashire Penguin as the Aside, but with Mariko as front and centre, plus Sayaka, Umeda, and Nyan being rather over 20, they decided to give it to Team 4 instead and write a new Aside. So it's rushed. And it shows. On the other hand the PV actually got a budget this year, which is awesome. On the other hand, once you see the Csides you might prefer they got the budget again. The random music in the PV before the single comes in is better than the single. On the plus side (for Mariko) the song does feature lots of young girls (in accordances with Mariko's tastes) so she does look like she's in her element. Even if she can't sing, can't dance, hardly ever turns up to stage shows, etc. Still, not amazing. Few good points, chorus has a decent hook. Solo's decent, if not amazing. Mid8 is an interesting break, if too short. Buildup chorus doesn't use quite enough stop/start stuff. But still, due to the lack of a certain member who can't be fucked for the first time ever, I'd give this song at least 6/10
Noel no Yoru
20 people in a Bside... overkill. On the other hand, it might provide a clue as to the identities of some of the senbatsu for the start of next year, in which case I'm glad Lovetan and Suuchan made it in. Songwise, Christmas songs almost always suck. This isn't really an exception. Simple melodies, simple background music. The mid-8 is about the only bit worth a damn, and that's over too soon. 4/10
Rinjin ha Kizutsukanai
So, this year the Aside got the PV budget, leaving the Csides to deal with various oddities. With Team A, they've got an idea at least. An idea which could have been absolutely epic, but isn't. Instead, it's just good. Still, that's better than what's coming next. The song for Team A this year is of a better standard than last year, on the other hand the PV isn't quite as good. The Prechorus and Chorus are pretty good, considering the minimal instrumentation. The vocals are just about thick enough to dodge that bullet. Mid8 has an interesting pattern that keeps ascending in tone chromatically, achieving a nice effect. 7/10
Zerosum Taiyou
Team K's PV shows us that, despite them getting the budget last year with the awesome song and video of Alive, this year they got shafted. Basically a glorified dance shot, starts off pretty dark, then turns into a "let's all be Takarazuka and dress as ladyboys!" clusterfuck. The song isn't quite so bad as I feared, but it's still not amazing. Not a patch on Alive. Solo is pretty win though. 6/10
Yobisute Fantasy
Team B's PV gets the Heavy Rotation director, Ninagawa Mika. As such, it's bright. Other than that, it also has a concept, though it's odd. The B song this year is better than last year. That pedobear looking thing is disturbing. The cosine-wave syncopated bass is also annoying. Don't get the whole names near the end bit either. Still, doesn't suck too badly. 6/10
So, that's it for AKB. Thank fuck.
They also released an album which I reviewed here so that I wouldn't have to do it all over again.
So, time for the slightly younger sisters of AKB. Considering how young some of the sister groups are getting now it's disturbing. Anyway, few things before we get down to the monotony of more song reviews.
My oshimen. Kimoto Kanon. Last year I said I was wavering between Jurina and Rena, and that Kuumin was sneaking up on them. This year it's been more Kanon flying high, Rena jittering a bit, Kuumin climbing some more, Jurina falling, Churi climbing, Yuria climbing, Shawako climbing... actually, come to think of it, just about everyone save Jurina, Rena and Oya Masana have climbed at least a bit. Possibly due to the fact that this year I've been exposed to them an awful lot more, but also just because Jurina now is established and Rena didn't spill enough blood in Majisuka. Which is another reason why Non is now top, come to think of it. The moment she stabbed Rena she won my allegiance.
Speaking of TV shows though, SKE have had rather a lot this year. Some of the better ones have been:
- Itte Koi 48 - Especially a lulzy episode where various girls got trapped in a room with a massive python. Or on a boat with a rat snake. Ah, the lulz that generated.
- Sekai Seifuku Joshi - SKE vs. The World. One country at a time. Currently on a massive losing streak, and SKE's token half-foreigner tried defecting to her other homeland.
- Magical Radio will end soon but was getting pretty boring anyway.
- Mousou Deka from earlier this year was insane. But funny.
KII got their first original stage this year, called Ramune no Nomikata. Some of the songs are okay, some aren't.
PV tiem:
Banzai Venus
I think AkiP's instructions to the composers of SKE singles this year have been similar to George Lucas when directing movies. His commands are but two. "Faster" and "more intense". This philosophy pretty much sums up this year's A-sides. Following the same formula as 1,2,3,4 Yoroshiku from last year, and pumping it up a bit, we get Banzai. Plus, of course, half of Nagoya in the music video. Couple the relatively speedy pace with a chorus hook that's more major key than just about anything ever and the choreography that can make you sweat just by watching them do it, you end up with a song that's bursting with a lot of energy. Musically it's not amazing, solo is meh, vocal melodies are okay but nothing special. The energy though, makes this song. 8/10
Sotsugyoushiki no Wasuremono
So, the first of this year's Jurina-lead Shirogumi songs. This one is pretty bland. Nothing really stands out about the song or video. The whole video runs like an extended trailer for a pretty rubish B-movie. The song is way too cutesy for some particular members (Neesan and SKE's resident man, Nakanishi). Just not feeling it. 5/10
Dareka no Sei ni ha Shinai
Better straight from the off, just by having a wet Rena. Also, Goth Yukiko ftw. Song also has a nice bassline and a nice guitar riff. This'll go down as SKE's first "challenging" PV, a bolder step into a slightly more realistic world. Some nice semi-philosophical/emo ramblings if you can be bothered to read the text in the video. Vocal melodies are good. Guitar solo is cool. All in all, pretty good song and video. Looking forward to the challenging themes continuing. 8/10
Pareo ha Emerald
Faster and more intense, part two. Plus swimsuits. And this is the fastest bpm of all, nearly twenty faster than Banzai, and thirty more than Yoroshiku. Needless to say, it's probably just as well they weren't wearing much while dancing this, considering it was filmed in Hawaii. In hot temperatures. May have got just a little sweaty otherwise. On the other hand, they didn't manage to get the entire population of Hawaii as backing dancers. Shame. Anyway, riff-wise this song has some good ones. Much better than Banzai's lack of much musical interest. Brass band does hearken to AKB swimsuit singles, but doesn't detract too much. Guitar solo is pretty damn win if short. Overall though, I like it. 9/10
Tokimeki no Ashiato
Another boring generic happy midpaced pop song from Shirogumi. They must have thought "shit, we need to be edgy" in the PV, but halfassed it. Mary pulls her skirt up, by about a millimetre. Jurina cuts off a small lock of hair. It's not enough to save this song from being shit. Bassline is about the only thing going for it. 3/10
Papa ha Kirai
Part two of Akagumi's emo series. On the other hand, the video director had a bit of an idea and tried to implement it passingly well. The song makes some good use of Spanish guitars and interesting beats. Chorus doesn't have a hook though. Vocal melodies are uninspired. Still, H!P should take note. This is how to create a no budget/dance/faceshot/slowmo PV that doesn't look tacky. On the other hand, it doesn't take Freud to interpret that this PV is basically about "lost innocence", or rather, broken hymens. Not to mention the lyrics about not being held to the rules of society. As a result, it'll go down as part two in SKE's edgy vids. 7/10
Oki Doki
The name of this song is disturbing. I was expecting it to do a Pareo, level up stupidly and suddenly come out with 200bpm or something. But I guessed they realised that pushing it past 175bpm would probably result in some girls dying due to the dance being too quick. So they slowed it back down to Banzai levels. The chorus vocal melodies are good, but background music has some really weird and bizarre things in it that annoy me. The verse has the best background music (chromatic riff), but an annoying vocal melody. Prechorus is forgettable. Mid8 is forgettable. Overall, it's okay, but nothing special. 6/10
Bazooka Hou Hassha!
