Open Your Ears Wk 46

Beautiful Machine - Shihad

Shihad are coolier then you and your band

Beautiful Machine

Sleepeater


you need more rock in your diet...

Happy Thanksgiving Yanks

There isn't much that cant be said with a pelvic thrust

Open Your Ears Wk 45

The Jezabels - Mace Spray

A fab new fourpiece being unearthed by Triple J

Mace Spray on YT

you are most likely to have heard

Hurt Me

aussie aussie aussie!

Defying Logic

Parenting 101

Logic is king, the world is illogical

As my little man turns into a school kid he gets exponentially smarter, especially since going to kindy his learning ability gets compounded. The problem then comes in that the more he learns the more he wants to know and the more he talks and talks back etc.

so back on the logic track, firstly the english language is full of totally illogical methodology and practices. So you constantly are "correcting" your child as they learn so that they communicate "properly". Unfortunately the rules change in different circumstances so its terribly hard to follow for the person learning it
Forever and a day you will hear kids saying catched instead of caught, being the past tense, so if I throw you something you catch it, in the process you are catching and when complete you caught it. How do you explain that when a chick comes out of an egg its hatching but when its out its hatched? why isnt it haught?
there is a pretty famous verse about this..

The English Lesson (version one)

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;
But the plural of ox should be oxen not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

If I spoke of my foot and showed you my feet,
When I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

If the singular is this, and the plural is these,
Why shouldn't the plural of kiss be kese?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet the plural of hat would never be hose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
So plurals in English, I think you'll agree,
Are indeed very tricky--singularly.

Phase II : Actions
so after the difficulty of the language comes the resulting actions
"Don't you dare smack your sister!" *Smack to culprit*
"Don't raise your voice at me!!!!!" *says the one yelling at the top of their lungs*

there is many cases of do as I say not as I do and especially the adults can do that but kids can't that never seem be 100% true. Often we get catched out by our kids and we change the rules so that we are no longer wrong, yet we get rather annoyed when our oldest child changes the rules for a game they are playing so that they win

Phase III : Tipping your hat

when they stitch you up good and proper you must admit defeat..

the other day Patrick was picking his nose and was promptly told :
"hey!, nobody wants to see that"
and his reply was
"fine then, I'll do it over here" and walked away where no-one could see him

I really couldnt argue with that logic

Open Your Ears Wk 44

argh running late, this will be the first of two this week

Doves - caught by the river

straying negative 6 metres from my preferred genre of alternative music, here are a typical lesser known UK artiste. A three piece comprising two brothers, not super obscure but I don't own any of their records either

chillaxing goodness

one of their more well known songs is kingdom of rust

It's on like Donkey Kong

Nintendo filed a trademark application for the phrase "it's on like Donkey Kong."

The company is filing the application ahead of the November 21st launch of the Wii title "Donkey Kong Country Returns". The difficulty, of course, will be to proving that the phrase hasn't already become open language through common usage.

Nintendo explains that it's "an old, popular Nintendo phrase that has a number of possible interpretations depending on how it's used. In addition to Nintendo's use, it has been used in popular music, television and film over the years, pointing to Donkey Kong's status as an enduring pop-culture icon and video game superstar."

At very least its a whole lotta publicity for the upcoming game which is the first of the DK genre to hit the Wii.

I reckon they should also patent "It's on like Donkey Kong BIATCH" from one of the greatest scenes in movie history. I am of course speaking of the dance-off between Stiffler and Bear in American Pie: The Wedding.
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Open Your Ears Wk 43

Somebody to Love Me - Mark Ronson & the Business Intl (featuring Boy George & Andrew Wyatt)

ok this goes against the core of the point of this weekly segment, where by it was to introduce 50 artists you may not know much about. This is the 2nd appearance from Mark Ronson, how was I meant to know that he would release a better track then Bang Bang Bang?

this song is complex but beautiful in its simple theme, the layers are so interesting yet its really just a pop song. Brilliant

Live on Jools Holland

Studio version for the full effect of all the levels of this song

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