Too much anger in the blog now

Not enough Cunninlynguists.

Damn! Miss ma'am with the mammary glands

To hug you from the back I'd need two extra hands

It goes; one for the student who refuses to submit...

So a letter from school came in this morning, thinly veiled as a 'final reminder' of the remaining events for the year. All I got from it were threats of expulsion should we "engage in unseemly conduct". Look at the picture above - that red square signifies where our FLOP should be. Sure, this shouldn't me news to me, but it irks me that the only communication we've had on this matter comes by way of indirect, one-way messages.

First time it was "We have cancelled the student review and - no questions at this moment, please" and we still haven't had that moment it seems.

She said we'd have 'student-run film festivals' but no mention of that here either.

Now she chooses to reassert her position through a subtle non-mention.

And check it, the best part comes later:

"The end of year celebrations for Year 12, 2004-2009 were most positive occasions and I am sure we can rely on Year 12, 2010 to continue this tradition."

Fuck that! What tradition are you talking about? 'Cause it sure as hell isn't the thirty-four year old one you've chosen to stop.

And for what reasons?

"Improperly close to the HSC", time that should be spent focusing on work/study? More time is going to be spent trying to get this bitch back on the road.

Tension built between the staff and students? Sexual tension, maybe.

I'd go on to debunk more of the reasons that've been put out, but I'm pretty sure these are all of them.

The FLOP was an integral part of the Year 12 leaving experience, one of the many reasons why I fucking love the Fort. It was a chance for the entire grade to get together and come up with something that best displays the traits the school says they want to instill in us: creativity with the videos, organisational skills to make sure everything gets done and teamwork to make sure it gets done smoothly. More than that, I believe that putting the FLOP together was when a yeargroup would really mesh together and find that harmony everybody searches for in highschool. Heck, it was even when the Year 12's got to get the farewell they damn well deserve.

Well that's my story for tonight. And no, this isn't just some weak armchair protesting shit, I'll hopefully be able to recycle some of this when Jacky and I have a chat with Moxy after trials - anybody else is welcome to join us. And if everything fails we still have Jacob/Will's idea where we all pull out vuvuzelas and drown out the final principal's address of our school career.

Blue Scholars - Commencement Day

And in other news, this is a sick graduation song.

Stressed?

Fort Street's Resident Chillout Spot (until our hammock disappeared)

Yeah I know trials are here and we're all stressing out. In light of this here's some of my favourite electronic chillout tracks plus one from Zero 7 who are probably my favourite downtempo artists ever. Zero 7 are 2 producers from England who regularly collaborate with José González and Sia, definately make sure to check out José González. Also once i get my new net plan I hope to post much more regularly.

Aminals-Baths

Kiara-Bonobo

Remind Me-Röyksopp

Magnetic North-Sasha

Futures-Zero 7 with  José González

This makes me such a happy camper

Kudos to Cihan for posting it on Facebook.

Let's try to not freak out about trials now, hey?

Friday night, motherfuckers

You know the deal.

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Tonight is JA's birthday mix. But it's not his birthday today and I already greeted him a happy birthday. So no birthday shoutout for you, JA.

And with this Jimi Hendrix 'discography', my ipod breaks the 10,000 song mark :D

Actually a small number, considering the amount of galaxies he's traversed...

Woke up to the Chuck Berry original this morning - first time I haven't been annoyed by my dad's early morning Youtube racket, haha.

Not For The Faint Hearted

So i've had a request to post some more Rusko/Borgore so heres some more dubstep coming at you. Not even kidding with the faint hearted thing, this music is filthier than Ghandi's feet.
Also check out the new Rusko video just released.

Rusko  - Hold On (feat. Amber Coffman) from Mad Decent on Vimeo.


Borgore-Love

Borgore-Cry Me A River

Borgore & Diplo-Sunsets

Kid Sister-Pro Nails (Rusko Remix)

Rusko-Hold On (Ft. Amber Coffman) (Sub Focus Remix) (HGH Must Have)
not quite dubstep, not quite DnB 

The Prodigy-Take Me To The Hospital (Rusko Remix)

I write more on this blog than on my Major Work.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268126/quotes?qt0273504

Robert McKee: Nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your fucking mind? People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every fucking day, somewhere in the world, somebody sacrifices his life to save someone else. Every fucking day, someone, somewhere takes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake, a child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church. Someone goes hungry. Somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman. If you can't find that stuff in life, then you, my friend, don't know crap about life! And why the FUCK are you wasting my two precious hours with your movie? I don't have any use for it! I don't have any bloody use for it!
Charlie Kaufman: Okay, thanks. 

The last movie I watched featured writer's block. The last short story I read also featured writer's block. I have writer's block.

I cannot fucking wait til' post-trials

Fuck, watching this again, I really want to go to a concert right about now. Such a great night. Next concert...Spit Syndicate the night before trials begin. Anybody going? I'm considering it now, it'll be worth putting in the extra work beforehand I reckon.