What? A good PV from Shirogumi? Colour me shocked. Cosplay is cute. Song is also a step up from their previous efforts. Bassline is good again, but this time the vocal melodies work, the accents work. Syncopated bouncing in the chorus is interesting choice, but it works, especially with the bass slapping away like that. Again, this song is happy as hell, but it's nowhere akin to boring. Mid-8 has an interesting build up, but the main bit is a bit boring until the vocals kick in. The melodies there are good. Buildup chorus breaks things up nicely and pushes the melody up to the top. All good. 9/10
Hohoemi no Positive Thinking
I was expecting another challenging PV from Akagumi, what I got instead was a good song and a non-challenging non-artsy PV (unless shots of them going barefoot through mud counts as arty). The guitars in the verse have a good melody and chord prog, vocal melodies are quite simplistic but effective. The chorus vocal melody is particularly uplifting. Prechorus is good. Their Engrish is funny, sounds like "Positive Singing". Mid8 has a good chord progression. Buildup chorus is the most sparse and awesome I've heard in a while. Also has some Strawberry Fields Forever Flutes. Quietly. Overall I like this. 8/10
So, that's it for SKE. I do think I've looking forward to the new single, Kataomoi Finally, which comes out in January. Takes Akagumi's challenging themes and is like, "let's put it on the A-side!" So we're gonna have a Jurina/Rena/Churi love triangle, a Non/Kuumin kiss scene, and other quite possibly wonderful themes of lesbianism, bullying, suicide and of course, unrequited love. SKE's Keibetsu? Time will tell.
So we now come to the group that if you run up behind them and yell "Bang!" they will fall over and pretend to be dead. Because people from Osaka are funny like that.
NMB has not only debuted this year, but also had the most scandals. Now that's some impressive achievement right there. Considering how much the paparazzi must stalk AKB, they only had two which led to any action against the girls. NMB have had at least five. Good going girls, I'm proud of you.
Anyway, choosing a favourite in NMB is hard. Not only because they all think they're comedians, but also because some of them look so weird that they can be cute or sexy depending on the picture (most notably the two original frontgirls, Sayanee and Milky, before Milky became embroiled in one of the scandals). On one hand, Milky is almost always cuter than Sayanee in normal videos and pictures. On the other hand, Sayanee is always sexier in those same styles. Yet when Sayanee takes blogpictures, she suddenly levels up to some ridiculously high plateau where none can reach her. Likewise, Milky, when she's not being dense, can come over as insanely sexy. In the end though, Sayanee wins because she can play guitar.
Anyway, PV tiem.
Zetsumetsu Kurokami Shoujo
This is an interesting idea for a debut single, and it worked well. Playing up the whole "Japaneseness" thing, the video features them doing traditional Japanese things. That's about it really. The song is okay. The bassline is good, reminds me of some old Momusu songs that Dance Man did. The vocal melodies aren't good though. The rest of the instrumentation also isn't amazing. The guitar solo is weird and cool though. 6/10
Boku ga Maketa Natsu
That NMB took the Shirogumi and Akagumi names from SKE is disturbing. Considering it's Osaka, I'd have thought アホ組 and ボケ組 would have been more appropriate, but I digress. What we have here is a good, upbeat song with good riffs. The vocal melodies are cute, but not amazing. Quite predictable. The video starts off like it's going to be an SKE Shirogumi style PV with even less budget. Then Sayanee's shirt gets so wet it's seethrough so I stop caring. Guitar solo is okay. Video does seem to be an excuse to have a few girls get wet. And for Nana to get her top off. 7/10
Mattemashita, Shingaki
Akagumi's song. Quite far from SKE's Akagumi, this sounds more like a Watarirouka Hashiritai song. As that would entail, it's major key, vocally weak, melodically weak, and just generally annoying. Solo is possibly one of the worst I've ever heard. Horrid. 2/10
Oh My God!
So, after a song celebrating Japaneseness, we get this. Sounds like an SKE ripoff. The piano instrumental version over the movie-PV is good though. So is the string quartet. As an SKE ripoff it's not bad, but it would have been interesting if they'd continued in the same direction as Zetsumetsu until they perfected it. This is just a bit of a cop out. I mean, it's not a bad song. The dynamic between the guitars and piano is cool, and the vocal melodies aren't bad (even if they did sound better as a piano right hand in the instrumental). The solo is long as hell and has some interesting bits. The video is a bit silly, but oh well. For what it is, this song is good. For what it could have been, it's lacking. It's hard to rate because of that, but I'll go for living with what it is. As such, 7/10
WTF GIANT PEDOBUNNY. Anyway, that aside, the acoustic guitar in this song is nice. The vocal melodies suck though. Not feeling it, the song or the video. Mid-8 has another thing that sounds like it wants to be a solo, but sucks. 3/10
Hoshokushatachi Yo
This PV runs like a dodgy Yakuza-run brothel. The music on the other hand is a good period piece of lounge music. Bassline is good, brass is good, vocal melodies are good. Lends quite a dark feel to it, as if the video wasn't doing that enough already. 7/10
So, all for NMB. AS I said before, not doing SDN as they're a load of old women and I can't be bothered. Thus, we come to the subunits. Finally.
Straight to reviews, no time to dawdle.
This song is nice. Riffs are good, the girls show off their vocal talents well. Beat is good. Vocal melodies are good. Video is weird, but funny and interesting. Weird as hell seeing Takamina with long, straight hair. And without a giant bow. 7/10
Kuchibiru Furezu...
Edgy no3b? Win. Song is good too, riffs and vocal melodies (and harmonies even) working well together and making a pleasing sound. Fast tempo is winning. Chorus in general is memorable and win. The PV is pretty hilarious, with them trashing stuff and acting like rockstars. Which is also funny. The little guitar accents placed here and there in this song are good if you listen out for them. Long solo is long and good. I does like this a lot. 9/10
Pedicure Day
For a song about pedicures there's not enough feet. Anyway, the guitar riffs are decent again, but the song has levelled down in pace. I like the weird guitar chords in the verse. Vocals are at the same level as always for no3b. Prechorus has some pretty growly powerchords. Second verse beginning is quite interesting, but all the good bits are simply too fleeting. Their worst this year, but still decent. 6/10
Watarirouka Hashiritai 7
Warota occupy a bizarre space in my brain. On the one hand, five of them are still battling it out in my brain's strip-twister game for favourite in AKB. On the other hand, I hate their music. It's bland, uninspired, insipid trash written for children. Possibly written by children too, considering I was writing more complex and original melodies, hooks and lyrics by the time I was nine.
