my VCR was feeling sick for a while ,though yesterday I opened it up for surgery & after a swift recovery it can play tapes like new ^O^ I'll work up the energy to upload some stuff to youtube soon
Noisy Sins of The Insect - ‘There Won’t Be a “My Life”’ from the record Automatic Suicide Machine.
Awesome lo-fi skramzy band from Turkey, with really violent vocals (when they used them - their instrumental tracks are pretty and build emotionally). I liked this band a lot. The track titles have a very blunt but over the top feel to them, as though they haven’t quite been translated properly into English. They’re really strong, anyway, I do like them. Song names like “My Funeral in You, and Our Memories”, or “End of a Love Doesn’t Mean End of Me but I Love to Kill Myself Because I Listen Noise”.
This track here is “There Won’t Be A 'My Life’”.
The sample kicks in fairly early on, and then, unusually, continues in the background for the rest of the song. I’m not going to say that the sample is particularly needed, and definitely doesn’t need to be there for so long. There’s another version of this track which doesn’t have the sample in it, but after so long listening to it with the sample, I do like this version a lot more, maybe how the spoken word chips in and out with the music - its timed pretty nicely.
The film is Donnie Darko, from the scene with the cheerleader mom lady directing a class on social skills or understanding how to treat people. With her own brand of flawed logic allegorical of right-wing newspapers and media stations across the Western world.
The woman pictured here is the same bitchy fucking moron in any film or show I’ve seen her in, and she infuriates me. Obviously she’s an actress, and plays that part very well. Its nice have a good 'bad guy’ to really allow yourself to hate whenever they come onscreen. I’m sure she’s lovely in real life, although I possibly would rather think she was playing herself in all these roles, just to keep the wet hate dream alive.
Here’s the sample.
“…and Mr. Darko?”
“Ling Ling finds a wallet on the ground filled with money. She takes the wallet to the address on the driver’s license but keeps the money inside the wallet. I-I’m sorry Mrs. Farmer. I don’t get this.”
“Just place an 'X’ on the life-line in an appropriate place.”
“No, I mean, I know what to do - I just don’t get this. You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.”
“The life-line is divided that way.”
“Life isn’t that simple. I mean who cares if Ling Ling returns the wallet and keeps the money? It has nothing to do with either fear or love.”
“Fear and love are the deepest of human emotions.”
“Okay, but you’re not listening to me. There are other things that need to be taken into account here. Like, the whole spectrum of human emotion. You can’t just lump everything into these two categories and then deny everything else!”
“If you don’t complete the assignment, you will get a zero for the day.”