Either way, there's Phatchance on the Friday after trials finish. Then Felix's 18th the next day. Fuck I'm excited! I'll be pumping this song nonstop right after my last exam.

Spit Syndicate - Showtime (feat. Solo)
 

Shit, before I get caught up in all this excitement maybe I should start studying hey. Laaaaaame. 

 

Life is just a lie with an 'f' in it

Sage Francis - Li(f)e

Long time coming coming hey, I said I'd post this months ago when I first heard it. It's totes worth it but, don't you worry.

It's funny, the only issue I've ever had with Sage is with his beats and how they don't flow within an album. Now he's released something that sounds great musically and and it's with a production team full of indie rock bands that have never worked on a hip-hop record. Executive produced by Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine), he also collaborates with Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse) (who I just found out had died 4 months ago - wtf??), Jason Lytle (Grandaddy), Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie) among many others. Yep, Sage Francis' sharp witticisms over live instrumentation from well established bands. It's great.

My personal favourite on the album is "Little Houdini", a story about a criminal who escapes prison to visit his parents one last time before they die. I'm sort of in love with this sentiment, the notion that the means will justify the ends and believing in your actions cause /you/ know it's right. So ignore all the bullshit from others and just do what you does. And hand me a pink slurpy while you're at it (in-jokes in a blog post?? disaster!). Nah but srz, great song.

"He had numerous convictions but none were as strong as this!"

"Best Of Times" is another solid song, a long-winded confession of his childhood with the help of French composer Yann Tiersen (man behind the Amelie soundtrack - second time this soundtrack crossed paths with my music haha). Totes quotable and shit.

"Pyromaniac, kleptomaniac, couldn't explain my desire to steal that fire"

Also one of the best lines I've heard is on "The Baby Stays":

"Come quick!

Think of a baby's name; she wanted to call it quits"

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?jknlndk3vqo

WHAT. THE FUCK.

seriously.

With Your Eyes Closed, Close Your Eyes

Another group I accidentally left out of my winter playlist - The Books.

Ultra-chill music from two guys, a guitar, a cello and a seemingly endless supply of samples. From bits of conversation to electronic glitch, they manage to blend all these different sounds seamlessly. I've heard their style described as "sound collage" which seems pretty fitting, but I prefer the tag "train music" cause they're the perfect soundtrack to my long train trips to anywhere and sound great no matter my level of consciousness. Download some of their albums here.

The Lemon Of Pink - http://www.mediafire.com/?yiiwiw0jvmm
Thought For Food - http://www.mediafire.com/?qymynyrlzgz

Enjoy your worries, you may never have them again.

I Love You DJ X. McAllister

Pioneer of the FSHS'10 music scene, frontman of Cradle of Faith, K-0ner's first DJ, certified party starter. Now doing live mixing every Friday night starting at around 10pm. Which means it's on right now (time of posting). Click that motherfucker, I know you want to.

Photo post real quick

Kudos to Josh for doing most of the work. Fort Street whatup |_|_|

Count Scratchula's FSHS Set (Which Never Came To Be)

So I had this set kind of prepared for Fort Street Fest 2010 which was a little different to the party sets i'm used to making. I decided against competing in the end but not without releasing a FSHS Fest 2010 teaser (which I never actually released). I recently just found it so I may as well upload it, it's only the first 4 tracks of the mix and is less mb's than most of the songs here so it would be appreciated give it a quick listen and leave some feedback in the comment section.

Count Scratchula's Fort Street Festival 2010 Teaser


Also while i'm at it my first 10 min mix is currently down so heres the re-upload while i'm on the topic of shameless self-promoting.

The Count's 10 Min Mix

Tracklists after the jump

Dubstep To The Rescue

Haven't listened to dubstep for a while-actually it was around the time my favourite dubstep site got shut down (don't even have the new Rusko or Borgore ablum yet). Anyway here is my favourite dubstep track at the moment 'She Said (16 Bit Remix)-Plan B' and a few others i'm diggin' right now.

She Said (16 Bit Remix)-Plan B (HGH Must Have)

My Favourite Tingz-Borgore
 
Heavy (Ft. Chase and Status)-Dizzee Rascal
Dizzee collaborated with Dubstep and DnB producers Chase and Status to make this track

Faxing Berlin (Grifta Dubstep Remix)-Deadmau5

There's no sun in the sky.

Haven't shown any love for this song yet on the blog for some reason, even forgot to include it in my winter playlist where it would have fit in perfectly.

The video for it is quite nauseating unfortunately. I'm posting it anyway though cause Amsterdam looks hella pretty and the record shop looks sick. And when it's not doing that annoying flicker thing it looks pretty cool. Download link for the song right here.

can i just remind you all that

fuck yeah.

that's all

merry christmas, yall.