Valentine Kiss
Pony Canyon must be really vicious litigators. Can't find this PV anywhere, not even "lol@copyright" Tudou. So you'll have to settle for a studio performance. This song's a cover. The Sayuri/Onyanko version is better, but the best version has to be Lucky Star's version. Just for pre-scandal Hirano Aya doing wotagei. Anyway, bassline is boring and shit, instrumentation doesn't do a lot. Vocal melodies are shit. Vocal power is pretty lacking (still can't understand why the hell Wasamin is in Warota7, she can sing). 3/10
Hetappi Wink
Forgive the shit video quality, but it's a PV at least. Also, this song is better than their usual stuff. Almost sounds like Not Yet. The verse is shit, but the main part/chorus is good. Post-chorus is cute. Dunno why they can't do this more often, managing to get cuteness and some standard of songwriting (even a minimal one) in together. Mid-8 is decent. 6/10
Kibou Sanmyaku
Gonna be gone in a few days most likely but oh well. This is basically a disco song. Completely out of character. I can imagine Boney M singing it. It's not amazing, but the fact that it's not overly cutesy, silly, and actually has musical value means I need to give it a mark. 6/10
French Kiss
Another 3-girl unit, they're probably the subunit that impressed me most last year. So how about this one?
The intro to this song is awesome. The main riff manages to screw it up a bit, but the verse goes back to awesome again. Chorus is good too. Nothing really bad to say, all three are decent enough singers to do the material justice. The vocal melodies aren't bad. Solo is nice. Overall, good stuff. 8/10
Kakkowarui I Love You
And for a complete change in style... From those guitars I was expecting a lot heavier, but it's only really the verse which has any decent heaviness. Chorus is cute though, and decent pace doesn't hurt it at all. Vocal melodies aren't quite as good this time, but work. Hoped that was building into a massive dance-y synth solo but it trolled me hard. Shame, would have been epic. Still, decent. 6/10
Kimi nara Daijoubu
These riffs are cool, the verse has an awesome dynamic with the piano, the pace is decent, and in general I'm loving this song by 30 seconds in. Then we get to the chorus and it's a letdown. Hook is weak, the bass doesn't pound enough, and their voices seem to have levelled down. Disappointing. Would be better if they kept singing in the lower registers, suits all of them better. So, split between liking and not liking. As such, 5/10
Saisho no Mail
This song has a few redeeming points, but as a whole it's not particularly amazing. Riffs aren't good, vocal melodies are pretty meh. At least they aren't trying to sing too high pitched this time, but that's about all I can say. Solo might have been good, but I'm buggered if I can hear it over the drama PV voices. Bloody thing. 4/10
Candle no Shin
So, a French Kiss minus Akicha PV. Frankenstein? Harmonies are good. Don't get the male backing dancers. Harmonies aside song isn't very good. Melodies are okay, backing music is shit. Overall it's pretty terrible. 2/10
Not Yet
So, this year was marked by the debut of a few new units. This one featuring Yuko, Sasshi, Rie and Yokoyama "I Can't Be Fucked" Yui.
Shuumatsu Not Yet
Do ignore the fact that it's mirrored. The song isn't terribly good. In fact, it's pretty boring. Bass is doing something, but everything else is pretty boring. Vocal melodies are horrible. Chorus has a horrendously non-catchy hook. Mid8 is pretty boring too. Overall it's not memorable or good. 3/10
Naminori Kakigoori
A hook straight from the start? Much better. Lead riff is also good. Verse has a good vocal melody and decent instrumentation, both rhythm guitar and accents. Chorus is just cool. Just before the mid8 it breaks out into the coolest chord progression ever again (I VI III VII if you've forgotten) and then the mid8 is a nice false-buildup, then it dies down again in the buildup chorus, and then final chorus. All quite win actually. 8/10
This has a weird title. But again, straight away with a hook from the start, looks like the composers learned their lesson from Shuumatsu. The lead guitar is good again, the rhythm guitars in the verse are good. On the other hand, this is pretty much stylistically copy/pasted from Naminori. Solo is okay but there's not really a great deal to say about this that I didn't say about Naminori anyway. 7/10
My thoughts on this are summed up quite easily.
They've added some new members, who aren't affiliated with AKB, so I have no idea where the fuck this is going. All I care about is getting Sayaka, Umeda and Yuka out of there, they're too good to be tarred with this shit.
Tsuki no Uragawa
Mirrored but who gives a fuck. Sounds like a mess. Instrumentation is minimal, vocal melodies are pretty horrible, which is disturbing considering this group has AKB's best singer plus two of the other good ones. Guitar accents are okay. Chorus is completely unmemorable. Guitar solo is long yet still manages to be rubbish. Pretty naff. 4/10
The guitar riffs in this song are pretty cool. The bass VST though is worse even than the horrid piece of shit that Tokyo Girls Style use. Tremolo picking the chord progression's bass notes on guitar in the verse is interesting, but the bass is just horrible. Vocal melodies aren't too bad, so this is at least slightly better than Tsuki no Uragawa, but the bass. Chorus at least has a hook. Solo is a lot better this time around, despite being shorter. 6/10
Sukeban Girls
Oh yea. Sukeban Deka Pachinko Game unit, had two songs released digitally and the two PVs as one vid too. Featuring Oshima Yuko, KasAIDS Tomomi and Matsui Rena.
Tsupparu Riyuu/Tomo yo Yoake ni Machiawaseyou
Tsuppara's guitar riffs are pretty cool, vocal melodies aren't amazing but oh well. Mid 8 is pretty cool, solo is good in regards to flow and technical ability, but listenability is weak. Still, decent enough song. 6/10
Tomo yo is like a drama ending theme from the 80s. This time the vocal melodies are good but most of the instrumentation sucks. The piano spamming hitting that chord in the chorus is cool though. Still, not great. 5/10
Itano Tomomi
So, some more soloists appeared this year, slightly further up the pecking order from previous soloists too. Firstly was Tomochin, former lord and master of the moeblobs, until turning into... whatever it is that she is now. She can still pull off moe stuff sometimes, just not when autotuned and covered in more makeup than a dirt-cheap 40 year old LA hooker.
