Damn Producers

I'm currently listening to King Missile's Happy Hour and at least two songs have ended with a "fade out."
More often than not I hate ending a song with a fade out - it outwardly seems the un-thought-of way to end a song -but worse than that, it's often only done because the producer wants to cut the song short.
Now the songs that "fade out" on this album - as is the case with most songs that do - were just entering an awesome solo, when the fade out begins. The listener is blessed with a few bars of rockin, and then it moves off to the distance and disappears - before it even came to fruition. Lame.
It made me wonder how many awesome albums have been turned to merely mediocre because of some producer trying to make them more publicly palatable, so that songs fit into the neat <4 minute package, so that the album can clock in under the archaic (and nowadays, arbitrary) <45 minute length still lingering from the days of the LP.
It pisses me off. I wanna hear the fucking solo! Screw you for editing it out!
I suppose this is one of the advantages of the now prevalent home-recorded digital releases - no producers as well as unlimited length albums.
Of course the disadvantages of low-quality (both in sound and music quality) recordings flooding the "market" may just nullify that.

Even Ugly People Like To Sunbathe

This is what I have learnt today, drunk and alone in our flat attempting to do uni work while watching bad tv.

Even ugly people like to sunbathe.

Happiness is

Happiness is
Originally uploaded by JadeMonkee.

A Coconut Super-Dooper Thickshake.
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Famous! Again!

Man. The fame just keeps on comin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n05jJOno8jU
But it begs the question, when do my royalties come through?

You Know What That Is?

You Know What That Is?
Originally uploaded by JadeMonkee.

It's an empty margarita glass. You can see the salt still around the edge, coz after the third, it got too much (pussy).
But otherwise delicious!
I'm quite drunk right now, having finished a bottle of tequila with Lilly. We're playing Mario Party 8. It rules. Listening to Infected Mushroom. They rule.
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Strange Road Names Trying To Tell Me Something?

Ok. I'm currently doing Dial Before You Digs at work. Pretty dull.
Pick up one, go to the location, would you look at that? Cedar Creek Rd. I used to live on a road called Cedar Creek Rd.
Pick up the next one, look at the location. Ok, weird. Grandview Rd. My mother lives on a road called Grandview Dr.
Strange coincidence.
I consider posting to my blog about it, but decide not to.
5 minutes later, pick up a dial... Turramurra St. I used to live in the suburb of Turramurra.
Is the Universe trying to tell me something? If so, what? "Always remember where you came from?" I don't know. But it's a little unnerving.

Camp as a Row of Speed Queens

Camp as a Row of Speed Queens
Originally uploaded by Carafaele

Permanent Press: All Fabric
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Pass the Pigs to Pass the Time

Pass the Pigs to Pass the Time
Originally uploaded by Carafaele

To entertain ourselves while our bi-monthly washing-of-the-clothes occurs, Simon and I are playing Pass the Pigs - a challenging and intellectual game in which we toss small pigs to recieve a score. Much like the famous pumpkin-tossing contests in the north of Scotland, only with more media coverage.

Swayzak (and pot)

I'm currently listening to a new Swayzak album I picked up yesterday titled Some Other Country.
Swayzak are a group I heard about last year when !K7 were having a CD sale, and I went spazzy and bought a whole pile of CDs.
I bought two of their offerings, Dirty Dancing, and the B-Side collection Route de la Slack.
While smoking a whole load of pot last year, I fell in love with Dirty Dancing (unfortunately Route de la Slack never grabbed me), so when I saw the new album at JB yesterday, I couldn't help but pick it up.
It's good. So far my favourite track is Claktronic, but doubtless others will grow on me with subsequent listens.
I like them.
In truth, I already liked the album before smoking pot, but the music perfectly suits the combination of Mickey's dark, red downstairs room, and a spliff. It's a shame that this album will never be able to be given that level of treatment. *sigh*
Actually, this morning (while listening to this album) I realised that my pot smoking habits will forever change from the dim lighting and moody tones of Mickey's red room, to the natural light of either Coogee Beach, misc Brisbane parks, or my back verandah; and that's a bit of a shame.
It was such a strange and wonderful time/room/experience, and it's a little upsetting that that chapter is forever closed.
But thems the breaks.

Swayzak are a recommended group.

Listening to: Swayzak - Some Other Country (Album)

Sony BMG busted for software piracy in France

I thought I'd post this because of just how ironic it is.
SonyBMG France have been caught using pirate software.
Details on Engadget.