Music: Empire of the Sun

Nice tune, and I love the costumes, dancing and accompanying serious expressions in the video. It was recording during the day of the dead in Mexico.

it is not sound

I love this music video by Ulver not only for the music but also because it's awesome to look at.



I've mostly been listening to Ulver's earlier music from back when they played black metal, and I'm not so familiar with their newer more experimental and electronic influenced music, but will have to listen through their CD's as I'm sure I'll love them. Isn't that just typical that a lot of bands who start out playing black metal start experimenting and end up doing electronic music?

chilling out to chill out music

The fact that chill out music is so slow and takes forever to build up used to make me stressed and worked up, like "oh my god something needs to happen FAST, speed up for fuck's sake!!".

But this track by Vibrasphere is mellow and full of nice yet it doesn't make me stressed at all. Hurrah for chilling out!

music: Eyes Without a Face by Billy Idol

What the hell. I love this tune. He has a nice voice, and I like the melody. I also love to look at the weird angular shapes he makes with his mouth as he's singing. Very entertaining.


I've read somewhere on the internets that Billy Idol chose people for his band based on their looks. Ha ha. Comedy Value.

He wasn't hard on the eyes, though.

harder better faster stronger

a bit of an update;

i was so excited when writing this blog entry(i just kept looking at the video) that i totally forgot to mention HOW the video was made. my boyfriend thinks it's clear for everyone to see, yet i didn't realise that there was some funky tricks going on till i saw a video of it on youtube.. apparently the girl is videotaped dancing all slow to the tune slowed down, and then it's been speeded up to sound normal and look like super-fast dancing moves. none the less impressive, me thinks. clever!

kokoro scan ♥

my friend lars sent me a link to this video over a year ago, and it's STILL my favourite. i've been looking for a good quality mp3 of this song so i can hear it on my mp3 player while on the bus/walking etc, but i haven't found it yet. my boyfriend has promised to make a hard techno version of it, sounds very promising, i can't wait!


this video is a commercial for a nintendo ds game. i have a nintendo ds, if i thought this game would give me defenite numerical values for people's feelings, i would certainly buy it. i'm sort of tempted to buy it anyway, except i bet it's all in japanese, and i think you'll have to TALK to it. the nintendo ds has a microphone, and i'm not really too keen on the talking bit. my brother bought me a baby pink(grr!!) nintendo ds with nintendogs for christmas one year, and i was eager to try my new game out when everyone had gone to bed. i chose a little chihuahua as my pet, and when asked to name him, i named him "cock". i played around with "cock" for a while, before i was asked to teach him his name. i had to say his name into the microphone so the nintendo ds would recognize it. i tried whispering but it wasn't loud enough, and when it was loud enough i didn't say it right. i had to repeat "cock" countless times to my bastard ds. it was sort of embarrassing as my mother and two brothers could probably hear me, and they had no idea i was talking to a digital chihuahua.

oh well. no hard feelings, i still love japan.

deep in my synthetic soul

i want to share my love for a electro pop band from italy called syrian. i also want to make an attempt at explaining it as my boyfriend and a lot of my friends find it hard to understand why and how i can like them this much (or at all).

my first encounter with syrian was accidental. i had downloaded some mp3's by mistake, and played them out of curiosity. first there was some electronic pop and i found it sort of funny. then the vocal came on and i couldn't stop laughing. i knew i had found something really special. at first i was feeling embarrassed on the behalf of the band. the lyrics are really naive, yet the guy sings as if he takes it really seriously. and he has a very distinct italian accent too, that makes it even funnier.

i instantly needed to see what they looked like, and was not dissappointed when i found photos.


my mother has said i need to stop liking things ironically, as it's a very nonchalant and negative attitude.
there's also a quote i try to live by that comes to mind; "don't be cool, cool is conservative fear dressed in black".

i don't know if i'm trying to be cool when i laugh at syrian. i've wondered if i'm trying to cover up some sort of embarrassment of liking something this soppy by liking it ironically. i know that my love for them is not entirely ironical - while i can't stop laughing at them. yet i don't think it's out of embarrassment.

i've started to see something really pure and honest in the naivety about them. they're not trying to be hard or cool or complicated, they just sing their little hearts out. there's not a trace of evil in their music, it sounds like they don't even know what evil is - and i find it really touching and uplifting.
they sing about their own lonelyness and love(for each other?), but wrapped up in a sci fi setting. and it's not a hard brutal kind of sci fi that try to cover up any of their soppyness and naivety, no, there's lonely androids in space who takes the soppyness and naivety to the extreme.

here are a couple of their songs so you can judge for yourself. i've also included some of their lyrics as i think they are priceless.

lyrics to "space overdrive by syrian:

My starship is drifting
Aimless in flight
It's time to activate my mind
Mechanical pilot now comes alive
Storms of electricity
As digital implants are powering me
But now, running through the void
I can't stand the warp
Even if I'm a droid
Deep in my synthetic soul
I am falling down out of control
Light years of silence and stars
Will I return back to the sun
Space is cracking up my brain
Falling to pieces
I can't stop my pain
A war inside my head
Invisible forces are driving me mad

starless lyrics:

I'll never forget the silent sun
There was a universe around
The golden starship made no move
Into the red light all above
And when we watched the sky
We never felt so high
And you said it would last forever
Angels always fly there if you stay...
And you said you would wait forever
We will be together one day
Recalling the distant memories
I'm travelling through the galaxies
So time goes by and still the moon
Keeps spinning around the blue
And when I watch the sky
I wonder where you're now

awww.... <3