Dear J
That sawtooth riff is actually quite good. Just the autotune is painful. This would actually be a good dance-y song if they'd let someone who can sing without the aid of autotune sing it. Even Sashihara made it sound better. Still, as a piece of music I like it. Just a shame autotune exists. FUCK YOU CHER! FUCK YOU T-PAIN! 7/10
Fui ni
This is worse. The sales were also pretty terrible after Dear J, so I guess it didn't go down well. Bassline is pretty insistent and annoying, vocal melodies are boring (plus autotuned), though there are a few places where the melody line caught me out. The piano bit in the verse is nice, but this just doesn't flow particularly well. 4/10
Maeda "I Can't Be Fucked" Atsuko
So, at long last we reach the apparent pinnacle of AKB stuff. "Apparent" because I've never understood her popularity. Having said that, I'm usually at a loss to explain the popularity of frontgirls anyway. Shit, just look at Takahashi Ai. To me, Maeda comes across as a dense person who never looks like she particularly gives a shit. Or she's a poorly programmed robot. On the rare occasion she does show emotion it's a cheesy grin and then within minutes she's usually lapsed back into stupor again. Why anyone puts her in dramas I don't know. Maybe someone should give her a magic potion. But anyway, I digress, let me review her single so I can get this bloody post out of the way.
The way she says 大丈夫 just before the song starts reminds me of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Japanese adverts. Anyway, song. She's not the best singer (or particularly good at all). On the other hand they have given her a pretty decent ballad to work with. Shame about that bass. Vocal melodies are good, chord progression is decent. Not too many accents, but oh well. Just glad they didn't dose her up with autotune too. 7/10
So, that's it for the 48s. Overall, even though they had stupidly high sales, due to it being a bit of a copy/paste of last year, I'll only give them a grade B+.
Next year looks fun though.
Anyway, changed my mind about the Part 3 Indie Idols post, now I'm just going to pick and choose stuff which I liked, because I'm running out of time before the new year, and I can't be bothered to go through and do everything, considering how long this blogpost has taken me (something in excess of 20 hours and nearly 7000 words now). If all goes to plan I'll start that post tomorrow and finish up on Tuesday, then I have the rest of the week to do the final and award post.
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After cooking and eating the delicious dhedo, I headed down onto the valley floor to join a group of ladies from the village who were working together to harvest a series of rice fields belonging to the local families.
#1 An seemingly endless sea of gold broken only by the local brick factory chimney in the background;
#2 On the right hand side; before. On the left hand side; after. Simple. Right?
#3 The ladies has already been working for several hours by the time I joined them and continued long after I flaked out – Nepali women are simply utterly, awe-inducingly hard-working and strong. Words just do not come close. Rural agriculture in Nepal is an extremely labour intensive process. Working as a well coordinated team the village ladies effectively sweep through field upon field of rice paddy by hand, preparing it for the next stage of the process;
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#6 Before long, with the heat of the sun bearing down, and after answering all the questions about my age, marital status and why we didn't grow rice in the UK, I was exhausted. Only able to watch the next stage for a short while before heading off to find some much needed shade. Here the team place the freshly cut rice shoots through a pedal-powered grinder to separate the grains from the stems;
#7 And here's some we prepared earlier… Back on Sukuji's roof I spent a further few hours helping her with the next phase; each pile of rice grains needs to be carefully cleaned and dried. Here Sukuji is slowly sifting each flat basket full in front of a fan which blows away any unwanted empty shells, grasses or insects leaving just the grain;
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Retailers will see a single sales force and unified promotional and distribution efforts as Horizon Organic Dairy combines operations with White Wave over the next year.
Dallas-based Dean Foods turned to White Wave founder Steve Demos Aug. 4 to lead its combined branded businesses: White Wave, Horizon Organic and the Dean National Brand Group.
The new division accounts for $1.1 billion in annual sales, will be headquartered in Boulder County, Colo., and will employ 500 people, Demos said. White Wave is forecast to account for $370 million in sales this fiscal year, while Horizon is expected to post $250 million.
?We will use our profitability as a resource to lead in sustainability and the environment,? Demos said.
When White Wave merged with Dean Foods in 2002, Demos recalled, ?We said we?re going to introduce our ?green? to Dean Foods, and Dean Foods was going to introduce their ?green? to White Wave.?
The consolidation re-emphasizes that point, he said. ?The fact of it is, it?s coming to Boulder, Colo.—it?s not coming to Dallas. ? If your goal is to change the way Americans eat, this is the best thing that could have happened.?
Demos will report to Gregg Engles, chairman and chief executive officer of Dean. Chuck Marcy, president of Horizon, ?will assist in the integration of the three businesses? through January 2005, according to Dean Foods.
The Dean National Brand Group includes such offerings as Marie?s salad dressings, Hershey?s chocolate milk and Land O?Lakes products. ?They?re very powerful brands with great equities,? Demos said, adding that even conventional products produced in a ?green? plant contributes to the environmental goals that White Wave and Horizon have espoused since they were founded.
Demos said sales, marketing and distribution will be combined to present ?a single face of the selling organization? to retailers. The resulting cost-cutting ?will be applied directly to increasing market awareness of organic and natural foods.?
Sales reps for the new company will be ?much more of a complete partner, working within the dairy category, providing more category management,? Marcy said. ?That?s something [retailers] are asking for all the time. They would much rather deal with one vendor than three.?
One of the differentiating factors of this consolidation is its focus, Demos noted. White Wave, Horizon and other Dean brands live in the same ?20 to 30 linear feet? of store real estate, whereas ?most of the other business consolidations in our industry are fairly disparate.?
In a conference call, Engles told investors that Dean would spend more money promoting the Horizon brand. Among other initiatives this fall, Horizon will debut print advertising featuring Happy the Horizon spokescow. Single-serve 100 percent juices and kids? smoothies are being introduced, and organic infant formula is ?doing very well? in test markets in California, Oregon and Washington, Marcy said.
Higher conventional milk prices ?created a better opportunity for consumers to look at organic as a good value,? Marcy said. While organic milk has posted consistent growth rates in the mid-teens, sales in June spiked 29 percent year-over-year, according to Information Resources Inc.
White Wave has launched its TofuTown line of prepared ?tofu tenders? and its Silk Live fruit smoothies, which combine soymilk and yogurt cultures. The promotional campaign for Silk Live includes sampling in more than 180 Whole Foods and other natural supermarkets. White Wave?s ad budget increased by more than half to $12 million by the end of July.
?The drinkable yogurt and probiotic market is a very large market,? Demos said.
Analyst Carole Buyers of RBC Capital Markets in Denver noted that Demos has ?grown up from the grass roots? and evolved from an entrepreneur to a corporate leader. ?He?s delivered whatever he?s promised,? she said.
Marcy said he?s excited about the restructuring and harbors no ill will toward Demos or Dean.
?My No. 1 priority is to set a personal record for ski days this winter, and then find another company to run,? Marcy said. He joined Horizon in 1999.
?People?s jobs will change,? but headcount will probably increase at both Horizon and White Wave, Marcy predicted. ?We?ve grown so fast, 20 to 25 percent a year, that every year things change. This is just another step in this process.?
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I cannot get her face out of my mind. I have never met her. I haven't even seen her. Her mother died in the fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh along with 800 others. Her mother died making cheap clothes for me. She is devastated.
