If there is a fly on your monitor you can shoo it away with your cursor. This makes sense but also has blown my mind into very small pieces and I probably won’t recover.
June 2013
13 posts
1. what are your nicknames? 2. what book(s) are you currently reading? 3. will you ever move to LA? 4. what's your favorite root vegetable?
1. I’ve never really had a nickname, although my roommates call me Benjalls.
2. Currently reading Norman Mailer’s Prisoner of Sex alongside Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch, which I first read at fourteen, having picked it up at a library sale for five cents because it contained descriptions of the inside of a vagina.
3. I don’t know! I don’t have any desire to in the near future, but if I didn’t nurture a healthy distrust of my ability to predict Future-Ben’s preferences, I’d have a Fight Club tattoo on my back from my freshman year of high school.
4. Red onion, then beetroot, then salmon.
Michelle Obama
Sgt. Sass
This song is the reason I finally caved and got a Spotify account.
There is no good reason to call a company Kickstarter when you could call it Funders Keepers.
La Alegría
Working on a new song based around a sample from Chile’s anti-Pinochet ads from the late 80’s.
It’s comprised entirely of sliced up, slowed down, or reversed portions of four songs:
The Jackson 5 - You’ve Changed
Shake That Maple Leaf
Ben Kling
I’m supposed to be doing something else but instead I’m pumping these out.
I-iii-vi-IV
Ben Kling
Miley Cyrus just released a new song and it’s a I-iii-vi-IV just like Party in the USA.
I’ve got absolute pitch and I hardly ever listen to lyrics, so progressions leap out and bash me in the face when I listen to music, getting tangled up with every other song I’ve ever heard that uses the same combinations and intervals.
So I decided to messily throw together a handful I-iii-vi-IV songs off the top of my head, which resulted in this here scribble, which has given me an idea.
I think my next album’s going to be sort of like fiddling with a radio dial and overlapping songs with the same progressions. I’ll clean it up considerably and prioritize certain song elements; lord knows there are enough building blocks to make something really cool.
This is what listening to a song for the first time sounds to me, and you should feel sorry for me.
what do you look for in a potential partner?
Intelligence, eyes (you’ve got to have them; it’s a plus if they’re nice to look at), honestly/directness, willingness to go 50/50 on spooning positions.
I just fished a fruit fly out of a glass of wine with a bridge pencil, so I can afford to have these standards.
Play
Got an email containing a guy's theory about my mashup album.
Hey so I noticed some things in Double Dutch Part 2 that I was wondering if you did on purpose.
Specifically, there seems to be a narrative about the tension between the sexes/genders, power struggles, and desire.
In “Here We Go” you use the “here we go” sample from Hey Arnold, and then it transitions into “Here It Goes” by OKGO. This seems to signal the start of the narrative/fight.
Don't Stop
Ben Kling
Here’s a track from the 100-Artist mashup album I did this week.
Download the whole album for free and pass it around. Illegal art is meant to be shared.
