GOD IS A GROUP OF NAKED EUROBABES ON A TURNTABLE

As a telephones journalist, I get press releases.

Sometimes they are off-topic.

And not safe for work.

( Nude DJ performance art! From Germany! )

As near as I can tell, it’s sort of a club-culture-for-hire thing to liven up “high-end cocktail events, dinner engagements and galas” with “enthralling sensations, electric violinists and e-guitarists, sultry saxophonists, exploding vocalists, beautiful dancers in large transparent bubbles, exotic costumes, immense interactive video screens, live percussionists, fire shooters and the most amazing DJanes spinning the best music the market has to offer”.

Which, I think, means it’s the European equivalent of a Vegas stage act with topless DJ babes. Or something. The press release isn’t very clear on this. But hey, it’s a revolution in performance art. It’s not supposed to make sense.

What any of this has to do with telephones is beyond me. But I didn’t tell them to stop sending me stuff, either. So I’ve got no one but myself to blame.

Bang the DJ,

This is dF

SMELLS LIKE P. DIDDY

I get emails.

Sometimes they’re from The Artist Formerly Known As Puffy.



Because it really IS all about the Benjamins.

It's good to be the king,

This is dF

MUSIC FOR THE 21ST CENTURY (PART 1 OF 10)

ITEM [via thelastaerie ]: NME releases its official reader-voted list of the Top 50 albums of the ‘00s.

Here are the Top 10:

1. The Strokes - Is This It
2. The Libertines - Up The Bracket
3. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
4. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
6. PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
7. Arcade Fire - Funeral
8. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
9. The Streets - Original Pirate Material
10. Radiohead - In Rainbows

As you might imagine, I have a few grievances with this list – one of the biggest being that the decade isn’t even over yet.

There’s also the fact that it’s from NME, whose musical tastes tend to differ widely from my own. (I only own two of these albums, and only still listen to one of them regularly.) And of course, it was created by reader vote, which is just about the second worst benchmark there is (the first being SoundScan figures).

Still. it’s all a matter of taste, isn’t it? So what else is there to do but create my own damn list and bother the Livejournals with it? And there’s a couple of dozen albums that could be on this list, but I'll stick to ten that blow me away as much now as they did when I first heard them.

( List bloggery commences in 3, 2, 1 ... )

Okay, I’m done.

Ten years gone,

This is dF