Yes, I know that their government needs to have better laws. Yes, I know corporations have a responsibility. Yes, I know this may be the only work available. I also know the power of a mother to find any way whatsoever to make a better life for her children. A parent's love makes life risky.
And I also know that I demand cheap clothes and lots of them. I drive the train that leads to the destruction of another child of God. I am sorry. I repent.
God made this mother's life. God knew that the world needed her and her unique mix of gifts and love and quirkiness (which we all share.) God gave a lot of thought and love into creating her. I should match God's thought and love. No human is here to be a prop of the life of another. Including mine.
At baptism, I promise to respect the dignity of every human being and to seek and serve Christ in all persons. I failed miserably.
My spiritual discipline today is to learn more about the other 5 billion people on this planet (who are my sisters and brothers) and to seek to purchase items that honor the lives of those in the line of my purchases.
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202 Best Public Elementary Schools in Florida
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Parent: My son is very happy at WACs. This is his first year in school and he has learned a lot. I have volunteered a lot in the school and I am very happy with the teacher/student interaction that I have witnessed. I also like that the school doesn't have a huge student population!
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Parent: Gulf Stream School is an incredible institution. This is a place where everyone truly knows your child's name and deeply cares about their success. From the academics, where the small class size allows the child to receive a lot of individual attention, to instilling a great sense of confidence with public speaking, which starts in the youngest grades and the camaraderie and sportsmanship by the inclusive nature of the sports program, this school is truly special. My children who have graduated from Gulf Stream have been very well prepared for high school and my children who currently attend love to go to school every day!
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362 Best Public Elementary Schools in Florida
- Palm Beach County School District, FL
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Parent: Best school in Boca Raton and very family oriented school we love it . My kids enjoy learning hand on and being in a stem school
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Parent: S.D Spady Elementary Montessori is a great school. My daughter has developed the love for learning and we are very proud of all her accomplishments there. The overall atmosphere of the school is very pleasant. Children there are always motivated and always caring about the smaller ones. The staff is outstanding and very hard working. Very family oriented.
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Parent: Overall, we LOVE Poinciana! They were so patient with my son and worked very hard to help him handle his emotions and problem solving. I appreciate all they did for us while we attended.
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Palm Beach Maritime Academy
- Palm Beach County School District, FL
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Senior: I like that PBMA is a small school. The classes are pretty easy and since its a small school the classes are small as well making it feel like you get one on one time with the teacher if you do not understand something. I would like to see a few change for example I liked how this year they finally let us wear jeans any day of the school week. There are a few rules that do complete make sense. I feel like the school should give the upper class men more privileges. I would also like some more school spirit. PBMA doesn't really excite the students with anything. Pep rallies would be great, more clubs and sports.
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Senior: I've been at Village Academy since the 2nd grade and one thing I love about our school is the rigorous work. Not the work itself, but the fact that we can come together and work as a team to understand what we're learning. Sometimes, it's challenging and it makes me want to give up. But when I have teachers surrounded by me and my peers that care about our education, than I know I can accomplish anything. We now are an AVID site school and for those who don't know, I'll help you understand what AVID means. AVID stands for Advanced, Via Individual. Determination. AVID helps students to be college bound. I have been in AVID for 6 years now, But enough about me. What I would like to see change inside our school at Village Academy is the food. It's just terrible, I mean it's not even real just terrible!!! Food like in college; now that's the best food you could possibly have, since I've had a taste at FAU campus when we toured there. That was the best day ever.
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Connecticut single-family and condo sales increased in June by 5.8% and 14.1%, respectively, over the same month in 2013, according to a new report by The Warren Group, but the story for single-family and condo sales prices was not as rosy. Across the state, the median sales price fell by 3.2 % from $285,000 in June 2013 to $276,000 in June 2014.
Single-family home sales prices saw an almost across-the-board decrease for both year-over-year median sales price and year-to-date median sales prices. Tolland County was the only one to experience an increase for both, a 4.55% increase for median sales price from $219,900 in June 2013 to $229,900 in June 2014, and a 5.77% YTD increase from $208,000 in 2013 to $220,000 in 2014. Litchfield County was the only other county to see an increase for year-over-year median sales price with a .79% increase from $253,000 in June 2013 to $255,000 in June 2014. The remainder had losses for both year to year median sales price and YTD median sales price, Fairfield (-6.37, -3.03), Hartford (-3.75, -4.59), Middlesex (-.93, -.81), New Haven (-2.95, -1.49), New London (-.43, -4.55), Windham (-5.06, -2.45).
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The Colts announce more details about camp this weekend, including the school location. Check out the details here: http://www.colts.org/news/news.cfm?news_id=513.
Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones. Travel safely and see you at 7:30 Friday to kick off the season.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Colts alum highlighted in DCI magazine
Leann Splitter, Colts 2000 and 2001 veteran, is a member of the Quantico Marine Corps Band and is highlighted in last years fall issue of the DCI Magazine. Here is the link: http://www.dci.org/news/view.cfm?news_id=3884857a-a3da-4707-ac5a-0cc7826584af.
Thanks to Leann, other active service members, and veterans for preserving our freedom.
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Kids today don't remember when Michael Jackson was a pitchman and companies used him to promote products. In the last ten years he was toxic and no one would touch him to promote their brand. Well maybe NAMBLA but other than that, this video shows just how much the perception of him had changed in the last twenty years...ENJOY:
DO YOU REMEMBER when Michael Jackson was a pitchman?
Posted by The Shining Black Prince! at 8:19 AM
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- Butterrfly said...
MJ opened the door to celebrity endorsements for products.. before then it was frowned upon. But once MJ did it, big names followed suit. Trailblazer and trendsetter.. what did you have to match that Elvis? yeah.. I'm bitter that people dare make that comparison.
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The Humidors Record Release Party w/ Sal's Greenhouse
Saturday, April 7th, 2018 Brick & Mortar San Francisco, CA $15 ADV / $20 DOS / Age All Ages The Humidors With The Humidors recent release of Movin' The Needle, recorded with the new addition of Andre Cruz's soulful and heartfelt lead vocals, The Humidors are taking their music to the next level and ready to spread the Gospel of Funk to dance floors everywhere. The Humidors have been churning out their own unique brand of party music for half a decade. Combining elements of hard-hitting funk, greasy soul, vintage R&B, soul jazz and more you can be sure that this eight-piece unit is committed to the groove in all its shapes and forms. This band of troubadours has developed a sound that pulls from a melting pot of old-school and modern influences, yet is always rooted in a commitment to ego-less playing that embraces the ensemble approach to funk. Having shared the stage with acts such as Dumpstaphunk, The New Mastersounds, The Meters' Leo Nocentelli, Shuggie Otis, Orgone, Con Brio and the late, great Bernie Worrell, The Humidors are in their element on stage. Bursts and washes of B3, punchy horns, chugging percussion, thumping bass, and burning guitar leads all interweave in an infectious polyrhythmic stew. Sal's Greenhouse Bay Area vocal powerhouse and baritone saxophonist, Sally Green formed her band, Sal's Greenhouse to get the listeners shaking and showcase her more than considerable talents in an original music setting. Sal's Greenhouse built an impressive body of original music with a varied blend of influences like Nikka Costa, Brand New Heavies, Sharon Jones, and many more, resulting in a completely unique and original funky and soulful sound that feels good and moves its fast growing audience.


