RIP Malcolm McClaren
April 12th, 2010Always sort of admired the guy…seemed to be bursting with ideas…plus how amazing is this track:
Always sort of admired the guy…seemed to be bursting with ideas…plus how amazing is this track:
sometimes the net just kind of makes you chuckle. and that's ok.
PACMAN: THE MOVIE TRAILER from Therefore Productions on Vimeo.
Yeah, so this guy made a version of Dark side of the moon just using the audio capabilities of the NES sound chip. It sounds amazing, somehow. I've been listening to the whole thing over and over, there are some parts that are just haunting, and computer game-y at the same time. Go here to download for yourself, and here's a sample ("Great Gig In The Sky") of what I'm talking about:
sometimes I love Pitchfork's echo chamber:
"Years ago, some girl wrote in the classifieds saying she was looking for a man 'with the poetic sensitivity of Leonard Cohen and the raw power of Iggy Pop,' so Leonard tried to get me to set up a three-way with her [laughs]. He said, 'Dude, we can give her both!'"
— Iggy Pop. (via Rolling Stone)