I've had this blog for a few Earth-months now and just wanted to make it clear I appreciate and am thankful to Blog-City for hosting it. I always knew there was something different about them, ever since the time I started customizing.?I wish them and all of this domain much honor and prosperity. I don't quite recall why I wanted to have a blog in the first place, but I did know I wanted to get torley.com up and running again. And I am thankful for that as well.
Oooh! I just got an issue of Elle Girl magazine in the post. I like to read fashion/megatrends/lifestyle magazines for both female and male genders so that I might learn what is socially popular. Avril Lavigne is on the cover. She rocks! In this magazine, she looks like an edgy ballerina and her skin is like the finest porcelain slash alabaster. I like her cat's-eye makeup. Always have, and I think, always will.
On the J(apanese)-pop front, it has been said that
Japanese Acts Woo U.S. Through Anime. Obviously, cultural differences come into play and there's got to be more coming over than pretty girls singing pop songs, because we have plenty of that here as it stands. Interjective thought: Puffy AmiYumi have a cartoon I will likely never see because 1) I no longer get Cartoon Network and 2) I hardly watch TV, but?I wish them well with their new audiovisual media enterprise. They have one song, "Tokyo Nights", which sounds very much like the standard "Radio Killed The Video Star" which is nothing less than a paramount favorite of Mr. Zephos's. *Ahem.* I would like to focus on unique personalities like that of Utada, who has her Stateside debut coming soon. I don't want to use the word "Americanized" (what does that mean anyway? There are so many pockets of Americana) but I'll go ahead and use it and?I hope it reflects her original artistic vision. I am still stumped why something like "Travelling" was not released as a single here — granted, the English translation of the lyrics was odd, but no odder than a Shakira hit featuring seven-legged cats. That is awesome pop production and the video is luscious sight to behold, a real visual feast slash treat. It has been noted that Utada admires Bjork. I hope the two of them shack up and collaborate. Speaking of obvious ideas finally exploited, Bjork has an exciting new album which is all (almost all?)?vocals. Including vocals used as all manner of instruments including percussion beatboxing and perhaps stringy orchestrations too. If you think, "Rahzel must be involved in something like this", indeed you are right, and he is.In the trance cliche dept. which I enjoy having fun with: Got SUPERSAW?
It's no secret that the electronic world of techno music is still burgeoning and growing shoots and leaves in a variety of directions, spawning subcults of subgenres and substyles every what-it-seems-like fortnight. Like a brilliant symphony of firecrackers exploding across an already beautiful Aurora Borealis, the variety and diversity of what is one freakin' YUGE umbrella is staggering. Not to mention how electronic sounds have infiltrated — or more recently, boldly marched into — all manner of other kinds of music, from country to pop to rock to rolling on… and need I say the instrumental section of most hip-hop, which encapsulates not only synthesizers (i.e. Timbaland's take on the acid house sounds and his stuttered swing beats which bring to mind the jagged breaks of drum 'n' bass) and sampling (this one goes without an explanation)? To channel Ben Kingsley via proxy of Conan O'Brien, "Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!"
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