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Some interesting things have been going on with my Tumblr account. Well at least they're interesting to me so I'm gonna write about it. Tumblr is a microblogging site so entries tend to be bite sized sort of like Twitter, but you can also post pics, videos, audio along with text. It seems to me though that most users don't actually generate their own content. They just post stuff that other people have posted.
If you're a new user like myself, the only way for people see your posts are through tags. You tag keywords to your post and hope someone searches for that keyword and sees your stuff. When you search a tag, all the posts come up chronologically newest first, so after a few hours it's unlikely someone will see your post since it'll be far down the list. If someone does see your post, they can like it or reblog it. Reblogging will take your post and have it appear on their blog. If that person has followers, more people will see the post and they can like or reblog it and that's how things can spread. Tumblr keeps track of all of this so you can see who liked or reblogged even if it's dozens of people down the chain. Likes and reblogs are clumped together and are just called notes in general.
So I started with posting my Game of Thrones crayons, two a day at the beginning. At first, I didn't get any notes. Then one day I got about a dozen. Because the newest stuff comes up first when you search a tag, it's very important what time you post things. I looked this up and apparently the best time to post is at night and on weekends. I tried following this with not much success. The Game of Thrones crayons were getting a few to a dozen notes. I saved posting the group crayon shot for Sunday hoping that it'd get popular. It ended up with like 28 notes which was better but still not that great.
The next night, I posted the Princess Bubblegum crayon. I hit refresh to check that everything looked ok and it immediately had five notes. I kept checking and it kept getting more notes. By midnight it had around 200. Then it started to slow down after that. I checked it one last time at 3 AM when I went to bed, and it was trending up again. People check Tumblr before school or work so that might explain that. The next day I woke up and the post was exploding. I was getting hundreds of notes and hour. By the end of Tuesday, I had over 3000 notes. It slowed down the following days but I was still getting a steady amount of likes and reblogs. By Friday, I had 7000 notes but it was dying. I was getting five notes an hour and I was pretty sure it was done. But it was a wild ride while it lasted.
Then I woke up Saturday morning, and the post blew up even more than before. I got 10,000 more notes just that day. It's slowed down since then but right now I'm getting close to 30,000 total notes. So what does this all mean? This entry is getting long so I'll start another one.


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The people have just voted to leave the EU, and now the Chilcot Report (Iraq War inquiry) will be released. It's set to be damning for Blair, New Labour, and the establishment. For a long time now, many great issues have been going unchecked, while a corrupted state has waged destructive illegal wars overseas. Britain is historically an Empire that has been lead until very recently by people who were brought up with reverence for Empire, even while it was collapsing around them.
After the Second World War, a proud generation built the welfare state, because the population of the country was so crushed by the effects of war that they deemed it necessary to rebuild the country. They also wanted to rebuild it in a more equal and caring way. With monetary aid from the booming United States who were worried about rising Communism in Europe, this was achieved. A generation grew up with opportunities. The economy recovered.
Then came the Vietnam War, the Middle East Crisis, and the oil shocks. World events were changing during these times. Britain was fading from the world scene while trying so desperately to remain a player. The Suez Crisis, historians mostly agree, was the moment Britain lost its status. Publically humiliated by President Eisenhower on television: telling Britain to get out of Egypt. We stayed out of Vietnam, wisely, but no wisdom could protect us from the economic shifts in the 1970s. The optimism of the new generation ended.
As Yanis Varoufakis argues: the 1970s was the moment that the United States "ran out of its surpluses". What does that mean? After the Second World War, Europe was flattened and America was booming. That meant America had enormous trade surpluses, and money flowed into their country as stuff flowed out. Great in the short term, but like everything, what goes up must come down. After Europe was reconstructed, Germany and Japan were booming, America no longer had a trade surplus. So it could no longer dominate the world on this basis. Something had to change, and Britain was swept along with this change.
The oil rich Arab countries supplying capitalism decided to assert themselves. They jacked up the price. A new deal was done. Arab money flowed into America and Britain, while weapons flowed the other way. Britain is now Saudi Arabia's number 1 ally on the world stage. At the same time Israel were armed to defend themselves against their Soviet-backed Arab neighbors. Two wars were fought, no peace gained, and who knows how much more violence will flow from this.
All the while, American culture was spreading: American banks & American movies. In Muslim countries this was having a very negative feedback effect. Fanatical Islamists blamed their own leaders for being "infected" with this American disease. They saw America as a fundamentally selfish place. An alien culture as a threat to their own. A revolutionary movement began, that murdered the corrupted President Sadat of Egypt, gained power in Iran, fought with America against Russia in Afghanistan, killed countless ordinary Muslims, and ultimately became a global terrorist campaign against America itself. This culminated with the attacks of September 11th 2001 when former CIA backed insurgent Osama Bin Laden flew planes into the Twin Towers.
Britain has a "special relationship" with America. How special? They did bail us out during and after WW2, while moving in on old British Empire territories. Churchill was as sad about the fall of the British Empire as he was happy about the fall of Germany. After the war he admitted that this was America's time now. Britain did not support the horrendous war in Vietnam where America was defeated, and America did not support the British plucky "defense" of The Falklands. But the "special relationship" was brought back in the ugly TV relationship of Bush & Blair.
After 9/11 the dream that America & Britain has a special destiny in the world became the rhetoric. "We're going to get the evil-doers," said Bush. "I do believe this is a battle for good," endorsed Blair. Britain was back, as the trusty sidekick, riding into battle against evil! The only problem was the world was now a place where you struggle to tell the difference between who are the good guys and who are the bad guys. Such was the violence. The Iraq War, by any standards has be a human calamity of epic proportions.
The Arab Spring was a moment of hope, brutally put down, and now the Syrian Civil War looks to become an ongoing regional war drawing in the surrounding nations. It is really an escalation of the "insurgency" in Iraq after the failure to put in place a credible Iraqi government. There wasn't really much effort to do this. This insurgency murdered millions of people in Iraq and then moved into Syria during the Arab Spring and took advantage of that situation to create a new "Islamic State". The western reaction to this has been utterly confused: more bombing raids. More war, with no strategy or moral authority left.
Libya is a similar story, and Cameron is as guilty as Blair.
Britain's involvement in these wars is the greatest national scandal right now.
Who voted for this? Did anyone give their consent for war? Successive governments in Britain have been elected to power promising to do something about "Housing, Education, and Health" which are all in crisis. None have. Thatcher did not "Save Britain" and New Labour failed to halt the increasing gap between rich and poor. The Coalition government imposed an austerity which targeted the poorest in society. The country has been getting more and more divided for years. The issues have not been dealt with, and resentments have built up.
