My Own Biggest Fan

I needed something to get the feeling of that last album off me. Malcom McLaren’s Fans is (I will quote the ENTIRE wikipedia article on it):

an attempt by to fuse opera with 1980s R&B and contains adaptations of pieces from famous operas such as Madam Butterfly and Carmen.

As an “attempt”, I’d say it was successful. It’s a pretty safe bet to say this probably sounded bonkers in 1985. Now, we’re pretty blasé about mashups and genre bouncing. It’s rare for early attempts to sound so well put together, I rather enjoyed the listen. I never really listened to much of Malcolm McLaren’s music, but that’s going to change. It’s probably of interest to some of you that the producer, Stephen Hague went on to produce The Pet Shop Boys first album and multiple albums by New Order as well as other synthpop bands.

Fans is a surprisingly strong album, for all it’s pretense. I’ll be listening to this again. I had a hard time choosing a song to link to for this, so I went with the most recognizable of the operas.

Carmen (l’oiseau rebelle)

And here’s the video for Madam Butterfly:

This email from my friend “Nathan Beadle” just made my morning.

Dear friend,
How are you recently? tell you a big surprise!
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They have a good reputation , many good feedback,and the fast delivery speed.
Now, the company enlarges its extent .Thanks for the new and old customers ‘ supporting , These goods are sold at a discount., a lot of friends have already bought the products from the company , and they are praised the goods, I have ordered a apple laptops,
I hope you don’t miss it.
greetings

Scott Bourne is giving away Drobos. He’s been giving BUTTLOADS of the things away. I want one. To enter I have to link to his websites. They are pretty informative, so I don’t feel like a dinkus linking to them. Here they are:

http://www.photofocus.com

http://www.mydl.me

That’s all for now.

Dear friends. I’m looking for a specific kind of chair, the kind that sits on the floor, no legs. They were easy to come by in Japan, but finding them here, of course, is another story. If anyone knows of a place in Calgary (or even a place in Canada that would ship out to me) then please let me know.

It’s called a Zaisu and it looks like this:

or this:

I would love to have a Wave Chair:

But I think I’d even settle for this:

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Chapters had 30% off all hardcovers so I picked up some new ones.

I know, I said it many times that I am not a fan of podcasting. What you have here is not a “podcast” it is a means to an end. I want to show my friends what music I am listening to, this is an easy way to do it. Subscribe, enjoy. Email me when you like what you hear.

http://chabudaigaeshi.libsyn.com/rss

To subscribe, copy the link above. In iTunes, click Advanced>Subscribe to Podcast and paste the link into the box

I sent an email to you, but it bounced. Is there another one you can be reached at?

The world IS going to hell on a rollerskate.

Quote from the article:

“It’s a for-profit product that allows you to exercise your conscience.”

It is a tag that you buy that makes you look like you care about emissions control even though you drive a two ton wildebeest of a car. Buy your conscience rather than actually have one.

Green tags.

It’s a concept only a Ferengi could come up with.

Oh my gawd.