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Pon de floor, by Major Lazer

wait for the end jumping fest

The Dreaming, released in September of 1982, is Kate Bush’s fourth full-length album to come out within the first four years of her career. It is also the third album she worked in part as a producer and the first in which she held full reigns of the responsibility. Her new found freedom in the studio is easily heard, with more characteristic Kate Bush sounds going baroque: there are more electric keyboards, more vocal loops, and even more emotive and dramatic vocal performances. She sticks to mostly the same narrative structure of her songs, but the real distinction is in their arrangements. Everything on a whole feels more theatrical: the darker moments darker and the lighter ones, well, I think they might be darker too. The Dreaming also sees Bush focusing on some of her world ethnic music influences (the title track seems like a proto formula for an MIA track). But this album is also consistently poppier than previous efforts. While listening to the entirety of the Kick Inside or Hounds of Love can lull during Kate’s more indulgent ballads, The Dreaming seems to have a strong sense of progression. Not to say there are no ballads to be found here, but they are on a whole, more maddening. This album sounds like Kate Bush is going insane, but almost literally this time. While a lot of Bush’s appeal seems to be witnessing her tote the line between bat-shit-crazy and beauty incarnate, this album might just step into the territory of the insane. Just look no further than the cover, a picture of her in shackles with a key in her mouth, or the music video for Suspended in Gaffa.

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Uakti (WAHK-chee) is a Brazilian ensemble led by Marco Antônio Guimarães, who writes rhythmically oriented minimalist compositions in the similiar vein of Michael Nyman, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. The ensemble is most known for their use and construction of home-made instruments, many of them mallet instruments, out of wood, metal, and PVC. In 1999, the group collaborated with Philip Glass to perform some of his more characteristic pieces. While Glass’s output at this point in his career is not only distinguished by heavy repetition within his compositions but also amongst them, these recordings represent an particular high-point in what is otherwise an unvaried and predictable part of the composer’s oeuvre. There is the career-defining “Metamorphosis” here in grand form, but otherwise all the compositions are tailored for the Uakti ensemble. The cross-polination of Glass’s enchanting melodic work with the organically ethereal arrangements by Guimarães and company escapes the stodgy, self-referencial and self-reliant moves made by Glass from the mid-80’s onwards. There is lightness here that is unprecedented in any other Glass piece and I would not hesitate to attribute it to the the beautiful work by Uakti. The instrumentation allows Glass’s music to transcend its standard appeals by shedding some of the academic baggage tied to him (albeit by himself). I can think of few people who would not enjoy at least some of these pieces, and it ranks high among my personal favorites of his, even alongside some of his most groundbreaking work (see Einstein on the Beach).

Fun fact: The name of the group comes from a Tukano native South American legend. Uakti was a mythological being who lived on the banks of the Rio Negro. His body was full of holes, which, when the wind passed through them, produced sounds that bewitched the women of the tribe. The men hunted down Uakti and killed him. Palm trees sprouted up in the place where his body was buried, and the people used these to make flutes that made enchanting sounds like those produced by the body of Uakti. (thanks wiki)

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Flirt Girl Fit!

Saw this on TV while at the beach. Any takers?

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Hope Hilton, Georgia Tattoo, 2007, tattoo

Had a dream about this tattoo. It is the outline of the state of Georgia, where I was born and raised. My brother Jonathan also got one to match. This is what happens when we place our arms together.