Immigration, which is a net positive for the economy, became THE issue for many voters. It became the rallying call for Brexit. Not all people who voted for Brexit are racist. Many people simply did not see the "net positives" of immigration. They are mostly living in poor communities, where all they have seen is decline for generations. Immigration, in their eyes, is part of the problem. The EU was the cause. Brexit was their first chance to voice this resentment. They took it.
The deeper trend is the rise of "anti-establishment" politics from both left and right. Parliament is hated. The media is not trusted. Is it any wonder the unwritten British constitution is in tatters? Scotland looks set to leave. The two major political parties are totally split down the middle. A stable government looks like it's a long way off. More likely is a turbulent period of snap elections, while street protests get bigger.
Negotiations with the EU will be tough. They will seek to make sure Britain does not get a good deal, to warn off other states from believing they can waltz off into the sunset. Look at how they negotiate with Greece, who doesn't even want to leave! As for our "special relationship" with America, the rise of Trump is making that look like an extremely undesirable alliance. Unlike after WW2 they are not threatened by Communism, so they have no motive to bail us out again.
Britain's decline from Empire is complete. We already have one of the most centralized and corrupted democracies at Westminster. Brexit voters will be quickly disappointed to find that politics in London is the same as politics in Brussels. Our democracy, which we tried to export to Iraq, is very fragile. It has failed to deal with any big issues since the 1970s. Given how unpopular all our politicians are, it's difficult to see anyone galvanizing support for it. The only question is what comes next.


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NewVisuals//: Xkluesyve (@Xkluesyve) - Give it To 'Em
South Carolina femcee Xkluesyve drops the visual to her street single "Give It To 'Em". The video was shot and directed by GangstaGeak of Fleyes on the Wall. This track is a certified street banger and Xkluesyve goes hard on this soon to be street anthem.


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Coming Up: JD McPherson
JD McPherson's story is that of an artist who has steadily fulfilled his musical ambitions by patiently building a career one brick at a time. At the age of 40, the Americana rocker might be on the verge of his most significant breakthrough yet, as he lines up for the release of his third album, Undivided Heart & Soul, out October 6 on New West Records. The album's lead single, "Lucky Penny," received high praise from NPR's Ann Powers, who said: "The words come from the blues, the sound from Link Wray and 1950s motorcycle movie soundtracks; yet the song's spirit is deeply evocative of today's uncertainties."
JD McPherson grew up on a cattle ranch in rural Oklahoma where he from early on caught up on music, discovering '70s guitar rock and punk before, as a teen, digging backwards in the archives of '50s rock 'n' roll, rockabilly, country, R&B, soul, delta blues and guitar jazz. Sometimes dubbed a rock revivalist and roots resuscitator, his music is highly potent by its own merits.
After graduating from college McPherson worked as an art teacher in Tulsa for a couple of years until his school board let him go, a blessing in disguise that allowed him to spend more time pursuing his musical aspirations. By then, JD had dug deeper into the music of yonder and started to fully shape an authentic retro-sound based on profound musical knowledge and vintage gear.
His debut album Signs and Signifiers saw the light of day via Chicago standup bassist Jimmy Sutton's Hi-Style label in 2010 before receiving a major re-release by Rounder Records two years later. Rounder also launched his 2015 sophomore album, the more expansive and critically acclaimed Let The Good Times Roll, which was described as "flat out sensational" (Uncut), "a foot-stomping, ass-shaking thing of beauty" (Popmatters), and lauded by American Songwriter, who wrote that "to pigeonhole McPherson as some well-intentioned-but-why-bother? retro minded relic is missing the point."
McPherson has gradually expanded his circle of associates and partners, including Eric Church, Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Butch Walker and fellow Oklahoman Parker Millsap. And as his musical scope has broadened along with his geographical horizon. He recently decided to move his family from Oklahoma to buzzing scene of East Nashville, where the new album was initially born.
The first attempt on recording the material was not successful, however. And while fumbling to find the right direction, JD flew over to California by the invitation from his pal, Queens of the Stone Age leader Josh Homme. Along with QOTSA and Dead Weather multi-instrumentalist Dean Fertita, the three blasted out the songs way outside of McPherson's comfort zone. Suffice to say, he returned with a clear head, new perspectives and even learned that legendary RCA Studio B was willing to host his band for making the record.
He might never be the latest craze or biggest hype, but JD McPherson is making music meant to last based on some basic, time-tested principles. As he once said: "Everybody likes rock & roll. They just either won't admit it or don't know it yet."
We talked with JD McPherson about his upcoming album, the recording sessions, new directions in songwriting and why Fun House is the most perfect album ever made.
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Congratulations on the new album. What do we get?
Thanks for that. You'll be getting a truly romantic garage record.
When you started writing songs, did you have a clear idea of what was to become Undivided Heart and Soul?
These songs first popped up when I was producing The Cactus Blossoms' record a couple of years back. The title track was written during that time, and songs slowly began to appear in the months following.
What inspired you the most? And is there a red thread throughout the album?
I was listening to a lot of rowdy music at that time: Link Wray, The Creation, The Stooges, Broncho… A lot of that music influenced the direction of this record. This album marks three notable – notable to me, anyway – new directions in my songwriting:
1. The first time I've purposefully co-written songs with strangers
2. The first time I've told secrets in lyrics
3. The first time I've told a story about strangers I've observed in life.
These may seem normal things to do, but it was all new territory for me.
What can you tell about the recording process and working with this material in the studio?
I think that this record was greatly influenced by where it was recorded
Because the record is so gnarly, you'd never guess where it was recorded in the historic RCA Studio B: home of hundreds of country music hits through the '50s and '60s, home of the early Everly Brothers hits, home of the Roy Orbison Monument recordings, home of Elvis Presley's post-Army career hits… The place is full of phantoms.
It's a museum in the daytime, so every day, we had to wheel in all of our equipment, record, and tear it down at night. We brought in a ton of old equipment, but there are still a few instruments and pieces of gear there that definitely informed this record
For instance, the vibraphone you hear on recordings such as "Crying" by Roy Orbison is all over the record. The piano that Floyd Cramer played on "Last Date" is on the record. Ray and I wrote a couple of songs on that piano. It was a magic piano. We couldn't keep our hands off all that stuff.
Another thing to note is that RCA Studio B would seem to pull out songs that sound like RCA Studio B from us… lush, orchestrated… At first, that's what I wanted… but the longer we were there, the songs got louder and fuzzier and more irreverent. It's almost like it was in the air, like something in that room was wanting some rebellious music to happen.
How would you compare Undivided Heart And Soul with Let the Good Times Roll?
It has more in common with tracks such as "Head Over Heels" than the other R&B material. More ratty, fuzz guitar, less saxophones. Lots of electric bass. It has a bit of a punk rock streak.
How do you think you've developed as a songwriter since your debut?
I've been doing a lot of writing on the side the past two years, and it's caused me to pay more attention to the crafting of a song. What you call "songcraft." My old method was much more stream-of-consciousness; I just wrote what came immediately to mind, and that's the way it stayed, without really analyzing it too much.
Also, I think about the recording process while I'm writing. I'm always thinking about guitar sounds, grooves, rhythms, instrumentation… even while I'm just writing lyrics.
Please describe the ideal setting to ultimately enjoy Undivided Heart And Soul?
My friend LJ listened to it and said it was "Good in the evening, and it's good in the morning, too." Try to listen on a good system. I've been listening to it on good headphones.
Most perfect album ever made and why?
Ask me another time, and I'll give you a different answer, but for now I'll say Fun House by the Stooges, because it's built up from the most salient ideas of the entire history of rock n' roll up to that point in time. It's very primitive, and somehow still carries a bit of sophistication. It's got brains, but it breathes through its mouth. I think I may listen to Raw Power more frequently, but Fun House has the best ideas of the Stooges records.
And finally, how would you pair Undivided Heart And Soul with a meal or beverage?
Black coffee (caffeine) and bananas (potassium).
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JD McPherson Band:
JD McPherson
Raynier Jacob Jacildo
Jimmy Sutton
Jason Smay
Doug Corcoran
2017 Tour Dates:
AUG 11 FRI – Arnolds Park – Arnolds Park, IA
AUG 19 SAT – Wildwood Revival – Athens, GA
AUG 25 FRI – Wolf Trap – Vienna, VA
AUG 31 THU The Back Room – Colectivo Coffee – Milwaukee, WI
SEP 1 FRI – Minnesota State Fair – St Paul, MN
SEP 2 SAT – Minnesota State Fair – St Paul, MN
SEP 3 SUN – Copper Country Fest – Copper Mountain, CO
SEP 7 THU – Central Park Sessions – Madison, WI
SEP 8 FRI – The Back Room – Kalamazoo, MI
SEP 22 FRI – Medicine Stone – Tahlequah, OK
SEP 23 SAT – John T. Floore Country Store – Helotes, TX
SEP 28 THU – Knuckleheads – Kansas City, MO
SEP 30 SAT – Gothic Theatre – Englewood, CO
OCT 1 SUN – Mesa Theater – Grand Junction, CO
OCT 2 MON – The State Room – Salt Lake City, UT
OCT 4 WED – Neumos – Seattle, WA
OCT 5 THU – Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR
OCT 7 SAT – The Mountain Winery – Saratoga, CA
OCT 8 SUN – The Independent – San Francisco, CA
OCT 11 WED – Belly Up – Solana Beach, CA
OCT 12 THU – Pappy & Harriet's – Pioneertown, CA
OCT 13 FRI – The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA
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OCT 15 SUN – Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, AZ
OCT 18 WED – The Kessler – Dallas, TX
OCT 19 THU – Scoot Inn – Austin, TX
OCT 20 FRI – Gruene Hall – New Braunfels, TX
OCT 21 SAT – Continental Club – Houston, TX
OCT 22 SUN – One Eyed Jacks – New Orleans, LA
NOV 2 THU – The Grey Eagle – Asheville, NC
NOV 3 FRI – Cat's Cradle – Carrboro, NC
NOV 5 SUN – World Cafe Live – Philadelphia, PA
NOV 7 TUE – Music Hall of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY
NOV 8 WED – The Hangar – Troy, NY
NOV 9 THU – The Haunt – Ithaca, NY
NOV 10 FRI – Lee's Palace – Toronto, Canada
NOV 11 SAT – Tralf Music Hall – Buffalo, NY
NOV 14 TUE – Magic Bag – Detroit, MI
NOV 15 WED – Skully's – Columbus, OH
NOV 16 THU – Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL
NOV 17 FRI – Headliner's – Louisville, KY
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University of Memphis. Conscious software, intelligent agents.
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Michigan State University. Interests: self-replicating computer programs that mutate at random.
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University of Sussex, Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Group. Hardware evolution; swarm intelligence.
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Northwestern University. Emotions and personality embodiment on computers.
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Interviews with Karl Sims and a gallery of his works in evolutionary art and artificial evolution.
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Margaret Eileen Blanz, 86, of Petoskey, died Sept. 13, 2003, at her home in Petoskey.
A memorial service is scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
Friends may call from 12:30 p.m. until the time of service at the church.
A complete obituary will follow from Stone Funeral Home in Petoskey.


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There is some Jingle news though:
Murray felt the baby move for the first time at 16 weeks 6 days! That was exciting :) Jingle was bumping around quite a bit, I guess it was that chocolate I had after dinner!
I feel movement every day now as well, which is very reassuring :)
Today at my ob appointment Genna got to hear Jingle's heartbeat - she was THRILLED!
She did tell me earlier this week though that when Jingle is born, he will go home with Helen. I said no Genna, Jingle will live at our house. She insisted that is NOT the case! I dropped it, I think she'll figure it out once we set up the crib:)
|We tried to get a photo of her in her Minnesota Vikings cheerleader outfit this weekend - but it's hard because she's always on the move!
|I like this hair tie!!!
And some random videos of her showing me the ballet positions. She saw it on a tv show once and remembered (kind of) - cute though :)
And of course - lights off with the spotlight (flashlight!)
|For a swim this weekend she put on her swimming cap so the goggles wouldn't catch on her hair - we thought it looked SO cute!
|I'm ready to swim Dadda!


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Goodness, we've grown a lot this month! Babies and momma are doing great. I've had constant heartburn over the last month, and finally talked to my doctor about it. TUMS just weren't cutting it anymore! My doctor put me on Pepcid A/C, and it's been a LIFE SAVER! No more waking up every couple of ours during the night just to take a few more TUMS. Yay!
We are now going to have ultrasounds every 4 weeks to monitor the babies growth. This photo was taken on 24 weeks, 6 days. My little ones were conspiring! Baby A is my sweet baby boy Aidan (he's closest to the cervix) and Baby B is my sweet baby girl Nadia. In this picture, you can see them whispering to each other (the things that look like grapefruits are their heads).
Aidan sat his little bum right on top of my cervix and refused to move. As soon as that wand came out, my little kicking man hunched himself into a little ball and wouldn't move. That made getting his measurements easy, but not so easy to measure the cervix or placental position in relation to the cervix. Aidan's placenta is pretty low- not covering the cervix, but very close to it. We're hoping that as my belly grows, his placenta will move up and Aidan will decide he doesn't want to be breech.
Once the sonographer was done taking Aidan's measurements, it was Nadia's turn. She was such a little stinker. Just when the sonographer was ready to take the pic, my little girl would wiggle, roll, or turn her head. It took a little more time, but we got all the measurements we needed. Nadia is currently transverse (sideways) stretching from my right side to my left.
The results were pretty good. Typically, babies at this point are around 1.5 lbs. They estimated Aidan to be 1.7 pounds and Nadia to be 1.4 lbs. She's always been just a couple days behind her brother. As long as they continue to grow, all is good!
Thanks for checking in on us this month! The next time I post, it will be a whole new year. Crazy!!